Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-27

accounts. and allow the country to know
what has. heroine of the twenty-siX mill
lions of dollars which, under the act oi
: March f3 1853. went 10 its credit. He
nrotesteS in the name of his constitu-
euts and Of the people Of the West again
nernsfuating a power under which they
nave suffered beyond his capacity to ex-
press. They had sent to rule over evil
By the provost marshal a member Of the
veteran reserve corps, 2 man who had
never seen a battle or suffered a scratch
in the service Of the country, a erony and
c0nfdant Of Gen. Fry, and who went
on until the business Of recruiting in
the Western division became paradise
II Of coxcombs and thieves. False quotas
had been put upon the people and exag-
gerated orders sent TO the boards Of sur
veyors, and in his own district unuei
one call. S483 600 was stolen frenl an OUT
I ragged and groaning people. Com ultili- .I-
I ties aud individuals, immeasuraply me
sllneriors of Gen. Fry, had protested
against It, and had been spurned Wlth
/ magnificent disdaiu. Never h1td tte lh-
| science Of Office been more Illustrated
! than by that man, whom TINS section mas
proposed 10 make for life brlgadler-gen-
/ erai.
Mr.. Coukling had been directed by the
! Covernment 10 prosecute the assistant
/ postmaster. Mai. Haddoek, who was JUS
/ tiief by his superior officer down 10 the
time when his sentence was published,
he having been convicted Of the very
basest forms of official atrOcity Every
offense from highway robbery, I'D and
down, had been charged and proved
against him; and although this man has
disgorged S200,00 under the prosecution,
be had purchased the other day an es-
tablishment in Philadelphia, fer which
he had paid Sll ,000down, and thatman's
case was not a peculiar one. There never /
had been a greater mOckery, a greater
bUrlesgue, or greater fraud, on the pre-
tense Of honest administration, than the
provost mRrshars bureau. Averaged I
and illustrated through the whole coun- I
try, it would turn out that Of the six
or seven or eight hundred thousand men |
for whom enormous bOunties had been /
paid, not two thousand had ever gone TO |
the front
Mr.. Blaine stated that the Secretary Of /
War had sent 10 the committee in an (
sWer 70 an inquiry directed to him, q
among other documents, a letter from .
tho Acknowledgement which had in ]
duCed the committee to report this sec
ton. This letter which Mr.. Blaine sent 4
to The desk to be read, is dated DeCem-
Der l4th, 1865, and is addressed to the
Secretary Of War. 1t states, as the Opin-
ion Of the writer, that the present method
of recruiting was not sufficient 10 I'LL up
the regular army 10 the force required,
and to keep il full; that the duty was an
important one and demanded the exclu-
sive attention Of the officers Of the War
Department, and the officer best fitted
for the position, from his experience dur
ing the war, was Gen. Fry, and recon-
mending that the whole subject of re-
be put IN his hands.
Mr.. Boutwell, intimated that the ad-
jutant generals department had enlisted
from October to April 900 men for the
regular army.
DIr. Blaine came to the defense Of Gen.
Fry and said the great Mr.. Conkling had |
had issues with Gen. Fry which had
been adjusted by the Secretary Of War,
and he would leave the general to say
whether he had come out second best as
IN efficient officer, as a high-tOned gen
-leman, as q man ready to meet the gen
.leman from New York anywhere and
everywhere, a. q man without a spot or
Dlemish, and who was ready to meet all J
his accUsers, James 3. Fry was not see
md to any officer in the American army.
A long c0lloquy ensued in which Mr..
Jonkling styled Mr.. Blaine's statements
and was called 10 order, but I
vas allowed to explain. The debate Y
vas quite personal I
The twentieth section was stricken out b
" vote.
The House took a recess. I
Mr.. Morrill, asked a unanimous con- d
ent TO Introduce a bill in relation to the =
transportation of live stock from Can s.
da The Canadians We're shearing q
heir sheep over the border, thus evading d
be duty imposed on wool
Mr.. Jenckes objected. a
The bill extending the time for com a
letting certain land grant railroads in 4
owa. Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, g
xpiring in 1851, for eight years, was re- a
ommitted and ordered printed. G
Mr.. Price, from the Committee on the n
'acific Railroad, reported back, with a
mendment, the bill granting lands 10 Il
owa and Missouri for the State Line 4
abroad. It grants ten sections per mile II
n either side of the road which IS about A
50 miles long. Referred 10 the Commit Il
se on Public Lands. n
Adjourned. G