Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-15

Mr.. German it was laid aside tempo
rarily and the consideration Of the sun
dry civil appropriation bill was pro-
ceeded with.
HOUSE.
Senate bill was passed granting a
pension of $50 month to the widow of
General Abner Doubleday.
Mr.. Hatch asked unanimous consent
for the consideration of Senate bill in
cooperating the Holstein Breeding AS
ISOLATION of America; but Mr.. Bailey
objected.
Mr.. O'Ferrall called up, and the
House adopted without debate, a reso-
luton relating to the contested cleo
ton case of Reynolds VS.. Shonk, from
the 18th district of Pennsylvania. The
resolution confirms the title Of the con-
testee to his seat.
Mr.. Cummings, from the committee
on library, reported back resolution
calling for an investigation of the
charge of favoritism in access to the
archives of the State Department The
committee asked that the resolution be
laid upon the table and the committee be
discharged from its further considera-
ton. This course was pursued.
The House then resumed, in commit
tee, the consideration of the pension
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Boutell spoke vigorously against
the adoption of the proposed amend
ments Of the pension law. 1t had been
said that the Union veterans would be
as safe in the hands Of the eX-Conied
crates as they had been in the hands of
the republican party. Much as he re-
GREETED it, it was his duty to say that
the plain, unmistakable record of Con-
gress showed that, upon every ques-
ton affecting the liberality of the gov
ernment in pensioning the men who
saved its life, the ex-Confedcrate men,
bers had been almost unf,rmly
and almost, if not quite, soil
against it. And to-day, almost
thirty years after the last shot of
the war had ceased to reverberate, Il
political party which was coming into
power on the fourth of March next,
whose headquarters were south of
Mason and Dixon's line, was fastening
to proclaim its policy.
The democratic party was marshall
ed to-day with not thought of prog
ress, with not a proposition for advance,
unfurling the banner of repeal. To-
day, the democratic party proclaimed
as the policy of the new administration
the repeal of the laws protecting the
liberty of the citizen, the repeal
of laws protecting the purity Of
the ballot, the repeal of laws
protecting the great industries of the
country, the repeal Of laws carrying
into effect the great duty of the coun-
try to the men who fought in order
that the country might live. To-day
the House was confronted with prop
osition to strike q serious, demoralizing
and Git was intended) a fatal blow at
the pension system of the republic.
This was due to the fact that the gen
tlemen who had served against the
government on the battlefield had as
sumed the responsibility of putting Oh
this appropriation bill, this new legis-
ton, because the proper committees
from which it should emanate happen
ed to be composed of men who had a
different estimate of the value of the
services of the soldiers of the Union.
This subject which lay so dear to the
hearts of the loyal people of the coun-
try had been taken out of the hands of
the committees composed of loyal men
and been untimely thrust before this
House by a majority of men who had
fought against the country.
Mr.. Oates said the gentleman had
stated that ex-Confederates voted
against promoting Union soldiers in
pursuance of the declaration which
had been made some years ago that the
democratic party would never cease I'M
til the last vestige of war legislation
had been wiped from the statute books.
The charge had been denied and he
(NIr. Oates de6ed the gentleman to find
such a remark in the Congressional Re
cord.
Mr.. Boutelle stated that he had used
it only as illustrating the attitude of the
democratic party to-day.
Mr.. Oates-"And it was false"
Mr. Boutelle-'I would not say that"
Mr.. Oates said that the gentle
man had stated that the demo-
Gratis had refused to put General
Grant on the retired list during his last