Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-23
rORTY.NINTH CONGRESS-.
WAsnlNaroN. Jan. ee.. 1aao

fuht l-NANIh HI OuNUhEf,S.
 WAaHINaroN, Jan 2a,' 1886.
 Housh,-The session of the House was
 opened this morning by lively discussion
 on the resolution Of Mr, Botttele, Of Maine,
 calling on the sectetaty If the Navy for in-
 formation relative to the alleged efasttes uf
 inscriptions and the dlsmissals of Union sol
 diefs at the Norfolk navy yard. As hereto
 fore reported the committee has amended the
 resolution, extending the inquiry to dismiss sals made at the navy yard and In the light
 house district at Norfolk during the terms of
 the predecessors of the present Secretary of
 the Navy; Mi Herbert reported the resolution
 t6 theIt9dse as agreed Hp6H by the Naval eeih=
 hittee aHd immediately deiiiahded the ire
 vi8us question. This the Republicans fe= sisted by fes6ftiHg t9 RlibHstefihg. MF. Hef=
 beit remarked that gentlemen aH tHe etAEF side evidently did not want their eWH inter
 FagatieHs answered applause en Democratic sidel and asked to withdraw the resolution
 The Speak held that the request could not
 he granted without leave af the House lap plausa on Republican side. Mr, Reed suggested that the chairman of the committee tAir. HerberD allow amendments to he offered, which MT Herbert declined A call of the House was demanded-a quorum not having voted on the motion for the pre- Vious question-and ordered, yeas 153, nays 123. The roll call showed 296 members present, there being but 25 absent. On mo- tion of MT. Herbert the sergeant at-arms was directed to arrest and bring to the bar of the House such members as were absent without leave.
 MT. Reed moved to dispense with further proceedings under the call and called atten- tion to the full attendance of members He pleaded for free discussion, claiming that no harm ever came from free discussion of legit- innate propositions. Debate then ensued between Messrs. Reed, Herbert and Hewitt Reed claiming the right to debate the amend ment and the others insisting that there was nothing to debate until the information called for had been received.
 Finally MT Reeds motion was voted down and after short time of waiting the ser geant-at-arms brought to the bar of the House Messrs. Snowden, Riggs and Bingham. The excuses furnished by these runaway members created considerable merriment, but were deemed satisfactory and they were released from custody.
 Further proceedings under the call were dispensed with and the previous question was ordered. The next half hour witnessed the most exciting political debate of the ses- sion
 MT. Boutelle, in opening his speech on the resolution, called attention to the fact that the first legislative act of the House had been the passage of bill removing the disabilities of an eI-Confederate who waited twenty years before discovering a desire to be placed in the line of eligibility to an appointment under the executive department of the Uni ted States. In contrast with this he had been tauntingly informed that fifteen min utes of time was an ample allowance in which to present the case of the outrageous dismiss sal of disabled veterans of the Union army from the employment of the government and the obliteration and defacement and removal of inscriptions commemorative of the success of the Union army. He trusted these facts placed in juxtaposition would prove more instructive offer. He had fuoned evidence that since the 4th of March, 1885, there had been re- peated and systematic removals from the positions in which they were placed of off cers of the government of wounded and dis abled veterans of the republic to make place for the men who had sought to destroy it. He deemed that fitting matter to call to the attention of the House. The attempt, whenever made and by whomeyer made, to set up the plea that the tearing down of the loyal memories of the war was demanded by any broad sentiment of patriotism, was based on absolute soph- stry If the time had come or should come to obliterate the great memories of the bellion, the monuments of the rebellion itself should be first torn down. He had list of great marble monuments growing up all over this land to perpetuate the cause of treason and rebellion. He had a description of a monument in Geor- .a bearing inscriptions breathing anything but d spirit of loyalty-bearing on it's face evidence of the design to perpetuate the of the attempt on the life of the re- public. Two years ago when the House was considering appropriation of one million dollars for the New Orleans exposition the people down there who were so anxious to have the Union obliterated were erecting a monument thirty feet high to R. E. Lee, the chief, the military head of the rebellion. There no justice in the claim hat broad patriotism required the obliter ation of the records of the grandest triumph ever made T humanity since first the morn ng stars sang together. Applause on the Republican side.)
 AIr Wise, of Virginia, replying, was glad hat the dry dock at Portsmouth lad never been destroyed; that no with inscriptions alleged to have been obliterated had ever been in the yard, md the man who had been discharged had never been ill the Union army, had never been within a thousand miles of the line of battle, had never heard the music of a Mimic ball. The Confederate appointed in lis place was appointed after competitive and the man displaced was removed for beastly intoxication. Mr. Wise referred to the removal of twice Union veteran, the postmaster at by President Arthur at the die ation of Senator Malone; to the appoint nent of ex Confederate Captain Mosby and General Longstreet to positions by Presidents Grant and Hayes, and asked the gentleman rom Maine "why we have not heard howl rom that ice-bound region about these ap 
 An allusion by Mr. Wise to Charles Sum- ner's speech fifteen years ago in which he urged the removal of 5he bitter memories of the war brought from Mir. Boutelle the remark: 'If Charles Simmer knew that his magnan- nous suggestion would be quoted by you for such purpose he would turn in his grave"
 At the conclusion of MT. Wise's speech he resolution as..amended by the House Com nittee on Naval Affairs was adopted.
 The House then took recess until $50 9 m for the consideration of pension bills. At the night session about twenty pension pills were passed and at 9:45 p m. the House Id iourned until Monday.