The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-28
BOWED TO HEROISW
SENTIMENT AGAINST ALLOWING
LOCHREN'S NAME IN GHTTYS-
BURG DEDICATION BILL
SOON FADED INTO THIN AIR
WHEN THE FRIENDS OF THE MIN
NEAPOLIS JURIsT REVIEWED
THE PAST.
REPRESENTATIVES, sNYDER's PLEA.
Col. COIviIIe Not Overlooked, but
HOnOred by Position in
the Bill.

Yesterday was red, white and blue
day in the house of representatives,
and, while the senators were resting
from their labors, the members of the
lower house were largely engaged with
matters in which battles, flags and
monuments were the chief factors. For
the time being at least, the Hicks
BeVanS imbroglio crowded out much
gossip about the Hastings veto, and,
except for the usual wholesale slaught-
er Of bills in the judiciary committee
reported out during the morning, the
two sessions We're inclined to be sensa-
tiOnal. To fill out the senatorial event
of the morning, the Gettysburg dedica-
ton bill was called up in committee
of the whole with the energetic states
man from Lac qui Pyarle in the chair,
and furnished the occasion for speeches
which would have discounted the av-
erage G. A. r. campfire. When the
measure, which is S. F. 189, was called
up and reported, Judge Hicks moved,
as an amendment to the amendment,
striking out Judge Lochren's name and
substituting therefor that of Adj. Gen.
Nuremberg, that both names be left
In the bill.
The amendment was vigorously OPP
posed by Judge Abbott, an old SOL
der himself He had, in the legisla-
ture of $685. spoken in favor Of res
olution recommending Judge LOchrea
as pension examiner. He would not
now take back anything he had said
on that occasion. On the other hand,
he was not prepared to say he ap-
proved of the actions Of the judge as
pension examiner, and still he wished
TO be charitable. 1--WE are all crea-
lures Of the influence about u.s. he
said, land the day that Lochren went
to Washington it was with heart all
right toward the soldiers of the coun-
try, but breathing the air in which
Union soldiers were held in contempt.
he had evidently been contaminated.
Personally, he was under obligation
to Judge Lochren for favors granted
to himself, but it could not be gain
said that, during the four years term
of the pension examiner, the rights Of
the soldiers had been ignored. There
was no doubt that LOchren loved the
Union, but there had crept in the feel
ing on the part of the old soldiers,
from ocean to ocean, North and South,
that he had not dealt fairly with them.
They were opposed to going to Gettys-
burg under the command of Judge
Lochren, and Judge Abbott said he
had in his possession 100 personal wit
tnesses of the sentiment. This feeling
was so very strong that, when Cleve-
land had appointed Judge Lochren TO
the United States court bench, numer-
Gus protests were presented to Sena-
tors Davis and Washburn at Washing
ton. He therefore urged the defeat Of
the Hicks amendment
Judge Hicks was next recognized
and a more eloquent defense of his old
friend and fellow jurist has not fallen
from the lips of any member of this
legislature Of orators. The judge re-
peated practically the story which he
had told the reporter for the Glob e
but a short hour before. He held in
his hand hand what he called chose
sacred papers" taken from the archives
of the adjutant generals office. which
proved that LOchren was not only at
the battle of Gettysburg, but that he
wrote, with his own hand. the report
of the part the First Minnesota had
taken in that great engagement. Now
that the question had come before the
people Of the state, the retention Of his
name in that bill was nothing more
than the recognition of the man who
had stood in the forefront of the bat
tie and had done his whole duty-a
simple act of justice.
Representative Henry Johns spoke as
the son Of a soldier. He had not, he
said, always admired the political acts
of Judge Lochren, but this was no
time to drag in matters of politics. He
had been a gallant soldier, and Mr..
Johns read from the record of Mime
sofa troops the account of the battle
written by Judge Lochren. No man
who had served his country upon such
an occasion should receive anything
but honor at his hands.
Mr.. Abbott spoke again, saying that