Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-22

! That was the Congress which had passed the act
under which twenty-five Thousand claims
| amounting to sixty million dollars had been
presented. The constitutional amendment
! which he favored would close the door against
I all war claims, whether coming from the Nerth
| or South, under plea of loyalty ior disloyalty
Mr.. Canning thought it would have been best
at the conclusion of the war to have adopted a
constitutional amendment prohibiting the pay
| ment of all war claims. The confederates had
| no right to any benefit from such measures and
| loyal men had been sufficiently paid in having
| the government of the union saved to them.
| MIR. Conger opposed the bill, and several sharp
passages occurred between him and Eden.
Finally, MIR. White moved to strike out the
| enacting clause of tho bill, and it was agreed
| to without discussion.
In advocating the next bill on the calendar
for the payment of $G, 900 to A. A. H. Richards,
of Virginia. for supplies furnished the army
| during the war,
| Mr.. Shelley stated he had no sympathy with
| that class of claims, and his people who had to
| bear the burden of taxation had no sympathy
with it, but it was one of the penalties of the
war which the people of the South must accept
| as the penalty.
| Mr.. Bragg opposed the bill. There had been
| little or no loyalty in Virginia except such as
had been enforced by Gordon of soldiers with
bayonets, and then it had thrived most Justify
upon the supplies the commissioners of the
army had furnished.
enacting clause of the bill. Agreed to- yeas l0l
nays 46.
number of Democrats voted in the affirma-
tive, while eight to ten Republicans voted in
| the negative.
The next bill was one for the payment to
John Zumstein of $4,000, for supplies fur
nished by him suter of the army at the con-
elusion of the battle of Shiloh.
Mr.. KeifeE.suppurted the bill.
MIR. Bragg Said the chief merit in the bill
was that claimant came from Ohio. Suffers
had generally managed to take care of them
Selves and it was sometimes their practice to
rob the soldiers. He moved to strike out the
enacting clause of the bill. Agreed to with
| out division.
MIR. Caldwell supported the next bill on the
| calendar for the relief of Hiram johnson and
Others of Tennessee. Before, however pro-
ceeding to speak on that bill he called attention
to the fact that statement had been published
some time ago citing the claim of Mrs. Herbert,
of Louisiana, reported by him as a specimen
brick of the grand structure of war claims
which Southern people wanted paid. The Re-
publican committee had distributed it as
campaign document, and he had been crit
cised for reporting such a claim. The fact
should also have been stated that this very bill
had been three times reported upon favorably
by the Republicans, once by Mr.. Conger and
twice tT :, IN the Senate by Senators Mitchell and
Wadleigh. 1t had been stated that not per
cent. of the people South had remained loyal
to the Union. Gentlemen who had followed
the United States flag into the South ought to
know better than that. He stood here honest
enough to do ustice to the loyal people South.
But for the loyal element in the Southern
States the history of the country would not
have been written, it has been, in more
than one battlefield. It had been Southern
arms and hearts that had turned the tide of
battle in favor IF the Union. Those loyal per-
sons in the South were now asked to sacrifice
their claims for the benefit of the country
Why not ask as we'll the bondholders to sacri-
flee themselves for the good of the country.
Mr. White, Pa, in reply to Mr.. Caldwell stat
ed that when the claims of Mrs Herbert had
been reported he had considered it as bold
and unblushing fraud. The solicitor of the
treasury had sent an officer to Louisiana to ex-
anime the claim and his report had shown it to
be fraud. He also opposed the pending bill
If it were passed bill should be passed REIN
bursting the $28,00o of York, Pa, on account of
losses incurred through raid made by Gen.
Early during the Gettysburg campaign.
On motion of MIR. White the enacting clause
to the bill for the relief of Hiram Johnson and
others of Tennessee was stricken out.
The only bill agreed to by the committee was
one for the relief of Gibbs & Co., Charleston, s.
Q. The committee then rose and the House ad-
jsurned.