The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-07-06

yune Sfh Frighfui Waste OF
NHen ana Money Seven Hun
dred Thousand Men RECRUITED
since last NOVensOer-SiT SiT2J,=
coo 900 Spent iD BOunties -
Forty-eight TEl0usaiid Men
Sent TO General Grant SiTaCe
, flae Crossing of the SaDidan -
Facts brought out bY DeDate
Om the COnScriPtiOn ksiil.
From lie CoayresSj'oooR Gjo6r, Jaac II.
In the United States Senate on the Sth of
June. Mr.. Wilson moved to take up Senate
bill 2S6.
The motion was agreed to; and the Sen
ate, az in committee of the whole proceed
ed to consider the bill Is, No, 2SGl to pro-
hibt the discharge Of persons from liability
to military duty by reason OF the payment
Of money.
1t proposes to repeal 50 much of the act
for enrolling and calling out ct the nation
forces, and for other purposes, approved
March 3, 1862, and the acts amcndatory
! thereof as authorizes the discharge Of amy
drafted person from liability to military ser
vice by reason Of the payment OF $500 for
the pr0curatiOn of substitute, OF other
wise but nothing contained in this act is to
lie construed 10 alter the provisions If eXis-
ting laws relative to persons actually fur
nishing substitutes
The Committee on Military Affairs and
the Militia reported the ILL with an amend
mcnt, to DID the following additional sec-
tons:
SEC ,. And be It f"rthcr cnGc'od, That
nothing i'll the act approved February -,
1864, amending the act approved March );
al ti,,N
tonal forces, shall be corRtIucd to repeal
1868, which requires that the board Of en-
rollnent, in making drafts, shall make a
draft Of the required number and Fifty per
cent in addition.
SEC 3. And be it furiher caoctch That
section twelve Of the ''Act for enrolling and
calling out the national forces, and for other
purposes, approved March 2. 1863, be- and
is hereby so amended that the notice to be
served Oh drafted men may be within ten days
after such draft, or at any time within *
months thercIrom.
Mr.. Wilson proceeded to defend an
amendment offered by himself, and which
was aftelward read as follows:
Aad Le Il ,fjofhcr eN0cie|, That the Pres
/ dent Of the L. = is hereby authorized on
and after the passage o!' this act to call ont
| for period not exceeding one year, such
| mmhcr Of men as the eNigencieS OF The scr
| vice may require by draft, according to the
| provisions ot the act approved March ;,
| 1863. entitled An act for enrolling aud call
| ing out the national forces, and for other
purposes, and the act approved FrbrualY
| n. 1864, entitled AN act to amend an
act entitled An act for enrolling and call
out the national forces, and for other pur-
| poses.
| Mr. Conness--I cannot vote for a prOpo-
sition which shall reduce the period OF the
draft to one year. 1t uppers to me that the
proposition to reduce the period OF the draft
to one yeGr is very near equivalent to Il
proposition to abandon the war. That Is
/ how it strikes my mind After it shall be
| adopted shall expect next Il modification
| that the draft shall be for the period OF
ninety days, SO Us to come up to the h1St
estimate made of the continuance OF tins
war. | think il is not the time, Mr.. Presi-
. dent, when om armies arc III the field and
in conflict, some of them suffering reverscs
and others engaged in the death throes OF
| battle, with insufficient reserves behind them,
to teach the country that we are to have
| hereafter but a single campaign; on, III other
words. that the war shall last, 50 far rs our
! declarations are concerned, but for one year.
! | look with dhf;rvor and will cast my ytta
against the proposition to reduce the period
of the dlait to one year. regret very much
| that there is any evidence that it is adopted
as the policy Of the government or the ad-
ministratiom.
| Mr.. Brown believe. sir. that any at
tempt now to make the period Of enlistment
or conscription one year will be virtually an
Abandonment Of the war ! believe with the
| Senator from Catalonia ON that point, and
and | do not believe in putting it in the
| power Of this administration to take that at
| titude.
Mr.. Wilson, am sorry to disagree with
some senators in regard to this question of
time, think it Of vital importance to obtain
men now within few weeks, and think it
much easier to obtain men for one year than
to obtain men three years. 1t is very hard
thing to 90 to the people OF the country and
say to them. I'VE draft you into the service
of the L. =. ior three years we will not
allow you to pay commutation. 1t is espe
cially a very hard thing to do when you do
| it IN communities that have been hard pres
sed by previous efforts to fill their quotas; aS
some portions Of the country have been. -
:. Sir, ] believe We can obtain ten men by
| drafting for one year easier than We can OBJ
! tain one man three years | believe if you
put the term at one year, men will say. Il
will not pay the communication money! will
not try to get Il substitute; | will go into the
service and do my part for one year. But
| three years is large portion OF man bic;
! he feels the burden he feels the interruption
! Of all his social relations and all his business
affairs; and it is very hard to say to him,
You shall go, you shall not pay any conf
mutation Some Senators talk as though
drafted men ought not even to have the
privilege Of procuring substitutes, and OF
paying the large price for substitutes which
they will have to pay if we pass the bill
| They average some five hundred dollars at
| the present time The bounty for substi
tutes or enlisted men throughout the I. :,
to-day will average at least five hundred dol
lars; and if you reIeal this portion of the
enrolment act the bounty will go up to doub-
lie or treble that amount. Sir, think by
adopting this proposition we obtain all the
men we want and in any other mode, and
| the time is Of great Importance to us, espe
cialy at period like this, when we want
men to sustain our armies that are advanc-
ing. Experience is proving to us that the
old regiments in the field have been filed
up by drafted men, by substitutes, and by
enlisted men during the past winter, have
fought well and bravely, equal to any troops
that ever fought in the country. | am told
by officers who had two or three hundred Of
these raw men put into the old regiments
during the present winter that the new men
behaved admirably in every respect. What
we now want is to fill up the regiments that
have been cut down by the late late battles;
and it is an act not only of sound policy, but
of humanity to the people, to have it un-
derstood that the term Of service shall not
exceed one year.
Mr.. Conness-The senator from Massa-
chusette, if he excuse the expression on my
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