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Show BOUTELLE AND WISE. The Democrat epoke a few days since about the debate in Congress over a res-; res-; olution introduced by Representative ! Boutelle, of Maine.ia regard to the efface- ment, in the South, of memorial inecrip-j inecrip-j tions to Union soldiers. The New York Sun gives the, following account of the debate between Boutelle and Wise: Mr. Boutelle (Kep., Me.,) opened the ball. : His resolution, he said, related to allegations that an officer of the United States Govern- ' " ment, at one of the navy yards of the Gov ernment, had ordered the obliteration of honorable inscriptions on cannon captured by the Union army, and had caused to be removed re-moved from the dry dock a memorial tablet - setting forth that it had been destroyed by the rebels in 1862 and reconstructed in 1863. He did not understand that the facts had been contradicted. Mr. Boutelle then referred re-ferred to the removal of the Superintendent of Machinery at the navy yard because of his demurring to the defacement of the dry dock and the appointment of a man whose title to the position rested on a service in the Confederate army. He had found evidence evi-dence that since the 4th of March, 1885, there had been repeated and systematic removals re-movals of wounded and disabled veterans of the Republic to make place for the men who had sought to destroy it. He deemed that a fitting matter to call to the attention of the House and country. "If the time had come or should come," ! he continued, "to obliterate the great memorials memo-rials of the rebellion, the monuments of the rebellion itself should be first torn down, j Let not the work be begun by taking down : inscriptions commemorative of the victories of the armies of the United States. The ' , soldiers who came to Washington might I wander in vain through the great art repos itory of this city looking for the counterfeit presentment of one of the heroes who sustained sus-tained the flag of the Union. He would find ; that the only men who were memorialized and remembered in the Gorooran Art Gallery ' were llobeat E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. ; There was no justice in the sentiment that - a broad patriotism required the obliteration of the records of the grandest triumph ever made . for humanity since first the morning I stars 6ang together. Applause on the Re- ! publican side. The people of the country ought to say as old General Dix said in regard re-gard to the American flag: 'If any man attempts to pull down a memorial of the ' great triumph of the loyal people of this country, shoot him on the spot."' Pro- i longed applause oa the Repubhcan side. ill. Wise (Dem., Va.) was glad that he had an opportunity to state that the dry dock at Portsmouth had never been de- stroyed. He would inform the gentleman j from Maine that no cannon with such in- j scriptions had ever been in the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Applause on the Democratic - side. The gentleman from Maine wanted to know if a Union soldier had been discharged ( and a Confederate put in his place. He f would inform the gentleman from Maine ; j that the man who was discharged had never been in the Union army; had never been j within a thousand miles of a line of battle; had never heard the music of a minnie ' bullet. Applause and laughter on the Dem- . ocratic side. - Mr. Brady (Rep., Va.) rose and asked permission per-mission to propound a question. "No, sir; no, Bir;" exclaimed Mr. Wise. "I will give my attention to you in one minute. The Confederate, or the one whom you (Mr. Boutelle) alleged was appointed on account of his service in the Confederate army, was appointed after a competitive ex- j 1 amination, and the man to whonl you refer f was removed for beastly intoxioation." j Applause and laughter on the Democratic j side.J One other fact I commend to your I consideration. During the Arthur Adminis- i tration the postmaster at Portsmouth,' a Union soldier, twice wounded and twice pro-i pro-i moted for gallantry, was removed at the dio- tation of William Mahone. Applause on the Democratic ide. Ah! Mr. Speaker, it is a good thing to raise a fuss over this is it. j Your fellow citizens of Maine addressing I . Mr. Boutelle are anxious to know if a Con- I federate has been appointed in the Norfolk Navy Yard by this Administration? Have you forgotten that during the Grant Admin-j Admin-j ' intra tion, and during the Administrations f ' Hayes and Arthur, you sent the Captain of ' the Confederate guerrillas (John S.Mosby) i to represent the Government of the United I States in a foreign country? Applause on the Democratic side. Have you forgotten that Longstreet, a Confederate Lieutenant-General, Lieutenant-General, was selected by your Republican Administration for the most important office in Georgia ? Why is it, I will ask the gentleman gentle-man from Maine, that we have not heard a howl from that ice-bound region about these appointments?" Laughter on the Democratic Demo-cratic side. "Does the gentleman desire a reply? ' inquired in-quired Mr. Boutelle. "No, sir," exclaimed Mr. Wise. ."Go read the speech of the Senator of the United States who, with all kindness, is, in the estimation esti-mation of the whole country, a better man than you are. Go read the speech of Charles Char-les Summer of Massachusetts." "If CharleB Summer knew that his magnanimous suggestion would be quoted by you for such a purpose he would turn in his grave," exclaimed Mr. Boutelle amid much confusion. "Go, read the speech of Charles Sunner j of Massachusetts," continued Mr. Wise. "If I mistake not, he was the first in the country who declared, some fifteen years ago, that the time had come for peace, and that the bitter memories of the war should be removed. And mark the contrast between be-tween the leader of the Federal army and the gentleman from Maine. The last words spoken by that great leader on his dying bed at McGregor were that he thanked God that he closed his eyes on the world believing that feace had returned to a distracted country. Applause on the Democratic side. And yet, and yet the halls of legislation are to be annoyed by the backbiting of such men as the . gentleman from Maine. Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to say one word more to him while we vote pensions to vour soldiers." "Our soldiers!" eqclaimed Mr. Boutelle. "Yes," replied Mr. Wise, "our soldiers. We are in the house of our fathers, and we have come to stay. Applause on the perns' pern-s' ocratio side. While we are ready' and I . willing to vote pensions to honorably dis-i dis-i charged soldiers who served their country in time of war, we will never consent that it I shall held and proclaimed on high that one who happened to have been in the Confed-I Confed-I erate army is forever disbarred from the service of his country. I protest that these honorable soldiers of the Union army shall never again be subjected to the treatment they were subjected to under the last Administration, Ad-ministration, when men who hr.d fought bravely for the Union, under the circular bearing Vs name of William Mahone as chairr ,2 James D.Brady, the present !' . mem' i '.ifc House, as secretary " "Thews waf no such circular," interrupted Mr. Bxdy. "'I challenge him to produce the circular." "When." continued Mr. Wise, not heeding the interruption, "they were required, under the p of a master, to give money for par-tisar par-tisar nrposes, required - like slaves to hold thett.tf ots up that their bosses' minions mighii ee whether they voted right. Oh i what on attitude in which to place a discharp dis-charp 3a soldier of the Union under the whip ai I the lash of a Confederate Brigadier.'"' Briga-dier.'"' Ijoud and continued applause on the Democ: rtio side and in the galleries. . . i", . r ; ,-i '' ' ' --TV.,'" . i in |