The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-28

House for having used such language.
Wood said he had no difficulty in an
| sWer1ng that question. He did not believe
anybody was fit to sit in the house who
| considered the Government or the United
/ States O humbug, or who denounced the
| President in such scurrilous terms.
Sargent remarked that he Fad simply
| wanted to get profession OF faith.
Whittemore ASKED W Ood, sarcasticauy,
| whether he did not think it better to treat
that class OF people with consideration
WoOd-Yes. but not to give them froat
seats.
Eldridge-Not to put them ALONGSIDE of
| gentlemen from south Carolina. Laugh
| teri l wish the gentleman from CalifOr-
MIA to tell US what he THINKS OF such sem
Sargent, in reply TO Eldridge, said he
| would hazard the opinion that If gentle
men We're to be excluded from the House
| who could be proved to have used such
| language, the seats on his left Democratic
sidel would be pretty generally vaean'.
Woodward declared, with some excite
| nnent. that the assertions OF the gentleman
from California We're ridiculous.
| Paine resumed the floor, and insisted on
| the previous que -tiOn.
| The previous question having been Sec
| been ordered, Holman moved to Ieconsid-
| er the vote ordering the main question,
which motion gave him o right 10 the
| floor for an hour. u e divided his tine
| among the members on both sides.
| An excited discussion ensued on both
sides, by Holman, Smith, OF Oregon,
| Brek, Voorhees,, sargent, OF California,
| Mayham, Woodward, Butler, OF bIassa-
chusetts, Wood, Morgan and EidrIdge.
cluston of Messrs. Young and Brown,
members elect from Kentucky, on the
pretence of having used expressions that
! VOORHEES, remarked that the only good
| effect of the objection TO Porter was that 1t
| would involve the 10 embers on the oppO
| sItion in contrad lei ions, and necessitaJe a
| change of front. The case presented no
difnculty to him. There was no reason
against POrter's being sworn In, as he held
| that the House had no power to make an
inquiry into his record, If his constituents
| seat him here
| Cox declared that the statement was not
/ true. He was in Congress as the breaking
| out of the rebellion, and was among the
first, if not the first, to denounce seces-
| s1en. The great bouy of Democrats had
| stood by Douglas and the Union, when
member from Kansas Conway offered
series of resolutions for smemberine ent,
| who on the other side moved to ezpel
| him, but when member from Cincinnati
/ (Long) made q speech for secession and
/ disunlon, majority of the other side
voted to expel him, but one of them Is q
| Republican and the other DemDerat. If
| al those who made expressions against
i the Union before the war were excluded
| from this House, half the seats on the
with his friend Voorhees, as to the Tight
| of Representation. No wrong on the other
side could make right, and they should
Sargent repeated that the Dem mocratic
| party of the North had not been, during
ment. A Democratic President, North
| ern man, had sent a message TO Congress
stating that he had no power TO coerce
State, and in lh It he had been fortified by
Attorney General Black, a Northern Dem
ocrat.
| of a New York Republican newspaper ad-
| Verting to the right OF secession,
| At this time the confusion and excite
the Speaker had TO resort to a strenuous
| use OF the gaveI, and to request mem bers
to resume their seats.l
Order having been restored, Woodward
| said he rose to reply to the slanCerous
| charge made against the pemocratic party
| had denounced It as sIanderons at the
time it was uttered, and he repeated
it now again. If the Democratic party
| of the North had not recruited the army
of the Union, the Southern Coniederary
would be now an accomplished fact. The
| gentleman from California ought to know
| That fact and If he did know IL he should
| not have brought such a slanderous
! charge against great party. Three men,
| relatives had marched 70 war. He had al
| ways observed that those persons who
| brought this charge against the Democrats
were generally people who did the least to
| suppress the rebellion. f.a
| Bttler of Massachusetts. made soma ez-
| cusatory remarks in favor OF Porter, say
| ing words uttered by him were an ebulli-
! tion of i'll nature in an eXkited political
! discussion, and reminded the other side OF
! the House of the amount OF JOY in Heaven
| over one sinner that repenteth. AS TO the
| rank and file OF the army having been
chiefly Democrats, he agreed with the gem
tIeman from PennsyIvanta (Woodwa D
but soldiers changed very soon. He had
| himself body-guard OF one hundred
| from Pennsyivania, and without a word
| from him they all voted for Lincoln, eX-
cept the truIn peter, and he had been court.
marttalled that morning for being late ia
sounding reveiile. he voted for Mcclellan,
| [Laughter.l
| ty to test the consistency OF the other side,
and to present the poisoned chRlics to
with the mem bers on his own side that the
| House would not be justified in tnqutring
into the record OF member elect, and he
would not sit mere with an enemy 10 his
| country.
EIdridge, re1erring to Buffers quotation,
as to Joy in heaven over the repentance
| of a sinner" sid ne could not help but
| think that there was no gentleman on, the
floor who could create such thrill Of Joy
as the gentleman from Massach usetls by
| repenting 1Laughter
The motion TO reconsider was finally
] laid on the tablo--yeas, l53; nays, 5i and
] Porter was sworn In as member from
| Virginia. use
Farnsworth reported a bill to abolish
the ranking privilege, which he wished
| to have made special order. He yielded,
| however, to the general expression of the
House, TO put 1t on its passage at once, and
after an hours discussion the bill Was
/ passed. Ayes 174, Nays Il. 1t goes into ef-
| feet on the 1st OF July. The nays we've
Biggs, Boles, Butler of Tenn, Griswold,
| Haldeman, Johnson, Reeves, Ridgeway,
Rogers, Roots, sherrod, Stone, Wood and
/ Woodward.
ChurcniIl, from the Committe on E.ec-
tions, reported resolution that II. ID.
I the 2Ist Con ugressional d strict of Pennsyi-
vania, and that John Covode was, and
gave notice that he would call up the res
olution Tor action on next Tuesday.
The House al 80, went into Committee
4 of the Whole, with Cessna ia the Chair, on
| the Legislative. Executive, and Judicial
/ appropriation bill.
Myers called the attention of the Chair
man of the Committee on Appropriations,
Dawes, to the fact that the appropriations
for construction and steam engineering
| were exhausted, and in consequence an
| order had been sent out a few days ago TO
the several Navy YarGs, to suspend all
| work in those bureaus, after February list.
He said that 5000 men would thus be
thrown out OF employment, and asked
made.
/ Dawes replied that he was not informed
| of the fact officially, and when he should
become, he wouid no doubt make the APP
preparation.
Dawes then addressed the committee in
reply to the speech OF Butler yesterday,
1 speech, which had been arraigned yes
| terday, was made on fitting occasion.
| That speech was true, and mat it was
proper he should make it apparent He
mad been charged with having, with his
| to the benefit of the Democratic party,
and to the sacrifice of his own credit, bat
| could he have left the speech to its place
4 before the bar of free and candid critics,
| to which everything that was said on
the floor must ultimately come. SO long
as criticism on his speech had
| been confined to what was con-
tanned in the speech itself, 1t
| had not been hts intention ever to trouble
4 the House, or those who read It's proceed
4 ings with anything in regard TO it, but
/ when the motives that sctuated him in
its delivery were impugned ON the floor
I of the House, there was no alternative
| but to ask its indulgence to the extent
| which he had indicated; and therefore
I he would proceed directly. ana without