OCR Text |
Show j lloa-e I'ussi's liill to Ke'imhurso t'onfeiler-l t'onfeiler-l ate Sulii'ier. j For the first time since the Tebellion the house has passed a measure to pay tarn federate soldiers for losses growing' out of the civil war. it was a bill introduced in-troduced by Mr. Cox of Tennessee, to pay the confederate soldiers who surrendered sur-rendered at Appomattox for the loss of horses and other personal effects taken from them in violation of Fee's capitulation capitu-lation to ilriiLt, by which officers ami men of Fee's army were allowed to retain re-tain their baggage and side arms and horse. 'The bill originally carried ?200,0U0, hut the specific sum was stricken out and the appropriation was made indefinite. in-definite. The bill was passed out of its order and a special eompiiment to Mr. Cox, who, after ten years service in the house, is to retire at the end of his present term. |