The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
MOVING ON MEXICO.
MANDERSON WANTS THE CREASER
GOVERNMENT TO EXPLAIN

ON the subject OF the hiiting OF capt |
awfcrd-passage by the House of the
Porter Bill After Breeze Between
Bragg and Cutche eon-0hicial Notes.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb 20-Manderson
offered resolution in the senate Friday
directing the secretaries Of state and war to
inquire into the murder of Capt Crawford
by Mexicans last month, and to report what
steps had been taken to punish the mur
derers Mandefson read the official report
of Lieut. Maus on the matter, and said if
the facts were correctly stated
the report was very severe re
fection on the Mexican troops. He
paid high tribute to the courage and
soldierly devotion of Capt Crawford and
hoped that the United States would compel
reparation, by force if necessary, from the
Mexican government, in case the govern
ment proved to lie responsible for the action
Of her troops in this instance. The resoiu-
tion was after some debate referred to the
committee on foreign relations
Edmunds introduced a bill relating to the
eighthou law, He said the bill related to
letter-camiers, whose hours of labor were be
yond human endurance.
EuStis called up his resolution of inquiry
as to the refusal OF the sub-treasurer at New
Orleans to receive silver dollars An amend
ment by Teller extending the inquiry so as
TO cover an alleged defaloation in the same
office was agreed to, and the resolution
passed
Dawes bill to allot iandi in seyeralty to
Indians was then discussed, during which
Chace made his maiden speech in support
OF the bill He made 4 strong plea.
At > O'Clock the hill went over
ard the educational bill came up,
Evarts taking the floor After paying high
tribute to the great pliantropist, Mr Pea
boly, in his establishment of the well known
educational fund" for the south, Evarts, i'll
giving the results of his experience as one OF
the trustees OF the Peabody fund, slid he
saw most encouraging manift station OF
"the hunger and thirst for knowledge
Kelly of Pennsylvania, in the house asked
to have printed in The Rerord Judge Advo-
cate Ho!ts review of the testimony III til
F'itz John Porter case The request was
granted Some unimportant business was
transacted anl the house went INTO conf
mittee of the whole on private calendar,
Hatch of Missouri i'll the chair. On the
HlSb ON pIt tIt telttltitt tNtotb pi tHiiSS
vania offered a verbal amendment, and pro
eeeded to make speech on silver.
Scott began by expressing regret that the
Democrats We're not in sympathy with the
administration on this question He did not
think that Republicans would intimate that
the organization of wealth have succeeded
in alarming the president and secretary Of
the treasury, as they have Gone in several
previous administrations" He denied the
charge made that the secretary of the
treasury was inimical to silver. He de
clared that if there be in circulation good
dollar and poor dollar, the rich man will
always get the good dollar and the poor
man the poor dollar. He asked protection
in Gods name for the poor man. The rich
man could care for himself He needed no
sympathy, nor was he entitled to any.
Referring to the charge that the capital
| lists were running the financial policy of the
! government. Scott said that if the language
employed in this connection meant anything
| ut all, it must be construed to mean that the
| president and secretary of the treasury were
| under the influence OF capitalists whose in
| terests were supposed to lie antagonstic
| 10 those o. the productive classes and
| wage workers Whit ats susceptible of
| such construction had been submitted in
proof of the charges or insinuati0ns ut
| tered! They seemed to him to rest only
upon the bare unsupported statements g
those who promulgated them, Had tho
president and secretary of the treasury in
any respects violated the law. as it exists
| to-day. Had they not conformed to its
| every letter. Could not congress
concede to them as much honesty
and integrity in the views they enter
| tanned upon this subject as it claimed
for itself, and could it not presume
them to he as desirous as itself Of doing
| what was for the best interest of the psople.
1t was true that they had recommended the
suspension of the coinage of the silver dol
lar under the provisions Of the act of 1875,
hut could any one say that such recommen-
dations might not ultimately prove to he rs
wise and as we'll calculated 10 promote the
public good, as its continued coinage had
been shown by practical experience to have
been of doubtful advantage.
At the close of the debate Thursday on
the Porter bill there vas lively exchange
of remarks between Cutcheon and Bragg.
The latter charged Cutcheon with making a
statement calculated to mislead This
Cutcheon denied and declared that Bra-g
should not ram falsehool down the throat
of the house Both gentle were up in front
of the speakers desk and there was
great confusion, so that not hall
that was said could be heard Finally
Bragg was enabled TO proceed, and sal i;
Would to God there was more fr,e lom of
conscience allowed in the Republican party,
then Porter would have vastly more votes.
But as there was IL Wei lential candidate
i'll training for the grand old party wht
was to run on the Fitz John Porter issue
it would not do for more Republicans te
come over, because the Black Eagle of the
west might not like it. Applause and
laughter on the Democratic side, and groans
from the Republican side.l He was glad to
hear the groans because it showed thert
was a little life left in the Republicans.
Groans did not proceed from strong body
in happy and contented frame of mind
but from one suffering from cramp in til,
bowels He demanded the previous ques
tion.
Cutcheou then arose to question OF per-
sonal privilege to correct the statement mad
by Bragg, and the speaker decided that in
asmuch as the gentleman from Wisconsil
had intimated that the gentleman iron
Michigan had not been ingenious
Cutcheon was entitled to make persona
explanation Bragg stated that the report
ers' notes contained participle which h
had not used (Cries CT order" on the Ike
publican side
Bragg [deBantly}-I w;a give you eaus
for personal explanation if you let IN
speak The gentleman stated that Fit
John Porter was lying two and half mile
from the head of his corps, but there is n
evidence of that / will give him cause TO
q personal explanation if yon want 1t
Cutcheon then showed from his speec
that Bragg was mistaken, while Bragg cor
tented himself with remarlsing that til
printed speech and tie written speech dii
| fered
The bill was then passed-yeas, III; nay
1i3 The majority was made up of ever
Democrat in the house aud sixteen Repubilt
ans, as follows. Ely, Hahn, James, Lairt
Swinburne, Baker, Hafmer, o fiara, Wad:
worth, Bayne, Hayden, Phelps, Weber, bul
leigh. Haynes, Rockwell