Show I LATEST TELEGRAMS = FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington BThe VicePresi dent presented a memorial of the trustees of the Peabody educations I fund recommending legislation to t aid in the education of colored children chil-dren Referred Mr Kirkwood submitted a resolution resolu-tion instructing the secretary of the I treasury to communicate to the Senate Sen-ate a statement of the amount o f money expended by the United State for all purposes necessarily growing outof the late war specifying separately separ-ately the amount paid on the principal prin-cipal of the public debt thereby incurred the amount of interest paid < on such debt for each year the amount paid f jr pensions includin t arrears and amount paid to soldier and sailors of the war such information informa-tion to be biought down to January 1 1S80 Adopted Davis of West Virginia said h a would ask that the pending order b a laid aside and the appropriation bill disposed of Conkling said ha wished it understood under-stood that he objected to laying arid e informally the Porter bill The latter was then considered Bayard advocated Randolph substitute authorizing Porters reo appointment as colonel B e regretted tnat uarpemers very able and constitutional addres Is had terminated with an appeal t lO partisan prejudice which should certainly cer-tainly not appear in a cae of public c justice due in the name of the American government The fact that a republican President and his advisers commend the matter to Congress I Con-gress snould divest this bill of partisanship par-tisanship He denied that court martials are equal to civil courts the latter can review the proceedings of the former and prevent unlawfu judgments Can it be possible that an injustice done in the passion o f war and amid the roar of cannon I can never be undone when found unjust un-just In 1874 Congress reversed It court martial decision in the case o If George A Aims because it was found unjust Logan said that wa not a paralel case the Presided not having approved the finding of the court martial Bayarc said that nevertheless Congress set aaide the effect of the court martial As to tbe charge that Porter delayed and finally retreated on the 29th it baa been proved tha it was no such thing There was a general engagement on the 29th a S McDowell swore to McDowell made a frightful mistake in making that charge for he confused that 29th with the 30th of August He was misled by reading Jacksons report which referred to the 30th net the 29th and only discovered his mistake while testifying before the board ot review so the whole fabric of McDowells testimony on which Porter was conyicted rested on s mistake as to disobedience of the 430th order Another fact broagh out before the board of review wa that Porter did not get the dispatch i until after 6 p in As to the events of the 30th they redound ta the glory and not to the shame of Fitz John Porter Stonewall Jackson than whom no man wai a better judge of bravery reported to this t-his commanding officer that the attacks at-tacks were made with such fury and gallantry by the United States forces that nothing but the fortunate reinforcement rein-forcement sent by Lonsatreet prevented pre-vented his overtbrow Fitz John Porter directed those attack and it i wa his courage and that of his men which came so near overwhelming the southern army That which was intended for his shame will stand forever for-ever a monument to his courage 3uel ty and ardor The facts cannot hn rubbed nnt nr nurred over They will burn themselves into the conscience con-science of the American people eo long na memory shall last Ap plause The dispatch of Me Clellan to Porter exhorting him to support Pope was written at the request of Lincoln who bad heard rumors of ill feeling among the officers but these were rumore Porters response to ilcCielan was as follows FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE 10 am Sept 2nd 1862 You may rest assured all your I friends as well as every lower of his country will ever give as they have given to General Pope their cordial c5peraton and constant support in L the execution of all orders and plane Our killed wounded and enfeebled trop attested our devoted duty f Signed F J Pni mi > Major General It is said wo will hear from the coun try if we pass this bill He hoped so but he wanted the country to hear from him first He was not waiting for the echo of popular approval condemnation He would be an unworthy un-worthy representative of an intel gent people if he did not care to vote on his own conviction of right Logan remarked that the board of inquiry uiry could be called only on the re quest of an accused officer Bajard said that this was the case only when they were called by a commanding officer The statute provides that the President might call it at any time Logan held that such a board could not inquire into the conduct of a man now a citizen Bayard claimed it could investigata what a man did when a soldier Logan then charged that the supporters of the bill were arbling the testimony He would DU EH sun ana anow raisrepresenta tions to be made and proceeded to speak at some length making the following points That McDowells mistake about Jacksons referring to the 29th instead of the 30th was made in a letter long after the court martial Jacksona report not having been > made at the time of the court hat all the evidence shows there was a battle on the 29th and Porter did get the 430th order and afterwards ordered Morell to attack in accordance accord-ance with it that the dispatches read b j Bayard show that Porter was going 1 I to retroat when there was no force in front of him and contradict other dispatches showing that he had communication com-munication with Pope A message was received from the President but not read or laid before the Senate reUtiva to the inter oceanic canal McDonald obtained the floor and after executive session the Senate adjourned HOUSE Washington BThe speaker announced an-nounced that the new rules were operative to day and called states for bills etc beginning with Alabama San ford introduced a bill to reduce the tariff on certain articles which he desired to have referred to the committee on revision of laws It should first be taken on reference to that committee then to a special committee and then if these motions were voted down the House could refer it to any other committee Morrison moved to refer the bill t > the committee of the whole Debate followed as to the duty of the speaker in regard to the reference of bill I Wood and Robeson holding that it was his duty to state under the rules I I to which committees bills should be I referred and that reference could only be changed by a suspension of the rules Cox Haskill and Morrison holding that the majority of the House had the right to send a bill to any committee it chooses The vote on sending the bill to the committee on ways and moans resulted yeas 143 nays 88 The speaker stated that he wculd I not consider his ruling final but take council and be pleased to have a1rice The bill in dispute provided that from July next no duty shall be levied in i I excess of 50 per cent of tho present rate on mercbadise chiefly composed of cotton hemp metal wood or leather Sanford also introduced a bill I billi removing the duty from type atc i blank paper and all material used h making them This bill vas referred I ta the ways and means 135 to 87 although Sanford asked its reference to the committee on revision of laws Bills were introduced by Nichols for tha removal of the duty on all I articleD ueed in paper making and to reduce the duty on unsized paper to 50 por cent ad valorem BySpeer preventng military dress parades on Sunday By Morrison reducing the duties in excess of 50 per cent ad valorem on articles embraced in schedules A B C E G K L M and N section 2504 Revised Statutes but withdrew the bill to allow the speaker to examine the rules as to how it might be referred re-ferred By Forr a bill pensioning soldiers and eailors of all wars disabled from work By Gillete appropriating 5000 to encourage the manufacture cf sugar from corn ttilka and eorgum By McKenzie abolishing the duty on agricultural implements By King putting on the free list all articles used in the manufacture of printing paper inks and all magazine I book paper By Hatch for salt duty free and wanted it referred to the committee on agriculture but the House 123 to I 93 referred it to the ways and means committee I By Covert to punish blackmailing in the District of Columbia King offered by unanimous consent con-sent the interoceanic canal committee commit-tee resolutions reaffirming the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine They Ho over to be called up at any time The election committee unanimously unani-mously except Weaver report that Siemens la entitled to the seat from the Second Arkansas District Weaver believed the seat vacant Hunter presented the Presidents canal message Referred to the inter oceanic canal committee Adjourned |