The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, February "a.
SENATE.

The House amendment to the politi-
cal disability bill was concurred IN.
On motion of Mr.. Salisbury the Pres
ident was asked for copy OF the COM
mission oriauthority issued TO General
Ames as Provisional Governor Of Mis-
sissippi.
Mr. Williams offered a resolution that
to the present irredeemable paper cur
rency Of the country would be to rem
der moro difficult the remote resnmp-
ton of specie payment; TO encourage
and foster q spirit of speculation; TO
aggravate the evils produced by tue
frequent and sudden fluctuations of VAL
ues; to derreciate the credit of the
nation and to check the healthful ten
dency of legitimate business; to settle
down upon safe and permanent basis,
and, therefore, in tho opinion of the
Senate. the existing volume of such
currency ought not TO be increased.
Agreed TO without a division.
TIE bill to secure to all persons equal
protection of the laws in respect to life
and property was considered during the
morning hour, without action.
The question of the admission of SEN
ator elect Revels, of Mississippi, was
postponed, at the suggestion OF Mr..
Sherman, to accommodate MessTS. Fem
ton and Patterson, who desired to make
speeches on the funding bill, and who
would be compelled to be absent alter
to-day.
Mr.. Fenton desired the amendment
of the present bill so as to authorize
single bond at Al per cent. in the sum of
81 900, 000, 900 or 81 200, 000, 900. not taxa
BILE by Federal, State local authorities,
payable in not less than forty and not
more than fifty years, at the same time
retiring the 90 and 1910 bonds and
effecting q gradual contraction by the
gradual absorption of greeubacks in
new securities, which would result in
the resumption.
After Mr.. Patterson's speech on fnan
cial topics, the Mississippi subject was
taken up, the question being upon the
motion of Mr.. Stockton to refer the Gre
dentials of Mr.. Rsvels to the Judiciary
committee.
Mr.. Salisbury supported the proposed
reference upon the ground en- tertained
by his political associates i'll the Senate;
that under tho Constitution Revels was
not eligible to a seat in the Senate.
Mr.. Drake, during the remarks of Mr..
Salisbury, made statement that Rev
els was neither a negro or mulatto,
but an octoroon, and that be made tie
the statement out of compassion for the
mental sutferings of his friend, Mr..
Salisbury, upon the probability of be-
ing compelled to associate in the Senate
with q Jet black negro.
Mr.. Howard believed the proof of
Reyels' election conclusive, and that the
only issue now was upon the acceptance
or rejection of him on account of color.
He (howard) maintained that every per-
son born in the United States and had
not been a slave was a citizen, and he
would carry this doctrine so far as to
assert that even black man born
slave was to be held citizen from his
birth. The bred Scot decision, in his
opinion, had sunk into eternal aerision
and contempt.
Mr.. Williams remarked that Chief
Justice fancy expressly limited the
bred Scot decision to those with pure
African blood in their veins, and whose
ancestors have been sold as slaves. 1t
appeared that Revels was man with a
large proportion of white blood, and it
followed necessarily that some of his
ancestors were not slaves. Upon the
whole, in view of all authorities, legal
and otherwise, Revels had always been
a citizen of the United States.
Mr.. Cameron narrated tho particulars
of an interview between himself and
Jefferson Davis just prier to the war,
and before the latter had left the Sem
ate, during which he declared 10 Mr..
Davis his own conviction was that
slavery would cease from the moment
the first gun was fired upon the flag of
the country, and that his Davis seat
would some day in justice to God be
occupied by a negro. He considered
the attempt of the Senator from Oregon
to argue that this man had mere white
than black blood in his veins unworthy
any Senator, III view of the great ser
vices of the colored soldiers. 4
without action upon the questisn the
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