Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-16

shall be such as to enable good
swift and elegant American steam
ers to compete with British lines
their hold on our trade with the
Southern hemisphere will certainly
be broken. Ordered printed and t.
lie on the table.
The Senate tonight, by vote o.
yeas, SO; nays, 27, passed the bill
to restrict Chinese immigration
and took up the bill to amend the
Internal Revenue laws, which con
tains an amendment reducing the
tobacco tax, but before completing
the reading of the bill the Senate
adjourned, at 7:40 o'clock.
Immediately after the reading Of
the Journal, the House at 11.2O
went into committee of the whole,
Blackburn, of Kentucky, in tie
chair, on Legislative, Judicial and
Executive Appropriation bill.
The House, in Committe Of the
Whole, made some progress on the
Legislative Appropriation bill. An
amendment providing for the salaries
of Surveyors General was posts
poned until the provision be reached
proposing a change in the system of
surveys.
The amendments for an addi-
tional clerical force to carry out
the Pension Arrearage bill were
withdrawn, on the assurances from
members of the Appropriation Com
mittee that that committee would
report, on Monday or Tuesday next,
bill for the payment of these ar
rearages and making provisions for
the necessary clerical force
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. Il.
The House is in Committee of the
Whole on the private calendar.
The bill 10 pay John J. Arm
strong, of Virginia, $1,840 for the
rent of a wharf in Alexandria
during the war was discussed at q eat
length. Mr.. Conger started off in
opposition to the bill, contending
that if its principle was a correct
one, the troops that marched across
Longbridge ought to have been pre-
ceded by army wagons loaded with
specie to meet the enemy and pay
the owners of property which was
to be used for war purposes what
they demand for their property.
Mr.. Shelley, of Alabama, had no
sympathy, generally, with these
war claims. There were no Con-
federates presenting such claims.
There was not in Alabama twenty
war claims, and he certainly would
not vote for any Alabama claim
wherein loyalty was set up.
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts, ex-
pressed his views on the war claims.
So long as such claims were present.
ed for damages done during the war,
or for property occupied during the
war, so long would there be a mis-
understanding between the sections.
Both sides desired that "bygones
should be bygones," and that all
about the war should be forgotten.
There was one thing, however,
which could not be forgotten, and
that was the valor and patriotism of
those who fought for the Union in
the hour of its deadliest peril nor
would the bravery, devotion, and, as
he might say, loyalty to the cause
which they espoused, of those
who fought it out on thessother side,
be forgotten. He was willing that
the States should be put upon the
same ground that the fathers of our
Republic had put them upon in the
War of the Revolution by assum-
ing all their debts for raising and
recruiting troops, except claims of
manned and disabled soldiers, and
with that determination on the part
of the people of the country, both
North and South, the time would
not be far distant when the feeling
of brotherhood would take into the
charge of the Government the
manned and disabled soldiers of the
Southern army, remembering their
courage, their steadfastness and
their gallantry, and forgetting the
judgment which made
them fight upon the side they did.
Mr.. White, of Pennsylvania, op-
posed the bill as a war claim for the
use of and damages to property in
an insurrectionary State.
Mr.. Aiken, of South Carolina,
declared himself opposed to all
Southern war claims. He was glad
to hear that some members on the
side were liberal enough
to vote compensation for damages
to religious, educational and elee-
institutions at the South.
For himself, his independence
would not allow him to do even that.
The Southern people should go back
to first principles and go to work
and rebuild such institutions them
selves. They had risked everything