St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26
AFTER LONG WAITING.
The Senate Yesterday Passed the House
Bill for Gen. Fitz John Porter's
Reinstatement,
And the Presidents Signature is All That
is Required to Remove the Stigma of
Many Years.
House Republicans Grow Angry
Over Recent Vetoes of Private
Pension Bills.
Cleveland Goes Fishing Down the
River--No Case Against Senator
Payne.
The Porter ELL Passed.

The Porter Bill Passed.
WASHINGTON. June 25.-The senate
took up the Fitz John Porter bill, and Mr..
Logan addressed the senate.
Mr.. Logan opened with an objection to the
bill on constitutional points. The bill, he
said, provided for an increase in the number
of persons on the retired list of the army,
provided the president appointed a certain
person to the place. Ii he did not make that
special appointment the vacancy was not to
exist. Where did the senate get the power TO
name to the president the person who he
should appoint to an Office? Where did the
house of representatives get any power to
name to the president the person whom he
should nominate to an Office? OF course, if
senators were determined to ram q bill down
the throatS of others they must take the re-
sponsbility. Suppose congress should pass
bill creating new postofice in New York or
Brooklyn upon the condition that man to be
named in the bill, say John Fish, should be
postmaster, and that the Office was created
for this purpose only, namely, the purpose
of securing the appointment of the person
there named, and that in case such person
was not appointed, then that the Office
was not to be created, could any man
say that such q bill was constitutional under
any fair construction of the constitution.
Fitz John Porter was tried by court martial.
Mr.. Logan had no prejudice against the man,
before the country in a one-sided way and on
the ground that letters had been got from dis
tngushed men expressing views of the case
favorable to Porter.
MR.. HENDERSON INTERPOSED
to suggest the case of president increasing
the number of judges, say in New Jersey, in
order to reappoint a judge who had been inn
peached and dismissed for cause. MIR. Logan
said that that would be a case precisely on
''al fours'' with this Mr.. Logan did not ex-
pect his words to have any weight in the
| senate, for he always noticed that when the
senate was determined to do a thing it turned
deaf ear to everything else, whether law Or
fact, that interfered with its purpose. This
case was not the trial of Porter. Porter had
been tried and condemned. This was trial
| of Abraham Lincoln, of James A. Garfield
and Of many brave and distinguished officers
of the army. 1t had been said that Porter
had been good soldier before the war. That
| was no argument. Jefferson Davis and Robert
E. Lee had been good soldiers and loyal men
before the war. The fact was that FItz John
| Porter and others whose names it was not
now necessary to mention, conspired to make
| it impossible for a Western officer to COM
| mand the armies of the East.
THE EASTERN ARMY
was never success until Grant took hold Of
it and at that time Porter and some of his
kind were not then in it. That was part of
the program of Porter and his friends, that
uO western Ilal SuOulQ cOIuLnduQ CQaC army.
Mr.. Logan asserted that Porter was the cause
of the first Bull Run defeat by persuading
Patterson to retreat from Winchester with
30, 600. In support of this he had the clerk
| read some extracts from his published work
The Great Conspiracy" He denied that he
/ was endeayoring to persecute Porter when he
was Only defending Lincoln. LAS God is my
| judge" said he, II would stand over the dust
| of Lincoln and swear by all the Gods to his
| act as being an honest and just act" ''You
| gentlemen that were down in the Confed-
eracy," continued Mr.. Logan, "don't know
anything about this case except what you
have read and you come up here and vote
| without reference to the facts (unless you
| have examined them), out of sympathy for
this man. Every man restored to the army
| by congress after dismissal because of
SYMPATHY WITH THE REBELLION
had found Republicans in congress to aid
him. The prophecies of few years ago
were coming true The legislation of the
war was being revised every day, and by Re-
| publican votes. Porter would have been con-
| demned to death and would have been shot
had not the kindly Lincoln said, ''For Gods
sake don't require me to shoot Democrat at
this time," although Lincoln had said that
the evidence warranted the death of Porter
Mr.. Logan ridculed the idea Of Porter's
''martyrdom.' Lincoln had ceased to be a
martyr in these days, and the men who lost
their lives for the Union cause had
/
now were the men who were treacherous to
the Union. This mau Porter, who proved
| treacherous to his commanding officer and
unfaithful to his trust, was appealing to the
country on the ground that he had been
''persecuted'' by Abraham Lincoln. 1t ill
became US to reverse the record made by
men like Lincoln, Stanton and Garfield, yet
we found men in the senate who were patriots,
but now came in the light of day and were
willing to reverse the rulings of these dead
| toto ~ J<@,,< Al
| man whose infamy was not less than that of
| the men who perpetuated the rebellion. But
Mr.. Logan supposed every man had his
| Brutus. The revolution had its Arnold and
| the civil war had its Porter In connection
with his former remarks about a conspiracy
Mr.. Logan said the facts showed that Gen.
! Mcclellan had been directed by Halleck to
| send Gen. Franklin's corps to support Pope
| that Franklin started one day and that on the
second day he was only five miles from where
| he started, evidently not intending to go to
Pope's support, and he
| NEVER DID GET THERE.
and did not try. Mcclellan was ordered three
| or four times to send Franklin to Pope and to
| press him forward, but Mcclellan gave his
| orders in such q way that Franklin could con-
strue them to go or not to go, and he did not
go. Mr.. Logan read telegram which he said
| Mcclellan sent to the president on the goth of
| August, 1862, at 2:45 p. M, after the battle
had been raging about seven hours, and after
Mcclellan had been ordered time and time
again to send Franklin to the aid Of Pope.
This telegram among other things said one of
two courses should be adopted, First to con-
centrate all available forces to open COM
municatton with Pope, second to leave Pope
to get out of his own scrape,'' etc. Was that
not a beautiful telegram for man to send
at that hour, when battle had been raging
for seven hours, after he had been repeatedly
for three days ordered to send aid to POPE
| That was
THE WAY POPE WAS TREATED.
| Mr.. Logan was justified in saying that there
| was conspiracy against that man not to al
| low him to win battle and FitZ John Porter
was part of it. Mr.. Logan had pride in the
| army and Its glory and before he would drag
into the dust the name of Abraham Lincoln,
for the sake of this criminal, he would let his
| tongue and his arm become palsied. APP
| plause in the galleries. Within the last few
days, he said, a man who, above all others,
ought not to have done SO, had dragged from
the grave the honored bones of the greatest
secretary of war that this country had pro-
duced, and they had been beslimed and be-
smirched by the vilest ISLANDERS. So the men
who protected the government were to be
| Whitfield while if anybody stood up in defense
Of the Union he was called a ''persecutor -
The Union men were now the men to be
kicked and
| REPUBLICANS WERE FOUND
/ to vote with Democrats under the Confeder-
ate flag against their own flag. Any man
who wanted to fight under the Confederate
flag in this chamber had the right to do it.
MIR. Logan meant this, of course only in a
political sense, in the sense of a political
| fight, but he did mean it in that sense. While
| Republicans here were helping Democrats
pass bills like this, there were bills giving
| p1tiful little pensions Of S. to SIS month to
disabled soldiers Of the republic that were be-
ing vetoed by the president. &c. for fighting
for the flag, for being ready to die that the
Union might live, the heavy hand of the
chief executive of the republic fell upon these
poor soldiers. Yet Republican senators here
were willing to vote to give $4,000 year to a
man who was traitor to his commander So
if men wanted to be paid literally by the
United States, they had only to be treacher-
GUS when they should be true. eff you are
true when you might be treacherous you are
vetoed ''That," said Mr. Logan, sis a
strange thing TO take place in this country
| While Republicans were doing what he had
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