The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-30
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

| WASHINGTON. Jan. B.-Th(
Sneaker laid before tho House thu
credentials of F. w. Rockwell, mem.
her elect from the Twelfth District ol
Massachusetts,. He took the oath 0l
Office.
Hatch (Mo.) from Committee on
Agriculture. reported bill for the
establishment of q bureau of Animal
Industry, to prevent the ex- ortation
of diseased cattle, which provides for
the suppression and extirpation of
plur0-pnum0nia and other contagi-
GUS diseases of domestic animals.
The House went into Committee
of the Whole Springer In the chair,
on the Fitz John Porter bill.
In committee of the whole Thomas
of Illinois delivered . very good
speech in opposition to the Fits
John Porter bill, and denouncel
him and his valor. gallsptry, and
ability vigorously, and defended
Pupe's course toward Porter. He
scathlngly referred to Porter a. an
officer who had sulked In his tent.
Thomas referred to the. circnm-
stance of General Logan's being
superseded in the command Of the
army of Tennessee by q West
Pointer three days after he (Logan)
had saved the army, and SAID the
removal of Mcclellan filled the heart
of Porter with venom and hatred
toward everybody, and characterized
Mcclellan as q man taken up by
the cOpperheads and s ms of Liberty
and run for the Presidency against
Abraham Lincoln.
Fol.ttt of Ohio appealed to the
House to discuss and consider the
question from u wholly nOn.partisan
standpoint. He deprecated the Lam
guage of ThOmas's speech In de-
nouqcing the graduates Of West
Point and making tho question .
political Que.
Belford said he had the courage
and b,ldness to do what was just
without regard to any popular
prejudice Pompey, Hannibal
and Napoleon were conquered,
but Grant has never lost = battle
and Grant has fully examined the
case and said injustice has been d0ae
Porter. On the judgmen Mt of that
great soldier he Proposed t. predicate
his vote in favor OF the bill. He b..
lieved in doing justice to man. It
was the sweetest tribute to humani.
ty: He would + low Grants ju e.
meut as against that If CAPITA iDs aud
Col"nels Of militia. Lauxht@r:
Hnrr, of Michigan, characterized
~ a ''stay II home." Speaking
nj Grants letter tavoring Porter,
HOrr said: 1t has been his pleasure
10 come MS near worshipping GraQt
ns he ever did any man the cDun.
try had produced. The gentlemen
ON the other side had been vil.ifying
aud s!andering Graz t and calling
him all kinds of hard names for
y year. He had called him a butcher
and other names which the presence
of ladies in the gallary prevented
him from repeating. Laughter.
Grant was q grand old man, contin
ued Horr, but he made mistake in
this Porter case. and as long as 1t was
Dnly the one mistake of his life, he |
Horn was going to stand by him
longer than the gentlemen on the !
Dther side would. They had not
agreed with Grant for q minute ex-
cept in this one case, when Grant |
to agree with them.
Laughter
The debate on the Porter bill was !
continued at length by Gen. J. 8.
Wise In speaking, not as Confed- |
crate general, he paid the most el0'
luent tribute to the memory of the
lead soldiers. He declared this was
he most anomalous scene he ever |
in the history of any land.
For himself he accepted the issue
Horr concluded a. follows: In the
name of the good discipline of the
,rmy, in the name of the thousands
,f men whose spirits are calling upon
congress to do its duty to their men,
,ry, he protested 'againt the pass
Ige of the bill.
The committee then rose and the
House adjourned.