The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-05-03

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o.-srsss 1870 - Vvei1lI...xneI oubl
Dslegasaea.-.Rsss Ra1aSws -
Washington, April -, 1894.
Both Houses Of Ccagrsw have q het|
pretty much quit salking for bsneonbs
ard mono 70 work in god sasnsst upoa
necessary and important Legislation. -
Members seem generally 10 have mads
mp their minds firmly t6at W are Is VA,
and that the sineWs Of Wax mus - sap
Piled to the Government; that 70 ~
spending some money, and that & unst
not Ill b furnished 81 the means q leaas.
It may Be- truthfully mid that eoa1i6
erable majoEity II the members are de-
teyminsd upon hard and ineessant WuFk
from this time forth till the end Of The
session. Within the past week or 70. The
House, especially, has done quite ~ nuoA
and q valuable lsgislation q. perhaps,
was ever done in the same length Of time
before.
Il wss BY the passage Of resoluttoa
offered by your own member, Mr.. VIII
son) that the House determined upon
night sessions, in consequence Of which
il has been able already to accomplish -
much. The members Of our delegation,
without exception, are entitled b b
called hard workers. Herein hey ase
not excelled BY any nix members from
any State, nor by any six msmbas Of the
House, NO matter where they coma IRON.
lis : 6p-top dslsgatioa I'll rean1, Mr..
Wilson being ono Of the fiist member
in aoiid ability, working capacity I'D d.
batting powers. Mr.. Rice, bold, fisry
aRsd Republican littls fanstieal, may
be, but with ~ 6ne . business UNDER
standing Is any member Of either House;
Mr.. Allison, . quiet, diigent Legislator.
who can get anything "put through"
more smoothly than any one / know; Mr..
GrinuelI, little inclined to be talkativs,
but active, vigilant and brave - the most
Of them, and knowing more about every
thing going ON than any Of tham; Mr..
Kasson, q tremendous worker in the nest
important committee of the House. .
ready debater, and always apolits = .
basket Of chips" Mr.. Hubbard, digni6ed.
courteous, genial among friends, "a en-
csllent man and . suoeessful legislator-
there you have them, in what you may
call. if You please. "short-haad portrait
ture."
The massacre ct Fort Pillow created
here, a. it did oil over To country, . most
profound and indignant sensation. And
20 far ~ this place Is concerned, It is diff
ferent from any other sensation in that
it 10 not short-ived like the rest. Those
here who were not absolutely scared out Of
their boots and out Of the city BY the Bud
Run defeat, forgot even that disaster
more quickly than they will BE- likely to
forget the chapter of bloody horrors Il
Fort Pillow-"the bloodiest picture in
the book Of Time" For my own part, ]
cannot hold our own authofities, Or oul
commanders entirely guiltless in the mat
ter. 1t has long been the avowed policy
Of the rebels to shoot the officers and en-
slavs the men Of our eolored regiments
It has % been publicly avowsd BY their
Congress; it has 20 been prsctissd upon
at Port Hudson, At Milliken's Bend, II
Fort Wagner, in Missouri oitentimes, il
North Csrolina not seldom, in the matter
of the exchange Of psisoners-wherevel
the men could % c:ugnt OF the omceia
o7wn INTO amDuscare. :.
MANY : brave Union omcef mas II
cDeoience 70 tnls poncy, Deen 0afDafoasiJ
hanged % : tree N .ne forest, many
oravs seiiow n the UNIFORM O the Union
been dnven % slavery ana death. Il u
no new thing snder the sun this Fort
Pillow horrof Il diners nom others
only ~ IL magnatude. The government
10 to olame iof nos having hsEeeoiofe an
nounesa = policy npe. ~ seo2sct, fer
not having long - psoelaaned t1e law
OF retanaacn end instantly soesd upon i
~ hanging ne h!gnest reoel oheer in
our possessaon r. - Dwoe 0nsoA cehcsr
innuman!y oason9ea ~ -, an hve
OF nx duty reeeb - eyety 90 OF our
negro sold'e1. 4 y ~ ~ - hte 70
prevent : securrenss g 49, terrible
thing, but the country Nin ~ stck Of
tnis way q svesiAetanely hskMg The sta-
I Die door sle9 - hoEss - - st9lsn.