The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-28

Commissioner Wilson knows all about
the affair, and will no doubt make some
curious revelations Of this and other
land jobs.
Bill for the Suppression OF Violence
The Republican members of the
House special committee on the Presi
dents Message have unanimously
agreed that some legislation for the
suppression Of lawlessness in the South
is imperative. 1t is therefore proposed
to report a bill today or tomorrow
and the committee have instructed Mr..
Schellabarger to prepare a draft Of one
for consideration at their meeting to
day. This bill, which is already com.
pleted, will be simple and at the same
time comprehensive, and will be found
ed principally on existing laws, provid.
ing for their application to present con.
tingencies. The third and last sec.
ton, which is the most important fea.
ture Of the bill, provides that when
domestic violence and disorders shall
exist in any State, and the same shall
be caused by armed and organized
bands combined to commit such acts,
too strong to be suppressed by State
authorities, or where such authorities,
by reason of being in completely OF
sympathy with such organized bands,
do not Hepress such orders, then
the President shall, without waiting to
be called upon by the Governor or Leg.
islature of such State, issue his procla-
nation ordering the disbanding OF such
armed organized bands, and he shall
have power, and it shall be his duty, to
use the army and navy of the United
States to suppress such disorder and ar.
rest organized bands causing them. 1t
provides, also, that in pursuance of such
duty he may declare disaffected districts
in insurrection, proclaim martial law,
suspend the writ Of habeas corpus
therein, and proceed to the suppression
Of violence and punishment of offend,
ing persons OF this section. 1t also EN-.
braces a provision, embodied in Shella.
barger's bill, that when offenses punish.
able under this act are begun in one OF
the United States judicial districts and
completed in another, every such Of
fense shall be regarded as committed
in either district, and may be inquired
into, tried and dealt with the same as
if wholly committed in said district
The operations Of this section are by
its terms limited to the first Of June
1872. E
Summers Speech on San Domingo
Rough on Grant.
AS early as eleven o'clock this morn
ing the galleries Of the Senate were
densly crowded, the occupants being at
tracted thither to hear Mr. Sumner
speak. Many were unable TO obtain
even standing room at the doors. There
was an unusually large number of priv
iledged persons on the floor. Mr.
Sumner commenced as ssou as practi
cable after the Senate was called tc
order. In his opening paragraph, he
definitely asserts that it is now in evi
dence before the Senate that the navy
OF the United States, acting under
orders from Washington, has been en-
gagged in measures Of violence and
Of belligereut intervention-being wal
without the authority of Congress.
The whole business, he adds, is aggra.
waited when it is considered that the de.
clared object of this violence is the &C.
QUESTION of foreign territory, being hall
an island in the Caribbean Sea; and,
still further, that this violence has been
employed first to prop and maintain
a weak ruler, himself an usurper, up
holding him in power that he might
sell his country; and, secondly, it has
been employed to menace the black
republic Of Hayti. Such a case,
Mr.. Sumner continues, is too grave
for silence. For the sake Of the navy,
the Administration, Republican institu-
tons, and for the sake Of the Republi-
can party, which cannot afford 10 be-
come responsible for such conduct, the
case must not pass without inquiry.
But beyond all these considerations, is
the commanding::rules Of justice-and
the evidence shows too clearly that
means have been employed for the
acquisition of San Domingo which can,
not be justified. The Senator then
characterizes Baez and Grant as Co
operators in the melancholy affair
carefully reviews the history Of the
former and his unscrupulous usurpa-
ton; recites the origin Of the scheme
for annexing the half island, and ar,
raigns the President for usurping the wal
and treaty powers OF Congress and
violating international law and the
Constitution Of. the United Statesia the
evidence adduced. He confines him
self carefully to public documents
reports and official communications to
the Senate; from which it appears tina,
the verv agent who signed the treaties
officially reported that the usurper was
maintained in power by our. guns.
But Intervention in Dominica is only
enc part Of the story. Even according
to the reluctant confession of the Navy
Department in effort, to recover much
coveted territory our Government, moi
content with maintaining the usurper
Baez in power, occupying the harbors
of Dominica with war ships. the United
States sent other war ships. being none
other than our powerful Monitor Dicta.
tor, with the frigate Severn as consort,
and with yet other monitors in their
train, to menace-the black Republic ol
Hayti by an act of war. An American
Admiral was found to do this thing,
and an American Minister. himself oi
African blood, was found to aid the