Show CONGRESS SENATE WASI KINGTON jan ll 11 mr ogles by presented a poli tion icon from the tha cui citi zens zeni of saratoga Sira toga ill III asking ashing for the repeal ol of tho the resumption act of jan hilt 1875 as well wall act the national L aksak ank act nod and ilia bo substitution of legal tenders for or national lank bank not rt it I 1 forced orrid artor ilia expiration ol of ilo more mora IOK bog hour mr cooper announced the death or of liis his lito late colleague andrew johnon John on soo and delivered a eulogy mr morion followed mr cooper and declared that mr was a bravo and min man ile referred to his vote for his bis impeachment which ho he gave and said that la he hail had oo no apology to 0 o milio make ai believed that apology lie ho johnson Jo boson hail bad Tio violated the iho law iw but lie ho was vai willing to tj let jet tho lie memory of what ho he regarded rogar Jed ni lia faults bo be buried lim liim and to ta kemem bet burily lis hil lis oot gitry mr anthony irom from tile committee on navil affairs reported fAvori favorably bly on tho the bill to provide tor for the 00 completion na ot of tho the naval monument in I 1 visa ing ton parsed mr bit windom presented a petition attil ion ot of tho the citizens citi zoDa of wisconsin asking ashing fot for an aa appropriation for foe tho ilia compilation of 0 the canil canal irom frota IO raga city to ilia river rorer referred rod I 1 mr merrimon from the committee on rules adversely to tho the resolution submitted by mr morton morion before rocce t amend the rulo rule to no that bills may bo be introduced without giving previous notice mr ruddock paddock introduced a bill t to P enable now new mexico to form a constitution cou ritt and government 01 ol oil lor for tho ol of sail bail state into the ho union on in an equal footing with the original ual states referred mr bogy introduced a bill to a branch mitt mint at st louit louis referred mr alf dorsey a bi bill 11 to tu phonzo the construction of a across the BI river at memphis referred eulogies logios were alio delivered ly by senators So natora mccreary merrilou Merri moo mou raddock bogy bayard and dd key at the tha oi of the tho the usual revolutions of respect requiring senators Senn tora to lo wear a badge bloc of mourn log bog lor for thirty dy days were ado adopted pled nod tho the senate seato adjourned jan JAD II 11 buld billa were and referred as follows follon by mr Morr Prop artory ry to the r of 0 united as notes and elio resumption of payment it to lo ettin gold la ja the treasury to tho the amount of 30 10 per coot ol of the outstanding legal tenders tec dors and requires require tile bo national banks to rotain paid interest on bonds bonda deposited to secure currency carro noy till the BO 30 per coot ot of their outstanding notes und nod depola that a portion ol of tha ilia resumption not compelling specie resumption in 1879 1870 mr hamilton lorn tion committo com millo r reported alio military academy lilt bill nud and majo mailo it the special order for or thurs thura it 11 1 0 p iiams il J D 17 1 q ot of ind from rom the commiL loo on oil accounts reported a resolution the number numb r and pay iny a ol of committee clerks mr vanco of ohio from the ilo cool coca mitten on printing reported a rosola tion ion against printing inting ri the index laded and ni ol of cues cases aid to the oling PoR permissions missions I 1 Adov tei M r abling from alio llio appropriation commit ite reported the pension appropriation bijl sod fill it was vim mido made the P se tor it ampro I 1 r itoe I 1 T abo boano proceeded to the ilia consideration sid oration of 0 ilia am faitt tiju p and WAI aia by mr in la wifod dil dale on tho the purl i of anil his big to to open the ill fool iago of the ibo two woo 03 it bai already u ut lurd enough from load leads ile he alet ad liu wil oviatte iasi come here with wibb tho the idea to lo remember nothing but bat the country nod and tho the whole country and t turning arcing their boas upon all the horrors ot at thu the pise past to look with ittu nil earnest nea to lo god find glories i live yr the iho future daring tho the three of tho the trial tho the li deral with all 11 II tho the moans at iu s sall bad no not prod a hoglo dal a E t to connect the name of with h T a idal atrocity oa 04 the dy day 0 of lis execration wr was irs oll ercil cil a commutation of sentence if bo be would latti implicato licato davis detia will answer to his counsel wn you yea know I 1 havo awaya told you yon I 1 do di not know about davis ua he had bad no with hilli me as 03 to what won done it at anderau An deram ville tiu 1 I would not become traitor him davis it II it warn true t then lion byth by osami law general grant instead of beibe entitled to ta the third term was vas to terns terms in twenty the argument jtb balic a so it wm wag in libel on american of 0 liw law noil and was aia without precedent no lor for it could to found jn in any civilize civi lizi lizal country iio ail acquitted general orant off of COMO it in n ilia and revenue frauds frands c lb aho 0 faola ACIS llis davis of complicity tiny lay atrocity Alra city any whore mr ifill hill proceeded to la naolo the iho law ol of the on art the of treatment of prisoners in which it provides that elio rations for prisoners prisoner of wr war bo be the ioimo ao in quirl city and baihly as 18 those to moa man in the con army that ILO alo lw was waa piaia by bj the con federate r approved by divis davis and so eo file far its in davis agency WM was concerned bivs aia executed tho from clial alabino I 1 lias fono BO 80 lar far na as to say bay davis sent go gan to for ilia patio aa 0 of organizing a don of tho rho a t ew e r t to 0 tb tit a t w wai ng a no n oriler location locati oB t tho h 0 pr i s 0 n w which h ie li 31 alf r cill 1101 proceeded proceed ocl to read which that it 0 uld bo in ia ab 3 tb y locality with vi ill plenty of 0 puro pure water on oa a running ruo nini it if possible bleI real I 1 n a tho the frume diato neighborhood gnit anil raw mills that lio lie fail bull did not DOE look liko like organizing a dea ot of horrors mr blaino diilio said no who were in the hands of federal fader a a U hid had offered but laj lad always leon been allowed whatever vari tad Bd thornly tho only answer ho would give wag that ho be himself lad had ones had bad tho the honor boner ol of beine imprisoned in the north and tho the first jy day the im officer la in charge old him lie ho would put him on Ander andersonville sonville ditt and would not cot ilow allow him to buy bay anthina anth anthi og ile ho only got released from rom prison orison utter after day days effort before oen oan dix of now york the speaker abon proceeded to discuss tho the cause of the leors ors ot at Andere onville lie ile sa ea d tho the firel cause was vaa tho the want of medicine medi aine but they hey could not get medicine they daiil di 11 not dot havo have medici oo in tho the confederacy the tha federal govern mont held it contraband ot of war which no other country CA 01 earth ih ever dia before not oven the iho doke dako of alra airs F even van federal officers cora inon 3 to examine wom women on r sang through the lines and aej a arceli the ir 1 petticoats to prevent thel carrying medicine to lo tho the oray alao vho WM was responsible for or that thoro there was waa another misfortune tint a wont of ol 01 course coi irso hal bad been made mada contraband of war iio he de declaron decla clarol that of all ilia hi horrors tint that existed at andersonville Andera Ander onville sonville not lot one efthem could lio lie attributed to a tingle single order from the confider alo government almy ona of them grow out ol of necessity too tao occasion of which was wai fai toned on the tha 0 meador nice by ills ilia conduct ol of the iho other aido aide ile ho challenged mr mf blaine to meet moo t him laoo face to tico face and fact to fact act in ia tile llie discussion of these questions ho declared tho the time was past whon when abo country could accept impudent assertion for force of tegument OF of for i tile tho truth or of history lui lory I 1 no ilo hill did not want to unfold a a haptor on the othor other tido siao iio he was wag an Ameri alio lio noted his couri conn try nod and it ft ws not pleasant lor for liioi him to bring forward proof froot oraby portion of 11 hia is country that thai had been kniha of willful crisio or wilfrid ill treatment ol of poor manacled mana cled mok MI of those horrors boco troia from a I 1 saito dfwar ol 01 ajr juc ile wanted the iho pao plo to recollect this so tuat that r they should not lo 10 hurried ino inlo another war still as a beet off to mr DlA clainos inos about ADderson villo lie ho would tend from roin it a letter by y a confiant t crite ahot was a prisoner fit elmira mr hill here bore read portions learn irom that abit letter in ia which the bo latter stated elated that the mortality in elmira was wal no ai less abato in mr ailor him who wn tho author oi of the iho litter latter I 1 mr 1111 rii replied plied afi 31 da di d not know mr raj t declared as living within albirty eix miles of limits elmira that tho the statements et were unqualifiedly tm faide v mr hill did not say eay tile baat meats were true arno only they were as a good as tho the quoted on tho the other aido no a merely used them tem ai a a bt act off attar alter all what was a test as to ilia degree of misery suffered ered in ia the northern northa aud and Soa Sou tcora thora prisons th the a test teat was the tha result of a r report made by mr stanton 8 secretary ocre tary of war TIO the hoan side of the house will believe him iio exhibited ELIO fact del that of the federal prisoners prito in ala it 0 hands haada ot of the daria tho the war had died that 0 of tho the C Coalo doraU paino nere in federal hands handa hill hai diel surgeon Gan cral bernoi who 8 U or t e tha he it alia had g ivan the bumbar 0 confederate priti r I 1 ito ia maderal b handa so ids during I 1 tha trite su as and of federal prisoners pr in ia ilia ibo oon con federate derato fe hands handi as aa 24 out of prisoners sonora in ale dindio only hid had died whilo while out of 0 prisoners in federal lina hands had died TLC iho ratio leing icing 4 12 por of coat cent 0 of in federal hands al and 21 1 less than 9 per cone cent of the bo fiedoral Ie dorAl prisoners pria in j hands my addressing mr air blaine great emphasis who ii u t tha lie mur mar duroc i I 1 would have believed uen jan barnes in m preference tj any politician olef oc there mr me platt says he ha lives thirty six aix joules jardes from elviira Elci ira lio lie could have haa smi ellel tho the email lio that iv far hat but lio la coil noly could coal 11 not havo have been i I 1 venduro Ven tarp to 0 o say if ilia smell box was at the ariso camp no ono one could havo have COLL coc him 11 oarce than aix miles mile lio ile is 13 a wonderful wilnona litno wil but it is ia not equal cial to the mutilated evidence which lich tho the gentleman from 1111 kina in trod yesterday wo know how conr arn onore onora sulf fored uC orcil is ia federal lc doril hands if wo we to tell Thoun ads bamo loang from elmira fort Dola waro and other pl ilta acree et fr and fadd ath fallen out ont the tha great question ia s t list jaba who is igor eliat blo tor st ol of things li foga an aud d thit is relly really tho the only important question tiu cation went tu LU to lo ilo I 1 OF the iho exchange of prisoners stating thit ell all propositions apropo billoni ironi frong the alio cooled crates ceat cibir MI an exchange exo binga of prisoners was rejected by the federal varn meat meat mr r bl lao iadus aadiel mr nil ho h beon been a mamber of tho the cou con rel fe erato senate sir mr nill hal la ho had sir blaine quoted a ro too lalion offered in the congress Coo greBS by sir ale hill of Q jle corgia orgin to the effect that every person proton ling to bo be a soldier or art a IQ in the iho united states captured on the iho earl or of the alter after january let itt ISO shall edall bo be presumed pros to have bat entered the iho territory with the iho antion of 0 exciting insurrection and nj to abet murder nod that unless eath factory proof to the contrary before military court before lis trial shall hall bo be lub had he bo bhail some death lie n asked mr bir hill whether ether be wu was the author mr 1 I will AIT to tho gentleman tram from very frankly that 1 I 1 liva not like recollection of 0 lay ice board 11 1 before mr air liaina Illa iric you ton jo do not deny it mr nill hill I 1 do not know my bly opinion is ia I 1 nevor was tb aalur if f the re resolution desolation nul nal havis no DO kioa tion of olit it II 11 alio llio gont toman caa give EHO ina 03 iio under which it aa noi introduced I 1 my may recollect mr blaino ua ock ilia of octo bar ilia alio judiciary committee of 0 the congress mado biada a aul offered a series tanca of resola i tilo tiiE ii and thereupon senator nill hill is u accor ded as ai offered the florl which I 1 have hato raad AT I 1 gitil I 1 haq chairman Olia irinia of 0 the judiciary committee in the senate very 0 11 1 mikolj k 11 ay lefco ake the Ci ot of ILO Com miton i loo on mas at t the last see alan min I 1 nuy love lava to lo that laport mr air Ii lino doa the hie admit hit choit he bo made in ao that report mr ille 1111 1 I jo do not know but lal it is n lit it cly air ir blaine A alio he coll I 1 leavo ve fauolo ilu otel l from iq ii entitled re lie 11 irk in america Anio noa I 1 wab to lo kenw 0 w ari othe r tho the gentleman was wal ilia ali hinl gulbor b or tit f tatt t resolution re mr lr I 1 really io do not Rond owea rou the iho t tan a no edilo bIrl doi 1 mr la na persistently tho the r iv not sal I 1 ilo wag not ilia abo author or ort it mr I 1 10 lo do not i hot bol I 1 think I 1 evaa not tho he author utha irot of I 1 mr lie blaine I 1 thought al ai tho the goade maos lirt via to ta A elbow ow the lamson character of tho the Coo gros this thia might nil ail him I 1 ia a reile raile Inam bering facts lf nill hill willi till dna to ilia ibo gentleman lio lie did not think toy any what go measures e A sores the iho govern might have thought proper to tak taki at t lint time ta protect the tha womba and children of the iho from insurrection insurrect iou I 1 dont dint recollect but shall not be directed by the genalo do lann n a from elio course of my argument to co cc into the iho hi hito tory ryot at slavery or tho the insurrection of john crowns browns raid nid I 1 know whether bother I 1 or soy eoy other gentleman on oa the iho core m attee wis was tho the author ol of the iho wocia I 1 think moro more probable pro bablo our oar purpose was bot to do to toady soy man woman or child north or south but to adopt what wo ire deowen stringent to protect our wives wires and nil children from bervile in ia and slaughter whilo our brave sons eona abro wt ro in the field mr hill continued contina cd rola tive to the tha oichi ngi of prisoners tho the con fedt iracy proposed in august 1664 that if the iho government wool oon binl 11 steamers ind nil transports to the govern went would return tho the tick hi A and wounded prisoners in it its bands without an equi irsil W this was to lim im fed fail oral government in auant nod wm was unanswered ull ill december abon some abil bhika Is were sent cent to savannah the record shows that the suffering and mortality at an donan Jorson villo wai waa between august and december to allay that suffering buffering by asking you to tako take your prisoners off our handa bands without 0 no a equivalent and 10 J without asking you yon t to 0 retora a mm man for airm them you to ro fused to do it sit mr hill oveat org on t quae a sarles of resolutions pissos by the federal prisoners at al andersonville Andera Ander onville sonville in september 1801 in ia which all lac jae was gives 0 to o tho |