Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-18
OF the Secretary of War.
@ \ DANA

By order OF the Secretary of War.
G.. \. DANA.
Assistant Secretary Of War.
In addition 10 this General Miles told
his friends on the committee that he had
also a copy of the proclamation of Presi-
dent johnson, associating Jefferson Davis
with the assassination of Lincoln. and
which, in his opinion, would have justi-
ned extraordinary precautions, if the d.
rect order to that effect had not been
gwen by Mr.. Dana. This proclamation
distinctly averTed that lit appears from
evidence in the Bureau of Military JUS
uce that the atrocious murder Of the late
President. Abraham Lincoln, and the at
tempted assassination of the Hon. w H
Seward, Secretary of State, were melted
concerted, and procured by and between
Jefferson Davis, late Of Richmond, Va.
and Jacob Thompson, Clement C. CLAY.
Beverly Tucker, George N. Sanders, w.
{. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors
against the government of the United
States Rewards ranging from 100000
Tor the arrest of Davis to $4,000 for the
arrest Of Clay were offered.
PETTUS VOTES FOR MILES.
All this data has been seen by members
of the committee, and 1t is also said that
there is in existence a private letter from
Mr.. Dana, written thirty years after IN,
occurrence, in which he refers to the or
Ger he gave to General Miles TO place
irons upon Davis. There is no doubt that
the production of Mr.. Dana's order had
considerable effect upon the minds of
some OF the senators on the committee.
and Mr.. Pettus, of Alabama, was frank
10 say that General Miles had obeyed or
ders, and he would vote for him. which
he did. When the vote was taken ON the
motion to report the bill favorably. the
committee stood eight to three, as fol-
lows:
Aftirmative-Hawley, Proctor. Shoup.
Sewell, Warren, Carter, Mitchell. Pettus. /!
Negative-Bate. Cockrell. and Walthall. |
Senator Proctor was absent, but was
recorded as for the bill. All the Republi-
cans on the committee thus voted affirm
atiyely, together with two Democrats
Mitchell, of Wisconsin, and Pettus. of
Alabama. The negative votes were cast
by senators from Tennessee, Missouri
and Mississippi.
Before the bill was voted upon I'm COM
mittee there was considerable discussion
1t originally proposed that the person TO
be chosen for acknowledgement should
be appointed by the President. by and
will the advice and consent of the Sen
ate. Inc word appoint was changed 10
nominate The most important change.
however. was the elimination of the clause
which compelled the President TO select
one of the three ma~jor-generals. This
was stricken out so that the President.
II the bin passes, can nominate any per
son, a civilian, if he so desires. The reso-
as reported, reads as follows:
Re IL resolved by the Senate and House
OF Representatives OF the United States
Of America, in Congress assembled. Tina
the grade Of acknowledgement be, and
same is hereby, revived in the army
or the Unitd states, and the President is
hereby authorized, whenever he shaU
deem II expedient, to nominate, and, by
and with the advice and consent of the
to appoint a ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
VINO, being commissioned as such, NAV
be authorized, under the direction and
during tho pleasure of the President, to