No; surely it must have been directed against the Government agent who wanted Miss Carroll, for the consideration of $750, to give a receipt in full for a bill of $5,000 remaining—a bill certified by the highest authorities to be sufficiently low or altogether too low for the literary work performed. (No wonder if such huckstering moved Mr. Cockrell's righteous soul.) His remarks also were exceedingly applicable to a liberal-minded person who shortly after sent in a bill recommending that after all these years Congress would kindly allow Miss Carroll a pension of $50 a month for "the important military services rendered the country by her during the late civil war." If any more $50 miseries are proposed we would commend to the committees Mr. Cockrell on "huckstering."
The true description of such a report would be "admission of the incontestable nature of the services rendered."
Then followed the report of the Military Committee of 1881—the last report, so far as I have been able to ascertain, "printed by order of Congress."
It is as follows, verbatim:
| 46th Congress, 3d Session, | House of Representatives. | Report. No. 386 |
Anna Ella Carroll.
March 3, 1881.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed.
E. S. Bragg, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following