The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-13
DOLNGS OF THE HEAD CENTRE AT
WASHINGTON

The reading of the journal having been dis
pensed with, the Speaker said 'Tdaho"-here a
voice interrupted, exclaiming "suppose the
Speaker had hoe, what has that to do with
the business of this extra session ?" he was in
favor Of energetic business, and he did not
believe in members introducing their private
affairs here, to take up the Governments time.
After this member had finished the Speaker
continued: Idaho sends here copies of her
laws, and Arizona the journal of her Legisla-
ture, to be referred to the Committee on
Territories"
The House then took up the Reconstruction
bill, which was discounted by Mr.. Brooks. of
New York, in nearly the following words:-He
reminded the House that twenty five years ago
q man who was now drunk (sensation) and
toasted by the British aristocracy, had, in
Faneuil Hall-that Cradle of Liberty-pro-
claimed the Constitution of the United States
TO be very sickly Constitution, which ought
never to have been taken out of its cradle.
After William Lloyd Garrison saw to what a
mux his teaching had brought things, he takes
cabin passage for Europe, leaving me to fight
it out with his friends, instead of with him, as
would be my greatest pleasure. He has seen
four million blacks enfranchised, but he leaves
the whole great white Democratic party in
letters.
This Reconstruction bill he would examine
In sections, and would remark in passing that
nothing could be SO full of sections without in
itself being sectional, " which was not amonp
its least faults. The first section of this hill
declares void the governments of ten of the
States of this Union Only think of it He
had been on the plains of Marathon and at
Jones' Woods; had stood at the Pass of Their
mopyle and on the Long Bridge across the
Potomac, but never was he so filed with
enthusiasm as when he viewed the
'quaker" guns at Manassas, or the iail
where John Brown was hung, and other
places of historical interest in Virginia: and
yet this State, with record so bright in his
tory, with such paying tobacco crops, is to be
struck out of the Union-a lost goat. And
South Carolina, the land of Sumter and Nor
ris' Island, with its big heas and Georgia, and
Alabama and Mississippi, and others, which
you can see in any atlas, and which now
escaped his memory, are also to be struck out
of the Union. Then-then, ask, what is to
become of the Democratic party?
AS to Arkansas and Louisiana, that terri
tory we purchased of France, he believed that
France yet had legal right to demand that
the people of these States should be guaranteed
in their rights under the treaty; and if he was
Napoleon III, as soon as the Exhibition was
over he would march to New Orleans and
knock Phil. Sheridan higher than kite. He
knew not what the President of the United
States would do-he would like to see the ner.
son that did--but he knew what he would do
He would send Sheridan to Maine, where the
thermometer is most all the year in the neigh
borhood of zero, and no liquor can be bought
in less quantities than ten gallons. That ia
no place, he would add, for Democrat. He
Would Furthermore send