Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22
FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
SENATE. Bills were introduced as follows
BY Mr.. Patterson, to abolish the Freedmen's
Bureau and provide for a Bureau of Educa-
ton.
By Mr.. Pomeroy, proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States, sub
hitting the 10th amendment which, when
ratified by three-quarters thereof, shall be
part of the constitution of the United States.
The basis of suffrage in the United States
shall be that of citizenship, and all ma
tives and naturalized citizens shall en-
JOY the same rights and privileges of the
elective franchise. Each state shall deter
mine by law the age of the citizen and the
time of residence required for the exercise of
the rights of suffrage, to which shall apply
equally to all citizens and shall make all
laws in regard to the time and place of hold
ing elections.
Referred to the Committee on the judiciary
and ordered to he printed.
The Virginia bill was taken up.
Mr.. Morton referred to the circumstances
attending the holding of the military commits
sion in Georgia to pass upon the qualifications
of members of the Georgia legislature, claim
ing that they indicated the correctness of his
previous statement concerning the unwarant
ed assumption of power in that state.
Mr.. Trumbull said he had carefully abb
Senate in the present discussion, but now felt
compelled to reply to the various inuendoes
and assertions of personal character. He
had read from the official report in the Con-
gressional Globe, the remarks made by Mr..
Sumner in the course of the discussion on the
previous evening upon the subject of a mis-
understanding among the Senators upon the
alleged agreement to vote upon the Virginia
bill on the previous Monday.
After an explanation by each of the mem
beers of the Judiciary Committee, that Sena-
tor still insisted upon the correctness of what
he had said refusing to admit the corrections.
The character of one Charles II. Porter, with
whom that Senator had held consultation in
the Senate as representative of the loyal
people of Virginia, and for whom he claimed
the privilege of the floor, was shown by the
published report of the trial of that person by
court martial for using seditious language.
The language referred to which was uttered
| during the war, was that its author would
rather live under the government of jeff
Davis than under that of Abraham Lincoln;
| and that the United States government was
humbug, and expressions of tenor.
Mr.. Trumbull continued in further eXpos
ton of the alleged untruthfulness and injus-
tce of the assertions from the same source,
remarking that he proposed that to strip from
one who could descend to such impudent as
sumption, all his self-infalibility. He de-
| Tended the Judiciary Committee. from all the
imputations upon their action, and vindicated
| the patriotism of Gov. Walker who had been
openly denounced in the Senate by Mr. Sum
ner as traitor. In regard to the recent
election in Virginia, the assertion that it was
| a huge fraud was denied by the report of Gen
CANDY after careful examination. The SEN
ator from Massachusetts,, had asserted and re-
peated this charge and said that it could not
be denied even after an explicit refutaton by
more than one Senator Such was the eff
frontry to it which from day to day the SEN
ate had been subjected. In answer to the
imputation upon his own action, he quoted
| from the records of the Senate TO show that
| the republican Senators had voted with but
one exception for the bill framed for the gov
eminent of the rebel States which conferred
| the right of suffrage on colored men through
out the South, that exception was the Senator
| from Massachusetts, (Mr Sumner upon the
passage of the bill to submit the 18th amend
ment to the States, the same thing was
peated that the Senator refused to vote for it
for the same reason that governed his action
| in this case, which was that his own idea of
the kind of legislation which was required has
been blindly adopted by the rest of the repub
lcan Senators. If the Senator's assurance
| and effrontery was such that he could not re-
| SlSl MS iuulRUdllOn 10 ASSIST OtHSTs Hc iutlst
grid his armour about him, lest it be stripped
| off and expose him to the American people as
our impracticablc obstacle in the way of leg
| islation.
The Chair suggested that the personal ap-
plication of the word effrontery was not strict
! ly in accordance with the rules of parliament
| tary order.
Mr.. Trumbull disclaimed purpose to
violate rules
After further debate the roll call was
proceeded with on the passage of the bill, the
result being yeas A., nays 10. Before the
announcement of the vote Mr.. Kelley, who
vas occupying seat next to that of Mr. Sum-
ner, who was present without voting, asked
| for the reading of the 10th rule of the Senate
which require Senators present to vote on the
call of yeas and nays unless especially ex-
cused The rule was read but no action was
taken in the matter.
| The Chair gave notice that any manifesto
tons of applause or disapprovalby the galleries
upon the announcement of the vote, would be
| a violation of the rules and then declared the
result of the vote.
On motionIof Mr.. Sherman the currency
bill was taken up and laid over.
| The Senate then at $50 o'clock adjourned
till Monday.
HOUSE,. A bill presented by Mr.. Wash
burne Of Mass, allowing sos, 6oS to S. & Y.
| Sales of Killingsly, Conn.,, for satisfaction of
army clothing contract, was taken up, pend
| ing its consideration the morning hour ex
| pired and the House went into Committee of
! the Whole. The intention of the House in