Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-05
tifI.ETH CONGRESS-

FIR 81 SESSION

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WAsuI>cToS, April 2i-Among the bills
reported iiom committees and placed on the
calendar was one To provide for the erection
Of public buildings for postoflices in towns
and cities where the postotiice receipts for
ahree years preceding have exceeded $1,000
annually.
A resolution was adopted directing the
civil service commissioners to furnish lists o!
all persons certified for appointment to the
patent Office from the 4th Of March, 1885, to
March, 1853, ana lists Of all persons selected
and appointed under such certiicstion.
The international copyright bill was taken
up, and after an interesting discussion, laid
aside without action.
The senate then proceeded to the consider
alton of the bill for the establishment OF u
bureau Of animal industry.
Senator Palmer made a statement and in
troduced and had read numerous extracts
from newspapers crtticising the manner In
which the existing law is executed, some OF
the charges agaisst government agents be
ing, as he said, atrocious. Without action on
the bill the senate proceeded to executive
business.
After the doors reopcned several minor bills
passed, including the house bill to authorize
the city Of Chicago TO erect a crib In Lake
Michigan for water works purposes.
Adjourned.
WAsHINaToH, April 25.-The senate passed
bill providing for the construction OF two
free briIgcs across the Red River Of the
North.
Senator Voorhees, then took the floor to ad-
dress the senate uron the subject Of the pres
dents message.
Senator VOORHEES, said the position Of the
Republican, party on the tariff question might
be described thus:
1. Taxation had to be limited by the ex-
penses OF the government, with a view to the
protection OF manufa turing monopOlists, and
all prot ction given and all it, profit to insure
t. the further enrichment OF the capitalists,
hut not a dollar Of it to the laborlng man and
woman.
{! ,, That X any red sction Of taxes was to
take place is must he on alcoholic liquor and
tobacco and not on the pri &c necessaries Of
life.
Passing to tho charges that the democrats
in congress had been hostile to union soio icrs
IN the matter Of pensions, he contrasted the
action Of both parties in that matter, and
claimed that the republicans had made a
mean an parsin0uioaS record compared with
the democrats.
Referring 90 the attacks made in the senate
upon the memory Of Mcclellan and Hancock,
he said the presiding Off er OF the senate,
holding the highest official position now held
by a republican. had descended TO the floor
an attacked The memory Of American heroes
VINO were sleeping where flowers and tears
annually commingled on Memorial day, rest
ing from their glorious lives In the quiet
bivouac of the dead. The p Gus task OF max
ing response had been appropriately per
formed by one whose own conspicuous daring
In arms had given him a generous right Of
shivalry to speak Ia their praise. 1t was true
that not even the eloquent tongue OF Senator
Blackburn could reach Mcclellan or Hancock
with assurances of their country's devotion
and love.
Senator Voorhees, proceeded to draw vivid
picture OF events during the war, beginning
with the scenes IN Warrington on the night
of the first battle OF Bull Run. In that hour
of national extremity Mcclellan had been
called by despairirg Official authority to per
form a task greater by far than ever per
formed by Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar or
Napoleon In the same length Of time. Then
h. recalled (after the second disastrous battle
of Manassss) Mcclellan riding out to meet
the retreating troop and being greeted with
cheers more pathetic tn All those that greeted
Napoleon on his return from Elba. Then
came the battle OF Anti tam, a ~victery unpar-
alleled in war, considering all the conditions.
The immediate pe.il being gone and a sense
Of security being felt, Mcclellan was again
stricken by partt-xnism and had closed his
lofty military career forever; and to this day
the clamorous kites and crows, and other IL
noble scaveuger birds, sought TO tear and mu-
tilate McClellan's august face. Yes, McClel-
Ian, he said, was a Democrat, and when he
was removed on the eth Of November, 1862,
he could with up.ifted hand have sworn that
Nv nav saw" ~ 'sP"'iN' "a Wv" ~ ~
the forum at Rome. Among the highest, most
fortunate and most distinguished characters
sroduccd by war, whore, he asked, could =
aame be found cleaner, purer, freer from self
seeking or more devoted to a sublime sense of
duty than that 81 AcClcllan'
Senator vorhecs then changed the scene to
Gettysburg. where M said the last hope OF
the southern confederscy disappeared for
ever. What invisible spirit OF the air, he
asked, intent uloa evil to the senator from
Kansas, could have been In attendance upon
him when h. stood up and opened his mou'
in the ecnate chamber on the 9th Of March
HcClclland and Hancock were the heroes OF
the most consequential battles OF the war
Antetiam and Gettysburg, the loss Of either
of which you'd have brought European ne
cotiations. and the union 10 darkness and dts
may, il not fnL dissolution. They had com
manded battles fought north OF the Potomac,
and each tinc had met the enemy as an In
vading force, streng, confident and flushed
with recent victories. Antietsm and Grttys.
burg had Involved the possession uf the
capital and the pcrpttuity Of The government,