Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-07
IN CONGRESS-.
BIOOd-Letting Chandler Rises to YIndI-
cate the Memory Of Stanton.
Sumner Answers Him and Sticks to His
Text-Extract Of Letter from
Horace White.
The Session DwlndliBg Out-But Little
Business of Importance Transacted.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, JuneG.-SenatOr Stew.
art called up the House bill to prevent
and punish attempts to Obstruct the adj
ministration of justice in courts, which
passed.
Senator Sherman, from the Commit
tee on Finance, reported the House bill
to facilitate the clearinghouse exchange
Passed. reg-a Z - es- .,-
Senator Chandler said he desired few
moments indulgence for the purpose o.
Vindicating the memory of the late Sec
retaly Stanton from the slanderOus at
tack which had been made against it in
the speech of Senator Sumner lately de-
livered in the Senate. BE had intended
to reply to this SANDER at some length,
but the able defense and vindicatiOn
which had already been pronounced by
Others on the Senate floor, had rendered
that task somewhat unnecessary.
He would, however, occupy few
moments in reference to that subject.
Senator Chandler sent to the clerks
desk and caused to be read an extract
from Senator Summers speech referring
to Stanton and the last interview be-
tween him and the Senator from Massa-
chusetts, in which Senator Sumner
represents Stanton as speaking in derog-
atory terms of General Grant; also
sundry extracts from speech of STAN
toms delivereda at Stubenville, Ohio, dur
ing the last Presidential campaign.
Senator Chandler said he could scarcely
imagine better vindication of Stanton,
and proof of his high appreciation of
| General Grant than his own words.
| Senator Chandler said he had seen
Stanton almost every day during the
| late war, and heard him on numerous
occasions speak of General Grant in the
highest possible terms, aud express the
utmost confidence in his great transcen-
dant abilities in a civil as well as
military capacity. So also, had he heard
President Grant express the warmest
| feelings of respect and esteem for Mr..
Stanton while Secretary of War. He
sacrificed all his wealth for the support
| of his family. General Grant, at the
funeral of Mr.. Stanton, told the speaker
| to put his name down for one thousand
dollars in aid of Stanton's destitute
| family; and the influence of that name
and amount at the head of the list ena-
! bled StantOnis friends to raise the sum
of one hundred and forty thousand dol
! lars, which is now invested for the bene-
| fit of Stanton's family.
| Senator Chandler caused letter to be
read from SuTgeOn-General Barnes to
himself, testifying to the warm affec-
ton of Mr.. Stanton for General Grant,
up to his last moments. General Grant
has been taken severely to task for be-
ing a great pTesent-taker. He is a great
present-taker. He took Donaldson,
Shiloh, Vicksburg, the Wilderness,
Murfreesboro, AppotOmax, and all the
rebel materials at those points, and he
took the shackles of slavery from four
millions of slaves. After all these
achievements, he took small donations
voluntarily Offered by some of his friends,
in order to take himself out of poverty;
and for this he is arraigned as a gift
taker. We have great orators and
great men of business; and while
our great orators on this floor
have been occupying their time to the
detriment of business, and filling :the
columns of the Globe with windy ora
tions. General Graut has been manag-
ing the affairs of the nation better than
they have ever been managed before.
He has been paying the national debt
faster than the orators could count it,
and has made himself friends in every
section of the country and all over the
world.
Senator Sumner said he would read
one single letter to show the truth of
what he had said in reference to Secre-
tary Stanton's opinion of General Grant.
Before reading it, however, he would
declare that Secretary Stanton did say
to him what he had reported. He as
serted on this floor that this was so.
Senator Sumner here read the following
extract from note received this morn
ing from Horace White, of Chicago:
"DEAR Mr.. SUMMERTIME late Secre-
tary Stanton, not once merely, but sew
erai times, expressed himself to me sub |
stantially the same opinion of General
Grant that he did to you, with the adj |
ditiOn that General Grant had been /
greatly Overrated as a military COM
ma1der. AS to the latter point, recall /
long conversation with him after the |
fighting at Spottsylvania courthouse, in |
which he stanton, expressed more ap-
prehensiOn as to the results of the cam /
paign than had ever known him to |
feel concerning any campaign. He felt |
that he could not continue to fill up the |
awful gaps made by Lee in our ranks /
without further call on the loyal States
for troops, but suppose you know all
about that. During this portion of the
conversation he kept Mr.. Chandler cool
ing his heels in the ante-rOOm, in order
to finish what he had to say to me,
mere Bohemian, although | twice sug-
gested that it would be indecOrOus for
me to remain while Senator desired an
audience"
Senator Cole called up the fOrtification
bill. Passed.
Senator Chandler called up the river
nd oh
was considered in Committee of the
Whole.
Senator Sherman moved as an amend
ment, that after the passage of the act
tolls for carrying freight by canal, at the
falls of the Ohio river, shall not exceed
five cents per ton. Agreed to.
The amendments reported by the COM
mittee were read and agreed to until the
final prOvisO was reached, providing
that to enable the Secretary of War to
carry out the provisions of the act, so
much of the sixth section of the act of
third of March, 1869, making apprOpria-
tiOns for the support of the army for the
year ending thirtieth of June, as applies
to the Engineer Department, be re-
pealed.
To this prOviso Senator Morrill, Mainel
objected, claiming that it was legislative
in its character and in violation of the
rule restricting amendments to
bills to matters germane
thereto.
The Chair [Senator Pomeroyl ruled
that the objection was well taken.
Senator Chandler appealed from the
decision of the Chair.
The decision of the Chair was sus-
tanned.
Among the amendments of the COM
mittee which were agreed to are the fol-
lowing: For the survey of a canal from
the Tennessee river to Coosa river, Ala
bama.
The bill having been considered in
of the Whole, it was re-
ported to the Senate.
Senator Trumbull moved an amend
ment to the end of the section, that,
in an examination and survey of all new
points, the Secretary of War ascertain
the amount Of tunnage at such point
during the previous year, together with
such other facts as bear on the question
of their improvement" The bill then
passed.
Senator Stockton then called up the
Senate bill to authorize inquiries into
the cause of steam-boiler explosions,
which was passed.
The Senate then went into Executive
session, after which recess was taken
till half-past seven o'clock.