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come into Congress as a Representative
from New Jersey, and it was almost a
matter of course that the matter should be
placed in his charge. With him were
associated other Revolutionary worthless,
Colonel TALLMADeE, of Connecticut, an
experienced officer of the Revolution,
(also senior to Gen. H.) being next OH the
committee. ...... .......
This committee was not long in DELHI
Grating upon the measure; for on the 18th
of the same month in which it was ap-
pointed, the committee reported bill to
provide, again almost in the terms of
General HARRlsoN's original proposition,
for the relief of such officers and soldiers
land sailors) who have faithfully served,
&c. and are now Gin reduced circumstan-
ces in life." ~ '
In the discussion of this bill General
IL. took an active part, advocating, how
ever, a just discrimination between actual
service and the merely being mustered in
the Army without serving any length of
time. Sustaining this discrimination, he
opposed an amendment proposing to allow
the proposed pension to every officer or
"soldier who served in any manner
"during the Revolutionary war, and now
surviving" arguing it as follows:
"The amendment now proposed, he
"said, went too far, because it would
embrace every one who had shouldered
:" a musket, even for an hour, during the
Revolutionary war. AS to those who
had seen serious service, so far from
having claim to the need of Hberalitv,
1.-THE amendment would be but a measure
"g justice, as no bounty had been accor-
"ded to them. Persons, however, COW
"ered with scars and borne down by
"length of service in those days, ought
mot to be COMPOUNDED with those who
chad been called out for an hour or day.
=" Some Of THE MILITIA, he thought, acre
"as weH entitled to this pension as any
regulars, of whom the jersey militia
"might be particularly mentioned. But
he wished to have the operation of the
"bill limited to such as should have
served six months or MORE"
This bill passed the House of Repre-
sentatives before Christmas Day, showing
a marvellous despatch of business in the
House of Representatives, in comparison
with the usage in the same body at the
present day, and, what is still more re-
markable, the yeas and nays were not
even called upon its passage. Such was
the good feeling then prevailing among
tn Members of the House, that the major
lty would not expose to invidious imputa-
ton, by requiring record of their names,
those whose objections to the details of
the bill might have induced them to vote
against it.
The bill which passed the House so
promptly, did not so readily obtain the
assent of the Senate; but it finally passed
that body towards the end of February
following, (yeas %, nays 81 and now
stands on the statutc-book as the act of
March Is, 1918, entitled "An act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service ofthe United States
in the Revolutionary war;"
A few days after the transmission of
this bill to the Senate, Gen. HARRISON
submitted the following resolution:
} Resolved, That committee be APP
f "pointcd jointly with such committee as
"may be appointed on the part of the
"Scnatc, to consider and report what
measures it may be proper to adopt to
manifest the public respect for the MEM
"ory of General THADDEUs kUscIUsKo,
" formerly an officer in the service of the
"Unitcd States, and the uniform and
distinguished friend of Liberty and the
"Rights of Man,
In this proposition the ruling passion of
the mover, his enthusiastic admiration of
the principles of the Revolution, and his
zeal in behalf fliberity in general, and of
the rights of man, are plainly developed.
: But it is to the following speech, dcliv-
cred on that occasion, extracted from the
, file of the National Intclligencer, that we
: bespeak the particular attention of our
, readers:
On nrnsnntina tho aha,ro rocol,,4;on