New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-19
XXXVIITu CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.

SENATE. e. .WAsHIyGToS, March ~, 1892.
Mr.. FESSENDEN (Rep., Mel, from the COM
mi,tee on Finance reported back the Indian Appro-
priliion bill without amendment.
NJ. FESSENDEN also offered the following res
olution:
R,,rcd That the Secretary Of the Navy furnish the Sen
ate with copies Of all contracts WIN n L. se'en, oI oa
said contracts aud the report OF the Commissioners 'ppoined
&c examine said battery.
Mr.. SUMNER Rep, Mass introduced bill to
remove all dlsquaAcstons OF color III carrying Ihe
uails. Referred.
Mr.. WILSON Rep, Mass.), from the Military
Committee reported back the joint resolution au-
thorLing the President to assign the command OF
troops IN the same field without regard to seniority
with al amendment striking ont the portion giylng
the President power TO dismiss from the service.
The amendment was adopted, and the resolution
passed.
On motion Of Mr.. TRUMBuLL rep, H. the
bill to provide for Judicial proceedings on captured
properly and for the better Administration OF the
law o, prize, was taken up and passed.
The resolution offered by Mr.. STARK Of Oregon,
that the paper, etc., in reference 10 the loyalty OF
Mr.. Stark be referred to the Judiciary Committee,
was taken ny.
Mr.. HALE Rep, N. H. thought that me eues-
ton was already settled, and hoped The Senate
would spend no more time upon II.
Mr.. HOWARD rep, Mich.) wanted 10 know II
the Senator from Oregon Stark intended to go
into an investigation Of the question.
Mr.. STARK Dem, Oregon SAID he had offered
tbs resolution in order to show that he had no inds-
position to meet the charge % dlsioyaty anywhere,
but he Stark had no intention OF being his own
prosecutor.
After further dscuspion by Messrs. HALE,
BROWNING, HOWARD, TRUMBULL, and
HOWE,
Mr. WILKINSON Rep, MINI moved to Law the
resolution of Mr. stark on the table.
The motion was disagreed TO 10y Yeas 3, Nays -.
YEAs-'e.srs Hale. saulsbury,Eand WNnson
Mr.. TRUMBULL rep, Ill moved 10 amend
the revolution, as 10 make 1t Teieraole selec.
committee of five.
Motion carried
The resolution was then adopted by Yeas 81,
NAys3.
! NAYs-Mes.s Bayafl Hale and Salisbury.
Mr.. CLARK introduced at bill 10 forward cloth
ing and supplies to the sailors land men .on board
the soop-Oi-war Cumberland
The I'LL for the abolition OF Slavery ia the Dis-
irlct OF Columbia WIS taaen up.
Mr.. HALE rep, y. H. said lie merely wished
10 reply to tic abatement Of the seuaior from kou-
ticky IN regard 10 he eiecis of this bill If passed.
The most d'J.oerOns and iaal fpm o. skepticlsm IN
when II Guggcsts that Is unsafe TO perform plain
and simple duly Tor fear Of DISASTROUS consequences;
aud inis Iuee ION Oi emancipation had rarely been
araued in this country. on the great fundamental
principle Of right and wrong. The question was
never askei Ia political circles, What IL due 10 the
Individual, but what are TO be tue consequences ,
Men forget 10 look a. objects 10 be effected Ia view
Of the inhoseot right Of manhood, and of the great
question of humanity Christianity, and duty; but
tney ark what will bo the consequences in the price
of sugar, tobacco, and cotton. The Senator from
Kentucky Davis looks upon it in that view en-
tircly. lie says the negroes to be liberated by
this bill become burden aud charge
ON the white population, become criminals,
paupers, and pest to society, and the power
which undertakes TO liberato them should re-
ieys the white popuatOn Of such burden; but the ~
arc other predictions and other facts which show diff
feron conseq uences OF emancipation. He then re.
ferred to emancipation in the British West InGies.
The leland Of Jamaica was the only that deteri.
oFs,ed il exports since the emancipation and that
began long before the emancipation. In Barbadoes
the exports have increased more than double sinee
emancipaiion; and IN what are called the L,eward
lelands the expous have increased since eman, IA.
! ton some i3,0c0,OOo and the imports stil more