Show CONGRESS by W U to IL mar president presented a memorial of the trustees of the peabody educational fund recommending legislation to faid in the education of colored children referred Re ferrad mr kirkwood sub bitted a resolution instructing the secretary of the treasury to communicate to the senate a statement of the amount of money expended by the united states for all purposes growing out of lie late war specifying separately the amount paid on the principal of the public debt thereby incurred the amount ot iw terest paid on such debt for each vear the amount paid for pensions including arrears and the amount paid to the soldiers and sailon of the war such information to be brought down to january ast 1st 1880 adopted dach west va said lie would ask eliat the pending order be laid aside and the appropriation bills dig of conkling said ho wished it understood he objected to laying tho porter bill the latter was then considered bayard advocated randolphe hs substitute authorizing porter s reappointment as colonel lie regretted that carpenters able and constitutional address had with an appeal to partisan prejudice which should certainly not appear in case of public justice duo in the name of the american government the fact that a republican president and his advisers commend tho matter to congress should direst ake bill of partisanship lie denied that courts martial aio equal to civil courts the latter can review the proceedings of the former and prevent unlawful judgments cn it be possible that injustice done in the passion of war and amid the roar of the cannon can never be undone when found unjust COB gress reversed a court martial mar de casion in tha case of aeo A arms because it was fondd unjust logan said that was not a paralle case the president sot having approved the finding of the court mar ual bayard said nevertheless congress set aside the ch eckof the court martial As to alie charge that porter delayed and finally retreated on the it has been proved that there was no tuch beneral edgag ement on the as mcdowell swore to dowell mado a frightful mistake in making that charge for he confused that of the with the of august lie was misled by reading jacks sons report which referred to the not the and only discovered his mistake while testifying be fore the lioard of review so that the whole fabric of testimony on which porter was convicted rested on a mistake As to his dis obedience order another fact brought out before the board of review waa eliat porter alij not get tho dispatch until after C p mas eventa of the they re bound to the glory and not to tho of fitz john corier gorier stone wall jackson than whom no man was a better judge of bravery reported to his commanding officer that the attacks were made with such fury and gallantry by the united states forces that nothing but the fortunate reinforcement sent by longstreet Longst prevented his overthrow fitz john porter directed those attacks and it was his courage and that of his men which came eo near to overwhelming the southern army that which was intended for his shame will stand forever a jentof his courage fidelity and ardor facts cannot joe rubbed out or blurred slurred over they will burn into the consciences of tho american people so ion aa memory shall last applause the dispatch of mcclellan to porter exhorting him to support pope was written at the request of lincoln who had heard rumors of ill feelings among those but these were mere rumors porters response to mcclellan revealed the true spirit in which he had been acting it is aa follows Fari fax court house 10 am sept and 2nd 1862 you may ret assured all your friends aa well as every lover of hit country will ever give as they have given to general pope their cordial cooperation and constant support in tha execution of all orders and plans our killed wounded and enfeebled proof s nt tested our devoted duty signed FJ porter maj gen As to the money appropriated by tho bill it kasnot worthy to be men tinned in of the sut fering by porter of seventeen years by reason unjust sentence it has been said that wa wilt hear from the country if wo pass this bill he hoped so but he wanted the coun try to hoar from liim first he was not waiting for the echo of popular approval or condemnation would lo 10 an unworthy cativo of this intelligent people if be did not care to vote on his own con diction of right logan remarked that the baarda inquiry ghoul be called only on the request of an accused officer bayard said that was the case only when they were called by a coin manding officer the statute provides that tha president might call it at any time loann held that such a board could not inquire into the conduct of a man now a citizen bayard claimed it could investigate what a man baldier bol dier logon then charged that the supporters of the bill were garbling the and testimony allow that such lions be onule and proceeded to at fomo making tho following points McDow cUa mistake about jacksons report re ferring to tho instead of the was made in a letter long after the court martial jackson report not having been made at tho time of court that all evidence chows there was a battle on tho and that porter did get the order and afterwards ter wards ordered morell to attack in accordance with labut withdrew the ard abow that porter waa going to retreat when there was no too in front of him and contradict other dispatcher chowing that he bad had communication with pope A yas received fram the president but laid before the house relative to the anter oceanic mcconald Mc bonald obtained and after executive essaion the houe adjourned jour ned L J |