Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-04
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Il want you. gentlemen, 10 go back
with me for little while to scene that
win start the tingling blood through
hearts on this side and the other alike. IL
| was tho % day OF July. 1863, and this
capital crouched terror-stricken because
! tho invading legions OF Leo had already
sounded the opening thunders at Gettys-
| burg. On the second day OF that great
contest, 10 which the world stood witness.
where the mighty forces OF good ana
evil were in conflict. soon to settle ih1o
permanent victory for what and many
| OF us then believed and what all OF us
now think. was the right: on that reconu
| day the corps OF Sickles. that gallant
crippled veteran who sits there Cpointins,
during our deliberations. was being massed
at Peach Orchard in front or Cemetery
Hill. IL was charged by WILCOX anu
| Early. The lines were broken. VINO
could stand the scrriod assault OF tha'
superb array OF gray-coated. slouch-ha. :,
ted veterans when they were on the run
Our troops broke.
TRIBUTE TO LOcHREN.
""Then came a spectacle as great as any
in the history OF war, In proportion ~
the numbers involved. Our troops, pass
Ing back through the second line, iouHu
! Judgment and safety there under the piV-
lection OF their comrades of the same
blood and faith and strength as those
that assalled them. And IN the very cen
| ter OF where that vast controlling mass
moved forward the first Minnesota regi-
| ment stood, with this man Lochren IN lts
| lines. (Applause) lie lived long, sir, lad-
dressing Mr.. GrouO in your great old
mountain state. and caught there the IN
spiration OF that man who said at icon
derOga, Surrender 10 me In the name OF
the great Jehovah and the Continental
Congress- Ne was American. although
born in foreign soil. With his Fellows
252 IN number. with whom he had won
distinction and honor-because until ne
| marched to the flaming death OF Ante
| tam no had been nothing but n private
and q sergeant In the ranks, II was there
the hand Of reward hunted him out ana
| made him petty oficer-in That com
| mand, on that day, with the remnant OF
his command, he stood on the crest of
Cemetery Hill and looked where SEXES
column WAS in retreat; looked wnsre me
victorious forces OF Early and Wllcox
were coming on; and. then, with TIE
2G2. under the command OF their gallant
colonel. he waited, ready for it5 results.
At that moment there came up that man
whose wide. obsorvant eye. whose great
deeds, whose noble heart, whose superb
sC'diery, have made him known TO history
as Hancock the superb" applause
Riding from the rear he come 10 where
this group stood crOucned. What COM
mand Is thiS?" he asked. 1.-THE First
Minnesota" was the reply. "Charge those
columns" was his command. ! give you
the facts as history has recorded them.
And at the word this little array, in
which Lieutenant William Lochren stood
tas nle-closer. II you please, steadicd
themselves for an onset as hopeless as the
stand OF the Greeks at ThermOpylae.
Here the broken fragment Of a glCroIs
army; there the onrush OF a victorious
force. Those 262 men arrayed themselves
in line. At the command OF the colonel,
with steady step. with their arms at right
shoulder shift. the command of 2;2 started
down the hill toward the front Of the
conflict. Their purpose was seen the in
slant they uncovered. and the lcaden rain
fell upon them. They pushed forward
they increased their dOuble-quick to q
run: they brought their bayonets down:
them made break in the centre Of that
lina which checked the advance of Of
those victorious veterans. and gave time
for the reforming of the Union commands;
and they saved the day at Cemetery
Ridge for the Federal army. NpplauseD
And in the celtre OF that column was
this man Lochren (rcnewed applause.
to-day an honor,d membe- Of tho LOYAL
Legion Of the United States: to-day re-
lieved from the honore1 duties Of judge
to-day bearing his comrades cause IN
his heart as faithfully and as clearly as
when 2l5 ont Of those 262 fell. killed and
wounded, In that single charge, only
forty-seven. He had been a private sol
der, a nOn-commissioned officer. an Of
hcer. For three years the tap OF the
drum and the voices Of command sum
m0ned him 10 forty hattie lelds. 70 tell
me Today because ne observes the laws
OF his country and regards his oath, that
that man. paying out everything that he
can ana reservus only whas he must
Is unfrlendly to the Federal sOldiery
stamps the whole vast procession OF
slanderers with the character which they
deserve"
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Blacks speech
he was surrounded by lis political assoc
clates on the floor and warmly congratu-
lated. amid vigorous applause, the de-
moustration preventing for time the
resumption Of business.
order being estor-d, Mr.. Waugh Ore
nNbiltIilj, OF fIlltAds uIiAl fF''fl lilf 'Vlll-
mittee. He asked why IL was that the
bill carried 81. 10000 .ess than the bill
for 1884 Neither the force nor the OK
pense Of the ofiice had been reduced. so
they were not the reasons. General RaGn,
in his last report said that If the Office
were continued as IT vas chen being con-
Quoted the pension expenditures would
reach hgh-watar marx IN 1895. why
Mr. Chairman, 4 struck high-water mark
Immediately upon the accession Of the
Democratic administration, on March a.,
1851
Mr.. Waugh compared the work or the
bureau under Republican and Democratic
administrations, and said he must differ
from the gentleman who had just spoken,
and believed that III. reduction Of the
amount appropriated by the pending
bill was due to the antagonsm or the
pension policy by the present administra-
tion.
Mr. Waugh denied the assertion that the
pension system was honeycombed with
fraud, and declared that the Pension Bu-
reau has abandoned It's investigation since
IT has been able 10 establish but three
eases as the result OF its efforts in that
direction. "Fraudul ant pensions have
been granted, | admit" continued Mr..
Waugh "but not 10 greater extent than
would have occurred and has occurred in
the adjudication OF the same number OF
any class Of claims against the govern
mont The fraud-crier IL n man who has
no sympathy with the boys on or of the
roll. The cut Of fifteen millions in the
appropriation is only the beginning Of the
end"
MIR. Waugh read n Washington dispatch
TO the indianapolis Sentinel quoting
Deputy Commissioner Bell as saying that
the appropriation for pensions will be
So 900 900 less next year than this year,
and that before the close Of the Cleve-
land Administration the expenditures for
viii BE- reduced 10 $lo0OO.CO
year. "They are trying TO make up the
deficiency caused by the Wilson bill by
cutting of pensions to the old soldiers"
At $3.50 o'clock the committee rose, and
after passing n bill to pension Hannah
Lyle, the daughter of a Revolutionary
soldier. az 81 % month. tine douse ADJOURN
ed until Monday at - o'clock.
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