New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-18

! Internal Revenue Keceipts-Hcarlng on
Telegraph Cabics-FundinY Bill, Post
II pSned-Addfti0nal National Bank CIR
euiaiion- oIOred Voiers In PhiladeI
Phia-A North Carolina LocY Caa No
Take the Oath rs P0stmaster-BiI I,
Aid Louisiaaa and Texas Railroad
Exciting Disc on Bill to Eaf0re,
Fifteenth Amendment-Genera Re
moval or Political Disabilities Urges
"A Deiasi0n and q Dnare-SsnatOl
Kellog1's Pacific Railroad Bil Ke
porscd with hAmendments-Aid to Con
meeting Koads In l-OuIsiaaa.
WASHINGTON, May l7.-Internal revenue
receipts to-day $500, 900.
The Foreign Relations Committee Of the
Senate, to day heard Cyrus W. Field and w
G. Barney, regarding telegraphic cables
but took no definite action.
The funding bill was postponed week.
The Banking and Currency Committee
this morning agreed to report bill provid-
ing for S95, 600, 900 additional national bank
circulation; for the cancellation of S45, ,000,-
000 of three per cent bonds, and 10000, 0OI
of greenbacks. and providing for a free
banking system on gold basis.
House Naval Committee will report
against the continuance of thirty three per
cent addition to officers; pay.
There are trife over 5000 colored votes
in Philadelphia.
Among the petitions presented to-day
| was one by General Abbott from a North
| Carolina lady, who. after carefully reading
| the oath, can not qualify as postmistress.
| She wants the postmaster to modify the
| oath, or Congress to relieve her from her
political disabilities.
| House-During the discussion of Lynch's
| bill, regarding the dectine of American COM
| merce, MIR. Washburne (Wisconsin) charged
| the decline OF our commerce to Great Brit
| ain during the rebellion.
| Mr.Roots (of Arkansas) introduceda bill for
| the Southern Pacific Railroad, similar in all
| respects to that reported by Senator Howard
| in the Senate. Referred to the Committe on
Pacific Railroad.
The House then went into committee on
naval appropriations. House in session to-
night.
The registration is closed, showing the
whites to be $50 ahead of the last registra-
tion when the blacks had a majority.
iSendte-Mr. Kellogg presented bill
granting lands to the Louisiana and Texas
Railroad to aid in the construction of the
road from Vicksburg to the Texas State line.
At one o'clock the bill to enforce the tif-
teenth amendment was taken up, the Ques-
ton being on the motion of Mr.. Ferry, pro-
viding fines and imprisonment for persons
holding office in violation to the fourteenth
amendment.
Mr.. Ferry then defended his position
from the structures of Mr.. Morton, and
claimed that he spoke for the Union men of
the South, in advocating general removal
of political disabilities. He alluded to the
platforms Of the Republicans in several of
the States, and the utterances of the Re-
publican candidates in support of this. He
said, in reference to the State of Georgia,
which the Senator (Morton) was constantly
holding up as the model State of crime and
disorder. Why was this? He was sure that
if the destinies of Georgia had been in the
hands of men of high patriotism, and not
of men who had dragged the honor
Of 4 the Republican party down to
the dust, and whose only aim was
their own pecuniary advancement, the state !
of affairs would have been very different. |
But he denied these stories. These tele- |
grams were manufactured to order and !
sent here to the press of this city. Mr.. |
Ferry read from letter of Thomas r. Jes- |
sup, who, he said, was a we'll known and |
eminent merchant of New York, to the !
effect that he had travelled all over Georgia \
and saw nothing but an earnest desire to
accept the situation, and to let bygones be
bygones, and characterizing as entirely |
false the very kilograms from Brunswick. |
Turning to the North, Mr.. Ferry claimed
that in that section also the majority of the
Republican press were in favor OF the two
bills for this purpose which he had intro
duced-that great press of New York, which
exercised such mighty influence and which
circulated from one end of the country to
the other. He now asserted that to con-
tinue longer these disabilities, was in viola
ton of all the great principles of the Re
publican party. He had been in favor of
The rights of the black man, not because he
was black, but because he was human, and
that now that the rights OF the black man
had been secured, he feared that the rights
)f the man himself were in danger. Your
fifteenth amendment is delusion and a
snare while these disabilities remain on
7our statute books. The black man is not
when he is not permitted
% vote for at least one-half of his friends
md neighbors. He wanted these disabilities
emOved, not as a measure of Cancellation.
,ut as measure Of justice. He asserted
Bat the fourteenth amendment and the test
'ath were not designed as measures of pun.
shment, but as measures of great public
,olicy. Ireland tells the story to-day of the
fleet of disabilities and test oaths. Has
i've hundred years Of that system raised up
! loyal generation in Ireland? No. sir. What
lid Austria do with her disabilities and
est acts Ill Hungary? We're the fires Of
ebelliOn ever quenched? Now, when she
las given her free constitution and the
light to representation, peace everywhere
revails.
Morton replying said Ferry's was ,
speech. He should take seat
n that side. Ferry's proposition was to
weep away all political disabilities, place
ebels in power, and give them an oppor- /,
unity to renew past mischief without af- !
ording any protection to loyal men.
Sawyer eulogized Ferry's speech as sound Z
lepn nblican doctrine, and thought that to
cad that Senator out of the Republican
a ty would require more than mere asser- !
ion and denunCiatiOD. He added that I
nder the political disability scheme, two !
lnocent persons suffered for one guilty.
lie adds, no more blundering scheme than I
ne test oath could have been devised. In :
he South, under its operation, they were
ompelie to take incompetents, or rascals,
3 Office bearers.
Adjourned.