Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 186, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 January 1876 — Page 1

VOL. 6.---N0.186.

FORTY-FQFRTH CONGRESS.

A Grand Hurrah.

MORTOS WAVES THAT BLOODY SHIRl' AND HOWLS A MORNFUiii DIRGE OVER THE

GRAVES OF DEPARTED SOLDIERS.

Tin Cent'imkl in 13ia House.

A i'hninpiou of tlic S#nll» WJio Ipprfciif1* t.bc »Znr I.nck Wliicli brew tee & Johns on In(o Hie .Clutches el'Oram end Slier

man.

SENATE

VESTFIUDAY AFTERNOON'S SEISION. Washington, Jan. 19. The senate then resumed the con sideration of the resolution submit ted by Davisin regard to the books of the treaury department, now pendtng. The question being, on motion of Edmonds to strike.'outa special committee and insert the committee 6n finance also the investigation shall be made by the finace committee, instead of the specal commttee.

Sherman said a senator speaking in this body about a matter which affected the public credit, shoud be ex-, ceedingly careful as to what he said. Any statement derogatory to our public accouuta aifected the public good more keenly than anything else. He denied that there was a discrepancy in the blic debtto the extent of $100,000.0000 in 187®, aa charged by the senator from West Virginia, and said there was no gronnd for such a statement. He (Sherman) would be glad to have the senator from West Virginia (Davis) go to the treasury and examine the books for himself. He argued that if the senator bad read the finance reports and compared the different statements, he would not have pointed out any such discrepancy, as the whole thing was explained in these reports. He read from the finance report of 1870, to show that the linking fund bonds were not included in the one statement, but were in the other. The total debt on July 1st, after deducting the coin aud. currency sinking fund3, bonds, &c., was §2,380,308,509,10, or nearly $100,000,000 less than the amount given by the iionerable senator from West Virginia, (Davis.) Before the administration commenced, and Boutwell entered the treasury, the statements were enlargedfor the information of the public. He desired to say that if the investigation should be lef ttothecommittee on finance, that the committee sould do the best it could, but he would much prefer to have a special committee appointed, and let the Senator from "West Virginia look for himself. The business of the Treasury department is extensive and complicated. He had often heard it said that the manner of keeping accounts in the Treasury should be changed, but he thought it would be a serious nntter to improve on the plan of Alexander Hamilton, Gallatin, and other noted financers of this resolution was to as* certain if the books of the Treasury department could not be kept in a more simple manner. It was evident to him that the finauce committee could make inquiry: The Senaa tor from West Virginia should be more explicit in his statement as to whether he charged fraud, or whethi er his purpose was to ascertain if the manner of bookkeeping could be simplified.

Mr. Davis said that not ouly the Senator from Massachusetts, but other Senators, had attempted to put words In his mouth. He (Davis) has not said that there was fraud or that any one had altered books, but he did say that the statements sent to Congress from year to year had been changed, and further, that the new table of 1870 did not agree with the register's report, but since then the register's report had been made to agree with that table.

Mr. Dawes said that if the Senator from West Virginia charged that there was fraud, he (Dawes) would go with him in pressing the investigation so that no guilty man should escape.

Frelinghuysen hoped the amendment of the Senator from Vermont (Edmunds) would, be adopted. He said next to the liberty of this coun try was the credit, and the people were exceedingly sensitive In regard to it. It was the right of the people, without regard to party or to law, if (here had been blunderiug in the Treasury. If it was true that there had been such blundering, it was akin to fraud.

Pending discussion, Sherman moved that the resolution of Dawes be laid aside in crder that the Senator -w from Indiana (Morton) might cail up his resolution in iegard to his Missis*

I sippi election, and submit the remarks which he was prepared to do agreed to.

The Senate then took up the resolution of Morton in regard to the Mississippi election.

Moiton said: Mr. President* If the information I have receiued from very many sources is substantially true, the late pretended election in Mississippi ^was an armed revolution, characterized by fraud' murder and violence, 1a almost every form. It was carried on in some respects under the forms of iaw but its real nature was that of, force. The violation of the law and trampling under foot of the dearest rights of the great massea of men, a little less sudden than those revolutions which haue distinguished the states of MeXioo and the countries of South America. It did not differ from them in character, and Was equal in atrocity. It is a matter of the gravest import to the American people to know whether a large maof the people of a stale have a- been overthrown and subjected by the minority and also to understand upon what pretense or" principal sach a revolt was brought about. The only II thing like principle that could be as-

a result would be that the political and civil powers^ should belong exclusively to the white race, or upon the other principle that thai party, the members of whieli own most of of the property iu the State,

should

bo allowed to govern, to the

exclusion of the n.u»jorit\', who ate generally poor, a?id most of whom have nothing to depend upon for their subsistence but their labor. I apprehend that an investigation of the Mississippi revolution would show that the triumphant minority acted upon both of these principles, and in various ways boldly professed them as its dootrinc-s.

He reviewed the treatment which the Republicans received in I he South before the war, and declared that it is a question whether it is not the policy of the Democratic party of the South, not only to defeat the Republican party of the Sou-th, but to extinguish it, by social and business ostracism, and personal violence to the whites who favor that party, and only presenting to the colored man the alternative of starvation or support the Democratic party. He claimed that the better and larger class of Democrats were opposed to this social violence, but were controlled and intimidated by thesmaller aud violent element of their party.

Mr. Morton continued that the colored people are fiercely denounced for their ignorance and want of moral training, and other conditions which is in many respects unhappy, is imputed to that. It must be admitted that slavery was a bad training school, not onl3r intellectually, but morally. The cruel and inhuman laws, which made it a penitentiary offence to tcach a colored person to read and write, have borne their fruits, which have, like apples of the dead sea, turned to ashes upon the lips cf those who enacted them. It is written that the sins of the fathers are visited upon their children unto the third and fourth generations, aud it is not in the province of God, that the inventors of those laws should euti rely esiape their con sequences. I would that the cup of bi'teruess could entirely oass from the white people of the South, but that is not possible under divine economy. Those who practised At rioan slavery for two hundred years, cannot hope to escape all the evil consequences resulting from it. It is the merest folly longer to deny the atrocities that have been committed upon the colored people iu the Southern States. The evidence is fornd in thousands of the depositions taken before the investigating committees, in the contiuual revelations by persons coming from the south, andin the current statements of hundreds of newspapers although there is reason to believe that not half, pei haps not a tithe of the outrages are ever brought to the attention of the public. They have been hunted like wild beasts, and the white sportsman weut gunning for them. It that many white meD had been murdered by Indians the whole country would have demanded vengeance, and a large portion would have clamored for the extermination of the savage tribes. When some twenty starving and desperate Modocs murdered General Canby and three of his colleagues, the Govern* meat never stopped until the last man had been killed,captured, tried, and hung. When the Virginius, notorously engaged in an illegal and hostile expedition against the Spanish Government, was captured by a Sdanish crusier and some fifty of the crew tried by a court martial and shot, the Government demanded immediate reparation, and threatened Spain with war iu case it was not mhde. When some six years ago an American boat was fired upon and two men wounded, on the coast of Corea, onr fleet demand reparation, and when it was not granted, battered down forts and slaughtered nearly 3,000 of their sold iers. When the Mexican robbers make a raid across the border into Texas and steal five or six huudred cattle the depredation is ten fold magnified, the Government of the United States is urjged by many to go to war with Mexico, and at least to place the army of the United States along the Rio Grande for the protection of the property of the people of

Texas, but when a hundred negroes are murdered in cold blood it is considered a small affair unworthy the attention of the Government and not eveu justifying an examination. One difference is perhaps the cattle can be sold and negroes cannot.

The infamous lies about the negro plots to murder the white people, have become exceedingly stale and disgusting. Last summer the columns of the associated press for days groaned with the stupid and clumsy story that the negroes had conspired to murder the white men and ugly women of Georgia. That this infamous lie was intended as a pretex for the slaughter of the negroes there is but little doubt* If the apprehensions of these uprisings ever existed they grew out of the conviction of the intolerable wjongs inflicted upon the colored people, and are another proof of the truth of that sayiug. Conscience doth make cowards of us all. The very year before the war there were stories of plans among, the slaves to rise up and murder their masters and families, which I believe in every instance turned out to be false, but were often made the pre~ text for the greatest cruelties. In conclusion of the answer to all these foul calumnies is found in the fact that colored men only are killed, that if the white men are killed, they. are few in number, and the cases are exceptionable. Morton declared that it was the duty of the Republican party to m&taiu the rights of thp colored_ meu, and said, should the Republican party of the north becomes indifferent to the fate of the colored people of the south, and ignore atrocities committed upon them, nothing can prevent them from sinking npidly into a state of va s&lage,. and tbeu the last condition will be worse than the first, ihat the Democratic party of the south are reconciled to the civil and political equality of the colored people, is contradicted by.their every act,by their daily life hv their hmtnrv in tiio n..» __.i

sumed in justification of such by their history in the past, and their

aspirations in the future, and when they get physical power, regardless of constitutional provisions or congressional enactments, they will hurl tbem from the platform of equality, and reduce them to a vassalage but one remove from slavery. He referred to 'the white lino policy, adopted by the Democracy of the South, and affirmed that it was established by the Damocralie party immediately after the termination of the war, aud never has beeu relaxed or abandoned for one single moment. The white line policy was a legitimate descendant of the black code of 1S65, and the revolution of 1S75 was but a continuation of the light against the principles of the reconstruction and constitutional amendments, whatever disguises may be temporarily adopted, whatever protests may be made iu Washington, the infallible purpose of the white line Democracy of the South aud destructson of the political rights of the negroes.

He weut on to cite the reports of committees sent to investigate the outrages, and said that Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, chairman of the Congressional investigating committee, in his report made to the House last winter, briefly recapitulated the history of murders and atrocities in Louisiana, and presents a sickening detail of horrors that dwarf into insignificance, any Indian war that, has occurred within a centur}'. The horrid massacre at the Mechanics Ius itute at Colfax, at Couschatta, to say nothing of those of lesser magnitude, relieve those of Wyoming aud Schenectady of their historic prominence, and throw over the butcheries of the Modocs a mellow light. The evidence taken by reconstruction committee of the house of which Bout well was chairman, in regard to the election in Mississippi, in 1808, presents tfie bloody and fraudulent autetype of the election of last fall. It reeks with murder, fraud, proscription, intimidation, and shows that the new constitution of thar year was rejected by the same infamous instrumentalities by which the revolution of last fall was enacted The bloody record shows that the wli^e liue Democracy of Misissippi, wito now would have the country believe that they have been patient and long forbearing, but were finally aroused to uncontroluble auger by the oppressions and robberies of a Republican state government In 1865 they hoisted the same oloody flag-, bearing like inscriptions, under which they marched to a victory won by the same weapons. The pretence that they had borne with Republican robberies and oppressions until forbearance was no longer possible, and1 had reported to ihtimida-* tion aud violence only when no other remedy \va? left, i$ a falsehood the monstrosity of which i3 only equalled by the audacity of its presumption upon the ignorance or forgetfulness of the nation and I shall-show hereafter that all the real grounds of complaint which they had against the Republican state gov ertimentin Mississippi were trivial, almost contemptible when compared with the wickedness and enormities which distinguished the Government of that state while in the hands of the Democrats during the war. Mr. Morton referred to the atrocities committed bo the KuKlux, and said the pas sage of.the enforcement act, and the prosecutions under it had the effect to break by the KuKlux organization throughout the south, and gave comparative peace aud security in the several southern states for two or three years. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus bv the President iu the counties of South Carolina had a magicial influence, and mauy of the most desperate men in that and other states, immediately ran away, some of whom had but recently returned. The wnite liners of that state, yiolding to the only principals they reconize, force and fear, suspended their operations and have only recovered their courage since the revolution in Mississippi, which they are now declaring it is their purpose to repeal, and make the basis of their canvass in 1876/ It seems nev^r to have occurcd to those who attempt to justify these wrongs upon the score of Republican gov?rment in the south, that the prosecutiosand violence that have been prac ticedarein themselves calculated to beget corruption and disorder in a, goverment where men are persecuted not for their crimes, but for their opin--ions, and are made outcasts from so--cietv and the common enjoyments of life.*They have but little inducement to be honest, and temptations tofraud and corruption are increased ten- fold It is a lesson of history in every age,, that where men are treated as villiausaud vagubods, and subjected to widked oppression from society because of theirrace, religousor political opinions, they are sometimes therby made villians and vagabonds.

The question of amnesty, which

has

recently excited so much attention, is interesting as a matter of justice, of feeling and example. The national question of paramount inter

ests

is the political social and Indus* trial position of the south. The violation of the political, civil and social rights of the people and the subversion of the will of a great majority, is the violation and intimidation. We stand in the presence of a great dan-

ger"overhanging

mocracy

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TERRS HAUTE. INI).: THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 201876,

from the south and it will be to them a3 a foreign country, -when we consider how fearfully rapid the progress has been in that direction even under the Republican administrotion, we can understand how it might be accelerated and consummated with a Democratic pvesideut-.elected chiefly by

the

southern Daihocracy, and

necesariiy sympathising with them in their aspirations.' Let it iid that

tneir u.ni

I do iniustiee to the northern Demcr'

TI«™ I-WW

men

this

who commit these crimes

will, as a matter of course, commit punury to conceal and justify them, In the Ivu Ivlux investigations and trials, the most wonderful and disgusting exhibitions of purjury were witnessed. Many men who had, before the Kit Klux Committee, or on examination in court as witness-es,-testified to all knowledge of its organization or its crimes, were afterwards conclusively proven to be members of it guilty. The victims of their infamous crimes were covered with the .foulest calumnies, and scarce an outrage was investigated that was not denied under oath, or justified or excused-by the most infamous falsehoods against the sufferers. A monstrous system of falsehood has been continually practiced, not only in Mississippi but in every southern States is constantly charged with the grossest and most wicked oppression of the southe.11 people. The Republican State and country corruption and oppressions, which ia most cases are utterly false, or grossly exaggerated. Mauy very igucrant people of the South have thus been made to believe that they are sorely oppressed b'y the Government of the United States, and it is charged by a distinguished Mississippian, now a member of Congress, the moat tyranical Governmeut on the face of the earth, and yet if "they were called upon to specify in what they have suffered, they could not do if, even if thetr lives depended ou it. Tue charges of corruption against Governor Ames, and every Republican State, and county official iu Mississippi have been so violent and persistent, th_at very many of the Ignorant have been made to believe t.hem, and have to some exteftt, been bounded into madness aud crime,

Morton concluded as'follows? Many well meaning people deplore any rer fereuce to the outrages committed in tne south as inimical to reconstruction and harmony, between the section?. They are exceedingly anxious that ia ibis "centennial year all past difiercnces shall be forgotteu, aud the people north and south, forgetting and .Jprgiviug miudful only of our great-'national future, shall meet und'embrace as a nation of brothers. Thi3 eonsumation is devoutly to be wished, but I must remind such well meaning people that any formal reconciliation, while the dearest rights of millions, are systematically violated, and the greatest wrongs passed unnoticed and unpunished wHl be The rankest hypocricy revolting alike to divine and human justice. It is the ouly knavish quack who puts a blister over the mouth of the wound and says it is healed. The healing process must begin at the bottom and be brought'to be permanent and healthy. The gushing and handshaking which precedes concession of equal rights and justice to men of all colors and'opinions in southern States will be the veriest sham and deliver nobody such foul wrongs cannot be ignored and concealed they will forever obtrude themselves upon the world and cry aloud for redress. It will be the cry of peace, peace, when there is no peace, «nd sound Republicans of the North will turn a deaf ear to the complaints of the Republicans of the South, and affect to believe that reconstruction

class

the southern states,

in which those of the north are powerfully and I may say equally interested. In many of the southern states the policy isopenly avowed of seizing all power into the hands of the white race, and depriving colored people of their political and civil rights. With this policy, commonly known as the white line, it is believed that the de.--

gard

sympathize in every, south

ern state, and I fear, to a considerable extent in the northern states. State afterstate has been conquered from the majority by violence, and we are no left in doubt as to the purpose thus to establish a solid south iu' the iu terests of the Democratic party, and when they have obtained the control of the national government to reconstruct she southern states upon the white man's basis' and to destroy the Republioan principles to enjoy and express their opinions iu peace and safety. Then as before the rebellion the republican party wtll be banished

They will be justly contemptible in pending measure.'the eyes of mankind. The Union

unprincipled have joined the

resumed

asking

tioned WHS brought under adjudication, and passed upon, aud if not why not and that he also communicate the present condition of matters therein. Eeferred to. Agreed to-

Ho also submitted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cimmunieate to the Senata what action, and ii any, has been taken by hfrn under the act of Congress entitled

ir.

ram

ciac I b~o,!-"** to remind juna 22d, 1874, and what is thethe Senate mat before the war the condition ol matters Referred to and also .ng the Secretary to communicate publican pany aim us exclusion to th'• fc'enate what steps if any have

upon

olitionist?, and that now and ever since the war the Democratic party either deny, justify or excuse the atrocities committed on the white and black Republicans in the Southern States. A necessary concomitant of the system of murder and violence and prescription in the Southern States are falsehood and perjury. The

act providing for tiia collection of

moiUes...

Iu^ tbc United oia-es from

i,„i the PiCih&

Railroad Company, apnrov-

Mr.

men of the South have been subject when the Constitution delegates to to trials of which we in the North Congress certain national powers, lnbave but a faint idea and have eluding the taking of the National *tshown their faith and patriotism by titudetowardsfo^ adherence to their principles under nationai dignity as were usual to circumstances, where the }enal and nat^ona

of people, and to men of to power or anything else, occurred in the South, that there is but one high- the Constitution. wav to reconciliation, and that is Mr.: Hoar—The power to levy war, to open, straight, and free, and overjits conclude peace, to establish commerce, portals are inserted these words means a.nation in every line where -Equal Justice to all to ail equal

highway, they will arrive at the tem pie of peace, and unbroken rest. Before concluding, Mr. Morton yielded the floor, and the Senate pro _i 1 U. »l«n inn K. needed with the consideration of the declared vw\.\«v rr.i executive business, and after a short time the doors reopened, and the Senate adjourned. ^MOUSING SESSIOX

.. .u... ™ui

a repeal of law requiring two

cent stamp to be affixed to uank checks.

Mr. Edmunds submitteed the followinc* Resolved, That the Attorney General be, and he i3 hereby directed to inform the Senate what steps have been taken by any

suit»

Otherwise under

second "section of the act making appropriations lor legislative, executive arid judicial axpeuses of tne Government, tor the year ending June 30, 1874, and for other purposes, approved March 3d, 1873, and wnether. in any, suit brought- under stid sect-ion, thu claim of the United States for five per cent of tho net earnings therein men-

judicial

perises of the Govornment i'or the year ending Juno 30th, 1874, and what is the present conditioa of matters therein. Referred to. Agreed to.

Mr. Allison introduced a bill to authorize) the construction of a bridge across tho Missouri rivor at Sioux City. Referred.

Mr. Mitchell submitted a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to examine the provisions of an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the Uyited States, approved Mireh 2, 1807, and the amendments thereto, and report to the Senate whether, in their judgement, the provision requiring thac the petition in a case of compulsory or involuntary bankruptcy shall be by one or more creditors who shall. constitute one-iourth thereof at least in numbe-i, tho aggregate of whose debts probable shall amount to at least to one-third of the debts so provable, supplies in a case where tho debtor is a corporation, or whether in tneir judgment under the existing corporation debtor may be thrown into involuntary bankruptcy on the petition ot" a single creditor who does not constitute one-fourth irt a number of all tae creditors, aud whose debt does not amount to one-third of the debts provable against such corporations. Agreed to.

Mr. West introduced a bill to amend the Pacific Railroad acts of July 1st and July 2d, 1864, which provides ?:at from and after its enactment all of the Pacific Ilailroad Companies sh.ill be liable to pay into the Treasury ot tb.) United States the whole amount of the interest heretofore paid by the Government iu bonds loaned to ti to aid the construction of their ronds,together with interest upon .several smms paid by the Government in the discharge of interest on said bonds, at the rate of blank per cant, per annum', from date of pavmons, less the amount retained by the Government for mail transportation, which shall be credited in tho account every months. The bill also requires respeqtfully lo .doposit in the Uuited States Treasuary, ten days proceeding the maturity ot the semi annual interest, on the United States bonds loaned in such sums as added to tho amount then due. Each Company for the mailsorvices will amount to the semi annual interest then foiling due. Referred. ...

HOUSE-. .%

YFSTERDAT AFTKRSOOX SESSION. Washington, Jan. 59. Mr. Tucker spoke in opposition to the bill, aud said the path of duty that lay before birr in regard to this Centennial bill was as clear as it ever was iu regard to any Question that had' ever beou brought to his consideration. What was proposed to be celebrated in this Centennial year? Was it proposed to have a material exhibition only, or was it to be an exhibition worthy of the great moral principles that were to bo illustrated by the anniversary of Independence? In hi3 views there .were threo great principles that underlay the Declaration of Independence: These were the principle of individual liberty the principle of local government in a struggle against centralized power, and the principle of the exemption of American destiny from the coiit-rollinc influence ol European politics. He would unito in celebrating the Centennial anniversary on these three principles. Let him see that the liberty of the citzen

was

air£cc 10 uenove mai Tucker thon prdceedod to Argue has taken place, and that all is well.

secure against arbitrary pow

er that freedom and independence, what Chief Justice Chase termed the anatomy of the states, was safe against the arbitrary usurpation of Federal power, and that American destfny was to be guided alone by its own policy, and befreejfrom interferanco of the Eur opean policy, then there would be indeed a Centennial anniversary. The spirit of the Centennial was obedience to the constitution. The greatest invention of American genius had been left out of view entirely, and that was tho absolute subordination of the Government power to tno rigid, inflexible, unbending xulo of the constitution.

ngainst

the constitutionality of the

Hoar asked Mr Tucker whether,

wielding those powers, should

be made

by Congress.

enemy, aud Republicans of the Mr Tucker, asked the gentleman North dare not and will not froIU Massachusetts to point out to him now abandon them. Let me say to

where

the word "national," in respect

thgr^ei5®[!ffn

protection of the laws. And if the „eutl6man calls national- power, I Southern people will walk in that undorstandhim,

th{ ip thQ

rules

Washington January. 20.

submitted

that is what the

bat the'rjsiJfr:-ao such

constitution aSH pdW»tto

levy war. There is a power to declare war and raise and support armies." Mr. Hoar—And to levy itaft»r it is

Mr. Tucker—That is, that it is not in the constitution the power to create and maintain the navy, and make

for the regulation of land- naval service, covers the whole question of what the gentleman from Massachu-

At the expiration of tho muruing setts means. hour the consideration of the resolu- Mr. Lawrence called the attention of tion

by Mr. Morton in re-

Mr.

Tucker to a letter from .George

the recent election in Mississip- Washington, transmitting the oonsti.was

and Mr. Morton con- tuiion

tinued his speech begun yesterday. Various petitions were presented

Congress, in which the Gov-

ernment is called a National Govern-

ment. Mr. Tucker—I.knsw,.

it I

admit I

said the'word national Was not in the' constitution, and the jgentleman has not iouhd it in it. He finds it outside

it that is exactly what I say. Mr. Lawrence—It was in- the minds of the men who made, the constitution.

Mr» Tucker—The men did

not make

it, no one man made it and the constitution did not make it. -If. the -gentleman wishes to know who. made it,I say, with great emphasis, the State's made it. [Sensation^]

Iu,the further course of hia remarks, speakicg ot George Washington,he remarked* that George Washington was the first great'rebel in the country,and he ventured to say theigentleman from

Ohio (Garfield) who spoke the other day about purjury, that George Washington was. in the view of the law, a purjured rebel, for he was an officer in His Mnjestv's army, and he (Tucker) took it for granted that he swore to support the "crown, and t-hen. went into the rebellion.

Mr. Garfield—Did he hold a commission ir. the .British army at tho timo of tho revolution.

Mr. Tucker—No, sir. Mr. Garfield—Then I think he did not commit purjury.

Mr. Tucker—Then yon claim that his oath only lasted so long, as he held his commission.

Mr. Garfield—It ceased when his commission expired. Mr. Tucker—Cut he resigned.

Mr. Garfield—He did not resign. Mr. Tucker—He did resign. Mr. Garfiiold—He was not an officer at the time.

Mr. Tucker—Why, the gentleman doss not know the history of his country. [Laughter.]

Mr. Garfield—Bid he resign to take service against the crown. Mr. Tucker—Oh, no, that is another thing.

Mr. Garfield—He was trying to get service to Great Britain before the war and waited.

Mr. Tucker—He resigned and then he took service in the rebellion. When the gentleman was speaking of men of the fcouth the "other day, he spoke of those who resigned and afterwards took service in the Confederate side.

Mr. Garfield—I did not speak of those who having resigned took service, but I spoke ot those who still being under oath contemplatingly violated it and struck against the United States.

Mr. Tucker—If you hail so qualified your phraseology, I should not have interrupted you the other day,

for

I knew of no such person. The reason why I interrupted tho gentleman the other day was that I represent on this floor a district, and a little town where sleep the remains of one of the noblest Americans who ever trod this soil, meaning Robert E. Lee. He sleeps in death and no dishonor can ever by implication or expression be thrown on that honorable grave that the Representative from that district will not rise here, and repel. [Sensation and some applause!]

Mr. Tucker then proceeded with his argument, in the course of which he quoted the gentlemau from New York, (Hewitt) as saying yesterday that the Government was confessedly and educator of the country, and commenting on it be said, Confessed by whom?.I never confessed it, I not ou^didinptrconfe it, but I deny it in tdtb Itleny that this Government cau intrude and con* trol the common schools of each. State of the Union I deny that this Government can go into our common school system in Restates and upturn it according to the viaws 6f the members of congress here who know nothing in the world about it in this Government, and I beg my Democratic friends to remember it Iras na mission except -to exeenteits power and perform its duty under its subjection to the supreme law of the land, the constitution of the.couhtry* Spoken with strong emphasis and great effect. Show me the power to pass the bill, or that this bill is essential to carry out a power conferred, and I will vote for if, but otherwise before God and my country I can't vote, for it the only limit to the growing corruption of the countrv, is a limitation in power of the Government. I believe that the mission of the Government at this time, is economy retrench-* ment and reform. We have reached that time when it becomes us to put brakes down, to call a halt on lavish expenditures, if the tax in only one cent, to carry out an unconstitutional scheme I will remember the old adage, that it is the last straw that breaks the camels back, I will vote against it. If this scheme got trough somebody would come with another, like a scheme for a big show at Yorktowu, or Bunker Hill, or Chicogo, and in the language of the old Scotch proverb, "Many a mickle makes a muckle." It was the accumulation of little that made ta*es burdensome and oppressive. He declared him» self ooposed altogether to splendid Government. To obey the constitution of the country than to sacrifice to sentimental patriotismi He was in his heart of hearts in favor of a centennial exhibition. He had no odjection to showing the progress which the U. 8. had made under the impulse of free institutions in art or science, in manufactures, in agriculture, in commerce, in mining, in all, industrious pursuits, although his own Slate lagged behind in all these great enterprises for reasons which he would not more then advert to be had no envy of the prosperity of the sister Stales himself and his associates from the South kuew here no motive but the patriotic one of advancing the greatest interests of the Union, in conformity to the constitution. Rer ferring to the fact that the Legislature of Virginia had declined to make an appropriation for the Centennial, he explained that one reason for it was a provision in the State constitution, framed iti 1867, and forced down their throats, prevent log the States from making any appropriation for anything except to pay'her debts and carry on the government^ but hescid Vi.igiuia will be theife. Her p£ofi»le ftho are able, to go Will be there. She hate given six daughters to the union,! (referred to the states made out of the territory ceded by her, who will tie there, and another of her daughters will be there reieriDg to West Virginia, taken from her by Caesarian operation but old Virginia, rent in twain, impoverished in her weeds of widowhood, with a heairt breathing high forher prosperi ty of her common country, will be there in spirit and when tha govern^ ment is .. restored to its P"f tine purity, when the principles of thejrevolution are re-established, and liberty is. proclaimed throughout the land to every man under the palladium of habeas corpus, unreliable by an edict of the president or by an act

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now and. forever. Without taking action on. the bill, the committee rose, and at 4:45 the house adjourned.

MORNING SESSION. Washington, Jan. 20th.

Tne Speaker called a committee for reports. Mr. Waddell, from the postofflce committee, reported aback adversely bill introduced by Mr. Eaine3, tc reduce the postage on first class mail matter, to one cent for each half ounce. It was laid on the table at the expiration of the morning hour. The House went into a committee of the whole, on the centennial'appropriation bill, with Mr. Wood, of New York, in the chair, and wag addressed by Mr: Townsend of New York, in favur of the appropriation bill.

Mr., Townsend's speech delivered in humorous conversational storytelling style, was thoroughly .enjoyed by the members gathering around him And laughing heartily at his jokes. Mr. Strenger, of Pennsylvania followed in opposition to the bill.

Was ington Notes:

Washington, Jan. 20.—The reduce ion made by the house comtaittee on appropriations in the consular and diplomatic bill amounts to about $400,000. •/, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE ON THE

LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

Washington, Jan. 20.—The Senate Finance Committee has agreed to report, favorably on Senator Howe's bill for the appointment of a commission on the subject of alcoholic liquor traffic and to recommend Its passage with certain amendments, the most important being a' requirement that fermented liquors and manufacture of all kinds of liquor shall be included in the proposed Inquiry, ..

FAILURE OF A BOOK BINDERS FIRMN. Y. Jan. 20.—The failu're of John R. Hoole manufacturer of book bindders tools and dealers in bookbinders materials 48 Centre street ss reported and the liabilities are said .to be $100000, Liabilities of Kohler A Eupfer wholesale liquors 32 Broadway are ascertained to be about $100,000, vai« ue of assets not yet betermined?

Cutting Oa Coah

New York, Jan. 20.—The Evening Post say at a meeting of sever* al coal carrying and prodtiBing interests to-day it was agreed that in consequence'of over production and accumulation of unsold coal upon the market an entire suspension of all mining of anthracite coal for five weeks from Febuary the 7th to March the 11th isclousive be ordered.

An Election Officer Imprisoned. Chicago, Jan. 20. Section, of the judges in the second precinct of the 20th ward at the last county election was to-day found guilty of having excluded a Republican challenger from the pools. The penalty for this offence is one years imprisonment in the county jail. A motion .was entered for a new trial.

Ware House Earned.

Buffalo, Jan. 20.—The ware house 30 to 36 Prune st. burned this morning. 1,800 barrels of flour were spoiled and one hundred thousand staves damaged, loss $30,000, insurance $20,000.

Markets To-Day,

Chicago—Pork, 19.25 for Feb 19.57.\ for March. Lard, 12.25 for Feb. 12l42£ for March. Oats, 30fc. Wheat, 98c for Feb. Corn, 455c for May 43Jc for Jan.

Cincinnati— Wheat, 1.35. Corn, 43c. Whisky, 1.06. Pork, 20c. Lard, 12 20.

New York—Wheat, dull and unchanged. Corn, 56 to 63c for new western mixed 71c old do. Whisky, 1.10,

St. Louis—Wheat, higher, 1.52J for No. 2 1.38 for No, 3. Corn, higher. 38&c cash. Oats, 45Ac cash. Pork, 19£c dry. Salt meats, unchanged. Lard,12Jc.

Court Douse Ecboes. CRIMINAL COURT.

John Kearn and George Smith are the two young men who raised such a hubbub in Bagdad a few weeks" sines. It will bs remembered that they were caught in the aet of ransacking a house and were chased by a crowd ot citizens and Policeman Otterman to Mont Rose school house, where they were captured. g^These^feyouns .'men were brought before Judge Long this morning, plead guilty to grand larceny, and were fined $1.00 each, and sentenced to the penitentiary for threo years, and disfranchised for-that period.

Andrew Buckner is the young man who stole some candy from an I A St. L. freight car. On pleading guilty of petit larceny, he was fined $1, and sentenced to the jail for one hour, dnrlng which time he also suffered tne pangs ot being disfranchised.

No moro eases come up until Monday oLnext week.- g^, JUSTICES COURT.*

Esq. Cookerly: Anton Meyer com. plained of Catherine Kaufman for usingjabusive langnage to-wards him. A warrant \vas issued for her arrest, and given into tliahands of Constable Quigley, who is prosecuting a search for her. 41' RJK? MARRIAGE LICENSE.

James

Hunter to Lottie Smith. KEAII ESTATE TRANSFERS. I. & St. L. Railroad- to Abraham Stepp, part of No. 64 lot in Rose's subdivision for 8,465.

THIS

cohgresson account of the

constructive rebellion, then shall the time come when we shall all unite with

Massachusetts

in that splendid

close of Webster's great speec*) years ago: Constitutional liberty under constitutional union. Yes, liberty ancf union, one and inseparable,

abed day for fast mail

trains.

The train from the eastj which

should

have arrived at 8:02, was two hours late, aqd the one from the west, doe here a 1:05, will not arrive untt^abont o'clock.

$15 to P&W"

BON A

Co.,

Hand, Maine.