The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-15
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The committee believe the House will
not consent to the continuance Of an in
come tax for another year or more, even In
a modified form. Petitions, memorials, and
letters from prominent individuals to mem.
bers of the House, are coming in from all
parts Of the country urging an entire abo-
lishment Of the income tax.
The Funding Rsll.
The funding bill Is still allowed to sleep
from day to day in the committee notwith.
standing the pressure from all quarters to
have 1t disposed of.
Steamship Understandable.
The Senate Postal Committee heard ar
guments In favor of subsidies for the estab-
lishment Of steamship lines. 1t Is strongly
urged to extend to Australia the line now
running from San Francisco to the Sand
witch Islands, but the committee regards
this matter rs belonging more properly to
the Committee on Commerce. and will pro-
badly ask that it be referred to them.
The committee will probably report in
favor Of a subsidy for lines from New York
to Vera Cruz and New Orleans to Vera
Cruz.
The Collection or Tonnage at
baltimore.
For many years there has been on the
statute-books law allowing the State of
Maryland to collect duty Of two cents per
ton on all tonnage coming into the port of
Baltimore in foreign or coastwise vessels.
The law is about to expire, and application
has been made to Congress for its renewal
by delegation of Baltimoreans here to-
day. From the fact that the collection of
such dues is not allowed in any other port,
the committee is not disposed to reenact the
law, and will probably make an adverse re-
port in the matter. .-... -.
The authority in Congress to consent that
. State shall lay any duty on tonnage is de-
rived from article 1 section 10 Of the Con-
stitution, but it is argued that to grant such
authority to Maryland would be In contra
vention Of the spirit if not the letter of Sec
ton of the same article, in which it is pro-
vided that no preference shall be given by
any regulation of commerce or revenue to
the ports of one State over those of an
other, nor shall vessels bound to or from
one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay
duties in, another.
Senator Morton's Speech On the Geor.
9fs BilI-Bloodi Blood I! Blood w.
Reply Of Senator Eslmunds-He
Gives Bullock q Severe Seoursing.
Notwithstandingthe generally dreary and
long drawn-out debates upon the Georgia
bill in the Senate, there was intense interest
manifested in the proceedings Of this after
Moons session. 1t had been heralded, ms is
usual when Senator Morton prepares an
essay, that the Indiana senator would to-
day deliver himself Of "great and
exhaustive Speech" and Mr.. Morton
exerted all his talents to come up to
the standard of phraseology in the
advertisement. Dissenting upon shows
and Snowman, familiar old English
writer says, "Great prodigies are seen AS
they are expected" and such is the case to
some extent with Senator Morton, though
he is no mountebank, but really man Of
great ability. lie is a dangerous politician,
and his conceded. talents, coupled with an
utter disregard of the Constitution and
precedents of law; his entire abandonment
of MI other interests in subservience to
mere ephemeral party behests, render
him, all in all, the most malevolent and
mischieyous man in Congress. Of this as
sertion Senator Morton's two hours speech
this afternoon furnishes conclusive proof.
He distorted facts, drew upon the exagge-
rated accounts Of disorders in the southern
States. not Of recent but Of more than two
years date, to prove that Georgia to-day is
unfit for representation in Congress. 1t
was CORY speech, reeking with blood !
blood All the dead of the South for the
past two years were unearthed, and, like
Banquo, rose with twenty mortal murders
on their heads, the victims Of dagger In
the senator's mind.
The eloquent speaker worked up horri-
BILE shadow, that had not the excuse OF
proceeding from the heat-oppresssd brain;
but was the deliberate planning Of q cold,
mischievous judgment. He arrayed the
communities in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, and swung clear around the circle,
taking In all the late slave States, and
charged all the murders committed within
their borders to the Kuklux Khan, which,
according to the Indiana senator, includes
all the people of the southern States that
don't belong to the Radical party,
At the conclusion of Morton's speech he
was approached by the faithful of the Radi-
calls and congratulated. None Of the sound
statesmen Of the Senate were among his
admirers, for they regarded the animus Of
| the speech, as Senator Edmunds afterwards
expressed it, sad indeed.
Senator Edmunds followed in an able ar
gument, in which he clearly demonstrated
| that all this struggle on the part of Bullock
| and his party was not to provide for the
good of society, but to continue about two
| hundred oftce-holders in office in direct
| violation Of the accepted Constitution Of
Georgia.
Senator Edmunds's speech abounded in
telling points, and he handled without
gloves the man Bullock, who sat in sena.
tors chair few feet distant.
MIR. Edmunds showed that the alleged
lawlessness in Georgia is not on account Of
the want of laws and physical force to sub.
due it, but on account ofthe failure to exc.
cute the laws and the absence of the Execu'
tive of the State Bullock), who, instead Of
remaining at the capitol in Georgia, was
here, hundreds of miles distant from his
post of duty, indecently lobbying and hob
nobbing with congressman to secured legis-
lation to perpetuate himself and his minions
in power.