Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-18
Important Memoranda !
POINTS WORTHY CONSIDERATION

The joint debate published in part here
with was the result of a challenge mad;
by Gen. Warner, which was inmedi
ately accepted. The rules of the debate
were agreed upon by the two committees o
Guernsey county; the time was equally
divided, and Gen. Warner was given twenty
minutes in which to close. which was to bt
[ used only for purposes Of reply. After the
! discussion the Republican committee pro-
posed that the debate be published by the
two committees jointly, as taken by the two
stenographers present. This the Demo.
cratic committee declined. The Guernsey
! Times had made an arrangement with the
/ reporter who took down Gen. Warmers
speeches for copy of the same, but this
too, was prevented.
Gen. Warner decided to publish and dis,
tribute his own speeches, and compelled
Col. Taylor to do the same. And in view
of the statements spread broadcast over this
district in Gen. Warmers supplement, which
purports to contain his speeches, we wish to
call attention to the following explanations
and statements, which we number so as to
make them easy of reference if any of them
are called in question:
l. Gen. Warner boasts that Gen. Tom
Browne, E. 3. Taylor, and others voted with
him Against the Mexican Pension Bill when
it passed the House, but he fails to say that
every one of these men voted for the Mexi-
can Pension Bill when it came back to the
House with the Senate amendments.
2. The statement as to promises made by
Gen. Warner and his committee, which
Gen. Warner read from Col. Taylor's re-
marks on the Mexican Pension Bill, and
denied, will be found stated elsewhere in
this paper, in the remarks made by Gen.
Browne.
8. Gen. Warner SAYS that bills came to
his committee "by the basket full" The
only bills referred to his committee were the
sixty eight Col. Taylor had in his hand at
the debate. This list was taken from the
docket of Gen. Warmers committee. Not
one of which was approved by the commit
tee or reported back with favorable recon-
mendation.
4. Mr.. Milliken, of Maine, introduced a
bill, that was referred to Warmers COM
mittee, giving to every officer and enlisted
man l60 acres of land, but this bill was
ignored by Gen. Warner, who had in the
46th Congress introduced a bill to give
private soldiers so acres and Brigadiers 420
acres, etc.
5. He complains because Colonel Taylor
did not go TO his committee, while he ad-
mits that he was advised of the fact that
Commissioner Dudley, the Commander OF
the Grand Army of the Republic, and vari-
Gus delegations and committees, had been
before his committee, urging the passage of
the bills that Colonel Taylor introduced and
various otlfer bills. Colonel Taylor had dis
covered that If was useless TO go to his COM
mittee. 1t had proved itself "the graveyard"
of all these bills.
6. He complains that the soldiers were
paid in greenbacks instead of gold. His
committee was petitioned by vast numbers of
soldiers to pass law, paving soldiers the
difference between the value of greenbacks
and gold, at the time the soldiers were paid,
and yet no such bill was reported by General
Warner or his committee.
7. He says that Colonel Taylor sent his
remarks of July 5th, published in the Record
of August lst, throughout his district This
is not true. He never sent out twenty copies
until General Warner assailed it. He never
had it printed in pamphlet form. The news
papers have since been publishing It because
General Warner had attacked it, and brought
it into prominence. A copy of this speech
will be found in this paper.
s. To show how utterly reckless General
Warner is in his statements, we would call
attention to his statement that Colonel Tay-
lor. in delivering his pension speech, only
spoke five or six minutes and printed a
speech of two hours length. He occupied
thirty-five minutes, as the Record shows, in
speaking in the House, and his printed speech
covers less than twenty pages, and at three
minutes 70 the page it would not be one hour
in length. Here as elsewhere. General War
ner made no attempt to furnish the proof,
when the Records were before him.
9. He says, over and over again, that
Colonel Taylor put his speech in the Record
three weeks after Congress adjourned, when
the letter of the Public Printer, read by Col
onel Taylor, showed that this was not true
that he 1.-THE printer) was responsible for the
delay OF the publication, and not Taylor.
10. He says Colonel Taylor 'nade
speeches and he made laws" and yet he
failed to show that he made a single change
in any lar. HE made laws! The fly on
the stage coach made the dust. The only Lazy
that he pretends to have helped make, as
coming from his committees is section in the
Pension appropriation bill, changing the at
torney fees of pension agents, and the truth
is that instead of trying to have this section
become a law, he tried to have it stricken
out. This provision was made By the COM
mittee on appropriations, and General War
ner was indignant because the committee on
appropriations, at a late hour, came forward
and did something that his committee ought
to have done months before. 1t was just
rebuke and it passed the House. On page
BIAS OF the Record, it will be seen that Cen
eral Warner opposed the passage of the very
provision that he now claims to have been
the author of. Shame on such pretensions!
II. The bill reported from his committee
by Mr.. Greenleaf, May 9TH, is dwelt upon by
him. This is a good bill, but Gen. Warner
opposed every line of it, and refused to puta
single provision of it in his bill. This bill OF
May 9TH was not reported to the House for
passage; it went to its sleeping place on the
calendar, behind 40 other bills. 1t was not
intended to be passed. If it zvGS, 7vhy 7vas
it not embraced in the bill General Warner
intyOdEceda This zvaS tie proper place for
ii. If ii 7vas intended to become a Ian, zvky
did not General WarRer PHt ii on its pas
sage on SUSPENSION day as he did ms 0IVn
6iXf There was no effort made by General
Warner to pass the bill that came from his
committee May 9TH. 1t was an empty pre-
tense. 1t was only introduced in the House
after the storm of indignation and protest
had come from the soldiers and others, over
the provisions of the Warner bill, and the at
tention OF the country had been called to the
failure of the committee on pensions, bounty
and back pay to formulate any Legislation
for the relief of soldiers and their depend
ents; a failure for which General Warner, its
chairman, was responsible.
H. No fact is better established, or better
understood at Washington, than the fact that
the bill which General Warner introduced
in the House, and which passed the House,
contained all tile provisions that he zvoRld
aPPYoUe; that his committee, in part atleast,
wanted to go farther, but was met with his
unqualified opposition. The other bill was
permitted to go on the calendar, but was not
permitted to be placed on its passage.
(The calendar is simply list of bills intro
duced, which must be taken up in the order
in which they are placed on the calendar. A
hundred and twenty bills had priority to
this, on the calendar.) In proof of this, at
tention is called to his remarks, on
page 343s of the Record, in which he
states fully the object of his bill, and shows
that it was meant to take the place of the
other bills referred to his committee, and to