Evening star., 1870-01-14

Cs.ea-sas. xs.ssra.y's Prseeeai.xs

Csncluslsa U1esraay's Proceedings.
snkATE.-Afser our report closed-she bill
for . .dmissOn Of vifginia being under con
~. ES1onds .saaea hi. amendment, pr,-
ssS sc s sse 8 ssction Of the
Amendment, end prescribing the penalties of
perjury for my one falsely taking the oath, 81
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Mr.. e. argued IN fAvor q his amendment, and
sisted that gentleman OF Virginia. whose honor
was equal % that Of one Who heard him.
to the Judiciary Committee to furnish proof
that this oath could not be taken BY number of
the members Of the Legislature, and also proof
of other facts bearing on this matter, and their
application had been refused.
Mr.. Thurman would like to see the man who
said that his application TO the committee to
hear him had been refused. . ...--.
Mr.. Trumbull had never heard Of any such
Mr.. Carpenter and Mr. Stewart. tho other
members Of the Judiciary Committee, corrobo-
Mr.. Trumbull said 1t might be that the com
mittee had refused to listen to those who were
improperly on this floor squirting up the Sena-
the committee Of course w refused to near. tSa but
were certainly willing to listen to them IL they
had any facts to offer.
Mr.. sumner asked to what persons did the
Senator aliude - being improperly on the
floor?
Mr.. Trumbull.-There has been person here
for several days. The Senator from Nevada Mr..
Nye] has good reason to know it, rs the party
has occupied his seat.
Mr.. Sumner.-Name him.
Mr.. Trumbull.-I understand his name Is Por-
ter.
Mr.. Sumner.-Does the Senator undertake to
say that he Is here improperly?
MI Trumbull.-I do say that he is here i'm
properly.
Mr.. Sumner-He Is q member elect of the
other House.
Mr.. Trumbull.-He has no right here.
Mr.. Sumner.-H0w about Gov. Walker? He
from any one, speaking for the disloyal Legisla-
ture Of Virginia. Nothing Is said about this
but because loyal man, the representative Of
OF her Hoase, he is assaiied. I Ie He INT. MIS- So was @
here pleading for loyalty, pleading for the op-
pressed people Of Virginia, whom the Senator
mt. Irumb9lll was doing all he could to force
10 the ground, and in the name of the loyal peO-
PIE OF the country he protested against 1t.
Mr. Trumbull would like to know by what
authority the Senator from Massachusetts, as
sumed to represent the loyal people Of this cOun-
try. Who gave that Senator the right to con-
sttute himself the leader and the champion of
the loyal people of this country, and denounce
those who did not come up to his standard; and
who was the manwhO was now theSenatOr's cOun-
sci and adviser in his opposition to this meas
ure? A paper had just been put into his hand,
Porter before military commission at Norfolk,
Va, upon charges therein specified-frst that
in the drinking saloons of Norfolk he used Ian.
guage so vile against the United States that he
lMr. T.) would not repeat it in the Senate, but
he charged this Government with being hum
bug. This is the man that the Senator from
Massachusetts brings here upon the floor.
Mr.. Sumner.-Never.
Mr.. Trumbull.-weIl, am glad to hear it.
The paper containing these charges in which
Porter was tried, included among them using
riOtous and disOrderly fer the space of nine DAYS.
consecutively. (Great laughter On this charge
he was found guilty of being drunk, but not for
nine days. lRenewed laughter. Why Governor
Walker was here, he (Mr. IT, did not know. He
did not even know that Governor Walker was
here at all yesterday. but he understood that
Governor Walker was the provisional Governor
OF Virginia, and under the rules OF the Senate
he had tie right to the floor. While on this sub
ject he would take occasion to say that he
entirely disapprOvcd of the practice which had
become so common OF persons, outsiders, coming
In on the floor, and passing among Senators
when important measures we're under consid-
eratioD. For himself he did not like any one to
approach him while subject of Importance was
under discussion. The practice was not proper
one, and did not commend itself to him. Mr.. T.
also expressed his depreciation OF personalities
Mr.. Sumner said that the Senator reminded
him Of an incide in early ecclesiastical history
A certain bishop had said: 81 judge myself to
be burned" so entirely satisfied was he of his
ecclesiastical guilt. While listening to the Sem
ator from Illinois, was reminded OF this Did
he not judge himself TO be burned? He de-
nounces personalities, and yet his whole speech
end. don't know that the Senator is open to
reason; am inclined to think he is not. Be-
cause have conferred witlra membcr-elect of
the other House, (Mr. Porter, member-elect
from the Richmond, Va, district,) the Senator
attacks me. i repel his assault. Has not
member-elect the same right a provisional
governor to be here? If he has not by
the strict rules of the Senate he has by the
rule of courtesy which has always prevailed
The Senator says that / assume to be the repre-
sentative OF the loyalty Of the country. D no,
sir, do not it is too great responsibility; but
have raised and do mean to raise my voice
without firing in behalf Of the loyal people of
the South, In behalf OF equal rights without re-
gard to color, in behalf of the colored man.
The Senator from Illinois is no friend to the
loyal people OF the South. His whole course on
reconstruction has been wayward and eccentric
from beginning to end. How can we expect to
recall him now, so long wanderer. Rebellion
Is again lifting its head in Virginia, and il finds
a ready uphOlder i'm the Senator from illinois,
Ii may be that my, voice viii be powcrless, that
my opposition will be useless; but do predict
that if this bill should pass it will be disastrous
to peace in the State OF Virginia.
A somewhat lengthy personal cOlloquy was
eontinned cont between Messrs Sumner and frum-
bull Mr.. Sumner charging that Mr.. Trumbuil
had been opposed to negro suffrage in the be-
ginning, and that 1t required the utmost efforts
OF ITS friends to overcome his opposition, while
Mr.. Trumbull declared that he had reported all
the reconstruction measures, that Mr. Sumner
had opposed both the thirteenth and fifteenth
amendments an, to the constitution, and that If his
I-"i' Couiistis ildu pTeValieu lDe COlOrS0 man
never would have had his rights.
Mr. Sumner read the following passage from
speech said to have been delivered by Gov
ernor Walker, at an agricultural fair in South
west Virginia, after the election: "By the re-
suits OF the late election, Virginia has freed
herself from horde of greedy cormOrants and
unprincipled carpet baggers, who come to sap
her yitals.' This is the language, said Mr. s.,
in which this Governor describes those citizens
OF the North and West who have gone to Vir-
giIia with their household goods, and with the
intent to contribute to the resources of the
State.
Mr.. Salisbury said the poor white man seemed
TO have no friend here. Every one seemed desi-
rous Of proclaiming his love for the negro, and
he MIR. 81 rose simply to say that he was a
friend of the white man.
The Senate then went into executive session.
and shortly thereafter adjourned.
HOUSE.-After our report closed
Mr. MuDgen, Of Ohio, (rising to point of or
der y said that some time ago he made speech
in this House which created a good deal Of ex-
citement, and gave him the name of a repudia-
tor. In what he was about to say now, he desired
tc call attention to q dispatch that had been sent
hence to the New York Tribune, and which was
pnpLshed in that paper ON the 17th instant. In
that dispatch Ii was charged that he had been
promised support by the Democratic members
OF the House; that four Democratic members
had prepared speeches on the subject: that thew
had meetings in the cloak room Of the HOE 90
and four had prepared speeches and put him
(Mungen) forward in the matter, and after
wards basely deserted him. MIR. Mungen pro-
nounced the whole dispatch false, and misrep-
resentatiOn.