The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-26
CO.. N c R Ess.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON January %, 1876.

: The Speaker called the Committees 70
their reports. ~
2 Mr.. Foster of tho Committee. on Way
: and Means reported q bill transferrin
: the custody Of certain Indian trust bond
: from the Secretary Of the Interior to th
Treasurer Of the. United States. passed
{ Mr.. Cox, OF the Committee on Bankin
!. and Currency, reported back adyersel
the three bills proposing to repeal the Il
per cent tax on the circulation OF bank
which are not National Banks, Laid OF
the table.
Mr.. Terry, from the Committee on Mil
: itary Affairs, reported resolution call
, ing on the Secretary Of War for copies o
the orders and instructions under whicl
Quartermaster General Meigs is actinl
during his absence from the United States
Adopted.
Mr.. Knott, from the Judiciary Com
: mittee, reported bill 10 reorganize til,
Judiciary OF the United States. Recon-
mitted. . ....
Mr.. jerks, from the Invalid Pension
Committee, reported bill supplementary
to the pension act providing that, excep
in case OF permanent specific disabilities
no increase OF pension shall be allowed tC
commence prior to the date OF the exam
lining surgeons certificate; also repeating
the law which makes bounty land war.
rants personal property. After discus.
sion the bill was passed.
Mr.. Rusk, from the same Committee
reported bill TO Increase the pension in
certain cases. 1t provides that the per-
sons who in the military or naval service
have lost one hand and one foot, or have
been totally and permanently disabled,
shall be entitled to pension for each OF
those disabilities.
After the call Of the Committees was
concluded the House went into Commit
tee Of the whole, Mr.. Wood (of New
York; in the Chair, on the Centennial
Appropriation Bill.
Mr.. Thompson advocated the bill, while
Mr.: Southland opposed it.
Mr.. Thompson, Of North Carolina, fol-
lowed. He said that VIXEN the war broke
out, North Carolina farmer had six
sons grown up to manhood, who at the
first tap of the drum went TO the field to
fight in the cause Of theSouth. They had
not stopped TO reason about it. They
fought from Bull Run to Appomattox-
but not all OF them. One was sleeping at
Antietam; one at Chancellorville; one at
Chickahominy, and another in Kentucky,
and but two Of them were at Appomattox.
Battle-scarred, they had seen the flag 20
down which they had followed with un-
faltering devotion. One Of those sur
vivors was he who now addressed the
Committee, and who now said that he had
seen enough Of war and wanted peace;
that he wanted reconciliation and brother
hood all over the country This was why
he proposed 10 vote for the bill, for he
thought that the tendency OF the celebra-
tion was TO promote peace. The soldiers
had fought the war with bayonets, mus
kets and cannon, and now ceased fighting,
and the reason why there was not peace
was because few, selfish, restless politi-
cal agitators still wanted to keep up the
fight and their weapons were asses jaw
bones. Laughter and applause.] lie
was opposed participation in that kind |
OF warfare. He wanted peace. His peo-
pie had sent himlhere 10 talk peace and to |
help bring about reconciliation and good |
understanding.
The debate was continued by Messrs.
Williams, Of Wisconsin, and Lamar, in
favor OF the bill. and White and Goodin
against it.
In the course Of Mr.. Lamar's speech
he asked whether it could be said that in
view Of the plenary power Of the General
Government in regard to foreign affairs,
there was constitutional incompetency
in Congress to oinvite commissioners from
foreign countries tdabring their products
Of commerce and art and industry? Was
it unconstitutional for the President 10
give an invitation which the law author
lied him to give? II not, it was clearly
and unqualifiedly the duty OF Congress to
the money for that purpose.
He favored the celebration in order that
the people Of the North should become
satisfied Of the longing desire Of the peo-
pie OF the South to live with them in per-
petual union, and before that feeling all
others sank into insignifcance. He de.
precated.an alluSion made by Mr.. Town
send, of New Yorl., last week to Preston
Brooks, and intimated that the inevitable
effect Of the allusion was to excite pas
sion,, to inilame animosity, and to awake
the hatred OF sectionalism. He Namar)
advocated the scheme because it carried
out the spirit Of peace and reconciliation. l
II was something like the image OF the
Ieeling OF the people who demanded that
lhe alienation and distrust which had {
existed between the two sec.
ions Of the Union should no longer OBJ 4
'truct the glories Of the Republic or the q
prosperity and happiness OF the Amer. c
can people. As God was his Judge {
lie did not In the least believe that 8
hat alienation existed any longer. New. o
n since Jefferson was first inaugurated @
las the entire mass OF the American peo.
,le been animated by purer, intenser, '
,roader, more universal patriotism, look.
ng TO universal brotherhood and aiTec. a
ion. He knew that that sentiment had
lot found its full expression here; that 1t
lad been kept down and smothered in the n
neshes Of iptolerant political organiza.
ions, and that its voice had not been y
eard among the clamors and appealS OF
partisans, but in The politi. Ii
al as we'll as the natural world the 81
gencies that were the most powerful "
Iere not the most noisy. Violence, pas. S
ion and fanaticism could always find c
oices and GIL the air with their factious II
lamors, while the deep and earnest feel il
ngs OF the great people lay unspoken in Il
heir hearts. The currents OF passion 4
nd feeling might flow hither and thither, Il
ished by extraneous agencies, but there
'as in the great sea Of unsounded depth V
common humanity, common hope, u fl
ommon interest, u common patriotism, il
'hich lay unspoken. Applause.
Mr.. Lamar spoke under the rule which ST
mitcd his time to ten minutes, but as il
Don as his time expired Mr.. Garfield W
oSe and courteously yielded his time to il
lr. Lamar. a,
Mr.. Rea spoke against the bill, and the v
eneral discussion having closed, Hol- v
ian moved as test vote to strike out ri
le enactment clause Of the bill. The 81
lotion was rejected-l0l to l2G. ~
Mr.. Mills offered an amendment au- n,
iorizing the Governor Of Texas 10 ap- II
oint two commissioners from that State in
! place Of those acting under former
ppointment, but on point OF order the c.
was ruled out. ... nj
Mr.. Mills explained that Texas desired ii
, be represented at the celebration, but eI