Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-20
Forty-Second Congress-First Session,
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 10.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The senate only remained few moments in
open session and then went into executive scS-
sion.
The executive session continued till Ais with
the exception of few minutes, during which a
lew bills of minor importance were passed. when
message was received from the house, an
nouncing the rejection of the conference report
on the kukluX bill, and asking new confer
ence.
The senate, on motion of Mr.. Edmunds, in
sisted on its amendments, and Messrs. Edmunds,
Carpenter and Thurman were appointed a COM
mittee OF conference
The conference report on the deficiency bill
was agreed to, and the senate took q recess till
$50 with a view of final adjournment this
evening.
EVENING SESSION.
bill for the sale of Cherokee Indian lands
in Kansas was passed.
Mr.. Robertson asked the senate to take up
the amnesty bill,
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont objected.
BY unanimous consent, a resolution to print
additional copies of the report of the San Do
mingo commissioners was considered as before
the senate, in order to allow Mr.. Cole TO deliver
some remarks in favor OF Dominican anneXa-
ton.
Mr.. Edmunds submitted and explained the
report of the second conference committee on
the kukluX bill. 1t was as reported from the
previous conference, except that a substitute,
which he thought equally effective, had been
adopted for the sherman amendment.
Mr.. Sherman opposed the substitute.
Mr.. Edmunds replied at length.
The report of the committee was concurred in.
After passing resolution TO adjourn sine die
at TWO P. NJ, tomorrow, Thursday the senate,
at 1; 15 A. NJ, adjourned.
HOUSE.
new conference committee having been
ordered on the deficiency BILL the speaker has
nnOOintnH IL nm f,,at Of tI,o Int,
Messrs. Dawes, Cook and Niblack. Mr.. Dawes
was on the first committee.
Mr.. Campbell of Ohio, offered a resolution
requesting the president to open negotiations
with the governments Of Great Britain and
Mexico respectively, for the acquisition of ter
ritory on our northern and southern borders.
Mr.. Willard, of Vermont, objected.
Gen. Butler again asked unanimous consent
to make personal explanation, but Mr.. Cheney,
of Kentucky. objected, saying that he did so in
behalf OF hedelegation from his state.
Gen. Butler remarked that he saw he was an
object of general attack.
MIR. Shellabarger then proceeded to explain
the action of the committee of conference on the
kukluX bill, and made an elaborate argument
in support of the Sherman amendment.
Mr. Shellabarger was followed by Messrs.
Kerr, Beck, and Brooks, in opposition to the
conference report, and Mr.. Willard, of Vermont,
also objected to the report.
Gen. Butler followed in support of the report.
Mr. Poland, OF Vermont pursued line of
argument similar to that of his colleague, Mr..
Willard.
Mr. Bingham remarked that every section and
sentence of the BILL as reported from the confer
ence committee, received his unqualified approx
al, except the Sherman amendment.
Mr.. Farnsworth also opposed the conference
report, Directing both to the Sherman and the
test oath amendment.
Mr.. Hoar sustained the Sherman amendment,
400. ia
which every republican member conceded to re-
side in congress, to preserve the right of every
class of citizens to equality in the protection of
the laws, as far as that right was imperilled by
denial of such protection on account of race,
| color, or previous condition of serYitude. He
argued that congress had the same right to i'm
pose obligations on counties as it had on indi-
| viduas, on banks or on railroad corporations.
The conference report was relected-74 to
106-and n new committee ordered, on which
Messrs. Shellabarger, Poland and Whitthorne
were appointed.
The conference report on the deficiency bill
was again presented, and agreed to.
Mr.. Dawes stated that the items for the Sutro
| tunnel and the Washington park were omitted.
| The item for paving Pennsylvania avenue was
amended by appropriating $4,000 for repairs,
and the appropriation for the sisters of our lady
of mercy at Charleston, was reduced from $40 900
to $4,000 As to reissue of national bank
currency, it had been found impossible to carry
the bill through both houses, unless an addi-
tional tax was placed on the banks to defray
the expenses of a reissue, and therefore the
whole thing has been left out.
Recess.
The house, having met and taken two recesses,
reassembed tor the third time at ten minutes
past nine, when Mr.. Hale stated that the con-
ference committee had Just returned TO the sen,
ate, and moved further recess of half an hour.
MIR. Maynard moved to adjourn till ten o'clock
tomorrow morning. Reiected-85 to IS.
! AT this point message was received from the
senate, informing the house that the senate had
passed a bill relative to Indian lands in Kansas,
which occasioned much laughter
AT twenty-five minutes past nine the house
took a further recess for thirty minutes,
At ten o'clock, Speaker Blaine called the
house to order, and after a session of an hour,
occupied in informal discussion, calling the
yeas and nays on motions to adjourn the con-
ference report not being received from the sem
ate,-rhe house took recess till half-past ten
| o'clock tomorrow,