Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-16
FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
This Afternoons PROCEEDINGS.
FRIDAY, December Is.

FRIDAY, December Is.
SENATE.-The Vice President laid before
the Senate q Communication from
SENATOR DRAKE,
announcing that he had transmitted to the Gov
ernor OF Missouri his resignation, to take effect
on the 18th instant.
Mr.. Sumner presented memorial OF merchants
OF Boston, who say they are well acquainted
with
THE ISLAND OF HAYTI
and its people, and they oppose the project to
annex the Dominican part OF the Island to the
United States, believing that it will be detri-
mental to the best interests OF the country; that
II We annex Dominica we will have to buy the
French part of the Island, or become involved
in war.
Mr.. sherman, from Finance Committee, re-
ported adversely on the various bills proposing
ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX,
and gave notice that he should call this matter
up at an early day.
Mr.. Cole, from Committee on Appropriations,
reported House bill making appropriations for
certain revenue cutters; which WAS passed.
Mr. Williams introduced joint resolution re-
ferring all propositions for
ATLANTIC CABLRs
10 a ieint committee OF four on the part of the
senate ana I'VE on the part OF the House. which
Mr.. Cameron called up the bill to INCORPORATE
TIE SOUTHERN KXPRRss COMPANY.
Mr.. Bsyard did not object 70 q southern ex-
press company, but did object to the chartering
OF corporations by Congress. He was opposed
10 the evident inclination to bring everything
into the drag-net OF congressional power. The
OBJECT IN ehartering tins corporation by Con
Of State laws, by which they may be subject 10
local taxation. There was great danger in Con.
gress attempting to exercise this jurisdiction.
Mr.. Cameron said there was no harm and no
danger IN this bill. This company had been in
existence before the war, and ever since.
Mr.. Foreman doubted the expediency Of Con-
eress enacting this species OF legislation.
Mr.. Bayard moved an amendment that the
franchise shall not extend beyond 20 wears, and
that the company shall not be exempt from
local taxation within the States where its opera
tions are carried on, which Mr.. Cameron ac-
ceBted, and IL was agreed to.
The bill was =, then passed, ayes 81: nays Is
was required to transmit TO the Senate in ad.
vance OF the engineers report on the subject
relative to the Newport and Cincinnati bridge.
Mr.. Morton offered resolution requesting the
President to communicate any information in
reference to
oUTRAsHs Upon THE LOYAL CITIZENS IN NORTH
CAROLINA,
and denial TO them Of the equal protection of
the laws.
MIR. Drake then took the floor and proceeded
REPLY TO Mr.. SEIZURE.
He said that il was rarely that the political af-
fairs OF an individual State Of the Union were
brought In review before the Senate in the
manner in which they were Yesterday by hi.
colleague. Every Senator here will recognize
the unusual character of that speech, and the
necessity imposed upon him Mr.. ID } ts;reply He
had not provoked this contest IL mis- coileague
had so willed ii he would have passed out Of
his chamber to-day without a word spoken by
him on Missouri affairs. Even had his colleague
in his speech made no reference to him he could
not have allowed 1t to pass unnoticed. He (Nr
d. would that his last act in this Chamber
nTSIt oe 20 vinaieate as noble party as ever
There was an extraordinary character is the
speech OF his colleague, remarkable for a re-
lubncan Senator TO express before q republican
Senate; II was remarkable in its Introduction
Lere at all.
THE REPUBLICANS OF MISSOURI HAD THEIR
DEFEAT,
and the hosts, led on by his colleague had their
victory when they trailed the republican banner
~ the dust. Why not have LETT it on the soil OF
league not only went into his Mr.. D.'s) public
acts, but into his private conversation; went
back beyond the flood of the rebellion, which
had washed out all the utterances OF men be-
fore that time.
His colleague had, since yesterday, shown him
me letter OF Mf; Rollins, making the statement
that he (Mr. d. had opposed Mr.. Rollins IN
ls5i as Governor OF Missouri, because his elec-
ton would be dangerous to the institution of
slavery. He Mr.; d. did notremember making
any such remark; but he supposed he had said
It, What if he had? What the necessity of re-
peatng it here, unless to create dstrust against
hlm because he was apro-slavery man in 1851.
What difference did it make to the Senate what
he was in 1857? Did that excuse his colleague
Tor what he had done in 1870? He was
READY TO FORGIVE ALL THE HIDKous CRIMES
OF THE REBELS
OF every dye before tive years had gone by vet
lie cannot forgive poor me because was a pro-
,iavery man 10 years ago. He is ready to extend
me owe branch OF amnesty and forgiveness TO
The rebels who have shown no signs Of repent
"nce, and will not forgive me, who have been
Iepentpg OF my pro-slavery feelings, 10, these
MIR. Schurz rose
MIR. Drake hoped his colleague would not in
terIupt him He had listened to him patiently
Yesterday without intcrrupting him. His cot
league had four years more OF his Senatorial
ter TO follow him with his vengeance
Mr.. schurz only desired to say that he did
forgive his colleague. Laughter
MIR. Drake felt indebted to his colleague for
his kindness. He Mr.. d. thought II hard that
he should be assailed because he WAS not an old
republican. He thought it better TO be a new
republican, and faithful one, than an old re-
publican, and trescherous one. lApplaUse in
The Vice President stated that any demon
STATIONS on the part OF persons in the galleries
would result in their expulsion.
Mr. Drake continued, and charged that his
colleague had
STABBED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN COLD
BLooE.
His colleague had struck down in his own
State the party that sent him here, and has TO
taste that blood which power can enable aim 10
shed in the household OF his friends; and feeling
probably that he holds the doctrines Of the re-
publican party In his hands, he comes here
10 sow the seeds OF dissension, which would rive
the party from one end to another. If that was
his purpose, he would fall he would be like those
OF old, who rend the oak and forget the bough
The radical party of Missouri, which his COL
league had destroyed, was one of the most noble
parties that had ever existed. 1t had saved Mi,-
souri, from the rebellion. He Mr.. d. had in
the constitutional convention prepared the dis
franchising clauses which were adopted. Thew
were intended to do their work and they did r.
When he wrote the articles he provided that
after January, 1871, the Legislature should be
empowered to remove the disfranchisemenf
But his colleague could not wait for 1871 He
and his friends insisted that the rebels must he
enfranchisedin 1870; and in this their deliberate
purpose was
TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
His colleague had yesterday drawn Q picture Of
the prosperity and franc utility which now reisued
in Missouri. What he had said vas true and
what was the cause of it? Why the constifn.
lion that he nit. d. had been instrumentsl in
naming, and the fact that the State was undsr
The control Of the Union party; and the very
facts which his colleague had stated onIy msds
his crime moro hide0us in leading the demo-
cratic and rebel hosts, who would now destrov
that constitution. He regretted to SAY it. bnt Il
was fact that there vas no dissension IN ths
republican party in Missouri until his coleaSus
had come into that State.
M. d. then gave an account of the late cam
paign IN Missouri, the refusal of the democrat.
70 nominate ticket, and the movements which
resulted IN the placing of . "nberal' republi-
can ticket in the field, and characterized the
coalition between the liberal republicans and