The National tribune., 1907-01-17

| war the average price OF COTTON CioIr
which was used in the ordinary SOL
u dier's family was about 80 cents yard
1t went as high as As cents at one time
but on an average the price was 2e
cents and a fraction from the time the
war began until its close
i "Mr. President. that is but fair
i sample of the prices of everything
which the soldiers family consumed
| l know, and you know, that the money
paid to the soldier did not support his
family at home. and that in great
! many cases those families became a
public charge, and, If not a public
/ charge, charge upon their friends and
their neighbors. Such, at least, was
the case in the section of country in
which I live.
Mr. President. every little while
some man foots up the tremendous ex-
pense of our penison roll. Those who
do that forget to foot up the expenses
incurred in war; they forget how very
expensive all wars are. Every Nation
in the world when it goes to war knows
| that it is to be called upon for a vast
expenditure of money.
Il do not care Mr. President, to go
into the details of this subject, except
to say, as | have repeatedly said here,
that no man has right to complain of
the pension roll, and if the passage of
this bill should require the expenditure
of $15,O00,00 a year, or 100000 900
a year. or s25. 100000 a year, why. Mr..
President, that would be a mere baga-
telle compared with our vast expendi-
lures, and when you consider the class
of some of our expenditures.
'Since we have got to be great
Nation and world power we ought
at least to be willing to take care of tn,
men who made US such. 1t was not the
Spanish War that made us such. but
when we established the fact that the
American Flag should float unquestiOn-
ed and undisturbed over every mile of
American territery-that is when we
became a world power, M President.
We had not been uD to that time, tho
we had been to great degree even
then; but that solidified us and settled
the question of American sovereignty
and American control of all the terri
tory that we had ever claimed to be
our
Senator Carmack proposed another
amendment, that of substituting civil
war" for war of the rebellion" He
said that this would not be his defini-
that was now mostly used and was en-
ployed in all official documents. includ-
ing the Presidents messages.
Senator Bacon supported this amend
ment. and Senator McCumber said he
had no objections to it.
Senator Money said that the term
should rather be war between the
Staies." and offered that as an amend
ment. Senator McCumber opposed the
designation of "war between the
States" because it was not such, since
many of the States had soldiers on both
sides.
Senator Teller insisted that rebellion
is the proper term. 1t describes the'I
condition which existed from 1861 to
1865. 1t was a rebellion, because. when
the war closed there was no treaty be-
tween the States and the General Gov
ernment; there was no recognition Of
State lines. In every respect the war
was treated as war of citizens of the
United States against the Government,
as rebellion of the States.
Senator Money insisted that the
States withdrew from the Union; that
they raised regiments as States and
appointed officers. 1t was a war be-
tween number of States in the United
States and a number of States in thel
Confederacy. He did not, however,
consider the term rebel as having an
odium. George Washington was al
rebel" He admitted that men went
into the Union army from every South
ern State and that every Southern State
except Mississippi furnished one. orI
more regiments. There was a Missis-
sippi regiment raised for the Union,
but 1t was made up of fragments of
regiments. sick and wounded Union sol-I
diers at Vicksburg. Mississippi was
wholly rebel He said:
Kentucky and Maryland and Mis-
souri, sent the very flower of the Con-
federate army into the field. The best
fighting men 1 ever saw came from
those States. for the reaspn that they
were not compelled to GO to the front
by local opinion, but went to the front
contrary to that opinion. as many of
them had to run the lines to get there,
and they made all kinds of sacrifices
IT admit that If I had been in Mas
sachusetts / would have been in the |
Federal army, and I guess if the Sem
ator from Colorado (Mr. Teller had
Deefi llV1HS III Town ne would nave
been member of my company; and
/ am not at all blaming anybody for
the attitude he took at that time"
Concluding his remarks, he told of
Ex-senator Blair, OF New
Hampshire, who was on crutches as |
the result of wounds inflicted by Con-
federate soldiers. He was shot three
or four times, and when they were 4
talking 1t over they both agreed that
they We're glad they were wounded, |
and that any man who was worth be-
ing hit was usually on one side or the |
other. Other Southern Senators sup
ported the substitution of civil war"
for war of the rebellion" but Senator |
Teller, while saying that the right of
rebellion was the dearest right of a /
free man, insisted that rebellion was
the correct term, and pointed out that
it was so used in the Constitution of
the United States, where the amend |
ments prohibit any man from holding |
office who shall have engaged in in
surrection or rebellion unless his dis |
abilities be removed" and also assert |
the validity of the debt incurred 'in I
insurrection or rebellion"
and prohibit the payment of "any debt
or obligation incurred in aid of insur-
rection or rebellion"
Senator Bacon insisted that the war |
was a much greater war than a rebel
lion. 1t was struggle between the
people of the foremost Nation on earth
,1nap great nuesfinn unoD which thav