Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-09
fORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
First Session.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON Inn

''on VI ehe oil ior the rellef OF Annapolis
cadets and Mr.. Hale continued his remarks
In opposition to the bill.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved an amendment re-
curing young men to be subjected, before
restoration to examination, as now required
by law. This was agreed to. The vote was
then taken on Mr.. Buffers amendment. which
removes from operation of the act of 1882.
the CADETS who entered the academy prior to
the passage of that act. Mr.. Buffers amend.
ment was rejected yeas II, nays %.
Mr.. hale then moved to lay the bill on the
table. The motion was agreed to by viva
voce vote and the Senate then proceeded
with the bills on the calendar in their order
Among the bills passed were the following ::
A Dill to provide temporary home on re
celving ships for discharged United States
seamen.
bill, extending to sailors in the navy.
the provisions of the bill of last year, provid-
ing for retired list for private soldiers.
At 5.25 the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
On motion of Mr.. Reed of Maine, the Sen
ate bill was passed for the relief of. Chester
A. Arthur and VIM. II. Robertson, late col
lectors OF customs for the district of the city
of New York.
private question the motion to expunge from
the record the speech of Mr.. Wheeler of
Alabama, upon Edwin NJ. Stanton in lieu of
the motion made Monday. He submitted
resolution reciting that Wheeler had been
guilty of breaking the order of the House in
aamuch 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 contravention
OF special order, said speech be expunged
from the record and prohibiting the public
printer from publishing it in pamphlet or
other form
Mr.. Kelley then proceeded to speak, and
his remarks were listened to with great atten.
tion by the House. He was unwilling, he
said, that future readers of the record of the
proceedings of this Congress should by any
possibility be able to suspect him of having
got through what must have involved three
hours, listening to ISLANDERS which had been
refuted for twenty-five years upon one of the
most prominent patriots the country has ever
produced, and one of the most beloved friends
he had ever known in his long life.
He was unwilling that he should be sus-
pecied OF listening to paper which feebly
regretted that In moment of heat il had de-
nounced Abraham Lincoln and Edwin NJ.
sprator against the character OF particular
American citizens and as combining to
thwart the success of the Uaion army. He
was unwilling that posterity should be told
through the Congressional Record that the
republican party had sat quietly in the hours
of midnight to hear slanders of Lincoln and
Stanton poured out hour by hour and that no
man, either republican or democrat, who had
perllled his life under the administration of
Lincoln and Stanton for the support of the
Union should have failed to say, These
ISLANDERS are now offensive to the olfactories
of all honest, loyal Union men, having fes-
tered heaps, breathing noxious odors OF being
consigned scores OF years ago TO the cesspoos
OF gossip"
The country owed something to the illus
trious dead, and he did not believe that such
scandalous matter as was published in 25
columns of this paper would be sent to pos
terlty with the sanction of the American Con.
gress. which, if it vindicated its own orders,
must declare there was no warrant for utter
ing the speech and none for declaring through
the Congressional Record, that it had been
made with the unanimous consent of the
House The speech had been made at night
session when the House was acting under
special order. Was this obnoxious matter
NeeSiNu !" '"y oph III eiiS hSdiluS vi tue
House! The truth would have required the
gentleman to say that the speech was deiv-
cred at the evening session and in contraven-
tion of the order of the House was falsely
said to have given quietly, tacitly or actively,
for it was not the definite, unanimous con-
sent and assent to those ISLANDERS.
He asked the gentleman to listen and he
should hear voice coming from the other
side of the silent river, voice of patriot
wearing away his life day by day and hour
by hour IN the service of his country, for
whose destruction the member from Alabama
had been arrayed and busy on the battlefield.
The gentleman would learn that as early as
May, 1862, Edwin NJ Stanton knew he was
assailed and knew that whether his life should
be longer or shorter he would be survived by
Jackals. hyenas and ghouls who, seeming
objects of sIander in the grave, would rehash
the scandalOus stories that must bring pain
to his family and friends. Stanton then
made his protest against this secret midnight
assault which was to be published as having
been made in the halls OF Congress and by
unanimous consent. Mr.. Kelley asked that the
Sian Tered dead be heard in his own defense,
and then read slowly and with emphasis a
letter written by Edwin M Stanton 10 Rev