Show CONGRESS br W V irh to tb I at IT aith ex pi ration of the morning hour logan proceeded to review he evidence presented betor the court martial by which portar was tried to support his assertion that it proved th charges disobeyed orders in therace th eface of thai enemy when pope order to start at one that night and be at bristol by daylight it was not hi duty not his duty to inquire as to the nature of the night but to immediately issue orders to his adjutant general tb be ready toi start at one clock at night instead of this it is evident that he said to those standing by when he read the dispatch there is a chanco for a short nap and afterwards he consulted his officers not as to hew the order could bo carried out but ai to how it could be evaded and in act he did noi start until am two hoursh delay makes a great difference in abo march jbf an armei drake dekay who brough ti the order told gen Port erthe road was good though there were a good man wagons in the way as far as cutletts Cat letts but gen porter paid well wo will start at get ready the excuses for this are that it wag ark and that wagons obstructed we road gen myers ew oreon the trial that the did not begin until daylight andl bati the road was n an excellent condition yet did not attempt t learn the condition of the road and except by sending two aides to pope to ask him boclear to clear the way logan said wagons are on impediment to a man that wants o tight if lie wanted to fight ho would have burned the wagons logan did not claim to be a great commander but he had marched men through woods in the darkest nights and sa could any man icho did not want aft excuse to shirk another porters ex discs was that tha artillery could not be got along ahe road but ih as artillery essential the infantry could at itasta have been got through T 11 eri Jence showed that portar id not read read or coplai the order to his officers co that they did not know that an engagement had taken place or that ther ewas an urgent necessity fo the presence of their troops nt bristol by daylight porter concluded to call a council of war said logan every night and if they never tight they never march in dark night he related a story about thirteen generals composing a council of before vicksburg only wo of the teen favored fighting grant pulled an order oat of his docket and said gentlemen you execute that order V hat was that order it was move on and assault the leneat four in the morning applause in the galleries the notion of a man who wanted to fight fall of vicksburg followed it but porter did noli want to fight and would not fight under pope logan read from the evidence to show that union comman did march that night and had no difficulty on account qt darkness or anything else lie also read a the effect thai general Jack gort federate army on the ame night having bis heart in his cause moved out of the way of popes troops on the night of the from manassas hd to centerville Cent erville and bacic between that and Gro TOton if the confederate general could do not the union general gen early his command that night if the order had been issued by mcclellan yi porter found the night so dark it wag not issued by bis chief the man he admired butkya but bya man for whom ho had a contempt arid for that reason he determined that that man should be baffled ii he could do it and escape the clutches of the court logan went en to show that porter did not leave kis lent lafter sunrise next morr ing he quoted porters letter to burnside expressing bis distaste for the army of virginia and his wish that h get into the armyon the potomac and picturing the prospects in a dismal way and corn meriting on it as proving porters disaffection towards pope it matter of history continued logan that soma of the greatest battled ever fought were won by men who had just made long forced night marches in illustrating this point logan aked passage of lae ice gorged delaware and the running of i the blockade at vicksburg in which ha himself took part marching his men twenty two miles before giving battle but we love our country that was why we did it applause lie bad started at ten at night and marched eichi teen miles back over a road he had just traversed and his men entered the battle of bakers creek after that arch old john browa seemed continually to turn away from the field and toward washington Wag hington or alexandria in a letter to he taid that his lucky tar was generally in about hia birthday the slat and he hoped macs waa alto you will hoar from u son by the way of alexandria logan wondered what that meant mortera tera principal was writing letters of discouragement and preparing to retreat when be have been preparing to fight it i true Porter needed on the morning of the bat be could not know beforehand that he would not be the fact is hedu obeyed positive orders and the court martial could not fail to find to that logan continued and relating the events showing the delinquency lin quency on the part 01 porter accused faiia of sneering at popo all hla loiters of to a su officer had be been coins mandog that army ther would be no tie ritz john porter knocking at tho trials of cing today to day porters movement were o enigmatical that pope mathoni them porter mado every attempt to balk and counteract the of AI cDowell find pope logan some it was ono dimes to sac a whole division divi Bion to atte an army and borter might by obeying on the of august AU Rust it was chown in the evidence that the coni fede ralea that porter ight bixl a lot brush up and down the road and teeing this dust porter informs fed pope that it was raised by a large army of the enemy he quoted popes peremptory order to porter commanding him to appear on the field within three hours and said that order had ever before afen issued by ing general because before it never was necessary porter when told to place his men said so he would get into a fight in gods name ald logan what was an army for but to fight the man who did not know the use of men does not know the use of jan army he discussed the celebrated mcdowell order and quoted extensively from the testimony logaa will continue tomorrow to morrow adjourned FOREIGN NOTES 87 W V to th kulir ba roy mar th government has proposed a plan for the settlement of the controversy with the vatican A bill will be introduced at the neit session of the diet modifying a single clause of the cal baws if the pope recognizes this concession by stopping all resistance to the remainder of the laws other undesirable clauses will be gradually withdrawn i mar irreconcilable journals publish what orts to be a manifesto of the russian revolutionary executive committee justifying the plot the czar which the explosion in the winter palace the manifesto expresses regret atthe death odthe unfortunate soldiers in the palace but de dares such catastrophes inevitable long the army is the bulwark of the imperial autocracy it says that the revolution is forced on russia by the governments repression ef in aust continue until the czar abdicate sOr grant a tio nand it declares we will triumph at all costs the russian ambassador has aa aured he french decision in the matter of the der whatever wha teTer it may b will not affect the relation between France jand russia he catli BE inmar S in the lag introduced a motion calling on admiral von the imperial aamir alty to submit to the house an of of alie doai of the ironclad crosser kurfurst admiral von denied that he had en deatore d to shift the responsibility for tha on others urises Uri seh national liberal opposed the motion he the house ought to show its approval of admiral efforts to increate the fleet IIa enels motion tras rejected abtil ST mar athe name of the would be of melikoff is he baya he wag ordered to commit the crime and caid from principle not from personal motives |