The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-23
SHERIDAN'S SAY.
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Rep.-"Have you distributed any none.
to Ireland during your disguised sojouri
il; there?"
! Sheridan-"I have. When Foreste
: charged l was engaged in fomenting disor
D der, | was occupied in bringing succor t.
men, women and children, whom he LET
without home or morsel to eat. One cast
is noteworthy. Finding myself in a pow
erty-stricken district in Munster, l dis
, covered fourteen evicted families forced tC
seek shelter on Christmas day under fence
in Valentia, island, on the west coast OF
: Kerry. There O tender babe and aged
, grandsire had to look for the manifestations
fthose tidings of great joy, which Chris.
tian men are wont to associate with that
of the holy season. The telegraph wires
flashed the words of cheer to the Rev. Pas.
tor, district AZ" that the next post took
him some relief for the victims of Forster
law. You will please note this as sample
OF the outrages committed by man in
disguise ola priest"
Rep.-Have you witnessed any eviction
scenes in Ireland"
Sheridan-"Ies many. During my con-
nection with the land league, visited the
| scenes of some OF those evictions and gath
cred carloads of women and children from
under fences in the depth of winter. On
one occasion have seen a fever-stricken
patient carried on a pallet from his poor
cabin and placed on a dung-heap, which
was covered at the time with q foot
Of snow. While the sheriff was going
through the legal form of taking possession,
the poor man expired, with snow-iiakes
falling on his face"
GDr. Nulty, whom Sheridan mentions
above as bishop of Meath, and in a pas
tOral to his priests used this
language: "Seven hundred hui
man beings were driven from
their homes in one day and set adrift in the
world to crafty the caprice of one, who be-
fore God and man, probably deserved less
| consideration than the last and least of
them. and we remember well that there
was not single sh ling of rent due on the
estate at the time except by one man, aud
the character and acts OF that man made it
perfectly clear that the agent and himself
quite understood each otheI The crow
bar brigade fled with terror from
two dwellings. They had learned
that typhus fever held those houses in its
grasp, and duplicated the agent to spare
them. The agent was MEMORABLE and or
dered a large winnowing sheet secured over
the beds in which the fever victims lay,
and directed the houses unroofed eau.
tiousy and slowly, because he said he very
much d,sliked the bother and discomfort
| OF coroner's inquest. | administered the
last sacrment of the church to four of these
fever victims the next day, and save the
above mentioned winnowing sheet, there
was not then roof nearer me than the
canopy of heaven."l
Forty-Seventh Congressional Session
SENATE.
al. III
after the reading of the journal the senate
went into executive session and confirmed
the nomination Of Algernon s. Rodgers as
collector OF customs at New Orleans.
mcfarland called up the resolution offered
by him yesterday, for the appointment OF a
special committee to examine and report
upon methods of improving the navigation
of the Mississippi river below Cairo.
Adopted.
The senate then proceeded to consider
the naval appropriation bill.
The provision that no part of the money
appropriated for the general care, increase
and protection of the navy in line of con-
struction, repair, etc, shall be applied to
repairs of any wooden ship, when the esti.
mated cost of such repairs shall exceed %
per cent. of the estimated cost of q new
ship OF the same size and like material,
gave rise to long debate.
The provision was amended so as to fix
| the limit at 20 per cent. OF the cost of net
vessel, and agreed to. =
When the paragraph appropriating
81 ,OOO,OW for the completion of iron clads,
| IN accordance vita the recommendation OF
| the naval advisory board, was reached, Mr.
Mcpherson reviewed the history of IRON
clads. and argued that no appropriation
| should be made at present for the compile
| ton OF any OF them, but that even ifmoney
were appropriated for Others, the Puritan,
| especially, ought to be excepted from the
appropriation, because several boards
composed of some OF the best officers In the
navy, had pronounced her an entire failure
| Mr.. Hale favored completing the work
under the permssory contracts entered into
by Hon. q. M. Robson, as secretary of the
navy. These old contracts were dead, and
nobody was seeking to renew or revive
them, and the whole question of finishing
these vessels was In the hands of congress
| We had great need OF such vessels as they
designate to be, for harbor defense
Mr.. Voorhees, said that Mr. Hale's re
marks might he impressive il addressed tC
those who knew nothing of the history o.
these vessels for the past eight years
Eight years ago, under the administration
of General Grant, these five iron clad.
were ordered ito be rebuilt, and how
many of them were on the water
Not one. Though the government
had several navy-yards, these ironclad.
had been ordered into the hands of private
contractors, and kept through ali these
years, as a means of paying political debt.
and buying political assessments. VIII,
else had they been left so long unfinished
Mr.. Plumb said that one reason was that
for six years past congress had not appro
priated anything to continue work upor
them.
Mr.. Voorhees, thought the. senator wal
mistaken. He understood that $500 on
had been spent in rebuilding these vessels
which cost about $6U0,000, and there wa.
not u senator ON the floor who could max,
IN estimate as to what amount would b,
required to complete them. This Who'll,
crime, and it should be ended by ordering
the secretary OF the navy TO take the vessel.
out of tho hands at the John Roachs anC
other private contractors, and have then
completed in government navy yards.
Mr. Bayard said 1t was business cues
ton whether IL be wise to vote 81, 900 600 L
place engines and machinery in these fou
doublc.turreted iron.clads. In 1877 the con
struclion of those vessels under contracts
made by the preceding secretary of III,
navy, had been suspended by Sccretar,
Thompson, and the cloud of suspicion thei
cast upon the work had never since beer
fully removed. Though IL hs'
been attacked uniuslly, he thoucl /
board had examined the question fully an;
, had rannricd In fnvor nj rom nlatiny ga