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vbqc> i ’ z* •s’arTOaxsjssaMceooan* Benjamin Franklin Butler on the Army Appropria tion Bill. (lends, no Credit Mohiliers for labor, but only sweat and toil. Mr. Butler analyzed the expendi tures ot the Government for the last five years, un<t -?ai SOUTHERN BANNER: JUNE 4, 1878. hkuuipju ggg together ; and he confessed that that j of the Army and his large pav, said | letter often rung in his‘li^c-an j that.the office was entirely a super- ” ... one, and he commended to alarm bell in the n. aged 8445,000,0(1 printed |titjld|k( At the evening session Mr. llutler (Hep., Mas ,) said that there was no fact more patent and no omen more portentious than the great lack of employment by the laboring classes of the country, and this; too, in the "T lace ot the tact ihat for years past the harvests have been bountiful, and that the ships of Europe referenci prialion in Jl benefit of pended in Congress over the condi tion ofjabor. Even in the Federal bodies—municipal, Slate, and nation al—were found engaged, under the name of reform, in reducing the com pensation of those living by wayes in the public employment. Sonic legis lators seemed to believe that the country owed them thanks if by some accident or movement they could reduce the wages of employees of the Government. The motives of such legislators were always- open to doubt so long as they left their own salaries and those of other high ofii- cers ot the Government untouched. Alludiiig to the dibits of the English Government to relieve distress and starvation during the Irish famine, and to the contributions of America at that time, lie said that no national . I vessel and no train of ears had been freighted to relieve the distress of starving Americans while,' on the cmtrarv, ears had been loaded wi'h troops to suppress the ill-judged and wrongful attempts of starving labor ers to right their wrongs. Two na tional vessels had been sent to France with articles ol luxury for ex hibition. How many poor families might have been rd'eved by the large sums thus expended? There was enough of natural wealth in this Country for all, if that natural wealth could be, as it ought to be, placed by J f law within teach of all. The was found to be twofold in its char acter: First, the insufficient employ-1 j* ment of labor: Second, the iiisutii-' cient wages paid to those who have employment. There was a grievous i and national wrong in this evil and there were many causes contributing to it. There were, first, the damages accruing to the country from loss of life and property, Ninth and South, in thu late rebellion: Second, the stoppaga of development duriug the war: Third, the crowding of laborers into large cities and manufacturing districts : Fourth, the' reflux in the tide ol prosperity-: Fiilhj trader con sumption ; and, finally, that there never had been any legislation in be half of the industrial classes. Mr. Wright—Except the Home stead law. v Mr. Butler—Except the Home stead law ; but it was of no practical benefit 1o laboring men to tell them that in distant Territories they could get a Government farm for nothing. Some means would have to be found to bring the laboring man and the land together. He had no sympathy for idlers and criminals, the pests ot society. lie would suppress them with the strong hand. But for the hundreds of thousands who would be producers of wealth if they were per mitted, his heart flowed over with sympathy. The country was ap proaching a crisis which, if not guarded against and provided for, would produce a condition of affairs wherein constitutional considerations would be as powerless as they were ii 1861. What was needed was that the gift ot land in the Home stead law should be made remedial in this time of present distress. He referred to the enormous land and money grants to the Pacifie Rail road companies, which he estimated —principal and interest—at over §1G2,000,000 and 285,000,000 acres of land. How much of the vast wealth had gone to labor, and how much to capital, and how much to those who had neither labor nor cap ital to contribute, no one could tell. But one thing could be said for labor, and that was that it did not get a dollar of all that wealth which it did not earn by the sweat of its brow at the lowest possible rate of wages. There had been no subsidies, no divi- Ol ©tTU J 9 ’ ■ 'i ocean iyc ) the night mungrary c What4mie_ricaf!?Tie asked, who ever Gen. Si.erman’s imitation the exam- read that fetter did not reeollect it "pie of the Roman General Cinciunalus, st .atfier *'— . k-. ' r -*- ■ * 1 1 one knew! to -tnaf&tW I or -whether as : c to prevail ? lieve in tl Maeauila; ntly been in one portion of the country, and the courts could not punish the criminals, and it was unconstitutional to use the army for tliat. put pose; but-let a few laborers impede for an hour the course of commerce, or destroy or threaten the property of commercial corporations, and the Treasury opened wide its doors, swinging on golden hinges, and the whole military power of the nation was called forth to pub’doivn the riot, arrest, the criminals, and protect property. . , >t . At this point the hour expired, and propositfomjdbr ah extemion of time were made by several members. * Mr. Wright, wiio, @;it in Mr. But ler's seat while Mr. Butler read, his speech in the area, broke in with the remark: “There are but two dema gogues in the House. Let iis hear ono of them.” j’Geueval laughter]. 1 Mr. White—Who is the other, demagogue ? Mr. Butler—As Patrick Henry said when he attacked George III., “ If this is treason, make the most of it.” I accept this and say, if this is demagpgery, make the most of it. [Laughter anil.applause.] Mr. Bragg (Ifeny., Wis.), objected to the extension of time., ; , , Mr. Butler—I \v;is just beginning j’ j to speak on the Army bilj„b£it I will print the rest of my remarks.- Mr. Wright (with an airof disgust) ibor cannot get a chance In this II oust*. [Laughter.] Mr. Garfield (Rep.j Ohio,) argued that, even in the absence of hostile operations, the country needed an army at least large enough to keep alive the practical knowledge of mili tary affairs in this country. In con tradiction of a statement made the other day by Mr. Hewitt, he declared that the county had less i( djefensive force to-day than it bad in 1846. Then there were 265 men on the average to the garrison ^ post ; uow there were but 250 men: Mr. Ilewitt—Compare it <>rwith 1860, when there were but 140 memo the post. Mr. Garfield weut on to say that the force of any army, on paper had always to be reduced. one4hird to get at the effective: force. Wheu an army of 20,000 was reduced by one- third, there would be a very danger ously small army in a country like this. He quoted and criticised Mr. Hewitt’s remarks about strikes, wherein Mr. Ilcvitt had proclaimed the right of me.i to say that they would not work for certain wages. No American had ever disputed that. The gentleman had set up a man of straw and had attacked him vigor ously. The dangerous element in those labor strikes was the interfer ence to prevent others from workiug, and, tor himself, he declared that the man who laid any obstacle in the way of another American working was a breaker of the law and a violator of the first right of labor. Mr. Banks (Rep., Mass.)—How is it with capitalists who combine against labor ? Mr Garfield—That is just as great a violation of law and deserving ol just as great, and possibly greater, condemnation. He quoted Lord Macaulay’s letter to the author of the biography of Thomas Jefferson, in which heproph- eeied the utter ruin of institutions based upon the votes of people coun ted by the head, and proceeding upon the supposition that rich and poor, wise and unwise, learned and unlearned, the criminal and the inno cent, the vicious aud the good, were all to be counted as equal units He doctrine of know tfie ersal education wipeli eiji- ennobled, and fitted for liberty the people of the United States He had recently been told by an enlightened Englishman that he had never known a single case of tr-fiimr laborer~lTrEngtaTrd"ris5ng above his class. He thauked Gyd, however, that in America there were, no classes; that American society did not resemble the crust of the earth with its impassable barriers, but rather resembles the waters of tbe mighty sen; deep,' broad, boundless, but yet so free in all its parts that the drop which to-day mingled with the yellow sands at the bottom was free to move through all the super incumbent mass of waters mniljt ‘gleamed' and flashed on the sunlit crest of the highest wave. [General applause.] There was no boy—in America, however poor he might be, who, under the light of free institu tions, might not rise, if lie had a brave heart, a cool head an 1 a strong arm, until lie'.vas among the foremost of his generation and among the bc.-t of the people. [Continued applause.] It was for that reason that he did not fear the Cassandra prophecy of Mnecanlay. But, gentlemen, Haiti 1fe with great solemnity of manner, the time may come wlit-n we shall find it necessary to fight for society. [Sen sation.] While I would (io as much as I might to secure the rights of labbrers against tlic'iniquity of the law and the crushing power of capital, still, against all comers,’I am for the reign of law in this republic, and for enough of an nritiv to make it Applause.] Therefore, I hope tlia our good friend from New York (Mr. Hewitt), whose stake in the stability and good order ot the nation is greater than my own (inasmuch as in a meterial way he is infinitely beycind my reach), will help to make ’that stake secure for the whole coun try, and when that time comes the very ioncli and signal of that contest dissolves political parties ns a knell, and til men spring to the defence of society against anarchy, of order against chaos, of law against the torch. And now, gentlemen, where is-the power that comes in the final ■struggle to protect and save society, if it be not in onr Constitution and in the police power which the United Slates Government can give at the supreme momeut, wheu the States are powerless, and when cities are being consumed to ashes. I hope he will consent to let an amendment bo made to the bill that will fix the army at 25,000, and that he will let the bill be recommitted, so that all its other parts may be adjusted in conformity therewith. Mr. Bragg made a speech in sup port of the bill. He thought that it did not go far enough. It was but the u iodine treatment.” He was in favor of using the knife and catting ont the cancer. He believed that a force of 10,000 cavalry and infantry (with an artillery) was all the army that was needed. He alluded to the idle habits engendered in army offi cers by garrison life. Mr. McCook (Rep., N. 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