Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-15
MORE RICHES FOR GRANT.
THE SENATE VOTES TO RETIRE
HIM WITH FULL PAY.


HIM WITH FULL PAY.
Chivalric Southern Senators Aid the
Measure with Their EIoquence-The
Barrier Guarding the Retired List
from InvasiOns from Civil Life Torn
Down-The House Stin to be Heard
from.
W WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Edmunds, calling Mr.. Frye to
the Chair, took the floor and called up the
Dill yesterday offered by him providing
that the President may appoint to the re-
tired list one person who has occupied the
position of General, commanding anv
armies Of the United States, or General
in-Chief of the United States army. He
moved to amend it by adding, with the
rank and full pay of such General or
Ueneral-ln-Chlef, as the case may be.
Inc amendment was agreed to.
Mr.. COckreI desired to record his vote
against The bill, not knowing whether the
yeas ana nays would be called on it. The
retired list was not place for private citi-
zens. IL mad been created for officers who,
being still In the service, had been rendered
unnt Tor duty. There was neither Justice nor
| proprety IN placing private citizens on such
q HsJ zen Grant was now enjoying the
receipt OF $4,000 year. which was enough
Tor the support of any American citizen.
EDMUNDS COMEDIES WITH COCRRELL.
Mr.. Edmunds said that he. .concurred in the
general principle laid down by Mr.. Cockrell
as 10 the retired list, that it was not the place
for private citizen. He tEdmunds) was on
that point Democrat Of Democrats. But as
senator and citizen he was glad of the Op-
portunlty TO ask the passage of tins bill. Gen.
UfdnJ had served his country faithfully and
CALAMITY IN the Mexican war while Young
Lieutenant. lie became a General of the
armies OF the United States on an occasion of
ii nflN. 10
Mr.. Edmunds was stating it mildly in order
not TO excite the temperaments Of ANYBODY
ON the Otner side of the chamber. Gen. Grant
had been removed from the Office of General
OF the armies of the United States
from which he would have been retired
when ne reached the proper age and
put IN tins very list to assume again the COM
mand OF the armies of the United Statds as
COmmander-ln-Chiefu under its constitution
tie had not sought it. He had obeyed the call
OF duty. That removed him from the place
Jhat he had held IN the army to higher place
as constitutional commander of the armies of
the United States under the law. When his
term expired he became a private citizen. In
that state of the case and under cireum-
stances which all knew, and IN view of the
honor, respect, gratitude and duty that we
may owe him as primus in the illustriOus in
the history OF this country, Mr.. Edmunds
would he glad to have unanimous vote for
the bill.
MAXEY PUTS IN A WORD FOR THE
GENERAL.
Mr.. Maxey had heretofore opposed efforts Of
this character, being opposed to placing pri-
vate citizens on the retired list, but the cir
cumstances OF tins case were exceptional. AS
a southern man who had opposed the course
Of Gen. Grant he (MaXey) could not but
recognize that " hen the supreme hour came
to the Southern States, when they had to
yield up all save their honor, no man had
ever acted with more magnanimity and gen
erosIty than Ulysses 5. Grant did at Apo
mattON. Not only did Mr.. MaXey remember
lint hn n1ra1n
nved remembered it, and he did not believe
that there was to-day man in the South who
would begrudge reasonable and fair support
for Gen. Grant in his declining years Mr.
MaXey added that he had known Gen. Grant
Tor forty years, and believed that his recent
troubles arose entirely from Gen. Grants su-
preme confidence in his friends.
Mr.. Gibson said that while the form of the
bill might not commend itself to his judgment
its object did. He sympathized with the
people of the country who desired to testify
their appreciation of Gen. Grants services.
is Senator from Louisiana he felt it ncum-
bent on him to vote for the bill to show the
good VIII and sympathy of the people of that
state for Gen. Grant.
Mr.. George said that he was here as a Sena-
tor from Mississippi in the restored Union.
On being commissioned by his people to come
mere he had made covenant with himself
that in his votes in the Senate on all questions
that did not affect the honor of his people he
would vote exactly as if he had worn the
Federal-instead of the Confederate uniform.
sage of the proposed measure.
MR.. JONAS MAGNANLNuTY.
Mr.. Jonas said that he had opposed a siml-
lar measure when proposed some years ago
because he had not approved certain acts OF
Gen. Grants administration, and because
Gen. Grant did not then need aid. Under the
present circumstances of the General how
ever, he favored the bill.
Mr. Voorhees, said that Mr.. COckrelI's refer
ence to cen. Grants income might create a
misapprehenslOn in the popular mind When
the guaranteed term should expire six wears
hence the Investment fund would prove of
little value. Mr.. Voorhees, added that if he
were Southern man he would strongly favor
this measure. He recalled the fact that Sec
retary stanton wanted to arrest and Imprison
Gen. Robert h. Lee after the surrender at
AppOmattOX, and that Gen. Grant had told
Secretary stanton that Gen. Lee was his
lGrants) paroled prisoner. and that not a
hair OF ms mead should be mOlested. He re
membered also Gen, Grants fearless ac-
Acknowledgement of his error in the Fitz John
Porter matter. The bill was then read the
third time ami passed by I9 yeas to nays.
rell, Coke, Harris. PendletOn, SALISBURY
Slater, Vance and Walker.
WHAT THE HOUSE WILL DO.
Within malt an hour after the Senate
passed the Gen. Grant retirement bill to-
day, Gen. SlOcum, who is a prominent
member of the House Military Committee,
and who had the FitZ John Porter bill in
'lmprOVed Grant bilF' would not pass
the House if he could help it. Speaking
of the matter to the NEWS correspondent
tonight, ne said that the passage of the
Edmunds bill would amount to an in
dOrsement of President Arthur's veto of
the Fitz John Porter bill, and he should
not be party to anything OF that kind.
He declared that the Edmunds bill was
dictated by the President so as to permit
latter / Y
himself when that act was compared with
the unjust one which deprived Gen. Porter
Ofhis Just dues. Gen. SlOcum also thought
that the Edmunds bill would be a recOg-
milton of Gen. Grants rascally partner,
Ferdinand Ward, in that Congress, after
Wards connection with Grant, was afraid
to pass a bill containing the old war
horses name. He proposes to press the
bill passed by the Senate last session in
which Gen. Grants name is mentioned.
ROsECRANS OF THE SAME MIND.
Gen. Rosecrans expresses about the
the same views upon the matter, and saws
that the Military Committee, of which he
is Chairman, will likely at its meeting on
Friday, resolved to recommend only the
original Senate bill containing the name
of Gen. Grant. He said that the obiec-
ton that he had encountered in the House
since the Edmunds bill was introduced in
the Senate, was that it did not contain
the name of the beneficiary. Gems. Slo-
cum and ROsecrans are in the minority
on the Democratic side upon this ques-
ton, and Notwithstanding the stand taken
bv them, determined effort will be made
to pass the bill as it passed
the Senate to-day upon the first
opportunity. Should all attempts fail
meanwhile, on Monday next am effort will
be made to induce the Speaker to recog-
nize some one, for the purpose of asking
its passage on the next individual suspen-
sion day, which VIII be the first Mon
day in February. The friends of Gen.
Grant are certain that they can secure
tGO-thirds of the house to sustain the
move.