Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-20
THE STAY LAW.
To the Editor Of the Wig:

several speakers are expected 10 auuIcSS the
meeting
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THE STAY LAW.
To the Editor IF the Wig:
The various propositions before the Legislature
for a stay law have attracted good deal OF attGn
ton and have elected some discussion among the
people | am now satisfied that the favor which
they generally felt for such measure at first has
greatly abatcd and now very many believe such law
will do more harm than good. Or, rather they think
the good TO be expected from such a law may be
otherwise secured. No honest man is in favor of
general reputation. Indeed the Legislature has not
the power TO induce any such man To repudiate what
he Justly owes. The public conscience condemns all
such laws, and they can never obtain the general
sanction of the people Yet it is true that just now,
it would he very hard for everybody to be forced To
pay his debts The scarcity OF money in the country
would compel 4 minOuS sacrifice Of property, if
much of il were at once thrown upon the market and
sold for cash. This should be avoided, and when
this has been provided against, we think all good
men will be satisfied.
Can this be- done ! think il can, very casilv.-
Let the Legislature pass law requiring all property
seized under execution, to be valued by fair judges,
and if il does not sell for that amount, let the sale
he stayed. Or, what is still better, let them pass
law requiring that all property seized under eNecu-
ton shall he sold upon SIX or nine, or twelve months
credit This will. beyond all question, secure full
prices for all property thus disposed Of Many sales
have been made lately through the counting on such
credits and the result, in every case has been that
property thus sold brought higher prices than ever
were realized heretofore In this way the great hard
ship mentioned above would be avoided.
II our Legislature passes stay law, the cOnSc-
uuence will be very injurious in some respects. Al
ready all Northern creditors are taking the alarm,
aud are sending South to have all their claims put
in suit in the United States courts that the stay
law will not hinder them in collecting their debts
Nnr VIII of al Ot
most lenient and cOnSiderate, will be placed in PIE
ierred class and allowed To come i'll ahead of our
own people. This is very important consideration.
\ very ultra stay law would have another very
bad effect. Ii would make Northern capitalists veIy
cautious about sending their capital to the South
aud the benefit in this regard, 10 be expected from
a repeal OF the usury laws, would be greatly inn
paired. But if we will show to the world that We
are an honest people; that we hate every Sembance
of repudiation; that we are for allowing grown men
To make their own bargains, and that when made
they may be enforced by law that the State will do
nothing TO sanction any departure from the strCtcSt
commercial integrity. When shall have made
this exhibit of our principles and purposes, we may
rest assured that capital 80 abundant at the North,
50 scarce at the south, will flow in upon us, and
then, but not till then, will there be any return OF
prosperity in our dear old Virginia.
am sure MtSSIS. Editors, that these views. has
tily written ana mpcriectly expressed are rapidly
obtaining the sanction OF all our best men. / am
pass laws which while they may afford Il temporary
relief will in the end, prove very injurious tn our
best and highest ntcleSt> MARSHALL.
Negro Suffrage in the District Of Columbia--IIOw
the Bill Reads Ayes and Noes Negroes in
the GaIlerie~-Disordcrly Sccncs-Thc Senate
aud the President.
WASHINGTON, January Is.
The following bill, as originally introduced 10y
Mr.. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, and reported back 10y
ar. Wilson. of Iowa, from the Committee on the
judiciary, passed the House of Representatives to-
day by a vote of llG to 81:
BE i Caacied, by the Senate and House Of Repre-
y5aiatireS IF the United States IF America IN
Congress assembled. That from all laws and parts
of laws prescribing the qualifications of electors for
any office in the District of Columbia, the word
e. White" he and the same is hereby, stricken out,
and that from aud after the passage of this act no
person shall be disqualified from voting, at any
election held in the said District account of
color.
SECTION , And be Il further caactel, That all
acts of Congress, and all laws of the state of Mary
land in force in said District, and all ordinances ol
the cities Of Washington and Georgetown, incOn-
sstcnt with the provisions of this act hereby re
peaed and annulled.
The yeas and nays in detail were as follows:
YEAs-MeSsrs. Alley, Allison, Amcs, Ashley, Ba-
kcr, Baldwin. Banks Barker, Baxter Beamon,
BNweIl Bingham, Blaine, Blow, Boutwell,, BraDde-
gee, Bromwel Broomall, Brckland Bundy Clarke,
of Ohio Clarke, of Kansas, Colt, COnklng, Cook, !
Cullom. Darling, Davis, Dawes, DeireeS DcanO, !
Dcming, Dixon, Donnelly, briggs, Eckley, Eggles-
ton, Eliot, FarnswOrth FenOy Garfield Grnnel,
Griswod Hail. Harding, Hart, Hayes, Highly,
Holmes, Hooper, Hubbard of Iowa, Hubbard, OF
New York. Hubbard, of Connecticut, Hubhell, of
Ohio, Hubbard, James Humphrey, of New York,
IngerSoll, JenckeS, Julian kasson, Kelley kelSo,
ketcham, Latin, Lawrence OF Pennsylvania, Law
renee, of Ohio, Loan, LOngyear, Lynch, MarstOn,
MOrvin, McClung, Mercur, Miller, MOrehead, Morrill,,
Norris MOultOn, Myers, O'Neil, Orth, Patterson,
Perham Pike, Plants, POmeroy, Price, Raymond,
Rice of Massachusetts Rice, of Maine, Rollins, Saw
yer, Schenck, SchOhed, Shelabarger, Sloan, Spal-
ding, Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Francis Thomas, OF
Maryland TrOwbridgc Epson, Van Aernom, Van
Illinois, Washburne, OF Massachusetts, Wilkes,
Wentworth, Williams, Wilson, of Iowa, Wilson, of
Pennsylvania, Window and Woodbrdge-ll6.
NAYS-MeSSrS. AucOna, Anderson, Ashley OF Ne
vada Benjamin, Bergen, Boyer, Brooks, CHAMBER,
Dawson, Denuison, Eldridge, FaIquhar, Finch
GlosSbrenncr Goodyear, Grider Harding of Ken
lucky, Henderson, Hill, Hogan, Hubbard Of West
Virginia, Hubbell Of New York, James NJ. Hum
phn.y of New York, johnson, Jones, Kerr kingken
DALI, Latham of West Virginia, lie Blond, Marshall
Mccullough of Maryland, Mckee Mitlack Nichol- !
son NoeL Phelps of Maryland, RadfOrd, Randall
of Pennsylvania, Randall of Kentucky, Ritter,
Rogers, Ross, Shanklin, StgIeaves, Green Clay
smith, Stilwell, StrOuse Taylor, John l.. Thomas,
Jr.. of Maryland Thornton, Trimble, Van Horn,
Voorhees, aud Wmlield-52.
The House galleries were densely crowded during
the session to-day, and owing 10 the pressure many
persons were unable to gain admission. The CO.
iored population were there in large numbers
Every one bath white and black, taking great in-
tcrcst in the discussion of the subject Of the eXen
sion of the elective franchise in the District of
t'ul he IN ~ al Ia
much larger even than its most saugune friends an
ticipated and when the result was announced, the
applause the floor and in the galleries was almost
deaienng. The bill which passed the House Is yet
u be acted upon by the Senate. Ii conters suffrage
without other qualification than has heretofore been
applied 10 whites.
WASHINGTON, January lS.-Not halfadoZen Re-
pnbcanS voted to-day in the House against straight
out negro suffrage. The Indications however, are
very favorable 10 defeat Ot the measure IN the
senate, though the Republican leaders urge that an
example for the whole cOuntry-NOrth and South
should be made here.
have not shadow Of doubt that the President
will veto ans general suffrage bill, if he does not
qualified one, even. Many Representatives, were at
heart opposed TO the bill but they are afraid Of the
violent Radicals at home.
4 well has been struck on Eagle Creek, Overoh
county, Tennessee, which, al depth OF only seven
ty-tive feet. sent up column OF oil ten feet high
and l. still flowing. Thatig contrary to all precedent
with regard to shallow wells and lowing wells, and
will make a revision of existing theories necessary.
The CrocuS Well ia Cumberland county, Kentucky,
Gust across the line from OyertOn county, is ROW
ported at two hundred barrels Per day, and the
3 ar Creek fifty barrels.
The y. o. PicGyuRe states that nearly half Of
the GermaG immigrants who lately arrived in that
city from NSs -lgrk under contract to work on a
pantatOn in the aielQF have refused to fulfill the
engagement and remain il the city, hoping to secure
HIGHER wages The contractor is cut ofpOckett to the
amount OF their passage money, which, according to
agreement he had paid.
curious. and startling if true, story of a young
girI nased Iouisa Black, who had escaped from
the Mormons. is related by correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Commercial lierieet having been frozen
from exposure. she crawled GGdar hay-stack, and
laid there twenty-three days without food ana
suffering horribly when she was rescued,
The chair in which Gen. Robert f. Lee sat when
be sigHed the articles of captuatOn to zen. Grant