The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-02-08
WASHINGTON.
THE SOUTHERN WAR CLAIMS.
A Running Debate i'm Which Chal-
mers, Hooker and Singleton,
WASHINGTON.

/ TAKE \ CONSPICUOUS PART.
WASHINGTON, February THE Speaker
announced that the regular order of busi-
ness was the morning hour and pending
bills to be the bill for the relief of Maggie
Barron.
Mr.. Chalmers said he cared nothing for
the payment of
LOYAL SOUTHERN CLAIMS,
because loyalty to the Union during the
war, meant disloyalty to everything he held
dear; that many men in the South had been
loyal to the Union was nevertheless true
and he did not envy the cheap political
capital that a Union soldier could make by
telling such men he had no more conf
dence in their honesty than a mouse had in
a stuffed catskin, The gentleman from
Wisconsin Bragg, taking advantage Of the
well known opposition everywhere, sought
to blend the war claims with claims for
Southern Improvements and endeavored to
throw the odor of his dead cat over them.
Readiness to respect corruption in others
sometimes indicates an innate tendency to
corruption in ones self, and he should
therefore not charge corruption on any one.
Issues of the war were certainly dead with
him. He had but
ONE POLITICAL FAITH,
to preserve inviolate local self-government.
but political hope to build up the waste
places in the South destroyed by the war.
When the West had been in its infancy it
had been fostered by the South. Mississippi
Democrats stood side by side with those
from Michigan in the work of Western
He had warned Northern
Democrats last session that a refusal to
recognize the Just demands or the South
might result in the defeat of Southern
Democrats and the return Of Representa-
tives who would form alliances with other
parties. Tbs rapid growth Of independent
candidates in the South had already sus-
tained his declaration. He hoped the
SOLID SOUTH MIGHT STILL BE SOLID
for the Democratic party; but for that .
portion of it that had the courage aud man. |
Iiness to treat the people Of the South as
equals and not as interiors in the Union. .
The gentleman from Wisconsin had found |
a bloodier shirt than had ever waved from ,
the battements of the Republican party, |
and he was stretching his legs in frantic /
effort to climb up to the Republican plat I
form and rob it of its last banner. He had |
the South of the war debt and of
the blood OF Union soldiers for which the
South was responsible. He (Chalmersl .
would remind the gentlemen that the war
debt was not yet paid, and that the cotton
and tobacco States were paying for more OF
the debt than Wisconsin. He (Chalmers)
would reply to the genteman's (Bragg's) ,
n,,oa.,4, 1f toro ,,o~a orr
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WITHOUT p"''io6 "A 'ii0
THE LIONS SKINS OF pEoNs'
They should be very careful not to open
their mouths too wide when they get there
Laughter
Mr. Hooker said every claim AGAINST the
government should be SO absolutely and
rOnlnletelv divorced from political sentiment
fhot mo- member on either side would regard
if ae Dolitical question On which parties
,o,l1 ba divided Such questions should
,e passed upon according to Justice and
irbt and not according to partisanship.
.Tr. Garfield had well predicted not long
ince that auv man who ATTEMPTED to
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9ct It's oplect coming from one side oi me
Eanoer as coming from t4e oILtI' ne
hooker could not forget lLat "uyn '-e
var closed lher9 were various measures OIL
eGlsL''loh propose lhtenue" 10 lay 'Ae IRON
eel OF oppression sun heo'tef on Ine
'outh. I1ere WAS touno TO ne galIth'
minority OF lnemGefs OF the house Ieu of
IS present speaker VINO resisted eAofts' .
No U2huea UoSetAot 10 restore IAe To' o'e4A-
lent to It's consututlonal orbit Memu5rs 4
rom the south haa tnQS lelt they 12u i9"hd
lanly defenders on the part OF Northern
democracy men who We're wiling to tlfo" +
le mantle OF opllNIon over the incidents OF ~
ar, ana VINO We're not Wiling 10 rae UP o.
S dead ashes. II any one supposed there !,
as any otner Oond between lhein tlln ina, +,
right anu justice he had mo cone p,oh OF .-
winch had not b en- thought oi 10y south =.
n Eepreseht'u'Gs' \
ILe southern DeAoctHa --'' No'ed +'t ~
le bill to pay ninety mlil!o1S arIeara9es Oh
,nslouS. me regular pension app lotrlA,2'N !.
IL OF t-lr'y lhuiloAs' li'e anu o1--At'. a.
llIonS to pay tor Canlit'A ASileIleS, am w
claims OF That sort. and h"a ~
ever asked the question Whtfa lla money !
1uli 60 Bnt now that II was propo~ i '
refer some southern claims To the proper q
ibunol it was said that 1t would not o
that tribunal might decide the clam -
bea Just one, and that It was too
rye to be paid. 4 large portion oi the !.
aims now standing on tine calendar El3 .-
en- presented years ago long before th.r' 'l