The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-09
HOUSE

Henderson, of Iowa. referring to a
question Of privilege. stated that the
remark made by him in the colIoquy
with Wheeler, of Alabama, when that
gentleman was delivering his speech at
lacking Edwin NJ. Stanton, had been.
"bY some mysterious mistake, " mis-
placed in the records.
Wheeler stated that the misplacing
was entirely accidental. and he had no
objection to the correction being made
Kelly. of Pennsylvania, called up as
a privileged question n motion submit
ted by him yesterday to expunge from
the record the speech of Wheeler, of
Alabama, upon Stanton. he based his
question OF privilege on conscious,
deliberate. persistent abuse OF the order
OF the House by the Representative
from the Eighth District of Alabama.
In lieu of the motion made yesterday
he submitted q resolution reciting that
Wheeler had been guilty OF abuse OF the
order OF the House inasmuch as his
speech had not been made upon any
pension bill, and declaring that as the
delivery of the speech was without the
sanction of the House and in contra
vention OF the special order, the said
speech be stricken from the record and
prohibiting the public printer from
publishing It in pamphlet or other
form.
Reagan, of Texas, raised a point of
order against the resolution. The
speech had been made by the unani-
nous consent of the House, and there
fore could not be an o.1ense against the
House.
The Speaker replied that Il was not
in the province of the chair to decide
whether it was abuse or not. IL was
alleged to be abuse by the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, and the question
was to be decided by the House.
Kelly then proceeded to speak, and
his remarks were listened to with great
attention by the House. He was IN
willing, he said, that the future readers
OF the record of the proceedings Of this
Congress should by any possibility be
able 10 suspect him of having sat
through what must have involved three
hours listening 10 ISLANDERS which had
been refuted for twenty-five years. on
one of the most unselish patriots the
country ever produced. and one of the
most beloved friends he had ever
known. He was unwilling that he
should be suspected of listening to the
paper which feebly regretted that in the
moment of heat, its author had de-
nounced Abraham Lincoln and Edwin
n. Stanton as conspirat0rs and Stanton
as the arch conspirator-
Kelly then read Letter written by
Edwin Stanton to the Rev. Hammond
Dyer. dated Washington, May Is. 1862.
In the letter Stanton, referring to the
current charges circulated against him,
his relations 10 General
saws the accusations are
calumnies Derpetrated BY plunderers
who have been driven from the depart |
nent, when they were gOrging millions,
and by scheming politicians whose de- |
signs are endangered BY the resolute pro- /
secu ion OF the war agains rebels and /
traitors. Stanton then declares he al !
ways had a friendship for Mcclellan |
and recites, at considers bic length. the Il
history Of that part Of the rebellion |
which appeared 10 threaten the safety |
Of the seat or government. After re
ferring to the natural wrath Of McClel-
Ian and his friends on account of the
measures adopted for the protection of Il
the capitol. Stanton says: IF the force
had gone forward, as be had designed.
believe Washington would this day be
in the haDds of the rebels" Down to
this point Stanton says there has never
been the slightest difference between
the President and himself, but the
President acted against his judgment
in modifying his orders at
the sut-eaty of Mcclellan. II yielded I
my op.aiOn," says the letter. ito the
Presidents orders, but between him and I.
me there has never been the slightest
shadow since l entered the Cabinet, and
except The retention Of a force under
General Mcdowell by the Presidents
crlers for the reason mentioned
Mcclellan never made a request or ex-
pressed q wish that had not been
promptly complied with, II 10 power OF /
government" At the opening Of the
letter. Stanton said public cousidera-
;loA> compelled him to withhold the
proof which would refute rhcfElscIoo1 7
Of this accusers. and In closing he asks
the recipient 10 regard the same in the i