Congressional Record-Senate. April 25

900 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 25, Mr. ROOKER. I am not aware that it did, and if it did it did not the few days needed to secure a suitable location. We have taken affect it enough to make it successful. In my own district, when I care of hundreds of such people; we can take care of hundreds and was hundreds of miles away, I was elected by a majority of thousands thousands more; and we are willing to do so. We are entirely will against a man who came out in a secret circular and when I was not ing that these people should come; we want them to come; but we aware that I had any contestant. I desire to say that it was on that do not want them to come in such a way that the hands of our benev account that the vote of last year was different from the vote of for olence ancl philanthropy will be taxed beyond the possibility of pro mer years. But I am not to be driven by interrogatories of gentle viding for them. men from the charge I make upon you, that so far from being the Mr. HOOKER. Will the gentleman allow me to have read in re true friend of the colored man yQu have enacted in Northern States, ply to what he has just said a paragraph from one of the papers pub where you manumitted him, more onerous laws against him than lished in his State Y were ever enacted in the State of Mississippi. In Mas achusetts you Mr. HASKELL. The gentleman ha.cl read a few moments ago a would not allow him to vote because he mjght not be able to read. paragraph from a paper not published in my State. But that is all right in Massachusetts and all right in Maine. Mr. HOOKER. This is from a paper published in the gentleman's The trouble is you never had any use for the negro unless you could State. run him in the interest of the republican party. The moment you Mr. STEVENSON. As thehourof twelvee'clockisat handimove lost control of him, the moment the shackles of party were struck that the committee rise. from him and he voted as he wanted to, then you had no further use The motion was agreed to. for him. In the capital of my own State, where were Federal judges The committee accordingly rose; and the Speaker having resumed and marshals, and armed men upon my own homestead, we carried the chair, Mr. BLACKBURN reported that the Committee of the Whole the ceanty of Hinds in 1875 by twenty-six hundred majority. And on the state of the Union had had under consideration the bill (H. R. now you say the colored man does not vote freely because he votes No. 2) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judi the democratic ticket. cial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, I say that this is all a simulation of interest in the negro. When the 1880, and for other purposes, and had come to no resolution thereon. distinguished gentleman on the other side of the Chamber, [Mr. GAR l\Ir. BLACKBURN. I move that the House do now adjourn. FIELD,] with magnificent and Jupiter-like nod, announced the senti The motion was agreed to, and accordingly (at eleven o'clock and ment that this was revolution, and when the distingui~hed gentle fifty-eight minutes a. m.) the House adjomned. man from Maine, whom I see sitting on this side of the House now, [Mr. FRYE,] reiterated the sentiment and talked about the destruo- tien of thousands of people ; when that sentiment was revamped by PETITIONS, ETC. the gentleman from Wisconsin, [.Mr. WILLIAMS,] I could hardly think The following petitions, &c., were presented at the Clerk's desk, that they themselves believed the statement that they made. Why, under the rule, and referred as stated: sir, we have sent our money to Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, By Mr. BROWNE: The petition of 200 citizens of Wayne County, and all the other States to bring these colored people to Mississippi, Indiana, against granting any renewal of the Birdsell clover-huller Louisiana, and the more fertile lands of the Mississippi Valley. Now, patent-to the Committee on -Patents. will you be able to convince the people of the North that we have By Mr. DIBRELL : The petition of Henry B. Tyler, jr., :first lieu sent money for the pmpose of bringing these colored people to our tenant United . States l\farine Corps, that his name be placed on the States in order that we may have the delectable pleasure of killing rolls of the Marine Corps and Naval Register in the rank to which them f Even if we had not humanity, even if gentlemen forget he 'claims he is entitled by law-to the Committee on Naval Affairs. that we are their brethren of the same blood, even if they do not By l\Ir. DICKEY: The petition of T. Worthington, fora pension give us credit for anything of humanity or Christianity, in God's to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. name give us credit for some of the pocket virtue which is said to be By l\Ir. HENDERSON: Papers relating to·the claim of Sabin Trow possessed by people in certain regions of the country, and do not ac bridge, postmaster at Lee Centre, Illinois, for relief from loss of post cuse our people of investing money to bring negroes to our States for age-stamps stolen by burglars-to the Committee of Claims. the purpose of maltreating and killing them. By Mr. HURD: The petition of T. P. Bierly and others, for-an in When I heard the~e distinguished gentlemen speaking so positively crease of the pension of Charles Heath-to the Committee on Invalid upon this subject, with so much ardor, with so much wisdom, with so Pensions. · • much learning; as I saw their violent gestures, their earnest faces, I By Mr. McKINLEY: The pet;ition of W. C. Boffinger and 603 citi was reminded of what was said of a distinguished jurist in England zens of Ashland, Ohio, a.gainst the extension of the Birdsell clover on one occasion when he was delivering an opinion; A lawyer said huller patent-to the Committee on Patents. of him that be was a hypocrite; and when his neighbor asked him By Mr. MILES: Papers relating to the petition of John Tweedy, why he made that statement he replied that it was impossible that for relief from loss of postage-stamps stolen by burglars-to the Com any one man could be as wise as that man looked. So I think it is mittee of Claims. impossible for any set of men on the other side of t.he Chamber to By Mr. YOUNG, of Ohio: The petition of Vann & Adair, for the bold these views and be sincere and honest. payment of a debt due them from the Osage Nation of Indians-to I have two other letters here which I desire to embody in my re the Committee on Indian Affairs. marks. With reference to this particular measure I desire to say that By Mr. YOUNG, of Tennessee: The petition of George W. Payne & the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. BURROWS] asserted the doctrine Co., of Memphis, Tennessee, for an extension of a patent known as that it would be necessary to apply to the President to know what his the eclipse cotton-gin-to the Committee on Patents. views were upon certain questions. The doctrine has been asserted that it was revolutionary for this House to pass any bill unless we had the assurance that it would receive the sanction of the President. Has it come to this that we in this House, the majority, must go to IN SENATE. the Executive and say: "Will it please Your Excellency to approve FRIDAY, this bill Y If not, the democratic majority in the House will fold their April 25, 1879 .. arms a.nd be quiet." Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. Shall we let the dignified Senate say," May it please Your Excel The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. Y If lency, will you approve this bill not, this Senate will fold its PETITIONS A1U> MEMORIALS. arms ia quiet." Shall it be said we are "starving the Government" because the majority in Congress choose to exercise their power f Mr. CONKLING. Mr. President, I present concurrent resolutions Who dares say what the President will do Y Let him take the respon of the senate and assembly of the State of New York, which I ask sibility of doing what he deems proper with the view of protecting maybe read. the Constitution and preventing hasty an,d inconsiderate le~islation; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The resolutions will be reacl. but let it not be said that the hands of the majority in both Houses of The Secretary read as follows : Congress shall be tied and that action upon any measme shall be STATE OF NEW YORK, L'f SENATE, prevented simply because the Executive may choose not to approve · .Albany, April 9, 1879. Resolved, (if the assembly concur,) That the refusal by a partisan majority in Con it and because there may not be two-thirds in either branch to pass gress to appro~riatefor the support of the National Government thdmoneys raised the measure over his veto.

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