The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-04

IL AOL > III llOl OCCUR.
THE RECORD OF A REGIMENT
Illustrating this point, Mr. Black said
that the records of the pension bureau,
according to a statement by the commits
siouer, showed that a regiment recruited
IN northwestern state near the close of
the war, serving 100 days, contributed
Oh names to the pension list, with two
companies not accounted for
A Folley of questions was fred at
the speaker by Messrs Gros venor, rep,
OF Ohio, Lacey, rep, Of Iowa, and Ray,
rep, Of New York, to which he replied
that the regiment was not Gen. Hcuder-
sons of Iowa; that he did not know that
the mem oers of the regiment were veter-
ans who re-enllsted and were ponsiOned
for injuries received in that prior service;
that, on the other hand, the claims for
pensions were based upon the experiences
of the 100 days
MIR. Ray-Will the gentleman name the
regimenJ2
MIR. Black have expressly declined to
DO so. The statement is made upon the
authority of the commissioner OF pensions
and the gentleman from New YORK doubt
less can learn there what he wants to
know
Mr. Ray-Let me suggest in all kind
ness, that the charge is a serious one
against The soldiers.
Mr.. BlaCk-lt is not a charge against
the soldiers and the gentleman shall not
put me in that attitude. 1t is a charge
against the system.
CITED TO SHOW the SYSTEMS EVILS.
Mr.. Black said he did not produce these
facts to critiCise the mana cement of the
pension bureau, but upon the policy that
necessity compelled it to pursue He
then took up the several specifications
presented yesterday by Mr.. Grout under
the charges he had made to defend the
present pension commissioner from the
charge of unfrienGlless to the soldier.
He covered in this part Of his speech the
prosecution OF frauds at Norfolk, Buffalo
and New Orleans, the ruling governing the
action of local examining boards, ,aunouuC-
lngi.haJ he had agreed with Mr. Grout in
his claim that the boards should not be de-
prlved Of the right to make ratings Of
disability, and the reduction in the num-
Der Of certificates issued by MIR. Lochren,
as compared with those issued by Mr.
Raum, asserting that it was largely due
to ruling made by Assistant Secretary
Of the Interior Bussey. He referred to
the mistaken belief that Mr.. Lochren was
hostile to the soldiers besause ii was
alleged that he is dominated by confcd-
crate soldier. The present Secretary Of
the Interior was not in the war; he was
too young to serve In the confederate
army. Mr.. Black deprecated the pro
scription Of men who had differed from
the people Of the north and hoped that
the day of nObler manhood was at hand.
HoKE SMITHS POSITION.
In conclusion, Mre Black said: What
| saY-and you know it-I am going TO
tell you honestly, as you deserve TO have
it told to you, and as you all kaow it, and
as the people deserve to know it-in the
multiplicity of affairs Of the great office,
which involves the affairs of the Indians,
the surveys of the country and the pen
sions, which has twenty great bureaus,
more or less, the pension bureau being
one, the secretary, Mr.. Smith, must by
the constitution of human nature. by
the way tue man is made, surrender
and does surrender to his commissioner
of pensions the control Of the work of his
bureau. He is the responsible power /;
and what the commissioner of pensions
does, Mr.. Smith records, approves and
executes. The reports that come to his
desk from that o. nice are written by the
commissioner Of pensions, or prepared in
the bureau of pensions He is the CON
duit through which. giving such touch
and color as he may, the work of that
great bureau, and the work of it's CHIEF
are transmitted to thisHouse. And you,
q = "
one of You know ii. You know that
Hoke Smith does not sit there to dispense
justice in little things. You know that
what he does at the head of the great
department IS practically to accept u c
work of that bureau as performed under
the direction of its chosen chief
LOCHREN At GETTYSBURG.
"And who is that chosen chief Is ne
a
the gentleman to go back with me for q
little while TO a scene that will start the
tingling blood through hearts on this side
and the other alike. 1t was the second
day of July, 1868; and this capital
crouched terror-stricken because tho in
vadng legions Of Lee had already sounded
the opening thunders at Gettysburg. On
the Sc oud day Of that great contest, TO
which the world stood witness, where the
mighty forces Of good and
evil were in connict-soon TO
settle into permanent victory
for what | and many Of us then believed
and what all Of US now think was the
right-on that second day the corps Of
Sckles, that gallant, crippled veteran
who sits there (pointing) during our de-
Hocrations, was being masscd at Peach
Orchard, in front Of Cemetery Hill 10
was charged by Wilcox and Early. The
serried assault of that superb array Of
gray-COated, slOuch- HATED veterans when
they were on the rum Our troops
broke. Then came spectacle as
great as any in the history
of war, in proportion to the mum
bers involved, Our troops, passing back
through the second line, found lodgment
and safety there under the protection of
ther comrades Of the same blood and
faith and strength as those that assailcd
them. An in the very center of where
that vast controlling mass moved for
ward. the First Minnesota regiment stood,
with this man Lochren In It's lines. lAp-
plauseI He live long, Sir addressing
Mr.. Grout,) in your great old noun
tain state, and caught there the inspira-
tiOn of that man VINO said at liCondcroga "a 4:
Surrender 10 me IN the name Of Great
Jehovah and the continental congress.
He was American, although born on for
eign soil.
CHARGE OF THE 2G2
"With his fellows, 2G2 in number, with
whom he had won distinction and honor
because until he marched TO the flaming
death of Antietam he had been nothing but
a private ana a sergeant IN the ranks-it
was there he hand Of reward hunted him
out and made him petty officer. In that
command on that day with the remnant
Of his command, he stood on the
crest of Cemetery Hill and looked whore
Sickles' column was in retreat, looked
where the victorious forces Of Early and
Wilcox were coming on; and then with
the 252, under the sommand OF their gal
Iarf aC1Cua1 bp gynifaT raaHv f0t, gacbltn