Daily globe., 1879-02-03
House Of Representatives.
WAR CLAIM DISCUSSION.

House of Representatives.
WAR CLAIM DISCUSSION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Speaker an
nounced the regular order of business was the
morning hour, and the pending bill to be the
bill for the relief of Maggie Barron,
hlr Chalmers said he cared nothing for the
payment OF loyal Southern claims, because
loyalty to the Union during the war meant
dlsloyalty to everything he held dear That
many men in the South had been loyal to the
Union was nevertheless true, and he did not
envy the cheap political capital Union
soldier could make by telling such men he had
no more confidence in their honesty than a
mouse had in stuffed catskin. The gentle
man from Wisconsin (Bragg), taking advantage
OF the we'll known opposition evervwhere
sought to blend war claims with claims for
southern improvement, endeavored to throw
the odor OF his dead cat over them. Readiness
TO suspect corruption in others sometimes in
dlcates an innate tendency to corruption in
oneself, and he should therefore not charge
corruption to any one. The
ISSUES OF THEw WAR
were certainly dead with him. He had but
one political faith, to preserve inviolate local
self government; but one political hope, to
build up the waste places in the South de-
IN its infancy it had been fostered by the
south. The mississippi Democrats stood side
oy side with those from Michigan in the
work of
WESTERN IMPROVEMENT,
He had warned Northern Democrats last ses-
sion that refusal to recognize the Just demands
OF the South might result in defeat Of
Southern Democrats and the return of repre-
sentatlves who would form alliance with other
parties. The rapid growth of independent
candidates in the South had already Sustained
0GcI9raf1nn He ~ q
might still he solid for the Democratic party.
but for that portion of it that had the courage
ana manllness to treat people of the South as
equals and not as interiors in the Union. The
gentleman from Wisconsin had found
BLooDIER SHIRT
than had ever waved from the battlements of
the Republican party, and he was stretching
his legs in a frantic effort to climb up to the
Republican platform, and rob it of it's last
banner. He had reminded the South of the
war debt and of the blood of the Union
S9laiers M 1G Tor which the South was responsible.
- ne (Chalmers), would remind the gentleman
tne war debt was not yet paid, and the cotton
aos4 anu eo3acro States were paying far more on
that debt than Wisconsin. He (Chelmers).
would reply to the gentleman (Bragg's) dis
m1ssal OF a certain supposed class of Southern
democrats, that If there were any sore heads
or disappointed Republicans in the North who
could not get into Congress without putting
on the lions skin of Democracy, they should be
very careful not to open their mouths too vide
when they got there. Naughter.)
MIR. HOOKER
SAID every claim against the government should
be SO absolutely and completely divorced from
political sentiment that no member on either
side would regard it as political question. or
one on which political parties could be divided.
SUCH questions should be passed upon accord
ing to justice and right and not according to
partlsanship. Mr.. Garfield had we'll predicted
not long since that any man who attempted to
appeal again to
on the floor of the House would appeal in vain.
He hoped such appeal would be as powerless to
effect its object coming from one side of the
chamber as coming from the other. He Hook
er) could not forget that when the war closed
and there was various measures of legislation
proposed intended to lay the iron heel of op-
preston still heavier the South, there was
found to be a gallant minority of members in
the House led by it's present speaker, who re-
sisted these efforts and banded together to re-
store the government to its constitutional
orbit. Members from the South had thus felt
they had found manly defenders on the part of
the Northern Democracy, men who were willing
to throw the
MANTLE OF OBLIVION
over the incidents of war and who were not
willing to rake up its dead ashes. If any one
supposed there was some other bond between
them than that of right and justice, he had a
conception of it which had not been thought
of by Southern representatives. Southern
Democrats had voted for the bill to nav
100000, 900 arrearages of pensions, the regular
pension appropriation bill of $3O,OOOOOO.
$5, 100000 to pay for the Canadian fisheries.
and innumerable claims of that sort, and had
never asked the question where the money
would go, but low that it was proposed to
refer some Southern claims to the proper tri-
bunal, it was said that would not do. that
tribunal might decide the claim To ha q ;,a4