The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-30

may by some persons at some time be ex-
amined-it viii be found that from the time
l assumed the seat to which my State as
signed me in this Chamber, my course was
such as l have indicated and was in exact
accordance with the convictions that l
held"
SUPPORT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
80 much for declarations or statements
of positions. Now l come to the senatorial
record of 1854. On the 18th of February
deficiency bin was pending in the Sen
| ate relating to the Civil Service. The
| Military Committee of the Senate reported
an amendment appropriating certain mon
eys for the War Department to cover de
ticiencies for the current fiscal year, which
ended the Both of June, 1864. The items
of appropriation in this amendment amount
ed to ;S97, ,504, 040, and / have them here.
In the same bill was contained appropria-
tions to the Navy Department of 50, 1885,
800. AT that date, the 10Th of February,
this amendment was agreed to In the
Senate by unanimous vote, the record
showing that l was present, and again ON
the 18th of April, at subsequent stage of
the bill, another unanimous vote covering
these appropriations was given, and ON
| the 14th the bill was passed finally in the
same manner, the Globe showing that |
was present at each of these sessions, and
! Immediately before and after the passage
of the bill These appropriations for the
army and navy amounted to 500, 239, $40.
In the same spring an act making ap-
preparations SO the naval service for the
year ending June, 1865, and for other pur-
poses, approved May 21, 1864, was passed.
! That bill provided for appropriations to
the naval service amounting to S101, ,577,-
SSS, covered by nineteen items of appro-
priation. Then to seven bureaus in the
naval department the amount appropri-
ated was So, 2S2, $50, and to the marine
corps the amount appropriated under the
same bill was 81, 35352 ,59S 80 the aggregate
of these appropriations being $106 19z 9S7
so, besides large and liberal appropriations
to the several navy yards along the Allan
tic coast, which have not included. In
| that case also, the bill passed unanimously,
the record showing that was present.
But l come to more important bill, the
| largest of all, under which expenditures
were made during the war. l mean the
army appropriation bill, signed by the
| President on the 18th of June, 1864, to be
| found in the Congressional Globe, 1st. ses-
sion, 3Sth Congressional Appendix, III.
| In that bill there were tifty-three items of
! appropriation, and the aggregate amount
| was 1923, 323, S91 63. That bill was voted
upon i'll the Senate on the 22d OF April,
| 1864, and the yeas and nays are recorded
at page 1918 OF the Globe. They are as fol-
lows.
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Buck
dle@, Carlisle, Chandler, Clark, Collamer
| CONFESS, Cowan, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle
| teSsenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale
| Harding, henderson, Hendricks, Howard
Lane OF indiana, Lane of Kansas, NJ MDougal
Morgan, Morrill,, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sher-
man, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Viii
| kinson, Wiley and w ilson-36.
| NAY-NIr. Powen-1.
OF thirty-siX senators who voted for that
bill eighteen are now supporters of General
Grant, eleven are supporters of Mr.. Greeley
and seven are dead.
Gentlemen, it has been truly said of
| that army appropriation bill--It was for
| the year commencing on the 1st day of
July, 1864 and ending on the Both of June,
| 1S60-that these moneys thus voted by US
| with rare unanimity, sent Sherman tri-
umphant ON his march to the sea; replen-
! iShed the thinned raukS of Grant before
| Richmond and gave vigOr and success to
all the operations, large and small, under
| taken by our government III the closing
year of the war. 1t was that money that
| brought the war to an end, and secured to
us, trust, an everlasting peace. Cheers.
| ct a chairman set up 10 manipulate and
polute elections has the face to send forth
| his address branding me and men like me
| as diSloyal, while he and his or many of
| his present associates III the emergency of
| the nation were looking to their own pocIl-
! cts instead OF the interests OF the country.
| More cheering.
But this immense appropriation bill was
not at first successful. IL passed the SEN
ate, but the two houses got it by the ears
! on some amendments iii relation to that
everlasting subject OF congressional de-
bate, the colored people. They were at
| issue, although both largely republican,
on the question about how and to what ex-
! tent certain colored troops were to be paid,
and it was necessary to have committee
of conference. You will find the report of
the committee of conference on that bill at
! page 2S45 of the Gto6e, for that session. |
VIII read you the names of those who sign
ed this report, which secured the final pas
sage OF the bill and gave it its ultimate
| form 1t was signed on the part of the
Senate by L. O. Howe, l.: N. Morrill, and
| Charles X. Buckalew, and on the part of
the House by IhaddeuS Stevens, Tcheersl
and Thomas L. Davis, and then for some
days afterwards | used to hear of rather
strong declarations made by the chairman
of the House committee mean the late
| Ihaddeus Stevens-[ repeated cheeringl
concerning what he alleged to be the man
illness and magnanimity with which | had
agreed to pay literally the colored troops
which he had employed Cgreat cheering
If you want to look into declarations of
that sort (which perhaps unimportant)
so made, you can inquire of Mr.. Haldeman,
Representative III Congress from an adjoin-
ing district. Upon that report from the
committee of conference when it was made
the vote was unanimous, SO that followed
that bill to its conclusion and assisted in
giving to it its ultimate form. That fin
ishes 1864, with the exception of the bounty
bill, about which | will say word after a
while. In 1865, all the moneys voted were
not expended. When the bills were passed
we did not know that the war would end
before their expenditure would become ne
cessary. OF the date of Cd of March, 1865,
you will find an act making appropriations
for the naval service for the year ending
June 80, 1866. The amount appropriated
was 1921, 4S6, 92S 50, and that bill passed
the Senate unanimously on the 18th of
February, the record showing / was pres
ent. At that same session, on the Sd of
March, 1861. Won Will find another act