Show CONGRESSIONAL SiteJohn Porter Bill in The the House BILL DEBATE EDtCTIONAL rough Talk Aealnst the 0 r mrethe Other Bunlness of Thursday 5BSATK stfcios Iebraary llIn these the-se todsy after the dLjP ° saI of morning business Edmunds e 0e 7 important committee of the J1one Ie bad to go to New York today important committees had 1i j ither I jerable work to do he believed I business would be subserved t ie adjourning of the Senate from te afterDoon till Monday He there nrtffled that when the Senate ad ° n today it be till Monday Agreed fJ ° feller submitted an amendment to tu resolutton of inquirv regarding therefuzaI nltl3 of the Assistant Treasurer at we Orleans to issue silver certificates ell tichange for silver dollars The jLndment directs the committee onto on-to enquire also into the loss of I eiice moLey iipnl to have occurred in the ew urleans y subTreasury and whether 3Lh loss occurred in connection with ie eichance of silver certificates form e for-m coin The amendment was ordered rnted I n3DK J the bills introduced was one 1 f Mitchell Oregon providing for the 7 el of all treaties permitting the W of Chinese to the United States sl prohibited their coming except in diplomatic and official personal person-al At the request of Mitchell the U j laid on the table for the pres cceedingto the calendar the Sen xk up the bills in their ordtr LebdS for private relief having been r ossdof the bill to regulate tho pro sites of West Point graduates was Kiel Entail in reply to an inquiry by t ja said this was the first year for a 1 tae when there would be more Er touts graduated from the acad erny than there would be vacancies for ie army MteM Miderable debate the bill ns passed as reported from the committee com-mittee itCoctock the education bill was lad Jelore the Senate and Morgan took Ihsflooioait I TietoUHr Morgan said was a bill torateoffiwmd elaborate machinery i ifrtEOTtnutnt t It was a bill to tax iLetontst hud orkin man in order i educate chidira of a drunken caflDgugabind fiho would not work ihjfiBuy If from the 00000000 vtof sa the Unfed States were to be acted aO the deajeads dead bests sal nonproduoers there irLd te about 20000000 people left wo woala have to pay taxes to carry oat the provisions of tin U The bill itself would be tu ue jt to a tax of 3 per capita on thos tu paver and by the time all te fan were appointed for the ad I iLs < t3twa of this scleme of benovel ece ad all the clerks appointed that w > be necessary to investigate act ac-t J of tiirtveight States and ten etjeo affected by the bill it would d that the tax per capita would J itlead of 3 If the United iLe beaters were men who t ciea the fields or worked as smiths j pw tares out of the sweat of their Lv < Mr Morgan could have more re pod fr them when voting away tyn one man educat the chili r chil-i another Then the constitu 4 pound for the bill MrJ < organ Jwrt Was said to be found in the goral welfare clause of the c = Ae tj tae Constitution Such a sppLcation of that clause meant that you could put down a that got un by his own exertions tl < 3 put up a drunken loafer l 0ud not exert himself The 7 rwpfe m the United States today e thoe found in the backwoods in iearof God and having respect for sooa order and morals of society j trough up around their owns own-s ad hearthstones honest 7 iisent ana faithful sons anders j = and-ers Mr Morgan characterized i BIah 0 idea as one involving the t of C Ingress to educate the chil u l of the Joi several States without con e vf the States Blair interposed to say that heed he-ed tlle primary duty of education 5on the parents but inasmuch 1 ton was indispensable to the 4 pa of free government if the T Whether f i ti tOn from inability or dis alio failed in the performance of ty sat duty felt to the States On Republic if the State proper j rent both failed then it became i x 7 ei the Republic to educate the Since Ue child would be a citizen I niy of the State but of the United tL 11This however was a power t auld be exercised only in the last I ir the Caij zked Mr Morgan if he de theright of the United States to < a e donation to a State for any eVe Morgan ot replied that he could Irh a case j raIn Was debated at length If fe It Passed however Mr Mor t II d ed to see it amended and rertain amendments one of a oed omaking the fiscal t ztet iled Slates the year con 1J ibU and excluding from 1 tJje to be used for the Ii l I t pur bi1lal1mone s drawn Irom it Ust JS or internal ° revenue or the tal t lor consular service or a Tua II v otcc Mr Morgan drew N f7 ilnction between moneys rav L whsttita Cation and moneys de tp sales of public lands peope t wth tt d a trust for all the 4W thi t lfni d States and main the money was to be given to the States it should come from i the proceeds of those lands At this point Mr Morgan yielded loran lor-an executive session after which the Senate adjourned until Monday I The Senate in executive session con firmed the nomination of Peter Gallagher I Galla-gher agent for the Indians in Idaho Senator Mitchell today introduced a new antiChinese bill After reciting in preamble that all the treaties which i inhibit the United States from absolutely I I Jhlbiting Chinese coming to the Unt d oiatej are penal ious to the peace domestic tranqui lay and general welfare wel-fare of the united States it provides as the first section that the treaties between be-tween the United States government govern-ment and the Chinese Empire in so far as they recognize or permit the coming of Chinese to the Unitei States and inhbit the government of the United Mates from aboluttly prohibiting the coming of Chinese to the United States and all acts of Congress which in any manner or upon any conditions recognize or permit the coining to the United States of Chinese whether subjects of the Chinese Empire or otherwise are hereby here-by abrocawd set aside and repealed A section provides that from and after the passage ot this act it shall be unlawful un-lawful for any Chinese whether subjects sub-jects of China or otherwise as well as those who are now within the limits of the United States and who may hereafter leave the United States and attempt to return as those who have never been here exccptinc such as may be duly accredited to the United States as diplomatic representatives including other officers of the Chinese or other governments traveling upon business of that government together with their body and household servants to come to or within or land or remain re-main in any port or place within the United States The coming of Chinese persons to the United States excepting those exempted in the above paragraph Is absolutely prohibited after the passage of this act Thesection of the previous Chinese acts providing penalties for violations of their provisions are reenactedas are also those providing safeguards against Chinese unlawfully entering the country coun-try with such slight changes as are made necessary by the provisions of the first two sections of the bill The provisions pro-visions of the previous acts relative to the removal of theChinese found to be unlawfully in this country are renewed as is also the provision prohibiting the courts from admitting the Chinese to citizenship All terms conditions and prohibitions of the act are made applicable ap-plicable to all the Chinese now in this country who may at any time hereafter here-after leave the United States and also to those who have been in the United States md have already departed HOUSE WASHINGTON February 11Reed of Maine offered a resolution modifying the order making the FileJohn Porter bill the continuing special order from today until next Thursday so as to provide that the bill shall not be con sidcrea until after the second morning hour on each day i Randall endeavored to have the order i further amended so that the previous i question should be ordered on Tuesday I instead of Thursday but he was unsuccessful un-successful and Reeds resolution was I adopted Bingham asked leave to introduce a I bill granting a pension of 2000 per I annum to tOe widow of General Hancock Han-cock but Beach objected Wellborn from the committee on Indian affairs reported tho Indian appropriation ap-propriation bill and it was referred to the committee of the whole Rogers from the committee on judiciary ju-diciary reported a bill conferring Civil jurisdiction in certain cases arising in Indian Territory the United States courts which exercise criminal jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over the Territory House calendar calen-dar E B Taylor from the same committee commit-tee reported a bill to extend the laws of the United States over certain unorganized unor-ganized territory south of the State of Kansas House calendar In the second morning hour Adams Ills on behalf of the committee on bankinc and currency called up the bill to enable national b king association to increase their capital stock and change their names or locations The bill passed yeas 129 nays 120 bit 1fg Adams entered a motion reconsider and to lay that motion on the table but the morning hour having expiredfina action was not taken The House then at 2 oclock went into committee of the whole on the Fitz John Porter bill The Debate was opened by Mr Haynes of New Hampshire in support of the bill The strongest prejudice which he had ever entertained been ngainst Porter But it had disappeared when he commenced to examine the case He did not share in the estimst of Pope entertained by many of POrters POr-ters friends but he believed that if any other of Popes generals had been in Porters place and had acted as Porte had acted there would never have been a court martial and no Union general of that campaign would have suffered for more than twenty years a tigma worse than death It had been Porters disrespectful and un excusable allusions to Pope that had singled him out as an object of suspicion and as an abject of revenge Porter had been ofee of the growlers and his punishment had been out of all proportion to his offense Both Lin coin and Grantat one time had equally believed in the injustice of Porters sentence sen-tence but when the opportunity had been given fora calm dispassionate review of the case had proclaimed the injustice of the verdict end become ear nestchcmpions of Porterscauseand he was a bold man who dares to impugn the Military judgment of U 8 Grant If Lincoln had lived he Mr Haynes believed Lincoln and Grant would have stood together in a demand for justice to Fitz John Porter Mr Stele of Indiana took the floor in opposition to the bill and premised his speech with the remark What in thunder are we here for Why are we discussing FiUJoh I Porter This question he said bad been asked by a number of members of the House and at least one Democrat had added that tho Democrats were going to vote for it anyhow He Mr Steele believed that this was true nut he would vote against it PojeSj fdmons order he said should and could have been easily ebeyed If Jackson marched that night could not Porter have also marched There was iot a soldier in tho House out what cnew that it was Porters duty to obey the order After dwelling with greet minuteness of detail upon the mil tary Jperatious of the 29th of August Ifr Steele concluded his speech as follows fol-lows LJf we have wars hereafter they will be for the common country let us not say by our action that we want any man of Porters kind to command When the countrys satety is in danger let us say to our sons and our sons sons When you receive an order obey it though at the cost of your life Let us say to our sons and our sons sons Even without an order if you hear the call of battle move on to the succor of companions whether you like your commanding officer or not Applause Ap-plause After some further debate the committee com-mittee rose and the House adjourned |