The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-02
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-
HOUSE..

OF employees Of the House. excan+
: for cause, during the vacation 6s
, Congress. Referred. u
The conference asked by the So,
, ate on the Greeley relief bin was
agreed to, and Randall and Calkins
were appointed con'erees.
The Speaker appointed Ellis. Hol
man snd Ryan C n>e'ees en- the part
of the House on the bill appropriat,
ing $50. 600 for the support Of desti-
tute Indians in Montana.
J The morning hour was dispensed
with, and the House went into com.
mIttee of the whole, Springer in the
chair, on the Fi'Z John Porter bin
WaIford spoke in support of toe
bill criticising Horr's speech. He
said the gentleman from Michigan
assumed that the ex-Confederate
were interested in this case, and had
argued that selirespect SHOULD pre-.
vent them taking part IN the de-
Date. The gentleman would have
more respect for eX .COnfederatesi If
he, like himself. had been in front
He had thought the ex. Confeder.
stes were here as members o. the
American Congr, IS, with the right
and duty to vote on every question.
He hoped no man who had served
in the Confederate army had got so
mad over the fight, that after
twenty years he could not do
an act of justice to e
man who fought against him. He
hoped no man would get up and
say, 81 can't vote on this bill. |
am interested. l am still mad"
Milliken inquired whether he was
to understand that the gentleman
asked the members to vote for the
relief OF Porter as an act of coneili-
alton to his Confederate friends? If
asked on that ground, he would vote
for the relief.
Wslford replied that he asked 1t
on the highest grounds ever pre-
sented. He demanded 1t as an act
OF justice to a long-injurtd man.
applause on the Democratic side.)
Walford proceeded to review the
case, and was fir, quently spplauded
by the members who collected
around him ia the centre aisle, but
his remarks at times were so low as
to be inaudible.
Calkins began an argument in
opposition to the bill by the state
ment that he knew there vas no
doubt about its passage. The book
was to be opened where the page
was turned down twenty years ago,
but those who opposed that action
would not adopt those means which
they believed General Porter used
on the 9th and Goth of August, and
refuse to fire shot at the enemy;
but on the contrary, would adopt
| the more gallant coDducs OF the
brave soldiers and marines on board
the Cumberland when she was
swept fore and aft and was sinking:
They fired their guns at the enemy,
manned the yardarms and gave three
cheers for the country. Applause
on the Republican side.) This mea-
sure might be called vindicstion,
but he denied 1t. More than 4.O0O,-
0l0 voters of the country would
deny II. Speaking of Or ants letter.
he said he knew Grant well; had
received bis early military expert
ence under that leader; he hOnOred
and loved Grant as q brave soldier,
but when that soldier came out in
favor of this bill he could only say
that none of his officers ever dared
to diS0bey like order of his. Gap
plause on the Republican side.)
The members were asked by this
bill to say, in the language of the
gentleman from New York, that
Abraham LincolR, Edwin NJ.
Stanton and General Hancock
conspired together to organizs
q court to convict Fitz John Porter,
and q gentleman undertook to at
tack the name OF William T. Sher-
man to help him cut. If these
scenes were to be re-enacted there
might come time when the bugie
blast of the Grant Army Of the Re
public by the side of their camp
fires would ask General Sher>
man to come out of his retirement
and lead them again to victory, IS
he did before. Applause On the
Republican side.) The House was
asked TO write where James A.
Garfield, twenty two years agc,
wro'e "guilty," the words "not
guilty." 10 march TO the sacred ousG
of Abraham Lincoln, and where ne
wrote ''spproved," write the Woro
s'rev. rsed." The House might Wrlle
these words, if il desired, but the
people would reverse its writing ana
spit upon it and spurn it. (Applause
on the Republican side.)
Phelps spoke in favor Of the bll
and remarked as to Gen. Gar6eld'S
co. necrion with the matter that ne
would read the JOINT resolution IL
troduced by him for the appoint.
ment OF a board of review and
stated that he had private letters
from that gentleman which he could
twist into an approval of this bill, So
other gentlemen twisted private
letters into disapproyal Of 1t.
Porter had his faults, buthe was not
guilty of treason. If members for
got his wound in Mexico, let them
net forget the 30th of August, 1857,
when he got an order that was seh'
in time, when the Fifth Army CoIp
went into battle with Porter at Ine
head, when they marched INTO Inc
jauo IF 6nofh into Inc RAGtc VI