Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-05
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, March 4, 18St


 in answer to a resolution of inquiry laid be- fore tbs Senate to-day stated that the amount of bonds held by the United States treasurer in trust for national banks is $6, ,3S5, $50.
 A bill accepting the Grant trophies from Mr. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Grant was passed
 MT Sewell, from the Military committee, reported favorably the House bill for the re- lief of Fitz John Porter, accompanied by 8 report of the majority of the committee and said that MT. Logan would submit the views of the minority at a later day.
 MT. Riddleberger said that in the remarks made by him yesterday regarding the private secretaries of Senators he meant no offenss to the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Vance,, and if there was anything pointed in the Record that was so construed by him he would be glad to erase it.
 Consideration of the educational bill was resumed.
 Mr. Dolphins amendment of yesterday was rejected MT. Dolphin then offered an amendment providing that Alaska be includ- ed in the bill.
 A long discussion ensued. Mir. Harrison and Mir. Dawes opposed the amendment, while MT. Blair favored it.
 MT. Logan moved his amendment increas- ing the appropriation to $136, 100000 in ten years and spoke in support of it. He said if we were going to do anything for educa- tion we should have the nerve to do some good The amendment was rejected-26 to 30.
 Another amendment prepared by MT. To- gan appropriating S2, ,00O,00 to build school houses in communities of sparse population was adopted.
 The debate for the day then closed.
 MT. Platt said that owing to the desire of many Senators to express their sympathy with his colleague General Hawley) in his sad affiiction, the death of Mrs. Hawley, he would move an adjournment. This, he said, would give Senators an opportunity of at tending funeral services.
 The Senate then at 4;45 p. m. adjourned till tomorrow.
 HoUsE-At the expiration of the morning hour it was agreed to limit debate on the pension appropriation bill to three hours and the House then went into Committee of the Whole, but Mir. Cannon, of Illinois, moved to lay aside the pension bill and take up the urgent deficiency bill, but the House, by a vote of 103 to 40, rejected the motion and resumed consideration of the pension bill.
 MT. Cabell, of Virginia, deprecated the slurs which had been cast upon the southern members by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Henderson,. The gentleman from Ohio (Ir. Butterworth) had gone out of his way to tell the southern people how wicked they were. Gentlemen who undertook to talk about af- fairs in the South gained their information from the miserable set of vampires and yer min that had fallen upon the South after the war with more blighting effect than the locusts and lice of Egypt. This stuff wa. brought up from the South by these creatures who were so miserable that they had been spewed out by the North and had settled on the South. He wondered what these creatures had been made for unless God Almighty in his wisdom, in order to show what miserable things he could make, created the carpet bagger and put him down in the South. The gentleman had talked about ballot box stuffng and then demonstrated by his own speech that if there was corruption and will lainy in all it's forms anywhere on God s green earth it was in Ohio and in the city of Cincinnati of which the gentleman so proud.
 The debate, which had taken political turn, continued so until the committee rose and reported the bill to the House. After several short speeches MT. Henderson, of Iowa, took the floor. He said that it seem ed in his speech the other day he had hit treated to fusilade of abuse since the de bate began. He did not regret what he had done He was told he had brought on po- litical debate on the pension bill. He denied it. Must he remain silent when every Democratic battery was ranged in the inter- estss of that partys For one he had no apolo- gy to make. Why not dismiss politics on this billa Its delay worked no hardship to | the soldiers. The House had been treated to | too many elegant speeches. The buHoon had | taken the stand of the statesman. He had been ridiculed before the country by the wit l and genius of southern chivalry. He could | stand it. It had been thrown in | his teeth that he first drew breath | within sight of Ben Lomond. That was | true but while it was true that he repre- sented in his birth the land of the thistle he | wanted to tell the gentleman MT. Norwood, | that from the lowlands to the highlands trea- son had never found birth in Scottish | heart True it was that he had been born in 1 Scotland Did it remain for simple Scot | tish boy to teach patriotism to gentle | man who was born on American soll' !! He had been assailed by the gen. tleman from Georgia (Mr. Hammond, | because he had made an allusion to the other world in giving his estimation of a Confeder- l ate who had placed his bosom in front of op- posing weapons. He said then and repeated 1 it now that he respected that man. For a copperhead who missed behind a soldiers back while bullets hissed in front he had not language to express his contempt. when ne | said t9copperhead" he did not say Democrat" He had fought side by side with Democrats who had been striving to ! save the nation. This morning he had beer assailed as being unmanly and bulldozel by the gentleman from Virginia (CabelD l That was not his reputation at home and il
 remained for a member of Congress from the | historic and bloody streets of Dauville te howl "bulldozer" MT. Henderson, con
 tinuing, said that he was grateful fol
 the character of the speeches o1
 some of his opponents. He took pleasure il
 recognizing the gentleman from West Virgi
 nia (Mr. Wilson, and the gentleman from
 Kentucky (Breckenridge). The latter hae
 drawn picture beautifully touching and in
 structive of three brothers nursed at th'
 same breast fighting in opposing ranks, bu
 yet with no barrier between their hearts Let him also draw g picture of thre