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Cincinnati Commercial (Newspaper) - January 16, 1878, Cincinnati, Ohio2the Cincinnati commercial wednesday january 16, 1878. Teasel. The result q the Cabinet deliberation hit not been an noun Cea. The convention tobacconist adjourned to Day after having had conferences Villi the commissioner internal Revenue and the chairman Trio committee an ways and Means before each whom the wishes and grievances the Trade were Laid. They urge the reduction the tax to twelve cents Ger i ground with a drawback the difference to Twain the new and old rates All stocks stamped and in the hands manufacturers their a Rente others at the time the new Law takes effect. The convention was opinion that $400,000 is All that is necessary to reimburse the holders Star up i tobacco and that amount is daily diminishing. Commissioner rank stated that in his annual report he had recommended the continuance the present rate Twenty four cents and thought it incompatible with the need the government to reduce the tax tobacco unless the duties Tea and Coffee restored. Or. W. 11. Harwell in reply gave facts and figures to show that at twelve cents the government would derive thirty four million dollars Revenue from tobacco in the first year As against forty one million under the present tax and claimed that in subsequent years the increased business would cause the Revenue to equal if not exceed that obtained at present. Or. Bur Well will remain Here to represent the interests the Trade. Ohio1� expert at the Paris exposition. Or. Edwin Cowles Cleveland is haying up Hill work in his Effort to obtain the appointment As additional expert commissioner to the Paris exposition. He is opposed by senator Matthews and numerous other gentlemen in Luence All whom have favourites for the same place. Among the names prominently mentioned and for whom some ii Etive work Lias been done is . George Tod Youngstown a son sex govenor Tod. Hut it is asserted to night upon Good authority that . Win. Baffin Cincinnati president tire Iron moldei4� Union will be the expert commissioner from Ohio he is flattering by endorsed for the place As an expert in practical . New Orleans collector. The president to Day ordered the appointment Georgre Williamson who is now minister to the Central american states to be collector customs at new Orleans. Thus the Bottom Lias been dropped out the Case that had been made up for govenor Packard and his last Hope uns hed. Hon. Galusha a. Grow it As been hero for two Days past canvassing Liis strength for the nomination by the republicans Pennsylvania for governor that state. He has been quite Lively amongst members Congress and the pennsylvanians in the departments. Presidents levee. The president s Public levee this evening was pne the most Brilliant affairs the kind that has been held in the White House. Subsidies for mail steamers. The House Post office committee is considering the proposition to Small subsidies to All lines steamers which Caray United states mails All the lines to be an equal footing As to the amount to be received. Personal. Senator Blaine says he is entirely Well including his gouty troubles lie is now fresh and ready for work and will probably reply to . Voor Neesz speech to Day. W. D. Bickham Dayton arrived Here tonight to take a rest. The army Bill will be reported to the House Early next week. Watern associated press telegrams. Co lord emigration 8cheme. Washington january 15.�?Rev. Or. Sturks. Who Lias been investigating the advantages Hayti and ban Domingo for a Large number coloured people in Florida who desire to improve their condition by emigrating had an interview with the president i Estma Day and Laid the situation before him. The pm silent embodied his views the question in a Briol letter to . Sturks which the following is a copy executive mansion january 14,1878. To the Rev. Or. Sturks dear sir i have Given some consideration to your question As to the emigration coloured p ple from Florida to 8an Domingo. I am not Well informed As to the advantages offered by san Domingo to immigrants but Iny impression is that your people should not be Hasty in deciding to Olavo this country. The Mere difference in cd irate is a very serious objection to removal. The first generation in All such removals Suiter greatly. It is my opinion also that the evils which How affect you Are Likely a steadily and i Hope rapidly to diminish. My advice is therefore against Tho pro Osco emigration. Very truly yours k. B. Hayes. National tobacco Board. Tho tobacco delegations from various sections the country have formed themselves into a National Board with goo. Ayres Danville va., president and Chas. H. Conrad Danville va., Secretary. K. F. Purl to Baltimore Harry Weisen Ger Louisville colonel Butler St. Louis l. H. Frayser Richmond and Julian s. Carr Durham. N. C., were elected vice presidents. The National committee will meet representative Wood chairman the committee ways and Means during the Day and will also visit the commissioner internal Revenue and Israel Kimball chief the Jjo Bacon Bertion the Revenue office. Secretary Sherman was before the House committee ways and m cans to Day giving his views the proposition to Issue Bonds Small denominations As popular loan and submitted a Bill prepared by himself to carry out the plan. Many questions were asked by the committee., with a View to a full understanding the effect such a measure. Insolvent savings Bank. 1 the Senate finance committee to Day heard senator Davis Illinois in advocacy his Bill to remit taxes insolvent savings Banks in All cases where the return to depositors would by such remission be increased. Tho committee took the subject into consideration but reached no action. Important Cabinet Bie eting. At the Cabinet session to Day the subject the National finances was earnestly considered. It is determined to give notice to the Syndicate that the department intends to terminate its contract with them. Secretory Sherman will immediately prepare an advertisement for a popular loan. The Cabinet also gave attention to the chinese question. The president will address a special message to Congress the subject Northern Pacific railway. The sub Coni Mittee the House committee the Pacific railroads is hearing arguments in favor t lie Extension the time for the completion the Northern Pacific Railroad. New Orleans collector. George will Oineon will be nominated collector customs at new Orleans. Syndicate to be relieved from the Sale Bonds. Secretary Sherman to Day appeared before the committee ways and Means. He said it was known that there had been a Syndicate for the Sale four i it cent. Bonds but in deference to what was regarded As the popular sentiment and also for the convenience negotiation it was deemed Best to terminate that contract and to place these Bonds in the Market upon a somewhat different plan namely to employ As far As possible All the National Banks and Bankers established credit who would give requisite Security in the sales the Bonds to reach if possible All classes people to treat them All alike to allow them All the same commission and to deliver the Bonds to them in any part the country free charge and to invite popular subscriptions for that purpose. When however Tho Treasury department came to put that plan in Active operation it was found that under the existing Laws there were some Embarrass Nientsu which if Congress should see proper to remove would enable it to very largely Marcase the loan and distribute it More rapidly than it could be done at present under the Law As it now stood. The Secretary then proceeded to show the existing embarrassments and presented to the consideration the committee a draft a Bill to promote the Deposit savings and refunding the National debt. In commenting the provisions this Bill he said if Congress would pass it he would be Able to refund the Public debt very rapidly and to Carrr out the operations the Treasury with increased advantage to the Public. He preferred this Mode to the one he had previously indicated for the popular loan. It proposed that any bolder United states notes May Deposit them at any postal Moncy order Ottllee in the United states and shall be entitled to receive therefor free charge a postal order the treasurer Tho United states. 8ucli postal orders when presented to the treasurer at Washington in sums ten any multiple that sum shall be convert the into certificates Deposit the United states the kind and description provided for in the Bill. Buell certificates May also he issued in Exchange for United states notes at the Treasury the United 8tates, at the office any assistant treasurer at any designated depository the United states the certificates Deposit to to issued by the Secretary the Treasury sin h form and description As to May prescribe and denominations $10, s20, $50 and $100, and Bear interest at the rate ,�5 per sent. Per annul for Tho term one year and no longer and shall be received and redeemed by the United states in payment Only for buds and certificates May let a held by any National Bank for that portion its re Servo not required to be kept hand in specie Legal tender notes. A the Secretary is authorized to receive either United states notes postal orders certificates Deposit at their Market value in Cut in in payment the u. 8. Bonds issued under authority this Law in Liou such Bouda registered Bon d inscribed debt the books the Treasury similar in character leaving the interest to in a compounded every six months All United states notes room veal into the Treasury to he applied exclusively to the payment any Bonds the United states redeemable at the pleasure the unite d states to the Purchase Coin Bullion to be applied exclusively to the payment such Bonds. Several questions were asked by members the committee with regard to the True meaning and intent this Bill among others by . Wood chairman who inquired whether the Secretary Aid not think that the certificates authorized to be issued in lieu postal Money orders the Bill called for could not be used As currency especially As the denomination ran Down As Low As ten dollars and whether after the expiration the one year in which they bore interest they Ronld not then be used upon their face with accrued interest As currency precisely the same As Legal tender notes now Are and if this View was Correct whether the effect w Ould not be to add $600, xxx ,000 in amount the five twenties yet a refunded to the circulating medium the country. The Secretary replied he thought not. Or. Wood said but after the expiration the sear during which they were entitled to draw in rest having in the gone into popular circulation the question is whether they might not continue to be issued As currency and not be presented for redemption conversion the Secretary replied that they never could be converted into a More than four per cent Bond and that they would he entirely presented for such within a year. The chairman said that he understood that but the people did not receive any interest now United states notes called Legal tenders and if the holders these certificates chose to regard them in that Light and As currency you would have no control Over them. The Secretary replied a the difference would be United states notes were Legal tenders and these would not . Wood said a the Legal tender feature was not practical importance with regard to a circulating currency passing from hand to hand. We have already a Large National Bank circulation which is not Legal tender by Law but yet it is a circulating medium great value and generally regarded As such. Now the question arises whether these certificates represented generally by postal May not continue in circulation in the same Way i Iless there he something in the to prevent . Tucker the committee said that As he understood the Point the chairman it was that when the certificates ceased to Bear interest they might pass As currency. The Secretary asked is there any objection to that . Wood i have not raised the question. I merely wanted to obtain your views As to the possibilities under your Bill. % the Secretary referred to a feature the Bill which he deemed great importance and that was the French system receiving moneys into the Treasury recording them As in inscribed debt and giving compound interest. This feature was generally approved by the committee. After further discussion in which messes. Kelley Tucker Burchard Banks Garfield and others took part the committee adjourned. New Tosto a Bill. The Bill introduced in the House by . Blair to facilitate open correspondence through the mails and reduce postage thereon provides that All such matter As now May to transmitted through the mails postal cards May hereafter be transmitted in unsealed envelopes at the postage rate one cent tar each Quarter an ounce postal cards Howem to be supplied As May be required As at present. A lick at Back . A Bill was introduced by . Townsl Iead Illinois amendatory to so Tiou 1,228 the revised statutes which provides that in no Case where any officer the army Navy has been restored to military naval service shall he receive any allowance whatever from the time such dismissal by sentence general court martial until from and after the Date such reappointment unless such allowance is specifically authorized and provided for in each Case by Congress. Interview with Secretary Schuttz. The following is the account an interview held with Secretary Schurz , upon the subject the recent Indian office investigation questions did you see the dispatch professor seelye and the other newspaper statements criticising the conduct your Indian investigation answer i have seen them and i think that professor seelye a dispatch shows that he had no knowledge whatever the Nat ure the investigation that was bold by the Board inquiry. It is True that certain charges were brought by persons some whom were connected with Eastern Cherokee affairs in North Carolina. Galpin himself asked for an investigation these charges and i ordered it but As i had for some time intended a thorough inquiry into the conduct the Indian Busl Fiess i enlarged the scope my investigation accordingly. To make it perfectly impartial and reliable i asked the Secretary War and the attorney general for a detail one officer each belonging to their respective departments to serve As members the commission. The Secretary War gave me major Bradley the United states army and the attorney general . Mccamman both officers the highest character in their departments. I added major Lockwood. Chief clerk the Interior department also an officer excellent character and ability for the purpose having the Board one member conversant with the routine business the office. In the course the investigation it was soon found that the charges brought and testimony Given by persons connected with the Eastern cherokees were comparatively Little consequence. Most the charges were thrown out Early in the investigation As irrelevant and Tho testimony Given by the persons referred to was in the most part considered As Little value and importance. In fact but very few statements in the report the Board inquiry Are based upon that testimony and the subject Eastern Cherokee affairs is disposed in one Short paragraph in which the Board recommends that the president appoint a commission for the purpose settling Tho disputed claims the Eastern band that nation. Professor 8eelye seems to have received some boastful letters from Eastern Cherokee men but in fact they formed together with Galpin hut a Small item in the investigation. The statement that Galpin was convicted and dismissed the ground the charges brought and testimony Given by persons connected with the Eastern cherokees is therefore absolutely without foundation. It is said in a prominent newspaper that disreputable persons meaning probably those who had made charges were in close Intercourse with the Board and in constant attendance at its meetings. This statement is absolutely untrue. They were present Only when they were examined As witnesses Anu they had no standing before the Boais a other the in the character witnesses. When off the w fitness stand they were strictly excluded from the sittings the Board. It is also said that Galpin was dismissed without a hearing. The truth is that he we As before the Board for More than Twenty Days engaged in his own defense examining acid Cross examining witnesses upon Tho charges brought against him which were considered any importance at All and the irregularities which had been discovered and with which he was connected. But the charge that Galpin w As dismissed upon the Testi Moziy disreputable persons appears especially absurd when it is considered that he was dismissed principally upon the Testi Many one person alone and that was himself. In Lyls own sworn testimony he admitted that he had for nearly two months withheld from the knowledge the department the Charees and specifications supported by numerous affidavits showing corrupt practices the grossest character the part the Indian agents and Indian contracts without giving any satisfactory reason therefor it being his Plain duty to Oom Muniente them at Onoe to the head the department so As to Render prompt action against the guilty persons possible. He withheld them while be was himself in temporary charge Indian affairs and acting commissioner. As soon As these charges and specifications were transmitted to the department Justice the parties concerned indicted without difficulty. Q. How do you think professor seelye come to put Forth such an unwarranted statement in the newspapers a. It is difficult to account for it. I have upon my desk a letter from professor seelye dated the 1st August at a very Early stage the investigation. In that letter he stated that As a member the Indian committee the House he had looked into the Oon duet the business the Indian office himself and he found it All Correct the part the responsible managers that Bureau. Then he denounced the investigation ordered by me and said a i can hardly conceive any testimony which would shake my conviction their trustworthiness a meaning the commissioners and . Galpin. Thus he pronounced judgment when the investigation which he knew nothing had hardly commenced and under Ordinary rules it would have disqualified him As a juror. Professor seelye might have thought that if he could not find any serious irregularities in the Indian Bureau nobody else could and when other people did find them be May have jumped at the conclusion that it is a travesty Justice and brought about by villain our Means. The professor was Only one tue Many who did not discover these things. I have a very High respect for him his Scholastic attainment a Ned his integrity and purity character but i can conceive no testimony up which would shake my conviction As to his own fitness for the office commissioner chief clerk the Indian Bureau if for instance he should argue that a chief clerk and acting commissioner withholding for nearly two months important and Well substantiated information showing corrupt practices the part agents and contractors from the knowledge the department should not be dismissed. I should consider him a very dangerous Man at the head Indian affairs. In that respect he Falls Short sex coir missioner Smith whom i also believe to be an honest Man and whose personal integrity is not reflected upon by the report. I very distinctly remember when . Smith came into my private office in a state great excitement holding papers in his hand and saying Quot acre is something very astonishing that i can to the papers were those above alluded to showing fraud at the Pawnee and tempi agencies. He told me that Galpin had them in ids Possession for nearly two Mouths and now had Given them up to him. I asked . Smith a what would Yon do w the a chief clerk withholding information such importance for so Long a time from knowledge his Superior officers would you not dismiss him a he answered a i think i i asked further a can Yon conceive any possible explanation that might lie satisfactory a and he answered a i Oano to. Think a there is something very significant about the Al i Xor raised by some gentlemen about this Indian investigation. When an investigation was hem that led to no important disclosures it was denounced As an impotent and whitewashing affair. Now that an is held that does disclose things and goes so far that it reaches to the Bottom hands Are held up in holy horror with the exclamation a things must never he done by such it is a matter experience that investigations the Indian service held with open doors giving persons interested in covering up fraudulent transactions the advantage knowing from Day to Day everything that happened and what they have to guard against scarcely Ever led to anything and now when a different method is adopted that is More efficient with the Stem determination to discover what is wrong Ami to purify the service the method investigation is by some denounced As worse than the corruption discovered. The Indian service is demoralized by two classes persons. One Oon sista rascals who Rob the government and the other the upright and honorable gentlemen who Quot with the Best intentions show too great an aptness to have the Wool pulled Over their eyes. If professor seelye and those who denounce the investigation will take the trouble to inform themselves its scope and importance they will find that the method in which it was conducted was not Only efficient but absolutely Neo Essary. \ q. I suppose you Are aware that you have a big fight your hands a. I am Well aware that., and also that the Power which is usually called the Indian ring and which has very extensive ramifications will Stop at nothing. But we shall not cease our efforts regardless the attacks made upon us until the service is purified As far As the Power this department reaches. It May. To interesting also for the gentlemen who denounce the investigation to know that in the Detroit Post and Tribune in an article tire Indian investigation which bears Many evidences having been written under the inspiration sex Secretary Chandler the statement occurs that exactly the same men who wore dismissed in consequence this investigation were Sims belted and marked for dismissal by him. The article is especially severe upon . Galpin and it closes with the following words a before the expiration president Grants term it was in contemplation to remove commissioner 8mith, his Cousin Smith his chief clerk Galpin and the annuity clerk Hoyden. There having been two extensive removals clerks in that office within the previous fifteen Mouths suitable persons As successors Smith Galpin and Hoyden had not yet been determined upon but for a change in the administration the removals would have been made sooner than they have White House reception. The first Public evening reception president and mrs. Hayes at the executive mansion this evening was largely attended Many foreign ministers members the Cabinet and senators and representatives in Congress with ladies being present besides hundreds private citizens. Tobacco tax agitation. The tobacco manufacturers assembled to Day at Wrisinger Hall behalf the manufacturers Louisville Ami presented a memorial which was adopted by the convention As expressing their sentiments the tax question. The convention subsequently appeared before the Senate committee and urged that the tax be reduced from the present rate Twenty four to twelve cents per Pound. The convention also called in a body commissioner Laura. He alluded to Tho fact that he had advised in his annual report the continuance Tho present rate Twenty four cents and thought it incompatible with the needs the government to reduce the tax unless they restored the tax Tea and Toffee. Southerners at the reception. At the presidential reception to night a feature that attracted attention was the Large attendance Southern citizens. This is the first time such general social Calls have been made by Southern people since the beginning the War. A Lith Congress second session. Senate Washington january 15. A number Bills were introduced and referred among them the following by . Dorsey to authorize the payment fees counsel for the defense poor persons in courts the United states. By . Davis to promote immigration to the United states Ami for the Protection immigrants. By . Woodom a for the restoration wages in government printing offices. By . Been Cert to Cut can it facilitate and cheapen Lana and water transportation for freights and passengers and to promote Industry and labor without fur ther appropriation Public property increase Public debt . Christiancy presented a Resolution the state Grange Michigan in favor Tho construction a ship canal across the lower Peninsula Michigan. Referred. Or. Morrill submitted an amendment to the preamble the Resolution . Matthews in Rogaris to the right the government to Tho Bonds in Silver reciting at length the pro visit no various Congress pledging the Laith the government ac., and said in the Long recital the s in the preamble a submitted by the senator from Ohio there seamed to be strange omissions some the statutes to hoped the senator would accept this amendment. Ordered printed. He submitted the following a resolved. That the Secretary the Treasury be directed to inform the the government Bonds sold since March 4, 1861, giving the amounts each Issue with its Date thus sold the net amounts received from Tho Sale each Issue and currency in which the same was i a it and the commission paid any Syndicate person persons for placing Tho same in the Market purchasing the same and in what currency they were agreed to. Or. Mitchell submitted a Resolution directing tie Secretary the Interior to transmit to the Senate a copy the report Indian inspector Watkins recommending the establishing a Large Indian reservation territory for the use and occupation a portion All the reservation indians now in various reservations in the state Oregon and in the territories Washington and Idaho together with such recommendations a the Secretary the Interior May deem proper to make in reference to such proposition. Agreed to. The vice president Laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary War transmitting the petition colonels l. G. Easton and Stewart Vifot lieutenant colonels a. R. Eddy Rufus Saxton j. D. Bingham a. J. Persy and ii. Hodges for the restoration to Ali proper places the army Register. Re fcit6 l . Kellogg submitted a Resolution directing the Secretary the Senate to John Ray and William l. Mcmullen compensation and mileage senators for the unexpired term William if t Kellogg in the Tho forty second Congress. Referred. Or. Thurman called up the Resolution submitted by him yesterday instructing the committee military affairs to inquire whether any and if any what Legisla Tion is necessary expedient to increase the annual appropriation for arming and equipping the militia Tho states and territories to correspond with the increase in population since the passage the 1808, and also Settle certain War claims the state Ohio against the government. After some discussion an amendment was agreed to. Providing that said committee shall make the same inquiry respecting the Wai claims and credits other states the Union that furnished troops in Aid the government during the late rebellion and As thus amended tie Resolution was agreed to. Or. Mccreery presented a memorial to Tho committee from the Board Trade Louisville favouring reducing tax manufactured tobacco. Referred. Or. Hamlin from the committee foreign relations reported favourably House Bill to authorize the secretory state to affix the great Seal the United states to a document entitled a administration tin United states government at the beginning its second passed. At the expiration the morning hour the Resolution . Matthews in regard to the payment Bonds in Silver was taken up As unfinished business and then Laid aside informally that . Over Heel might address the Senate the Resolution submitted by him before the holidays declaring it the highest importance that the financial credit the government be maintained in order to do so the government itself in All its departments should in Good Faith keep All its contracts and obligations entered into with its own citizens. Or. Matthews in expressing his willingness to have his Resolution Laid aside for the present gave not ice that he would ask the Senate to vote it. Monday next. Or. Voorhees then addressed the Senate upon the Resolution submitted by him. Or. Voorhees said Liat the agitation the question finance will never cease until the people Are satisfied the vast debt is in process extinction upon the principles Justice to tax paying labor until the other hand they Are subjugated into silent submission and the government itself becomes changed in spirit and form into a moneyed aristocracy. Denunciation is now the principal weapon used by those who arc ranged the Side grasping wealth. There is no enit Liet however base that is not in daily use against All who Ven Ture to believe As i do that to a great extent the whole financial system is an organized crime against the Labouring tax paying men and women the United states. The great plea the present hour for the Contin nation wrong and injustice is that Good Faith requires it. Those who find monstrous evils embodied in the Laws their country and wish to eradicate it by peaceful legislation Are at one and with the utmost fury assaulted As the violators the Public Faith tie enemies the National Honor and worse if possible than common swindlers. This plea so loud now in our ears has been invoked in behalf every wickedness that Ever cursed the world. The usurper invokes it to protect the throne be has stolen As soon As lie is seated. The tyrant invokes it to shelter his prerogative and the nobility invoke it in order to live with ease and splendor off the labor others. Or. Voorhees reviewed the financial legislation since 1862, and said experience had shown the Legal tender to be the Best Money that was Ever circulated. Every government Bond Whdeh did not its face stipulate payment in Coin w As made payable by the express words the Law in Legal tender Botes. This enactment guaranteed to the american people the right to my three fourths the National debt in National currency. It w As Gunlaw the contract. When All the five Twenty Bonds amounting to Over fifteen Hundred millions were purchased from the government by the bondholders anti paid for in this currency at when it was quoted from forty to sixty per cent below in Coin every understood the Law to be As 1 have stated it. At the time its passage in fact the great struggle then was whether even the interest the Bonds i have mentioned should be paid in Coin. No one in the Debato made the slightest Pra tense intimation that the principal the bands was payable in Coin. During the full term the seven eventful years that followed there is not a Laffonn either political party in any state in the Inion which makes such an assertion. Or. Voorhees alluded to Secretary Sherman s letter 1868, favouring the payment the Bonds in the same kind Money As bought them and his subsequent action in procuring the passage an for the payment the Bonds in vein Whdeh he said was an open repudiation the solemn contract and fastened an extortion not ires than five Hundred million dollars the staggering industries the country As the speculative profits the operation. In the whole financial history the civilized world parallel can be found to this audacious deed broken Faith deliberate treachery to the people and National dishonesty. It stands out by itself towering High above All common frauds and dwarfing them in comps to Oak who enacted it to Distant generations amidst Ike groans curses and lamentations 5f those who toil Laud and sea and More deeply engraved than any other name will be forever found that the Secretary the Treasury As the author what he himself said constituted the two Folk crime repudiation and extortion. Or. Voorhees in support ids position quoted the language Benator Morton in 186#, a follows a a combination Stock lob Liers As destitute conscience As pirates and inspired alone by greed for Money successfully thundered at these doors and finally deceived this government into the most stupendous bad Faith and legalized robbery Ever practice anon any people since the Dawn a a next took in the funding 1870, charging that it was the offspring the apprehension that the work repudiating the contract for the payment the five Twenty Bonds might not be quite Complete. Thus it was provided to Issue new Ooin Bonds in place the original ones. The Anh sunt saved in interest is trifling when compared with the loss by the whole transaction. Or. Voorhees then argued that by the Laws March. 1869. Ait Only. 1870s, the i Jones outstanding and afterwards to be issued were payable in coins not in Gold alone nor in Silver alone but in Coin. He quoted . Sherman in i860, As explicitly favouring this View. Of. Voorhees commented at some length the passage the Law february 12, 1873, which he Saia doomed the Dollar our fathers and its enactment was As completely unknown to the people and indeed to four fifths Congress itself As the presence a burglar in a House at Midnight to its sleeping inmates. The Silver Dollar was eliminated from our Money system under the cover false pretences. Or. Voorhees proceeded to show that the entire trading and commercial populations the Earth More Tolian four times As Many people have chosen Silver As have chosen Gold and More than five times As Many have chosen Silver As have chosen Gold and Silver together. The Labouring classes desire Money to be plentiful while those who wish to fasten their Idle wealth the productions Lake to clamor for scarce and dear Money. It was in the in crept the latter powerful class Liat Silver was dem Meti Zed. He referred to the january 14. 1874, Lor the resumption specie payments and said the Law february 1873, taking away Silver Money from Tho people and the Law january 1875, fixing Abe a Day now less than a year in Advance when greenbacks shall also perish Are to in monsters evil born the same parentage and linked together for the destruction All Money save Gold. He vividly portrayed the effect such legislation would have Pou business and labor. He spoke the impossibility resuming january 1, 1879, and attributed the vast shrinkage in the value property and the Universal distress to the policy contraction and said a during the four years when the volume currency averaged one thousand millions the business failures the entire country reached Only 2,167, less in number Tolian occurred in any Throe months the year just closed. During the period which is now stigmatized As one inflation windows business houses were not darkened Aud business men did not go As mourners about the streets. The labourer did not go Home without bread to support his wife and children. The helpless millions did not cower and tremble at the a Roach the Winter for Lack food and shelter be Public peace was not broken by riots in resistance to starvation wages. The courts a it Ore not principally occupied in enforcing coi Lee Tion s. Foreclosing mortgages ordering sheriffs Salij in punishing the destitute Aud outcast. The speaker next turned his attention to the National Banks and said the system National banking now in use is the most elaborate and Complete scheme for making the people tribute to wealth in order to obtain a circulating medium a ver known in the financial history the world. There is not a Dollar in the hands the people which they have not paid a tax for the privilege having it put in circulation by the government. The National Hank is Middle Mao Between the government and the people and is enormously paid for doing what the government ought directly to do itself. On october 1, 1877, there were 2,080 National Hanks with resources $1,741,000,000. And these resources the interest paid by the people was $13.000,000 per annul. Or. Voorhees said he represented those who demanded first the restoration the Silver Dollar exactly As it stood before it was touched by the february 1873. They desire that it shall have us limited coinage not fearing that it will become too plenty for their wants and that it be made a full Legal tender believing that it is As Good now with which to All debts Public Ami private As it was during eighty one years american history. Second the repeal unconditionally the actor Muary 14, 1875, compelling the resumption specie payments in january 1879. Holding that the question a return to a specie basis for our currency should be controlled entirely by the business interests the country. Thoy do not believe that the country should be dragged through the Depths ruin wretchedness and degradation in order to reach a Gold Standard for the Benefit alone the income classes. Third that the National banking system be removed and a circulating medium provided by the government for the people without taxing them for the privilege obtaining it and they ask that the amount thus placed in circulation shall Bear a reasonable and judicious proportion to the business transactions Ami population the United states. Fourth that the currency authorized and circulated the authority the government shall be made Legal tender in tee payment All debts Public and private including All dues to the government Well knowing that it will then be at with Gold More Likely at a Premium Over it. Fifth that hereafter the financial policy the country be framed permanently in their interest that the shall not be discriminated against in future legislation Asiu the past and that their Prosperity and not the Mero growth income to retired capitalists shall be the primary duty government. In conclusion . Voorhees quoted from articles he had noticed in certain Eastern newspapers in regard to the rights bondholders the duty the Labouring classes and the policy that should be pursued by capitalists to counteract the effects anticipated legislation the Silver question and said a sir. I have no word menace to utter this floor but in b half every labourer and every owner soil whom i represent i warn All such As value their investments that when these doctrines despotism Are sought to be enforced this fair land will again be convulsed in agony Ami the fires Liberty will Blaze Forth again As they did one Hundred years ago in defense tee natural rights Man. Applause in the galleries May the Wisdom our fathers and benignity our god Avert such an Issue but if it shall Home if infatuation has seized our hearts the result will Only add one More instance to Tho Long catalogue human crime and Folly where avarice like ambition overlaps itself and in its unholy attempt to Rob others their possessions loses its Groat applause in the galleries adjourned. House Washington. Jannary 15. The following Bills were introduced and referred by . Dunnell to declare the jurisdiction toe United stares Over Tho harbours and navigable Waters the United states. By . Blair for the reduction postage. By . Robbins a Resolution directing a lie committee rules to inquire into the expediency the Rule requiring Tho record to print the votes taken by yeas and nays under four Heads to wit yeas nays paired and absent unpaired. Also into the expediency the Rule forbidding pairing by members. Or. Davis North Carolina asked leave to introduce and have referred to the committee the whole a Resolution reciting the unequal taxation imposed the different stabs by the internal Revenue tax and directing the committee ways and Meaux to inquire into the expediency abolishing said tax. Or. Covert objected. Or. Willis Kentucky offered a Resolution for the appointment a select committee to ascertain whether the Treasury department has compiled with the Congress requiring appointments in said department to be equally distributed among the several states Ami territories. Referred. Or. Franklin asked leave to offer a Resolution declaring it to be the opinion the House that United states notes shall to Legal tender i payment the duties imports. Or. Frye objected. Or. Covert offered a Resolution instructing the Board supervising inspectors steamboats to examine into and report upon the merits the various life saving apparatus. Referred. Or. Springer asked leave to introduce and to put upon its passage a Bill to provent tie further Contr Fotiou the currency. It provides that the volume Legal tender notes shall nor be contracted reduced below the amount $350,000,000, Aud that any surplus such notes received redeemed by the government which May be in the Treasury in excess the sums required to meet the appropriations made by Congress shall be used by the Secretary the Treasury in the Purchase Coin for the payment the Coin obligations. Or. Garfield objected to the present consideration and it was referred to the banking and currency committee. Or. Cox new York from the committee foreign affairs reported Back the Bill suspending for ten years the further operation Section 5,574 the revised statutes which provides that when a citizen the United states shall discover a guano Island he shall not sell guano exo opt to citizens Tho United states. The provisions have already been suspended for five years. Passed. M r. Jones Ohio from the committee Public buildings and grounds reported Back the Resolution directing the sub committee said committee to proceed to the cities Chicago Providence Pittsburg St. Louis Louisville Detroit and Cleveland for the purpose ascertaining the wants the Public service in regard to tie Public buildings in those cities. Or. Stenger rain Al the Point order that the Resolution As it involved the expenditure Public Money must go to the committee the whole. The speaker sustained the Point and the Resolution was Acton Hongly . Reagan chairman the committee Commerce reported Back the Bill amending certain sections the revised statutes concerning Commerce and the navigation Strom vessels. Referred to the commit Tel it it the whole Aud made the special order for tues a Lay no Al the Honse went into committee the whole the state the Union . Hooker in Tho chair for general debate. I . Piree addressed Tho committee in advocacy tee re monetization the Stiver Dollar. He claimed it As a thing which did not admit doubt that at the time when Silver was de monetized the Silver Dollar 412 grains was More valuable than the Gold Dollar. He argued that it was to the interest the United states to make Bote Gold and Silver Legal tender for All debts Public and private particularly now when this county was such a Large producer Silver and lie attributed the Groat depreciation real estate in Germany to i lie de monetization Silver by that country. He contradicted tie the by that the vast increase production Silver in this country had been the cause the fall in value that Metal and alleged in denial that India Japan and China alone lout taken in the course Trade during the last year $105.000,000 Silver which was about $25,000,000 More than the entire Silver product the world. He criticised the sermons Beecher and wrote Ingham and if conclusion a Aid a we Are Labouring to get Back 0� the Dollar which has been tried in every condition and under Edery variety circumstance in this country and has not been found wanting. To Are directing our footsteps in the pathway lighted by experience. We Are not pioneers we Are Only seeking Tor old paths made Lamina by footprints the fathers Tab Republic. They Beckon us Onward they say to us a this is the Way walk be in he who has been a watchful student history can not mistake his Way. If we be attentive listeners we May hear from every pausing Breeze that is wafted to us from the marts comic uts from the Fields Husbandmen from the hum tee loom and from the ring the Anvil words encouragement to pursue steadily the Silvery path a so that shall conduct our nation to a goal financial Tho committee be and the House then adjourned. New York. Lugi Slature is supposed to have affected Ida mind. He announced late that he was concerned with great affairs state that he was a statesman and should shape Liis course in the legislature business principles and sunday morning proclaimed himself King the universe. Casualties. Paralytic stroke. Special Telegram to the commercial. Cairo january 15.�?mr. Hugh Barclay rather Barclay bros., Cairo was stricken with paralysis the left Side last n ight at Russellville by. Painful Accident. Special Telegram to the Cominer Lai. Urbana o., january 15.�?John Mulhall a Young fellow fell from a Hay mow to the ground floor breaking his Arm badly Aud causing the end the broken Bone to protrude. Instantly hed. Special Telegram to the commercial Loo an o., january 15.�?yesterday afternoon while Levi Nutler who lived about eight Miles from Logan was watching some men fell a dead tree ins place a Large limb broke off and struck him killing him instantly. Drowned. 8pecial Telegram to the commercial. Napoleon o., january 15.�?a son fourteen years old John w. Gerving a resident Texas in this county was drowned this morning by getting under the ice the Maumee River. This is the second son . Gerving that has drowned. Special Telegram to the commercial Clyde o., january 15.�?last night a child Sid. Wright fell into a Cistern and before it was discovered drowned. A broken Leo. At Tho same time j. T. Rador this Plano fell Down the Steps Kline shall and broke Bis leg. Coal Miner dangerously injured. Special Telegram to the commercial. Kewanee iii., january 15.�?edward Powers a Coal minor . This place was fearfully and probably fatally crushed by Tho falling a Largo piece rooting Early this morning. He has a wife and several children. Fatal Colliery explosion. Potty Tville pa., january 15.�?by an explosion in Potts Colliery near Ashland four men Henry Jones Hugh Wilson Walter Cosgrove and a Man named Guyer were killed. George Scheibelhut was severely and two others slightly injured. Obituary. Daniel Holmes. To the editor the commercial Goshen o., january 15.�?daniel Holmes died this morning aged seventy three years cancer the stomach. He was formerly one the heaviest dry goods merchants in Clermont county leaving a Largo Fortune As the result his Industry. Mrs. Mary Corwin. Special Telegram to the commercial. Urbana o., january 15.�?mrs. Mary Corwin widow the late supreme judge John a. Corwin and the Only daughter the late governor Vance died at her residence to Day. She a is a most estimable Christian lady Well known and very highly esteemed. Aged about fifty eight. R Richard 8hellhorn, a Well known Young Man aged thirty four died sunday Aud was buried to Day. Death a Boston banker. Boston january 15.�?benjamin Bates president the National Bank Commerce died last night. Rev. Or. Samuel Chase. Peoria january 15.�?Rev. Or. Samuel Chase a widely known episcopal Clergyman this county died to Day. Death an author. Venice. January 15.�?sir William Stirling Maxwell the distinguished author is dead. Conflagrations. Lumber Mill burned loss $9,000. Special Telegram to the commercial. Bay City mich., Jannary 15.�?White Brothers lumber Mill at Whito Feather station burned Hist night. Incendiary. No insurance i038 $9,000. Lowell loss $26,000. Powell mass., january 15.�?a fire in the furniture warehouse at Mer Runao and Central streets caused a loss $26,000. Insured. A Wingham ont., january 15.�?a Are Here to a y caused a loss $30,000 insurance $15,000. The Jesuit Church West sixteenth Street new York celebrated All Over the continent not Only for the Zital and piety its clergy but for the Oxx Elenoe its music. Or. Beige the organist was afflicted with an aneurysm in the arms tried the most eminent surgeons without Success Giles liniment iodide ammonia cured him. For Sale by All druggists. It Cata it it h. Exports last week. New York january 15.�?the exports last week included 853,505 bushels wheat 218,442 bushels Corn 6,624 bushels Oats 77,892 bushels Barley 806 barrels aft 921 pierces Beer 5,371 barrels pork 10,788,909 pounds Bacon Aud 39,507 pounds hams. A Kino the assemblyman Jas. H. Taylor for years a member the Ann Taylor amp son Brewers this v City and Albany has been taken to the Blooming Ripon to its own . It win Bear the lieu Una Dale Asylum for the insane. His election to the fifty two tears a sufferer from Catarrh. A wonderful cure effected by Sanford a Radical cure this May certify that i have been a subject that terrible disease Catarrh the had and Throat for some 52 years caused by taking cold in Hie month june 1825. The attack at that time was so severe that the doctor and my friends thought i must die for year Andy ars i have been so sick that life liar been a Burden to myself and friends. It in useless form Ltd to say How Many doctors i have tried How much Medicine i have taken during Aii these years endless suffering but those who suffer As i have suffered will a my Liat i never ceased to look for Relief and to try every remedy that promised it i have discharged from my head and nose a sort thin skin tinge with Wood am matter. 1 h to 2 inches Long and from my Throat a sort yellow crust mixed with blood As Large As a Large bean i was so sick mentally and bodily that j wished to die and verily thought i was dying at times. I was often prostrated for weeks at a time and during one these severe attacks i walked to the River a Isle with the intention drowning myself so Little did 1 Hope for Relief. New. Sirs this May seem incredible to Yon and others but a great part the time i can give you Boua fide proof my sufferings. I firmly believe i have not gone to tire end the chapter. It can not be told. In september. 1876, i began the use Sanford a Radical the for Catarrh. No soon did i begin to use it than my symptoms changed. It cleared my Throat i cleared my head. It cleared my mind. It operated my system in a Way teat nothing Ever before Given me by doctors had done. How rapidly 1 improved under the influence this wonderful Medicine those who have known me for years can testify. And now. Sirs to make a Long Story Short 1 will say i would not Exchange the go a it has done me for the whole world and All it contains. My memory which was urls All gone Lias returned again and i could Tell afflictions i have great for some people to credit. I can with a Clear conscience and the strongest Faith attest to Liis Tho holy Bible. God bless the Man that found out this remedy. Sam u Al Spinney. Meadow Vale Anu Apolla county. Nova Scotia. November 23, 1877. Sworn to before me this 23d Day november 1877. George Munro Justice the peace. This is to certify that Samuel Spinney esq., is an old and respected citizen Annapolis county. His reputation As an upright and truthful Man is beyond re proach. Rev. W. A. J. Blakeney. Victaw. . Rev. Obed Parker. Melvern Square. N. H. Rev. We. E. Hail Melvern Square a s. George Munro j. A. Kingston. N. S. Quot Wilson w. G Rey Meadow Vale. N. 8. Jacob Neily. J. A. Meadow Vale n. S. Each package Sanford a Radical cure contains . Sanford s improved inhaling tube with full directions for use in All cases. Price $1. For Sale by a i wholesale and retail druggists Thraum hut the u in Tod states and Canadas. Weeks Potter go Rural agents and wholesale druggists Boston mass. Strrm 1 helpless with rheumatism this is to certify that i have used colunh�?T8 Voltaic plasters for rheumatism and forint them a great 1 a met in april 1873, i was taken with rheumatic fever which left me helpless. The Jun in my Back was great that i could not be moved lifted. I wore it c01.lik8�?TVoltaic plastik two weeks and the pain and soreness were All gone. I could be moved without suffering. The Relief i experienced was wonderful. B Julia a. Pierce no. Williamston Annapolis county n. 8. August 30r 1877. Price 25 cents be careful to obtain Collinss Voltaic plaster a combination electric and Voltaic plates with a highly medicated plaster As seen in the above out. Sold by ail wholesale and retail druggists throughout the United states and Canadas Anu by weeks amp pot tee proprietors Boston mass. Electric belts dec. Address to the weak nervous and debilitated who suffer from 111-health consequent lingering chronic nervous functional diseases. External remedies Are the safest and Best that can be applied in diseases account the facility which we possess watching their action and their results and these remedies electricity in the form mild continuous and prolonged currents As realized exclusively by ruler Machii s electric and bands has been found the most valuable Safe simple Aud efficient known treatment for the cure disease. In our descriptive pamphlet we review the manifold benefits to be derived from Pulvermacher a appliances and bring Forward testimony in their favor from the most Learned physicians and scientific men in Europe and this country. We also demonstrate Why Relief and cure result from their use after every other plan treatment has failed. Reador Are you afflicted and wish to recover the same degree health strength and Energy As experienced in former years do any the following symptoms class symptom fans meet your diseased condition Are you suffering from ill health in any Ita Many and multifarious forms consequent a lingering nervous chronic functional disease do you feel nervous debilitated fretful timid and Lack the Power will and action Are you subject to loss memory have spells fainting fullness blood in the head feel listless moping unfit for business pleasure and subject to fits melancholy Are your kidneys stomach urinary organs liver blood in a disordered condition do you suffer from rheumatism neuralgia aches and pains have you been indiscreet in Early years and a victim to Youthful follies carried Tho marital relation to excess in later years have these indiscretions and excesses left you in a weak and debilitated condition Are you timid nervous and forgetful and your mind continually dwelling the subject have you lost Confidence in yourself and Energy for business pursuits Are you subject to any the following symptoms restless nights broken sleep Nightmare dreams palpitation the heart bashfulness confusion ideas aversion to society dizziness in the head dimness sight pimples and blotches the face and Back and other despondent symptoms there Are thousands Young men i Middle aged and even the old who suffer from nervous and physical debility. There Are also a thousands females broken Down in health and spirits from disorders Peculiar to their sex and who from false modesty neglect prolong their sufferings. Why then further neglect a subject so productive health and future happiness when there is at hand a Means cure Why not throw off the Yoke altogether and seek a remedy that has science and common sense to commend it a remedy indisputable Efficacy and the most certain Means restoration to health and Pristine vigor. T us % a a. There Are Many diseases an acute and febrile Type that we do not propose to cure by Means electricity but from All Liat electro physiology teaches us in regard to the modes pm Andi the curative and preservative effects Voltaic electricity we May mo3t r reasonably infer that All those chronic ailments and All diseases dependent a depressed condition the nervous forces exhaustion nerve Power the diminished Energy vital functions As treated upon in our publications we happily most susceptible cure by Means Pulvermacher a electric bits and bands. These conditions Theja will cure while drugs will not and we offer the most convincing testimony direct from the afflicted themselves who have been restored to health strength and Energy after drugging in vain for months and years. Send 3xtot7v for descriptive pamphlet and the electric quarterly a Large illustrated journal containing full particulars and information Worth thousands. Copies mailed free. Call address Pulvermacher galvanic co., Corner eighth a Vine its. Cincinnati o

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