The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-09
PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS
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| The Dense Crowd In the senate Gal
IerIes last Friday EYenIng---A Scene
| Never Before witnessed In That
| Chamber--.IntenseI Popular Interest.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The interest
| in Congressional proceedings 1centered
| in the Senate aguin to-day. The gal
leries were packed from the beginning
| 10 the end, and during the greater part
| of the day, forty or fifty members OF the
House were on the floor. The session
was one of Unusual interest, and also
| one of unusual turbulence. The jour
| of Kansas, offered his joint resolutions
| proposing u basis of reconstruction.
Hecalled attention to the fact that they
embodied the views of the President as
given in his message, letters TO State
| Conventions, and the letter to Governor
Sharkey. There was ut once an effort
| to learn if the measure WAS held out as
an olive branch by the President, and
| for a moment Mr.. Lane seemed inclined
to let il appear that he spoke for the
President, but the cross Questioning OF
Mr.. Trumbulll and Mr.. Brown forced
him into admitting That he had no as
surance or warrant for assuming that
the executive would now sanction IA
measure embodying the idea of the
Sharky letter. Mr.. Lane opened the
debate with q most violent and vindic-
tive assault upon MIR. Wade, for his
efspeech of last night. The Ohio Sen=
ator responded in very much the same
spirit and manner, and for nn hour or
more the most direct personalities were
hurled across the chamber from one
Senator TO the other, Mr.. Lane took
the opportunity to air his services in
Kansas, and talked himself hoarse in
defense of the President. He said the
Republican party was gong 10 l,leces,
and he had been laboring for day and
night, for weeks and months, TO pre-
yentit. The burden of his speech was
that he had concluded it could only be
tidOne by sustaining the President, and
finally he announced that hereafter he
should be found with Cowan, and Doo-
| little, aud Norton, and the Democrats
of ali shades, from Hendricks to Snuls-
bury. The unreserVed manner in which
he innde- the avowal, prompted Mr..
| Wade to characterize him as ready to
wear the collar of Andrew johnson,
which, of course, Lane denied with
much warmth, saying that everybody
who knew what Jim Lane had done in
| Kansas, would pronounce IL false. The
| fact that Mr.. Lane said TO two or three
Senators yesterday that he should vote
for the Civil Rights bill, and against
the veto meSsuge, gave additional IN
terest to the lively debate. 1t was, OF
course, seen that his views had unuer-
gone quite material change during
=
general desire to know what had IN
duced the change. eRse.T
MIR. Lane, without any apparent
shame, finally gratitied this desire by
ayowing that he, yesterday, Intended
| to vote for the bill, his action therein
contingent upon some adjustment
which could not now be made. This
was what Judge Trumbull waited for,
and he al once fastened Lane. by,ask-
him if he wanted it understood that MS
vote was to be given i'll consideration
of something, or, in other words, that
it was to be given as IL part OF par
gain. There was great interest to hear
Mr. Lanes answer. He was very care
full not 10 deny the suggestion, aud the
galleries and the Senate were left TO be-
| Iieve that Mr. Lane found reason, With
| in eighteen hours, to change his pur-
pose on this most important measure
| There is, of course, considerable query
as TO the means used 10 erect thls
change. He answered by saying that
the fierce speech of Mr.. Wade, made
last night, was the cause.
The debate between Mr.. Wade ana
Mr.. Lane having closed, MIR. -DOollllIc
got the 1oor on the veto message. he
distributed compliments pretty freely
ninOl,l. the members of the Judiciary
CoIni,1itIee. and other members who
supported the bill, and then rmadeu
long and labored- speech to- show thai
the Johnson policy of reconstruction
was inuugurated by MFR. Lincoln:
Judge Trumbull and Mr.. Henderson
worried him seriously with questions,
and brought out the point very clearly
that Mr.. Lincoln never ny WoFu OF
deed Indicated belief that the Execu-
tive could dictate as'to the admission OF
members of Congress.
Mr., Doolittle read letters from gen.
tlenen i'll Louisiana and Alabama, 10
prove that those States were iii u condl-
lion to be adInitLed toirepresentation,
and that the evidence before the joint
committee of fifteen. and as furnished
by the correspondents of Northern
newspapers, is incorrect us indicative OF
Southern opinion. MIR. Davis got the
floor ut about hnlt-past three, for u iew
remarks, and saying he would proceed
a good deal like AN October raln-vlz: !:
with deliberation, and very much at
his leisure,-he weared the Sennte ana
galleries with characteristic haranSue
Sf7 two hours and a half, closing ut a
little after six. Mr.! salisbury follow
ed in a brief and furious speech, whlch
plainly indicated that the private con
yersation on the floor had settled tne
fate of the veto and the passage OF the
bill. He denounced the measure as yun-
constitutional, and said its passage
would be the beginning ofa revolution.
He affected to deplore war, put sald IL
must come. There was no Judge IN
his State, who would attempt to exc
cute the provisions OF the bill, ana the
people of Delaware would see their
land drench in blood before they wonld
permit it. He had opposed the war oi
The last four wears, and was now more
than ever glad that he had done so, Tor
he knew it preluded disunion. For his
part he coulds see nothing in the future
but blood. itl.,g. ,ia q -, ,,r,
Mr. Davis responded that If the Dill
passed he should consider hlmsell an
alien to the Government, and justlneu
in hereinafter resisting It's action.
NE fMcDougal Ialso denounced the
bill and predicted that its passage
would inaugurate. u revolution.
This closed the debate, and nt quar-,
ter, mast six theryote WAS called, amid
the most Intense. excitements The sgal-
| Ieries were crowded, and hundreds OF
neopIa rose to their feet, lforgetfnlof the
place, and the rules of the Senate. Mr.
Wrig at, who appeared in the ChatIlDef
for n few minutes in the carry part OF
the day, and then retired'to one OF Tue
committee rooms, was now supported
to mis- seat by his friends. Mr.. Dixon
was not able to leave his bed, W hen,
| in calling the roll, the name OF MT;
| Morgan was reached, and he responded
.Yes, % in a clear but nervous voice, tine
galleries broke out into a burst OF ap-
I1lause. which, continued some minutes,
| IN spite of the sTapping of the mace OF
the President, and loud calls to order
from all parts otthe chamoer. men
silence had been restored the Gazing OF
the roll was finished. The announce ~
ment of the hevotethirty-thre to hfteen
led TO a scene never before witnessed
| in the Senate, and very rarely equaled
| in the .House for prolonged excitement.