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Show " FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATE. Wanning ton, 20. The president pro tan laid before the senate a resolution reso-lution of the city council of Ctiicago praying the passage of the bouse bill I to place the name of General James Shields upon the retired list of the army with tiie rank of brigadier general. gen-eral. Laid on the table. Thurman, from the judiciary committee com-mittee to which waa re-committed .v.- 1 u:n ... n,a mission to the bar ot the supremo court of the United States of auy . woman who has been a member of tho bar of the highest court of any I siuto or territory, for the period of three years, reported it back with an amendment ol Hargent providing that no person shall be refused admission to the bar of any United States court on account of sex. Tnurman Baid he had been directed by the committee to report, as they reported before, there waa no law prohibiting a court from admitting women to the bar and therefore there was no necessity for this legislation. The bill was placed on the calendar with an advereo report. re-port. A bill waa introduced by Sargent to regulate immigration. Hv Windnm. to rooeal moieties. by McMillan, for a bridge at ForU Spelling; also u bill to prohibit thc puoishmout of porsons by a court, martial for oflmaes ommitted twoi years, or in caie of desertion, three 1 yoirs before arraignment, Paused. The senate insisted on its amend-, ments to the Indian appropriation' bill and granted a conference. The ', 1 same action was taken on tbo pension bill. Cockrell moved to take up the house bill to place the name of Gen. James Shields on the retired list of the army with tho rank of brigad;er gen eral, but after some discussiou he withdrew the motion and gave nntice that be would renew it later in the day, after Morrill should have finished fin-ished his speech on the repeal of the specie reaumptin act, it being unfinished un-finished busiuoas and the bill being taken up. Morrill, chairman of the finance nnminittPfi. anfike in OllDOSltiOn. Morrill argued there had been no stringency in the money market since 1875, only a continued dullness. He gave figures to buow that we have $20,000,000 more mtney than we had iu 1875. Labor aud productive power were the real wealth of a counlry and ho wanted to put that power to work. Those who. defeated the resumption would have a fearful responsibility. I! resumption proved impracticable there would be ample time to repeal tho aot next December. He adduced the figures of the secretary of the treasury to show our resources and concluded that they were ample for resumption. Resumption was uut in the interest of capitalists, but in the interests f thuae paid by capitalists Cockrell moved to take up the bill pensioning General Shields. Agreed 10-33 to 20. Hlaine, Cimerou, (Wis.) Kellogg, Dorsey and Patterson voted with tho democrats to take up the bill, and Davis (Ills.)' with the republicans, against it. Sargent trusted there would be no disnosition to pass thia bill without its sponsor Btating some of the circum stances attending it. Cockrell said it was not n(OMsa'ry to recapitulate the history of the coanea j lion of General Shields with this country for forty years. Sargent submitted the following amendment as an additional section: "Thut the president is hereby authorized autho-rized to appoint UlysstsS. Grant, late geuer.il commanding the army of the United States, a general on the retired list of the army, with lull rank, pay and allowances of that grade, except that the general so retired shall not be allowed forage for horses, or com mutation therefor, or aids de camp, or other BtafI officers, unless called into active service in timo ol war." Kirkwood inquired if General Shields now recoived a pension, and if so, how much. Cockrell replied that he received $31.25 a mouth. He inquired if the distioeuiahed soldier named iu the amendment of Sargent had applied for tho proposed relief. Sargent, replied in the negative. Voorhees said that General Shields needed the relief afforded by this bill, while General Grant did not. Cockrell said he would vote against the amendment because the design of it was to embarrass the bill for the relief of Gen. 8aieldB whenever a separate bill should be reported for the relief of Gen. Grant he had no doubt it would meet favor abla consideration. I Oglesby, alter eulogizing Grant and Shields, said he would be very glad to vote for this bill, but there were many othor crippled and wounded soldiers all over the county, and what could he say to them should be, by hit vote, lift Gen. Shield on the retired list of the army, and leave all the rest iu the rear. Davis said he would vote for an increase in-crease of the pension fo. General Shields, but he could net see that it was right to place him on the retired list, when the law said a man must have served forty years 10 be retired Had be been in the bouse of representatives repre-sentatives he should have voted for General Shields for doorkeeper, be cause politics tat very -lightly upon him (Davis) and he would not have had anybody to quarrel with him about the vote. Lamar said it always gave him pleasure to vote for a measure to cooler coo-ler greater honor upon a gallant soldier whero there was any indica tion that Buch was tb.3 will ot the peo pie. .He voted for the amendment supposing it was submitted in good I lauu, uut u me hiuuvh, uuwever, wae to defeat the bill for relief to General Shields he would not cooperate in any , such movement, any further. ! Sargent said he ofiered the amendment amend-ment in good faith and be now insisted upon it. it was not fair to say j the compliment offered to Scbiida and : now offered to General Grant was intended in-tended to reflect upon bim. j Cockrell said the amendment of Sargent had been adopted by the j senate in committee of the whole and e now gave notice that when the oiil should be reported to the senau-1 senau-1 Lie would renew that amendment aud all for a vote upon it. He inquired j ihesenator from California (Sargent) why he had not introduced the bill ;o retire General Grant before as he was so much in favor of it. tUrucnt said tn b frank ha hail nn idea that such a bill would be pa-sed. Blaine favored the amendment. Ii was then agreed to yeas 30, nays, '2S. Anthony could not vote in the affirmative an he would do if he was not paired. The announcement of the vote was received with applause ia the gal-leriee, gal-leriee, but it was soon checked. dmunds, speaking of Doorkeeper Polk, said Sme.ds was not fit to be employed in the public service wtiile anybody who fought against the country wanted the place, but was fit to be put on the retired list aud thus rectify a party mistake. Cockrell said petirious came from tbo whole country to paa this bill. Grant did not need relief and there were other bonore held in reserve for Ihim, aud it was not contemplated to shelve him with disabled soldiers. Hill Baid be respected General Grant and General Snields. He wou d vote to place the latter 00 the retired i list, but not the former. Hia greatest ; objection to Grant was ibat he would noi retire. He knew some on tho i other Hide who wished be would retire. re-tire. (Ueoewed laughter.) But he was not of the retiring sort and the senators could not make him retire. ((Jrfftt hiug'iter.) Grant would hardly sanctum this attempt 10 kill General Hiiields with him. Should misfortune j ever overtake him, he would vote to retire General Grant. Withers said the soldiers who sur rendered to General Grant at Appomattox Ap-pomattox and were told by him to take their horses home and cultivnti j their crops, would remember those words aud would vote to retire Gen. .Grant whenever he needed it. Vuorheea said the statemeut .of 'Sargent that he offered his amendment amend-ment in good taith of course was biudiug upon theBenate. But on the previous occasion that senator offered nis amendment to break dowa the bill. VoorheeB then read 1mm an amendment submitted by Sargent on the loth of April, 1 proposing to retire General Grant and i many others, and said, so far as Gen oral Grant was concerned there was ' no proper honor which the govern- jmeut could pay him for bis military service, that he would not concur in, out ne urew u wide distinction between the military career and civil career of General Graut. Again, referring to the amendment submitted by Sargent on toe 15th ot April he quoted names and when he reached that of Benjamin Benja-min F. Butler he looked toward that geutleman who occupied a Beat near Senator Barnum and was engaged in conversation with him and continuing his remarks said, after quoting General Butler's name, the impossible, task was uo .dertaken to retire that distinguished 'gentleman. He was more difficult to retire than Gen. Grant. (Great laugh tor.) He next read the name of Carl 'Schurz in the list and said, "I do not ! wonder art the senator Irom California wanting to retire him. Retirement would improve him upon the prio cip'e that "distance lends enchantment enchant-ment to the view." (Renewed laughter.) A retiring spirit had iseiiwa toe senator iruui wmurum. ! Voorhtes next read the name ot j Charles Devens in the list, and said: He is the attorney general, I be I lieve, ol whom Wendell Phillips jBpoke in such an affectionate! j way. Alter that amendment of the I5h of April he thought I the senator from California was an ' o'lject of suspicion. He spoke of the needs ot General Shields and Baid; there were men now withiu the sound ; of his voice who knew he had to! pawn the sword hia country gave him . for the purpose ol payiug his debts. Oo the other hand, General Grant was a rich man. Poor people did not travel over the laud with an escort like princes. He was surprised at the senator on the other side offering the bill. Blaine, referring to the statement that the republicans could have passed the bill retiring General Grant at any time, said this was the firat year it could be brought forward since he left the presidency. He was ready to vote Vor the bill with the amendment ou. II lie S11UUIU UO piBtDU UU lUOCHIl-u iht it would leave General Grant to be disposed of by the peoplo aud that would be done no matter what the views of either side of the senate were. It would not be auy great block in hia way that the scn'-itorb of the other side of the ch iniber, with a single exception (Liimar) bad voted against placing his name ou the retired list. (Ap plause in the galleries ) Thurman sai l, so far as his limited personal intercourse with General Grant was concerned, it had been ex ccediugly pleasant, but he voted j against the amendment to place him' upon the retired list upon principle. He referrfd to the policy of England and Fiance in giving large pensions pen-sions to officers, and Baid that bad nnver been the policy of this country. Thio country had bestowed upon General Grant all the honors it could bestow upon him. The amendment of the senator from California was a logrolling amendment, and be could imagine that if General Grant was the high-spiritpd man hia friends claimed him to be he would scorn to be carried through in this manner. If he (Thurman,) vus disposed to favor such a measure as proposed by this agreement, be would vote-no on the amendment so that it. could not be said: General urani, you got iuis rtmaru irum iuo American congress becauBe you were tacked to the tail of Shields, kite. Much as he valued the services ser-vices of General Shields he should not vote for this bill without some misgivings as to ita being a bad precedent; pre-cedent; but he would vote for the bill as it came from the house upon the ground that the case was wholly exceptional. Davis I will sustain you ia that. The president pro tempore announced an-nounced Allison, Windom and Eaton on the conference committee on the fndian appropriation bill, aud Sargent, Sar-gent, Doraey and Davia (W. Va.) as a conference committee on the pen sion appropriation bill. Conkling took the floor to apeak on the Shielda' bill, but yielded to Hamlin, Ham-lin, and the senate adjourned. |