Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16
From our Washington Correspondent.
WAsuINnTnN InlY 10Th. 1870

From our Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 18th, 1870
On Monday Of last week, the Fourth of July,
the Senate of the United States remained In
session all day. The subject of their discuss
ion was the proposition Of Charles Sumner
to strike the work white" out of the naturali-
cation laws On Saturday the motion passed
by 81 yeas to 22 nays; and 1t was now pro-
posed to reconsider. Pomroy of Kansas, opened
the debate by the statement that there could
be no political peace until that word was
stricken out, as we'll as every other word that
b .'ed legisl alton on caste or color lie was
followed by Mr.. Sumner in grave and
thoughtful speech, calling the attention of the
s mate to the necessity of doing justice and
bringing the statutes of the land INTO harmony
with the Constitution 1t is noteworthy fact
no Senator answered Pomroy or Sumner; not
one spoke against the proposition they did
not dare or did not care to put their reasons
on the record; they simply threw silent vote
against it, When the vote was taken to recon
slider, it passed by % yeas to IA nays; 81 being
absent. which means that most of them SIX Sulked
the vote The question was then taken on
Mr. Summers amendment to strike out the
word white from the naturalization laws, and
1t was rejected by IA yeas to 80 nays; so that 4
proposition that passed tho Senate on Satur
7 day by vote of % to %, was defeated on
Mon lay by vote of IA to 80; a change of Il
Senatorial votes in eight and forty hours
Some enc must have kept up q good deal o
talking and logrolling on that intervening Sab
bath.
The object Of this vote was to keep out thu
Chinese; and to show that II was not an at
tack on the negro Mr.. Warner, who votet
y against 1t before, now offered an amendmen
:, that "thc naturalizalion.aws arc hereby eXten
: ded ID aliens of African nativity and to person
, of African descent" And ms this proposito
: would admit the black man who already hu
" many votes, but would reject the yellow mal
who has none, II passed by 2i yeas to 20 nays
e one majority. Mr.. Trumbull of Illinois, the
n moved to add "and to persons born in the Ch
Z nese Empire and the amendment WAS rejec
h cd by 81 nays to yeas.
N The most significant, and am sorry to So
h. the saddest part Of the vote find in the la
ii that Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, vote
Is. against the proposition in any and every shap
As an original shoemaker, his prejudlocs mig
nm haye been expected to lead him to do injusti
er to the Chinaman; but why should the Hist
.r rian Of the Rise and Fall of the Slave pow
NJ. In America vote against the admission of 4
er black man TO the right Of nationalityH
In would make the doors of citizenship swi
re wide open to the lrlshman, but would refuse
ma to the black or yellow Fred Douglas. 1t
greatly TO be regretted that a political life Ii
Mr Wilson's should haye such an inconslst,
=" ending,
NJ We are now in the last week Of the sessi'
"" and when the reader of the TELEGRAPH sl
uo scan these lines, the last day the session "
'"o have arrived. During the next four days th
WV will he many an attempt to rush bills of grea,
'so nanoial value through Congress. Land will
offered In immense quantities, appropriate
"' will be made, calling for large sums. The
few days Of u session make the great oppor
lgh nifty for the dishonest members of the Ho
lie, and Senele' lhele are not many oil the
mi. but by logroling with other members of m
iad character, who wish 10 push local bills,
run cannot otherwise secure the requisite mum
ale of votes, they too Omen succeed in carry
ich their measures. The great bulk of House
rhe Senate arc honest their passage ofwrong
lust is more often from u desire to crafty their
trlct Than for any expectation ofpersonal pr
1, The Woman Suffrage question Is ended
nre the House for the present by the report OF
the Committee asking TO be discharged from
sand ,ui'her Vous,aerauon o' Tue peUuons. y'i"
,he has vetoed by more than two hundred to
he not TO allow women to vote; nor does d
Ined seem at present any disposition 70 enroll
n,sh fair sisters on the list Of voters, ConseTva
,,has rules women are To occupy their normal pl
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