Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-23
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WASHINGTON, April 22.-The letter Of
Fitz John Porter to President Arthur is
as follows:
THE President, Washington, D.. c.
Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
through the Secretary Of War, under date
Of the 18th inst, your decision upon my
application of Dec. %, 1881, to annul and
set aside the findings of the c~ourt-martial
in my case, and to nominate me to the
Senate for restoration to my former rank
in the army. l may have misunderstood
the extent of the constitutional powers of
the President when l asked you to do
directly, with the aid Of the Senate, that
which a board of distinguished army Off
GERS had, in the interest of justice, recon-
mended should be done, but which you,
concurring in the opinion of the Attorney
General, inform me you have no power to
perform, and that special legislation by
Congress is needed to complete the justice
asked for. My application was based upon
a Recommendation of the Advisory Board
appointed by the President to examine
into the facts and report what action in
their opinion justice required to be taken
by the President. The Board found and
reported, after a long and patient exami-
nation and consideration of all the facts in
the case, that my conduct, in all the events
Of August, 1862, inquired into by the
court-martial by which l was tried, was, in
the light of full evidence which was
then laid before the court, and also
that which was unattainable after
H. ..z - ~ ,,1 D rl,1a4
to criticism, much less deserving of CEN
sure and condemnation, and that l was an
| obedient, subordinate, faithful and judi
| cious officer. 1t saved the Union Army
from disaster on the goth of August, and
| the Advisory Board recommended that, in
their opinion, the justice required at his
(the President's) hands such action as may
be necessary to annul and set aside the
findings and sentence Of the court-martial
in the case Of Major General Fitz-John
Porter, and to restore him to the position
OF which that sentence deprived him, such
restoration to take place from the date of
his dismissal from the service. Relying,
also, upon the clear and emphatic Ian
guage of said Board, that all essential
facts in every instance stand out in clear
and absolute contrast to those supposed
facts upon which he a. was adjudged
guilty, and that it is not possible that any
court-martial should have condemned such
conduct if it had been correctly under.
stood. And believing that I am entitled
to the complete and just vindication
recommended by the Board, and that the
sentence of the court-martial, subsequently
proven by overwhelming and irrefragible
testimony, to have been fearfully errone-
Gus in its basis of assumed facts, and
utterly destructive of the happiness and well
fare of an officer who has never failed
in the ~strictest and most honorable fidelity
to his government, should not be a barrier
to the relief to which I consider myself en-
titled. I again renew to you, as Chief
Magistrate, my appeal for justice. Con-
scious Of my absolute and entire innocence,
/ have not ceased from the hour Of pro-
mitigation of the sentence of the Court
martial persistently to protest against the
terrible injustice done me, and have striven
in every proper mode to secure my vindi-
cation, all of which the public records
now before you will establish. now re-
spectfully and most earnestly ask you to
grant the remission of that portion of the
sentence of the Court-martial which re-
mains unexecuted, and to carry into effect
the recommendation of the Advisory
Board, so far as the same lies within your
constitutional power, and to transmit the
result of your action, together with the
findings Of the Board to Congress, coupled
with such recommendation in the Prem
Uses as you may deem just and proper.
Very respectfully yours,
Fritz JOHN PORTER.
Mr.. Cassidy on the naturalization
of Chinese.
WASHINGTON, April 20. - The Pacific
Coast Senators intend to call up the Chi
nese bill on Tuesday. They are not salts
fed with the amendments proposed by
the Senate Committee. The Committee
has recommended that two features of the
House bill be stricken out. First, the
provision which excludes skilled labor
second, that section which prohibits the
naturalization Of Chinese. Mr.. Cassidy,
this morning, said Pages bill, as it
passed, was not entirely satisfactory
TO the people Of the Pacific Coast. Mr..
Cassidy said: We will never consent to
the naturalization of any Chinaman whose
vote can be controlled by the Six Com
panies. The friends OF the bill will, il
the Committee insists on its amendments,
endeavor to have these sections incor-
porated in the bill and pass il just as il
comes from the House. I am confident
we shall have strength enough to do that.
A Message 70 Congress.
New YORK. April 22.--The Posts Wash.
ington special says it is somewhat expect
ed that the President will send q message
to Congress, recommending that the law
be amended so that a posse comitatus can
be used in the Territories in the enforce
ment of order by the local authorities
when powerless. The message, it is be-
lieved, will have special reference to the
punishment of cowboys in Arizona. The
Democrats, of course, since the fight is
over the Army bill, will decline to consent
to the use Of the army as a posse comitatus