The New York herald., 1870-02-11

paying the cmployes OF tho bureaus for which It vus
appropriated Agreed TO-
! ine OIL was sho1 passed.
/ THE MIsSIS5IPPI Dill.
| On m0tsou of Mr. TRUMBULL. (rep.l OF H.. Ac
hlsslssippI bili was taken up.
Inc question was stated ny tho CHAIR tn be upon
t>e amendment Of the c0mmitteo to slrike from NE
bh.' tue preamble and all conditions. ieaving Nc
sm We proposition to admit the state 70 rcpresenes
Mr.. l'uynBULL.' chairman OF the Judiciary Com
mittee from which the pM was reported madva
statement explanatory OF tho prc5elt condition OF
ailas IN mississippi stating that or tho four pro-
sorptve cla tses vi the constitution submitted To
rejected by the voters OF that State the constitution
In the nam beine adopted oy an almost unanimous
House was an exact copy OF the bill admitting vir
glhia which contained various conditions; but the
Judiciary Committee now. as IN FORMER case. were
opposed TO an lmpositien OF conditions They 20
heved tnat our Union could long exist as con-
ieueratOn VI unequal Staesr and therefore the com
miltce proposed, lnasmuch as Official notification
had been received OF the ratification or the four
ecuth anu uteenth amendments ~ the CONSTITUTION,
70 aeciare the state entitled TO . representation.
Mr. EDMUNDS (repl OF W., SAID that the same
guarantees OF republican liberty and social progress
Should DC insisted upon IN the case OF Mississippi
winch nad bcen maintained In the case or the other
reDelliou' States The States had cost the nation
innumerable ves and u great waste OF blood and
order ana secure equal security and privileges to
tho rebe.s Us well as the Union men aud ali others
ne insisted upon tue right aud duty OF Congress TO
Mr. STEWART, lrep) OF New. made an argument in
favor of the prompt and unconditional representation
or tie State III Congress- He then proceeded 70 correc.
what he said was misrepresentation OF fact made
by the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. sumner
during the debate on the Virginia BILL. lie sail
that In his controversy with the Senator from
Illinois tMr. Trumbulp Mr. Sumner had assumed 10
be the author or provslo III the Reconstruction
act on 1867, conierrlng suffrage upon the colOred
race. ms assumption, Mr.. stewart claimed, was
unlounded, as was shown by the of,lcal records OF
Inc proceedings OF tne House OF Representatives,
by which IT appeared tnat the provision reerred to
originated IN the House on the 18th OF February,
1867, wnere II was offered by Mr. Bingham OF Ohio.
THIS was prior to the date ON which Mr. Sumner
Claimed To haye proposed the measure for the first
time before . committee OF the Senate. lie noticed
me senator was preparing To reply and he hoped
hls (Mr. Sumner'sj explanation or The attempt to
appropriate TO himself the credit belonging TO an
otier would include some satisfactory reason Tor his
ialure or refusal to vote for the bill submitting the
fifteenth amendment To the States
MI. SUMNER forwarded to the clerk and had read
portion oI The speech complained by the Senator
from Nevada Q,tewart) aud claimed that hts asser-
ton had been simply tnat upon his own mOIion Inc
provision referred TO had been matured He denle
mat MS claim was Us to Its origin but that IL
related to maturity OF the measurc lie referred
at length to various measures OF the reconstruction
Legislation which he had introduced and advocated
NJ various times all having for their object the
taolishlnent anu enforcement OF the principle Of
equal and impartial suffrage. lie also read from
numerous letters written aud received by him, show
ing that upon the death OF President Lincoln he had
lab0red to impresspon Mr. Johnson the necessity OF
adhering the Congressional reconstruction policy
and insurng the eniranchsement OF the colOred
race OF the South as The only means OF future
quliiY. He said Mr.. Johnson shortly after his ac-
cession TO the Presidency had assured him that mis-
tMr. JobnSon's, views upon reconstruction exactly
conceded with his own, and npon the faith or this
assurance he (Mf. Sumnerl returned 10 his home;
but upon the President proving recreant he hau
written 10 Warn hm OF the danger OF hIs threatened
course and the evil consequences 10 result from It,
at an early day he had written TO assure NUM- OF
the colOred men OF North Carolina and Georgia that
the reconstructed state governments In the South
would be based solely upon the consent OF the gov
crned. He cited from speeches delivered by himself
In Massachusetts and at various places in fuytner
vindcaIlOn OF his political course. In c0ncluslon
ne claimed that as early as February 26 1866 he had
proposed In the Senate to require colored suffrage
rs the corner stone of reconstructlon and had fol-
lowed 1t up by similar measures.
In reply TO q remark by MIR. Sherman Mr. SUMNER
said he had only replied 10 the attack OF Senator
from Nevada (Mr. Stewart.
Mr.. STEWART denied having made any attack but
asserted tnat the attack had been commenced by
Mr.. sumner and In proof OF his assertion read au
extract from recent Speecn Oi that Senator AZ pub
shcd IN the Giobe dennncatory OF himscli for bav-
ing deserted to the democrats upon the question OF
Nrgina's admission. " idle to talk to the
Senator from Massachusetts about occupying time
In the Senate. lie assumed 10 be tue principal OF
the Senate upon prlnciple when 1t proposed to
leHslatc. lie said he dencd the attempt OF so grand
80 expansive and 50 impractical II theorlst to read
hum out Of tue party. lie nad made no attack
Massachusetts alleged himself to have been
the subject OF attack IL would be for the
country TO look al the record Of the debates
and learn the truth as TO tnnt. The same records
(Mr. Stewart ou; O the party had not been, to any
considerable extent, the author OF the statutes
which mad deserved or received the approval or the
Senate. He argued at some enQth that IN the mat
tOn he had stood with the republican majority,
while Mr. Sumner mad opposed those measures.
The debate was continued by Messrs. Drake,
Thurman sherman and IrumDull, until, motion
III