The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-23

take mp the resolutions displaced the Patent BILL
which he regarded AZ Important legislation,
The Senate then. at half-past four r. NJ adjourned
until to- morrow At twelve O'Clock.
v HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
WAsHIsGToS. Jan. %, 1879.
On motion of Mr.. srARKs Idem.) of H.. the senate
amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were
concurred in.
The SPEAKER proceeded to call committees for re-
ports.
The pending bill the one referring to the
Court of Claims the claim of Maggie Barron and
others minors during the war; for supplies furnished
the Union army.
Mr. EDEN. tdem.) of H. and Mr.. Cox, tdem) of ".
" SUPPORTED the bill. and Mr.. JONES' rep.) of Ohio
opposed it,
SPEECH BRAGG.
Mr. BRAGG. (dem.) of Wis, opposed the bill as a
precedent which would open the doors of the Treas
ury to an evil which would bring bankruptcy the
government. He had always been opposed to the
Southern Claims Commission 1t was court which
had bred fraud and perjury all over the land, 1t
was remarkable result that in nineteen
ont of every twenty cases the Judgment
had been against the government. II
al ,an TO prove Mne,nsr person a aad
perhaps the gentlemen on his side of the hail who
had fought in the Confederate army might claim that
they had been loyal because they had sought to
maintain the government on the principles OF the
fathers OF the Republic while the Northerners. who
Left had been disloya daughter the republican
sidel He had been astonshed that this claim, which
was supposed to be so loyal should have been sup.
(Mr. Hooker He felt like saying what the mouse
said when hc saw dead cat hanging up against the
wall:--"Ha la! My old friend you are there.
Well. you may stay there. I would not trust you
though your skin was stuffed with straw laugh
ter.)
Mr. CHALMERS (dem.) of Miss.-The gentleman
knows that the gentleman Mr. Hooker of Mssssippi)
is ont. else he would DC keeping quiet as the
r. Mr. H,a.fr Laf nrct,v ,pr, tlau
man WAS present yesterday and did not assail him.
Mr.. BRAGaIt is notm my purposce to assail any one.
sail do it behind his back and dare not meet
him face to face he mistakes the he calls to
order.
BALANcING ACCOUNTS
He proceeded. referring TO the s35.0o0 900 which,
it claimed by Southern members. had been
illegally collected rom captured and abandoned prop
erty. and which they claimed belonged to the SOUTH
and called on those members picture the
of war look ut the OF blood and the thousands
and OF thousands wrihng and wctering in their
gore. Let them hear the cry of the wounded
the battle field: let them give an ear to the means of
the hospitals: let them go to the hsides and the
valleys and see the hundreds and the hundreds of
thousands of Inourners Lastly let them count the
then strike balance with the thirty-fve millions
the credit side and all these countless miscries the
debit side. He willing that the dead past should
remain dead. but he was not willing to sit by and
allow it to he brought up in form another by
one member or another, and from one committee or
another, for the purpose or getting money out
OF the Treasury under the plea of loyalty
Loyal men in the South had been very few, and the
evil done by letting them stand as they bore
comparison the great evil that would be done if
Congress opened the door and allowed millions to be
appropriated under the plea of loyalty He had heard
taunt thrown at the democracy which he thought it
necessary to He had heard it said that unless
the democrats of the North more liberal unless
they opened their hands and gave more lavshly the
"soid south ON which they relied would go over to
the other side. He, representing the democrats Of
e % 'na' the Of tho
South simply for the reason that the doors OF
the Treasury were to be opened to them,
the they went the better for
them and the better for the democratic party.
When the people OF the country felt that they could
trust the Treasury and the interests of the govern
ment with the democratic party, with no danger of
the democrats of the North selling out body and
soul to the democrats of the South that party could
gather recruits the Northern Statcs that would I'LL
up its ranks to the maximum. and it would have no
need of that class of gentlemen whom it could hold
only by giving them all they wanted.
THE LOYALTY OF soUrHERNERs
Mr.. ELLIS tdem of La, agreed that the percentage
derstood it, was very small. But the Southern man
who had been born there, who had been reared there
and who had been identified with that people, could
only have beef loyal when he entered the Confeder
ate army aud did his full duty soldier. They
had been the only loyal people in the South. They
had been loyal to their country to their God and to
the noblest. highest and manifest emotion ever
breathed by the human soul.
Mr.. CoxGER. (rep) OF Mich. desired to ask q ques-
ton, but Mr.. ELLIS refused to YIELD and. continuing
said that here ana there there might have been few
persons who had espoused the Union cause, but he
had been loyal to the Union. He was willing here
and to vote for constitutional amendment
which should close the books and forever settle the
accounts between them and the government. The
lecture which the gentleman from Wisconsin (Alr.
Bragg had seen fit to read the democrats Of the
South came from him with a rather bad grace. No
democrat had proposed to desert the democratic
party. No southern democrat had intimated such
proposition.
Several republican members desired to ask ques-
tons, but Mr. Ellis refused to yield and Mr. Atkins,
of Tennessee, declared that it was family fight"
Mr. ELLIS. in conclusion. said that the Southern
people as true 10 the democratic party as the
gentleman from Wisconsin AIr Bragg. and it in
obedience to democratic teachings. the Southern
people had understood them that they had gone into
the war.
Before the excitement caused by the discussion
had subsidcd, Mr. CHALMERS of Mississippi rising to
privileged question:, said that he understood that
the remarks made by the gentleman from Wisconsin
were aimed directly 1T him.
The SpEAKER informed him that that not
question of privilege, but that in due course of
time he would have the opportunity of replying
Then said Mr.. CHAI.MiRs II will bidc my time.
The House then proceeded to the consideration of
resolutions in honor Of the memory of the late
Beverly Il. Douglas, Representative from Virginia.
Eulcgics pronounced by Mcssrs. Goode OF Vir-
GINA, Pollard of Missouri, Hooker of Mississippi,
Walker or Virginia. Springer of Illinois, Dunncll of
Minnesota. lrilcmoro of Virginia, Clark of Iowa
and Tucker OF Virginia.
The resolutions were adopted, and the House, at
four O'Clock, adjourned, the Mississippi Levec bill
(which to be taken up tins evening" being fixed
for consideration next Tuesday night.