The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-18

The days debate is regarded as highly signif-
cant, as many consider it as the practical dis
ruption of the Radical party in the Senate.
[FRoM TIE ASSOCIATED PREssl
WASHINGTON, Nay IT..
The Reconstruction Committee have agreed
to report bill readmithng Georgia on the
terms applied to Virginia. Mississippi and Tex
as, with clause authorizing the States named
to organize, arm and call into service their
respective militia forces.
: Ams6g the petitions presented was one by
General Abbott, from North Carolina lady,
who, after carefully reading the oath, cannot
qualify as postmistress. She wants the Post
master General to modify the oath, OF Congress
to relieve her from her political disabilities.
SENATE.
In the Senate, Howard, from the Committee
on Pacific Railroads, reported a substitute for
the Marshall and San Diego Railroad bill,
which, explained, is to authorize railroad
from Marshall, Texas, to Trinity River, thence
20 Ell Paso on the Rio Grande, thence through
the Territories, across Colorado River to San
Diego on the Pacific In the Territories the
bill grants twenty alternate sections of land on
each side OF the line, and ten alternate sections
in any State through which the road might
pass. A large portion of the line lies within
the State OF Texas, and as the United States
owns NO public lands in that State, no lands
were granted. It also authorizes connec-
ton with lines of road from New Orleans and
Ylcksburg. The amendment has received
the sanction Of unanimous vote Of the COM
mittee. The h:I was ordered to be printed
and placed on the calendar.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
to-day, heard Cyrus W. FsdHand W. G. Bar
ney regarI,ng the ocean cables, but took no
definite action.
The Funding bill has been postponed for a
week, and the Banking and Currency Com
mietee this morning agreed to report bill
providing for ninety-Sve million dollars ad-
ditionsa national oank circulation; for the can
collation. of forty-fve million dollars Of bonds
and forty million dollars of greenbacks, and
providing for free banking system on gold
basis.
At o'clock the bill to enforce the Fifteenth
amendment. was taken up. The question
being on the motion Of Mr.. Ferry to-strike out
that part Of Mr.. Stewards amendment pro-
ylding fines and Imprisonment Tor per-
sops holding Office in violation OF the
Fourteenth amendment, the former sena-
tor defended his position from the stric-
lures OF Mr.. Morton, and claimed that he spoke
for the Union men of the South in advocating
q general removal of political disabilities. He
alluded to the platforms Of the Republicans in
several of the States, and the utterances of the
the Republican candidates in support Of this
He said, in reference to the State OF Georgia,
which Senator Morton was constantly holding
up as the model State Of crime and disorder
why was this (, He was sure that If the desti-
nies of Georgia had been In the hands OF
men of high patriotism, and not of men
who had dragged the honor OF the
Republican party down to the dust, and
whose only aim was their own pecuniary ad-
vancement. the state Of affairs would have
been very different He denied these stories,
these kilograms manufactured to order, and
which were-sent here to the press Of the city.
Mr.. Ferry read letter of Mr. Thomas R. Jes-
SUD, who, he said, was well known and
emine& merchant of New York, to the effect
that he had travelled all over Georgia and saw
nothing but an earnest desire to accept the
situation and to let by-gones be by-gones. The
letter characterized as entirely false the tele-
grams from Brunswick to the North. Mr.. Fer
nv claimed that in the section mentioned the
majority of the Republican press were in favor
of the two bills for this purpose that ne had
introduced, and that the great press OF New
York, which exerts such mighty influence
and circulates from one end Of the land to the
other, now asserted that to continue longer
these disabilities was in violation OF all the
great principles Of the Republican party He
had been in favor of the rights of che black
man, not because he was black, but because he
was man; and now that the rights Of the
black man were secured, he feared that
the rights of the Man himself were in
danger. Your Fifteenth amendment is q
delusion and snare while these dis
abilities remain on your statute book.
The black man is not enfranchised when he is
not permitted to vote for at least one-half OF
his friends and neighbors. He wanted these
disabilities removed, not as measure OF con-
sillation, but as measure OF justice. The
Fourteenth amendment and the test oath were
not designed as measure Of punishment, but
as great public policy. Ireland tells the story
TO-DAY of the effect of disabilities and test
oaths. Has FIVE hundred years Of this system
raisedsnp loyal generation in Ireland :? No,
sir What did Austria do with her disabilities
and her test oaths in Hungary? Were the eff
fects If trebellion ever quenched until now