The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-13
Continuation of the Debate or
the Amnesty Bill.
Foreign News.
Foreign and Domestic Markets.
General News.
Etc, ETC., Etc.
FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. The Senate Com
mittee on Claims reported adversely on the
petitions Of Sylvanus Humphres, VIM. j.
Porter, VIM. Jackson, Fl. W. Turner, Nancy
Bowsen, Miles Holly, Sarah G. Wedderstedt,
Geo. Holloway and others, claiming compen.
sation tor property destroyed by United States
troops in 1862 and 1868, and recommended
that the committee be discharged from fur
ther consideration. So ordered. In making
the report, Mr.. Wright said there was no
reason why the g petitions were not filed
before the Southern Claims Commission, in
stead of before the Senate.
Mr. Davis presented his Treasury investi-
CATION resolution, which was ordered printed.
Resolutions regarding President pro tenn.
resumed.
A long consti utional argument followed,
when the remaining two-the others having
previously passed-were adopted. They de-
clare that the President pro tenn. hold at
pleasure in the Senate, and designate Mr..
Ferry as President until further ordered. The
vote was 81 to Is.
Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, JAN 12.-The following bills
were introduced and referred:
For minis of several cities.
BY Parsons: For recovery of internal reve-
nue. taxes and penalties illegally paid.
By Clarke: For improvement Of the Big
Sandy. also the Cumberland.
By Durham: To permit tobacco growers to
sell to consumers, on their own land, without
license. Also. for the improvement OF Cum
berland River
By Mcfarland: To authorize the Southern
Claims Com mission to grant rehearings.
By rhomberg: To improve the navigation
IF cfro Vii mt To ho
By Walls: To establish lighthouse on
Mosquito Inlet.
BY Hereford: For the improvement of the
Big Sandy in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Amnesty bill resumed.
Mr. Garfield had the floor, and Mr.. Wood
inquired regarding the length of debate, say
ing one thousand bills had been introduced,
and it is understood twenty-three gentlemen
desired to speak on amnesty
Mr. Randall replied: He proposed to move
the previous question. limiting to an hour
after Mr.. Garfield closed.
NJ. Blaine claimed, under the rules, he. not
Mr.. Randall, had control.
The Speaker said he would decide that
poiEt when the occasion came, and Mr. Gar
field proceeded.
ton as an arraignment of the administration
OF the country. The speech of Mr.. Hill ar
raigned, not the Republican party alone, but
twenty-five millions of people; he arragned
the history of the Republic, arraigned every
thing that was glorious in its record. and high
and worthy in its achievements. He should
try and be responsive to the points made by
the gentleman from Georgia; he did not de-
sire to- hold Jefferson Davis responsible for
the rebellion; he did not believe in the doc
time Of vicarious atonement in human affairs;
j. ferson Davis was no more guilty than any
other man swho went into the rebellion with
equal light and intelligence.
The question was whether he who was the
head OF the rebellion practiced in the dread
court of war the rules of war; whether in ap-
pealing to war he obeyed the laws of war, or
whether he SO violated the laws of that high
tribunal as that he did not deserve permits
sion to come back into his place in Congress;
that was the whole question.
Mr.. Garfield then proceeded with his story
of Andersonville; the appointment OF Gen.
Winder as Commissary General Of all prisons
and prisoners throughout the Copfederacy is
denounced. He challenged any Democratic
member from the neighborhood of Elmira,
Camp Douglas or Fort Delaware to rise and
say that any inhumanity had been perpe-
trated there. No Democrat doing so, he de-
nounced the assertion as fearfully and awfully
untrue.
Mr.. Hill disclaimsd any purpose of charg-
ing inhumanlty On anybody. He only read
letter from the New York World as evidence
of the crnelties inseparable from prison l,fe
and he had wound up the statement by say
ing that the official records showed the reIa-
tive mortality to be greater among the South
ern prisoners at the North than among the
Northern prisoners at the South.
A member asked Do you charge that tie
moriallty among the Confederate prisoners at
the North was owing TO cruelty?
Mi. HILL do not undertake to say TO what
tbs mortality on either side of the line WAS
attributable. l say that it was attributable to
those horrors inseparabIe from prison lite
anywhere, and commended in my point against
striving to work up those horrors Of the past
to keep alive strife which ought to be buried
Applause
Abiding TO the mutual decoration CT graves
in the South, Mr.. Hill said: "And it was be-
cause OF that glorious feeling that he pro-