Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-02-14

tional privileges.
Conger said he did not know why
his friends on the other side were
bound on destroying tho army and
kept nibbling at it on all occasions.
He had often asked what was the
hidden motive, but no man had
answered him but sheltered them.
selves behind beautiful cries OF
economy. His friend from Ohio,
Southland, has let out the secret O
little and said it was because the
army had been used in the South
in the Presidential election. Under
the pretense of economy the Dem.
ocratlc party were cutting down
the army.
Humphrey opposed cutting down
the army on account of stri kers,
etc.
Hale reiterated the charge made
by Conger, that the Democratic
party was determined to cut down
the army.
Atkins-There is no such mo-
tive. 1t is false assumption on
the part of the gentleman from
Michigan that there is hidden
motive on this side of the house to
destroy the army.
Hale said he had listened day by
day to speeches tending in that di-
rection. Southland had objected to
the army because il had been used
in the South. Those troops had
been withdrawn as q measure of re.
Cancellation and the answer to that
measure Of Reconciliation was that
the knife was put into the army.
Chalmers said he had hoped the
war was over. He believed this
was day of reconciliation. He be-
lieved the Government could afford
to do justice to its citizens on both
sides in the firm conviction that
both sides were welded together in
a strong band of union. The gentle
men at his side had come back to
the Union bearing in their hearts
no malice, no lingering feeling, no
ill-will to the gallant gentlemen
whom they had met on the field of
battle He saw those gallant men
before, behind and around him.
Men who had fought on the South
ern side were not jealous of the
wreaths of fame which were won
by those gentlemen who had fought
on the other side. He contrasted
the honor done to the men who had
been killed on either side, but he
did not grieve about that. Gentle
men on his side did not have the
slightest feeling Of disloyalty
toward The Union.
Conger, amid contemptuous
laughter on the Democratic side,
stated that the real motive which
the Democrats had in cutting down
the army was in order that, when it
got the appointing power, the army
might be filled with the old officers
who had left the army for reasons
of their own.
Hewitt sent to the Clerks desk
and had read the remarks he had
made last Monday in regard to
selling West Point and the charge
which had been made against him
by House, of Tennessee, that he
had slandered the people of the
South. He had felt deeply grieved
at the language and had risen at
the moment and attempted to get
the floor in order to correct the
misapprehension under which Mr..
House was evidently laboring. If
there was anything in the Ian
guage which he had used which
could be construed into any SLAM
dering of the representative of
Southern States, he would take it
back; but he insisted that his mo.
tives were to defend the represent
tives Of the South frem the SANDER
which had been uttered against
their good names by the gentle
man from South Carolina (Aiken)
when he declared that West Point
was an incubus on the country.
House replied that if Hewitt in
tended no reflection on Southern
representatives, he was glad to
hear it. The remark which he
made had been based on his under
standing of the gentleman's re-
marks. If he misunderstood them,
then justice impelled him to say
that he should not have made the
reply which he had made. He had
understood them, however, as a re-
Election on every Southern MEM
Der. AS to the statement that the
remark of Aiken had been inspired
by Southern hostility to West
Point, because through the skill
and prowess of West Point officers,
South Carolina and other Southern
States had been whipped back into
the union, he thought Southern
representatives should be permit
ted to discuss questions of public
policy without having the fact
that they had participated in re-
bellion flung Extensively into their
faces. They fought like men and
since the surrender have behaved
like men. He did not deny love
for his section and for its people.
The man who did not love the spot
where his mother rocked his era
die was unworthy of any country.
Applause.
Hewitt, of New York, and Aiken
addressed the Chair in the midst
of great confusion and excitement.
Fort suggested that the public
business should be proceeded with.
Townsend, of New York (excit-
edly)-A Southern man (House)
has just had time given him, why
not give Northern man (Hewitt)
time? Laughter and applause.
Atkins suggested that there was
no cause for such excitement.
Durham demanded the regular
order of business, but the call was
only laughed at on both sides of the
house and without any diminution
of the excitement and confusion,
Hewitt again took the aoor, and
said he was glad to hear what had
fallen from the lips of the gentle
man from Tennessee.
House-The remark of his which
that gentleman had taken excep-
ton to was that of the gentleman
from South Carolina (Aiken), that
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