Year: 1876

Daily palQ even at lndG. 1ney unuer-
took to get them out. They succeeded in
getting out between seven and eight
hundred, after the most persistent oppo-
sition on the part of the Senate, and the
most persistent opposition that possibly
could be brought to bear by the different
executive departments against any ac-
tion of that Congress, and it was this
that did keep us in session a long time.
They tried to make something out of the
fact that this Congress stayed in session
long time. That does not cost the peo-
pie anything. Congressman are paid by
the year, and so are their clerks. 1t was
this bill that we determined we would
fight through on that line if it took us all
summer and all fall, and we did fight it
through.


Now we hear the cry from all parts of
the country that we turned out unem-
ployed people, and that people suffer.
Well, my fellow-citizens, l don't think
this is paternal Government. i don't
think 1T is the duty of the Government
of the United States to feed the people
and clothe them. I don't believe even
that it is the duty of the government of
the United States, or of State, to con-
troll mems habits and practices. don't
believe that if Mr.. Barnes should hap
pen to be secretary of State he would
have a right to tell me whether should
take a glass or not. don't believe that
the Government of the United States, or
the government of State, has anything
else to do except to protect a man in
their rights, and to see to it so long az
they do not interfere with their neigh
bors their neighbors shall not interfere
with them.


In other words, l reject the whole idea
of a paternal government. More than
that, Ibelieve and l think the taxpayers
of the country believe-and in them l
include the thousand of unemployed
laborers, for they pay large indirect
taxes-I think they do not believe that
this Government is to be run as an elee-
mosynary Institution, and that it is its
duty to take care ofpeople at Washington
simply because they are not willing to
do honest work at home.


And now if they can excite any SYM
pathy upon that ground, 1 am willing
that the Republican party shall have the
full benefit of it. We cut out of these un-
necessary employees only seven hundred.
l say that seven hundred more ought to
have been cut out, and could be cut out
without injury to the public service.
And in spite of all the cry that is raised
that we were injuring the public service,
we have the spectacle presented to us
of hundreds of them being furloughed
to come home here to Ohio to vote, not
only in the October election, but to re-
main here and vote in the November
election. That looks very much to me
as if there was room for considerable
further reduction. Such furloughs are
not given to the laboring people of the
country. If they give up their days
work they are not likely to get their
days earnings. IF they abandon their
business for. time, they abandon its
profits. But here we find that hundreds
may be furloughed after all this cry
ana yat havennt heen able to see where
the public business has at all oeen irr-
terfered with. Well, by this heroic treat
ment we have had the honor of reducing
this legislative. executive. and judicial
appropriation bill five million dollars.


Now, my fellow-citizens, as I said be-
fore, must go to Carthage. am talk
ing too long. will not 60 through any
other bills. l have gone through the
principal ones. We succeeded in reduc-
ing the expenditures of the Government
below the estimates made by the depart
ments in the enormous sum of fifty-fve
million dollars, and will reduce the ex-
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Democratic Congress, below the expenses
of the year 1875, under Republican Con-
gress, thirty millions of dollars.


In other words, instead of adding $685.
000, 900 of additional taxation, we de-
Quoted S3O,OOO,OOO from the expendi-
lures, and would have deducted more
than $40, 900, 900 more except for the per
sistent, stubborn opposition we met with
from the Senate and from the Executive
and the executive officers.