New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-13
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

Mr.. ATKINS Dem, TENN sent to the
Clerks desk and had read paner from the Adjuiant
General being a copy Of telegram said TO have been
sent 10 the chairman Of the Appropriations Committee
November :, giving the number OF enlisted men at ~,
gO2 aud statement from the telegraph operator AT tie
War Department that he had the che OF the operator al
ale ca 3itol for it, receInta at tine Capitol Mr. ATKINS
said tnat ne had questioned the operator who deuIcd
having received such dispatch lie Thought II due To
The Adiutaut-G General 10 have the paper Icad.
The House the regular ord T. projected IN the con
sldcrat:on Of the Amy ~, rs deporSu
the Committee Of The Whole on St'ut!y asi. inr
lrst amendment that offered by Mr.. SCliLLl HEX
Dem. IcNaS striking out The clause iroDlilul TIE re-
men ON the rolls the 1st OF November which was con
The House refused to concur in the amendment pro
lbiuug the recruiting or the army beyond me number
on the rolls on the Isl OF November except IN the cayal-
The next am, udment one offered by Mr.. CUIBEk-
son Of Texas providing that force OF four cavalry
regiments shall be recruited TO 100 men ~ r"ch com
many. snail ne tuplONtd IN lnr ut+thtt OF
ne Mexican and Indian frontiers OF Texas; pIONIutd
that nothing herein contained Hhal au,n1/ lIe recruit
Jig the number " men on the army rolls, intending In
diGn scouts and hospital stewards, beyond 10000 men
of whom four full cavalry ,sments shall be- kept IN
service on The Mexican frontiers in Texas Concurred
The Republicans voted solidy AGAINST the amendment
and werc joined by Messrs Giddings Mills, and
The next amendment voted on was the following:
AID 10 the h section That and hereafter officer
and to- any Ce"cfa oici or upon any ot,r duty Whatsoever
shan be entitled to receive any additional rnk pay OF al
Ana an laws or parts OF laws iu conflict provisions Of
THIS section are hereby repealed
Reiecied-Yeas, 123; nlvs, 13l. The negative vote
gwen by tue Republic ans backed by MeSsrs. Black
burn and Carlisle tKyj. Harrison UILl. Eckhon. Muller
POtteTand Willis (NY Cook &C. -, and Rludoli CfcHn)
Mr.. GARFIELD Gtrp.. Oniol sent To the Clerks desk
ana mad read letter from tue Secretary War, de end
lng hm~cli from charges na Tee against MN IN saturday 3
debate regard OF dier~
BIZ before the Committee on Appropriations. The
claims mat the enlistment
prrssY authorized by law ana that therefore It be
carried on even ~ the absence Ot an appropriation New
crthcrss NE had not deemed 10 best continue recruit
ing afGcr LIST Of July for Of authority but
because he thought IL mex pedicIt muster men
into the service when there money 90 pay them.
Orders had been accordingly issued to stop recruiting
come from MaOI-OCueral Mcdowell, commanding the
Military Division a. the Pacific. approved aud urged hy
tie General Of the Army asking authority TO enlist
for the cavalry regiments engaged in that de-
The Secretary had yielded 10 that appeal and recruiting
had "A short time permitted for that purpose.
The order for tis recruiting not only lawful, but
urgent and necessary, ana refusal 10 make it under
the department ia grave c@usure especially Lo small
OF the force engaged ia That Indian the
occasion OF the greatest delay conqurung peace aud
Of the death OF brave officers aun This order
for recruiting had been cOuntermanded as soon as the
emergency seemed 10 be over and enllstDcuts lad
been made since The impression that some 800 men
had been enlisted recently was IN entire mistake.
Ing out miscOustructiOu Of the AdIutantG eneIals
telegram supplementary terg graph from the Secretary
also read stating that the Oider for enlistment
made not by himse but by the General Of the Array,
| the 5th Of july.
MIR. BANNING Dem Ohio chairman Of the Commit.
had read Telegram received to-day from tAc ADiuiant
General stating that the recruiting rctur showed that
lO23 had been enlisted since the nft IT July 1877
and that the principal part OF Them had been enlisted