Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-08-10

Mr.. Enloe had had the bill up
twice and both times voted down
by majority of the committee
of the whole, but found that the
bill had never passed the
house while Mr.. Enloe was a
member of congress from this
district; but not withstanding this
we found the following as a part
of Mr.. Enloe's record, accom-
panying his announcement in the
Jackson Dispatch:
"Mr. Enloe secured the pas
sage of bills which caused to be
paid TO the southern war clam
ants oyer a quarter of a millioa
dollars while he was in congress.
At that time the republican party
and a part of the democrats
fought every southern war claim
and when Enloe passed the Hi
ram Johnson bill through con-
gress, he passed it on yea and
nay vote, after a hard fight, as he
passed various other similar
claims. Senator Harris failed 10
pass the Johnson bill in the SEN
ate on account of the republican
fight against it.
"Since the Spanish war came
up and President Mckinley
wants The national government
to take charge Of the confederate
graves and care for them, the
policy on the subject of southern
war claims has changed and
those which formerly fought so
bitterly are permitted to go
through both houses by unami
nous consent"
That he was astonished to see,
such a statement, and that he, at
Selmer, asked Mr.. Enloe if it
was a fact that he had passsd the
Hirman Johnson bill through the
house on a yae and nay vote,
and tina: Senator Harris had fail
ed to get it thro ugh the Senate
as stated in his announcement
when Mr.. Enloe responded that
it was.
Mr.. Sims then produced let
ter from Thos. Fl. Mckee, jour
nal clerk of the house, dated
Washington. July 9TH 1900, show
ing that said Johnson bill had
not passed any of the congress
es in which Mr.. Enloe served, as
shown by the journals of the
house. lie then read Il chrome
logy of said bill then prepared by
Senator Turley, which also show,
ed that said bill had not passed
the house during Mr.. Enloe's SER
vice. He then read the following
letter from the present journal
clerk o. The Senate.
U nj tie d Senate Senate,
Washington; ID, c., July $4,000.
Hon. I. w. Sims, Paris, Tenn,
Dear Sir: In reply to your
favor of the 9th instant, | beg to
inform you that no bill for the re.
lief of Hiram Johnson and 9TH
ers, has passed the house of rep.
resentatives since the End Sess.
4th Cong. until a bill for the
same purpose passed the house
at the last session, and upon the
motion of Mr.. Bate, was taken
up and passed and approved by
the president, April 18th 1900.
The claim of johnson and others
was several times before the Sc.
nate in the congresses you men.
ton, but only in the form of one
of its own bills, Very respect.
fully yours,
H. b. Mcdonald,
journal Clerk.
All showing that said state.
ment of Mr.. Enloe, in his an
nouncement as to his having
passed the Hiram johnson Bill
by yae and nay vote, or that it
had failed Of passage in the sen.
ate, was absolutely untrue, and
lie criticised the attempt to lay
at the door of Senator Harris the
failure to pass the bill in the sen.
ate, when in fact it had not pass
ed the house and was not in the
senate as a house bill at all, as
shown 10y the above correspond
ence.
Mr.. Sims wanted to know how
Mr.. Enloe could justify himself
III that attempt to deprive him
of the little credit he was entitled
to for the passage of the bill in
the present congress, by falsely
f stating and publishing that he had
passed the bill himself.
: MIR. Enloe in his rejoinder made
no reply to this charge of having
misrepresented his record as tt
said Hiram johnson Bill.
Dir. Sims further stated that q
: letter of Hon. w. j. Bryan to Mr.
| Enloe written in 1899, had beer
! published by Mr.. Enloe in the
t jackson Dispatch, accompanied
: by favorable editorial comment
=, that he had cut out the letter az
+. published and the editorial com
: ment, and forwarded the same tc
E. Mr.. Bryan and asked him tt