The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-27
FORTY-ElGHTH CONGRESS
HOUSE..

Washington, 2s. The Speaker
laid before the House the credentials
Of F. w. Rockwell, member elect
Of the Twelfth district of Massa.
chusetts, and he took the oath OF
office.
Hatch (Mo.), from the committee
on agriculture, reported :, a bill fol
the establishm ent of q bureau of
animal industry, prevent the ex.
pOrtation of diseased cattle and pro.
vide for the suppression and extir-
patton of pleuro-pneumonia and
other contagious diseases Of doines-
tic animals. Printed and recon-.
mitted.
The House went into committee
of the whole, Springer in the chair,
on the FitzJ ohm Porter bill.
In committee of the whole
Thomas Qlis) delivered a violent
speech in opposition to the Porter
bill. He reviewed the war record
of General John Pope, pronounced
him hero for his va'or, gallantry
and ability, vigorously defended
Pope's course toward Porter; scath-
ingly refer to Porter IS IAN Off
Ger who had sulked in his tent. :"
Thomas Teferfed to the circumstance
Of General Logan being superseded
in cOmmsnd of the army OF Ten.
nessee by a West Pointer, three days
after he logan had s'saved the
army" He said the removal of Me-
Clellan filed the heart of Porter
with venom and hatred toward
everybody. He characterized Me-
Clellan as imam taken up by the
copperheads and sons of liberty to
run for the Presidency against
Abraham Lincoln"
Follett, of Ohio, appealed tn the
House to discuss and consider the
question from wholly bipartisan
standpoint. He deprecated the
language and animus OF Thomas
speech in denouncing graduates of
West Point and making the guess
ton political one.
Bedford said that he had the cour-
age and boldness to do what was
just without regard to any popular
prejudice; that Pompey, lHsnnibal
and Napoleon were conquered, but
Grant never lost battle and Grant
had fully examined the case and
said injustice bad been done to Por~
ter. On the judgment of that great
soldier he proposed to predicate his
vote in favor of the bill. He believed
doing justice to man was
the sweetest attribute OF humanity
he would follow Grants Judgment
against that of captains and cClOnels
OF militia. (Laughter.)
HorI, Michigan, characterized
himself as "stay-at-hOme." Speak
ing of Grants letter favoring Porter,
Horn said it had been his pleasure
to come as near Worshiping Grant
as he ever did any man the country
had produced. The gentlemen on
the other side had been vilifying
and slandering Grant, calling him
all kinks of hard names; for year
they called him butcher and
other names which the presence
of ladies in the gallery prevented
him from repeating. daughter,
Grant, the grand old man,
continued Horn. made mistake III
this Porter case, and as long as it
was the only mistake Of his life, he,
Horr, was going to stand by him
longer than the gentleman on the
other side would. They had not
agreed with Grant for a minute, ex-
cept in this one case, when Grant
happened to agree with them.
Naughter.)
Gen. J. S. Wise, speaking not as d
Confederate general paid most
eloquent tribute to the memory of
dead soldiers, and declared: "rhis
is the most anomalous scene ever
Witnessed in the history of any land,
where the vanauished were called
upon to cast decisive weight in the
contested balance of the victors."
For himself, he accepted the issue
presented.
Horn concluded: SIN the name
Of good discipline In the army, in
the name Of the Thousands of men
whose spirits are calling Congress to
do its duty, protest against the
passage Of the bill"
The committee rose and the House
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