Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-04-13
CONGRESSIONAL,
In THK House last evening

In TBR HOUSE last evening
The consideration OF the resolution for the
Mr. Green Clay smith said there was scarce.
ly sentiment in the speech Of the gentleman
from Ohio Mr.. Long, that, as q representative
OF part of the people of this country, he
could assent to. The gentleman had no right
to utter such sentiments. The gentleman on
the opposition side of the House had labored
to make it appear that the responsibility of the
war was upon the Republican party. 1t was
not so. The responsibility for this war belong.
ed to the Dem mocratic party almost exclusively.
He proceeded to rehearse the action OF the
Southern Democrats at Charleston to divide
the Democratic Convention, and nominate
Brec ckinridge as sectional can didate He had
acted with the Douglas Democrats--with the
man and with the party that was for the Union,
laws.
lApplause in the galleries. which was sup
pressed by the Speaker, who threatened to clear
the galleries if repeated. ra
Mr Cox, In reply to q renark, said that he
never had said that this was an anti Slavery
party. He had always said that the Democratic
Slavery party He stood on the same ground
that the gentleman did when he voted for John
Bell, who was now in nreoellion-non-interven
tion !"
Mr.. Smith, beg your pardon, did not vote
for Bell; I voted for Douglas. H.s
Mr.. Cox-That makes the case stronger-for
douglas was here for years fighting Abolition.
lists.
He proceeded a. length 10 show that the
Democratic party Cr the leaders of that party
were in a conspiracy with the Southerners to
bring on the rebellion whenever the election
should go against them, and that the Demo-
cratic party were the real authors Of the war.
He believed that slavery was the cause Of the
war, and he was in favor Of doing away with
II entirely. tApplause from the galleries.
Mr.. VOORHEES, rose to q point of order and
made remark disrespectfuI to the Speaker,
intimatipg that he was unfair.
He was called to order by Mr.. Grinnell, of
Iowa. ronnoRfnd A
keep their tongues still and their hands In their
pockets, as he wished to finish his speech with
out further interruption.
Mr.. Pendleton made some lengthy rem arks,
in the course OF which he said that in order to
bring it within the power OF the House TO expel
member, he must be guilty Of indecoro us or
Mr. Waeht urne, OF Illinois, inquired wheth-
er the entleman did not during the last sess ion
OF Congress vote to expel two members Of this
House for other than disorderly conduct
Mr.. .Pendleton-What twol
Mr.. Washburne-Mr. Read, of Missouri. and
Mr.. Burnett, of Kentucky.
Mr; Pendieton said he voted for their eNpul-
sion because they Were in arms against the
Government. Did not the gentleman consider
this disorderly conduct!
Mr.. Washburne accepted the gentleman's ex-
planation. st...aH. ..
Mr.. Garfield put a case to his colleague in
order 10 a better understanding Of his views.
Suppose be should, in decorous manner, in
troduce here resolution against the plans of
Gen. Grant for the campaign about to be COM
menced suppose, in speech supporting such
resolution he should, in an orderly ami deco
rous manner, oppose those plans and state the
number Of his men; that one column would
move in this way and another in that way.
thus exposing his plans of the campaign to the
enemy. That would not be disorderly conduct.
Bat il was an offence tor which he should be
expelled and punished by the House!
Mr.. Pendleton replied that if the gentleman
obtained his facts OF the campaign from news
papers and Of public notoriety, he VIC uld be
perfectly right TO mention it, and it was not in
the power OF the House to punish him for it,
But If the gentleman went to the War Depart.
rnent and procured important Information,
under the seal OF secrecy, and then came here
and In his speech exposed it openly. and by
to the enemy. that would be disorderly con-
duet OF the sravest kind.
Mr.. Pendleton. in conclusion, referred to the
history OF the past, including the cases OF pre-
sentation OF petitions for the dissolution Of the
Union, and also to the remark of Mr.. Stevens
, the restoration OF the Union with the prote ction
of slavery. f:
Mr. Amos Myers argued at length upon the
tUrpitude OF the gentleman from Ohio, and was
greatly sarcastic upon the sensitiveness Of the
gentlemen Oh the other side to the applause OF
the galleries He said never before had so m any
different reasons been offered for the same thing
as in this case on the part of the gentlemen's
friends. He should vote tor the passage Of the
resolution for the reason that the gentleman
from Ohio had deliberately announced that he
preferred the success OF the rebels to their sub
lection to the Union.
The House then took recess until O'Clock,
but upon reassembling the night session was
mainly devoted to campaign speeches, and the
galleries were densely crowded. Messrs Har.
rngton and Winfield, democrats, and Broom.
all and Grinnell, republicans, made speeches.