Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE,

hAodlNt1ON, L. ~, may I--hCoU1tOI
Edmonds, from the committee
on Judiciary, made an oral
report upon the message OF the
President, touching upon the so-eall
ed cow boy disturbances in Arazona,
and suggesting certain enabling le>
gislation regarding the use of the
army as a posse cometatus. He
said he had been instructed TO say
that in the opinien of the committee,
there was no necessity for further
legislation upon the subject, and
the President has ample power to
put down the lawlessness referred
to, under existing laws.
A bill to repeal discrimination
against the appointment Of ex-Con-
federates in the army of the United
States of America came up on the
calendar, and division upon the
pending question to refer it to the
committee on the judiciary, resulted
in yeas 21, nays 10. The yeas and
nays were ordered, and Senator Call
took the floor. He antagonized the
position of Senator Edmunds in tue
debate. He said that the gentleman
had declared that he wanted to see a
perpetual monument on the statute
book to work a distinction between
the right and wrong sides of the re-
bellion. He (CalD would erect a
monument for The purpose of putt
ting to shame people whose conse-
| crations and convictions led them
into strife. He wanted no monument
of Legislative prescription, only a
monument which war should per>
petuate was one of union and frater~
ity.
Senator George spoke of the good
effects of unanimous vote to pass
the bill and said he regretted that
the opposite side seemed indisposed
to allow this. He referred to the
unquesSioned supremacy of the
national authority throughout the
country and to the readiness to
which its behests were complied
with in the South. He said the
members of the military company
which recommended the bill were
nearly all able, gallant and trusted
Headers in the two conterding armies
and that it would be unusual for
the Senate to ignore a recommended
ton of that committee
to whose judgment i
it was accustomed TO defer in such
matters. TheRentlemen from the
North who wanted monuments had
them now in constitutional amend
ments, while the law now proposed
to be obliterated was one which,
while breathing distrust and ven
geance. imposed penalty on the
vanquished, with no compensating
advantage to the victor. 1t branded
with an ineffacable stain the honor
and faith of ten millions of American
citizens. The statute, too, was a source
of irritation to the South, not be-
cause of any number of persons ii
excluded from the army, bnt because
of the lmputation upon their honor
in impliedly assuming that Southern
erners cannot be trusted to defend
the country. The bill went over al
action upon the close of Senator
Georges remarks.
| The Senate then took up, as un
finished business, Senate bill tt
establish court of appeals in com
mitaee of the whole and Senator
Davis, of Illinois, explained the bill
Upon the close of Senator Davis
remark the Senate indicated dis
= position to pass the bill without fur
ther discussion, and Senator Hoa
- made discussion to this effect.
e Senator Morgan said he had beel
e unable, owing to some confusion, t,
8 hear the entire statement JUST made
u and desired to review it in the Rec
e ord before the bill was disposed Of
S The bill was then informally lait
6 aside, and Senator Saunders wa
$ granted the floor to speak upon hi
9 JOINT resolution proposing a civi
n ssrv.ce ref fJrn az endmelt to tn
e constitution providing for the cleo
e ton by the people of a larg
}, number of local federal officer
i now appointed by the President.
: At the conclusion of Senator Saur
d ders speech the bill was referred t
. the judiciary committee.
n After an executive session th
a Senate adjourned.
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