Bibb County  Georgia Bios   James M. Blount

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JAMES M. BLOUNT

James M. Blount of Macon, who represents the Sixth
Congressional District of Georgia in the Congress of the
United States, was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses, as a
Democrat, receiving, at his last election, a vote of 8,373,
without any opposing votes. During his service in Congress,
Mr. Blount has not made a great number of extended speeches,
but has been constantly heard from on the floor of the
House, whenever any bill or section of a bill was under
discussion, that by any means would be likely to draw a
dollar from the Treasury, and which in his judgement was not
absolutely necessary as a public expense.  Indeed, he has
been and still is one of the most faithful and vigilant
"watch-dogs of the Treasury," evidently sincere in the
belief that charity does "begin at home," and has no claims
upon the funds of the government, made up, as they are,
almost solely from accumulations of the hard-earned taxes
unavoidable levied upon the rich and poor alike, and under
laws requiring them to be used only for the purpose of
maintaining and carrying on the business of good government.
None who know him well will doubt his efficiency as a member
of Congress, or his honor as a man.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S.
Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 292.

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