The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-09
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.

| MIG hIAhOOu q IEEOiu-
ton instructing the secretary of the
treasury to communicate to the SEN
ate a statement of the amount of
money expended by the United States
for all purposes necessarily growing
outof the late war, specifying sepsr
ately the amount paid on the prin-
cipsl of the public debt thereby
incurred; the amount OF interest paid
on such debt for each year; the
amount paid for pensions, including
arrears. and amount paid to soldiers
and sailors of the war, such informa-
ton to be bought down to January
l, 1880. Adopted.
Davis, of West Virginia, said he
would ask that the pending order be
laid aside and the appropriation bills
disposed of.
Conkling said he wished it under.
stood that he objected to laying aside
informally the Porter bill.
The latter was then considered.
Bayard advocated Randolph's
substitute authorizing Porter's re-
appointment as colonel. He
regretted that Carpenters very
able and constitutional address
had terminated with an appeal to
partisan prejudice which should Ger
taipiy not appear in case of public
Justice, due in the name of the
American government. The fact
that a republican President and his
advisers commend the matter to Con.
gress should divest this bill of par
tisanship. He denied that court
martials are equal to civil courts; the
latter can review the proceedings of /
the former and prevent unlawful |
judgments. Can it be possible that
an injustice, done in the passion of
war and amid the roar of cannon,
can never be undone when found un-
just. In 1874 Congress reversed a
court martial decision In the case of
George a. Aims, because it was found
unjust. Logan said that was
not a parallel case, the President
not having approved the finding
of the court martial. Bayard
said, that nevertheless Congress
set aside the effect of the court
martial. AS to the charge that
Porter delayed and finally retreated
on the 29tb, it has been proved that
it was no such thing. There was a
general engagement on the 29sh, as
Mcdowell swore to. Mcdowell made
a frigbtful mistake in making that
charge, for he confused that 29.h
with the 3Oth of August. He was {
misled by reading Jackson's report, I
which referred to the 30th, net the
18th, and only discovered his mistake
while testifying before the board of
review, so the whole fabric of !
McDoWells testimony, OF which !
Porter was CONVICTED, rested on a {
as to disobeGience of the
430th order. Another fact brought {
out before the board OF review was
thai Porter did not get tine dispatch
until after 6 p. m. AS to the
events of the 50th, they rebound ]
ID the glory, and not to the shame I
of Fitz John Porter. S.onewall
jackson, than whom no man was a {
better judge OF bravery, reported to
his commanding officer that the at
tacks were made with such fury aud S
gallsntry by the United States forces, a
That nothing but the fortunate rein {
forcement sent by Longstreet pre- q
vented his overthrow. Fitz John 8
Porter directed those attacks, and it {
MAS his courage and that of his men g
which came so near overwhelming il
the southern army. That which was a
for his shame will stand for 4
aver monument to his courage,
icelty and ardor. The facts cannot
Dc rubbed out or slurred over. They
will burn themselves into the con-
'elence OF the American people go s
ong as memory shall last. (Ap- n
piause } The dispatch of Nc. q
Clellan TO Porter, exhorting di
him to supper. Pope, was fo
written at the request of Lincoln, IL
Who had heard rumoEs of i'll feeling q,
.mong the officers. bat these to
7ere rumors. Porter's response TO re
lcClellan was as follows: "
FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, 10 am. pr
Sept. End, 1862. 20
You may rest assured, all your Ie
lends, as well as every lower Of his
9untry, will ever give, as they have
wen. to General Pope their cordial
'-operation and constant support in n,
e execution of all orders and plans. =,
ar Killed, wounded and enfeebled in,
OPS, attested our devoted duty. at at
(Slgned.) F. ]. PORTER, ~
Major General.
It's said We will hear from the conn., an
II we pass this bill. He hoped so: At
1t be wanted the country TO hear AM
om him first, He was, not waiting wa
the echo of popular approval oT mi
He would be an un-
orthy representative of an intel
.ent people If he did not care to
te on his own conviction Of right. {
gan remarked that the board of in exc
Try could be called only on the re- vail
est OF an accused officer, Ba7ard Ra,
ID that this was the case only when mil
BY were called by a commanding ass;
lcer. The statute provides that the are
might call it at any time. yer
gan held that such a board could star
inquire into the conduct of man the
" a citizen. Bsyard claimed IT trar
llu investigate what q man did
ieE soldier. Logan then charged
It the supporters of the bill were
bling the testimony. He gould G
sit still and allow Inisrepresenta- the
ms to be made, and proceeded to XIV
AK at some length, making the accC
owing points: That McDoWelPs Bro
stake about Jackson's referring to dian
18th instead of the SOlh, was No
de in letter long after the conrt. ity
rtial, Jsckson's report not having volc
n made at the time of the court:
t all the evidence shows there was
attic on the 29th, and Porter did RI
the 43Oth order, and afterwards refut
cred Morell to attack in accord over
e with 1t; that the dispatches read 10. !
6syard show that Porter was going thin