The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-09
RAKING OVER THE EMBERS
KELLEY DENouNcES WHEeLER's
ATTACK ON STANTON.

And Asks That 1t Be Expunged from The
Reconsideration. Stops What Might
Have Been a Lively Debate-A Senator
Inquisitive About a Whisky Matter.
WASHINGTON CRY, June 9.--In accord
ance with his notice Monday, Kelley of
Pennsylvania called up in the house Tues
day his resolution to expunge from The
Record the speech of Wheeler of Alabama
attacking the memory of War Secretary
Stanton In lieu of the motion made Tues
day, Kelley submitted resolution reciting
that Wheeler had been guilty of an abuse
of an order of the house in deli ering a
speech not referring to any pension bill, and
declaring that as the speech was without
san ton OF the house and In opposition to
the special order, said speech be expunsed
from The Record and prohibiting the public
printer from publishing it in pamphlet or
other form
Reagan raised the point OF order that the
speech was delivered by unanimous consent
OF the house, and was therefore not an Of
tense against the house.
The speaker said that was a question for
the house to decide.
were closely listened to- lie said he was
unwilling that future readers OF The Record
should by any possibility suspect him OF
having sat by through what must have in
volved three hours, listening to the ISLANDERS
which had been refutel Tor IS years-and
many of which were putrescent-on one of
the most unseliish patriots the country ever
produced, and one OF the most beloved
friends he had ever known in his long life.
lie was unwilling that he should be sus-
pec,ed of listening to paper which feebly
regretted that in moment OF heat its author
had denounced Abraham Lincoln and Edwin
NJ Stanton as conspirators, and stanton as
an arch consprator, against the character
OF certain American citizens and as com
bining TO thwait the success of our army.
he was unwilling that posterity should he
told through The Con ressional Record that
the Republican party had sat quietly in the
house at midnight to near these ISLANDERS
on Lincoln and Stanton poured out
hour by hour and that no man, either Re-
publican or Democrat who had perilled his
life under the administration OF the war
power by Lincoln and Stanton for the sup
port of the union, should have failed to say:
These ISLANDERS are now offensive to the
ofactories of all honest loyal union men,
having festered in heaps breathing noxious
ordors, or been consigned scores Of years
ago to the cess pool OF gossip"
The country owed something to the
illustrious dead and he did not believe that
such scandalous matter as was embodied in
twenty five columns Of this paper would be
sent to posteritly with the sanction of the
American congress which, ii it indicated
its own order must declare that there was
no warrant for uttering the speech and
none for declaring through The Congress-
ional Record that it had been made with the
| unanimous consent OF the house The
| speech had been made at night session,
when the house was acting under special
| order. Kelley then read letter written by
| Stanton to a friend in 1852, in which the
| secretary recited the in uences that brought
about the order OF the movement of troops,
| aud in corroboratiol of this letter from
| Gen Grant
He then asked the house to vindicate its
orders, to protect them against conscious,
deliberate, persistent invasion. 1t must be
| notifying TO every honorable man who
| knew Stanton that there should be posi-
bility OF posterity believing that as mem
Der OF congress, he sat quietly by and lis
tened 10 the member from Alabama make
his speech ON Edwin NJ. stanton. Applause
on the Republican side.l
Wheeler arose and said he wished to cor
rect some statements made by Kelley re-
garding him which were not true.
The speaker said that mere disagreements
between members as to what was said did
not constitute question of privilege
unless the gentleman charged
with knowingly making false
or misleading statements The
chair did not remember that Kelley
had charged that Wheeler had knowingly
falsifed statement
Hepburn OF Iowa said that while he did
| not agree with the acknowledgement in the
speech he thought Wheeler had a right to
oliver his speech at the time he did He
did not indorse any one Of them and at the
proper time he would say something on the
matter.
| Wheeler again rose to question of priv
legs He had been charged with having
perverted the orders OF the house and with
having slandered man who was dead.
The caption to the speech, Edwin M.
| Stanton had been put on by the public
printer without his authority or sanction.
discussion by moving to refer Keley's re-
| solution to the committee on rules which
| was agreed to.
The house then went into committee of
the whole lBlount of Georgia in the chair
on the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill
The house on Monday passed the bill re-
pealng the pre- emption, timber culture and
4.
"a, go for a public building at Spring
field, Mo.
In the senate Morrill,, from the committee
on finance reported bill creating an ad-
ditional secretary OF the treasury
He urged immediate consideration of
the bill, on account of the
we'll known emergency Hoar objected, as
the matter was too important for hasty
a. ton, and the bill went on the calendar.
Dawes offered a resolution directing the
secretary OF the treasury TO furnish the
senate the authority upon which orders
were issued extending the time for the
transportation or expectation of whisky in
bond on Jan. d, 1881 and upon
which the tax of 10 cents per
gallon was due, or soon to become
due and payable, the extention of time
amounting to seven months; and on March
" last permitting whisky exported under
the prior order to be returned to the United
States without the payment of the duty
provided by law The resolution asks for
the decision rendered in the case the
amount of whisky involved, etc. The reso-
luton was agreed to
The bill for the relief of the Annapolis
cadets excluded from the navy in 1852 by
the appropriation for the year, was then con-
sidered, Hale speaking in opposition to it.
Valuable Bridge.
WASHINGTON CITY, June o-Mr Erastus
Wiman said Monday night that the result
OF the passage by the house of the Staten
Island bridge bill will be to lessen terminal
charges in New York harbor % per cent
on all western and southern produce; that
the bridge which the hill authorizes will be
commenced within sixty days, rendering
available ten miles Of water front in New
York harbor now inaccessible by railway,
| md that IN rauo1ufinr, irr,uandc In, I'd r.