The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-11
HOUSE.

several unimportsnt bills were intro
,,,st sDd referred, when the House
IN. into Committee Of the Whole, Mr.
g,,pp IN the chair, on the private CAL
r!sr, ne pending business, the William
y3 Mary College bItl, being passed
r., wilton. action, Mr. Goode stating
Is. be would no. press the bill this ses-
iJ1.
The bill sp2-orriatiug $500 to Rich.
sd Hester, Of Virgins, tor stores and
applies laAta by the United States
rny, led .os discussion.
Ar. Ksl..- advocated the bill, stating
rs. Heater h4! 5,en loysl all through
be War. aDd hid u son in the Union
ANY.
Gr Bragg opposed the bill. lie said
hhsd been 10 Virginia during the war,
r1 ucser heard ia cit zen Of that State
ting loyal to the Onion. Loyalty in
YrgDs meant loyalty to Virginia.
Mf. Gyole remarked that most Of these
yr clam, came from men who were
gsa resIy loyal to the Union. Those
7lo had not been so, VINO had staked
5sr slI on the Struggle and had lost, &C
.ag,ei the result =, the fate Of war.
Nr. .CabeIl took the same ground, and
nt that the great mass of the Southern
isJpIe, when they asserted the secession
-Jyemen., had burned the bridges be-
:oi them, and never expected to ask
Congress to pay them for their losses.
Mr.. BLAIR suggested that the Demo
c's.Jc SIDE Of the House ought not to
present or 70 sustain fraudulent claims.
NJ White, OF Pennsylvania, spoke
v.5 much warmth Of the prosecution OF
Southern l0yalls!s in Libby prison.
i Ar, HuDloD, who had crossed over to
toe Republican side Of the cuam6er and
lil listened csmly, but with evident dis
ie.ih 70 Mr.. Whites remarks, replied to
N'n sad denined emphsuCally that any
Unnecessary and avoidable priVstions
"a been imposed upor the Federal pris-
o;aH IN Confederate hands, and imputed
Hae Federal government the blame for
L'Puyslions m refusing to slow the
a.-aage Of prisoners. lie deprecated
-s1i'OtucHoa -s Of such topic into the
4 .,ae.
/ NJ. Thompson argued in support of the
GU. snd asserted that the Republican
.','! hsd been, in regsrd to these war
~-n' generous and liberal.
NJ. Bright took the floor to close the
ya.S-s'Ion, out at the solicitation OF Mr.
nA'e Of Pennsylvania, yielded one
1'a-.e 70 that gentleman.
n White thereupoD, 1T more e1'
''5l manner even than that which ne
1-oIed few minutes before, took up
s' @pe subject, summoned before
y Holse the ghssily skeleton;
Jacksonville and the other Southern
Ssoa' bl! denied that lie had any
S@'sN STIR up angry passions. AS ht
~Aue more sud more excited in man
gesJculaung vchemently sDc
Il mug scross the area towards The
.LOefa!lc side Of the House he wa
S's,sa irom tba! side with jeering shouts
a Louder" "Louierw At the tor
- icehe declared that he was ready
-'s' The issue raised by the gentle
~ nom Flrginis [HuntoE.]
rT.h, White asked him whether b.
'VU-2 hsd been in the Southern army
~, White scornfully answered in tn,
ysa'e, but said that he had been in tn
o,.,s'n o.'as'n army, and had become pris
g.. " war in the hands of the Confed
h. army. He therefore knew what b
~, asserted. and he reported That Unlol
l,o,, gom the Valley OF Virginia an
s,,'.i Eastern Tenn essee Lad been delib
"! starved in rebel prisons.
Ds, Lden and other mem bers on tn
TV;@soe'atic side claimed that Nj
n,, Time had expired, and the chair
- White. however paid no attention