The Indianapolis journal., 1886-03-31
THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-
Further Debate on Mr.. Logan's Bill to
Increase the Strength of the Army.
Discussion of the Postoffice Bill in the House
Causes Sharp Passage of Words Be-
tween Messrs Houk and McMillin.


THE SENATE.
Continuation of the Debate on Mr.. Logan's
Bin to Enlarge the Army.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-In the Sonata, to-
day, after routine morning business, Mr.. Voor-
hess offered q resolution, which was agreed to,
sailing on the Secretary Of the Interior for cor
respondence between that department. and the
Spokane and other Indians, or agents represent
ihe them, touching the removal of the Indians
from their present location.
On motion of Mr.. Van Wyck, the Senate took
mp and passed the bill to establish two additional
land districts In the State of Nebraska.
The bill to increase the efficiency Of the army
was then taken up, and Mr.. Logan continued his
remarks in ite support. He argued the neces-
sity of an increase and said that to imply any
motive but proper one for this bill was un-
worthy of debate. The time would come when
the people would approve the attempt now made
10 give efficiency to the army.
Mr. Teller said one Of Mr.. Logan's arguments
against his Mr.. ITellerl opposition to the BILL
was that when there was once great parade of
soldiers on Pennsylvania avenue he Mr.. Teller
was not there. He Mr.. Teller] admitted that
he was not there He had never made any boast
OF having been in the army. He had never made
the Senate chamber ring with the statements or
services he had rendered to the country, in the
army or any where else We all knew that the
Senator had been In the army, and were not
likely to forget it. Mr.. Teller thought it .
merit to have been in the army. and conceded
that the Senator from Illinois had been dis
lfinsuished soldier; but Mr.. Teller had yet to
learn that service In the field especially qualified
a man for legislature functions.
Mr. Logan did not know of any very offensive
language he had used toward the Senator from
Colorado that he should cause him to grow so
irate. The Senator from Colorado said that he
Mr. Loganl always pretended to know more
about military matters than any other Senator;
it was an unfair statement, unjust, and untrue,
and he mr. Tellerl knew it.
Mr. Teller said he would let the Senator's
statement, SO often repeated answer what he
Mr. Loganl had now said He [Mr. Loganl said
he had not been offensive Who said he had2
Mr.. Teller believed he Mr.. Loganl had COM
was combination Of Senators here-at least
that was the way it was reported-as if there
was q combination of Senators to defeat
this bill He [Mr. Logan] insinuated, at least
ip his speech, that opposition came because the
Senator had reported the bill.
Mr.. Logan said he would repeat what he had
said for the Senator from Colorado had mis-
Quoted him. What he Mr.. Logan] had said was
thst the Senator from Maine Mr. Halel had re-
eeived encouragement from other Senators.
That was the language he had used, and that
Eas the way it was reported; but he did not
know the Senator from Colorado had taken
y to himself, for he did not know that it had
fitted.
Mr.. Teller said he understood the Senator [Mr.
Logan to say-and that was the way it went to
the country-of course, that was the fault of the
press-that there was outside opposition. He
understood 1t did not refer to him Mr.. Teller
at all, or to any member of this body, but re-
ferred to gentleman whom it was perhaps, not
worth while to mention.
Mr.. Logan said if there was anything on
Rarth that would induce him to believe that there
was a desire on the part of some gentlemen in
this Senate to cause bad feeling between per-
sons, it was the very remark the Senator had
xaade now. He Mr. Loganl had said no word,
uttered no word, in reference to any man out
side this chamber, nor did he insinuate what the
Senator TMr. Teller said, and that Senator
ought to know it; and the attempt to have it 60
to the country that he Mr.. Logan] was attack
ing any man outside of the Senate, or in it, was
unworthy the Senator
Mr.. Teller did not know what the Senator had
Eaid. He knew what was in the Record.
Mr.. Logan remarked that that was not in the
Record.
Mr.. Teller said he knew what he had thought
the Senator said. Of course he had misunder-
stood him. He had understood the Senator to
reflect, not on any Senator on the floor, and he
flr. Teller thought other Senators had so un-
derstood. We are bound to assume, of course,
that Just what appeared in the Record was ex-
actly what the Senator said. He was not raising
any question of veracity of what appears in the
Record They all understood, of course, that
the Record was an exact statement of what any
body said, and that when a man lost his temper
sometimes, and said things that he should not
say, he did not correct the Record Not at all.
AS 10 opposition from other Senators, one Sena-
tor had, at that time, and only one,
spoken against the bill, and one Sena-
tor had spoken for the bill, Mr. Teller
believed. besides the Senator who report
IA NIL. x1ovxr H. ~ hoI harx
due feeling of complaint as tc opposition to the
Senator from Illinois. He read from Mr.. Lo-
gan's speech, in the Congressional Record, the
following: my friend from Maine who is ab-
sent-and therefore will not refer to him now
was doubtless encouraged by the opposition of
other Senators to make war upon this bill from
the start"
Mr.. Logan asked if there was anything there
about any outside man.
Mr. Teller said that that was in the Record.
He Mr. Tellerl was only speaking of the imper-
lection of human hearing when he said he had
understood the Senator from Illinois differently.
It was not the fault of the Senator from Illinois,
but Of himself Mr. Teller The Senator from
Illinois had stated that some newspapers had
said this was war on certain Senator-which
Mr.. Teller presumed was because Of certain
aspersions of certain Senator.
Mr. Logan denied having made such state
ment His remark, he said, was that some
newspapers had said that this bill was not for
Ahe purpose of making the army efficient, but
3or ether reasons that had been suggested by
Senators
Mr. Teller understood there had been some
suggestion that this opposition to the bill was
perhaps, for the purpose of destroying the am
bitiou OF some person in this chamber. He had
not the slightest doubt that the Senator from
Illinois sympathized thoroughly with the strug-
Cling manhood of the country, and he MIR. Tel
ler1 had never intimated anything to the con-
trary.
Debate on the army bill then closed, and Mr.
Platt addressed the Senate on the Washington
Territory BILL which he characterized as an
enabling act. He gave statistics of the popula
tion and resources of the Territory. and asserted
that on this showing il was entitled to admission
as State Mr. Platt would not discuss the
matters that had occurred there in regard to the
Chinese. The people had dealt with it them
selves, and they were we'll qualified to deal
with matters affecting themselves, and to be a