The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-12-17
TELEGRAPHIC.
Especial /" the puachita Telegraph. !
WASHINGTON.

/ WAsIIINGTON, Dec. 13.-SrVcr:ll re-
sponscs to McCrecry made in the Senate.
Edmunds said, that, instead of being
welded to institutions of Virginia, Gen.
Lee was the ward of the nation. That
nation had fed, clothed and educated
, him. He lived at the Capital, but
when the Capital called upon him to
defend the flag under which he had
been born, protected and hOnOrcd, he
} deliberately turned his back upon it,and
planted his cannon in sight of the Cap
ital he had sworn to protect and defend.
But he, Edmunds, would not dignity
such Il proposition by discussing IT.
Gen. Lee was now dead. The only re-
gret, he thought, that any right-minded
man, who believed in the government,
would have, was, that Gen. Lee had
not died either in his youth, or in his
patriotic manhood; or even that ne
had not died earlier than he did, by the
hand of the law, which would have
atoned in some measure for his crime.
Trumbull, while disciaiming any SYM
pathy with the apparent object of the
resolution, (Which was to surrender
and mutilate the last resting-place of
thousands of Union dead y held that it
would be, if not unprecedented, at least
unparliamentary to deny to a member
a simple request for leave to introduce
any legislation not in itself insulting to
| the Senate.
Carpentner inquired whether Trum-
bull could state proposition more fla
GRAVITY insulting to the Senate than
that to remove the slaughtered dead of
the Union army from Arlington, for
the purpose of returning the farm to its
rebel possessors.
, Trumbull replied, that, while the
resolution was without doubt repug-
nant to the sense of the nation, it was
} not, in personal sense, insulting to
the Senate. He was averse to the adop-
ton of any precedent the effect of
which would be to prevent the free eX-
D ercise of a right guaranteed to members
of the Senate.
D EdmundS and Sumner cited two in
, stances; the former, the case of pro-
posed annexation of Texas; the latter,
the bill for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Act, and requests for leave to
bring in bills were refused. Five adj
, ditional instances We're Enumerated by
the NicePresident.
Morton protested against the consid-
. Grafton of the resolution. He had heard
f what he never expected, an culogy up
on the character of Gen. Lee in the
| oen:tCc Oh Cnc OIltet olitt'~, anu tllut,
too, within sight of the graves of the
victims of his rebellion. Hampton and
Sydney died, not for human slavery,
but for liberty. This man Lee was, OF
all others, the great sinner; he had sim
ned against light and knowledge
His revolutionary ancestry, his oath
, of fealty as an officer of the United
States, his finished education and high
abilities, all forbade him thus to sin,
and the enormity of his crime could
, not be concealed by decorating his
grave with flowers of rhetoric. In I,
, word, it was now proposed that the
Senate should gr,vcly consider Il prop
osition to degrade the memories of the
: patriotic dead of Arlington, by remov-
ing their bones to less hallowcd ground,
in tender consideration of the rights of
the widow of the arch rebel of the most
wicked rebellion in history.
WAsIIINGTON, Dec. li.-Congress-
man Bowen gave 5000 bail to answer
the charge for bigamy. Bowen asked
for an early trial.
Geo. T.. Haste has been appointed
collector of customs at Nicksburg.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary
; have made Il unanimous report that
Indians are not citizens of the United
States under the NINth Amendment
of the Constitution of the United States,
the treaties and laws always having re-
garded them as independent nations,
and not intcrfcrrcd with their local adj
ministrations.
! The House considered bill for full and
general grace, amnesty and oblivion of
all wrongful acts, uOinGS or omissions
of all persons engaged in the war ofthc
late rebellion. Exceptions are as fol-
lows: all persons educated at either
West Point or Annapolis, members Of
either House, Federal or Confederate
Congress, heads of Federal executive
departments, ministers abroad, Judges
of Federal courts and those holding
similar offices in the Confederate gov
eminent, members of Conventions who
voted for or signed an ordinance of Sc
cesslOn, Governors of States which
were in rebellion, ConfedcrateS who
treated cruelty or otherwise than ac-
cOrdlng to uSUaScS of war Federal priS-
OnerS, persons entrusted with funds
which they have not accounted for, all
descrtcrs and bounty-jumpcrS. Property
exceptions arc as follows: All property
wherein the United States or third par
ties have become vested by State for
the future or cOniSc;ltiOn, and lands used
now or heretofore for Federal ccmctc-
RIGS, every right of action and liability
rising from any ordinance, law or con-
tract i'll aid of rebellion, and every
such right shall be deemed invalid
| Butler reported !, bill in explanations
He said that it was drawn N,u'rttiS MT