The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-02-16
Swanson's Bill 10 ReoOmponse
Southern Officers.
BLOODY SHIRT" DAYS OVER
Measure Makes Charges Of Cruelty
Against Federal General That
Would Have Raised Storm In
Congress Some Years Ago


the rfttcs we're constant theme oi
oratUry In congress IhU." we're what
are Known as the bloody shirt days.
and old timers hero say that % took
only the mention of the previous sec.
tlonal strife tu stir things up and 10
put Northern Republicans mud south
ou Democrats into no." ring 10 nght
Il out with bitter speeches hs woUp
onH Now everything is changed ANA
" ~ not once To- two years that ans.
thing approaching bitterness growing
out ~ the Clyl war o. shown either in
the house or In the senate
During tho war days thoro woro
Northern charges ~ extreme cruelty
90 Federal ,nptlycs in Southern prir
onA There wns rc'ort from the South
that iu good many cases The North
did not front Confederate prisoners In
accordance with tho dictates of hu-
mnnity aud in tho spirit Of civilized
warfare
A dry ur two ago Senator swanson
of Virginia introduced hill which. n
II bad been brought 20 public Hiion.
raised row The swanson mcnrurc
WIS read twice aud referred Ia th"
committee on claims aud lts reading
cuu,cd barely ripple. although Do
had ln lt subject matter which Year,
ego would have r'1rtDd the Northern
nnd Southern hr.rdlor4 loo cougr" b.
on ruJ "r'DIl warfare
Senator 5paufnua Dim ualH that
Their. hn uliI 40 certain surviving o1
cDrI ~ 'nn Confederate service thn
sun orr $4,000 each us damages uni
tcpamUDu" The Swanson tu ao'|
forth If WHOM NrIpr General %
Foster ol tho unIou for.or hoard TINT
some .t,u oWrUr held uH pT auu.
cra uf war iu tho city 0f ChlflcH,,n
were fl placed lu prison that they
vCrc in danger Of bclur killed by
HlcliB fred from tho batteries. be- Tor
the prrpoFc Of retaliation w,a lnHtru
mental u causing some nix hundred
Confederate officers who we're prison
err 60 be- placed whore they would be-
~ danger Of death from shot and
she'll
Charges Of Harsh Treatment
The swanson measure goes a great
deal farther than this In ita charges
when II says that the six hundred OF.
hcors. for fofty.tWo days were given
no daily ratlons except four bareback
crackers. frequently wormy." one
ounce Of tat picked pork aud half a
pint NJ bean soup alternatod at times
with half u pint ~ mush made from
meal that was old aud wormy. while
the only drinking water was impure
More than this, the bill sets forth
that tho same six hundred Confodcr
ate soldiers wcro confined In cold
damp classmates without IRE or blnn
kcts and that for sixty i've consecutive
days nt one time they wero forced Ia
live ON daily ration Of ten ounces OF
rotten corn meal TO which was added
IAN ample supply Of cucumber and
onion pickle which n eaten only In
creased the phngs Of hunger"
Congrcna ~ told In this bill thai
such treatment Of pouons was "un
justlnnble and contrary TO all IA,
acknowledged rights Of bclllgcrcncy
and without precedent as an ostub
llahod principle In civilized warfare
Gardner and Smith Happy.
In the senate OF the Unite,
States u place on tho committc,
OF agriculture Is held In the high
est ostoom. Membership In the com
miiloe occasionally Is much sough
after by senators who have no know
edge Whatsoever Of farming II hu
been whispered In tho past on one o
two occasions that some Of the scuu
tors have sought a place on agrica
ture In order TO give tho people O
their states an idea that they ARE In
torcstcd particularly In things Whlc
concern the farmer
Recently there came into tho scnnt
membership two men, both Democrats
and both really deeply Interested 1
agriculture one of them was liok
Smith " Georgia, Who while goyornu
Of that state, showed lively lntcrc,
In agricultural matters, aud the 9th,
was Obadiah Gardner ot Maine. VIII
Is farmer and who Tor a long tim