The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-14
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS,
SENATE.

memorial from the Chamber o
i Commerce of Tacoma on Puge
Sound, against the forfeiture of tn
Cascade land grant Of the Northern
Pacific railroad.
i Mr.. Harrison, from the commit
tee on Territories, reported favor
ably and had placed on !be calenda
the bill for the admission Of Dakota
! Mr.. Plumb submitted q join
resolution, which was referred tt
the committee on agriculture, ap
propriating 1926, 900, to be made i'm
mediately available under the direc
ton OF the commissioner of agricul
ture, for the suppression Of foot anC
mouth disease among cattle in Kan
sas. Within few minutes of the
reference, Plumb, from the commit
tee,repOrted the joint resolution, and
asked its immediate consideration
Objection BEING made it went over,
Mr.. Plumb giving notice that be
would call it up tomorrow.
The bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter was taken up and Mander>
son addressed the Senate in oppo IL
ton to 1t He understood the claim
to be that, on a full Investigation,
no fault could be found with the
conduct of General Porter. He had
read General Grants paper in the
North American Review, and that,
with other reading, had aroused in
him sympathy ami interest in the
case. He felt it his duty then to
examine it thoroughly and he was
sorry to be compelled to say that,
from the examination he had given
the case, whether this be case of
judicial review or the exercise of
clemency, he felt bound to vote no
on this bill. The bill asked Cons
gress to set aside the verdict of the
court martial; to review and set
aside the decision OF one OF the high
est tribunals was q most dangerous
precedent.
Logan then addressed the Senate.
He said aftsr a trial of forty-fve
days the courtmartial dismissed
Porter from the army. The trial
now going on was not that of Porter
but of the dead on the charge that
they had distorted facts. Porter,
after all these years, had become the
prosecutor. 1t was a trial at this
late day of Abraham Lincoln. Turn
ing to the Democratic side Logan
said he hoped to be pardoned for the
but it was perfectly natural
for those who had been pardOned by
the government to feel like pardon
Ing Porter. Fitz John Porter, he
was the cause of the loss
Of the first battle of Bull Run; it,
was not that Porter could not obey
POpe's order; 1t was not shown that
ne had tried to obey it.
The road was open from
o'clock in the morning
md he did not move for five hours
after he was ordered to moye. Por-
er's friends excused him by saying |
t was dark night; the evidence
that statement. But |
uppose it was dark, that was no
eason for not moving. The
peaker himself had, in an exceed
ngly dark, rainy night, with 10000
men, crossed the Mississippi River,
marched twenty-five miles and
ought battle, and, as he believed,
ayed the field. Logan proceeded
o cite historical instances from
he battles of Alexander the Great,
Nero, Hannibal and
Napoleon, showing that darkness,
ostead of hindering, often aided in
Winning battles. The speaker then
eferyed to the causes for which q |
lumber of officers had been dig
aissed without court martial,
ONE of them for small offenses,
UGH as absence without leave. Inl
etters in the case, General Rose
rams said he regretted that he was
ot the instrument to inf3ict the
enlistment of death, but all there
7ere duly volunteer officers. The
peaker had high opinion
General Grant, but the latter was s
OF first class lawyer. Logan con-
nued, that instead Of 250, 600 troops | i
I charge of Longstreet in front of
orter, on August Goth, there were {
OF 5000 men. Porter had two
ours of daylight after the delivery G
7 Pope's order, according to the t
.atement of the time by the or 8
erly who delivered 1t. The rule of ]
ar fare was to strike the enemyI
hen you found him, not 7
, stay out because you =
AIRED you might be whipped. Logan /
armed members of the House from q
le south that their cause in this /
Use tended to delay the date when 8
le people Of the country would 8
ave confidence In their good inten. b
ons This opening Of the doors I
cant the breaking down Of the d
lrriers between loyal and disloyal q
en- and the overthrow of army T
sciplIne Southerners, he said, the Z
!ople Of the north believed had 40 :
xht to come to Congress
regulate our c0urtmar-
81 of the war reriod, orI
1t back into the army men Who'll
lied US. He dwelt upon this point t,
an injustice to soldiers, living and G.
ad, and to the memory of Abra-
m Lincoln. B
Conger expressed desire to fl
aend the bill by striking out The T
ord "the," and inserting the words G
n additional," before the words B
etired list of the army" his object T
;po ha said. Tn save from f1fsUraca II