Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-05-19

The Home Of Representatives, on ths Iitk instAnt pro
cesded 10 the consideration Of the Joint resolution TO droI
from the rolls Of the army unemployed general officers
1t ia in the following words, 3N
Whereas appears that many general officers in the regu
lar the army of the United States
and have been for me past her entirely nsmPoy
duty corresponding their rank thus holding
equivalent services rendered 70 and the
same time standing in the way OF the pom9uon ana sonse
grade who performing the duties proper TO such general
officers, therefore,
rssoped b. the Senate and House of Representatives.
of The United States IF America IN Congress assenbed
That all major generals and all brgadier generals IN the mil
july ammo Domn hundred and sixty four shall not
be IN the performance of duty service 70
their respective grades and rank and VINO sna na nave
been engaged in such duty service for three months
tnuousy prior date shall then be dropped from
the rolls of the army and all the pay and emo9men or az
owances of such general officers dropped SHAH cease
from that date vacancies thus oecisioned may be
filled by promotions and appointments as IN other cases
But no officer be considered included In the foregoing
provision whose absence from duty shall have been occasion
ed by received disease In the ne OF ms
duty while in the military service of the United States, by
his being of in the hands OF the enemy or
der paroles major general OF volunteers bgder
general volunteers who may have been appointed from
the regular army under the authority given in section four
of approved July twenty-five eighteen hundred and
aid enforcing the laws aud protecting public prope ty
acts amendatory thereto who shall be dropped
vice Of the United States shall be RENTED to his position
and duty an officer OF the regu ar army.
Mr. SCHENCK, of Ohio, explained the resolution. He
said gentlemen mnst be hard or draw ungenerous in
of the Committee Military Affairs, who reported the
measure u accordance with instructions of the House to
apply remedy for what generally admitted to be 40
evil He denied that any member of the committee was
actuated by personal or political motives Threeurths
of the general officers to be affected by the resolution are
staunch friends Of the present Administration II John
C. Fremont and George B. Mcclellan were not to be
affected by the joint resolution perhaps serious opposi
ton would have been made to its passage But he re-
peated the resolution proposed to remedy by legislation
evils which all admit to exist and TO apply TO present and
all future similar cases There why all
should stand equal before the law. In economical
sense there would be saving Of two hundred thousand
dollars by dispensing with the services of unemployed
generals.
tofore offered, namely
Provided whenever any officer shall demand board
inquiry according the rules and regulations in such cases
and who shall be willing TO serve such board shall be forth
with convened and such board shall find him fol
stored to active service with full pay and all officers who
rha have received the thanks Of Congress during the
shall be exempt from the provisions of this act
The amendment reected-Yeas 46, nays SO.
The House next considered the substitute of Mr. kerr
NAN proposing board Of officers to consist of three ma
Tor generals three brgadie generals and three coonels
examine and report to the competency or incompe
tency for command of unemployed generals the latter to
be dropped or RENTED to their former positions in the
regular army before they we're appointed general officers
to command volunteer forces.
This substitute was reJected-feas 50, nays o9.
The Hcpse then passed the joint resolution by the fol
lowing vote
YEAS-Messrs Alley, Allison, Anderson, Arnold, Ashley
Baldwin OF Massachusetts, Baxter Beam Blair of West Virginia
Boutwell, Boyd A. W Clark Freeman Clarke Cole croswe Henri,
Winter Davis Deming briggs Eliot Farnsworth Garfield Gooch
Grnne Highly Hohks Jenkes Julian Kasson Kelley Kellogg
Michigan Lljohn, Longysar, Mcbride MClurg Mclndoe
Mooread Morrill, Morris of New York. A Myers L. Myers Norton
Charles oNe ORTIZ Patterson Pike Pomsoy Price VIII
liam H. Randall Alexander H. Rice John H. Rice Edward H. Rollins
Schenc schod Sloan smhers Spadng Thomas Tracy
Epson, Van Valkenburgh William Waburn Webster, Whaey
SAYs-Messrs 1ncona Bay Augustus Baldwin Brooks james
Brown, g. Brown, Chaue CraYen Eden Edgerton Eddge
English Finck Grider Hail. Harrington Herrick HHins PHILIP
Johnson kabeisc Herman King Long Mallory Marcy
Middleton, William H. Miller Morris, Morrison, Noble, 0dl, ohI
0Ne Pendetou John Steele,
yens, Stiles Stuart, wadsworth Wheeler Woods.