The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-19
WORK OF THE HOUSE.
Most Of the Day Devoted 20 the Indian
Appropriation Bill.

Appropriation Bill.
Nashington, Jan 1S.-NO business Of gen
eral Importance was accomplished in the
House to-day. By unanimous consent the
District of Columbia had been given the
right of way. Before O'Clock the district
committee surrendered the hoor. and the
rest of the day was spent in further con-
sideration of the Indian appropriation bill
in committee of the whole. without FIN
ishing the bill the committee rose and at
4,2o O'Clock the House took recess till $
clock, the evening session TO be for the
consideration of private pension bills.
When the gentleman says I believed
the lost cause TO be right he slandered
me / know that cause was right"
With these words uttered by Mr.. Jones,
dem, OF Virginia, on the floor Of the
House tonight closed another and almost
riotous discussion, growing out Of pro-
posed pension legislation. The immedi-
ate cause of the outbreak tonight was
the blocking of the bills TO increase the
pension Of the widow of Gen. Abner Dou-
bleday and TO pension another widow who
had performed services as volunteer
nurse during the war by the parliamentary
opposition OF Mr.. Jones.
Mr. Cooper, dem, of Indiana, took the
place of Mr.. Springer last Friday night,
and with considerable temper he charged
Mr. Jones with a lack of chivalry in thus
opposing measures for the benefit of the
fair sex. He said, with something like
sneer, that If Mr.. Jackson, the great
leader of the party to which they
belonged. could be present, he would be
heartily ashamed of the democracy Of the
gentleman from Virginia.
Mr.. Jones responded with warmth that
he was fighting women, and asserted that
there was no foundation for the charge.
~Ha-N I Sob f4ars In nj &c
equality before the law, and against the
granting of large pensions TO the rich,
powerful and influential"
Il question the motives of the gentleman
from Virginia" shouted Mr.. Cooper. His
opposition to these pension bills, / be
leve, is actuated by the sentiment eX-
pressed by him last Friday night. when he
said he was proud of the cause he had
fought in the trenches. Although he has
taken an oath now to support the flag
that floats above your head Mr..
Speaker" pointing to the stars and stripes
above the desk, he now displays toward
it the same spirit of opposition as when
he fought against it 30 years ago. l say
only what he himself says
Mr.. Simpson, pop, of Kansas, Mr. Cox,
dem, of Tennessee, and Mr.. Moses, dem,
of Georgia, took part in the colloquy.
Epithets were banded about and for a
little time it looked as if a personal con-
flict might ensue. Mr. Simpson said he
was not only surprised, but ashamed that
a man from the south should come here
and say, as Mr.. Jones had said that he
still believed in the lost cause-a cause
founded on slavery.
Getting the floor ostensibly to ask Mr.
Simpson a question Mr.. Taibert, dem, of
South Carolina, whose controversies with
Mr.. Pickler on pension nights earlier in
this congress, were the relieving features
Ill.
despite the utmost endeavors of the chair
Mr.. Bretz, dem, of Indiana to rap him to
order. He ranged up and down the cen
ter aisle, wildly gesticulating and shouting
loudly. He deprecated, he said, the con-
tinual appeal to sectional passions, but he
noticed that they usually came from those
who were invisible in war and invincible
in peace" As to the lost cause" he said,
lit is the everlasting cause, and cannot
be lost, because it is the cause of liberty.
Under the same circumstances" he con-
tinued, shaking his fist in a defiant manner
at the republican side, "and for the same
reason. the men who fought then would
again. You can like that or you can
lump it. / believe in the cause to-day as
much as 1 did when a boy, l barred my
bosom to your bullets on the battlefelds
of Virginia"
Mr.. Jones was accorded the floor for a
few minutes at the close of the session,
and denounced Mr.. CoOpers language
toward him as being unworthy of gen
man. Referring to the Lost Cause he
said he would answer always and every
where as he had then, that he was proud
of it, and when the gentleman said 1 be-
lieved it to be right he slandered me. I
know it was right
This brought the House to the hour of
10:30 o'clock, at which time the session
closed under the rules, and on motion by
Mr.. Martin, dem, of Indiana, it was adj
journed until tomorrow After the adj
journment knots Of members gathered in
the aisles, and discussed the exciting
events of the session until literally driven
out by the janitors shutting off the night.