The New York herald., 1870-05-24
Censress-The Fifteenth Amendment and tho
Diplomatic appropriation Bill.

T
Diplomatic Apprepriation Bill.
The fifteenth amendment, which we warned
Senators some time ayo was being killed by
too much nursing, had its first symptoms Of
trouble in the Senate yesterday. Mr.. Casserly,
on motion of privilege, claimed that the sec
ton alluding to the rights OF Cinnamon had not
been adopted in the bill TO enforce the amend
ment as passed in the Ssnate on Friday. Some
debate ensued on this, but the Chair decided
that the section had been passed with the rest
of the bill, and that John Chinaman was as
good as the darky. The Legislative Appro-
priation bill was discussed at length, and the
women advocates received rebuff In the
most praiseworthy element OF the woman
question-that of equal wages with men for
equal work. An amendment to give female
clerks in the departments as much money Tor
their work as If they were males was rejected
by vote of six to thirty eight.
In the House, among a number Of other
matters, motion was made to suspend the
rules in order to put on its passage the bill
for an air line railroad from Washington to
New York; but the motion was rejected.
similar motion in regard to reduction Of inn
port duties on coffee, tea, pig iron and other
articles was served in the same way. The
Army Appropriation bill, which appro-
PIRATES nearly thirty million dollars, was
introduced and made special order for
tomorrow But the House did not feel in
clined to do much Of anything Cd account Of
it's restless anxiety to get at that exciting
topic-the Diplomatic Appropriation BILL 1t
went at it early and pitched first on the Roman
bone Of contention. Mr. Dawes, in order to
explain his remarks about Mr. Brooks alleged
Know Nothingism, had clerk read number
of extracts from speeches made by that gentle
man during the Know Nothing excitement; but
Mr. Brooks explained all these things away so
smoothly that no one with any belief whatever
In .;c .;c ppirity of the human race could hear
him without feeling a profound conviction that
Mr.. Brooks was slandered martyr. He
made all those speeches, he said, out
of regard for Millard Fillmore. Mr..
Dawes, on hearing this, retracted every
thing he had said, extracts included,
and made the amende honorable, whereupOn
good feeling was restored. Then Mr.. Degener,
a German from Texas, rose and protested
against Mr.. Voorhees, slanyy mode Of int-
mating that the ''Dutch" vote could be manipu-
lated. A very digniAsd explanation, too, Mr..
Degener made, but he must have become mud
died in the midst of it or allowed his indigna-
ton against Mr.. Voorhees, to include the whole
United States, for in protesting against inde-
cent languaye in the House he said he looked
upon Congress as the drawing room of the
nation---a simile which, followed ont, would
imply that the nation kept very disorderiy
house. Another German, MIR. Finkelnblrg,
followed Mr.. D,gener in similar vein,
and then Mr.. Cox, who is almost as good as
Mr. Bltler in the comic line, suggested that
Mungen, of Ohio, address the House in Ger
man. Business was resumed on this being
objected to, and the motion to accredit Min
lister Resident at Rome was rejected. Appro-
priations, however, were made for Ministers
Resident at Hayti, Uruguay and Paraguay.
The Louisiana election case was concluded
and Mr.. Ncwsham was sworn in without much
trouble Thereupon the House, which has felt
all along little ashamed of this Louisiana
business, adjourned.