Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 September 1886 — Page 1

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ESTABLISHED 1869.

Senator Voorhees Discusses the Issues of the Day.

An Immense Gathering Greets Him at Dowling Hall.

Remarks by Ex-Senator Jos. E. McDonald and Hon. John E., Lamb.

The Mention of Mr. Lamb's Name Evokes a Scene of the Greatest Enthusiasm.

A SPLENDID OVATION.

Speeches by Senator Voorhees, Ex-Senato McDonald and Hon. John L. Lamb._ From Wednesday's dally. IJ

Senator Daniel W. Voorhees received a magnificent ovation at the hands of the people of Vigo county, his townsmen and neighbors, last night. It was no doubt the heartiest reception that has ever been extended to the Senator in this city. The coming of ex-Senator Joseph

E. McDonald was a surprise,

and it was cot generally known that that distinguished gentleman would be here until he arrived in the city during the afternoon in company with Mrs. McDonald. They came over from Indianapolis with Mr. Voorhees. During the day people came in from all parts of the county in trains and in wagons to extend a greeting to their representative in the upper branch of the national legislature. The trains brought in small parties from points outside of Terre Haute,and. probably every county in this congressional district was represented in the grand meeting at night. During the afternoon Senator Voorhees was besieged by callers at the Terre Haute House, scores of people calling to shake him by the hand and welcome him home once more. At a quarter after 7, o'clock an impromptu escort, composed of about one-hundred and fifty persons and headed by the Ringgold band, marched from the corner of Third and Ohio streets to' the Terre Haute House for the pnrptfse of escorting the speakers to the hall. By 7 o'clock the sidewalk in front of Dowlirig Hall was crowded with people waiting to get in, so that a person could scarcely get within a hundred yards of the door. Notwithstanding the crush and inconvenience many ladies stood waiting for fully a quarter of an hour for the doors to open. At twenty minutes of 7 o'clock -a-'P"r

THE DOORS WERE SWUNG OPEN

knd the impatient people entered. The crush was so great that some persons came nearly being severely injured. In an incredibly Bhort space of time the entire seating capacity of the hall was taken up, both on the main floor and in the gallery. Still, however, the people continued to pour in. They continued to come until they were packed in the hall like sardines in a box. There was hardly an inch of the seating or standing capacity of the hall not actually taken up. When it was found that no more could enter and that the building was indeed much too crowded for the convenience of the audience, there, was stiU several hundred persons in the hallway and on the sidewalk below anxious to gain admittance. The audience was truly a splendid one. All classes and

ALII SECTIONS OP THE COUNTY were represented. There was a noticeably large attendance from the country, the faces of nearly all the prominent country Democrats being conspicuous in the crowd. The honest toiler from the city workshop was also there, in a number of cases accompanied by his wife and children. Then there was the professional man, the banker, the storekeeper, and the man who only goes rarely and on extraordinary occasions to a public speaking. They were all there and they made up a truly representative audience. On the stage were the vice-presidents of the meeting, the majority of those selected attending.

The following was the organization of the meeting PBESIDEKT.

Phillip Schloss. VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Johu 8. Beach, E. H. Bindley, Luke Leonard, Hugh D. Boqtiet~~ Wm. Schmidt John F. Roedel,

W. H. Scudder, Newton Bledsoe, Amos Hollo way. Martin K. Lee, W. K. Fletcher,' Wm. C. Mays, A. A. Gordon, Wm. Collister A. M. Collins. John MaxwelV A a on on N. B. Kenneth Hugh M. Brown, Jos. H. Gilbert, John J. Nuber, Dr. 8. D. Shields, 'Leonard Scott, Jas. Bolton-, John W. Cassady, Dora Dermody, Jas. Misner, Geo. C. Clem, Chas. Rigney, J. B. Hall, Michael Quinlan, IraModesitt, Wm. Carrithers, Burton Van Hook, Levi Hughes, JosiahYork, James Toner, K':w H. C. Robinson, W. H. Larimer, JOB. Thorpe,

J. E. Somes, P. J. Ryan, Henry Anderson. Marcus Schomehl, Andrew Ooanell.

Henry Bader, Joseph Miller, John T. Scott, Thomas anion, Nicholas Boland, Charles Brokaw, V. G. Dickhout, Wm. A. McClnre, David irwin, W. R. Mercer, Jefferson Welch, Jeremiah Beal, Michael Callahan, John Nelson, John Welsh, Jerry Magavin, L. B. Martin. Wm. Haggerty, Phillip Andrews, Wesley Coppage, John H. Seay, Wm. McGee,

Wm. Mack, Robert G. Watson, Crawford Fairbanks, Cyrus F. McNutt, A. G. Ausiin, F. F. Kieth,

A. Schaal,

Martin Brophy, Frederick Fenner, Herman Kirmse, Gottlieb Frey, E. Rothschild, Frank McHugh, Geo. Weldele, Cbarles W. Hoff, I^iac Mitchell,

Ernest Bleemel, Wm. J.Utz, Nicholas Stein, Conrad Asherman, Jeremiah Burke. Henry Schmidt. Wm. H. Sago.

Chas. St. John, James Harlan, S Dr. J. W. Ogle, Wm. M. Crossley. Linus Moyer, Isaiah Donham •'r Mas ton Boston,

Henry Pennington,, W. R. Little. W. H. Larnmer,, E. A. Roberts, Wm. Schommer, John Royse, S .' John Haselberger, -.1 Edward Barnes,

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SENATOR VOORHEES' SPEECH.' "FELLOW CITIZENS AND NEIGHBORS— It is now nearly thirty years since I was first introduced to the people of Vigo county and I do not know that I need t»ny other introduction at this time. 11 rejoice to meet such a fine assemblage of the people as there is here tonight. It betokens well for the country when the people come out and evince a desire to hear the public issues discussed. When the people are thus moved there is no harm that can befall the country. 1 see before me a deep and overwhelming interest in public affairs. I have often said before—I have told you on many occasions—that the vital principle of this government is that it belongs to the people. It belongs to you. You cannot therefore overestimate the importance of your own actions. To your hands is entrusted the greatest government on earth. From all the countries on the earthpeople come among us to ©njoy the benefits of a free government. It is no easy thing for them to break the

TIES OF HOME, OF KINDRED

and of family associations. It is no slight task, I say, for them to leave the land of their adoption. There is no such a spectacle beneath the globe as presented here. Sometimes we are reproached on account of the political excitement that so often occurs among us. Why should not the people get excited over their own affairs? If they do not who will? Therefofte, when I come home among you I can say truthfully that I am glad from the bottom of my heart to meet you once more. I am glad to see all of you—one and all. I desire to say a few words to you tonight ou several important matters. For twenty-four years preceding the 4th of March, 1885, the Republican party had the Presidency of the United States. They had all the great power of that great executive office. The Republican party had the Senate of the United States twenty-two years out of those twenty-four years that

THEY HELD THE PRESIDENCY and they had possession of the House of Representatives sixteen years. There was not a single time within all that long period that the Democratic party had the power to make a single law. When they had the House they did not have the Senate, when they had the Senate they did not have the Honse,and for a short time when they had control of both the Senate and the House they did not have the presidency. Consequently, the Democratic party all this time was powerless to make a single law.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

.•? Sebastian MiUer. 'iM S. S. Gobin, Joseph Johnston,

John W. Moore," N. Kester, David Weeks, John J. Brake, 0. B/Brile, l'f Phillip Long, Jas. Butler,

S. C. Dalton, Leonard Davis, Samuel C. Webster, Dr. McLaughlin, Edward Donnelly, Peter Raridan, James Misner, John W. Oasaady,

THE STAGE

was beautifully set off with plants from Heinl's. There was a, magnificent bouquet on the speaker's table, and a large American flag was hung suspended on the stage. The quarter assigned to the press was in the orchestra pit, and so great was the demand for room that even that little space was encroached upon and men stood up around the table until they touched the elbows of the newspaper men whenever they turned around. It was a great, a spontaneous, a hearty tribute to the "Tall Sycamore of the Wabash" and when he stepped upon the stage abotit 8 o'clock in oompany with ex-Senator McDonald and Hon. John E. Lamb, the great audience gave the distinguished party a welcome

THAT FEW PERSONS

have received in the Prairie City. Samuel R. Hamiil, chairman of the Democratic County Committee, stepped to the front as soon as the applause had subsided and briefly announced that Hon. Phillip Schloss had been selected to be permanent chairman of the meeting. Mr. Schloss on coming forward was received with applause. After returning thanks for the honor conferred upon him he introduced Senator Voorhees in a [few well-chosen words. On arising the Senator was again greeted with enthusiastic applaude. He seemed to be the perfect picture of health and his voice was in excellent condition. It was the same strong, o'ear, resonant voice that has been heard _with delight so often by the people of He spoke as follows. no notes:

For that cyclone of disaster that swept over the country from 1873 to 1878, that filled the oountry with disaster, distress and want, who is responsible? Who, I ask, is responsible? I have read the speeoh of my colleague in the Senate from Indiana in which he arraigns the Democratic party for its broken pledges. We have now been in

POWER EIGHTEEN MONTHS

Ihd the Republicans hold the Senate of the United States firmly by eight majority. Not a single law can be passed by the Democratic party alone except through this Republican Senate. The Republican party seems to be going on the idea in this campaign that the peopie are of ^short memories. The Republican pajty of Indiana in convention assembled at Indianapolis on the 2nd of September last resolved that "the wisdom and honesty of the Republican party secured sound money to the people." That, to my mind, is the hugest joke of the year. [Laughter.] Now, my Greenback friends, we haven't got short memories, havo we? We have fought together on this question and we have not forgotten a few things in the past. Tou and I know that Republican legislation created a system of finance wherein the government dishonored its own currency by not receiving it for government dues enabled the capitalists of the country to use a depreciated currency worth 50 cents on the dollar in the purohase of government bonds now quoted in the money market at a large premium above par in gold paid the 2,000,000 of sol-, diers who preserved the Union not more than one-half the amount due them, while bondholders received in gold double the amount of their origins! investments. [Applause! They broke the contract with every soldier who wore the blue. [A voice "That's so."J A system by which the oontract for the pay of the soldier was broken, the pensioner for many years compelled to suffer a discount of from 10 to 50 per cent on his pension certificate, and at the same time invited the capital of the country to a speculation in which more than a thousand millions of dollars have been realized as clear, naked gam, is a subject for repentance and shame, rather than for laudation and self-praise. Nor will the impartial historian find either wisdom or honesty in

A FINANCIAL SYSTEM

responsible for the widespread atid in describable scenes of business ruin which blighted the homes and happiness of this country from 1878 to 1878. The framers of this platform now say, or rather seem to say in vague terms, [laughter] that silver ought to be apart of our coin circulation. Thirteen years

in a surreptitious and fraudulent manner, like a thief in the night, demonetized silver and the law by which it now exists and circulates as money was passed in February, 1878, over a veto inspired, advised and written by John Sherman, a Republican Secretary of the Treasury, and signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, an acting Republican President who was never elected. [Applause.] Nor has there been a Republican administration in power since the beginning of Grant's first term, March 4, 1869, that has been friendly to silver. Is this an exhibition of their "wisdom an^ honesty?" I say that there is not a soldier living who ever got what the contract of the government agreed to give him [Applause.] The Republican party at Indianapolis resolved a deliberate falsehood when it resolved that it had given sound currency to the people. Since when have they been friendly to silver? No man ever went to heaven, in my opinion, by faith alone [Laughter.] I think he has got to show some good works [Continued laughter.] As this seems to be a campaign of slander by resolution, us it were, I want to call your attention to another important question, that of

PENSION LEGISLATION.

This is a suDjecc on which the public mind is always exceedingly sensitive to the slightest wrong or injustice. Any man, or party of men, guilty of unfairness, illiberality or bad faith toward the soldiers of the war for the Union, should and would be speedily and utterly overwhelmed by the execrations of the whole American people [Applause.] Year after year the Republican campaign orators told you soldiers that if the Democratic party ever got in power you would not only lose your pensions, but they 'would actually pension the Confederate soldiers. In 1880 this man Dudley had its agents swarming all over this state to buzz and buzz and say that if Gen. Hancock, that gallant soldier whom the Democrats were then running for President, was elected there would be a suspension of pensions. In 1884 when Cleveland and Hendricks were the Democratic nominees they predicted that every woe and every evil would fill the land, especially so far as the soldiers' interests were concerned. I have a statement here with the proofs on the subject. The Republicans at Indianapolis made the following false and virulent arraignment of the Democratic party: "The attempt of the Democratic House of Representatives to make odious pension legislation by adding a special tax till to every pension measure (thus declaring that pensions should not bo paid out of the general Treasury), the spirit and language of numerous vetoes of meritorious pensions, and the failure of the Democratic House of Representatives to even reconsider them before the adjournment of Congress, reveal the continued enmity of the Democratic party to the Union soldier and his cause.",

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THE INCOME TAX FOR PEN8IONS. Let us see what kind of an enmity the Democratic party has for the soldier. There was a movement in the House of Representatives during the latter part of the last session of Congress to revive and m-enaot an income tax, with the avowed purpose on the part of certain leading Democrats, of making the rich, from their heavy incomes, assist in paying pensions to. soldiers, their widows and orphans and this was the special tax which the Republicans now oharge was designed bf the Democratic House in order to make pension legislation odious. I do not believe the soldiers of Indiana will so regard it. do not believe they will take it as evidence of enmity to them or their cause that the Democratic party should desire the Vanderbilts, thd Goulds and their associate millionaires to aid from their enormous inrawnes in the payment of pensions. am witling to aocept the soldier vote on this proposition. I voted for its enactment and against its repeal. I am for it now and if it comes before the- Senate again I will vote for it. [Loud applause.] These men of enormous wealth in many oases have made their wealth by just such means as the soldier was cheated oat of his honest pay. I tried to make the government

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tract daring the war. I have tried to get your bounties for you. You know whether have tried to get your pensions or not [Applause.] But these Republican leaders—I do not mean the honest masses of the party—but these scheming leaders say, "Oh, Cleveland vetoed some pension bills." Yes, and Mr. Cleveland has approved and signed in the eighteen months he has been in the presidential chair more pensions than Grant did during his whole eight years occupancy of the White House. [Loud cheers.] I defy any of these men to contradict this statement. How do you like that? Is that a continued evidence of the hostility of the Democratic) party to.the soldier. [Laughter, a cry of "No" and chBers]. I repeat that

veland has signed more penmonths than Grant eight years. [Continued ap-

And whence came this extraflood of special pension legis\Vhen we reflect that it poured

its great, steady volume through a House of Representatives with an overwhelming Democratic majority, and largely composed of ex-Confederate soldiers and when we reflect further that this same Democratic House has voted $75,000,000 a year for the payment of pensions in the aggregate, we are lost in amazement at the brazen calumny that the Democratic party is at enmity with the soldier of the Union and his cause,. [Applause.]

J, ABOUT THESE VETOES, IHTH* th§ fa£t is that thej-e was such a flood of pension bills that some mistakes were thade by Congress. For instance, Cleveland sent back^me bill saying that the man who had just been pensioned had died in the February before. [Laughter,] That looks as if things were done a little loosely, doesn't it? Again, Mr. Cleveland sent back another bill with, the statement that as the woman to be pensioned was already on the 1 Is for $30 a month and as this pension proposed to give her only $25, that Congress had better let well enough alone. [Laughter.] I don't know that I would have vetoed any of them, but I know I wouldn't be doing my duty to the public as Mr. Cleveland has done. But if we look at the cause, and the treatment of the pensioner in the Executive Department of the Government, where his great and sacred interests are entrusted and administered, under the laws, we will again behold what a reckless, flagitious and absolutely untenable falsehood may be put into a political platform by men of respectable standing in the communities where they live. I have here ah editorial article taken from the

NATIONAL TRIBUNE

of Washington, a paper of more than 150,000 weekly circulation, published, owned, edited and managed by soldiers, and exclusively in the interest of soldiers. All you soldiers know of it. The article appeared in the issue of July 15.1886. and is headed. "A Splendid Showing." It reads as follows: "The report of the work done in the Pension Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, justifies all that has been said in these columns of the increased efficiency and liberality of the administration of Genera 1 John C. Blacfc. During the year the office issued 79,654 pension certificates, a total increase 5f 9,268 over the work of any previous year. "The greater liberality of General Black's administration is shown by the increase of more than 500 allowances per month, and the greater efficiency is proved by this grand increase of work being accomplished by a force of clerk3 numbering fully 100 less than the average under his predecessors."

In addition to this, Gen, Black has issued 93,000 certificates to widows and dependent relatives, under the act of March 19,1886, a Democratic increase of their pensions and he has done this without a dollar of expense to the claimants for agents and attorneys, and with such promptitude that they all received their money on the 4th of June, the first ensuing pay day. Thus it will be seen that during the y.ear ending June 30,1886. the first fiscal year under'a Democratic administration, there have been issued by a Democratic Commissioner of Pensions 172,654 pension certificates, being largely

1886.-TWO PARTS,-PART FIRST. $1.50 PER YEAR I

MORE THAN DOUBLE

the number ever issued before by the Pension Office in a single year. When still further it is known, as I now state the fact to be, that in this great and splendid showing General Blaok not only kept inside the appropriations made for that year, but saved to the government and covered back into the

treasury the sum of $305,000, as an unexpended balance of the amount allowed by Congress for the work he had done, the country will promptly comprehend and thoroughly indorse and support the man who accomplishes such results. The soldiers' organ, the National Tribune, from which I have already quoted, gives expression to the intelligent, non-partisan voice and conviction of the whole country when, speaking of the present administration of the Pension Office, it says: "The steady increase from week to week and from month to month, of the business transacted has not been irregular and fitful, which would indioate that it had been effected by adventitious or outside influences, but has been a regular, steady growth, such as could only come from a systematic perfecting of the details of the machinery, and an intelligent supervision of the whole system, wherever strengthening and improvement were needed. Long-stand-ing obstacles have been patiently investigated and carefully removed abuses handed down from one commissioner to another have been done away with

SIMPLE METHODS

have been substituted for cumbersome ones technism has been made to give way to common sense and business expedition, and so well and thoroughly has this been done that with a clerical force numbering 100 less than his predecessor, he is able to show an astonishing expansion in the volume of work performed."1""

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Turning again to that platform, which has a sort of horrible fascination on account of its daring mendqgity and highcrested hypocrisy, we find the creators the supporters and beneficiaries of the most gigantio monopolies ever known among men making loud-mouthed promises of what they intend to do in the future for the laboring classes of the United States. Why have they, nothing to point to in the past? Why are their long years of supremacy in every department of the government barren of anything done for the working people? Why do they not prove their faith by their works? It is too late in the day for the leaders of the Republican party to deceive the people by promises of the future they should be able to convince and satisfy the workingmen and women of the country by citing their record in the past. The Democratic party is more fortunate on this question. It can point to some things done which speak for themselves. At the close of the long session of the Forty-eighth Congress, now two years ago, the following statement was truthfully made of what that Democratic House had done in recognition of the demands of the laboring classes: "1. It created a Committee on Labor for the first time in the history of Congress. "2. It created a Bureau of Labor Statistics, demanded by every labor organization in the country, for the first time in the history of the country. "3. It abolised all hospital dues from seamen and sailors, compelling the support of all marine hospitals from tonnage tax. "4. It put its seal of disapprobation on the use of convict labor by striking from the appropriation bills every item for the use of convict labor on public buildings. "5. It passed a bill prohibiting importation of labor under contract to compete with American workmen, which bill the Republican Senate did not concur in. "6. The Democratic Committej on Labor reported to the House joint resolutions for submission to the various States, prohibiting the hiring out of contracting for the labor of convicts also prohibiting the employment of United Statas prisoners in the trades also conferring on Congress the power to regulate the hours of labor in textile and other industries."

YOU LABORING MEN

will remember that for twenty-four years the Republicans had control of this government. Did they ever think of any of these things? It remained for a Democratic House to put them into execution. Laboring men, scratch your ears and see if you can remember any bill passed by the Republicans in those twenty-four years that did you any good. [Applause.] My Republican friends, I have the kindest respect and regard for you, but why will you attach yourself to a party that has dozeds in the morning and napped in the evening all these twenty-four years and never thought of getting up a Committee on Labor or a Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Applause.] Iam reminded that the bill prohibiting the importation of labor by contract is the one in the debate on which Mr. Lamb here took such a prominent and creditable part. [At this

MENTION OF MR. LAMB?S NAME, the first reference to him by the speaker, the great audience indulged in the most frantic and uproarious evidence of enthusiasm. For fully twenty seconds

the hall rang again and again with ^he wildest cheering. When it would seem as if it had subsided it would break out again and it rolled back and forth like a rushing torrent Old gray-haired citizens from town and oountry sent their arms flying into the air and waved their hats around their heads in the most excited manner. Canes were hammered on the floor, hands were clapped and it seemed as if a pandemonium of noise had established itself. Senator Voorhees stood calmly waiting until the most unusual scene had passed over. Ex-Senator MoDonald leaned back in his chair and turning half way around smiled and nodded to Mr. Lamb, who was clearly much affected by the most enthusiastic demonstration in his honor. Even the ladies joined in the enthusiasm.

WHEN QUIET

had been sufficiently restored to4' allow Mr. Voorhees to continue, the Senator said: "I wonder if this fellow up in Parke who is running against Mr. Lamb ever thought of such a thing." At this sally the spectators again broke out into fresh enthusiasm, and when Mr. Voorhees said: "Yes, and Mr. Lamb voted for every one of these measures that I have just enumerated" it looked as if the first scene was to be literally repeated. Continued Mr. Voorhees: "The party which has made this record can be trusted by the working classes to do more in the same direction when its opportunities are increased."

On the subject of, 4%t THE PUBLIC LANDS'' we are also treated to another false and impudent claim to public confidence in the platform assertions of September 2nd. Could anything be more audacious, in the face of well-known facts, than this resolution: "We favor reservation of public lands for small holdings by actual settlers, and are opposed to the acquisition of large tracts of the public domain by corporations and Don-reaident aliens. American lands should be preserved for American settlers."

order properly to estimate the value of this loud profession in favor of "small holdings by actual settlersj' it is only necessary to state the simple,, well ascertained and undisputed fact that "from July 1,1862, to March 3,1871, less than nine years, public lands were voted away to corporations to the amount of 144,538,134 acres," by Repub* lican Congresses, and that every enact ment was signed by a Republican Presi dent. These enormous grants are equal to two-thirds of the lands included within the boundaries of the original thirteen States which formed the Government. Nearly a hundred millions of these acres have been liable to forfeiture for years past because of non-com-pliance by the corporations with the conditions of the grants, but until the Forty-eighth Congress, within the last three years, nothing was done to reclaim for actual settlement any of this vast domain. The movement, however, being started in the Democratic House of that Congress, the public sentiment of the laboring, home-seeking masses became aroused, and laws have been enacted declaring forfeited to the Government, and to be thrown open for settlement, 50,482,240 acres. [Applause.] In addition to these enactments the House, with

THE GROSS ABUSES

which had grown up under Republican administrations in the disposal of our public lands, there was extensively published, less than two years ago. a carefully prepared table, showincr that 20,747,000 acres of land had been taken up and was then held by foreign syndicates, foreign land companies, and members of the English nobility, in vast estates ranging from 5,000 to 4,500,000 acres. It was also estimated that between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 acres of public land were illegally fenced and shut up against emigration, by large cattle companies, some of them English, and others Scotch, besides the rapacious

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ITS DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY, I*

has passed bills of forfeiture, amounting to 38,430,941 acres, in which the Republican Senate has not as yet concurred. The Public Lands Committee of the House, through its able $nd distinguished Chairman, Mr. Cobb, of this State, has still further reported bills, which are now on the calendar, declaring additional forfeitures (to the amount of 13,067,214 acres. Thus it will be seen that in the short space of about two years and-a-half two Democratic Houses have, by direct votes and through their committee on that subject, declared that 101,980,395 acres of land, equal to five times the State of Indiana, claimed by railroad corporations, shall be thrown open to the people for farms and homes. [Applause.] It will also be seen that while the Senate was compelled through an awakened public opinion, to agree to a portion of these forfeitures, yet no such measures ever originated under Republican auspices, nor while the Republican parly retained its ascendency in both branches of Congress. And such is the party which now declares itself opposed to the acquisition of Jlarge tracts of the yublic domain by corporations and nonresident aliens, and that "American lands should be preserved for American settlers!" In order to dhow still further