The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
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senator Vest Champions the Nobility oil
the Confederate Soldier.

senator Vest Champions the Nobility OF
the Confederate soldier.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-lSenate. MIR.
Sherman, from the committee on foreign
relations, reported the hill 10 amend the
acts relating to Chinese immigration, and
said he would rs soon us practicable ask
the Senate 10 take action on Il. Calendar.
Also resolution las nm amendment to
one offered by Mr.. Stewart, and referred
10 that commitloc) requesting the Presi-
dent lin view OF the difficulties and en-
barrassnents which have attended tho i'm.
migration Of Chinese laborers, under the
limitations Of the treaties with China 10
negotiate a treaty with the Emperor OF
China, containing u provision that no Chi
nese laborer shall enter the United States.
Laid over.
Mr.. Mitchell offered resolution (which
was agreed to) instructing the committee
on public lands TO inquire into the propn-
ETY. and ai,isablity Of having seven or
eight townships Of the public domain, sur
rounding andincluding Mount Hood, Ore,
ret apart M a national park.
On motion Of Mr. Iloar. the bill 10 e.
tablish national art commission was taken
from the calendar and passed, the only
discussion OF IL being remark by Mr..
Plumb that the commission would develop
into a considerable institution, and would
cost the government before long 500, 900
year.
The bill 10 provide for the compulsory
education Of Indian children was taken
from the calendar and discussed.
MIR. Dawes (who has charge Of the bin
approved n substitute TO the bill, offered
by Mr.. Vest Whom the bill was last under
consideration, and II was amended aud
passed. II makes II the duty Of the Sccrc.
tary OF the Interior 10 establish, under
such rules and regulations Us he may think
proper, an industrial boarding school on
every Indian reservation upon which there
may be located any Indian tribe number
ing 800 or more adult Indians. The pupils
arc a. be taught IN the branches Of useful
labor In addition % the usual studies In
primary schools.
Nothing In the bill is to prevent the cd.
ucaiion oi Indian children in schools out
eide the reservations with consent Of their
parents OF guardians, and no provisions of
The act Is 10 apply 10 the five civilized
tribes or the 0slgc Indians Of the Indian
Territory.
Mr.. Hale, from the committee ON appro.
priations, reported the urgent deficiency |
bill, and said he would ask the Senate Ia |
take Il up al q very early day.
" The Senate then resumed consideration
of the bill granting pensions TO cx.soldiers
and uilors who are incapacitatod for the
performance Of labor, and providing for
pensions 10 dependant relatives Of deceased
soldiers aud sailors
Mr. Wilson, OF Iowa, moved an amend.
ment 10 insert the words "from the iniirn.
tiles Of age" NO as 10 pension all excel. |
dies suffering from the inhrnities OF ago |
90 from mental o. physical disability"
In the debate which took place on the
amendment, MIR. Plumb delivered On elo-
quent culoy ON the army, referring par
tcularly TO the TACT that when the war
closed the army could have placed one Of
the leaders al the head Of the government,
and could have dictated lis own terms, but
had not asked anything. except 10 b. per
mitted to disband and return 10 peaceful
avocaiions lie did not believe that any
patriotic man. any man who looked with
patriotic iervor ON that portion Of the coun-
iry's history, when 900, O00oi men sprang
20 arms 10 maintain the government, would
WV W "hlhk W oPlr"HH wv ehASNhch' ~,
any Law whereby any Of the men should
I've drawn from the ban Of poverty aud be
gwen nj ieast decent livelihood.
The bin ~ II came from the committee
was perhaps u step in the right direction.
10 Was not what II ought 10 be- and he had
sought 10 make II better. There was 10
lie, he eaid, no insinuation In the senate
or elsewhere that the Union soldiers wcrc
10 bc the bcnehcarics under the bill In the
sense 81 being mpplicanis or unworthy
persons. lie did not think that partisan.
chip would 60 that far, and II Il dill he be-
licved that the American people would n.
fate II. Congress was not nov dealing
with slender resources, but was dealing
with abundance. less than the pending
bin proposed would not be just More was
not asked for.
Mr.. We'd said that he had not the slight.
est idea when he spoke 10 Mr.. Wilson's
amendment OF producing the bunt OF
patriotic, icryid cloquencc which tho Sen.
aie had Just listened TO- They had hearl
good deal about alms-houses and vet
cran soldiers. In the State II Missouri
there were no Federal soldiers In aims.
house, aud he was proud 10 say
That there were no Confederate sol.
dien Ia alms-housc- either Whom Gen
80 shffho'ftb W ~ IllbuiNluN, tNtft was
but 1000 muskcis left 81 that APPENDED
army which had laced the world In arms,
and which had been battered and beaten
back by overwhelming numbers. Out OF
companies which had gone into that Ter.
rihle struggle, from l25 10 $50 men strong.
only ten had gone back 10 their kindn-l
and homes The South today was coyercd
with MANNED and crippled soldiers Who
lad been ahOt and ehollel anil snhr,,
struck. for their honest convictions, and
they asked no pension, and would not take
II God be blessed They were not In
alinshouses, and none Of them had ever
been seen begging for bread. Whence,
then, eanic talk Of Federal soldiersin aims
houses3 They wcro not there. lie was
tired and sick VI the indnuaiions 81 pre-
tcnce and hypocrisy In the name OF the
true and gallant soldiers Of the Union.
lie had personal friends among them, and
he would give 10 every disabled or de.
pendent soldier Of the federal army and
the widows and orphans Of those Who had
h<t ucir lives IN the service, the last acre
of Lind aud Tie last dollar. lie would
have done the same for Confederate
soldiers III 0od had blessed our cause.
Why talk that Congress had not done
enough Tor the Union foldiers, when the
country had paid out since 1865 sSS3, D0O,.
600 for ponsions, hbcrnlity unparalleled
In the history 81 the world.
The Senate had been told today that the
country owed the soldiers debt Of eternal
gratitude bccansc they had not, with