Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-03

His Course Regarding House Contests
from Virginia Severely Criticised.
ATTACKS on coNFEDEnArEs.
A Recent Outrageous One, TO Which
the General Has Made No Response.
Appointment of Captain Fowle-
Claims Approved.

WASHINGTON, ID. C., May 2.-(spe-
ciai.) -General Walkers course in the
Virginia contested-election cases is the
subject Of quite severe criticism by Vir-
ginians here, and It is not particularly
agreeable 20 members OF his own party.
Probably II Is commended by none but
those who Will be the benefclaries Of his
partisan methods
at strikes me as very strange" said
prominent Virginian this morning,
''how General Walker, In the contested
election case OF Cornett against Swan
son. from the Fifth Virginia District,
should find that the Walton law is I'M
constitutional. and endorse a report to
the House declaring the election in that
district nun and void; but, in the case
of Thorp against Mckenney. from the
Fourth District, should discover that the
Walton law was good and constitutional
CROUCH 10 elect Thorp and unseat Nc
Kenney. lie is also reported 10 be Op-
posed 20 Tucker. and In favor of seating
Y0st, while common rumor says the re-
naming Republican members OF the COM
mittce are almost unanimously in
favor Of Tucker. Consistency is evident
~ not one of the Generals political
principles"
General Walker at all times points
with laudabe pride to his splendid Con-
fedcrate record, and he boasts Of sue
ceeding the immortal Jackson as com
mander Of the Stonewall Brigade. Yet
he sat silently by IN the Republican con-
vention, at stanton when the name Of
Jackson was Kissed, and the only man
10 rebuke the Kisses in deserving terms
was Mr.. James Frazier. himself a Con
federate soldier. and a Republican vete-
ran in Virginia politics, as compared with
General Walker, whose recent flop is
fresh in the memories OF everybody
The General. however, seems 10 be
adopting the same course IN Congress
that ne adopted at stanton. Not only
tho name OF Jackson has been assailed
on the floor OF the House, but that Of
his widow also and General Walker
has never said a word in vindicauon,
or even in the defence, of either
ATTACK ON CONFEOERATES.
on Thursday April 2Sd. the House being
In Committee Of the Whole on the state
Of the Union. and having under con-
sideration the bin relating to pensions.
Representative Thad NJ Mahon, Of Penn
sylvania. made a speech, in which he
viciously attacked the memory and re-
cord OF many distinguished COnfede-
rates. ana General Walker did not deem
81 his duty to say word then. nor has
he done so since. In the course Of his
remarks Mr.. Mahon said:
II shows beyond all doubt that the
Democrats from the South. aided by some
Of their Democratic colleagues from the
North have ever since the war been
waging a guerrilla warfare upon the
IL s.rTVF fvas ..f,I
their widows. And this contemplate
business is still going on under the
leadership Of President Cleveland and
his man Friday" Hon. Ioke Smith.
reDtloman from the Southland. In the
name of the 2.S59132 men who offered
their lives in defence of the Union, In
the name and over the sacred graves of
1860 gallant men who went down TO
death by disease contracted in the ser
vice, and in the he'll Of battle, in the
name OF the tens OF thousands Of loyal
Sons OF the North, who were many long
aud weary months confined in Anderson
Vile Libby Prison, and other rebel
prisons, all Veritablc hells on earth, DO
most solemnly protest against this cruel
taking away from our old soldiers the
small pensions given TO them by CRATE
full government by the votes of Republi
can members OF Congress- Southern
against pension legislation in favor Of the
Union soldier; against the widows of
men they starved 10 death, shot to death
over the dead line, and tore TO death
by thirsty bloodhounds In Southern
prison pens. But southern votes were
ready 90 open, and did open, the pension
roll for their own kind. so that to-day
the men who manned the dead line In
AndersOnville a palisade Of horror, the
flendish guards who shot down the starv-
ing maniac who crawled a yard across
that limit TO snatch at a decaying bone,
those human bloodhounds. have had, if
they had service in the Mexican or
Indian wars, opened up 90 them the
pension rolls of the nation.
II have but little OF the time assigned
me left. and can give you only few
names of ex-Confederates who are now on
the pension rolls.
II find that Samuel Cooper, colonel and
Acknowledgement of the United States
army. resigned IN March, 1861. That gem
tleman served throughout the whole re-
bellion, / believe. as the acknowledgement
of General Lees Army OF Northern Vir-
ginia. He used the great talents that had
been cultivated at West Point I'm trying
20 compass the military overthrow of the
United States Government. His political
disabilities under the fourteenth amend
date Of his death Democratic
Commissioner of Pensions, however
ruled that the fact that he was bre-
vetted colonel for meritorous service
although ne never left Washington du-
ring tho Mexican war-brought him with
in the requirement OF the act which
says:
Or personally named in a resolution OF
Congress for specific service;
as his brevet had 20 be confirmed by
the Senate. IL was also ruled that his
widow was not, at the date of the
passage Of the act, herself laboring under
the disabilities referred to In the
fourteenth amendment. SO the widow OF
General Lees Confederate Adjutant-Gene-
raj throughout the war has been
drawing a pension from the United States
Government since June 6, 1887, under Ger
tihcate No. ll6
JACKSON.
General Thomas ]. Jackson: He was
first lieutenant in the First United
states Artillery. He resigned q long
time before the rebellion TO take a pro-
censorship in the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, and commanded its cadets as
part OF tho military guard at the exc
cution OF John Brown. December ? 1859
on the Dist OF April 1861, he marched
with his cadets 10 Richmond. in response
20 the call OF Governor Letcher few
days later he was commissioned as col
onel OF Virginia Volunteers. and his
service as q leader In the armies OF the
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