Evening star., 1870-01-29
EVENING STAR.
CONGRESSIONAL


Conclusion Yesterdays Proceedings.
sENATE.-After our report slosed-the bill
tpr the rel1ef OF the poor in the District Of Co
iumbia being under consideration
MI. Wilson said he would vote for the measure
most willingly, and proceeded to explain the
ObhSationS under which the Government was
placed TO the people of Washington and the rest
ci the District. He favored the project Of
territorial government, and OF allowing a dele
gate 70 Congress to be chosen by the people.
He proposed an amendment, setting apart the
public buildings on Judiciary Square for the
beneht Of INDECENT women. He statel, further,
that. IN his opinion, Washington city was, in
point OF morality, the superior of any other in
the country, there being less of Sabbath break
ing and vices Of that character to shock the pub
he ever visited.
Mr.. Stewart said the city of Washington was
not creditable TO the nation He advocated, il
money was TO be appropriated, let it be to build
railroads to the city, when manufactures
would spring up, provide system of sewerage.
beautify the city, and give these people en-
ought 10 stop.
Sir. Bayard could not withhold his vote from
this bill in the face of the statements that had
been made of the distress prevailing here; but
regarding this method of affortng relief as
vicious, he hoped that il would be abandoned.
Here an this city of Washington, made by the
party in power the paradise of the colored peo-
PIE, he had seen in the few brief months he had
been here. more vice. more degradation among
this race than he had seen at home, where one
fourth OF the population were OF that class, in
has whole life. The colored people will prOba-
bly, find that the ballot is not bread, and al
though they may vote early and often, they may
vet have empty stomachs
Mr.. Morrill, (Nt.) expressed surprise that Mr.
Bayard should have brought politics into this
question.
MrIDavis said nine-tenths of the pauperism
in this District due TO the legislation of
Congress, and for that reason the people of the
District should not be made to pay for it.
Mr.. Nye said the real question was whether
h. 10 nf Va szfrs nN
comes up to us, shall have relief. Yet Sem
ators are Juggling into it great political ques-
tiOns.
After further debate, Mr.. Thurman withdrew
his motion TO recOmmit.
The amendment Of Mr.. Wilson that the un-
occupied structures in Judiciary Square be
allowed TO the Women's Aid Society to use in
giving employment to INDECENT women, was then
agreed to.
Mr.. Bayard moved on amendment that the
parties distributing the fund shall make report
TO Congress, in December next, of tine distribu-
ton of the fund; which was adopted.
The bill was then passed.
ecutive session, and then adjourned until Mon
day.
HOCSE.-After our report closed
The House went into Committee of the Whole
on the legislative appropriation bill.
Hr. Voorhees, (Ind. addressed the committee.
He alluded to the remarkable debate that had
just been closed between the two distinguished
centlem from Massachusetts, and in his opin-
ion the defence of the Administration recently
witnessed in this hall afforded one of the great
est and best evidences of magnanimlty, and an
utter tOrgetfulHess of past wrongs. Mr.. Voor-
hees then proceeded to review the progress
made in contracting the debt of the United
States. He stated in detail the number of bonds
that had been issued each year since the war
commenced, and he denounced the bond
holders, who, he said, had all along traffic ked
in their eountrys woes. He contended that
the bondhelders 1now held obligations and
paper of the country more than double the
value of the amount which they had obtained il
for. They had never given the Government an
equivalent for the value OF bonds now held by
them. Mr. voorhees, also reviewed the plans
suggested for the payment of the debt and the
payment OF bonds, and argued that the Presi-
dents recommendation in his annual message
was all on the side of the bond-hOlding mo-
nopOly and against the lsboring classes of the
people. If the debt was paid in the money in
which it was contracted, ample justice would
be done to the bond-holder. The bonds ought
to he paid in the legal tender currency of the
country
MT.Conger (Mich.) next addressed the House.
and then yielded portion of his time to Dit.
Butler, of Mass, who said under ordinary cir
cumstances he would not trouble the House
after the long speech he had made. But he rose
to defend the Republican party and Republican
administration from the assaults that had been
made upon il. The Republican party could
stand any assault that had been made upon II
from the Democratic party, but it could not
stand an assault in the house of its friends. lie
then said that Mr.. Dawes, in his speech yester-
dsv, had not refuted one statement he (Mr,
Butler) made on Wednesday. The whole object
of his colleague seemed to be to prove that he
had read the book of estimates accurately. He
(Sr. Butler) did not dispute that. What he did
complain of was that he read the book OF esti-
mates only too accurately, with clerical and
gentleman said in his speech that he had
made the book OF estimates his companion
for six weeks. Yet he never discovered the
errors in it in all that six weeks. III the
gentleman had said that he slept for six
weeks with that book of estimates under his
arm, the matter might have been understood
.vraV, .E.o-N
teryiew v it'll the President in relation to the es
Inmates, Mr.. Butler said it would have been in
much better taste 10 have stated that conversa-
ton at the time of his first speech, instead of al
once aTraigning the Administration. AIludine
to Mrs Dawes reference yesterday that the
House should reduce expenses by legislation
and that the House ought to commence at once
with the Army, Mr.. Butler said he thought that
was one of the most impudent suggestions un-
der tine circumstances, that he had ever heard
AT the last session Of Congress he (sIr. Butler)
introduced a bill TO get rid OF all these super
numeraries in the Army. He fought it through
the Committee OF the Whole, and when i,
come to be considered in the House IL was de-
feated, and no voice was potent in secur-
ing that defeat as the voice of Mr.. Dawes
With this fact upon the records. he was sur
Irl>ed at the supreme assurance Of his collea que
There would be no sin in falling down and
worshipping this assurance. for il was not like
in Heaven or on earth or in the waters under
the earth, and its worship was not therefore
prohibited by anything in the decaIogue He
then went on 10 argue that all Mr.. Dawes state
incntS were incorrect, and in conclusion he said
he would like to have Mr.. Dawes answer W he theI
he had thoroughly compared the estimates oi
the year and last before he made his speech and
aTrsigned the Administration. and if not, why
hC had been 80 hasty To make his speech.
Er. Dawes said he sought the floor at thi-
moment to state that he did not think il was in
che power OF his colleague by anything he could
further utter TO involve him in q further debate
What he (Dawes) had said had gone to the coun-
Try, and what his colleague has said has gone To
Ihe country lie Dawes would not add one
word to, or qualify anything he had SAID. He
was willing to leave all that had taken place tC
the Judgment OF the country, and he was now
prepared TO 60 on with the work before the
House.
The committee then rose, and the House al
t.9t m adiOurr ed