The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-12
By TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
Proceedings in Congress-
Speech of Mr.. Hill, Of Georgia, on
Mr.. Blaine's Amendment to
the Amnesty Bill.
Foreign News.
Foreign and Domestic Markets.
General News.
General News.
ETC., Etc, Etc.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS-.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS-.
THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON Jan. ll.-Mr. Merrimon in
troducc d q bill TO pay North Carolina certain
moneys.
By Mr.. Bogy: To establish a branch mint
at st. Louis.
By Mr. Dorsey: To bridge the Mississippi
River at Memphis; also, to amend the act
supplementary to the acts Incorporating the
iexas Pac.fi Railroad
Messrs. Cooper, Morton. NJ Creery, Pad
dock. Bogy. Jones, Bayard and X y spoke in
eulogy of Andrew Johnson. when appropriate
resolutions were passed.
Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA bill was intro
duced ana referred by Mr. NJ PRISON prepar-
atory to the redemption of United States
notes and the resumption of specie payments
II proposes to retain gold in the Treasury to
the amount OF thirty per cent of the ouistand.
ing legal tenders 1t quires national banks
to retain gold paid for their interest on bonds
deposited to secure currency till they have
thirty per cent of the outstanding notes, and
repeats that portion OF the resumption act
compellil specie resumption in 1879.
bill was introduced reducing the number
of clerks to committees from 80 10 25, and re-
ducing the pay in several instances to four
dollars per day.
The House proceeded with the amnesty
bill
Me Hill, of Georgia, spoke two hours in
the most effective style. He was frequently
applauded by the House and galleries. In
opening he dsclaimed all d. sire on the part
of himself or his as ociates from the South to
oil tha
country had already suffered enough from
feuds.
| He and his associates had come here with
| the patriotic idea to remember nothing but
| the country and the whole country, and
turning their backs upon all the horrors of the
past, to look with all earnestness to find gio-
ries for culture. The gentle man, (Blaine,)
who is the acknowledged leader Of the Re-
publican party in the House and was the as
pirrg leader of the Republican party OF the
country, had, however, willed otherwise, and
seemed determined that the wounds which
we're healing should be re-opened, and that
| the passions which were hushed sdbuld be re-
| inf med.
| lie (Hil) wished the House to understand
that he and his associates did not reciprocate
either the purpose or the manifest desire of
the gentleman, and while they feel it their
| imperative duty to vindica the truth of his
| tend to say anything calculated to aid the
gentleman in that work of elimination aud
recrimination, and Of keeping up the war by
politicians after brave men have said that the
war shall end. The gentleman from Maine
| b ID made two points in his speech the mag
nanimity and grace of the Republican party,
and the brutality of those whom he pleased to
| term rebels.
As to the first question he did not propose
to weary the House to-day, because with the
history of the last fifteen years yet fresh in
the mind of the world, it was useless: to speak
of the grace and magnanimiiy of the Repair
lican party. With tine master enslaved, with
intelligence DISTINGUISHED, with society disor-
| dered, with States subverted and with legisla-
lures dispersed, tbe people could not afford
TO talk OF grace and magnanimiiy. II that
were grace ana magnanimIty, lie prayed God
to save the country in future from such viz
| tues.
The gentleman from Maine had made the
grave indictment against Mr.. Davis that he
was guilty of the murders and crimes at An
Jacksonville, and thegentleman (Blaine) stood
before the country with his very fame in peril
if, after making such a charge, he failed to
prove it. He (HilD would take up the gen.
clemens propositions in their order. He
hoped that no one would imagne that he was
here to pass any eulogy on Mr.. Davis. The
record on which his fame must rest had been
made up and his companions had RENTED
that record to the only tribunal which would
give an impartial judgment = honest pos
nrity.
In the meantime no euiogy of his could
help it.; no censure from the gentleman
(Blaine) could damage it, and no act or reso-
Ia ion of the House could affect it. The
charge against MI. Davis was that he was a
deliberate, wilful, scheming murderer of
thousands of his fellow-citizsns. Knowing
the high character and reputation of the
} gentleman from Maine, he (Hill) had sup
, posed when he heard that charge fall from
his lips that he had certainly made recent
discovery, aud he listened for the evidence
but what was it?
No,hlDg but partial report of Congress
sional committee. The testimony read WAS
{ exclusively ex parte testimony, taken while
! the genti. man now Oh trial before the ceun.
try was in prison, without hearing, and
without the opportunity of q hearing. Ii
there VAS any principle held sacred IN the
Anglo-Saxon mind, it was that an Englishmau
Was not to be condemned unit he should be
, confronted with his Witnesses but the testi-
/. nony was not only ex parte, but was mutt
/. lated, palpably mutilated; most adroitly mutt
= Lated.
Ec,rac. -"Even the day of his execution
I Wlrz bad been offered a Communication of hi:
! sentence if he would implcate Mr.. Davis, bu,
F.. Wirz's answer to his counsel Was: sMr
Schade, you know that have always told 20,
:, that 40 noe know anything about Jefferson
4 Davis. He had no connection With me as t
what what was done at Aaders ,nville.
would not become traitor against him O
d ans body else. even to save my he"
d But said Mr. Hill, what poor Wirz, within
two honrs of his execution would not say TO
his life the gentleman from Name SAWS to tn
: country, for the sake OF Jumping his party il
power. [Sensation.] Sir. Christianity is
"a slsehood. humanity il lie civiiiz ,tion is