New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-07
grrom yyashangton-Sp1cy Criticism on Men
and Things.
[From.tts Cincinnati Enquirer.

WASHINGTON Jam 29.-Mrs Mantalina says " it
is easy to talk Y and if she had been in Wash
her opinion. Mr.. Mantalni replies T" No, my love,
not when one is eating demnition egg" showing
the rule to be net without exceptional thing no
man has since proved concerning his spouses rule.
Mr.. Mantalini might have added, Neither when
one is demnably outraged by demnition unman-
nerly congressman who laugh and grin and howl
most demnably," as they did when Hon. Henry
Order spoke on the 18th inst.
1t is usual, in the House of Representatives, for
the members to sit reading, writing or joking, in
profound oblivion of the intellectual corruscations
or graceful gesticulatons of the gentleman who
has the floor. Bat this occasion they substituted
jeering for inattention : and the sweet tempered,
complasant Speaker ruled that his authority ex-
tended only to the suppression of disapprobaton
OF applause, and by no means to checking ridi-
cule.
through the lips of Harding and Order, who were
responded to by Smith and Mckee. Mckee ex-
plicitly declared that he was not representing
Kentucky, but the majority Of the House; and
Smith patted Mckee on the back.
Mr.. Smiths speech, which was begun more than
week ago, was quietly completed on Saturday
last. With his usual impartiality this political
mulatto devoted about an hour to each side. JOSH
Billings, or somebody else, says it is treating a
man like dog to cut him short in his narrative ;
but Smith submitted patiently to the operation.
To-day is the last of the debate on the consttu-
tional amendment submitted by the Committee on
Thaddeus hoped to pass this amendment before
the sun went down. Seven suns have risen and
set upon Thaddeus, and still his amendment is
pending. Verify, Thad. must coincide with Mrs.
Mantalini.
When this amendment was submitted, a minority
report was offered by Rogers, of New Jersey, pro-
posing to base representation on the number of
legal voters. Mr.. Grider,s of Kentucky, who is
also a member of this Committee on Renovation,
is known to favor the representation clause as it
now stands in the Constitution. This explanation
is necessary, lest his friends should think he
favored either of the amendments reported.
The committee is sending for persons and pa
pers." Its proceedings are as silent as those of
the old Star Chamber; but the character of the
cases may be inferred from the character of the
persons sent for. Among them is one General Fisk,
who endeavored, at Cincinnati, to rival John
Pope's fame for magnificent lying. Another is one
B. f. Butler, the /" B nin whose name is supposed
by some to represent Beast and by others to
stand for Bethel" but which must stand for
Benjamin." inasmuch as the Scripture says ::
| g But Benjamin's mess was five times so much as
any Of theirs" Benjamin's generous heart was
opened to the soldiers at convention of the Sol
| diers and Sailors Union League not long ago. He
wanted every one of them to have a homestead,
| and if there was not enough public land he pro-
posed to commence at Arlington and measure
| Southwark ...-- o..
This might be done, and still it might be truly
| said g But Benjamin's mess was five times so
/ much as any of theirs" Benjamin still carries his
/ staff about with him; but probably, like the Pick
WICK club, he - cordially recognizes tne principle
of each member defrayng his own expenses
4 They are amply able But Benjamin's mess, etc.,
the fact is he doesn't like to part with such init
mate aoquaintances. An apology is necessary for
i obtruding this mans name upon the public gaze
4 1t was only done to show the kind of testimony
the Committee on Reconstruction wants.
The Freedmen's Bureau bill, which has passed
the Senate and is now awaiting the action Of the
House, will almost surely become the law of the
land. 1t is species of higher law and nigh
justly be styled the negro superiority BILL" L
organizes the Freedmen's Bureau in every State il
the Union; provides for the erection of school
!, houses, asylums and dwelling houses for the ma
ture Of three hundred million dollars of the PEG
y pies money on the coored arstocrats
| Doottle stated in conversation with other Sena
tors that this bill is at present necessary, and Doc
Z little followed up his views by voting for it.
!. Senator Patterson says that the President ais
- believes the thing necessity for the present.
= But this bill is coupled with another from til
y lsame source Senator Turnbull) infinitely NOR
odious than itself. 1t makes the Bureau a tribune
. for the trial of all cases in which negro may
4, Involved. 1t overrides the legal courts, State an
I" Federal. y imposes heavy penalties on whit
men Tor infringement Of any of its provisions; j
Ill provides reward for the informer and premium
at for the official who hears the case. This system wi
m apply to Ohio as well to South Carolina andth
Ill novel and understandable Judiciary will be con
n posed all together of such men as the Enquire
ID calls Jack Airicans.n If this is not negro super
N ority, there is no such thing within the compass
Ii mans imagination. SUI rr.-
% What stern necessity so imperatively demand
this thing has not been explained. But, by the wa
:, thesPresident is not known to have committed hin
self to the latter of the two bills lfhe does ndor
y them BOTH still the appointment of the Bureau
commissioners is in his hands, and he has intimate
# that his selections will be carefully and judicial
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