The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
&C. B.

WASHINGTON, March 3-The following is n
continuation OF Sundays proceedings:
After the passage OF the river aud harbor
bill the post route bill was called up for con-
sideration, but temporarily gave way to n
motion by Mr.. Window to consider the ar
rears OF pensions bill. The vote was re-
considered 2S, nays 81 and the vote by
which Shields amendment, including the
Mexican war veterans provisions was passed,
was reconsidered. The vote was-yeas ~,
nays n.
Mr. Mitchell moved an amendment that the
provisions OF the bill shall not apply to any
person who served in the Confederate mill
tary service during the rebellion. Lost-4
yeas, 27 nays.
Mr.. Hoar moved the following: "That no
pension shall ever be paid Jefferson Davis,
late President OF the so-called Confederate
States" supporting 1T In q speech In which
he said this man. whom the country had sim
gularly honored by putting him on the pen
sion roll OF the country alone has uttered no
expression OF regret for his attack, never
even having requested, as 30 many 81 his as
sociates have done, that his constitutional
disability should be removed, who had
spurned the clemency of a republic which
would give him the constitutional rights OF
an American citizen. No such man should
take money from the widows and orphans OF
the loyal soldiers Of his State In the way Of
pensions.
Mr.. Garland said republican government
had given positions of trust to GenPs Long
street, Alderman, Key and Mosby. James l..
Orr was sent to Russia by the so-called Amer
lean government. 1t seemed strange to him,
and would strike the American people with
surprise that they excepted only Davis. He
did not think he wanted pension. He Gar
land had served In the civil Confederate SER
vice with him, and respecting the novel
proposition OF the Senator from Massachu-
setts, he wanted to put it upon record and
before the people OF the country, that the
distinguished gentleman would scorn 1t. lie
does not ask and would not receive pension.
He was gallant soldier OF the war and his
services were on record, and while his SER
vices were not equalled in history, he did not
ask recognition.
Mr.. Hoar desired to say it was a singular
argument that the gentleman should claim
before the Senate that jeff Davis would scorn
the honor OF being placed upon the pension
rolls Of his country.
Mr.. Thurman said 1t was a very singular
spectacle to see jeff Davis singled out as a
mark for reprobation while SO many who went
quite as far are not punished, but are received
into the highest stations of the country. He
did not much believe in this assumed indig-
nation toward that man, especially when SO
so many equally guilty had been hOnored by
the Republican party. The Senator from
Massachusetts had not denounced the Garri-
sons, who were in favor Of achieving the lib
erty of the slaves Of the South through a
broken Union and over down-trOdden con-
stitution. His Indignation had not been
aroused then in the way it has been tonight
He Thurman did not want Davis set up a
monument before the American people as
martyr.
Mr. Hoar said the distinction between Davis
and Postmaster General Key and Gen. Acker-
man is, that the latter gentlemen have plant
ed themselves upon a platform OF restored
unity and acquiescence in the good faith and
judgment OF the American people, and to-
gether they stood up for united republic
With such men no people would more gladly
unite in serving the republic than his own
But Davis does not thus stand. His friends
in the presence OF the Senate and the country
glory fn his scorn of any honor the republic
can bestow. There Is no comparison between
them.
The Senator from Arkansas had compared
Jeff Davis with the revered names OF Ameri
can revolutionary history. The best officers
of the revolutionary war were Aaron Burr
and Benedict Arnold. Mr.. Davis services
could not be compared in value to theirs, ane
yet they were traitors. No nation on eartt
had ever exhibited a clemency equal to tha'
shown by the American people toward TIM
President of the Confederate States, but ye
it is a bitter cup to put to their lips to asl