The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
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Death of Geo. ID. Prentice.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Jan. 23.-Geo- ID. Prem
tice is dead; aged 6S years.
WASHINGTON, Jan. A.-The RecoIstruc-
ton committee met and u unanimously agreed
to report to the Senate the Virginia bill and
press It's passage to-day, if possible. Bing-
ham accepts it, and the Republicans, as far
as heard will vote tor it.
Hamilton Taylor is appointed collector of
customs for the mouth of Pearl river, MisSiS-
sippi.
over all business for the purpose of concur
ring in the Senate's amendments to the
House bill for the admission of Virginia.
which was agreed to, the Democrats voting
in the negative.
Farnsworth moved their concurrence, al
though he thought amendments would do
no good; but he was opposed to keeping the
State longer without representation
Bingham then addressed the House. He
was listened to with the greatest attention
his desk being frequently surrounded with
members. He said that it would be borne
on the journal of the House that mo-e than
three to one of members had declared for
unconditional admission; that vote would
commend itself to the approval ofth coun-
trv He made no apology for the position
he had assumed, and now reiterated that
Congress had no power to exact fnndament-
al conditions on admission OF a State, and
pronounced the Virginia constitution more
liberal than any west of the Alleghanies. If
he thought under this bill Virginia would be
subject to conditions which might not be
imposed on New York and Ohio, he would
refuse to vote for it. Abiding to gentlemen
on his side of the house Bingham was met
bv the inquiry from Butler to which side of
the House is that, to which he Indignantly
replied that the gentlemen is very wise;
wise beyond his years; he cannot read me
ont of the party with which ! am associated,
nor can he blot out my record. Fulga-ity
is not wit; assumption is not power; wit
is a feather and fool rod, an honest man
il the noblest work ofGod. Laughter and
manifestations or excitement.l
Butler said he never intended to read
Bingham out OF the party. He knew not
whether he was to have an ovation in Vir-
rinia. if SO, he would like to see Virginia'S
blasting man whom all their papers an
nOunced as the murderer of Mrs. Surratt.-
More ezcitement)
the Virginia Constitution. saying it was not
the work of Virginia statesmen, but of car
net -baQgers, scalawags, and negores from
the fields. He regarded the conditions of
the bill as a notice that Ii the State did not
maintain the spirit of the reconstruction
acts, Congress would put her back where
she had been.
Farnsworth then took the floor, and allud-
ed to the remarks made by Butler regard
ing the action of the chairman of the recon-
struction committee, and said he would not
be instructed in Republicanism by Butler,
and compared his own with the latter's re-
cord, saying, among other pungent declara-
tions, that Buffers desertion from his mas
tiers. was so recent that he was forced like
Peter when he deserted his master to curse
and swear to make people believe his deser-
ton genuine. He reminded the House that
Butler had opposed every move for the ad-
mission of Virginia; that on the last occa-
sion two days before the recess, he stated
that more testimony was wanted by the
Committed: to this Butler remarked that the
evidence wanted was the ratification of the
18th amendment. + arnsworth said that was
most remarkable, because three days before
that the Secretary of State had notified Con-
press that Virginia had ratified the fifteenth
(Laughter.)
IL was a gentleman from Massachusetts
who had barred the door against Virginia,
and would bar it to-day but that he knew 1t
to be inevitable that the bill would pass. In
conclusion, he said that if he thought the
House would now concur and refer the mat
ter to a committee of conference, he would
vote to non-concur, but as he was satisfied
that the House would not. he would vote to
concur. Messrs. Cox, Morgan and other
Democrats spoke, taking the same grounds
as Democrats in the Senate and refused to
vote for the bill. The vote on concurrence
was strictly party vote, and resulted, yeas
136, nays 81,