Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14

tiangus =. y hite our brave sens wero
in the field. [Apklaus on the Demo.
cratic side
Nj. Hill passed in review the effort
of the Confederate Government to cot
I'D OF their prisoners, and concluded
this branch Of his subject by saving.
And of all the atrocities, both at An.
dersonvilie aud Elmira, the Oonfefer-
ate Government stands acquitted from
all responsibility and blame"
Extract. but the South is here
and bere she intends to remain" TEn'
thusiastic demonstration on the Dem.
ocratic side and in the galleries. Let
fanaticism do its worst: let il n.SS
its nullifying acts; trample on the Con.
! stltutlon; abrogate the pledges of the
fathers; lncite raids on our peonIa.
multiply infdelities until they shsll bs
like the stars. of heaven or the sands
of the sea shore, without number. hut
know this fact, for all your iniquities
the South will never again seek a rem
edy In tie madness of another secas.
sion. Renewed applause We ara
acre, we are in our fathers house onr
brothers are our companions, and No
are st home, thank God. Enthnsi.
astic applause.
| After eulogies upon Mr.. job nson
| me house au1 u1Oufned.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10
/ SENATE.-The Committee on Claims
reported adversely on the petitions of
Syivanus Humphreys, VIM. J. Potter.
| VIM. Jackson, H. W. Turner. Morev
| Bouser. Miles Hally, Sarah G. We'd,
derstedt, Geo. Holloway and others
cia ming compensation for property
destroyed by United States troops in
| 1852 and 1868 and recommended that
| the committee be dischared from
| their further consideration. So ordered.
In making the report Wright said there
was no reason why these petitions were
not filed before the Southern Claims
| Committee instead of before the
| Senate.
Davis presented his Treasury inves.
Slgatlon resolution and ordered it
printed.
The re solutions regarding the Pres
dent pro 4em., were resume and long
| constitutional argument followed, when
they remaining, the other two having
previously passed, were adopted.
| They declare the President pro tenn.
| clares sMr. Ferry President until fur
ther ordered. The vote was "a to Is.
| Adjourned.
| HoUsE.-Bills were introduced and
| referred for improvements at several
| cit es.
By Parsons for the recovery of in
ternal taxes and penalties illegally
paid.
Clarke, for the Improvement of Big
! Sandy; also the Cumberland.
Durham, to permit tobacco growers
| to sell to consumers on their own land
| without license and the Improvement
of the shoals in Cumberland river.
Mcfarland, to authorize the South
ern Claims Commissioner to grant a
rehearing. Thornborg, to i'm
prove the navigation of the streams
tributary to the Tennessee river.
Walls, lighthouse for Mosquito
| Inlet
Hereford. the Improvement of the
Big Sandy in Kentucky and West Vir-
| glnia.
Amnesty resumed.
Garfield had the floor.
Wood enquired the length of debate,
| saying that one thousand bills had
! been introduced and he understood
that twenty-three gentlemen desired
to speak on amnesty.
Randall replied that he proposed to
move the previous question an hour
! after Garfield closed
| Blaine claimed under the ruies that
| he, rot Randall had control. The
Speaker would decide when the occa-
sion came and Garfield proceeded.
He deprecated the speeches of op-
| position as an arraignment of the ad-
mlnistratfon of the country. The
| spe ch OF Mr.. Hill arraigned not the
Republican party alone, but arraigned
p 0O0,0 of people; arr3igned the
history Of the Republic; arraigned
everything that was glorious in its re-
cord end high aud worthy in its achive-
mcnts. He should try to be respon-
sive to the points made by the gentle
man from GeOrgia. He did not desire
20 hold Jefferson Davis responsible
| for the rebellion. He did not believe
III tho doctrine of vicarious atonement
IN human affairs. Jefferson Davis was
no more guilty than any other man
| who went into the rebellion with equal
light and intelligence. The question
! was whether he who was the head of
the rebellion, racticed in the dread
| court OF war the rules of war; whether
IN appealing 20 war he obeyed the laws
! Of war, or w.let:er he SO violated the
laws OF that high tribunal. as that he
| dad not deserve permission to come
| back into his p!ac, in Congress? That
WAS the whole question.
Mr.. Garfield then proceeded with
| his story of AndersonvilIe The ap-
! pH.n'nent OF General Winder as Com
| missary General of all prisons and al
-prlsonera throughout the Oonfederacy
is denounced. He challenged any Dem
! cctatic member from the vicinity OF
EImira, Camp Douglas or Fort Della
ware, in the House, to say that any ill.,
| humanity had been perpetrated there.
No Democrat doing SO, he added that
he deemed the assertion as fearfuly
| and awfully untrue.
MIR. Hill disclaimed any purpose of
| charging inhumanity On anybody. He
had only read letter from the New
York World as an evidence of cruel
ties lnseparable from prison life, and
he had wound up the statement by
saying that the records showed that
beyond reasonable doubt the relative
mortality was greater among southern
prisoners in the north than among the
lorthern prisoners incarcerated in the
south.
A member asked Do you charge
that the mortality among the Confed-
crate prisoners at the north was due
| 10 cruelty.
Mr.. Hill do not undertake to say
| to what the MOI tai1ty on either side OF
| the line was attributable. But l do
| say that it was attri ibutable to the hor-
rors inseparably connected with prison
life everywhere, and l intended that
my point be made against this striving
| to stir up the horrors of the past and
keep alive the strife which ought to be
barred (App.ause)
I In al!uding to the mutual decoration
Of gra- es i'll the South. Mr.. Hill said:
| Ard it was on account of that glorious
| feeling that l protest against the revl-
val of such horrors.
Mr. Garfeld-So do l. Who brought
i, it up?
{ Chorus of Democrats members
"Blaine," "Bla!ne," ""Blaine."
| Garfield hOped the sane feeling