Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-01-26

Ie CURED, as was show by the ID
whether he TrumbulD did not admit h
had been in error. After an e~Xplanatio
by each of the members of the Judiciar
Committee, that Senator still insiste
d upon the correctness of what he ha
said, refusing to admit the correction
Mr.. Trumbull continued, in further eN
position of the alleged untruthfulneS
and injustice of the assertions ron til
same source, remarking that he propos
ed to strip from one, who could descen
to the use of such impudent assumption!
all his s~elf-assumed infallibility. H
defended the Judiciary Committee froI
all imputations upon their action, an
vindicated the patriotism and loyalty &
Governor Walker, who had been openl,
denounced in the Senate, by Mr.. Sum
ner, as a traitor. In regard to the recen
election in Virginia, the assertion that
was 4 huge fraud was denied by the re
port of Gen. Candy, after careful inves
tigatiOn; yet the Senator from Massa
chusetts had asserted and reported thi
charge, and said it could not be denied
even after an explicit refutation by NOR
than one Senator. Such was the effrOnt
, cry to which from day to day the Senate
had been subjected. In answer to thu
: imputation upon his own action, HI
quoted from the records of the Senate t.
show that the Republican Senators haC
voted with III n exception for n bill
for the more efficient government of reb'
: ell States, which conferred the right o.
suffrage on colored men throughout the
South. That exception was the Senator
from Massachusetts,. Upon the passage
of the bill to submit the 18th Amend,
ment to the States, the same thing was
repeated, that Senator refusing to vote
for it for the same reasOn that governed
| hSE -aTsnne -, HIa DFlar aozn .-RSah r-,c
that his own idea of the kind of legisla-
ton which was required had not been
blindly adopted by the rest of the Re
publican Senators. If the Senator's as
surance and ~effrOntery was such that he
could not resist his inclination TO assist
others, he must grid his armor about
him lest it be stripped off and expose
him to the American people as an i'm
practical obstacle in the way of legisla-
ton.
The Chair suggested that the personal
application of the word "%effrontery" was
moi strictly in accordance with the rules
Of parliamentary order.
Mr.. Trumbull disclaimed a purpose to
violate any rule of order, but reminded
the Chair that some limit might be al
lowed, inasmuch as his remarks had
been denounced as preposterous and
absurd. and the charge made that he
was attempting to impose upon the
Senate. He said he well recollected the
day when the Senator from Massachu-
sets was subjected to the assaults of
Southern Senators, belonging TO the then
dominant party, and feared that the
Senator had too well followed the ex-
ample of those domineering slave mas
tiers. The Senator was peer of those
who assaulted him, but his attack upon
the character of a loyal Governor of a
State, was upon a party who could not
reply.
Mr.. Sumner, of Mass. (R.), replied
that the Senator from Illinois ran into
the region of personality, as a bird flew
in the air, and q fish swan in the sea.
AS for himself, he would not be drawn
aside from the strietest discussion of the
question raised by that Senator.
He would ask how that Senator be-
anne a critic of himself? Did not the
Senator know that, from the first day
chamber, to confer suffrage upon cOlored
men, down to its final triumph, the
Senator had been its persistent enemy?
When called upon TO consider the case
of Georgia, was not his unrelenting OPP
position encountered? As the repre-
sentative of the Ku-KluX Khan he was
willing to see the State handed over to
that influence. When q just House of
Representatives dragged to this bar the
greatest enemy of reconstruction, the
President of the United States, the Sem
ator threw over that criminal the pro-
lection of his vote upon the question.
should Andrea Johnson be expelled
from the Office, so that reconstruction
might have free course, the freedmen
protection, and the Ku-KluX Khan be
driven out. The Senator found q tech
meal argument in favor of h criminal.
Mr.. Sumner cOntinuedin asimilar strain,
referring to the charge that upon the
passage of this great measure relating to
the rights Of cOlOred people, he had de-
clined to vote for the measure. He eX-
planned that he was absent from the
chamber on account of fatigue and i'll
ness. Though the bill did not, in his
opinion, furnish to the freedmen sufi-
measures of protection, he was
compelled to leave the chamber after
midnight and did not absent himselfin
order to avoid recording his vote.
During the continuance of his remarks
Mr.. Sumner was reminded by the Chair
that in applying to another Senator the
language "he poured out his Yenom,"
he had violated parliamentary decorum.
Mr.. Sumner disclaimed any improper
intention and continued quoting from
letters of correspondents and speeches
purporting to have been made by Gov.
Walker, to show the revolutionary intent
and disloyal sympathies of the people Of
Virginia.
Upon the conclusion of Nj. Summers
remarks, the Chair stated the question to
be upon the pending amendment of Mr..
TO admit Virginia upon the fund
amental conditions by prohibiting any
change or amendment of the State con-
stitution TO deprive citizens of the right
to vote under the same who are now en-
to vote, except in punishment for
crime, but permitting any alteration in
he Constitution prospective in its effects,
n regard to the time and place OF resi-
lence of voters.
Mr.. Schurz, Of Mo. R.), moved to in
in the amendment the word, 'Or
office" so as to prevent the eXclu-
ZION from Office hereafter by 4 change in
he State Constitution, of any person 1
low allowed 10 held office. The Senate
proceeded TO vote IN accordance with
previous arrangement. The amendment
# Mr.. SchurZ was rejected. Yeas IS;
lays 81. +;
Mr.. MCreery, of Ky, d., announced {
he had paired OF, upon all votes on Nir-
yinia, with Mr.. Cameron, of Pa. (R.), p;
Who was absent. !
Inc NOle was lnen taken Oh the I
amendment of Drake, which was adopt
d. s
Yeas-AIessrs. Abbott, Anthony, Bore
nan, BrowDlow, buckingham, Cham I
Her, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Gilbert, t
Iamlin, Harlan, Harris, Howard, Howe, S
Kellogg, Mcdonald, Morrill,, OF VT, {
Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy,
Pratt, Ramsey, Rice, Robertson. Spen- {
Sumner, Thayer, Wilson and Yates I
81. :
Nays-Messrs. Bayard, Carpenter,
'asserly, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Davis, S
Ferry, Fowler, Hamilton, Nor s
i'll, of No. Norton, Nye, Ross, Sauls-
Jury, Sawyer, Scott, Sherman, Stewart, /
stockton, Thurman, TiltOn, Trumbull, '
iickers, Warner, Wiley and Williams /
-2S. t
Mr.. Drake moved to further amend by |
IMPOSING further fundamental condi-
ions, that it should never be lawful for
aid State to deprive any citizen Of the
United States on account of race, color,
" previous condition of s~ervitude, of
he rights to hold office under the Con-
'titution and law of said State, or upon
my such ground to require of him any
'ther qualification for office than such as
ire required of all other citizens. Adopt
ID: Yeas, so; nays, 29. '
The yeas were Abbott, Boreman, t
Buckingham, Chandler, |
Edmunds, Gilbert, Hamlin, Har-
an, Harris, Howard, Howe, Kellogg,
Mcdonald, Morrill, of Vermont, Morton, :
osborn, Patterson, Polneroy, Pratt,
Ramsey, Ross, Robertson, Schurz, t
Sumner, ThaYer, Wilson and