Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-28

war Cla1m IN the Sen1Ce-oenaCOr Hill
in Opposition Proposes Four Important
Declarations to be Made. by the Demo-
Gratis.
GEN. SHIELDS SWORN IN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The credentials were
presented Of Senator Shields, of Missouri, and
Gen. Shields then took the oath of office.
BILLS.
A large number of bills were referred, in
Guiding one by Senator Ferry, to reorganize
| and discipline the militia of the United States
A bill reported from the committee on naval
| affairs, Thursday last, to abolish the volunteer
navy Of the United States passed.
CLOSING THE DOOR.
Senator Edmunds, from the judiciary com
mittee, reported back the House joint resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the constitu-
tion prohibiting the payment Of administra-
tors Of disloyal persons for property injured or
destroyed in the war of the rebellion, with an
amendment in the nature Of substitute.
Placed on the calendar. Senator Edmunds
said the Judiciary committee thought the reso-
luton as it passed the House was totally mad
equate for the purposes indicated BY the title.
He gave notice that he would call the bill up
for consideration at an early day.
WARREN MITCHELL.
After disposing of the morning business and
passing several bills on the calender, the bill
to pay Warren Mitchell for cotton taken dur
ing the war was taken up, and long discus
sion followed.
MILITARY POSTS.
Senate bill appropriating $4,000 for the pur-
chase of site and the erection thereon of a
military post, of Ell Paso, Texas. Passed.
RELIEF.
House bill authorizing the secretary of the
interior to pay Catherine and SOPHIA German
So, 500 out of annuities due the Cheyenne In
dians, they having been captured by said In.
dians while en- route from Georgia to Colorado.
Passed without discussion.
Senator Edmunds moved that it should be
indefinitely postponed. Rejected; yeas 81,
nays %.
Senator Hill, in opposing the bill said he
would vote against it, because it was a war
claim. He was opposed to the payment of all
war claims, whether they be from loyal or dis
loyal persons. He might probably except a
few religious and educational Institutions
whose property was destroyed. To pay these
war claims would bankrupt the government,
and as we could not pay ALL it would be I'M
Just discrimination to undertake TO pay. Some
Senators on the Republican side said Warren
Mitchell was disloyal, and should not be paid,
while Senators on the Democratic side said he
was loyal and should be paid. 1t was an easy
matter for man in Maine or New York
to proclaim his devotion to the
Union during the war, but farther
down where the sun is warmer, it requires
courage for man to say he was devoted to the
Union. He (Hill) knew thousands and tens of
| thousands of men in the South who stood up
and proclaimed their fidelity to the Union to
the very last moment. There were many men
who fought secession until it became a fact and
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the debts Of father and son. When secession
came the only thing they could do was to go
with their people. This question of loyal y
had not received proper definition. He knew
thousands of men in the South who would at
any time during the war have terminated it
upon the basis of an honest reunion. He be-
ieved the greatest possible colamity which
could happen to this country would be one Sec
tion exercising the power of conquereor over
another.
Since he had been in Congress he had heard
men denounce the Southern people as disloyal
thirteen years after the war, and he believed in
his heart if these had been South they
would have rivalled VIM. L. Yancey in their de-
votion to secession, because they were men Of
the same temperament. The people of this
country ought to wake up to the conviction
that the late war was an honest war. It was a
war fought on account of the conviction that
they were right
This perpetual talk about rebels and fidelity
to the Union did not come from magnaminous
spirit. The war is over. The Union is restor-
ed and it was time that we should leave the
passions of war behind. t4he MANNED South
ern soldier would never ask Congress for pen
sion. His widow and orphan would never ask
for it. They accepted their losses as a penalty
for failure brave men should do. The
sooner the people of the South were taught to
repair their loss by work, frugality and indus
try the better it would be for them and the
country. Let the losses of the war go and if
people desire to avoid such losses in the future,
they must avoid war.
MIR. Hill continuing, said he was the hum
blest man in the Democratic party. That party
was cow about to return full-fedged to power,
because the people satisfied that the Re-
publican party was no longer competent to re-
main in power. There was four things which
the Democratic party ought to proclaim to the
world and adhere to these with fidelity:
First-He would not pay any more war
claims, whether the parties were loyal or dis
loyal.
Second-He would vote no more public
money or bonds to build up railroad corpora
tons.
Third-He would in good faith pay every dol
lar OF the public debt, principal and interest,
In good money, standard value.
Fourth-He would enforce the constitution
of the country, and act honestly in the admin
istration.
DO GleSe 5nu Ill HIS JluSHlcuG Cue
child was not born who would witness the ter
mination Of Democratic rule in this country.
Mr.. Beck in reply defined the claim of Mitch
ell, and had read the Crittenden resolutions
adopted July 1861, to show that the war was
not waged for conquest, but to preserve the
Union. He knew that there were many fraud
ulent claims. There are men here now making
affidavits of loyalty, men whom they had as
Union officers arrested during the war for dis
loyalty, and they make afhdavits now simply
because they to get share of the claims.
Senator Conkling moved for an executive
| session.
Senator Harris inquired if the Senate should
go into executive session, whether the Mitchell
bill would be the unfinished business?
Presiding Officer Rollins replied, it would be.
The Senate then went into executive session.
STANLEY MATTHEW'S.
When the doors were reopened, a message was
received from the House of Representatives in
answer to the request Of the Senate, transmit
ting the testimony taken before the committee
Of that body in regard to Stanley Matthews,
Senator from Ohio, laid before the Senate to.
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