The Portland daily press., 1886-06-09
XLIXth CONGRESS- FIRST SESSION.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. June s

In LIl6 SENATE MI. bHO SOli-
mittee on finance, reported bill creating an
additional Secretary of the Treasury 1t
was referred to the calendar
The Senate then resumed consideration OF
the bill for the relief Of the, Annapolis
cadets. and Mr.. Hale continued his remarks
in opposition to the bill.
Mr. Mcpherson moved an amendment re-
qulring young men to be subjected before
restoration to the examination now required
by law. This was agreed to.
The vote was then taken on Mr.. Buffers
amendment, which removes from the opera
tion of the act of 1882 the cadets who entered
the academy prior to the passage of that act.
Mr.. Buffers amendment was reJected-yeas
II, nays %.
on the table, The motion was agreed to by
viva voce vote. and the Senate then pro-
ceeded with the bills on the calendar in their
order. Among the bills passed were the
following:
ceiving ships for discharged United States
seamen; also bill extending to the sailors
the provisions of the bill of last year provid-
ing for the retired list for private soldiers
At 5.25 o'clock 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. Fl. Robertson, late
collector of customs for the district OF the
Mr.. Kelly of Pennsylvania called up as
priyiledged question the motion to eXpunge
from the record the speech OF Mr.. Wheeler
of Alabama, upon Edwin M. Stanton. In
lieu of the motion made yesterday he sub
mitted resolution reciting that Wheeler has
been guilty of abuse of the order OF the
House in as much as his speech had not been
made upon any pension bill, and declaring
that, as the delivery of the speech was With
out the sanction of the House and in contra
vention of the special order, said speech he
expunged from the record and prohibiting
the public printer from publishing 1t IN
pamphlet or other forms.
Mr. Kelley then proceeded to speak and
his remarks were listened to with great at
tention 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 sat by through what must have in
volyed three hours listening to ISLANDERS
which had been refuted for % years, and
many of which were now absolutely putre-
scent, upon one of the most unselfsh patr1--
OTIS the country ever produced, and one OF
the most beloved friends he had ever known
in his long life. He was unwilling that he
should be suspected of listening
to a paper which feebly regretted,
that in a moment OF heat Its author
had denounced Abraham Lincoln and
and Edward M. Stanton as consplrators,
and Stanton as an arch conspirator against
particular American citizens, and as combin-
ing to thWart the success, of the Union army.
He was unwilling that posterity should be
told through the Congressional Record that
the Republican party sat quietly IN the
House to hear ISLANDERS on Lincoln and stan
ton poured out hour by hour and that no
man, either Republican or Democrat who
had perilled his life under the administration
of the war power by Lincoln and Stanton for
the support of the Union, should have failed
to say ''These ISLANDERS are now offensive to
to all factions of all honest, loval Union men,
having festered in heaps blelthng obnoxious
odors or being consigned scores OF years ago
to the cesspools of gossip" The country
owed something to the illustrious dead and
he did not believe that such scandalous mat
ter as was embodied in twenty-three col
umns of this paper would be sent to posterl-
ty with the sanction of the American Con-
gress which, if it vindicated its own order,
must declare there was no warrant for utter
ing the speech and none for declaring
through the Congressional Record that 1t had
been made with the unanimous consent OF
the House. The speech had been made at a
night session when the House was acting IN
der special order. Was this obnoxious mat
ter uttered in daylight and in hearing OF the
House, truth would have required the gen
tlemen to say the speech was delivered at an
evening session and in contravention OF the
order of the House. 1t was falsely said to
have been given quietly, taeitly, OF actively,
for it was not definite unanimous consent and
assent to those SANDERS He asked the gen
Jlelldl TO llSLp1 ana ne SHOulQ utdl d NOlCC
coming from the other side of the silent rlv-
er A voice of patriot wearing away his
life day by day and hour by hour IN the ser
vice of his country, for whose destruction
the member from Alabama had been arrayed,
and was busy on the battlefield. The gentle
man would learn that as early as May, 1862,
Edwin M. Stanton knew that he was assail-
ed and knew that whether his life should be
longer or shorter he would be survived by
iackals, hyenas and ghouls who scented OBJ
in 10 colo ,jn,i in I, xHh n mn1ll6 "a
hash scandalous stories that must bring pain
to his family and his friends.
Mr. 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.. Kelly asked that the slandered dead
be heard in his own defense, and then had
read slowly and with emphasis a letter writ
ten by Edwin NJ. Stanton to Rev. Hammond
Dyer The conclusion of the letter was re-
ceived with loud applause on the Republl-
can side.
Mr.. Wheeler of Alabama took the floor on
question of privilege, but the Speaker ruled
that no question of privilege was presented
by disagreement between members as to cor
rectness or incorrectness on what had been
said.
Mr. Mcmillan of Tennessee, (who occupied
the chair at the time Mr. Wheeler delivered
his speech made statement in regard to
the proceedings that occurred at that time.
If there had been any violation of the rules
it had not been confined to the gentlemen
from Alabama or to the Democratic side. If
there had been Il conspiracy, there were
gentlemen as good as the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, though he esteemed the gen
tlemen highly engaged in conspiracy.
Mr. Morrison of Illinois, then cut short
further discussion by moving to refer Mr.
Kelly's resolution to the committee on rules
Agreed to, y to 81
The House then went into committee of
the whole After brief discussion and
without an action the committee rose.
Mr.. Oates of Alabama, from the committee
Edmunds' anti-Polygamy bill, but Mr.. Cain
of Utah, objected The point was made that
a delegate had not the right to objecl and the
Speaker took the point under adyisement.
The House then at O'Clock adjourned.