Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-23

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mum to $500, and the bill was passed.
The House passed, after an interesting
debate, the Senate bill for the retirement
OF General Rosecrans. Spinola, OF New
York, desired to offer an amendment au.
thorizing the President to appoint and
retire j. @. Fremont as Major General,
but under the terms OF the resolutions
the previous question was ordered on the
amendment bill and the amendment
could not be received.
The bill was then taken up and vigor-
ously opposed by Struble, Iowa, on the
ground that General Rosecrans had viii
fed General Grant and had declared that
Grant was a scoundrel. This man who
had vilife the name of the country g
hero came here to-day and asked for aid
without word Of apology or without
showing that he had changed his
opinion.
Anderson, of Iowa, said that at one
time he had felt that in consequence of
the assault made by General Kosecrans
upon General Grant, he could never for
give General Rosecrans, but he had
changed with time, and he had come to
the conclusion that the manly thing to
do, in view of the great infirmities Of
human nature which attached to the
greatest heroes. was to vote for this bill.
Cannon, of Illinois, said he was not
voting to put General Rosecrans on the
retired list because of what he had said,
but because of what he had done, and
he believed that ii Ulysses S. Grant
could be called from his grave and stand
in this presence he would be broad
enough and grand enough to sweep aside
ha xr-1,,nh v,1onn oftar tho
war, arising from passion and prejudice,
and say: 81 will vote to put tle name OF
this man on the retired list in obedience
to the wishes OF the great mass of the
soldiers in the late war, and on account
OF his services in that war"
Holmes, OF Iowa, was astonished that
any true friend Of Grants should arise
and attempt to cast Parthian shafts at
General Rosecrans. He stood out as one
of the heroes Of victory in the late war
The men who had fought with him
would never hear his name tarnished and
be silent. In the course of his remarks
Holmes said General Grant was an auto.
crat when the war ended, and endeav.
ored to blot the name of Rosecrans, as il
were, from the roll OF the army and at
tempted to tarnish his fair fame.
Randall warmly espoused the cause Of
Rosecrans.
Perkins, of Kansas, said that few
years ago General Kosecrans stood alone
on the floor and opposed the Grant bill
saying he did SO on principle, and that
it was wrong to enlarge the retired lis,
for the benefit of those who had gone in
to private walks of life. Applying that
principle to his own case, Perkins could
not see how Rosecrans could ask for the
pending legislation.
Henderson, Iowa, Weaver, Iowa, Sow.
den, Pennsylvania, and McKenna, Cali.
fornia, also favored the bill as matter
of justice to General Rosecrans,
Struble regretted that his colleague,
Holmes, should attempt to put upon
General Grant the name of autocrat and
dictator.
Holmes rose to deny the use of the
latter term, but Struble declined to yield,
saying, "You ought to be ashamed OF
yourself and sit down forever in the face
Of those remarks.
After further debate the bill was
passed. Randall, from The Com inittas On
Rules, reported resolution providing for
consideration of the Cowles bill on Mon
day next, and, upon suggestion, it was laid
upon the table temporarily, losing none of
its privileges. Matson, Indiana, desired to
offer an amendment fixing day for the
consideration of the bill repeating the
act placing Limitation upon the pay
ment of arrearages in pensions. 1t was
read for information, as the Speaker
stated, though Reed sarcastically 81.
quired whether it was for information O,
misinformation, and Henderson. Iowa.
expressed wish chat it could be read
for business at once.
The Deficiency Appropriation bill was
then considered without any conclusion
being reached, and the House took re-
cess.
The House, at the evening session,
passed three private pension bills and
adjourned until tomorrow.