Daily Republican., 1886-06-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

@iVA ""4 lNeBulAf correspondent,
WAsHINGToH, June 10Th, 1886.-Th
DSmocratic quarrel In the House z
Representatives, the deadlock there an,
/ the Presto ent's Wholesale bombardmen
OF pension bills are features of the WEI
On Capitol H.ll.
Gen. Logan openfd the debate In Oh
position TO Gen. Potter. Whether h
Is an orator or not may be- an one,
IquestiOn, but one fac il indispuhabIt
whenever IL Is known that The senate,
from Illinois is going 10 make sperch
the Senate galleries al up and be hold
their close attention from the be0lpnint
TO the end OF q speech of almost AM
length.
General Logan has opposed the relic
OF fi'z Johu Potter iu every Congress
for The last twenty years, and it weulc
be strange If, under the circumstances
be could say anything totally new on
the subject. He did present the matte,
IN o new light, however, beginning
win an objection TO toe hill On q con
stitutional point, TO The effect that tn,
OIL provided Tor an Increase on the re-
tired list OF the army, provided the
PRESIDENT appointed q certain person &c
the place. II he did not make thai
special appointment the vacancy was
not to exiet. "Where," asked he, 80 id
the Senate get the po wer to name 10 the
President the person he should appoint
TO an office"
he did not consider this case trial
OF Porter. P.rter had been tried and
condemned. This is trial of Abrah am
Lincoln, OF James A. Garfield and of
many brave and dis,iug Off &c rs
of the Army. II had BEEN said that
Porter had been a Pcoi soldier before
the war. General Logan thought that
was no argument Jefferson Davis and
Robert Il. Les had been good soldieis
and loyal before the war. LAS God Ia
my Judge" said he, az would stand
over the dust Of Abraham Lincoln and
swear by all the gods to his act being
an honest and just ona."
"You gentlemen who were down in
the CoDfederacy, continued General
Logan, "know nothing about this case
except what you have read, and you
come up here and vote for this man on.
of sympathy. Porter would have bee
condemned to death and would have
been shot had not tho kindly Lincoln
said: For Goo 3 sake don't requ ire me
to shoot Democrat at this time;
although Lincoln had said that
the evidence warranted the death OF
Porter" This so-cAlled vindic alton OF
Porter was . stab at Abraham Lincoln.
Senator Voorhees,, OF Ind asked II
Gen. Grant had also stabbed Abraham
Lincoln? holding that no man had said
AS much as Gen. Grant had said In vim
dication of Porter. Whereupon Sena-
tor Plumb, OF Kaus mentioned that
this new reverence for Gen. Grant WAS
As marvellous as the conversion of Paul.
He did not think 1t would do for the
friends OF Porter TO use Grants name.
They had loDR held him up as every
thing that was base.
Mr.. Plumb conceded that there was a
division among northern people about
the matter, but it was q division like
that occurring in the Mississippi, the
eddy going ore way and the great FULL
headed stream the other. He spoke OF
the siRniticaDc CO of the fact that every
man who served in the Confederaey
would vote TO put Fitz John Porter on
the roll of Union heroes. He bad heard
lately of an Apotheosis of jeff Davis, al
the same time that we got defamation
OF Edwin nj. Stanton. The reiustate-
ment of Porter was an attempt to writs
the history of the Union army by put
ting that which was unfaithful above
that which waa loual r