The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-12-16
FORTT-FIRST CONGRESS.

| WASHINGTON, Dec. l5-SENATE-A bill
was passed allowing details of supernumer-
airy army officers 10 professorships in certain
| colleges and universities.
| Bills were introduced:
| By Mr.. Revels-to aid In the repair and
| construction on levees in the State OF Mis-
sissippi.
To incorporate an express company was
reported.
MIR. Morton, from the Committee on Mill
| tary Affairs, reported favorabiy on the bill
| to refund to the States the interest on money
borrowed to equip, pay and transport troops
| for the United States service during the late
war.
| Mr. Wilson reported bill extending the
| time of mastering out United States officers
| fro m January, 1871, to July, 1871. Passed.
a bill to regulate the international cor
respondence on telegraph lines between the
| United States and foreign countries, WAS
referred.
| At l:iO .. IN. the Senate, on motion oi
| Mr. Schurz took up the resolution offered
| by him yesterday declaring in favor of the
| removal of all political disabilities as soon
as the imperative public necessity which
dictated their imposition had ceased. Schurz
| then delivered an address of unusual length
which the Senate listened to with marked
| attention. He reviewed the history of party
division for which he said, he and those who
acted with him had been denounced as
| traitors to the Republican cause, the inter
ference, at the solicitations of his colleague
| Mr. Drake, of the National Executive by
which the State contest acquired more than
| local interest and the subsequent defeat oi
the President with all his patronage by the
triumph of the very principles upon which
he had been elected. The proba abilities OF
the motion for new party nucleus, and
prospects of reforms in civil service and
revenue, were also referred to. Commenc
| ing with an allusion to his resolution Of
expressive of a sentiment which had received
All emphatic endorsement st the recent cleo
| ton in Missouri, and to the existing agree
ment between bis colleague, Drake, and
| himself that his own should be made be
for the withdrawal of the latter from the
| Senate, Schurz proceeded, saying that the
ldisfranchisement of persons engaged in the
rebellion Was temporarily an expedieni
measure of safety, rendered necessary bs
the new social condition in the South con
seouent on the close of the war. He held
that their removal by the party which in
posed them, and while still in its ascendency
in the government, Of all political disquali-
foations, especially from the ballot box was
essential to the restoration of fraternal feel
ings as proving that such meatures had not
resulted from vindicativeness but necessity
and as bringing the late rebels to a full
realization of their share with ourselves IN
: the institutions and greatness of common
country He denounced as false the news
paper reports that the Missouri bolt had
+ anything to do with a revenue reform con
spiracy, or its organization in Washington
His convictions lead him to oppose the pro
tective system. Had the tariff question hai
been issned, be thought the majority agains
it would have been nearer a hundred thous
and than for.y-two thousand. The question
was discussed but was not an overshadow
ing issue. He denied the imputation
against his repubicanism and the charges
that he was hostile to the administration
and aninadverted in pointed terms upol
the course of the President in interfering
, in the election in Missouri. attributing hi
course to the influence of his (Schurz's
I.colleague, Mr. Drake. esar
. Mr.. Schurz concluded with some spscula
. tion upon the probable formatioR OF . ne'
lparty, and the popular belief thasishs III