Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-11
FORTY-fOUkrH CoNGRESS
Closing Proceedings resferaay.


Mr.. Morton resolutions win regard TO
Ire election of "A president lYvD fera being
u ,,r consideration the FIRST AID second res
olutions declaring that the tenure Of a preS!-
cert pro tenn. does not expire at the meeting
OF Congress after the first recess and thai
me ueatn oa tne Vice President does not va
passed unanimously. Before acting on me
ihlrd resolution. declaring that the Office A.
was aid eIeT ad iSs sae senaie The matter
HOUSE.-After our report closed
, AT nan past three o clock the vote on the
Randall amnesty bill was taken In the
House, and the bill was rejected ay yeas 10
nays as not the necessary two thirds.
Mr. Blaine then offered a motion TO recon
slider the vote whereby the bill was rejected.
aud Then proceeded Ia address the House on
the issue under consideration. He FIRST
stated That the republican party had let 20
free every man OF the hundreds OF thou
sands, or OF the millions. II you please VINO
had been engaged in the attempt u destroy
the government, aud only held those under
dlsaollity who, I'm addition - general re-
volt, had violated special and peculiar and
personal oath To support the Constitution of
The United States. He went into a Diet aNeI
history OF reconstruction, claiming FOR the
republican party great maguanimity IA the
treatment OF Those lately In rebellion. He
said his substitute required that those woo
were sui laoorlng under political disable
ties should show their good faith rs taxing
The oath which all OF u take and are gial
10 take, and said that il was Intended Cd
cover such cases as That Of Mr.. RODgrt
y rlrah
BOAST RI watering places In this couaJry and
"a Europe that he would not Ask jus United
States Tor citizenship. lie said Jefferson
Davis was not excepted from the provisions
of tine bill because ne il commonly called
the head and front Of The reDel ion" or De-
cause he is particularly OF any special con
sequence but ne was excepted because he
was the 'autnor. knowingly, deli berately.
guiltily and wilfully OF the gigantic murder
and crime at AnderSouVille." MI. Blaine
charged that Davis sent General Win
Ia al "a nfR
at AudersOnville with IA "full knOWleige
OF hlS previous atrocities at BicnmOnd."
Mr.. Blaine cited large number OF StOrical
cfuettles. including the massacre oi 81. Bar
thOlomew ana the atrocities OF the Spanish
lnQulsltlon and declared that none OF these
compared with the hideous crime OF Ander-
SOnVille. This created sensation Ia the halls
and galleries, and remark by Mr.. Robins
IN. q. }, unheard by Mr. Blaine. that s.it was
an Infamous SANDER Mr. Blame read CO
plouS extracts from the report OF the commit
tee on the conduct Of the war TO sustain his
statement In regard to AndersonvliIe. In in
Producing the testimony Of VIM. john Ham
llton, given al the Writ Trial. he said: This
man never was In the north, n Catholic priest
at Macon and a democrat; and when YOU
write those three QudiiticS-a southern man,
democrat and a Catholic priesJ-you will
not tiud much testimony strained ia favor OF
the republican party Loud ana continu-
Gus laughter
In contrast with the cruelties inflicted on
Union soldiers, Mr.. Blaine said he undertook
10 say that there is not a confederate soldier
now living who has auy credit as a man IN
his community, and who ever was a prisoner
in the bands OF the Union forces who will
say that he ever was cruelty treated, that he
ever was deprived OF the same rations which
the Union soldiers had or the same food.
Mr.. Cooke ga Thousands of them.
Mr.. Blalne.-Well, l take issue on that.
and say that not one can truthfully state il
While expressing the opinion that the in
dictment OF Mr.. Davis in Richmond under
the administration OF Mr.. Johnson was a
weak step, Mr.. Blaine declared that there
was not civilized government on TIE face
q the globe, very certainly not an European
government. which would not have arrested
him, or which when il had him in his power
would not have tired him FOR mistreatmsBt
OF prisoners OF war, and shot MIN within
thirty days. WirZ deserved his fate. but
lie (Blaine) always thought it was "A weak
movement on the part of the government
To allow JEFF. Davis 20 90 at large and hang
WirZ.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. BIaine's speech he
was greeted with applause from the repub-
ncan side and from the galleries.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, took the floor 20
reply 10 Mr. Blaine. lie commenced by say
ing that the gentleman from Maine. woo, by
some dispensa alton OF Providence or of the
people, was 40 longer Speaker OF this House,
had seen proper in this centennial year 10
tear away the plasters from the green and
bleeding wounds of the late civil conflict.
ana mad seen proper TO attempt 20 Justify
this conduct in the light OF history. lie Cox
Veutured TO say that there was no precedent
IN bis history and no canon in political
philosophy which the party now in the mi
noriiy on this floor had not outraged 10y the
rejection of clemency and by its persistence
~ making rePrisals in time of peace. lie
(CON) took issue with the gentleman from
Maine, when he said that the republican
party had been clement and amnestical. IL
was not true. 1t had not been true during
the war. 1t bad not been true since the war
and IL was not true today. Whenever that
party had proposed any clement policy ii
had been sure 10 spoil IL by some small ped
ding operation. ILaUghter.l
An amusing cOllOQuV Succppini hntvvanr
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Cox. The latter said: "If
the gentleman from Maine would net inter
Iupt me quite SO much be would feel a good
deal better. He is like the little boy down I'm
Memphis who undertook to take a twist at
mules tail, and his father said to him,
You do not look so well, but you have
learned something.'n TRoisterouS Iaugbtar
on the floor and in the galleries.
Mr.. Blaine.-"Does the gentleman from
New York represent the mule in that trans
action?" Renewed laughter
In continuation, Mr.. Cox said he knew that
the gentleman from Maine was known TO be
a candidate for the Presidency. but that was
30 reason why he should be a mean man.
He was the last man to whom he Cox would
attribute any bad motive, but one thing was
very curious, and that was that he (Blaine)
was antagoniZing President Grant on this
subject. he COX did not like the look OF
that. ILaughter.l He therefore called on
republican gentlemen, specially on that lit
Tie knot Of colored members, who fought so
nobly and were still fighting for the third
term, TO vote down this obnoxious exception
proposed by the gentleman from Maine in a
spirit of fairness and humanity. He spoke
sneeringly in reference TO the remark OF Mr.
Blaine that southern gentlemen were now
membe OF the House through the grace of
the republican party, and he said, down on
your knees, gentlemen OF the south, before
his majesty of Maine" loud laughter on
the democratic side He Cox had labored
in this House TO mitigate the seventies of
civil war. The democrats then on the door
had been powerless 10 avert most of its ca
lamities, but they had tried to mitigate its
severity.
At the conclusion OF Mr. Cox's speech, Mr..
Hill, OF Georgia, obtained the door, and the
debate went over till tomorrow, and at SIS
p. n. the House adjourned.
A ROGUE KIDNAPPED-A CD1uT ia Wnich
Internal foHdl Lac tOGS Not 10 be Discl1sef-
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