Carpenter on Back Pay Bill: Speech of Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter on the Back Pay Bill ; Delivered at Janesville, June 26th, 1873J.H. Yewdale & Sons, printers, 1873 - 31 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
42d Congress amount BACK PAY BILL British monarchy build the road C. M. stock called the Credit Charles Sumner cheated Clarkson N condemn Congressmen constitution contract contractor Court Credet Mobilier investigation defrauded desire earn elected fixed by law forty acres give him forty Government bonds hands Henry Wilson honest honor increased interest Jacob Collamer Judge judicial annals labor land last winter lawyer live matter members of Congress ment mile mortgage Oakes Ames opinion paid panic pany pay the Government payment pensation Philetus Sawyer Potter President railroad company reason receive a compensation receive the compensation received back pay receivers of stolen representatives Republican respect Rhode Island road company salary and back salary bill scheme Senator says simply stolen money sub-contractor suit supposed thief thieves thing thousand dollars tion to-night Treasury Union Pacific Railroad United Washington William Pitt Fessenden Wisconsin wrong
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Página 5 - United States, wholly or in part, in the same or other bonds, treasury notes, or other evidences of debt against the United States, to be allowed at par; and after said road is completed, until said bonds and interest are paid, at least five per centum of the net earnings of said road shall also be annually applied to the payment thereof.
Página 5 - ... all compensation for services rendered for the government shall be applied to the payment of said bonds and interest until the whole amount is fully paid.
Página 3 - FROM his brimstone bed at break of day A walking the Devil is gone, To visit his snug little farm the Earth, And see how his stock goes on.
Página 5 - California shall be required to complete twenty-five miles of their said road in each year thereafter, and the whole to the State line within four years, and that only one-half of the compensation for services rendered for the Government by said companies shall be required to be applied to the payment of the bonds issued by the Government in aid of the construction of said roads.
Página 21 - But it may be said, if I have a house in Milwaukee, why not leave my family there? Why hire a house in Washington? If you are to have a healthy administration, it must be kept at the hands of men living in a healthy and normal condition. The laxity of life is restrained by the supervision of a wife, and the heart is kept alive to the better feelings of our nature by the sweet voice and tender touch of our children.
Página 7 - He observed, that it would be improper to leave the members of the national legislature to be provided for by the state legislatures, because it would create an improper dependence ; and to leave them to regulate their own wages was an indecent thing, and might in time prove a dangerous one.
Página 2 - ... and that any attempt to justify what the press has so unanimously condemned will only have the effect to call forth increased denunciation. This may all be so, but I do not believe it. There is a time for all things; a time to rant and a time to reason. Of ranting we have had more than enough; some one must incur the danger of attempting to reason, and I may as well suffer as another.
Página 23 - The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Service, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either...
Página 3 - Substantially, all the stockholders of the Credit Mobilier complied with the conditions named in the transfer, and thus became entitled to share in any profits said trustees might make in executing the contract. All the large stockholders in the Union Pacific were also stockholders in the Credit Mobilier, and the Ames contract and its transfer to trustees...
Página 21 - I received $10,500, in cash. My clients were satisfied with my services and my charges. They neither called me a thief nor abused me in the press. This enabled me to square my bank account for the year, face bakers and butchers, doctors and dentists, schoolmasters aud music teacheas, priests and printers, tailors and shoemakers.