The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-05-18
B Y TEL G. r A ? II
Foreign and Domestic Markets,
For the Southwestern.

quiet and uncbang ed Bran dull, 81 35@l 40. Cot
ton very dull and lower; middling nominally 224c
sales 500, receipts $685. and exports to Havre 1924
Barcelona 1857 and Boston 413 bales. Sterling l2e
@l264. Sight exchange sfact. premium Gold Is.
New YORK, May II, evening.-Cotton heavy; sale:
2700 bales; middling upands 90 and Orleans 23ic
Sterling frmer, l09s@llo4 Money 4@5Rct. Colo
1l45.
FRANKFORT, May II, noon.-Bonds opened quiet al
954 and closed quiet at 95s.
HAvRE, May II, uoon.-Cotton opened heavy al
1901 ahoat.
LIVERPOOL, May II, evening Cotton dull; upland:
11@l15 and Orleans llsd.; sales 10000 bales, Of
which for speculation and export 1000
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, May l7.-Ho,8e-The House il con
aiderng the decline of American commerce.
The Reconstruction Committee have agreed TO re-
port bill readmittng Georgia on the terms
signed to Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas with q
clause authorizing the States named to organize
and call into service their respective militia forces.
!Senate-Howard, from the Committee Pacific
Railroads, reported a substitute for the Marshall and
San Diego Railroad bill which explained to authorize
railroad from Marshall Texas, to the Trinity river
thence to Ell Paso on the Rio Grande, and thence
through the territories the Colorado river to
San Diego, Oh the Pacific In territories the bill
granted twenty alternate sections of land each side
of the line and ten alternate sections in any State
of the line was within the State of Texas and as the
United States owned no public lands in that State no
lands were granted. 1t would also authorize con-
necton with lines of roads from New Orleans and
Vicksburg. The amendment had received the sane
ton of a unanimous vote of the committee The bill
ordered to be printed and placed the calendar
Hoalss-Roots, of Arkansas, introduced bill for
Southern Pacific Railroad similar in all respects to
that reported by Senator Howard in the Senate which
was referred to the Committee on Pacific Railroad.
The House then went into Committee on Naval
Appropriations.
Senate-Kellogg presented bill granting lands to
the Louisiana and Texas Railroad aid the construe-
ton of the road from Vicksburg to the Texas State
line.
At O'Clock the bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amend
ment was taken up. The question being on the mo-
ton of Mr. Terry strike that part of Mr.. Stew
arts amendment providing fines and Imprisonment of
persons holding office in violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment. Mr.. Terry then defended his position
from the structures of Mr. Norton and claimed that he
spoke for the Union of the South in advocating
general removal of political disabilities He alluded
to the platform of the Republicans in several of the
States and the utterances of the Republican candidates
in support of this He said in reference to the State
Of Georgia, which the Senator, Morton constantly
holding up as the model State Of crime and disorder
why was this he that if the destinies of
Georgia had been in the hands of Of high patriot
ism-not Of men who had dragged the honor of the
Republican party down to the dust, and whose only
aim was their pecuniary advsncement-the tale Of
affairs would have been very different but he denied
these stories these kilograms manufactured order
and which we're sent here to the press Of
this city. Mr.. Terry then read letter
from Thomas R. Jessup who, be said, was well
known and eminent merchant of New York, to the
effect that he had travelled all over Georgia and saw
nothing but earnest desire to accept the situation
and to let bygones be bygones, and charactersing
entirely false the Avery kilograms from Brunswick.
Turning to the North Mr.. F. claimed that in that sec
ton the press in favor the two bills introduced
The great press of New York, which e1erted such
mighty influence, and circulated from end of this
country to the other, asserted that to continue
longer these disabilities in violation of the great
principles Of the Republican party. He had been in
favor OF the rights of the black man, not because he
was black but because he was man and now that
the rights of the black had been secured he feared
that the rights Of the man himself we're in danger
Your fifteenth amendment is delusion and snare
while these disabilities remain your statute books
The black man is not enfranchsed when he is per
mtted to vote for at least onehalf Of his friends and
as measure of Cancellation, but 8 measure Of Just
tice. He asserted that the l4th amendment and the
test oath we're not designed IS measures of punish
ment but as measures of great public policy. Ireland
tells the story to-day of the effect of the disabilities
and test oaths. Has 500 years of this system raised
up loyal generation in Ireland? No, sir. What did
Austria with her disabilities and her test acts in Hun
gary Were the fires of rebellion ever quenehedf
How, when she has given free constitution and the
right to representation everywhere PREVAILS