The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-04-28
Washington News and Gossip.

Washington News and Gossip.
We make the following extracts from the
Washington correspondence of the New York
Horld:
WASHINGTON, April 20.
The right triumphed in the House to-day,
and although it was not as complete victory
az the Democratic side could have wished, it
was substantial enough to strike down carpet
bagism and repudiate the frauds it has so long
imDosed upon the House in the shape of mlnorl-
ty representation. The case of General j. Hale
Sypher, who pretended to have been elected
from the First Louisiana District came up for
a final vote, and it was decided to admit him by
a vote of 7S yeas to "a nays. at this point,
lust as Sypher was going up to take the oath,
Mr.. Brooks arose and said he objected to Sypher
taking his seat, because he was Pennsylvania
and bargain had been made to admit him to
secure his vote for the iron interests OF that
State. This fell like thunderclap on the
Western free-trade Republicans, and, while the
Democrats secured the necessary delay by get
ting up protest against Sypher's admission,
Mr.. Moore, a aRepublican member from Illinois,
moved reconsideration, which was carried
IS To 79-but not till the Radicals had been
beaten by several preliminary motions. Then
they made another effort to admit him and 1t
was lost. By this time there was great excite
ment throughout the hall. The Ohio Legisla-
ture was on the floor, interested spectators OF
the scene. Every vote the opposition gained
ground. Fitch (Radical, of Nevada) then Of
fered substitute declaring that there had been
no valid election in Louisiana and sending the
whole case back to the people for a new cleo
ton. Sypher's friends, rather than submit to
this. failed to table the whole thing, and then
the resolution was adopted 100 to GO. This re-
suit will throw out three more Louisiana carpet
bacgers. The wrath of Job Stevenson, of Ohio,
knew no bounds at this defeat of his pet report
He grew white in the face, denounced Demo
crafts. assailed the Republicans who voted with
them, and, altogether made such On exhibition
of his temper that he was hailed with shouts of
derisive laughter. Half dozen personal ex-
plantations followed over the political coalition
that defeated carpet-bagism.
There was no opposition made in the House
to-day to the reference of the Georgia bill to the
Reconstruction Committee. Mr.. Bingham's
amendment was also referred, and several
members. gave notice of other amendments 1t
is quite possible that Butler will be able to in
duce his fellow Radicals on the committee to
agree to some notifications of the Senate
amendments. but the action of the House will,
probably, be different Mr.. Edmunds thinks
that the Senate amendments will be concurred
in by a majority of House Republicans. The
House Democrats say they will not vote for the
bill in its present shape; and it is possible that
if it is reported in that shape, they will abstain
from voting, as did their colleagues in the SEN
ate. On the whole, it is now clear that there
is a large majority against Bullock and his gang
in both branches. Their defeat in the Senate
was UNEXPECTEDLY crushing. Much of it was
due to the skilful engineering of Mr.. Pomeroy,
who developed an unexpected shrewdness.
WASHINGTON, April 81.
The Georgia question has met with temper
ary postponement. General Butler, the Chair
man of the Reconstruction Committee, left
town tonight to be gone several days, and the
committee will not take up the Senate bill till
he returns. 1t has been said that the Republi-
cans of the House will generally support the
military bill as it came back to them but that
this is not true may be judged from the fact
that three prominent Radical members have
prepared substitutes, all of which agree in one
feature, namely, that Georgia shall be admitted
to representation at once in Congress. One of
these (Mr. Ingersolls substituted proposes that
the government of the State shall cease to be re-
garded as PROVISIONAL and that an election for
Senators and Representatives in the Legislature
thereof, as prescribed by the constitution OF the
State, shall be held in November next, or such
other day during the present year as the exis-
ting Legislature may appoint The substitute
offered by General Logan proposes that an elec-
ton shall be held in Georgia in 1870 for MEM
bers of the General Assembly, as provided for
in the constitution of the State adopted by its
convention March II, 1868, at which election
all persons who by said constitution are electors
shall be entitled to vote. Then comes the
proposition of Mr.. Cessna, which proposes to
admit the State at once, but to continue the
present Legislature in power till November. 1t
further provides whenever it shall appear to the
President, from an application by the Legisla-
ture of any State, or by the Governor OF such
State when the Legislature cannot be convened,
that domestic violence prevails in any city,
county, or municipal organization in such
State that cannot be suppressed by the local
authorities it shall be the duty of the President
to suppress the same, and for that purpose he is
authorized to employ the military force of the
United States and any portion Of the militia of
any State he may deem necessary, and to exer-
else all such powers and infict such punish
ment as may, by the laws or the rules and ar
ticles of war be exercised or inflicted in case of
insurrection or invasion. These bills all differ
from the Senate bill, for they propose to admit
the State at once, and do not remand her to the
condition of military province.
Notwithstanding the denials of Bullock and
of others that the Investigation of the Judiciary
Committee have led to any important results,
there is authority for the statement that the
evidence when published will be very damag-