The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-08-04
Mail Special to The Advcriiser)
BY Ernest a. walker.

BY Ernest q. walker
WASHINGTON, July ai.--DuSing
tho sennte's last days Of reciprocity
carrying, there were hne old incursions
into divers fields OF debate. Almost
every twenty.four hours, tiu the pres.
sure for the delivery Of real speeches
on reciprocity was irresistible, IL came
into vogue to fight a Civil War battle
Senators ranged themselves with tho
contending armies OF the era whose
semi-centenniOl the country is now OBJ.
serving amieably and We'd furiously
in speech.
The first occasion for one of these
Civil War field days was the occasion
when Senator John Sharp Williams, of
Mississippi, proposed his amendment to
keep James John Jones, the sO-year-old
darky, who was Jefferson Davis IS body
servant, on the rolls at 1920 a year, in
spite of the fact that said James John
Jones has not performed any work for
two years.
All that, however, is beside the
fierce sectional wrangling which con-
sumed half of senate afternoon as to
who was justified for Following the
stars and bars with courage and devo-
tion fifty years ago, and beside the
fierce wrangling that ensued when the
same Senator Williams proposed a reso-
luton TO appropriate not to exceed
$l25,0 to commemorate the courage
and constancy'' Of the Confederate
navy on the Mississippi river and its
tributaries during the Civil War. There
has already been appropriated $780,
900 for a memorial at Vicksburg TO
commemorate the services of the Union
navy during that same campaign.
Tributes to Confederates.
The utteranees of senators were in
teresting in that connection. Senator
Cummins, former governor of Iowa,
advocated the appropriation for the
Confederate monument.
"When a few years ago, = said he,
sit became my duty as well as my very
great pleasure to dedicate monuments
which had been erected upon this bat.
tlefeld of Vicksburg in honor of the
soldiers of Iowa, the chairman Of the
commission was that gallant soldier, a
man whose memory is dear to every
loyal and patriotic heart, even though
he fought upon the other side, Gen.
Stephen ID. Lee. 1 am sure his heart
was Just as full of love for the Union
and love for the old flag as either of his
associates upon the commission.
Senator John D. Works of California,
who enlisted from Indiana, and as he
expressed it rendered fssome modest
and inconspicuous service to my coun-
try as a private soldier in the Union
army endorsed the Confederate prof.
est. 81 am always pleased and graft
fed, - asserted Private Works, " to
hear of reunions that are held between
the boys in blue and the boys in gray
should like very much to see these
reunions exemplified and typified in the
monument that it is proposed to erect
to the Confederate sailors"
The Other Side.
Then there stood forth Senator Hey.
burn or Idaho, who emphasized another
side of the question. "There are times
when man has-no right to be silent, !"
quoth he. 1.-THE men, in that age of
plain speaking called dough faces
were responsible for that great war.
Their silence, their cowardice cost the
lives of millions of men on both sides;
it cost thousand of millions Of treas
ure; it cost four years of practical
stagnation in the domestic business of
the country. l am in doubt as to
which loss was the greatest, the loss
by death or the loss by destroyed OPP
portunity during that time. 1t was not
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