The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-15
The Cold and Ciammy sherman and the
Sarcastic and satirieai ingalls,
Arouse the Ire OF tho True
and Tried Lamar.
THE DEBATE CONTINUES TO-DAY
XLvIII Congress


they be counted.
Mr.. VAN WICK, from the committee
ON public lands reported favorably with
amendments house bill to prevent the
unlawful occupancy of public lands.
The principal amendment proposed is
to authorize the president to use the
civil and military to remove and destroy
illegal fences.
TIE CHAIR laid before the senate the
resolution heretofore offered by Mr..
Hawley, calling upon the president for
a copy of the historical statement con-
corning the public policy of the execu-
tive department of the confederate gov
eminent, by Gen. sherman.
Mr.. HARRIS said if Mr.. Haw-
ley thought that any action
Of the senate was proper
with regard to the paper or papers re-
ferred to, he would not object to the
call; but II not, and such action was to
be taken, no (Harris) could see no OBJ
iect in the call for the papers. They
were in the possession of the war de-
partment, aud would appear in the re-
belion records. Mr.. Harris said he had
examined the papers at the war depart
meut-they consisted somewhat
of vcluminous documonts-need-
ed by Gen. Sherman, az
his side of the personal issue
made through the newspapers between
Mr.. HAWLEY had presumed the
papers would find their way into pub
LEFTY and he had desired a complete
and not a partial edition PUBLISHED.
! Mr.. HARRIS had not the slightest
objection to the broadest publicity OF
the papers, but saw no reason why they
should be sent To the senate to be
merely printed as an executive docu-
Mr.. HAWLEY said the papers re.
lated to the last year Of the war and
would not probably be published in the
rebellion record for a couple OF years to
come.
Mr. HARRIS doubted the propriety
of calling for the papers.
Mr.. VEST regretted the in
PRODUCTION of the resolution, not
cation of tho history Of the Confederate
states, but because the senate would he
making itself-indirectly, at least-a
party to the controversy that had been
going on in tho public press. His feel
ings towards Gen. Sherman were OF tho
kindest character, and he believed he
was his personal friend.
The debate i'll the senate on Hawiey's
resolut ion was continued sometime to-
day, and became pretty warm before it
closed. The participants, in addition to
| Messrs. Hawiey, Harris, George ard
Vest, were Senators Sherman, Ingalls,,
Morgan, Conger and Lamar.
Mr.. Vest inquired whether it was
manly to commit the senate TO any SIDE
personal controversy, when Mr.; Davis
could not be heard? Mr..
Davis was to-day an old man, broken in
fortune and health, living among peo,,
pie who honored him. He (Vest) had
been member of the confederate sen.
ate and frequently opposed DAVIS
measures, but he believed, as an oyer
whelming majority of the southern peo-
pie believed, that Mr.. Davis was true
and loyal to the cause he espoused as
ever was wife to husband, or any re-
lisious devotee to his God he wor-
shipped.
Mr.. GEORGE said the controversy
was q personal one between two private
citizens OF the United States.
Mr.. CONGER disputed Mr.. Davis
right to be called a citizen in relation to
Gen. Sherman.
Mr.. GEORGE was, willing that the
controversy should be settled by his
tory. He had no fear that the result
would be adverse to the honor or pa
triotism of Jefferson Davis.
| MIR. MORGAN said that 1t may be
true that Jefferson Davis political dis
abilities had not been removed, but
he was no less man
because OF that. 1t was not
less true that he was beloved by millions
of people yet in the United States. He
had been no more an enemy OF the
United States than many senators now
on the floor Of tho United States senate.
Mr.. INGALLS, said Jefferson Davis
name had never been mentioned In the
senate without Morgan, Vest and their
associates endorsing him and declaring
he was O man of honor and patriotic,
and that millions of people in the United
States loved him. So long as such re-
marks were INDUCED in, it was in
vain to declare that the animosities en-
ge ndered by the war had been buried
forever. Ct did not sound
well to have Haunted so
constantly in our faces by members OF
| the senate the fact that Davis was
by million
MR.. SHERMAN, after reciting the
circumstances of the controversy, said
he did not desire to wound the feelings
of an old man, "but great God" said he,
''will it even be disputed in this or at
any time within thousand years, that
in the war, and before the war;. Jeffer-
son Davis was conspirator and traitor
| to his country? Never / trust"
Mr.. Sherman felt compelled to
enter his most solemn protest against
| Davis being treated as a patriot.
Mr.. LAMAR characterized Sherman's
statement of the controversy as marked
by fragrant inaccuracies, as to the issue
| between Jefferson Davis and Gen. Sher-
man. He (Lamar) did not impugn Gen.
Sherman's veracity, but insisted that
he had been misinfOrmed about Davis.
The south, he said, had been sounded
upon all questions dividing the Sec
tions, has given up the right of the peo-
pie to secede from the Union, and
had given up the right of each
state to Judge for itself of attractions of
the constitution and its mode of redress.
1t had fought for its own view and had
lost. But no man should, in his pres
ence, call Jefferson Davis q traitor with
ont his Uamar) responding with stern
and emphatic denial.
The hour of o'clock arriving, the
matter went over till tomorrow, and
The CHAIR laid formally before the
senate the unfinished legislative
business, being the interstate COM
MERGE bill, but this yielded 10
motion for consideration OF
executive business. The naval bill just
passed by the house was first, however,
laid before the senate and referred to
the committee on appropriations.
A joint resolution providing. for the
meeting of both houses in joint
convention on February II, to count the
electoral vote, was also laid before the
senate and referred to the committee ON