Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Fitz John Porter’s Case. [ARTICLE]

Fitz John Porter’s Case.

Representatives Steele and Cutcheon, of the Committee on Military Affairs, have submitted the views of the minority on the Fits John Porter bill. They state that the bill sets aside the Judgment of the highest military tribunal ever organized in .this country, thereby conflicting with the very spirit of the Constitution. It would have the effect of saying that the Judgment of, the .court was either corrupt or founded on mistaken evidence, though that evidence was taken when the events were fresh in the minds <tf the witnesses. The people of London, ft is said, pay $7,500,000 every year for water sold as milk