Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-08
VOL. XX---NO. 55.

would be made IN a few days from the
board which had been investigating the
industrial interests of the country which
would prove that from theIeapital interested
on manufactures in this country there had
been only an average profit of p per oeut.
for the last twenty years.
Mr.. HOGAN thought that that report
would be great curiosity and he should
like to see it.
Mr.. BROOKS went on to say that the
geographical confirmation of Canada inter
laeing and interlining the whole American
continent, from PassamaquadY, in Maine.
, TO Puget Sound, on the Pacific, rendered it
impossible for the United States to keep up
the same rates of duties kept up with
foreign countries. There was not power
enough in the Government to collect the
high duties which the general tariff i'm
posed, therefore, common sense and self
interest alike demand the establishment of
the reciprocity treaty.
Mr.. BLAINE said-I am against the bill
in all its parts. clear through. 1t does not
protect any mans interest and swaps all of
them off for Canadian interests. | believe
the House is against the bill. l move to
strike out the enacting clause Of this
bill
The question was taken by the latter,
resulting, yeas 50, nays 6s. So the enact
ment clause was not stricken out. The Com
mittee then rose.
Mr.. MORRILL, said that he preceived
by the temper ofthe House that the present
bill was likely to be amended, and possibly
lost. He had been an earnest and early adj
voeate of the termination ofthe Reciprocity
treaty, but he preeeiyed that the House
had advanced very much beyond his senti-
ments. He warned the gentlemen that if
this bill did not pass, animals, (horses, cat
tie, sheep and hogs) that are produced IN
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ter the 18th of March. 1t would be urfor- |
tunate for the country if the bill did not |
pass in some form.
Mr.. BROOKS, Of New York, said that the |
people Of the United States were ground |
down by their internal revenue taxation, |
and he had not felt at liberty to let the re- |
eiprecity treaty stand without being at
liberty to make some sort of bargain with |
the people of Canada that whatever our
| internal revenue duties might be, the same
| should be levied either by them or by the |
United States on our imports from them. It |
was exclusively on that understanding that |
he had voted for the abrogation of the |
treaty
SENATE.
Mr.. WILSON offered a resolutions, which
was adopted, instructing the Committee on
Judiciary to inquire what legislation is nee
essary to protect officers of the army from
arrest and prosecution by the civil courts
for acts done in obedience to orders from
superior officers, while in the United States
service.
Mr.. SPRAGUE E offered a resolution, which |
was adopted, instructing the Committee ON |
Foreign affairs to report bill for the ap- |
| pointment of Committee of ofjudicious officers, !
one from the army and one from civil lifeto |
examine the subject of cholera preventa- |
| tives, and to attend the cholera Congress.
Mr. DAVIS called up the resolution Of |
fered by him, calling for the Committee to |
| investigate the cetton frauds. He now Of |
| fered substitute, providing for Standing 2 |
| Committee of the Senate on the subject.
Mr.. TRUMBULL caused to be read a |
letter from Gen. Braymen, in reply to the |
| accusations of the official corruption made |
| against him in a letter from Lit. NJ Burnet, |
of Cincinnati, alleging Burnet to having |
been guilty of frauds, and asking for full |
investigation.
At 10 o'clock the Constitutional amend
ment was taken up.
Mr.. SUMNER, spoke at great length
against the proposition before the Senate.
To his mind it was most reprehensibte and
unpardonable. The same sentiment which !
leads US to hail the abolition of slavery with |
gratitude, as a triumph of justice, should
make us regret with indignation the device
to crystalline into organic law the disfran-
chisement of the race. 1t was with infinite
regret that he differed with his valued
friends about him, but he could not oother-
wise. He should speak frankly as he had |
on other occasions in expressing the crimes
against Kansas, or the infamy of that en-
sctment which turned the whole North into
hunting ground when man was the game. |
This attempt was on larger scale and more
essentially bad. Such measures were so
obnoxious to every argument of reason, SO
perilous to the national peace and 50 inju-
rious to the good name Of the Republic that
they must be encountered as we encounter
public enemy. He spoke of the part the
negroes had taken in the war, and said the |
Republic was solemnly pledged to these
benetaetors by ties OF gratitude and by an
open pledge in the face of the civilized
world. Treason must be made odious. All
who have been untrue to the Republic must
for season be excluded from a partnership
with the government, and all who have
been true must be admitted into partner
ship, according to the solemn rule of the
Constitution, which knows no distinction
of fcolor. In one way reconstruction is easy;
in other ways it is impossible. He cOnsid-
cred this not an amendment but detriment-
al to the Constitution and its avOwed purpose.
It was uncertain, loose, cracked and rick
city. Were it adopted you would declare
that millions Of our fellow citizens had no
rights that white men are bound to respect,
thus repeating in a new form the abomina-
ton which has blackened the name of
Taney. Adopt it, and you will stimulate a
new war of race upon race. The PROPOSE
ton was as faulty as it was gigantic, for it
takes no account of the normal sense of
mankind which is the same as if in rearing
a monument we took no account of the law
of gravitation. Adopt it, and you fasten
stigma upon the very name of the Repub-
lie.
After quoting Otis Franklin and others
on the subject of taxes Mr.. Sumner stated
his objections and summed it up as fol-
lows: Mr.. President, such is the argument
for the beginning.
1st. You have seen how the proposition
came into the Constitution of inequality of
rights.
ID. How it is an express sanction of the
acknowledged tyranny of taxation without
representation.
Sd. How is it f concession of State rights
at a moment when we are recovering from
a war waged against State rights.
4th. How it is the Constitutional recogni-
ton of obligarchy, aristocracy, caste and
monopoly founded on color.
5th. How it embodies the pretensions of
a white mans government.
9th. How it assumes what is false in ,
constitutional law, that color can be
qualification of an eleetOr. !
7th How it is positively ties the hands
of Congress in fixing the meaning of Re-
publican government, so that under the
guarantee clause it viii be constrained 10 {
recognize oligarchy together, with the d
tyrannyof taxation without representation v
as not inconsistent with such a govern L
ment.
sth. How it positively ties the hands of s
Congress in completing the abolition of f
slavery in pursuance of the second clause s
of the Constitutional Amendment, so that .
it cannot, for this purpose, interfere with
the denial of the elective franchise on ac-
count of color.
9th. How it shows that one State in the re- q
cent rebellion gives permanent power over !
loyal citizens, and =
All this you have seen with pain :
and sorrow I trust that he who Is = =
moved to sympathy for his fellow men, can =
not listen to the story without indignation. I
Who that has not lost the power of reason l
can fail to see the cruel wrOngi And now
the QUESTION occurs, what shall be done? .
To this I answer, reject at once the pending I
Give it no quarter. Let the
country see that you ars impatient Of its !
presence.
Mr.. DOOLITTLE followed Referring to o
the claim adding three-ifths to the whole c
number of persons represented, he said,
nnu the question NAV arise whether this | o