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THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, THURSDAY JULY 1, 1886. THE WORK OF CONGRESS Details of the Debate on Fitz John Porter Bill. Writhing RepubHcans -The Passed. the Bill Washington, Jane 25. -On motion nf Senator Sewell the Senate took up the Fitz John Porter bill, and Senator Locran addressed the Senate on the bill. He opened with an objection to the bill on a constitutional point. The bill, he said, provided for an in crease in the number of persons on the retired list of the army, provided the President appointed a certain person to the place. If he did not make that special appointment the vacancy was not to exist. Where did the Senate get the power to name to the Prosident a person whom he. should appoint to an office ? Where did the House of Representatives get any power to name to the President a person whom he should nominate for an office ? The fact was that Fitz John Porter and others, whose names it was not now necessary to mention, conspired to make it impossible tor a Western officer to command until Grant took hold of it, and at that time Porter and some of hi3 kind were not then m it. It was part of the programme of Por ter and his friends that no Western man should command that army. Sen ator Logan arserted that Porter was the cause of the first Bull Run defeat by persuading Patterson to retreat from Winchester with 30,000 men. In support of this he had the clerk read some extracts from his published work, "The Great Conspiracy.' He denied that he was endeavoring to persecute Porter when he was only defending Lincoln. "As God is my judge," said he, "I would stand over the dust of Lincoln and swear by all the gods to his act as being an honest and just act. You gentlemen that were down in the Confederacy," continued Senator Lo gan, "don't know anything about this case except what you have read, and you come up here to vote without ref erence to facts, (unless you have ex amined them,) out of sympathy for this man. Every man restored to the army by Congress, after dismissal be cause of sympathy with rebellion, had found Republicans in Congress to aid 1 mi 1 n n mm. i.ne propnecies or a tew years ago were coming true. The legislation of the war was being reversed every uay, ana by itepublican votes. l L TTT il il 1 ' i . n "witnin me last lew days a man. who above all others ought not to have done so, had dragged from the grave tne Honored bones ot the greatest sec retarV of war that this country had produced, and they had been beslimed and besmirched by the vilest slanders. So the men who protected this Govern ment were to be villified, while if any body stood up to defend the upholders of the Union, he is called a 'persecu tor.' Union men were now the men to be kicked, and enough Republicans were found to vote with the Democrats under the Confederate flag against their own flag. Any man who wanted to fight under the Confederate flag in this chamber had the right to do it. He meant this, of course, only in a po litical sense, m the sense of a political fight. But he did mean it in that sense, While Republicans here were helping Democrats to pass bills like this, there were bills giving pitiful lit tle pensions of $3 to $15 a month to disabled soldiers of the Republic that were being vetoed by the President. So, for fighting for the flag, for stand ing up in time of war, for being ready to die that the Union might live, the heavy hand of the Chief Executive of the Repjublic fell upon these poor sol diers, yet Republican Senators here were willing to give $3,000 a year to a man who was a traitor to his com4 mander. So if men wanted to be paid liberally by 'the United States, they had only to be treacherous when they should be true. If you are true when you might be treacherous, you are vetoed. That,!' said Senator Logan, "is a strange thing to take place in this country." j Senator Plumb, in opposing the bill, said he would venture to say that not a man in the Senate who served the Confederacy in arms would hesitate to say that such a soldier in the Confed erate army would have been dismissed in disgrace, if not shot, for failing to perform the obvious duty which Porter iauea ro perrorm on the L'Uth and 30th ot August, 18G2. Senator Plumb un derstood that: the court martial th had tried Porter came within one vote or decreeing his death. , ! benator Sewell asked Senator 1'lumb's authority for that statement Senator riumb asked whether Sen ator bewell denied tne statement. Senator Sewell did denv it. Senator Plumb said that while there was no positive proof of his statement as the court was sworn to secrecy, yet it uu gone mio ine common knowl edge of men. j This so-called vindica tion of GenJ Porter was a stab ai Abraham Lincoln. He conceded that there was a divisiou amoucr the North em people about the matter, but it was a envision line mat occurring in the Mississippi Riyer, the eddy going one way ana tne great lull-headed stream the other way. It was not a new thing frT iha 7.kl t TIT- u 1. 1 v Aivxiuiiw mviue.:; v OUIU me ooum divide on the question t Was mere noming significant in the fact mat every man who served in the Lontederacy would vote' to put Fitz John Porter oni the roll of Union he roes? We had heard, latelv of an apotheosis of Jefferson pa vis at the .same time that j we got the defamation of Edwin M. Stanton, ' Was there be- ueain an mis a ienow-teeiing for the Northern man who defeated the Union army in battle ? The reinstatement of Fitz John Porter was the' beginning of an attempt to rewrite tie history of tne union army, to put that which was disloyal and unfaithful above that wnicn was loyal and faithful. This was our quarrel, if quarrel it was, and uieoiner siae ougnt to refrain from voting on it. 1 Senator Butler interposed to say that he had sat dunng this discussion with out opening his mouth, feither for or against the bill, but he submitted that mere was a point beyond which for bearance ceased to be a virtue. That point was about reached so far as he was concerned. It had been intimated by innuendo, almost by direction, that Southern men were casting their votes to restore Fitz John Porter to the army beyond my comprehension, among men and gentlemen. I have not opened my mouth for Fitz John Por ter. I know of no man from the South or who was in .the Confederate army who has. We have taken the ground Vw "aa ti5Vh hn W mo w V IV Oil) UCIC UUUIU brutes t , Called upon to exercise a constitutional duty to vote,' and be cause we vote as oar consciences dic tate, without regard to his loyalty or disloyalty, following the track of the Republicans who brought this ques- enealcrv tion here, we are to be aspersed and I J' our integrity impugned T I repeat, sir, that if that aspersion were put upon me in another forum I would de nounce it as false and cowardly." He had listened for the last time without at least protest to these constant as persons upon men from the South, who were simply doing their duty as they understand it. In conclusion, he said: "l am tne last man in me world, sir, I can inform the Senator from. Kansas, who would sustain a traitor to the Union cause. I am the last man on this floor who would have respect for a man who I thought de serted his colors. But upon tne evi dence which I have heard and which I have looked at, I think, judicially, 1 do was a traitor. I do not think he de serted his colors, and believing that, I shall yote for this bill." Senator Plumb : "I knew all that before the Senator got up." benator Butler: "Then 1 hope the Senator will stop his insinuations." Senator Plumb: "As the Senator nas not restrained nimseit irom a somewhat lively speech here, I hope ne will not reel under any restraint elsewhere." Senator Butler : 'il can say this to the Senator, that if he were to indulge in just such sentiments and express ions elsewhere as he has here he would be very likely to hear from me." Senator Plumb: "Oh, Mr. Presi dent, we hear a great many things in hese days. There are signs and por tents and all that sort of thiner. It is ust what the Senator has said that I was commenting upon that while the men who served in the Union army and the Northern people were divided to some extent on this question affect UNCLE SAM, " i r - , In comic art there! is no more potent character than the familiar and ex traordinary fieure of our ! honored tUnclef Sam.V Every American ac few existence. Even some of the artists who have de picted him year after year, in his different,-moods and attitudes know nothing of his origin. After -making many interrogatories in regard to him, and considerableJjresearcli- into his I learned that an English caricaturist created him in "derision, long ago. The intent was to embody all the ignorance,. egotism, crudeness, pretention andf assertiveness, of the saucy young country m the quaint figure of , the old -Yankee. But there was a dignity in the tall, angular, self satisfied old man which his creator neither meant nor saw. , The people of the new country saw it, however, and took him to their hearts. They adopted the idea of the beneficent uncle, and put it into song and story. men tney accepted mm as ne was portrayed, thin and elongated, long naird, natcnet-iaced, and wearing raiment the like of which never was seen on land or sea striped panta- . V f-f lllllKfll H.I - 1 1 II II K. UIII'IAII V. 11 - - - - v.i: tt-:A t-1 n loons ot an economical cut, a swallow laucu uuai ut must anuuuaieu uesitru. a high hat that is a challenge to all modern head wear, and a vest gaudier man a tropical bird. This became the familiar fierure which, in comic art. represented our beloved country. The idea took definite form: it became fixed in our fancy; it was a creation destined to live and to grow. Uncle Sam became a fact, a reality, a part ot ourselves and our history. He was first-made familiar to his people in Yankee Notions, a comic paper that nourished more than a quarter of a century ago, but has long since climbed the golden stair. Nast was the first artist to lift our revered uncle out of .ridicule and contempt, endow him with proper dignity and maJje mm a distinctive and honored character, though he claims no credit for it. He says he remembers him as far back as he can remember anything in tne wayot pictures. The other art ists assert that Nast has made him what he is a kind, wise, courageous, quick l&EL TL Ij XSS IEi J ST dSdDILlESia3(IDIE(ID9 No (& ing the honor, good name, faithfulness JV mny-spmieaf aigmneo, lova- tyofoneof theirown soldiers TuL" 'T'-T8 !oe;e2" had any doubt upon voted nem con that he and lovalt no Confederate the subject, but was not guilty." After some further remarks Senator Plumb said he had just been informed that the President had vetoed a bill giving a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Major Gen. Hunter, who had been the presiding officer of the Court martial that had tried Fitz John Porter. That seemed a fitting accom- Saniment for the passage of the Fitz ohn Porter bill. But the loyal people of the country would see to it that Mrs. Hunter should not suffer. Senator Teller offered an amend ment to place on the retired list Gen. Alfred Pleasanton. Rejected 19 to 20. Senator Plumb offered an amend ment to place Mrs. Hunter on the pen sion roll ac $50 a month. Lost, 19 to 29. Senator Logan offered an amend ment to place on the retired list every volunteer officer who received wounds producing total disabilty. Rejected, 18 to 29. Senator Blair offered an amendment thing affecting the interests of his people; in short, a gentleman. One of the whims of caricature is to make Uncle Sam fat and jolly when "times are good," and thin and sad when finances languish. Keppler, of fucK, nrst made mm tat in the pros perous days of 79. One of Nasi's hits was giving him a swollen silver leg and one good solid gold leg during the monetary conference in France and the mining .excitement in the west, some years ago. The silver leg was gouty, and could only be moved by means of straps and pulleys. It tied him to the chair and made an invalid of him, of course. It was Nast, too, who represented him as an eagle. It is interesting to see how the char acter of "Uncle Sam" has developed with the character of his people. One realizes this by comparing some of the old portraits of him with the more modern. In Nast's allegorical sketches we have seen him in all the phases of his strong, spirited and noble charac ter. He has wept with Columbia over the bier of heroes; he has held fast to the old flagr when it was riddled with providing that rejected pension claims f hotA and, shell5 he has turned his gray because he-was disloyal to the Union. "I not only protest against that Mr. President' continued Senator Butler, "but, sir, for one I denounce it as ab solutely and entirely ancj unqualifiedly untrue. And; sir, if it herein another forum I would denounce it as coward ly. Because we are here in the exer cise , of our constitutional rights as Senators on this floof, casting our votes as our consciences! dictate, that we should be aspersed in this way is may be taken to United States Courts with the privileges of a jury trial. This amendment, he said, would re lieve Congress of many bills for priy ate relief. Senator Beck said that the Fitz John Porter bill should either be passed or voted down on its merits, and without reference to any other proposition. After further debate Senator Blair withdrew his amendment. Senator Logan offered an amend ment providing places on the retired list for Union officers who lost an arm, leg or an eye at the battle of Bull Run. Rejected. The bill was then brought to a vote and passed yeas 30, nays 17 as fol lows : Yeas Senators Beck. Berrv. TUnnV- burn. Brown, Butler. Call. Camprnn. Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, George, Gib son, Gorman, Grav. Hoar. Jones of Arkansas, Jones of Nevada, McPher son, Maxey, Mitchell of Oregon, Pugh, xvausom. xtiaoieoerger, isewell. Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Whitthorne and Wilson of Maryland 30. Nays Senators Aldrich, Allison, Conger, Cullom, Evaits, Frye, Hale, Harrison, Hawley, Ingalls, Logan, Manderson, Palmer, Sawyer, Spooner, Teller and Wilson, of Iowa 17. The bill having already passed the House and not having been amended by the Senate, now goes to the Presi dent for his signature. Adjourned till Monday. weeps or or way- NORTHWESTERN STORMS. .ightiiliig, Wind, Hail and Rain Damage Crops and Destroy Lite. St. Paul, Minn.. June 24. Storm ot great violence have been prevalent head aside m humiliation when public trusts were betrayed and honors abus ed; he has mourned over his slain sons as they lay in the valleys, on the hills, and by the rivers of the south. His keen wit has mercilessly punctured shams and his big heart swelled with sympathy when the children of his adoption suffered. Deer, quaint, grand, old Uncle Sam, may his kind and rugged face ever beam upon us in love and good will. When he smiles his people rejoice; when he frowns they are sorrowful ward. An eccentric person is our dear old uncle, surely. Though he mixes much with statesmen and is an honored figure in councils of the great, he cares more for the societv of his old pet eagle than for all the'fine people of the earth. And his flag ! Nothing under the sun is so saorpd tr him ac that. With what pride he uplifts it. How bravely he stands bv it. Wrhat sublime faith he has in it. The Fourth of July is the greatest day of the j-ear to him. On that day, 177G, he was born. He was the babe for whom the bells were rung; he was the hope of the men who met and voted fnr ind. pendence; he was the" first free born American child and he has fulfilled the hopes of the people who reioiced over his birth. To-day he is godfather to the greatest nation on the face of the earth'. "Stand p.Wr th AfO oil ttinn ana ocean are free now an flag so bier that land and a good bit of the sen. And he has something to say to his tuuYeu on ms noisy birthday. He would tell them that unless they are j . 11 co,wix umcr mey cannot con Zu XZ ProsPer- He will tell them that when they defraud or oppress cau umer mey are vexing His spiri Morrison's New Tariff Bill CONSEQUENCE A Puts LUMBER on the Free List ! TUMBLE " IN PRICES ! a3kdl ? To meet this Iniquitous attack on a great Southern Industry we have perfected our arrangements to Reduce Prices, as follows : DRESSED CEILING, $7.00 PER THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY. 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