Year: 1871

gage, believed to be valueless. Thus
making the people pay the bonds in
stead Of the monopolists. The bonds
issued, far more than build the road.
and with the surplus an immense
swindling machine called the Credit
Mobifier was established and it is said
that twenty seven persons, in official
positions, and whose names are con-
cealed, are among the stockholders.


THE LAND sWINDLE.- ~


Were not these wrongs enough nv
,countrymen But not satisfied with
the plunder thus secured, these mo.
nopolists succeeded in obtaining from
Congress, by means which no one
believes to be honest, grants of alter
nate sections of land, in all, 40 miles
wide, and extending half across the
continent. This wholesale robbery
was of the property of the people
The lands thus given away were yours,
and constituted the rightful heritage
of your children. 7.t


Since the Republicans have been in
power, they have given away to
handful of monopolists, 200,00G,000 of
acres of land which belonged to the
whole people, and sufficient to make
six or seven States as large as Ohio.


These lands belonged to you all,
Republicans and Democrats alike, and
they should have been given to set
tiers at simple cost, and thus secure
cheap homes for our industrious young
men who are anxious to try their for
tho Mast on1 South


THE NEW PALACE-ONE HOUSE


TO COSTssTEN MILLION DOLLARS!


My kinds friends, if it were rut to
vote to day throughout your country,
whether the people should be taxed
to build palace in Washington, at a
cost of ten millions, how many per-
sons would vote for such propositionf
Not one. Yet, during the last session
of the 41st Congress, an appropria-
ton of half million was made to
commence one wing of such an edifice
in the federal capital, and it was ad-
mitted that the whole structure would
cost at least ten millions before its
completion


WHAT GENERAL LOGAN SAID.


The appropriation was resisted, but
the Republicans had majority of
two-thirds in the House and it was
therefore made a law.


Mr.. LOGAN said "Now, sir, if you
appropriate this 100000 for. one
wing of a State Department it will
only be the commencement of work
that will cost millions of dollars. Tho
Senate have insisted on, and the COM
mitIec of conference have agreed to,
an appropriation of s500,000 for the
commencement of this work. Next
session the Senate will put in 2,000,-
900 more for a State Department and
81, 100000 for the Capitol grounds,
and perhaps these same gentlemen
will he appointed on the conference
committee, and they will agree to half
of that; and therefore, in the course
Of four or five years, the Senate will
get all the appropriations they desire
in order to 'beautify and adorn this
city, and to raise the salaries Of eve
ryboly in this country.


Sir, it is the duty of the House to
lay this report on the table. Its bet
ter for the country, it is better for the
Republican party, that we should not
pass this bill. The new Congress
will meet Tomorrow, and it is better
that this bill be not passed; and then
next week we can pass proper bill
that does not rob the people of this
country as this bill would do"
I was one of the committee Of con-
ference and on the floor gave these
reasons for not signing the report:


"Mr. MORGAN desire to state to
the House some of the reasons which
governed me in declining to sign this
conference report. This is an act ma
king appropriations for the legislative
executive and judicial expenses of the
government for the year ending June
80, 1872. The Senate attached to
this bill certain amendments which
are not germane to it; a system of
legislation most vicious and dangerous.
This is my first reason. I further de-
cIined TO sign this report because it
proposes among other things to build
new State Department and a new
War Department, and new Navy
Department, all to be embraced in one
enormous building; and an appropria-
ton of 100000 is proposed to inaug-
urate this scheme.


"Of one thing am I eel tain, and
that is that time like this, when the
country is weighed down by a noun
tain of debt of more than two thou
sand million dollars, when the people
are laboring under load of taxes al
most too great to be borne, this is no
time to commence building a princely
palace in the City of Washington
which must ultimately cost at least
SO, 100000. Hence L dissented from
nv colleagues on the conference COM.
mite. The scheme could not stand
on its own legs, and has been attached
to ali important appropriation bill IN
order to carry it through.


My friend from California Mr.. Sar-
gent urges the House to agree on this
report lest the bill may fail. For my
part, rather than have this wrong
done, 1 prefer that the bill be laid on
the table. It.is great wrong, and l
appeal to the representatives of the
people, of the Taxpayers and of the
country not to allow themselves to be
drawn into the commission of this
wrong, from the simple fact that this
appropriation bill may be defeated at
this session. Let the bill fail. The,
new Congress comes in to- morrow,
when time can be taken to examine
this subject with care and act upon it
with deliberation."


HOW SUCH THINGS ARE DONE.


1 forgot to tell you that section
was slinned into the army appropria.