The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1870-12-14

;nouire into the taxing ofmanufactureo
tobacco uniformly 16 cents. ,ooo
Butler presented a petition rom Louo
New Englanders, asking noli,ih.e
course with Canada for alleged nsiiery
outrages. 81 die
Two Virginians were relieved OF dls-
abilities.
The House caucusses tonight on am
nesty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-GoV. Baru
writes the President an SPACE pampniet.
Bard saws he can't follow the Presldent
into the support of extremists. baru
saws: 81 could not have known that
Georgia was to be kept in state OF
perpetual bondage, the prey OF lrrespon-
sible demagogues and the associate IN
misery of South Carolina and Louisiana,
whose Governors, Scott and Warmoth,
form, with Bullock, a triumvirate OF
unmitigated political scoundrelism, with
out precedent since the latter days OF
the Roman Empire, and have cursed
the States over which they rule with
plaques worse than the frogs and lice OF
Egypt. This is truth and truth is
eternal!"
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Several re-
spOnses to Met reery made in the Senate.
Edmunds said, that, instead of being
welded to institutions of Virginia, Gen.
Lee was the ward of the nation. That
nation had fed, clothed and educated
him. He lived at the Capital, but
when the Capital called upon him to
defend the flag under which he had
been born, protected and hOnored, he
deliberately turned his back upon it,and
planted his cannon in sight Of the Cap
ital he had sworn to protect and defend.
But he, Edmunds, would not dignity
such proposition by discussing it,
Gen. Lee was now dead. The only re-
gret, he thought, that any right-minded
man, who believed in the government,
would have, was, that Gen. Lee had
not died either in his youth, or in his
patriotic manhood; or even that he
had not died earlier than he did, by the
hand of the law, which would have
atoned in some measure for his crime.
Trumbull, while disclaiming any SYM
pathy with the apparent object of the
resolution, (Which was to surrender
and mutilate the last resting-place OF
thousands of Union dead, held that it
would be, if not unprecedented, at least
supplementary to deny to member
a simple request for leave to introduce
any legislation not in itself insulting to
the Senate.
Carpenter inquired whether Trum.
bull could state proposition more fla.
GRAVITY insulting to the Senate than
that to remove the slaughtered dead OF
the Union army from Arlington, fol
the purpose of returning the farm to its
rebel pOssessOrs.
Trumbull replied, that, while the
resolution was without doubt repug'
nant to the sense of the nation, it was
not, in a personal sense, insulting tt
the Senate. He was averse to the adop.
ton of any precedent the effect O.
which would be to prevent the free ex
ercise of right guaranteed to members
of the Senate.
Edmunds and Sumner cited two in
stances; the former, the case of pro
posed annexation of Texas the latter
the bill for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Act, and requests for leave tt
bring in bills were refused. Five adj
ditional instances were Enumerated by
the ce-President.
Morton protested against the consid
GRAFTON of the resolution. He had hear(
what he never expected, an eulogy up
on the character Of Gen. Lee in tn,
Senate of the United States, and that
too, within sight of the graves of thu