Show FORTYEIGHTH CQNGEESS SENATE Washing ton13 Dolph presented a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce of Tacoma on Puget Sound against the forfeiture of the Cascade land grant of the Northern Pacific railroad Mr Harrison from the committee commit-tee on Territories reported favorably favor-ably and had placed on be calendar the bill for the admission of Dakota Mr Plumb submitted a joint resolution which was referred to the committee on agriculture appropriating i ap-propriating 825000 to be made immediately I im-mediately available under the direction direc-tion of the commissioner agriculture agricul-ture for the suppression ef foot and mouth disease among cattle in Kansas Kan-sas Within a few minutes of the reference Plumb from the commit teereported the joint resolutionand I asked its immediate consideration Or jection being made it went over Mr Plumb giving notice that he would call it up tomorrow Tbe bill for the relief of Fltz John Porter was taken up and Mander son addressed the Senate in oppoi tion to it He understood the claim to be that on a full investigation no fault could be found with the conduct of General Porter He had read General Grants paper in the North American Review and that with other reading had aroused in him sympathy and Interest in the case He felt it his duty then to examine it thoroughly and he was sorry to be compelled to say that from the examination he had given the case whether this be a case of judicial review or the exercise of clemency he felt bound to vote noon no-on this bill The bill asked Congress Con-gress to set aside the verdict of the court martial to review and set aside the decision of one of the highest high-est tribunals was a most dangerous precedent Logan then addressed the Senate He said aftr a trial of fortyfive days the courtmartial dismissed Porter from the army The trial now going on was not that of Porter but of the dead on the charge that they had distorted facts Porter after all these yearshad become the prosecutor It was a trial at this late day of Abraham Lincoln Turn I ing to the Democratic side Logan said he hoped to be pardoned for thee I the-e rk but Itw perfectly natural j for those who had been pardoned by the government to feel like pardoning pardon-ing Porter Fitz John Porter he continued was the cause of the loss of the first battle of Bull Run it was not that Porter could not obey Popes order it was not shown that he had tried to obey it The road was open from 2 oclock in the morning and he did not move for five hours after he was ordered to move Porters Por-ters friends excused hUn by saying it was dark night the evidence contradicted that statement But suppose it was dark that was no reason for not moving The speaker himself had in an exceedingly exceed-ingly dark rainy night with 10000 men crossed the Mississippi River marched twentytwo miles and fought a battle and as he believed saved the field Logan proceeded to cite historical instances from the battles of Alexander the Great Demosthenes Nero Hannibal and Napoleon showing that darkness instead hindering often aided in winning battles The speaker then I referred to the causes for which a I number of officers had been dismissed dis-missed without a court martial some of them for small offenses such as absence without leave In J letters in the case General Rose crane eaid he regretted that he was not the instrument to inflict the punishment of death but all there were duly volunteer officers The speaker had a high opinion of General Grant but the latter was not a first class lawyer Logan continued I con-tinued that instead of 250000 troops I in charge of Longstreet in front of Porter on August 29th there were not 5000 men Porter had two hours of daylight after the delivery of Popes order according to the statement of the time by the orderly or-derly who delivered It The rule of warfare was to strike the enemy when you found him not to stay out because you feared you might be whipped Logan warned members of the House from the south that their cause in this case tended to delay the date when the people of the country would have confidence In their good intentions Inten-tions This opening of the dcois I meant the breaking down at the i barriers between loyal and disloyal men and the overthrow of army discipline Southerners he said the people of the north believed had no right to come to Congress to regulate our courtmar tial of the war period or put back into the army men who failed us He dwelt upon this point as an injustice to soldier living and dead and to the memory of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln Conger expressed a desire to amend the bill by striking out the word the and inserting the words an additional before the words retired list of the army his object being he said to save from disgrace the regular retired Hat of the army and have a separate retired list provided j pro-vided for General Porter and those like him The Chair declaed the bill was not subject to amendment at this time except for additional sections The bill was then read the third time and passed 36 yeas 25 nays The result was received with mingled applause and hisses from the galleries The vote was as follows Yeas Bayard Brown Batler Call Cockrell Coke Colquitt Fair Farley Garland Gibson Gorman Groorne Hampton Harris Hoar Jackson Jonas Jones Florida Jones Nevada Lamar McPherson McPher-son Maxey Morgan Fendleton Pike Pagh Riddleberger Sabin Saulsbury Sewall Slater Vance Yoorbees Walker and Williams Nays Aldilch Allieon Blair Bowen Conger Cullom Dawes Dolph Edmonds FrY8l Harrison Hawley Hill Ingalls Logan Mo MilJan Manderson Miller California i Califor-nia Mitchell Morrill PaImerPIatt Sherman Van Wyck and Wilson During the vote the following pairs were announced Beck aye with Hole no Cameron WisJ aye with George no Miller NYJ no with Camden aye Plumb no with Vest aye Sawyer no with Kenna aj e A motion to go into executive session was agreed to but while the doors Were being closed it was discovered dis-covered that the preamble to the bill had not been parsed and a motion mo-tion to secure its immediate passage was made The preamble then passed 33 yeas 22 nays During the vote Miller NY expressed a wish to vote and without objection transferred Camdens pair to Aldrich who was now absent Miller then voted no The preamble to the bill as passed recites that the board of officers convened con-vened by the President to examine and report upon the case of General Porter stated that lastlca renuired the Pr sident to annul the findings and sentence or the courrmartial in General Portets case and restore him to the p sition of which the sentence deprived him such restoration to take effect from the date of his dismissal from the service that the President had remitted so much of the sentence as disqualified General Porter from holding office and that in order to do justice to General Porter it wag enacted etc The bill then authorized author-ized the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint General Porter to the position posi-tion of colonel in the army the same graJe and rank held by him at the time of his dismissal and authorizes the President in hits discretion to place General Porter on the retired list of that grade General Porter however to receive no compensa I I tion or allowance prior to his ap pointment under this act Adjourned HOUSE Washing 13The House went into committee of the whole Blountjin the chair on the post office appropriation bill the pending amendment being that Increasing the appropriations for the payment of letter carriers and incidental expenses ex-penses of the free livery servie from 3600000 to 4000000 Townsend opposed the amendment amend-ment as a step in tbe direction of extravagtnce which ought to be stopped here and now He called attention at-tention to the fsct that out of 154 free delivery officea ony fourteen were self sustaining He asserted as-serted that Boston and Chicago were the only sslfsustaining free delivery deli-very offices in Massachusetts and Illinois respectively The Democratic Demo-cratic cities of New York and Chicago Chi-cago were sustaining free delivery system in Kepuolican States Davis Ill said Chicago had no Democratic Representative elected as such in the House and contro verted the assertion that the free delivery system was not aelfsus taming He opposed the bill because be-cause it would reduce the carrier service at least 200 menThe men-The amendment was adopted 122 to 23 I I |