The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-30
THE ARMY BILL.
Remarks OS Nes>r.. Phillips and
HASKELL in Opposition To- she Pro-
sl4lSs.Si Reduction.

the regular Army at its present standard |
for the protection Of our frontier. | think /
there was Really no necessity for raising |
the question Of using the Army for other I
purposes, wE.th,r these purposes We're |
predicated on the necessity Of using the |
Army in States recently in rebellion and 4
still in unsettled condition or L. meet /
acquisitions from governors, under Tie Con- |
stitutlon, TO preserve peace and order in |
any State on account OF riot or turbulence. |
In this contest We propose TO provide no |
new force for such purpose. We have |
not had aud il Is Impossible We should
have, with the regular Army at its present
standard, large spare force for any such
purposes, whether thee purposes were
proper or not.
SIR, whenever in the at an Indian war
has broken out We have not had men enough
10 subdue 1t promptly and economically as
We ought 10 have been able to subdue it,
Insignificant difficulties with Indians have
grown into great expensive wars while we
were waiting 10 gather troops from many
distant posts. Settlers have been fearfully
exposed meanwhile. Every Indian war has
been prCtracted for years though it might
have been ended in a few months. In this
system OF false economy We have wasted
many hundreds and thousands of lives,
many millions OF dollars. l say. therefore,
there Is sufilclent reason why We should
maintain the Army at Its present standard.
That is the only question that need to have
entered into this discussion. To man the
forts on our seaboard, to guard the posts
and forts on the three thousand miles OF
northern frontier, TO protect the turbulent
| Mexican frontiers Of fifteen hundred miles
and Keep IN check several hundred thous-
and oil herce, warlIke savages, roaming over
the Interior, needed every man and every
musket. The questions as 10 maintaining
the integrity and perpetaity OF the Union,
tie civil rights OF all our citizens, and the
preservation OF The order and tranquility OF
the country, are Legitimate Questions IN
their own place and time.
But, MIR. Chairman, during the course OF
this debate much has been said As Ia the
use of the army in the States by the he
publican party which has been IN charge oil
the Government for the past fifteen years.
We have barely closed a civil war unpar-
alleled in all history. The Republic res
cued from its peril has been in the hands
of the gallant Republican party that saved
it, and because that Republican party en-
by the employment Of a small number ol
men in those States lately in rebellion and
still full of murder and turbulence, it has
been held on this floor that ur party has
transcribed constitutional limits and inva-
, ded rights and powers sacred to the Con-
stitution and subversive OF the principles
of the Government. Sir, | heard the late
President say that under his administration
he never sent troops to South Carolina and
Louisiana, except when they were called
for by Government Of those States in accor-
dance with the Constitution OF the Uni
ted States, and that he did not think they
! had ever been used but when they we're
needed Tor public peace and Tor The preser
walton of law and the guaranteed rights OF
citizens. The charge that the Republican
party has exceeded the Just powers OF gov
|, erpment contided 10 them, or that T. ey ever
g. ,,,,,,,,,, ,;sb.J >, w.,l.n mr. updar.
, ioi lii"n,."' "i' '" va
mine the kepublIc they had Just preserved,
il a charge ms prepo-terous As IL L. false
=, -.
".n oe "" w p"pI'
ministration of Mr.. buchanan there was
-. l;,,,.l.,. :; ,-;;; . Lr.,a
, some "'s'u'p"n'e III oi"'',
historic man Of my State, John Brown, oil
n.,w,,nmie invaded Ni,pini, about The
a.: ~ a:a,.'..,.,,es H., -,
p uhe. vi 'he c'io"ii'S''n'e vi '"e .'"'e'
that led To II have nothing to say At pres
on, History will f.itkfully record and
.tI III -
J",'S es,iina'e out t"e pr: WI. -.
: from the officia. report of Colonel Robert
: f. Lee, then Of the regular army, aiterward
a commanding 9, neral Of the rebel army.
Without a single rsguisitiOn by the Gov
; ernor Of any State bat merely on a simple
rumor, troops of the United States from the
, United States post at Harper's Ferry. which
he then corrmaa ded, invaded the State OF
Maryland ask that the paper be read
The Clerk read as follows:
HARPER's FERRY, October, 10. 1873.
Colonel :. Co PER.
Idi.tguf Gen. L. & drrnu, Hash nation. u. &.
About nine o'clock this evening received
a report from Mr.. Moor, from Peasant Val.
ley, ir i5 Noun . ans ..I airscE
ed the house oil Mr. Grnneit, and f.om the
, cries al murder and tue screams OF the wo-
men ana rl nJ n,.,ssicr,,
The report was, howeyer, 20 improbabls,
,ha u Tpu !, nossib that some a,rocitv n,irhi
have been committed. and l started with
, twenty five marines under Lieutenant Gresn
af ,s ~ nn,r,re .h"mt n U .s
a half miles distant. / was happy TO fil.d il !,
,alSe alarm. The iniiaDianis OF Pleasant an,
valley VEL hG u f,miir s'i.. ,nn ,Ii.a an" WI
NJ. PHILLIPS. | have no comment to
make as to its necessity. no criticisms as to
the act, but ! wish to simply state that
!, during the last Democratic administraio ion
Colonel Lee carried United States troops
on mere rumor into a neighboring State.
He who went into rebellion against the
Government that educated him soldier,
because he Was a siickler Tor State rights,
did not deem this an invasion of State
|, rights. The Democratic administration Of
Buchanan did not deem it an invasion Of
State rights. 1t was reserved Tor the Dem
ocratic party, party which "a such SYM
pathized to some extent with rebellion, TO
criticise ~ an invasion of State rights the
just and discreet steps to preserve the Union
and maintain the peace.
Here the hammer fell.
Mr. HASKELL Mr. Chat man, | have
heard on this floor to-day, in answer to the
eloquent and fair statement of the Delegate
: from Montana, Mr.. Maginnis, such an
unfair reply, such an outrageous chsrs.,
!: that deem il nv duty, standing here as |
do a member of this House with twenty
five years of border experience in nv life,
to say Just one word or two on the subject OF
s;on .r5 nrsver,;on of Indian bos,ili,ie. nnon
sion anu PreSentiono Vi ihui,n 'iont "f'o"
our frontier. 1t was stated by the honora-
bic gentleman from Illinois Mr. Sparks |
r., OH H., T.rr;,ori.s wanted ,r,an. ha-
. cause the location OF troops there woul sell
their pr,ducts-their butter and their eggs.