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Show . Colossal Ko.td lMi(irovcinellt. Pittsburg Dispatch. Senator Jacob 8. Coxcy, owner of .'marries near M ussil 1 1 n ami a stock fai in in Ken-tticky, Ken-tticky, and a free eoiuasjc man of national reputation, has had blank petitions to congress con-gress printed coataitttag tlfc recommenda-tiou recommenda-tiou "That you enact a law to Issue 600 million mil-lion duller of treasury notes, to lie a full legal tender in payment of all debts, both public and private, such money to bo set apart iwclu ivcly for public roads, and to go lo each state pro rata with the number of miles of road ill the state, and to bo appropriated appro-priated and issuso at the rate of ao million dollar a moiitls." The projector of this scheme says thai, as the supreme court bus decided that congress, bus the power to is-uc bills of credit in limes of pence or war, one of the lirst functions of that body ia to establish and maintain road- It would giro to the 9,000,000 labor iiiii people of the county eighteen days' work each vcur at $1.35 a (lay, or to the a,2S5,000 of "idle pic it would furnish scvculy-tHo days' work each year. |