New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-07
XLIsT CONGRESS-2d SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

THE GEORGIA BILL.
The House met for debate on the ueorgia
bill. no other business being in order.
Mr. FARNswoRTH Rep, Ill., resumed his argument
against the bill He conradicted the statement inauo
yesterday by Mr. Butler OIass that only two members
from Georgia had been admitted the House last Con
etess andthose through mistake, hefact behg THAI ~
members of the were adinltteu. .o,ts,opol
Ie1a,nre was inst as lawful and regular, and had tne
same power within the scope Oh lts "u'"0''
Mr. FARNsW ORTIZ remarked that according 10 rlls
hill the Georgia Legislature was not ony IL ~ =, tbc
hut was Illegal and the logic Of the bil AZ wen ~ y,
Do Ia - St pWIer Yesterday was, that everything
done hy that legislature including tue M
The Fourteenth Amendment was also illegal WY no
as well declare that Mr.. Bullock shan Dc
sr,, Tor sin wears or for life Why. IL was mopsuos
and more monsirous s in the face ana eyes S o y'
that the same Governor was charged oy INC and
an honorable upright Republican, win hteanS anu
anrronrating the money OF the state. The ony eAcuo
for the bin was that # not passed the hePoC Trad
Womb lose fine next election in Georgia ne was al"y
they would also lose the next election III INC o'"o
NsT r tsSTfyENsON REP ohio)-Hov would you save ~
MriFARNsWORTH tirOuically)-Why. OF course pass
a law Installing Republican officers tnere anu R jfo
There is an easier way OF maintaining our ascon u
dency in tho nation than by holding electoh.' T 9
A. nv act of Congress- that is tue way 10 40 IT, Inc sn
te1an from Massachusetts NlE Butler had yesteruny
raised of murder IN the House NM h cor mn
wanted TO pass Of these reconstruction D ne U uP
in the House aud cried, Murder! murder !! ana ~
hue and cry OF that sort got his bli passed Ghou
one of these bills to be passed the bdShHDto '.
ice published accounts of some great onirdg' Az
diaely the Reconstruction COMMITTEE was Sa t lat
and bill reported TO the House. lie releIhDeItu t
year Gentleman very clever fellow but man Wloso
politics alwaysof those OF the Tegnhs
had sold arms the people OF Georgia IN tho ~ @
and IsI with which 10 shoot Union soldiers went 10 eof
gia and with the assistance ofGoy Builoeh @ ~
The Iegslatnrc and got Committee appointed 10 eNIh
inc these claims for the payment OF these arms INC
Committee manipulated 80 as 10 nahc Liant
report but the Legislature refused 20 auops
IT or pay the claim. Thereupon that man a.
came on to Washington full OF SORROW his heart Truns
cutons of the negroes and OF the loyal men OF ueoga
that man favor Of the recon'tTucton OF m d
once What was his Ouch.StOnct IL was tHa nc sOui
gct his and interest for the arms that ITO hdu %
ID Tue oGsWRENCE cp Ohio made argument in de-
Tense of the bill and prove that the present STATE OF
ganization of Georgia Is only provisional, uc 81 Is
Mir FarnswOr one of these was 10 the pOlhI .Hat ne
Senate had treated Georgia. not as pu' 40
am actual State Government; to which Dir laNfcicc re.
plIed i'm suggcston which caused some laughter mat
the senate h Mr. r Mayham that tue state OF Georgia
would not have been iucIiered with by congress- hau ~
not been the expulsion Of the negro ompefs Oh ne
Jegatnrc MT Lawrence said that God, IN His prOYl-
deuce, had permitted the Rebels so 10 domcln tneh'
Selves as TO dnaly bring Congress to OF its duty,
and enable Congress 10 do what should have done
before. 1t not the first instance OF The Aihu III
MIR ELDREDGE Dem.,I Wis) asked whether'Gcorcia
would have been reconstructed If she bad sent 10 Congress
a rabid faratcal Republican delcgationi
MIR. LAWRENCE replied that II Georgia hau sent 10
both Houses regular radical Get OF representatives. ana
Senators. she ought To have done ana she nad also eh
clnded from her Legislature cOOred Republicans. Con
gress would have taken Georgia, for thal crime agahs
the Constitution, God, and humanity lnto her military
control and reconstructed her. In reply TO another
remark of Mr.. EdredGe. on the subject oil paying c
debt. MIR. Lawrence said that congress MouIl ~.
crease the whisky and thus make inc DGlHocfauc
marty contribute its share llAugElefJ IN fcpy 10 Tue
question Of Dir Farnsworth as to when had plovsoa.
Legislature ratified constitutional amendment, nc
asked when had anything else but Provisional lesioa-
tire in any one OF the late Rebel States ratified con
stitutloual amendment
Mr. FARNSW OKIH-Neyer, never .
Mr.. LAWRENCE undertake 10 say that every ratll-
t,. IpuffgguTl. Fifteenth
Amendments has been by Provisional Legislature, ana
before the State was admitted to representation Ia
Mr.. FARNswORTH- Thirteenth Amendment got
its validity by the ratification Of those States that were
Mr LAWRENCE repeated his assertion and the discus
sion thus point was continued Tor some Time iohSer
hreequaies and his speech attracted the close aIen-
Mr. GECK Dem XVI addressed the House in opposi-
ton to the bill COnteJdlng that no legislation IN regard
to Georgia was necessary ana that her senators ana
sworn in; but II any legislation wee neces-
sary. then it should be simply in The
declaring that Georgia entitled 10 representation
The statement which the gentleman from Massachusetts
Quter) had yeutnred 10 make In the House yesterday
that only members from Georgia had been admitted
10 Congress. and that through mistake and apprehension
showed either that that gentleman regarded the mem
hers of his party ret of fouls who would
believe nythng he said even against their own know
ledge the fact else that he knew the fact TO be
conclusive against him, andlhceiore sought 10 prry0t
Referring the remarks Of Mr. Butler yesterday III re-
cal men the Republican party were rapidly approach
ing that point declaring the right OF Congress To seize
by the throat any state that did not, III the opinion Of
protect the life. liberty and properly OF its
citizens. but thS- the first time that this idea had
been boldly avOwcd in the House. and II required bold
man like the gentleman from Massachusetts, TO avOw IT,
well that the country should understand that
not particularly because the Republican party wanted To
maintain power in Georgia that this bill was TO be passed
but because they wanted the principle established that
Congress has tho pOwer to seize any State matter
which, that does anything that Congress may think
wrong In the treatment OF its citizens place mill
tary commander her her of the Union. dis
miss her representatives. and admit her to military des
poisIn. He had no doubt that the Republican party
would follow the lead OF the gentleman from Massachu
setts for it always followed the lead Of the bOldest man.
and he had doubt that the gentleman from Massachu
setts would become the leader OF the radical .ee
ment OF the Republican party.
Mr. NIBLACK dem, lnd)-Hc Is already. He may
be already and will be he is not now. viii the House
stand by this bill and sanction this usurpationi The
step will be TO turn Tennessee out, and when Ten
nessee out then will follow State after State OF those
that are obnoxious to the dominant majority of the
House, and civil liberty this continent will be at
end.
Speeches against the bin also made by Messrs
BIRD dem, n. j. and KERR Dem, Ind
At the close Of Mr.. kerrs remarks the House adj
journed.