The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-13
Especial telegram TO the Dtspatch.l

AMNESTY BILL.
Especial telegram 70 the DfepatchJ
WASHINGTON, January 12.-There is con.
siderable satisfaction on all sides that the
bitter debate on the amnesty bill will be
closed tomorrow, Blaine being allowed to
speak for an hour and then to call the pre-.
vious question. There was some discussion
as to whether the ex-Speaker had the right
to reply: Speaker Kerr ruling that he had
not, in which decision he was sustained by
Banks, who said it was as sound q ruling as
had ever been made; but a compromise,
however, was effected, and he will have that
privilege.
The Republicans have suffered in the de.
bate, and they rely on their champion to
clear away their difficulties, if possible, to.
morrow. ...~
Garfeld's speech to-day was as savage an
assault upon the South and upon Mr.. Davis
as BaiDe's, and went over the same ground
of cooked-up horrors, taking occasion in the
course of bis TRADE to accuse Of perjury
those officers of the army and navy who re-
signed their positions and went South at the
beginning OF the late war. This assault was
warmly resented by Mr.. Tucker, OF Virginia,
who gave Garfield plain language in return,
and declared that his assertion was an out.
rage upon men who were more than the peer
OF their assailant. TIMoN.
rAcsnciated Press taieprams1
XLVTH CONGRESS-First Session,
WASHINGTON, January II, 1876.
SENATE.
The Committee on Claims reported adj
yersely on the petitions of S. HUMPHREYS, W.
J, Porter. w. Jackson, Fl. W. Turner, Nancy
Bowser, NJ. Holly, Sarah G. Wedderstedt,
George Holloway, and others, claiming COM
pensation for property destroyed by United
States troops in 1862 and 1868, and asked 10
be discharged from their further considera.
ton. So ordered.
Mr.. Davis presented his treasury investi-
e. ting resolution, which was ordered to be
printed.
The resolutions regarding the president
pro tenn. were resumed. a long constitutional
argument followed, when the remaining two
1.-THE others having previously passed. were
adopted. They declare that the president
pro tenn. holds at the pleasure of the Senate,
and designate Mr.. Ferry as president until
| further ordered. The vote was 81 to 10.
| Adjourned.
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Among the bills introduced were the fol.
lowing:
By MIR. Faulkner, of West Virginia: For
the relief of the Methodist Episcopal church
at New Creek; also, to prohibit senators and
representatives and delegates in Congress
| from acting az counsel or otherwise in suits
or proceedings against the United States.
By Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia: For the
improxeme of the Little kanawha river
also, for the completion and finishing Of The
custom.house at Parkersburg.
After the usual routine business the am.
pcstv discussion was resumed, MIR. Garfield
having the floor.
Mr.. Wood inquired regarding the length
of the debate, saying that one thousand bills
had been introduced, and he understood that
twenty. three gentlemen desired to speak on
amnesty.
MIR. Randal replied that he proposed to
move the previous question in one hour after
Mr. Garfield closed.
Mr., Bliine claimed that under the rules be,
and not Mr.. Randall, had control.
The Speaker said be would decide when
the occasion came. e..
Mr.. Garfield then proceeded. He depre-
Gated the speeches of the opposition as an
arragnment of the administration OF the
country. The speech of Mr. Hill arraigned
not the Republican party alone, but ar
raigued twenty-five million people, arraigned
history. arraigned everything that was glor-
Gus record and high and worthy in its
achievements. He should try to be re.
sponsiye to the points made by the
Gentleman from Georgia. He did not
desire to hold Jefferson Davis respoDs.
BILE for the rebellion. He did rot believe
in the 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 intel
ljgence. The question was whether ne Weo
was head of the rebellion practiced in tie
dread court of war the rules OF war !;
whether ia appealing to war be obeyed the
laws of war. or whether he so violated the
laws of that high tribunal as that he did not
deserve permission to come back into DIS
,,ace "A q citizen? That is the whole QUE
ton. ..... -.
Of Andersonyille. The appointment of
General Winder as CommiSsary.General OF
all nersons and prisoners throughout the
Confederacy was denounced. He challenged
snv Democratic member from the neighbour
hood of EImira. Camp Douglas, or Fort
Delaware to rise and say that any lnhuman-
! ity had been perpetrated there. Any Demo
crat doing so, be would denounee the asSer'
ton as fearfuly, awfully untrue.
Mr. Hill dIsclaimed any purpose OIL cnarg
ing iubumanity on anybody. he only reaa
a letter from the New York World as evil
dence of cruelties inseparable. from prison.
life, and he bad wound up the statement Dy
saying that the official records showed the
relative mortality to be greater among the
southern prisoners at the North than among
northern prisoners at the South.
| A member asked: t'Do you charge thaI
The mortality among Confederate prisoI'
ers at the North was owing to cruelty I"
Mr.. Hill: ~ do not undertake TO say 70
what the mortality on either side of the line
was attributable. say that it was attrlouta'
BILE to those horrors rs,parable from prison.
/ life anywhere, and I intended my point
against striving to work up those horrors OF
the past to keep alive strife which ought 10
be buried" Abiding TO the mutual deco
ration of graves in the South, Mr. Hill said
"And it was because of that glorious feeling
that he protested against the revival OF the
history of such horrors"
MIR. Garfield: $50 do /. Who brought
It here? |Voices from the Democratic MEM