The National tribune., 1890-02-20

potomoy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep
Bottom and Ream's Station emblazoned
upon its guidons. It lost II men killed and
10 disease.
Battery (Capt. William b. Weeden), by
official orders was entitled to put upon its
guidons Yorktown, Hanover Courthouse,
Mechanicsyille, Gaines's Mill, Malvern Hill,
Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Charlottesville, Gettysburg RappahannOck
Station, Wilderness, Spottsylyania, Cold
Harbor, Petersburg, Opequan, Fishers Hill,
and Cedar Creek 1t lost 10 men killed and |
eight by disease.
Battery d was commanded by Capts J.
Albert Monroe, William w. Buckley and |
Elmer l.. Cortell. 1t lost 10 men killed and |
~ by disease. and its heaviest loss was at
Manassas, where it had six men killed, II
wounded and one missing.
Battery E, under Capts George E. Ran
dolph, William B. Rhodes and Jacob II. Lamb,
fought on the Peninsula, at the Second Bull
Run, and thence through to the fall of
Petersburg It's fame in the Army of the
Potomac rests mainly on the splendid fight
il made on the left on the second day at
Gettysburg
Battery F, commanded by Capts. Belger
and Thomas Simpson, lost 10 killed and II
by disease.
Battery G., (Capts Charles d. Owens, r. s.
S. Bloodgood and Benjamin f. Kelley was
officially ordered to inscribe upon its gui-
| dons Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill,
Maryes flights, Gettysburg, Rappahannock
Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold
Harbor, Petersburg, Opequan, Fishers Hill
and Cedar Creek. 1t lost 10 men killed, in
Gliding two officers, and IS by disease.
Battery II, commanded by Godfrey Haz-
ard and Crawford Allen, lost IL men by
death.
BY the census of 1860 the State had a
population of ia, 500, or less than there are
in Kansas City or Newark, N. j., to-day.
Altogether the Government called upon
Rhode Island to furnish 1898 men, and
she actually did furnish 1926, or upward
of 5000 more than she was asked for. She
actually sent into the field 1875 per cent of
her people, or nearly one in every seven OF,
the whole population, including old men
women and children. This was better than
any other State east of the Allegany
! Mountains did, and better than any other
in the country, except Colorado, Illinois, In
diana, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio and Nevada.
| REPRESENTATIVE w. ID. BYYUM, of In
diana, picked up the cast-off mantle of Mr..
| VIM. Morrison, of Illinois, and urged in the
House, last week, an amendment providing
that wherever any additional pension legis-
lation was enacted additional taxes should
be levied to meet the expenditure. He
accompanied this with hypocritical protes-
tations of his affection for the boys in blue
and his desire to see them given full justice
This sort of thing will not deceive any vet
eran, however. They saw the artfulness of
the scheme when it was presented in much
more deceptive form by Mr.. Morrison, and
laid him out at the polls for it. Why should
there be additional taxes levied for this pur-
pose, when the Treasury is already receiving
tens of millions of dollars every year more
than it has any use for? Why should taxes
be levied especially to pay pensions any
more than they are levied to pay the Presi-
dents salary, to support the Supreme Court,
to maintain the Army and Navy, or 10 meet
the expenses of the River and Harbor bill
Let the Government use for this purpose the
money it is already receiving, not as taxes,
but as the results of its policy of protecting
our farms and factories, and of controlling
the manufacture of liquors. Representative
Grosvenor and others exposed Mr.. Bynum's
demagogery very eilectually, and killed his
proposition on the spot.