The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-11
Last Nights Dispatch IS.
XLvI CONGRESS.
SENATE.


Mr.. Mcdonald and the engagement il
which the Iron Brigade took part was ol
the 28tb and not on the 29th as Mr.. Car
penter had sta:ed, and was led by Gibson
and Bragg, both of whom, it was note
worthy, were warm friends of Porter eve
since. The Board of Review hold tha
the withdrawal of Porter's forces unde
Pope's order on the 3Oth was the begin
ming of the days disasters. The BoarC
decide that Porter was brave and loyal il
bis obedience to sn order which his judg
ment derided. He quoted from Confede-
rate reports to show that Mcdowell anC
others had confused the dates and haC
reluctantly been compelled to admi
the fact. After Mcdowell had beer
forced to retract his affirmation of Por
ter's delinquency how could he ever lit
his head again.
Mr.. Conkling asked if Mr.. Mcdonald
charged Mcdowell with knowingly circu
latiDR false reports and then admitting tina
he had done so.
Mr.. Mcdonald said if Mcdowell was ie
norant OF dates he was not excusable fol
| his ignorance
Messrs. Logan and Mcdonald debated
this point at some length, and Mr.. Conk
ling said he had heard injurious insinua.
tlons against Mcdowell until he believed
the debate was largely directed against
him and the part be played 10 the battle.
Mr.. Mcdonald was as much to blame for
not knowing the date of the battle as
Mcdowell was, and he read from the
cross examination to show that Mcdowell
had made a most generous admission
regarding Porter
Mr.. Mcdonald still maintained that
| IN do
| tice
Mr.. Logan took the floor after Mr..
Mcdonald had flushed, and after rehears
ing his former points and fortifying them.
said that Porter's friends virtually gave
up his case by making false charges.
Mr.. Randolph asked if Mr.. Logan
would deny that Generals Terry. Scho-
field and Getty were equals of any other
three generals IN the army in honesty and
| competency, and whether they didn't de-
| clare that Longstreet was in front of Por-
ter.
Mr.. Logan said that no honest man
except be were deceived, could report as
that board did, that $4,000 men were in
front of Porter. They made report not
based on facts. OF course they were
honorable men, but no more than Lin
coin or the niue men who convicted Por-
ter.
Mr.. Garland here introduced a resolu-
ton referring TO the committee on judici
ary for report by bill or otherwise this
Porter question. which involved SO many
intricate points of jurisdiction aud power
of courts.
Mr.. Randolph hoped it would be con
tinued without reference.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, March IO-The Senate
Exodus Committee examined Geo, L.
Ruby. colored. editor of the New Orleans
Observer, who said the exodus originated
among plantation laborers, and was the re-
suit of the persecution of the political mob
of 1915. The idea spread rapidly
through the state, particularly in the cot
ton belt. where the outrages had been most
frequent. The outrages in Louisiana in
1878 caused the New Orleans convention
to consider means of going out of the hell
10 which they lived There was in New
Orleans q large and increasing class of
white Democrats who depiored the PRES
ent condition of affairs, but these men are
merchants and capitalists, naturally timid
and exert no Influence over the political
leaders, who are rabid minority who con-
troll the party. Nearly 5000 negroes had
gone from Louisiana to Kansas, and the
discomfort increasing.
The House Com mittee ou Indian Affairs
agreed to-day to report iavorably to the
House Representative Pounds bill author
izing the Secretary of War TO set aside any
vacant posts or barracks not required for
military occupaticn for use in the estab-
lisbment of normal and industrial schools
for Indian youths from the nomadic tribes
having educational treaty claims upon the
United States The chairman Mr.. Scales
called attention of the committee to the
reported starving condition of certain
U,es in New Mexico and was instructed to
prepare bill authorizing the Secretary OF
the Interior to issue rations to them.
Two delegations appeared before the
senate committee on commerce to- day on
presented arguments for and against the
enactment of legislation to authorize the
construction of a railroad bridge across
the Detroit river at Detroit,
The senate confirmed John A. Chestnut
| Supervisor of the census for the Sixth
district of Illinois, and rejected VIM. r.
| Brown, Tor census supervisor OF the
Eighth district of Illinois, by party vote,
on the ground that at least one of the
eight Illinois supervisors should be aDem-
ocrat.
Monroe Salisbury, Star route COM
tractor, submitted to the house commit
| tee to-day. schedule of money paid and
expended in the services. and admitted
shat on some fast routes he derived more
| from passengers, etc. than from con-
tracts, aud if the subsidies were cut off
| he would continue for the sake of the traf-
| fc
Bills were placed on the house calendar
appropriatiDg 100000 for the relief of
the poor Of Ireland. to restrict Chinese
emigration. and to prevent the removal OF
Indians from states into the Indian terri-
| tory.
Ii is understood that the immediate
deficiency appropriation bill which includes
an appropriation OF 100000 for the gov
eminent printing Office will be called up 10
the house to. morrow aud its consideration
pressed to the exclusion of all other busi
| ness.
The senate committee to-day heard a
delegation of Greek Iodians 10 advocacy of
an appropriation of $l,S00.000 for their
| losses through the rebellion.
Mr. Young of Ohio said that yesterday
Mr.. House, Of Tennessee, had insinust-
ed a charge of fraud against General
Noyes. the present minister to France
by reading the testimoy of McLiun before
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