The record-union., 1896-03-25

Boutelle, sharply-Weil. do you want
to give them that right?
Grosvenor (Rep.) of Ohio replied to
Boutelle. and after a few words of in
troductory explanation why he should
support the bill, remarked: And now
we are challenged by the gentleman
from Maine
Boutelle-I challenged nobody. am
not in that business.
And then, after brief colloauy, Bou-
telle continued: Il desire to say further
to the gentleman from Ohio that | am
not speaking. have not spoken, in the
interests of any candidate for the Pres
idency." Oerfsive laughter)
Grosvenor-Has it come to that point,
Mr.. Speaker. when because one of us
prefers A for the Presidency and an
other B and another C, that every time
we rise to speak that thing shall be
shouted at us? 1 think it very small
politics, Mr.. Speaker, and | shall not
answer the gentleman in kind.
Continuing, Grosvenor said he based
his support of the bill on the belief that
his action here should be in the way
of aiding, so far as it was possible for
him to do so, the encouragement of 10y
atty and devotion to the flag in all parts
of the country. (Applause)
Boutelle-Does the gentleman believe
that the Government should pass legis-
lation of this kind?
Grosvenor-I believe the Government
ought to do what is right. AS far pack
as the time of General Grant that great
and illustrious hero had taken one of
these Confederates into his Cabinet; he
had made Mosby, the great cavalry
leader of the South, Consul-General at
Hcngkong, and had appointed General
Longstreet, who he would say, with all
Difference to the opinion of those who
differed from him, was, in his Judg-
ment, the ablest rebel General, to po-
sition of high honor anc trust.
Boutelle-And was not Longstreet os-
tracised for taking it. (Cries of mo!
Grosvenor said that for himself ne
had always hoped to live to see the time
when it should be the policy of his party
to remove from the statute books every
thing that tended to discriminate be-
tween the residents of the different sec
tions of the country.
Boutelle-Does the gentleman know
of any Southern man who has asked Tor
the passage of this bill? Who brought
it in here?
Grosvenor-God only knowsi But L
would not be so willing to grant it for
the asking as 1 would to give it freely as
matter of grace. (Applause)
Grow CRep) of Pennsylvania made an
eloquent and stirring speech upon the
subject of patriotism in general and
Picker (Rep.) of South Dakota advo-
Gated the passage of the bill. Referring
to the statement of Boutelle that the
passage of this bill would mean re-
fection upon those who enacted the
original legislation, Picker called at
tention to the fact that in less than
five years had Congress repealed por-
tions of that law of which now only
that part remained which was sought
to be repealed by the pending bill.
Walker (Rep) of Virginia next rose
to address the House, and was received
with round of applause. In the South,
he said. there was a turning to the
Union with a devotion that people who
did not mingle with those of that sec
ton could not understand. There are in
the South, Walker said, men who were
educated at West Point still capable of
fighting, and if the nation should be
not the Government desire their serv-
ices? All that the old Confederates
asked. he continued, was to be told TO
90 and sin no more, ''if you will have
it that we did SIM
Pearson (Rep) of North Carolina
Did you not lead the glorious old Stone
/ wall brigade after General Jackson's
/ death?
Ax,I 7
/ of it, not because led the brigade, but
because 1 was thought worthy of sue
| ceeding to the command. I say to the
! Republicans, although it is true, as
| suggested a while ago, that Longstreet
was ostracised, the time is now passed
when man can be ostracised as he was.
And it is for the purpose of wiping out
/ all such feeling that we ask the passage
of this bill.
/ Cummings (Dem.) of New York said ::
! General Grant was war Democrat.
| If he were on the floor to-day there
would be no question of the passage of
/ this bill. / was one of the 100000 war
| Democrats in the North that marched
to the front to sustain the Union, and
! in their behalf I gave my support to
| the bill / voted for General Grant for
/ FI0SlQenC DOIn tliIleS ne was d cdnOl-
| date, and if he had been nominated
again, Imperialism or no imperialism.
I would have voted for him third
| time
/ Cummings advised the Democrats not
| to vote upon this question, but to throw
! the responsibility where it belonged.
/ IF you desire to say addressing the
Republicans, that Grant was wrong,
| and that thirty years afterwards you
/ were right, vote down the BILL
! The demand for the previous question
was seconded by a unanimous vote
with the exception of that of Boutelle,
and the bill was passed by the same
vote, Boutelle rising in his seat to an
nounce his position when the negative
vote was called for by the Speaker
And then, at 4:55 o'clock, the House
! adjourned until tomorrow.
/
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON.