Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-26
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MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The House con-
vened to-day in committee Of the whole on
the state of the Union, on general debate.
Mr.. Letgraves discussed the state of the
Union from a Christian point of view, at
tributing the rebellion and its fruits to the
cursed spirit of Radicalism.
Mr.. Price, referring TO the allusion by
Mr.. Letgraves to the parable of the prodi-
gal son, asked him whether he understood
the Rebels to occupy an analogous position
to the prodigal son.
Mr.. Letgraves replied that great many
of them did. o..
Mr.. Price remarked that it was all he
wanted to know.
Subsequently, at the close of Mr.. Let
graves speech, Mr.. Price referred to the
same subject, and gave his Republican
friends warning that, if it could be shown
that the Rebels occupied the same ground
as the prodigal son in the Scriptures, he
would bid his political friends farewell
and seek admission into that par
ty which could prove its doctrines
from Scriptures. He admitted the parable
ran down to the prodigal son going to the
field to heard swine, but he said il ceased
in that position, they would have stolen,
not only the feed intended for the swine
but the whole heard of swine also. Mr.
Price went on to show the difference be.
tween the two cases, and was engaged in
doing so when the ten minutes allowed him
expired. He wanted few minutes more
to finish his illustration, but Mr.. Eldridge
objected, unless some member on the Dem,
ocratic side should have chance of reply
ing, so as 10 vindicate history and the
Scriptures. Laus hter.
Mr.. Morrill, spoke on the question Of
finances. He thought it would be well to
postpone the discussion of the question as
to the money in which the principal of the
national debt should be paid, and give all
their energy to wise and energetic effort
to make the currency equal in value to gold
before specie payment could be resumed
at home. He favored the conversion as
soon as possible of the six per cent. bonds
into four per cent, and the fixing of the
five per cent. at the uniform rate of bank
interest.
Mr.. Williams, of Indiana, argued that
the Democratic party was responsible fol
the rebellion and its consequences, and
claiming that the government must remain
in the hands of loyal men. In the course
of his remarks he spoke of men returning
TO the Democratic party as the dog to his
vomit.
Mr.. Munger asked Mr.. Williams to
let him make a remark on that point.
Mr.. Williams declined TO yield.
Mr.. Munger then rose to a question oil
nrha no h Al
ing in his direction when he made that re-
mark, and he desired to ask whether he
meant TO say that he (Munger) was dog.
The Chairman overruled the point OF
order, and Mr.. Williams continued his
speech. He said that when an army Of
thirty thousand Democrats had Joined that
order of the Golden Circle, another army Of
them had shouldered their knapsacks and
marched TO Canada, to seek protection
under the crinoine of Queen Victoria.
He spoke on the reconstruction policy OF
the Republican party, which he denounced
as destructive OF the cardinal principles of
hegovernment, and oppressive to the people
of the South. The Chairman, referring to
the point of order made by Mr.. Munger
during the remarks of Mr.. Williams, said
he had understood the point of order to be
that, as the gentleman from Indiana had
been turning to the other side of the House
the gentleman from Ohio was, therefore
entitled to interrupt him. The chair had
been since informed, however, that the
point of order actually made was, that the
gentleman from Indiana had used unpar-
liamentary language in speaking Of the
gentlemen on the other side of the House
as dogs. If the chair had understood the
point of order, it certainly would have
been sustained.