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PETITIONS, ETC. dealers in Albany, New York, of similar import, to the same com- The following memorials, petitions, and other papers wore pre niittee. · Bented at the Clerk's desk, under the rule, and referred as stated: By 1\Ir. PARKER of Missouri : The petition of·Mrs. M. L. Connelly, By 1.1r. ARMSTRONG: Memorial of the Legisl:;ttur.e of Dakota, of Saint Joseph, ::Missouri, administr~trix of 'l:'homa.s Connelly, de praying for the division of Dakota and the orgamzat10n o~ a new ceased for relief to the Committee on War Cla1ms. Territory from the northern portion thereof, to the Committee on By ~Ir. PHILLIPS: Resolutions of the. Legislature of Kansas, me the Ten·itories. morializing Congress to grant the Atchison, T~peka and Santa . F6 Also, memorial of the Legislature of Dakota Territory, for an a~ Railroad right of way through the ~dian T~rntory to Fort SIDith, ditional appropriation for the miJitary wagon-road froD?- t?e Big in Arkansas, to the Committee on Indtan Affatrs. . Sioux River to Fort Randall, to the Committee on Appropnat10ns.. By Mr. ROBBINS: The petition of citizens of Yadkin and Forsyth By Mr. BRADLEY: Petitions of citizens of .A~ Sable, East Sagi Counties, North Carolina, for a post-route from East Bend to Betha naw and Bay City Michigan, for an appropnatJOn to construct a nia to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. harbor of refuge at Au Sable, in the State of Michigan, to the Com . By Mr. ROBINSON, of Ohio: The petition of citize?s of MoU?t mittee on Commerce. Gilead, Ohio, for the repeal of the 10 per cent. reductwn of _duties By Mr. BUTLER of Massachusetts: The petition of cit izens of made in 1872 and against a duty on tea and coffee and reVIval of Gloucester Massachusetts, for the donation of six bronzEYfield-guns internal taxes to the Committee on Ways and Means. for monum'ental purposes, to the Committee on Mili~ary Affa ir~. By ~1r. S~HTH, of North Carolina: Resolutio~s of ~he Legislature Also the petition of Caleb Tompkins, of Cartersville, Georgia, for of North Carolina concernin(J' the Freedman s Savmgs and Trust relief, to the Committee on W a1· Claims. · Company, to the C~mmittee mfBanking and Currenc_y. . Also, re'solutio~ls Legisl~ture Carolm~ By Mr. CAIN: The pe.tition of depositors in the Fr~edman's Sav of the of North concernmg ings-Bank at Norfolk, Virginia, for relief, to the Committee on Bank pensions to surVIvors of the Mexwan war, to the Committee on Inva- ing and Currency. lid Pensions. . . By MJ.·. COBB, of Kansas: Resolutions of tl?-e Legislature of Kan Also resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolma, con~ernmg tax le~ed and collected on spirits of turpentine, to the Committee on sas1' memorializin(J' Con(J'ress to grant the Atchison, Topeka and Sa.nta F6 Railroad right of w""ay through the Ind.ian.Territory s~ a.s to c~>n Ways and ~leans. . . nect with Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the Committee on Indtan Affairs. Also, resolutions of the Legislatu_re of Nort~ Carolma, concernmg the New River Canal, to the CoiDIDlttee on RailwaY_s and Canals. By Mr. COBURN: _The petition of. citizens ?~New Je:sey, for Also resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, for an appro equalization of bounties, to the ComiDittee on M~litary Affarr~. . By Mr. CRITTENDEN: Resolutions of the Legislature of MlS oun, priatidn to improve the Neuse River, to the Commit~ee on Commerce. protesting against the further increase of the tax upon tobacco, to Also resolutious of the Le(J'islature of North Carolina, for an appro the Committee on Ways and Means. priatidn to improve Edentont->Harbor, to the same committee. By Mr. DARRALL: Papers relating to the claim of Edmond A. By Mr. STARKWEATHER: The petition of citizens of .LeJyard, Guilbeau, of La Fayette Parish, Louisiana, to the Committee on War Connecticut for a donation of condemned cannon for a soldiers mon Claims. ument, to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also papers relating to the claim of Andre Broussard, of La Fa By Mr. STONE: Resolutions of the Genera~ Assembly of the State yette Parish, Louisiana, to the same committee. of Missouri, protesting against the further mcrease of the tax on By Mr. FORT: The petition of M. H. Peters and Zl ot~ers, of Wat tobacco, to the Committee on Ways and Means. . seka illinois, for an appropriation to complete the Washington mon Also, the petition of the l)nion ~erchants' Excha;nge of t~e mty _of to the Select Committee on the Washington National Monu- Saint Louis Missouri for the locatiOn of a branch Dllnt at Samt Loms, ume~t, to the Comkittee on'Coinage, Weights, and Measures. m~~ . By Mr. FRYE : The pe!Jition of c~tiz~ns of Kingfield, Fra~klin By Mr. SWANN: Remonstrance o~ wholesal.e liquor d_E'.aJers and rec County, Maine, for a p~ns10n to BenJamm C. Webst.er, late pnva~e tifiers of Baltimore Maryland, agalllSt any mcrease m the tax on Company F, Eighth Marne Volunteers, to the Comm1ttee on Invalid whisky on hand to the Committee on Ways and Means. . Pensions. By Mr. TAYLOR: The petit ion of Frederick Hoch,for a pensiOn, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. HANCOCK: :rhe memorial of Eug~ne Armend.iaz a~d others, praying for the n~ht to construct a bn~ge across the R10 By Mr. THOMAS, of :Virginia;: The. re~«;mstran~e of to~acco man Grancle River at Brownsville; Texas, to the CoiDIDittee on Commerce. ufacturers and dealers m DanVIlle, Vll'gmta, agalllSt an mcrease of By Mr. HAZELTON, of New Jersey: The petition of citizens of the tax upon tobacco, to the Committee on Ways and l\feans. Bridgeton, New Jersey, for the repeal of the 10 per cent. reduction of By ~1r. THOMPSON: Petitions of citizens of Freeport, Armstrong duties ma
CREDENTIALS. and the appointment of a postma ter at that place; which were re Mr. IDTCHCOCK presented the credentials of Hon. Algernon S. ferred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. · Paddock, chosen by the Legi latnre of Nebraska a Senator from that M.r. CAMERON presented two petitions of citizens of Columbia, State for the term beginning March 4, 1875; which were read and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizen of Mont /ordered to be filed. gomery County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizens of Schuylkill MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. County, Pennsylvania, and a petition of citizens of Philadelphia, pray ing that in consequence of the prevailing prostration of all branches A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McPHERSO:N, 4 of business and the increasing distress throughout the country a bill ts Clerk, announced that the House had passed the following bills; be passed in aid of the speedy completion of the Texas Pacific Rail in which it requested the concmTence of the Senate: road now pending before. Congress; which were referred to the Com A bill (H. R. No. 4001) to provide for the redemption of overdue mittee on Railroads. bonds of the United Sta.tes known as Texas indemnity bonds; and Mr. HITCHCOCK presented a memorial of the Legislature of the A bill (H. R. No. 4727) explanatory of the act pa~sed June20, 1874. State of Nebraska, in favor of the passage of the bill disposing of the The message also announced that the House had concurred in the Fort Kearney military reservation in that State; which was referred amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. No. 2102) to incorporate to the Committee on .Mill tary. Affairs. . the Capitol, North 0 Street and South Washington Railway Com pany. REPORTS OF COMliiTTEES. Pl!:TITIONS Al\"D MEMORIALS. Mr. WINDOM, from the Committee on Appropriations, to whom Mr. McCREERY presented a petition of physicians of Kentucky, wa.s referred the bill (H. R. No. 3821) making appropriations for the in behalf of the Medical Corps of the Army, praying for such legis current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for lation as will the better promote the efficiency of that corps; which fulfilling trea.ty stipulations with varioul:i Indi~ tribes, for the year ·.was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. ending J nne 30, 1876, and for other purposes, reported it with amend Mr. DENNIS presented a memorial of 291 business men of Wash ments. ington, District of Columbia, and ~ memorial of 197 citizens of the 1\lr. SHERMAN, from the Committee on Finance, to whom wa.s re District of Columbia, respectfully protesting against the passage of ferred the hill (S. No. 1240) to extend the time within which the that part of the Morrill bill which refers to a municipa.l court, and board of audit for the District of Columbia may receive, audit, and chapter 13, sections 79 to 92, which provides for the abolition of jus allow certain cL'l:ims that have never been presented to e.aid hoard, tfces of the peace in the District; which were ordered to lie on the reported it with an amendment. table. He also, from t he same committee, to whom was refeiTed the bill He also presented a memorial of W. H. Schieffelin & Co. and 8 (H. R. No. 2'279) for the relief of Richard Hawley & Sons, reported other manufacturers, importers, and retail dealers in drugs, perfum acl versely thereon. ery, &c., in the city of New York, praying for the repeal of certain 1\lr. EDMUNDS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom stamp tax on drugs and perfumery contained in Schedule C; which was referred the petition of Belva A. Lockwood, pmying that any was refeiTed to the Committee on Finance. woman otherwise qualified shall he permitted to practice law in any ·Mr. HAMILTON, of .Maryland, presented a memorial of Moses United States court, asked to be discharged from its further consid Whitson and others, citizens of Washington County: Maryland, re eration; which was agreed to. monstrating against the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee and Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, from the Committee on Appropriations, praying for the repeal of the law which reduced the duties on certain to whom wa-s refeiTed the bill (H. R. No. 4441) making appropria foreign goods 10 per cent.; which was referred to the Committee on tions for the support of the Military Acarlemy for the year ending Finance. June 30, 1&76, reported it with amendments. Mr. BOGY presented a memorial of druggists, manufacturers, and Mr. FERRY, of Michigan, from the Committee on Finance, to importers of drugs of the city of New York, praying for the repeat whom was referred the petition of Henry Greenbaum, president of of certain stamp tax on drugs and perfumery contained in Sch~dule the German· Savings Ba.nk of Chicago, Illinois, praying that a cer C; which wa-s referred to the Committee on Finance. tain amount of taxes alleged to have been improperly collected on Mr. STEVENSON presented a memorial of D. Hillman, John Mor deposits may be refunded, submitted an adverse 1·eport thereon; rison, and divers other cit izens of Trigg County, Kentucky, remon which was ordered to be printed, and the committee wa discharged strating against the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, the from the further consideration of the petition. revival of internal taxes, and asking the repeal of the act of 1872 He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill reducing the duties on certain imports 10 per cent.; which was (H. R. No. 2073) restricting the refunding of custom duties and pre referred to the Committee on Finance. scribing certain. regulations of the Treasury Department, reported it Mr. SHERMAN presented a memorial of a number of dealers in with an amendment. tobacco, of Cincinnati, Ohio, remonstrating against any advance in Mr. WRIGHT, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was re the existing rate of tax on tobacco; which was referred to the Com ferred the petition of Hilben & Co., pra.ying to be refunded taxes mittee on Finance. twice paid, asked to be discharged from its further consideration; l\f.r. PRATT. I present a petition of sundry manufacturers of and which was agreed to. wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, perfumery, proprietary medi Mr. SPENCER, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom cines, and fancy goods, asking Congress to repeal that part of the wa-s referred a concurrent resolution of the Legislature of the State internal-revenue laws known as Schedule C, by which a tax payable of Michigan, asking Congress to pass a bill granting. one hundred in stamps is imposed up·on these articles. They say in conclusion and sixty acres of Government land to soldiers and sailors of the late that the law by which this tax is imposed is unjust 3lld vexatious ill war without regard to occupation, asked to lfe discharged from. its execution, unclear in its provisions, and arbitrary in its interpreta further consideration, and that it be referred to the Committee on tion, an obstacle to trade and a stumbling-block to the dealer, and a Public Lands; which was agreed to. cause of wide spread and constantly increasing discontent and nn He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill populari ty. I move the reference of this petition to the Committee (H. R. No. 3923) authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver certain on Finance. - condemned ordnance to the Joseph Warren Monument Association of The motion was agreed to. Boston, Massachusetts, for mon,umental pm-poses, reported it with Mr. INGALLS. I pre ent a memorial signed by J. L. Abnrnethy, an amendment. of the city of Leavenworth, and varions other citizens of that town, Mr. THURMAN, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom asking for the passage of the bill (H. R. No. 3656) incorporating the was referred the bill (H. R. No. 2!H1) to adjust costs, fees, a.nd allow Eastern and Western Transportation Company. This memorial re ances in Federal courts, reported adversely thereon; and it was post cites that" the importance of this enterprise is at once apparent to poned indefinitely. all who realize the prostrate condition of the agricultural interests Mr. INGALLS, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom of the West·and South, and the cause is mainly to be ascribed to the was referred the petition of Pottawatomie Inq.ians, praying for pay . reckless and extravagant manner of transporting the staple crops of ment of the award of commissioners under the treaty of August 7, the country t o market, and the ab ence of creditable local govern 1863, asked to be discharged from its further consideration; which ments in several of our most productive States." I cannot allow, was a~reed to. . Mr. President, an expression so unjust as that to pa-ss unchallenged, Mr. DORSEY, from the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to even by my silence in the matter. I know of nd State, produ ctiv~ or whom was recommitted the bill (S. No. 1201) to establish cert.ain otherwise, that is distinguished by the "absence of a creditable local telegraphic lines in the several States and Territories as post·roads, government." I m~>Ve that the memorial be referred to the Select and to regulate the transmission of commercial and other intelligence Committee on Transportation Routes to the Sea-board. by telegraph from one State to another, reported it without amend The mot.ion was agreed to. ment. Mr. WRIGHT presented three petitions of citizens of Iowa; pray Mr. KELLY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom in.g for the establishment of a mail-route from the town of Boone, in was referred the bill (H. R. No. 31H2) for the relief of the heirs of Boone County, to Webster, in Hamilton County, in that State; which James Barnett, decea ·ed, asked to be discharged from its further con were referred to the Committee on Post-Offices antl Post-Roads. sideration and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary He also presented two petitions of citizens of Story County, Iowa, Claims ; which was a.greed to. praying for the establishment of a mail-route from Nevada, in that He also, from the same committee, to whom was referred the peti county, to the center of Lincoln Township, in that county, the estab tion of Nathaniel J. Beachley, praying for pay as Unit.ed State sur lishment of a post-office at or nea.r the cent.er of Lincoln Towm!hip, geon and for repayment of moneys expended in Government service in ; 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1303
1864, asked to be discharged from its further consideration ; which prov-isions of that section, which has been the law of the land for more than eighty was agreed to. . years~ They are simple and clear. . . . He also, from the same committ.ee, to whom was referred the peti Fit t. The cnme or offtmse upon which tht.> section a{)ts must be one agamst the tion of G. H. Bernhardt, praying compensation for subsh>i.ence and United tatcs. lutlging furnished to recruits for'' Scott's Nine Hnndi:e d" cavalry and Second. The offender can only be arrested upon the waiTant of a court or judge reimhw·sementfor money expended in recruiting men for the United of the State or district where he may be found. No court or judge can issue a war rant t-{) arrest the offender in any other State or district. States Army, asked to be discharged from ita further consideration ; Third. If the offender be thus arrested for an offdnRe against the United StatC's, 'Vhich was agreed to. and be brought before the court or Jmlge of the tlistrict whore he was arre.sted, he Mr. HO\VE, from the Committee on Printing, t.o whom wa8 referred may be held for trial before such c01ut of the United States as, by the act of Sep a motion to print the memorial of \V. C. Kibbe upon the importance tember 24, 1789, had cognizance of the o.tl'ense. Fourth. The only courts having cognizance of any offense or case by that act of constructing a double-track freight-railway, under Government are: auspices and control, from tide-water on the Atlantic to the Missouri 1. The Supreme Court of the United States. River, as proposljd by Houso bill No. 1H>4, as amended, reported in 2. The circuit comts of the United St.ate::~ cstahli
The Committee on Finance proposed to amend the bill by inserting Mr. DORSEY asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to after t~e word" board," in line 7, the words" confirmed by a vote of introduce a bill (S. No. 13H:l) to regulate the transmission of ores two-thirds of the stockholders;" so as to read: metals, ap.d othe1· articles of merchandise by mail; which was read Shall accl\pt the new name blf resolution of the board Confirmed by a vote of two twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post thirds of the stockholders. Roads, and ordered to be printed.
The amendment was agreed to. AMEl\"'D~IE~TT TO APPROPRIATION BILL. The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- Mr. ALLISON, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted ment was concurred in. · amendments intended to be proposed to the bill (H. R. No. 3821) mak The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be ing appropriations for . the current and contingent expenses of the read a third time. Indian Depru·tment, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with vari The bill was read the third time, and passed. ous Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1876, and for other pur TO-DAY'S SESSION. poses; which were referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and Mr. MORTON. I desire to make an inquiry whether under the ordered to be printed. order adopted last night in regard to the funeral services, it is ex COURTS IN" TEXAS. pected that the Senate is to proceed in a body to the House of Repre Mr. FLANAGAN. I now ask to call up the motion to reconsider sentatives Y. the vote by which the bill (S. No. 736) to change the botmdaries of The PRESIDENT pro tempore. It will. the eastern and western judicial districts of the State of Texas, and Mr. MORTON. And at the conclusion of the services there return to fix the times and places of holding courts in the same, was pas ed. to this Chamber f The resolution reads: Mr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I object to taking up the bill this Resolved That the Senate will attend the f uneral ceremony in the Hall of the morning. I am not ready to reconsider it. House of Representatives to-morrow at two o'clock in the afternoon. l\1r. FLANAGAN. It is a motion to reconsider entered by my col My inquiry is as to what will be the order at the termination of league some weeks ago. the funeral services in the House; whether the Senate will then The PRESIDENT 1n·o ternpm·e. ~ It cannot be taken up until the return to this Chamber. morning business is concluded. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Such has been the custom of the Mr. FLANAGAN. I thought it was concluded. I gave way for Senate on similar occasions. that purpose. The PRESIDENT pro ternpore. Resolutions are in order. BILLS INTRODUCED. 1\Ir. SPRAGUE. I a k for the consideration of a billreportedfrom Mr. EDMUNDS. The Committee on the Judiciary yesterday re the Committee on Public Lands-- ported a House bill with o~e. or tw? amen~e-?-ts, to provid~ for ~he 1\fr. FLANAGAN. I object to passing the bill. That is not in order. selection of grand and petit Jurors m the DistriCt of Columb1a, bemg The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If there e no further morning House bill No. 4669. I stated yesterday that it wa-s essential to the business, the remainder of the morning hour belongs to the Commit purposes of justice to individuals, one or more, as well as tQ the tee on Education and Labor. United States, that the bill should pass immediately. I then asked Mr. FLANAGAN. Well, sir, having no bills to report from that unanimous consent, but my friend from California [Mr. SARGENT] committee, [laughter,] I ask to present this. desired it to lie over. I now ask unanimous consent that the bill l\1r. EDMUNDS. Then the next committee must be called. shaH be taken up a.nd considered. _ Mr. FLANAGAN. In lieu of bills from the Committee on Educa The PRESIDENT JYI'O tempore. The Senator from Vermont asks tion and Labor, I ask to take up the motion to reconsider the bill to unanimous consent to consider the bill indicated by him. Is there which I have referred, and I think we shall be very well educated objection 7 on it before we get through. I hope not, however. I will hold back Mr. FLANAGAN. I object, although I dislike to do so very everything else and aak that this motion be taken up. much. Mr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I object to the consideration of it. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is made. Mr. FLANAGAN. I move to proceed to the consideration of the .Mr. FLANAGAN. If I have the floor, I ask to take up th motion motion. to reconsider the bill that passed the Senate some two or three weeks The PRESIDENr pro tempore. Under the order of the Senate, it ago to change the bounds of the eastern and western judicial districts becomes the duty of the Chair to call the next committee if the Com of the State of Texas, and fixing times for holding courts in the mittee on Education and Labor have no business to present. same. Mr. FLANAGAN. Well, I ask this as a favor, Mr. President, and I The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That requires unanimous consent do hope the Senate will extend it to me, for really I have not been until the morning business is disposed of. The introduction of bills very troublesome to them, as I know they will bear me out in saying; is now in order. and this is a matter of great importance to me, and I ask for its con Mr. MITCHELL asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave sideration. to introduce a bill (S. No. 1310) providing for the extension of the Mr. MORRILL, of Maine. I hope the Senator will have permission. time for completing the survey and location of the Portland, Dalles 1\Ir. CAMERON. I hope we shall all give way to the Senator from and Salt Lake Railroad; which was read twice by its title, referred Texas. He occupies very little time. to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. FLANAGAN. I have not been troublesome. He also asked and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to intro 1\lr. CAMERON. Let us agree to what he asks by common consent. duce a bill (S. No. 1311) proricling for the compensation to be paid Mr. FLANAGAN. I ask that themotion to reconsider betaken up. for the transportation of the mails on railroad routes; which was The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Texas asks unani- read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Transportation mous consent to proceed to the consideration of the motion indicated Routes to the Sea-board, and ordered to be printed. by him. Is there objection Y He also asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to intro Mr. HAMILTON, of Texas. I expect petitions enough from Texas duce a bill (S. No. 1312) for the payment of certain Indian war bonds here to bury that bill so that it will never be heard of again; and I of the State of California; which was read twice by its title, referred shall object to its consideration until I get those petitions. . to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed. 1\fr. FLANAGAN. Does one objection carry it over f Mr. WRIGHT asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to The PRESIDENT pro ternpo1!e. One objection carries it over. · introduce a bill (S. No. 1313) to license, tax, and regulate the sale of Mr. FLANAGAN. Then I ask a vote of the Senate. I want the intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia, and for other pur question if I can get to it in any way. poses; which was read twice by its title, referred to the Committee The PRESIDENT pro tempm·e. The motion :cannot be entertained on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. except by unanimous consent. Mr. JONES asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to 1\lr. FLANAGAN. This motion to reconsider was made some weeks introduce a bill (S. No.1314)for the relief of Messrs. Gelatt & Moore; since. Of course my colleague never will call it up, and perhaps which was read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Post this is about the last opportunity I shall be indulged in even to make Offices and Post-Roads, and ordered to be printed. the effort. The motion has already been made, and now I ask to Mr. TIPTON asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to have it taken up. introduce a bill (S. No. 1315) authorizing the Brownville, Fort Kear The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Chair cannot entertain the ney and Pacific Railroad Company to construct a ponton railway motion except by unanimous consent ; ancl t.he Chair understands bridge across the Missouri River at Brownville, in Nemaha County, the colleague of the Senator to object. Nebraska; which wa-s read twice by its title, referred to the Com- mittee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. . J URIES IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Mr. INGALLS (by request) asked, and by unanimous consent ob 1\Ir. EDMUNDS. Now that my friend from Texa-s has finished his tained, l~ave to introduce a bill (S. No. 1316) for _the benefit of ~he business I hope he will not object to my taking up a.nd passing the loyal Creek Indians, and for other purposes; which was read twice jury bill. · by its title, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered Mr. FLANAGAN. I think I shall be in a good condition now to to be printed. . object to anything under heaven. l\1r. CLAYTON asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to Mr. EDMUNDS. I did not object to my friend's taking up his bill. introduce a bill (S. No. 1317) for the preservation of game in tho Dis I ao·ain ask unanimous consent to put this important bill which re / trict of Columbia; which was read twice by ita title, 1-eferred to the lat~s to the a{imi.ni.stration of justice on its passage; it will not t ake Committee on the District of Columbia, and ordered to be printed. a moment. . · 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1305
The PRESIDENT pro tempm·c. Is there objection to the reque t of pre s an amendment which will hazard the passage of the bill. I the Senator from Vermont Y The Chair hears none. cannot dilate upon the question as the hour is about out. The bill (H. R. No. 4669) to provide for the selection of grand and The PRESIDENT p1·o tC'm.pore. The question is on the amendment petit juries in the District of Columbia was considered as in Com of the Senator from California. mjttee of the Whole. The amendment was rejected. The Committee on the Judiciary ·reported the bill with amend The bill was reported to the Senate as amended, and the amend- ments. ments were concurred in. . The first amendment reported by the committee was in section 2, The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be to strike out in lines 9 and 10 the words ''shall be able to read and read a third time. · write in the English language." _ The bill was read the third time, and passed. The amendment was agreed to. SWAMP LANDS IN MISSOURI. The next amendment was to strike out in section 3 the following clause: Mr. SPRAGUE. I ask now the consideration of the Senate to a The court shall examine-each person summoned as a grand juror under oath small bill that has been read once. The object of it is to give prior touching his qualifications ; and no indictment shall be quashed, nor shall any ver entry of swamp lands in Missouri to settlers. It will be remembered dict be set aside or new trial granted or judgment be arrested in any ca-se, civil or by the Senate that Congress by a law donated swamp lands to the criminal, because of the want of qualification of any juror, unless such juror, after State and the State gave them to the cotmties and the counties to having been interrogated, shall have falsely answered in relation to his qualifica tions. individuals in tracts of eighty acres each; the individuals have re sided on them ; and the object of this bill is simply i.o enable those The amendment was agreed to. who have resided on them and paid 100 to have prior entry. That The next amendment was to insert in section 4, after the word isill . "compensation," in line 10, the words "not exceeding five dollars a There being no objection, the bill (H. R. No. 4676) for the relief of day for the time necessarily employed;" so as to make the clause act11al settlers on lands claimed to be swamp and overflowed lands - read- in the State of Missouri was considered as in Committee of the Said commissioners shall be allowed by the court reasonable compensation, not Whole. It provides that in all cases in the State of Missouii where exceedin~ five dollars a day for the time neces arily employed, for their services, lands have heretofore been selected and claimed as swamp and over to be pain by the marshal out of moneys in his hand for the payment of the ex flowed lands by the State and the various counties therein, by virtue penses of sru.d court. of any act of Congress, and the lands have been withheld from mar The amendment was agreed to. ket in consequence thereof by the General Government, and the Mr. SARGENT. I offer the following as an additional section: State and counties have sold such lands to actual settlers, and set SEC. -. That no person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor under section tlers have improved the same to the value of $100, the settlers, their 102, chapter 7, title 2, of the Revised Statutes, who shall, during the session of heirs, assigns, and legal representatives, who have continued to reside Congress at which he was sum'!noned as a witness, by the authority of either House thereon, shall have priority of right to pre-empt ·or homestead all of Congress, make proper answer to all questions pertinent to the question under such lands as may be rejected by the United States as not being in inquiry, althougll for a time he may have failed tQ testify as required by law. fact swamp and overflowed lands. Mr. President, the adoption of this amendment may make it neces Mr. INGALLS. Is there any report accompanying the bill f sary to change the title of the bill by adding the words " and for other Mr. SPRAGUE. The bill itself states all the facts of the case. purposes;': but for the purposes of the bill as explained in the other These are lands which are not swamp lands that are under existing House it is entirely germane. I suppose the Committee on the Judici law retired from the market, that have been settled on by settlers in ary would say that the object Of most of the provisions of this bill is Missouri; and the only object of this bill, as I stated, is that those to enable the grand jury to pass upon the question whether a prom who have settled and paid their hundred dollars for tracts of eighty inent defaulting witness before the other House shall be indicted acres shall have a prior right of entry over other parties who may before the statute of limitations shall touch the offense he has here come in on ascertaining that they are not swamp lands, and are not tofore coiilllritted. I sympathize entirely with the object of the bill within the law granting swamp lands. . . and do not 'vis.!! to delay it for a single moment; but one or two cases Mr. BOGY. There can be no objection to the bill. have transpired recently which require that at the earliest oppor The bill_was reported to the Senate, ordered to a. third reading, tunity something shall be done to make the law plain with regard to read the third time, and passed. the question whet.her witnesses who, having once been summoned CA'n:ARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY RESERVATIONS. before either House and failed to answer, afterward come in and "make a clean breast of it" and answer all questions,that can be pos The PRESIDING OFFICER. The unfinished business is the reso sibly propounded and make acknowledgment of their failure to lution of the Senator from Indiana, [Mr. MoRTON,] on whlch the answer theretofore, shall still be liable to the penalties of misdemeanor. Senator from California [Mr. SARGENT] is entitled to the floor. I refer to the case of :Mr. Wetmore, a newspaper correspondent, who :Mr. SARGENT. I think I can conclude my remarks in the h our failed to answer one da.y and the next day made a speech to the that is left. _ House; I refer also to the case of Mr. Irwin, who refused for a con Mr. FENTON. I ask the Senator from California to yield one mo siderable time and was imprisoned, but subsequently came in and has ment that a vote may be taken upon a conference report which is on since, as I understand, made full and •;omplete answers, or if be has the Clerk's table. The report was read and went over yesterday not done so, is ready to do so at the service of the committee. In the under objection. Mr. SARGENT. If I yield, I suppose I must give up any hope of proceeclings in the habeaa 001-ptuJ case of l'tlr. I rwin it was stated in court by the prosecuting attorney that the misdemeanor was already concluding my remarks within the hour. complete in his case. If the misdemeanor was complete then, be was The PRESIDING OF:FICER. Does the Senator decline to yield f liable to punishment and is still liable; and without such an explan Mr. SARGENT. If it will only take a moment I will yield. atory statute as that which I have proposed, even if he afterward The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the came in and made all the amends possible and was discharged by the report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the House of Representatives, his answers being perfectly satisfactory. two Houses on the bill {H. R. No. 3080) to authorize the Seneca Nat ion I think that point ought to be cleared up and these persons ought of N('.w York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and not to be subject to the pains of misdemeanor for this public rea on: Allegany reservations, aud to confirm existing leases. that if you take away the inducement of these persons to come in The report was concurred in, being as follows: and make answer after they have once refused you never will get an The committee of conference on the disa!!Teeing votes of the two Houses on tho answer from them. - amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R~o. 3080) toaut.horizethe Seneca Nation of Tow York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany reserva I will not elaborate upon this matter, but I make the statement. tions, and to confirm eristing leases, having met, aftE'.r a full and free conference I think the object of this bill as avowed in the House- and the chair have agreed t-o recommencl. and do recommend, to their respectiv Houses, as fol man himself will admit that is the object- is to meet cases of this lows: That the Senate recede from its amendments, and that the fourth seotion of the kind; and hence this hasty assembling of the grand jury ought to be bill be stricken out and tho following be inserted: "All leases of land situate accompanied with thls explanation. within the limits of said >illages when established as hereinbefore provided, except Mr. EDMUNDS. I can say to the Senator from California in the those provided for in the second section of this act, in which Indians of said Seneca single minu.te or two that I have left that this bill has no application Nation, or persons claiming under them, arc les.sors, shall be valirl and binding upon the parties thereto, and upon said Seneca Nation, for a period of five years from and to the cases to which he bas referred at all. If the persons to whom afte.r the passage of this act except such as by their terms may expire at an earlier he ha referrecl as having refused to testify and then having testified date; and at ttie end of said period, or at the expiration of such leases&':! t erminate afterward are liable to prosecution, they are liable to prosecution at within that time, said nation, through its councilors, shall be entitled to the posses any time within two years from the date they refused to testify ; so sion of the said lands, and shall have the power to lease the same : Provided, how e-ver, That at the expiration of said period, or the termination of said leases, s that this bill has no application to them at all. It has application her einbefore provided, said leases shall be renewable for periods not exceeding to a different case, whlch the Senator may not have in his mind. It twelve years, and the persons who may be at such timo the owner or owners of im has application to that case only fi·om the fact that it provides the provements erected UJ?On such lands shall be entitled to such renewed lea-ses, and machinery for assembling the grand jury to do justice to that man, to continue in possess1on of such lands, on such conditions as may be a,greed upon bY. him or them and such councilors ; and in caso they cannot a o-ree upon the con as I shoulcl wish it to do justice to me if I were exactly in his posi ditions of such leases or the amount of annual r ents to bo paid, tlien the said coun- tion, by giving him an opportunity to vindicate himself instead of its 0 0 0 0 being sa1d "The statute of limitations has run on so that now there ~~~~ s:~~~~~~ift~ ~ld~~~~m~~ ~: ~~:l~[~~~~ Y!~!~e.~g~~e ~~ oS:a t:l:~: is no chance for me to vindicate myself at all." It does not touch nnal rent to be yaill ; nnd if tbe t-»o so appointed and chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a th1r owning said improvements ~hall be eptitled to a ~ ease of said land and to. occupy He testifies further to the same effect, but this I detnil to show that ami improve the same accordmg to the t.erms of sa1d award, he or they paymg rent nml otherwise complvin,.,. with the said lease or said award; and whenever any a white resident from boyhood in that country, ~:~imply for being a \cnso shall expire afti u· its renewal as aforesaid, it ma.v, at the option of the lessee, republican, is harassed and t.hreate.ued with murder to deter him his heirs ancl assigns, be renewed in the manner hereinbefore provided." from ordinary politi<;al action. But I ask why is. there this general And the House a~ee to the same. denunciation of northern men in the South f Have not our people a, The committee of conference- further recommend for the consideration of the two Houses that the first section of the bill be stricken out, and the first two lines right to move from State to Statef Have they not a right to carry of the second section be stricken out, and that the followin~ be inserted: their political principles¥ The Seuator from Georgia [.Mr. GORDON] " That all leases of land within the Cattaraugus and Aue~any reservations in denies that there is contempt and ostra-cisni of northern republica,ns th State of New York her etofore made by or with the autuority of the Seneca in Georgia, and as a, proof he cites ~ telegram from a man who says Nation of New York Indians." JOHN J. INGALLS, he is treated better than he deserves. A true northern gentleman W. B. ALLISOX, would not be likely to use such an expression. It sounds like those LEWIS V. BOGY, who- Man.auers em the part of the Se:n.ate. Crook the :pregnant hinges of the knee, B. W. HARRIS, Where thrift may follow fawning. W . L. SESSIONS, A. COMINGO, But by a mode or trick of expression t.he Senator betrayedj:.be ac Mananers on the part of tlw House. customed contempt of northern men entertained in his region by men of his political principles by speaking in his rema,rks of "a northern MESSAGE FRO:M THE HOUSE. man but a gentleman/' To his telegrams I cite a speech of his col A message from the House of Represent,atives, by ~r. McPHER lea~ue [Mr. NORWOOD] last summer in the theater at Savannah, SOY1 its Clerk, announced that the House.hacl co!lcurred Iil the report which is said to have" excited the admiration and sympathy of his of the committee of conference on the d1sagreerng votes of the two a,udience." The Senator before that appreciative audience delivered Honses on the bill (H. R. No. 31325) to a,mend the national-bank act, himself of sentiments like these: _ and fixing the cornp,ensation of national-bank exa,miners. . When driven by the frigidity of social ostradsm from the North, he flies with The message further announced that the House had concurred m marvelous instinct to the torrid and unctuous embrace of his African mates :mel the report of the committee of conference on the disa:?reeing votes of peers amonbt the swamps of our southern shore. As the crane fills his craw, so thls the two Houses on the bill (H. R. No. 3G2:3) to a,mend tue twent.y-thirtl creature fills his bag for the ilight; and as the crane, when the days grow hot, flaps his win~s, and, Rcreaming t hrough the air, returns to the North; so this ill pa,rao-raph of section 3 of an act entitled ''An act to regulate tl1e fees omened bipea, when times become warm in the South- and ~osts to be allowed to clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the cir cuit and district courts of the United States, and for other purposes,'; But, sir, his colleague says times do not become warm in the South approved February 26, 1863. . for these northern men, these republicans, these carpet-baggers The message also announced that the House had passed the follow when times become warm in the South, gathers up his le.,.s and flying with screams and shrieks away, perches on the wooden head of tho figure of justice, ing bills; in which it requested the concnrrence of the Senate: commonly known as the Attorney·General, and drowns the air with croakings A bill (H. R. No. 633) for the relief of Ran.da,ll Brown, of Nashville, about so,!lthern out_;age. Tennessee ; . A bill (H. R. No. 1283) for the relief of Thoma.s Day, of India,na; His shibboleth is "the republican party." A bill (H. R ..No. 2689) for the relief 'of Emilie Lapage, surviving 0 no I there is no ostracism of republicans I · partner of the firm of Lapage Brothers ; From that party he sprang as natnrally as maggots from putrefaction. His re A bill (H. R. No. 2688) for the relief of Albert F. Yerby, adminis lation to that party is that of pimp to a. bawd, for his meretricious service is re trator of Addison 0. Yerby, deceased, or whom it may concern; warded in proportion to tho number of innocent negro victims he inYeigles to gratify its lust for power. Like Wa.mba and Gerth, he never travels without wearin~ I.Jis A bill (H. R. No. 2690) for the relief of Mark Davis; aml master 's collar; and he is equally content whether turned loose to cJuise like a A bill (H. R. No. 2691) for the relief of Mrs. Flora A. Darling, of sleuth·hound the monarch of southern soil, or called by a snap of the fingers to eat New Hampshire. the garbage of his party. His c.ollar is his passport to roam at large- SENATOR FROl\f LOUISIANA. That is the collar of republicanism- The Senate resumed the consideration of the followin~ resolution and it matters not with what persist.ence he may break into a southern gentle reported from the Committee on Privileges and Elections by .i\Ir. man's clo e, his master will not permit him to be muzzled, for he is "the ox that tr~adethout the corn" as well as " the ass that knoweth his master's crib." MORTON on the 8th instant : . Mr. NORWOOD rose. Resolved, That P. B. S. Pinchback he admitted as a. Senator from the State of Louisiana for the term of sh years, beginning on the 4th of March, 1873. Mr. SARGENT. I will yield for a question, not for a speech. 1\Ir. NORWOOD. A request, not a qnestion. Mr. SARGENT. Mr. President, at the concln~:~ion of my remarks Mr. SARGENT~ Well, sir, wha,t is itY yesterday I was endeavming to show tho vindictiveness of the 'Vhite Mr. NORWOOD. It is this : that the honorable Sena,tor will not Leagues and their cruel operations in Louisiana. I desire to show that garble, but give the whole. that vindictiveness is against republicans, white as well as colored, Mr. SARGENT. I ha.ve read two long extracts from tl1is speech, and native as well as northern ; and to this point I cite the testimony and wha,t I have selected is a fair expression of the spirit of the whole ; of E. L . Pierson, who before the Honse committee testified to intim and probably the man 'vas in the audience who tele::,>Taphed to the idation, murders, &c., in ills parish, during which he recount.ed the colleague of the Senator that he was treated in the South better thau attempt upon his life, first stating that he lived inNa,tchitochcs since he deserved, because wha.t he deserved I presume he got from the boyhood and that formerly his politics were democratic, but prior to teachings of the Senator from Georgia whom I address, from whom the last election he was a republican; that for his change of senti be learned that opprobrium, that witty, I confess, but stinging in ment he was ostracized even by a resolution adopted at a public meet sult is poured upon the heads of northern men without discriruina. ing; that he c~me there ; was appointed by Kellogg judge of the par tion. The Senator by.reading it now all the wa,y through will find no ish and returned, and was met "'ithin sixteen miles of his own horne line drawn; he can find not one word drawing a distinction between and told not to go home; he did go, and a number ofhisf1·iendsthere the gentleman who tele~:aphed to his colleague and any gentleman told him not to attempt to discharge the fnnctions of his office, that who might have sat by his side in that audience or any other north his life was in danger because of his being a republican. On going to ern man residing at the South. his office next day he learned that his life would be attempted, and Mr. NORWOOD. What do you referto! received a note from his wife asking him to come home; then his wife ?t!r. SARGENT. The gentleman's colleague cited a telegram of a came, and he went; that ills sister told him two armed men were northern man, who he said was a republicap, to prove thatthere was lurking about the place, as she guessed, to take his life; that forty no social ostracism of republicans in Georgia, and this telegram said armed men were in town, aod that she heard these two swear that he was t reated better than he deserved- a remark that I sa.y a north they ca,me there to kill him, and that he should not sit as judge; soon ern gentleman would not be likely to use. There is this bitterness, after that the ~ornmittee of seventy held a meeting and sent a com which is appreciated in such ancliences as that assembled in Savannah, mittee to his house t.o demand of him that he sign a written a~ree created by the speech of my friend from Georgia. There is this con rnen t not to take part in the corning ca,mpaign, which he decline Is there not t.his right of intercommunication through travel and lat.ed to mislead the people of his State. The speech was intendecl residence and the right of political opinion f In tho old slavery for circulat ion in Georgia rather than the ear of the Senate, as was days a northern man who went there and was not a democrat, and a evident by the large number of extra-cts which the Senator said he pro-slavery one at that, was called a.n abolitionist, and he wa-s ignored, wonld not ask to be rea~ but have pnt in his speech. If it was in m~tracized by polite society, persecuted and stoned by the rabble. tended to influen ce the Senate, they should all have been read in the That has pa-ssed away with slavery, and the man who goes there bearing of the Senate; but pages were put in without any other now is a carpet-bagger who is subjected to these insults, these abuses, effect except to figure in the RECORD and go to his own people. these injuries. · There have been no evidences of hate here. I myself yesterday, The Senator from Georgia [Mr. Gmmo~] talks of the "vials of although speaking of grave matters and speaking with earnestness, hate poured out in this debate." It is untrue. spoke kindly in every instance, and I desire to do so. But he holds up Mr. NORWOOD. I want to make one remark; with the Senator's to the Senate of the United States the repul..Jlicans here in an unfa permission. vorable and nntrne light when he talks about our pouring out the . Mr. SARGENT. Well. vials of hate on the Senator or any of his colleagues. We have pic M.r. NORWOOD. 'l'he .remarks there apply to oortain classes of tured the injustice in the South and the barbarism there, and asked for men who are described in a· previous part of the remarks I made. justice, peace, and order. But I ask Senators to see how the ha.te of They do not apply and were not intended to apply to gentlemen like that audience at Savannah wa.s stirred up inuiscriminately against Mr. Morrill who is not a democratic carpet-ba~ger, but is a repub northern repul..Jlicans going to the South. The Senator from Georgia lican. That was the reason that I asked that the former portion of [Mr. GORDON] assumes that because some one speaks of the kindness these remarks should be read, as they explain what follows. of the republican party during the past years and now in amnesty Mr. SARGENT. I have no objection to this whole thing going into mea-sures, a reproach is cast on the rebels. The debate bas been free my speech; lm~ I do not see fit to take up my time by reading it. I from such reproaches; but it is well not to open that sul..Jject. will accommodate the Senator, .who seems to be somewhat pleased The Senator justifies those who embarked in the rebellion on the with his effort at the Savannah theater, and for which I compliment ground that they thought they were right. I presqme they so him, by reading the further part of it to which he refers as explana thought, but that. does not prove that they were right or lesself the tory, and it may then be seen that in every line of the part he refers magnanimity of the Government in forgiving them. The high priests to, not merely in that which I have quoted, though I quoted a fair who procured the crucifixion of Christ and the people who a ked the specimen, but that in every line of it there breathes a spirit of relea e of Barabbas probably thought they were right. Those who hatred aud contempt of northern men and northern republicans. tolled the bell of Saint Bartholomew and those who answered its You may disguise it as you choose; you may say republicans have no call; the authors of the Sicilian vespers; those who drenched Savoy business to run for office, or they come down there and try to or with blood; Torquemarla wat-ching the victims of the Iuquisition on ganize the blacks in behalf of republican principles and therefore the rack, probably all thought they were right. Scroggs and Jeffreys you despise them. I say they have a right to do those very things, may have thought they were right at the bloody assizes. The authors and I going from California have as much right to go to Georgia of the massacre of Glencoe may have thought they were right. The ;tnd live there a year and rllll for office or to associate together men assassin of William the Silent may as much have thought he was of my political opinions, or make speeches on the stump, or publish right as did Wilkes Booth when be assassinated President Lincoln. newspapers and not have them thrown into the river, and not be But the enlightened judgment of mankind condemns them; and it almsed in my own person or my property destroyed or I insult.ed in pri will not do for those who rebelled agains~ the best Government on vate or before public audiences in the manner in which northern earth _to extend slavery, who drew the death line at And&sonville, men without distinction, uuless they are democrats, are insulted by who starved Umon soldiers at Belle Isle and Salisbury and assassin that speech made hy the Senator in Savannah. The Senator insists ated a President of the United States, the noblest and most loving that the introductory remarks made by him at Savannah will ex heart of the ages, to recall these deeds in other than a son:owful spirit. plain his meaning more fully than the extracts I have read. I will But I am digressing. I was speaking of the condition of Louisi read the part of his speech entire that precedes the first extract I ana and of the events that in panoramic succession led up to the quoted from it. It is as follows: seizure of the Honse of Representatives by a faction on the 4th of The reconstruction acts have wrought immeasurable evils, but perl1aps the January. A little over a year ago an unprovoked m.assacre of negroes trreatest of all is the production of the carpet-bagger. I have great admiration for took place in Grant Palish, where eighty . to one hundred negroes the genius who first used that word, carpet-bagger. Wbat can be more expressiYe f were killed in cold blood by a man with McEnery's commission in llis like the world bas never seen, from the days of Cain, or of the forty thieves in his pocket. Go back still further. In 1006 a peaceable convention the fabled time of .Ali Baba. Like tho wind he blows, and we hear the sound thereof, but no man knoweth whence he cometh or whither he goeth. · asseml..Jied at New Orleans for the purpose of proposing amendments Natural historians will be in doubt how to class him. Ornitiiologist.'i will claim to the constitution of the State, were prevented from doing l..Jusiness him, because in many respects he is a bir(l of prey. He lives only on corruption by force, and some two hlllldred men were killed and wotmued in an and takes his flight as soon aa the carcass is picked. In other particula.ts be resem hour. Within sixt.y days of the presidential election of 18&; some bles the migratory crane. two thousand men were killeu. for their political opinions. Such What such speeches mean, and bow they operate, is in evidence scenes as these-and I give but samples- led up to the Penn insur from many sources. The Zion's Herald is the organ of the Metho(list rection; so that the seizure of the legislative hall wa but an incident Church of New England, a non-partisan, moderate paper: and its re to be plead with a continuando. Under these circumstances, with lation of the experience of the "carpet-bag" ministers of its church these surroundings, the President did right to employ the military to is warthy of citation. It recently said : discharge his high constitutional obligation, and the action of the While southern politicians, ministers, and laymen can express their sentiments, military was legal _and commendable. however obnoxious they are to the convictions of nort.bern men, wit.h the utmost free Democratic Senators say that the root of all the troubles in Louisi dom, in the pulpit, in the railroad car, in the hotel, on the corners of the street, with ana is t.be presence of the military and the proper impatience of the ~reat demonstrations of earnestness and violent denunciations EWen of others hold mgdifferentviews, the most guarded utterances made by northern men at the South, people against the Kellogg government. Let us see. It may arise tl1at.can be distorted into opposition to prevailing sentiments, are met with imperti from the mercurial and intolerant character of the white men there. nent RDeers or social ostracisms; and every form of personal and business opposition Such scenes long antedate the war or the presence of carpet;.. baggers. i.'! put into requisition to drive away anyone daring thus to utter, in aperfectly g;en Intimidation and bloodshed at the polls in Louisiana are no new tlemanly way, an honest conviction. 'rhe eminent southern ministers that visited the northern camp-meeting last summer were shown every possible attention, and things. Charles Gayarre is entitled to eminence as a histori:m of allotted every honorable opportunity to address our largest audiences. They were Louisiana. On page 679 of his work he puulishes the following facts frank in the expression of their own sentiments, courteous indeed, but still not under date of 18S6 : ~uarding severely their speech in social intercourse. No one thought of criticising In January the official r elations of Governor Hebert with the State terminated. tho freei:lom of those eloquent guests. Ha.s one of them, however, in southern In his >n.ledictory message he r eferred with de.ep mortification to the scenes of in prints attempted to secure a like return of courtesy for our eminent northern min timidation, violence, and t>lootlshed which had marked the late general elections in Ist ers who may providentially visit the South, or suggested that the pastors of the New Orleans- Methodist Episcopal Church South should pay the respect to their northern brethren dne to their office, their character, and the fraternal attentions they have vouchsafeu There were no republicans there then,-no carpet-baggers, none of .to visitors from the South 1 Our most cultivated men, hif!hin office, renowned for tal these birds and bea-sts which the Senator from Georgia talked so ent, accomplished scholars, men marked for their gentle address, ent~r cities and spitefully about the people of Savannah- large towns where several southetn ministers have churches, but not a man of them, to altl:iou~h the faet is publicly known of their presence, offers a nod of reco,!plition He said that the repetition of such outrages would tarnish our character and sink or proffers the slightest Chnstian courtesy. What is the si~cance of thls l And us to the leYel of the anarchical ~?YerJ?Dlents of Spanish .Am ari~; that ?efore this is not true simply of individual ministers who havel>een outspoken in the-ir the occurrence of those " ·~eat public crm1es," the huleouH deform1ty of wh10h he 'l.'i.nws upon sou thorn sentim~nts, but of our most conservative, fraternal, and peace could not describe, and which were committed with impunity in midday light, and seekin~ men. There are no conspicuous instances recorded where this unfraternal in the pres~:nce of hundreds of persons, no one could have admitted eYen the possi policy nas been even temporarily interrupted. There have been no Round Lake bility that a bloodthirsty mob could ha.ve contemplated to overawe any ~rtion of camp-meetings in the Southern States. the people of this State in the exercise of their most valuable rights, ' but tha.t The most smgular fact is the apparent unconsciousness of the existence of this what would then have been denied even as a. possibility is now a historical fact." hateful, unmanly, and unchristian temper ou the part of southern men, and the Gayarre is talking about matters that occurred in 1856, not about evident feeling of.abnse which they manifest when northern persons infer and state that there is ally lack of true courtesy or manly generosity among the better scenes that occurred in 1872-'74- but how very close the parallel portion of the southern communities. There is no doubt that exagrrerated and and he quotes from a governor of the State and an executive message. false statements have been made; and there is also no doubt that one:balf of the Governor Wickliffe, succeeding Governor Hebert, after lamenting personal and pecuniary injury to northern business nien, tho social and most offen the mismanagement and recklessness of administration, in his message sive ostracism and positive viOlence and brutal abuse in portions of tlte South and Southwestern States ha.s never been told. to the Legislature in 1t357 he commented on this mob violence. He said: . The Senat.or's colleague [Mr. GORDOX] talked about "vials of hate It is well known that at the two last ~eneral elections many of the streets 1Uld1 poured out" by us in this debate. It is entirely untrue, and _calcu- approaches to the polls were completely in the hands of orgauized ruffians- 1308 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. FEBRUARY 16, How much that sounds like" banditti":- exercised toward the blacks by capital, reducing them to a condition who committed :wts of violence on multitudes of our naturalized fellow-citizens who of slavery little better than that from which we had redeemed them. dared venture to exercise the right of suffrage. Thus nearl.v one-third of the reg But in Arkansa..s recently, under their reconstructed constitution and istered voters of New Orleans have been deterred from exercising their highest and Legislature, they are passing just such laws again. Capital, which it most sa~red prerogative. is said we interfere . with, dominating in Arkansas, ay, and in Are we not to be believed when we say that by similar scenes re North Carolina, too, is passing these very vagrant laws whereby men cently occurring one-third of the people of New Orleans and Louisi can be sold for not fulfilling a contract for labor, whereby they can ana are deprived of their rights and twenty thousand men kept away be arrested on various pretenses when they are not enga~ed in reg from the polls f ular employment, whereby traps are continually set for the1r feet, the The expression of such elections is an open and palpable fraud on the people, penalty being all the time to transfer the possession of their persons and I recommend you to adopt such measures as shall effectually prevent the true to white men who will buy them for that purpose. Furthermore, will of the majority from being totally silenced. they are passing laws that the stealing of two dollars shall be grand And it is for the results of just such frauds, more recently en larceny, punishable as a felony, and are making all. the county jails acted, that the democratic party are contending. They must have branch State prisons, because felony disfranchises the person who is the fruits; what matters it if men were kept away from the polls by guilty of it unless he is pardoned; and by these means they can suc bloody crimes like those stigmatized by Governor Wickliffe, the work ceed step by step until they have totally disfranchised the colored of "organized ruffians," they claim to be allowed to pack a Legis men in the South. The "second sober thought" of the South, now lature by such means 'I Wickliffe is not more explicit than Major that they are getting the power into their own hands again, is in ac Merrill in his recent testimony before the congressional committee: cordance with that which they had at first when they emerged from I have been stationed in Louisiana since October, part of the time in New Or the rebellion. · leans· have been in Shreveport; the Red River country is in a deplorable condi Mr. RANSOM rose. tion ~nd without the presence of troops there is no telling what would happen; :Mr. SARGENT. The Senator shaij. hear enough about North Caro colo~ed men are terrified and are constantly in fear of vi_olence; w~te re:publicans lina if he will allow me to proceed. I have not done with it. are ostracized that I know of; there was no free expressiOn of political VIew~~d the control was in the hands of a few war leaders of the conservative or w nite The democratic Legislature recently assembled and now: in session Lea"'ue party; they would like to overthrow the State government; there is an in North Carolina passed a new charter for the city of Wilmington, ta,.o'ksm to equal rights; an impartial election could not have been held in that in which they divided the city into three wards, and gerrymandered co;IDtry· several massacres have had the effect to intimidate the colored men; . it a..s follows: One ward, containin~ :two hundred and fifty voters, elects weeks aiJ.d weeks after the Coushatta massacre colored men did not dare to remain at their homes at night, and I think that no free or fair el<'.ction could have been two aldermen; one ward, contamin~ three hundred voters, elects held in Louisiana~white republicans are severely ostr:wized; I have no personal three aldermen; and the rest of the City, containing thirty-one hun knowledge of the voushatta murders; when I visited Shreveport there was but dred voters, elects three aldermen. By great ingenuity in running little seniblance of law; tllere was a volunteer police, but I had no authority to lines in the blocks the two wards containing two hundred and fifty act· it would not be safe for a. stranger to travel through the Red River country and declare himdelf a. republican; an office was vacant in that section, and two gen and three hundred voters, respectively, elect six aldermen, while the tlemen who· conversed with me about it stated they would not dare accept a thirty-one hundred voters only elect three. The democratic member commission; I think t.ha.t the people generally consider that if a man is a republi from that district published a letter in the Republican recently de can he can have no integrity; it would make no difference how honest republican fending this action on the ground that it gavo a better representation o:fficia.ls might be, they would not be respected in office or out; I am engaged in makin"' a report of all the ma. / I 1875. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 1309 is adopted, the new constitution will conform in all re pects to the Ay, sir, when the republican party shall fail- Constitution of the United States, and sacredly and tenderly respect whenever that party shall go down, as go down it will a.t some timo not long in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments. the future, that will be the end of the political power of the negro among whito men on this continent. Men in the frenzy of political passions may shut their Mr. SARGENT. I trust the Senator is not mistaken in that. If, eyes to this fact now, but it will eome at any time when the negro shall cea e to be however, under the same influences and the same class of people, it a party ne<;.essity in the politics of this country. should happen to turn out as the constitution of Arkansas, and be changed in the same way as it was in Arkansas, by fraud and "rio That is what the republican party accuse the democracy of.. They lence, subverting the rights of the people instead of protecting them, say that is the very tendency Of your measures; that you keep that I should not be at all surprised. end steadily in view to destroy the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Mr. RANSOM. I protest against any such apprehensions being amendments of the Constitution; that yon design to re-enslave the expressed by the Senator from California in reference to North Caro African; that you design that all the fruits of the war shall pa~s lina. away; and I cha,rge it here on the floor of the Senate that that is the Mr. SARGENT. Patrick Henry once said that he had no light for design of the democratic party; tha,t it is evinced by their reports on his feet · except the lamp of experience. I have no opportunity to the condition of the South that they intend to overthrow all the judge of southern affairs except by that which I see transpiring be fruits of the war; that the results of the long strug~le which cost foro my eyes every day. I see these things going on. I see constitu hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars tions overthrown, Sta,te governments subverted, sometimes by vio shall go for naught; that the blacks shall again be enslaved; that lence and force and fraud, as in Louisiana., sometimes by trick, by this blacl.: blot shall be again upon the American escutcheon and an violation of the State constitution, and by force also, as in Arkansas. American citizen can no longer hold up a fair front to heaven and These things are occuning in these very reconstructed States; and before the nations itnd say, "Within our broad boundaries there treads although I have a very high respect for the Sei;ta,tor, I need some not the foot of a slave." That is democratic policy; and there are thing stronger than his guarantee to believe that these things now the signatures of those Senators and members of the House in a. grave occuning are not likely to be repeated, and in his own State. publin document stating these views openly and fully. · Horace Greeley was the nominee for President of the democratic Will not the country arouse to these tendencies! Is it p_ossible party at tho last presidep.tial election, and I should like to show the that the country can sleep when these dang&s impend! What dif Senator from North Carolina how well he understood the people of ference does it m:Lke about the petty speeches of little stump orators his section. I suppose I am quoting from democratic authority; at in localities, when before the Congress of the United States in a doc any rate he was indorsed by tlie Senator's party. He said in 1!:l71, ument of that gravity so plainly is put forth the avowed design of not long before his nomination: the party to overthrow the rights which have been secured by the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution , It (the democratic party) would come into power wit.h the chagrin, the wrath, of the United States! the mortification of ten bitter years to impel and ~uide its steps. It would devote itself to taking off or reducing tax after ta.'\: until the Treasury was deprived of These opemtions at the Sout~ are all in pursuance of the plan out tho means of paying interest on the national debt, and would hail the tidings of lined by this congressional committee. They design to take State national bankruptcy with unalloyed gladness and unconcealed exultation. What. by State. Where they cannot grab a whole State at once as in the over chastisement ruay be deserved by our national sins, wo must hope that this dis grace and humiliation will be spared us. The democratic party of to-day is simply case of Louisiana and Arkansas, they intend to take a section of it the rebellion seeking t{) achieve its essential purposes within and through the as at Vjcksburgh in Mississippi, and to hold it by force and violei).cc. Union. A victory which dol'.s not enable it to put its feet on the necks of the black They intend to subvert the State constitutions, to eliminate from raco seems to the bulk of its adherents not worth having. Its h eart is just where them every vestige of right, of freedom of thought and action of it was when it regarded slavery and Constitution a.s two names for one thing. It hates the ge-nerals who led the Union armies to victory, and rarely misses a chance to colored men, or of anything except pure, unadulterated, old pro disparage them- slavery democra-cy. That is their deliberate purpose; and all these Ay, they are not fit to "breathe the air of Heaven" or "the free operations, all these plans tend to that very thing. I donut not that air of a republic," as has been said on this floor- that is well understood and is abetted by northern democratic lead ers. If it were not so, why should we see such documents as this which It clings to that exaggerated notion of State rights which makes them the shield I have read, where the result is pointed at but with a lack of hope of all mannet· of wrongs and abuses. It takes counsel of its hates even more than of it.':! aspirations, and will be satisfied with no triumph8 that do not result in the expul· fulness not customary to that party they do not think it can be sion of all active, earnest republicans from tJte Soutlt. accomplished until the republican party is entirely banished from power. They have started even before the republican party is en That which your candidate for President believed in 1811, I have tirely banished from power to- work these nefarious ends, and they seen evidence day after day down to the time I now speak to believe. hope to complete them when they get supreme control. The Senator from Georgia [Mr. GoRDO~] dwelt on the necessity to I believe that these things are well understood and encouraged by the South of a correct public opinion at the North, and appealed to the leaders of the northern democra-cy, and any further ulterior pur public opinion to exonerate him and his section from censure for the poses that there may be on the part of the .southern agitators in re thin~s to which I have referred. Public opinion is a two-edged sword, gard to the destruction of the Union of these States, because I find and ne has more to fear from it than those who denounce this sys by the history of the rebellion and the circumstances which accom tem of slavery and the atrocities that lead up to it. There are other panied its opening that leading democratic politicians and statesmen appeals coming from the South t.o public opinion. I have here one were in clo e communion with the rebellious leaders at that time a,nd in the New Orleans Bulletin published on the 6th of February where encouraged them to retire from the Union. I might quote the letter they appeal as follows : of Franklin Pierce, a former democratic P resident of the United Patriots of the North, let the voice of Grant's victims in Louisiana warn you in States, written on the 6th of January, 1860, nine months before the time. Arm yourselves without delay; band yourselves together in military array; organize b;y States, and have your worthy and trusty leaders cho en. Let those first State seceded. I might quote also from the language of Keitt who love liberty know each other, and get used to concerted action. Put aside in the South Carolina convention where he said they had a right funds, munitions, and stores enough for a prolonged campaign. Be ready when from the a surances which were given by th(' northern democrats to duty demands it to take the field in such numbers a-s t{) crush out tyrannv before expect assistance, and that they had been disappointed, and that the it becomes supreme. You can depend upon most of the old soldiers of the armies who fought for tho Government and Union if you organize and prepare in due northern democrats had gone back upon their pledges through a, cow season. Your country, your threatened liberties, and thepalpableencroachments, ardly fear for their own safety if they had dared themselves to stand plain intentions of your enemies, call for active preparation. In the name of lib· up in the face of the Government and t.he p~ople of the North. I erty we conjure you to heed this warning and be ready. have here an unpublished essay written by a gentleman of Louisi The public opinion of the North is appealed to f.or another rebel ana in which, to do him justice, he belabors all parties right lustily. lion, to engage with the South in overthrowing the constituted After making a remark which would have fitted very well into some authorities of the Government; but, as I say, this public opinion is thing that I said yesterday and which I will first quote, he goes on a two-edged sword, and the men who fought down the former rebel to spe:Lk of this matter. Speaking of the democratic party, he says: lion can be relied upon, they and their sollil, to put down another! , Measured by its own arrogant boasts, it was the sole fitting expounder and only But these things are the natural out~owth of democratic poljcy faithful defender of ~he Constitution in its primitive purity. There were some, however, who, even m palmy days, conten1led that by actual measurement it was avowed in grave public documents. The Senator from Delaware, but a juggling charlatan, " stickling for the letter of the Constitution with the [ Mr. BA~ARD,] in a oongressionalreport, amplified and enlarged upon affectation of a llrude, and abandoning its principles with the effrontery of a the necessity of excluding colored men from political power. The prostitute." Whether the boast or the sneer contain the most truth, it is not now report is made by Frank P. Blair, T. F. BAYARD, S. S. Cox, JAMES B. pertinent to inquire. In 1860 the maxims of state-craft it had cherished through the long years of its BECK, P. Van Trump, A.M. WADDELL, J . C. Rom.~.~soN, and J. M. jealous rule were repudiated. by the popular voice, the reins of goveinment it had Hanks. I will not read at length on acCOlJ.D.t of my desire to close. grasped in lineal and almost unbroken succession, from Jefferson to Buchanan, After going on to state that the phrase used long prior to the war were decisively wrested from it and placed in the hands of a. party rel?resenting that no government could exist half slavery and half free should be n ew ideas. Whatever its virtues, (and it must have been endowed Wlth many, else how would it have retained its bold npou the popular heart so long,) patience un· paraphrased, and it was a proposition equally true that no govern der ostracism from the control of public affairs does not appear to have had a place in ment could exist half black and half white, and saying that the the catalogue. The southern leaders, maddened by defeat, proclaimed the t·ight minds of thinking men are coming to this conclusion, they say : of secession, and fiew to arms to vindicate it. It was generally bolieved at the Such a state of things- time that large promises of material aid had been given by tho northern portion of the democratic brotherhood. If ever given, those promises were redeemed very This half black and half white political equality, this voting power much after the fashion of Monsieur Parrolles when ho so valiantlv undertook to recover the captured That is even better than Keitt's speech or Pierce's letter. These 1\fr. MORTON. I move that the Senate take a recess until half things are understood at the North by northern democratic leaders, past seven o'clock this evening. and I think so from many circumstances. :Marr headed the mob who Mr. CONKLINH. I suggest to the Senator from Indiana to change .demanded the abdication of the State government of Louisiana on his motion, and make it that when the Senate adjourns now it be to the 14th of September. From that bloudy field he went to the Man meet at half past seven this evening. hattan Club, on December 29, at New York, and there made a speech. Mr. MO,RTON. I have no objection to that form. · Why be should have gQne there and then retnrned to take part in the The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion is modified accord subsequent proceedings, why he found there the sympathizing frienus ingly. which his operations required, may perhaps be explained by some one, Mr. BAYARD. I move that the Senate do now adjourn until to but I can only draw inferences. In this speech he said: morrow morning. I am astonished that the thunders of public indignation were not heard, aud that The PRESIDENT pro tempore. That motion takes precedence. the President was not told "Thus far shalt thou go aud uo farther." Mr. BAYARD. I wish to say in explanation ·of the motion that for the purpose of continuing the memorial services of to-day it is . Observe this was in reference to the Penn insurrection to overthrow proper that an adjournment should take pla-ce from this time until the State government, not what took place afterward in the Legislar to-morrow morning, a-ccording to what I believe to have been the ture. Yet the tele!ITamS from Washington announce that it is the determination of the uniform custom of the Senate. - President to :leal with Louisiana with a rough baud; for friends have said be The PRESIDENT p1·o tempore. The Senator from Delaware moves patient; wait a little longer. Well, we ba.ve beeu patient; we have waited, and that the Senate do now adjourn. wo have been inj ureu beyond comprehension, except from actual experience. We The question being put, it was declared that the ayes appeared to mean to preserve the public pe.'tce as br as it is possible for us to Jo so. I mean no menace, uo threat, wheu I say it is the fixed determillation of the people of prevail. Louisiana to sweep these men from power. 1\Ir. MORTON. I a.sk for a division. Mr. BAYARD. I ask for the yeas and nays. And by what means they are going to do it we know by his par The yeas and nays were ordered. ticipation in the massacre of the 14th of September. Not sweep Mr. HAMLIN. I think the condition of the Senate is an unpleasant them from power, according to the American sense of the term, by a one. I beg the Senator from Indiana to withdraw his motion. peaceable election, by allO\ving the will of the people to be expressed 1\Ir. MORTON. I withdraw the motion on that appeal. through the ballot-box. 0 no, sir; but by mobs, by muskets, and 1\Ir. HAMLIN. The motion to adjourn then is in order. bullets. The PRESIDENT P'l'O tempore. The motion to take a recess is with And they will do it, unless they are prevented by the-diroot interposition of the drawn. Are the yeas and nays insisted upon on the motion to ad- Fcderalsoldiers. [Applause.] · journ' Yes, sir, they meant by violence to subvert the State government. Mr. BAYARD and ot.bers.· No. This was on December 29, only a very few days before the event The PRESIDENT pro ten~pore. It is moved that the Senate do now happened in the Legislature on the 4th of Janna:t:y, showing their adjourn. purpose to overthrow the State government by violence unless the . The motion was agreed to; and at (two o'clock and forty-two · Federal troops interfered to prevent. And then shall it be said that minutes p.m.) the Senate adjourned. there wa1:1 no necessity for the use of the Federal troops; that the con- stitutionu,l guarantee could not properly be called into exercise when this vaunt was made by this man l\1arr who beaded the just 11revious insunection and bore his complaints and made his promises to the bosom of llis friends of the Manhattan Club ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I say these are but parts of a concerted plan to conquer State after State. Look at Arkansas. In defiance of the provi~:~ion of the State TUESD.AY, Febr·uary 16, 187 5. constitution the government of that State has been overthrown by The House met at eleven o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. an illega.l convention, officers elected for four years ousted, anll the J. G. BUTLER, D. D. rights of the people prostrated. The Legislature wa~:~ emptied of. The Journal of yesterday was rea-d an~ approved. republican mel!ll>ers by the illegal action of tho governor, and his own emissaries put in as preliminary to this work. Thousands of men ORDE~ OF BUSINESS. were disfranchised to elect a new Legislature, and that Legislature Several members asked for unanimous consent. is passing bills as atrocious as those to wllich I have referred. Ter Mr. RANDALL. I demand the regular order of business, as that rm·ism there suppresses the least ruurmur of discontent. Baxter will give everybody a fair chance. found a contest to his right to act as governor before the Legisln. tru·e. He emptied of his own motion the Legislature of republican PRIVATE BILLS PASSED. members, thirty-three in the house and several senators, by pretended The SPEAKER. The regul:n order is the unfinished business com appointments to office; and when these appointments were made he ing over from Friday last-bills reported from the Committee of the declared the seats vacant and ordered a new election. Not remitting Whole House on the Private Calendar, and now upon their engross the question to the respective hou~:~es to ascertain if there were vacan ment and third reading. cies, as was required Ly the laws of the State, he himself decided that The followipg bills reported from the Committee of the 'Whole there were vacancie~:~, in violation of law, and ordered an election. He House on the Private Calendar, with the recommendation that they thereby divested the Legislature of the constitutional right to pass do pass without amendment, were sevel'ally ordered to be engrossed upon the qualifications of its own members. He turned out the for a third rea-ding ; and being engrossed, they were accordingly read registrars appointed in 1872 for two years by and with the advice the third time, and passed: . and consent of the senate, and put in his own creatures. These A bill (H. R. No. 2688) for the relief of Albert F. Yerby, adminis registrars conducted the election for vacancies, and he called ·an trator of Addison 0. Yerby, deceased; extra session_, held elsewhere than in the State-house, surrounded the A bill (H. R. No. 2689) for the relief of Emilie Lepage, surviving building with troops, and a.clmitted no one except on a military order. part.ner of the :firm of Lepage Brothers ; and There was no quorum present, and yet this illegal assembly admitted A bill (H. R. No. 26~1) for the relief of Mrs. Flora A. Darling. the governor's creatnres in order to make up a quorum, and then The bill (H. R. No. 633) for the relief of Randall Brown, of Nash they proceeded to pass a law calling a convention of the people, ville, Tennessee, was reported from the Committee of the Whole although there was no provision in the State constitution of Arkan House on the Private Calen