The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-25
Warrington.
the MONITOR AND TIE MERRIMAc IN THE
SENATE To-DAY--A HISTORIC DISCUSSION
PERSONAL NEWS TTEvS-BRIEFs.
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tiny MONITOR AND TIE MERRIMAc IN THE
erx.TF To-DAY--A HISTORIC DISCUSSION
PERSONAL NEWS rrEvS-BREFs.
lFrom our Regular Corrcspondcnt.l
WASHINGTON, May 2i.-The Senate to-
day considered the bin appropriating
$4,000 to pay Admiral Worden and Of
6cer. and crew OF the Monitor for the de-
.,ruction of the Merrimac. Messrs. Bay
ord. Mcpherson, Cameron Of PennSylya-
~, and Miller Of California, advocated
q and MessrS. Logan, MaXey, and Vest
onnosed it. General Logan contended that
The Merrimac was not destroyed by the
Monitor. a. claimed, and that even If il had
hon he was opposed to prize-money, which
,r,s the ycstige of the age Of privateering.
rIo further argued that the crew OF q naval
yes.el i. no more entitled TO what it cap
,rres than an army is to the property 1t
take. from the enemy. Senator Cameron
wanted 10 know il there was not a differ
once between men fighting on water and
confined to twenty or thirty feet and those
IN land. having hundreds Of acres 10 get
away on. lLaughter.l General Logan
here remarked that, without Boosting. he
had seen men fighting on land over q
lrea,twork with bayonets and at closer
quarters than described by the senator
from Pennsylvania. Senator Vest said he
was in Richmond at the time OF the fight
between the Merrimac and Monitor, and
know that il was notorious, and so stated
by an the papersoi that city, that the Mer-
rinac not only received no material dam
noe from the Monitor, but that Subsc-
oucntlv she went ont time and again and
offered fight to the Monitor without
being accommodated. II, however, the
men who destroyed the COniederacy were
10 be rewarded, he thought that those who
fought at Donaldson and Gettysburg ought
70 De given the entire value OF the COniede-
racy. for they gave the death-blows that
ended 10, life. ! saw a Nirgnian at the
Cspitol who WAS on the Merrimac during
the fight and until her destruction by the
Coniederates because OF the evacuation Of
Norfolk. and he said that not a shot from
the Monitor penetrated the Mcrrimac. The
lnl passed by vote OF ayes "a, noes %.
Mc,,r.. Bayrd. Mcpherson, and Brown
were The Democrats who voted for It, and
General Logan the Republican who voted
again'tit.
PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS.
Charlie. W. Klein "a kinsman OF Rus
sell Robinson). who was in Richmond
during the war, was at the Capitol to-day.
William Writ Henry, who has been to Cul-
pepper on business, was in the Congressional
library this morning. The President to-
day nominated Benjamin Munday, OF Nir-
gluia, for assistant surgeon in the army,
with the rank OF lieutenant. Judge l.. l..
Lewis and Joseph Hall are here.
Elijah J. kingman, the veteran Wash
ingion correspondent, to-day celebrated his
eigh,y-diih birthday. lie was the "lon"
Of the Baltimore Sun.
Ruius }. Woodfn has been appointed
gaugcr for the Fourth district OF Virginia.
Associated Pres reports TO tie Dispatch.l
DEATH OF GENERAL RAMSAY.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-Breyet Major
General George ID. Ramsay, United States
army retired. died last evening. lie was
horn at DumiricS Va, i'm February, lS02.