Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-06-28
Black Jacks Record Regarding the
Zuni Affair Touched Up in the
Course of
Debate in the House, While the Senat
frem Illinois Explains TO His
Colleagues
At the Other End of the CapitOl-The
Congressional Record and Repub-
lican Accuracy.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Routine business in Both Houses-BiIIs
and

the bill granting right OF way through
the Indian Territory 10 the Gull, Colorado
and Santa Fe railroad, were agreed to.
Mr.. Forney submitted the conference
report on the army appropriation bill.
The report announces agreement upon all
items, except upon the Senate amendment
striking out that portion of the bill which
regulates the compensation to subsidized
railways for army transportation. The
report was agreed to, and the amendment
indicated insisted upon, and coDferees
appointed.
MIR. Henry made an unsuccessful at
tempt to secure consideration OF the North
ern Pacific forfeiture bill, and the House
went in Commi tee of the Whole, MIR.
Cox \. VI in the chair, on the private
calendar
At o'clock the committee rose for the
purpose OF permitting the Honse to dis.
pose OF the Backbone" forfeiture bill.
Mr.: White [Ky.l rising to question of
privilege, sent to the clerks desk and had
read letter published this morning,
written by Representative Ellis, in 1881,
to Capt. George, in which he intimated
that there had been improper means used
to obtain the original grant. Mr.. White
thought full investigation OF the whole
matter should be made
The Chair decided that the question
was not one OF privilege.
Mr.. Ellis said the letter had been mate1i-
ally garbled TO suit the purposes of the
publisher, and at the proper time he
would expose the falsehood and malignity
OF the unwarranted innuendo directed
against BIN in the publication alluded to.
1t is, he cid, the last vindiCtive thrust of
professional blackmailer, whose disap-
pointed greed and avarice directed this
blow at one whose union tunate connection
with him originated in desire to do him
a kindne-s.
The Speaker announced the question to
be on t. e motion to table the motion to
yesterday defeated the Backbone for
feiture bill. The motion to table was
agreed to-yeas, 124; nays, 11t-so the
bill was lest.
The House then proceeded TO the con-
sideration OF private business, and the
following bills psGsed: To relieve certain
soldiers OF the late war from the charge of
dpIertion, and for the relief of Myra Clark
Gaines.
Mr.. Valentine, Using 10 question of
privilege, said some Gays ago the gentle
| man from New York (McAdoo) had taken
| occasion to print as part of his reports
very long dispatch cent from this city to
New York. 1t contained the names of
some OF our native land monopolists, say
ing the full list would fill every page OF
| the paper. In the list of names as printed
in the Rect fd to-day appea ed the name of
Senator John A. Logan IS owning $1,000
acres OF land. Senator Logan had called
his tt1ntien to this to-day, and had de-
sired him to say to the House that, so far
as it related to him, the statement was
absolutely false. Toe only land he owned
was little homestead in Illinois. The
f,.N, L., %,1r,
occasion, while he wss lauding soldiers,
| to stab one of the brightest and most gal
liant of those soldiers. Loud applause on
the Republican side.
Mr.. Cox n. Y !, in order to show, as
he expressed it, how the gentleman on the
other side attempted to strain at gnat
aud swallow menageIie, quoted from
speech printed by Brewer, OF New Jersey,
upon the tqriff, in which that gentleman
made very long extract from Blaine's
T,reHty Years in CteJress, the speech, in
fact, consisting almost wholly of the ex.
tract.
Mr.. 0'Neill Mo. suggested that the title
OF the book should be amended by adding
the words ''and tattooed at last"
Mr. McAdoo explained the cream
stances which led TO his obtaining leave
to print, and he desired to gay that lie did
not retract one word of that speech he
accepted the authors ship in it, entirety; he
did not consider fer one moment that he
had violated any rule of courtesy, any
rule of equity, or any rule of maniness, in
its publication. He had done what had
frequently been done-he had incorporat-
ed in his speech a newspaper article, with
out Comment. That article had been pub
lished last January, and had been copied
from Maine to California, and there had
not been line of contradiction from the
superb Senator or his friends in regard to
bis name in that list.
Mr.. Cannon said the Record did not
show that the gentleman from New Jersey
had obtGined leave to print, and therefore
the record on it3 face misled the House
and country.
Mr.. McAdoo, continuing, said the gen
teman from Illinois says he brought the
matter before the House because the Rec
ord had been violated. The gentleman
knew better than that. 1t wss not to pre-
serve the integrity OF the Record. 1t was
not to bring the attention OF the House to
violation OF the rules. 1t was simply
because the gentleman found the name OF
John A. Logan in the list. So far as the
question of the record was concerned, he
believed the gentleman himself had not
delivered his tariff speech
Mr.. Cannon-Nor is it printed in the
Record
Mr.. McAdoo-I said that in the Record
of April 23d he found the following: "Mr
Cannon addressed the committee. His
remarks will appear hereafter" Did the
Record lie?
Mr.. Cannon said he would reply in his
own time.
Mr.. McAdoo said if he had done as some
gentlemen did, instead of printing such a
fair thing as the newspaper article, and
giving the newspaper and date of puhlica-
ton, he might have asked the deluded
soldiers Whist they thought of the great
Senator who, in his greed to absorb terri
tory which belonged to actual settlers on
the land which was made for in6ependent MT
freeholders and small farmers, went under
the cover of his brother in-law to New
Mexico and tried to pre- -empt most of the
valuable land, and who was only stopped
by the public surveyor, who found it be-
longeG TO another class. He professed
the greatest friendship tor, and ru-
NOR even had it that he had
Indian blood in his veins. He was trying
TO steal froO his kith and kin hundreds
and thousands of acres, and was taking
them from unfortunate savages who were
unable to protect themselves, until an
honest Secretary of the Interior had di-
rected the surveyor to take back the lands
for the Zunis. Loud applause and laughter
on the Democratic side. He (McAdoo)
might have said this; but he thanked
heaven his association with party of
honest men had prevented his hurting
such an innuendo against any man. lie
left this subject with the House. He was
sneaking behind no newspaper. He would
not wrong any living man, be lie high or
low, but he had dsimply put into his speech,
without comment, a newspaper article
which had been staring the people in the
face for months.
Mr.. Hopkins had read for information
an amendment which he proposed TO offer
to the resolution, to have the Record of
June 2lst so amended rs to show that the
speech purporting to have been delivered
by Mr.. Cutcheon on the contract labor
bill, had not actually been delivered. In
that speech Mr.. Cutcheon had made an
assault on the Democratic party, and an
unfair and unjust assault against the
author of the bill.
Mr.. Henley gave notice of an amend
ment directing the official reporters to
publish in the Record the remarks OF Mr..
Cutcheon rejecting on Gen. U. 5. Grant,
made on the Fitz John Porter bill and
suppressed from the Record laughter
and applause on the Democratic side
The Record he said, had been somewhat
marred by Withholding from it se1rrilous
and yindiciive attack made on Gen.
Grant. He offered the amendment in the
interest of honesty and fair play and in
order to relieve the embarrassment ss
newspaper reporters, who, having tele-
graphed the report of this gentleman's
speech, found on examining the Record