The Portland daily press., 1871-04-03
BY TELEGRAPH
XLIId OONGREss---firat Session.
HOUSE,.
TO THE DAILY PRESS.


WASHINGTON, April 1.-The bill enforcing
the l4th amendment being under consdera-
ton, Mr.. Waddell of North Carolina, said that
the bill would ostensibly have the same effect
IN all the States, but its real intention was to
limit its operation to what are called insurrec-
tonary States He did not deny that crimes
had been committed by organized bands of dis.
guised men in small portion of his State, but
ne most emphatcaly denied that the property
and lives of loyal men, which often meant 10y
al thieves, are unsafe. The great mass OF the
people of North Carolina are as LOYAL, peacea-
BILE and as law-abiding as those of any other
State, not excepting even the land that is bless
ed with the nativity of the gentleman from
Massachusetts, (Butler).
Mr.. Shober of North Carolina, said that this
Dill violated the plainest principles of the Con-
sttution. 1t was of such character that it
would lead to discord rather than have peace
full effect, and would fail to remedy the evils of
which complaints were made. The people
were to be despoiled of their political rights by
1t. The people were as peaceable and law
abiding as in any other States.
Mr.. Hawley of Illinois, said while listening
to these remarks he was disposed to ask. have
we Government and Constitution at all? He
then maintained that there was sufficient law
to protect citizens in all parts of the republic,
and called attention to the laws passed from
the earliest day of history.
Mr. W GOD sent up and had read, an article
from the New York Evening Post of Friday, as
follows:
A little girl in public school in Fall River,
loaded pistol at her. ADMINISTRATION brought
out confession that the boys were in the hab-
1t of carrying firearms to school, and five of
them surrended to the teacher as many pistols,
loaded with shot
Surely it is high time for the President to in.
terfere in Massachusetts, where even the small
boys in the public schools carry concealed
weapons; where the established seminares for
the instruction of youth are liable to become
the scenes of bloody encounters; and little girls
are frightened out of their small wits bv the
sudden presentation at their heads of loaded
pistols.
When the new Ku Kux bill becomes law.
with Gen. Buffers amendment authorizing the
President to call out volunteers ''as in 1861"
one OF the first campaigns of the new army
will have to be made in Massachusetts The
town of Fall River will have to be put under
martial law, and the President will doubtless
issue his proclamation to the recalcitrant
school-boys to lay down their arms within
twenty days or suffer the consequences
Meantime, according to the latest improve
ments suggested by Mr.. Butler, the volunteers
will be quartered upon the citizens of this
blOodthirsty district in which even the school
boys carry pistols; and the town will have to
pay the soldiers, and-after the Prussian style
keep the officers in cigars.
Let US have peace. Law and order must be-
maintained at all hazards; and though it is nm
pleasant to think of Massachusetts manufac.
turing town in military occupation, even this
is no doubt preferred by that well-kown
quaker, zen. Butler, to such unheard lawless-
ness as that at Fall River
Mr.. Wood said Buffers bill proposed to on
crate only on portion of the States, while
Shellabager's bill extended to all States. The
latter perhaps had in his mind terrible affairs
in Massachusetts,. If there was anything that
could induce him to violate the constitution it
would be for the purpose of suppressing out
RACES and Ku.KluX in that State.
Mr.. Shellabarger said if the article was
meant to be witty he could not reply, as invit-
ed BY the gentleman from New York, because
he (Shellabarger) was not witty. He left that
for some witty gentleman from Massachusetts,
Mr.. Elliot (colored) of South Carolina. ar.
gued that the United States were bound by the
constitution to guarantee to every State a Re-
publican form of government. The pending
struck at their Southern friends. He did not
wish the comparison offensive when he quoted
from the . poet ,,.n. .,.r ..,. H., ,,.
With good opinion of the law"
Mr. Smith Of New York, said that no gen.
tleman on this side of the House could cherish
the thought that his own conscience or the
great. party that stood behind him would ex-
cuse him from wavering at this critical mo-
ment from any fear, that by the passage of
tHiS Dill harm might happen to the great party
which rules the country. He made bold to
say that genuine and wise statesmansh;p could
be summed up in a single word, applicable
alike to the party of the nation and individ.
uals, namely, there is no path of safety but the
path of duty, The duty incumbent on the ma
secured and enforce amendments to the con-
stitution
The House at half-past four took recess
until half-past seven clock.