Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-18


as he made them.
In view of these facts we can only furnish
to our readers the speeches of Col. Taylor,
as he made them at the time, with additions
of such matters as he then stated to the au-
dience he would add in printing, with such
additional matter as is pertinent to the
discussion, with brief synopsis of Gen.
Warmers speeches.
SYNOPSIS OF GEN. WARMERS
FIRST SPEECH.
Gen. Warner said, in opening, that moth
ing but public cause would justify the in
trusion Of personal animosities; that he had
been astonished to read in the Congressional
Record, of Aug. i, what purported to be a
speech delivered in the House of Represen-
tatives on the 5th of July; that he well
knew no such speech would have been de-
livered in his presence, or in the presence Of
the members of the committee Of which he
had the honor to be chairman; that he could
not afford to occupy his time in going
around through the district to deny these
charges, consequently he had come here to
discuss this question, and leave the people to
Judge which was right. He then read from
Mr.. Taylor's speech the statement that when
Hewiits Mexican Pension bill was before
the House, he Mr.. Taylor had gone to Mr..
Hewitt and tried to make some arrangement
by which Mr.. Hewitt and his friends would
permit the bill to be amended TO become a
law, and he read a letter from Mr.. Hewitt,
fho fao l,Sfa hnf
ing Mr.. Taylor must have known that no
amendments could then be made. The mo-
tion Cnder consideration was to fix day for
considering the bill. Mr.. Taylor tried to
make us believe that he was contemplating
the same amendments included in the Senate
amendments to the Mexican Pension bill
On what authority does he say the Republi-
cans would have done it? Simply on his
own. We did not know in the House that
Mr.. Taylor was leader, but We know it
now, for he told us himself.
Mr.. Tay lor says he had hoped to secure
some amendments to the pension appropria-
tion BILL but was dissuaded from making the
attempt by the statement made to the House
that the Committee on Payment of Pensions
Bounty and Back Pay would shortly report
carefully prepared bill which would cor
ret existing defects in the laws. Was this
true or not? 1t was not The Record does
not show that Mr.. Taylor ever attempted to
make any amendments to that bill, or ever
proposed any. The Pension appropriation
bill came up on the 11th. Mr.. Rogers, my
colleague on the committee, yielded few
minutes time to him, / suppose five or six
minutes, and printed his first pension speech,
speech probably two hours long. He OBJ
tanned the right to print, and did print Any
body could have replied If they had chosen,
but nobody listened, and nobody, am sure,
read it after it was printed. 1t was under
stood that it was made for buncombe, and
not to affect legislation.
Mr.. Taylor complains that no reports
we're made upon bills introduced by him
and others from my committee. Was that
true? Had you turning to Col. Taylor)
seen the bill reported by Mr.. Matson? 1t
was sent to your room, as it was to all other
members Why, asks Col. Taylor, have all
the bills in the interest of the soldiers been
suppressed? 1t is true that bills were intro
duced in the House by the cart-load-7.Q00
snd more. They came to my committee by
the basket full. 1t is true Mr.. Taylor intro
duced bills, but did he do anything more,
except to print speeches on them? Our COM
mittee examined some of these bills, and we
found it would take more money to pay the
cost of the bills of Mr.. Taylor and a fw
others than there was in the public treasu
ries of the world.
Why had not Mr.. Taylor introduced bills
in the last Congress asking for hundreds of
millions of dollars? Who has had control
of the Legisla ure since the war? Again,
Mr.. Taylor says: 'The last thing my col
league, Gen. Warner, did before starting to
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against this Mexican Pension bill" Was
that true? 1t was not true. / made a
speech against the fourteen day Mexican
amendment. (He quoted from Mr.. Taylor's
specify Oh, it takes courage, does it, to
say such things of one when he is absent
That may be, but it is the same kind of cour
age the guerrilla manifests when from some
safe ambush he hurls his poisoned shaft at
an enemy and strikes him unawares, and
then, with scalp in hand, boasts of his cour-
age in the war-dance. To write out what
you know was not true, and put it in the
Record three weeks after Congress adjourned!
Oh, it took courage, did it, to do thatp
did have the courage to stand in the
House and vote against bills did not con-
slider right, and l dared to vote my convic-
tions. Now, sir, did you utter word which
l have read? No, sir, you did not. While
you were reporting bills you never wrote,
and printing speeches you never delivered, l
and my committee were at work on the pen
sion question, with the Commissioner of
| Pensions before us. l say l spent hours
while you spent minutes on that question.
Gen. Warner went on to say that 40 gen.
tleman would have done as Col. Taylor had
done; that it was an abuse of the privileges
of the House that such speech should
have been made and sent out at the Govern
ment expense, &c.
Taylor's Reply-First Speech of Col. j.
ID. Taylor in Reply to Gen. Warmers
Accusation in the Joint Discussion
at Cambridge, Ohio, Wednesday,
August 27th, 1884.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN-I
| appreciate more than words can utter, the
warm greeting which you give me here to-
| day. Doubtless you were surprised when
you read in your county paper that the gen.
tleman from Marietta, of whom you know
probably very little, was coming here to-day,
| to a town where l have lived twenty-four
years, to county in which have lived from
| childhood, and to a district in which was
| born, to tell you, who have known me during
| all these years, that / had been guilty oi
some great crime; that was to be exposed
here by him; that if had any character
heretofore / should have none hereafter
Oh, listen, my friends, and when l am
through, and am sorry that have such a
little time, but when l am through 1 will
submit to this vast audience, to my Demo.
cratic neighbors as well as my Republican
neighbors, whether, in his own language
General Warner is right or l am right.
propose to speak in no partisan sense, fol
this is no partisan discussion. My Demo
cratic friends know that no Democrat from
this district has written me letter since
was elected to Congress to which he die
not get prompt and proper reply. NJ
errand was asked Of me, no request wa