New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-16

recognizing requests for investigation Of charges agans,
The personal character OF uucoDnected
with the performance OF his official dny aud altogether
Outside OF IT, 10 TN the psssn, Gf from was
official report OF former COngfessano tuereiorc ~
| might be "A proper subject OF inquiry. 80. q,
Mr. BUTTERwORTfI rep, ONO sad he was not IA.
millar with the charges when had Deen ntuo ~
the gentleman from Mississippi in connection WIN the
battle of Fort Pillow He had referred to the gentleman
from Mississippi connected with Font PHO" because
that gentleman better known In that connection
The resolution was laid aside for the present by
vote OF 50 to SO.
THE LEGISLATIVE BILL.
The House then y. went into Committee OF the
Whole (Mr Blackburn in the chair on the Legislative
Appropriation bill the pending question being MI
Braggs motion insert clause repeating the law cIe-
ating the Southern Claims Commission and substitute
therefor Offered by Mr.. Young OF Tennessee abolish
ing the commission, bar TRANSFERRING All caiihS III"
pending before It to The Court OF Claims.
Mr. BRAGG Dem. Wis., spoke in favor OF his propo-
Mr. KEIFER Gep Ohio replied that the court
should NOT be Intorferrd with until il died by limitations
Mr. ATKINS Dem TennJ said TINT the provision in
regard southern Claims Commission had beek
the Committee on War Claims in the last congress
prnpo.ition offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin
a an insult to the Union men Of the South
and thar If there any class Of men in the country
who deserved the consideration OF the Government
was the Union men Of the Southern states. History
might be searched vain for instance of men nav
mo suffered and endured for OPP MONS sake much as
tbey had done Even among the HuguenOts OF France,
the Disscnters OF Scotland, the Puritans OF England
there was no parallel tor their endurance. Ihey had
smenrrd for urinciplc He denounced the assertion
that there had been Union men in the South IL mad
become quite respectable on this floor to cas- snr5 AZ
toned thng-the highly respectable thing but the sn
uatiou was a SANDER who were the equals OF he
Gentleman from Wisconsin OF any other gentleman on
the floor. lApplGuse on the Republican sidel
Mr.. GARFIELD rep, Ohio, IN answer 10 some OF
tho orguments ON tho opposite side, said that 90
of ~
ern Claims Commission would. n sent To the Court OF
Claims through without needing any proof OF lOyaly
on the mart Of the claimant because had been decided
that the Executive pardon removed the distinction OF
Gyay Re tbd tinef5n KAT Rad hitherto bce1
made IN that respect-that claims arising out OF tne
war 1hS "ySTnnent dnrIng The war That objec-
ton was 10 his mind, utterly fatal to the propos con
offered by the gentleman from tennessee ONT G0ung)
Mr. BKAGG-Aly purpose IN offering tins amendment
Is 10 prevent this Government from paying any debt
which 1t in not legally liable to pay That ~ my fTst
pnrpose Nv second purpose is 10 prevent gentlemen
on the side from publishing campaign documents
in which they call US 'Coniederaes' and accuse ms 81
an ottempt t9 rob the Government and in which they
denounce me as cOadjutor distributing taiy Laugh
teri want these gentlemen to face the music Ihey
have hidden themselves behind the shadow OF loyalty
long enough Was Tennessee loyal during the wari II So
why. III Gods name, did sue 20 out OF me Union ana
cost US more people and treasure TO hold her IMAM any
other state except Virginia cost us The people WIN
whom you live the people by whom you are 10 Dc
iudged II the people OF North Carolina were loyal, now
did the gentleman lr RusseD know that whie ne hlln-
self was serving in the Confederate Army Nhe De was
member Of the Confederate Lcgisaturt-then hecom,
ing "a Republican Judge without ever having graduated
from law office lLaughierI ,,
Mr. GARFIELD-The general doctrine OF belligerenls
is OF course accepted by everybody to cover as enemies
technically ali the inhabtanis or the OelIRerehht
torritory Do gentlemen know that 0caying out all the
border statesl there fifty regiments and seven
ITnion from tho states that went into rebellion DO
they know that from the single state OF KENTUCKY more
Union soldiers fought under our flag than Napoleon took
in 10 the battle OF WateriOO-mOre than Wellington took
with all the allied armies against Napoleon DO they
remember that 10000 cOlOrcd men fought under our
fag against the rrbelOn ana for The Union and that or
that number 10000 were from the States which went
To saw that they were enemies. that they had no
rights and that when came out OF the war we should
not pay them ana tner families Tor all the proper losses
that they suffered in aid OF Government. Is what
had hoped no on either side OF the House wou.d
saw am glad to know that the gentlemen VINO tOugbt
against us do not say i-nO one OF them IL renamed
OF own soldiers TO say that nothing ought 10
paid TO any man, however loyal II lie came from inc
Mr.. SPRINGER Dem. III moved to amend Mr.
thus transferred to the Court of Claims shall be subject
TO the same defence by the Government hat could nave
been made II the cases were pending before the com
The question was then taken Ir springer's amend
ment and 1t rejected-Only 80 members voting IN
Mr.. Youngs amendment in the nature of a substitute
for Mr. Bugg's amendment was leJec'ed-yeas' ooi
nays, lO7 80
Sir Bragg's amendment was then rejected-yeas 65;
Sir SPRINGER offered an amendmeDt abOlishinG the
Southern Claims Commission ana proVluIng lhaG auS
person who may nave ella III against Tue united states
which the Court OF Claims would not now have Jurls
dlctiOn, but founded on equity ana Justice anu not
barred by limitation may lie ms pea III e court OF
Claims Ii further provides That the Court snail report
its finding Congress, aud Congress shall not allow or
authorize payment OF any private claim not payable
under existing until the claims have been inyesti
gated by the Court Of Claims.
Mr. REED (ltep. Me) opposed the amendment. The
low estimate which fne gentleman from Illinois tNlr
Sprugrr) put upon the justice OF the House must have
come 10 him from Dls experience upon the Election
COMMITTEE.
Without dispOsing Of the pending amendments, the
and the House directed that all debate
on the amendments shall close in ten minutes after the
House again goes INTO committee.
The House then, ut 4:l5 p. adjourned until to-
morrow.