Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28
EVENING STAR.
OON9N0 SS1ONAL.
ConeIusien Yesterday Proeeedinrs,
THE sac DOMINGO DISCUSSION.

THE san DOMINGO pIscrssroy.
sENATE.-After Mr.. Sumner had finished
bis regular speech on the San Domingo bust
ness yest rday, he proceeded a. follows:
III IL difheult to see how we can condemn with
proper reProbation our own domestic kuklux
IN its fearful outrages while the President puts
himself at the head of 4 powerful and costly
kuklux, operating abroad, In defiance Of inter-
national law and the Constitution of the United
otates. IheSe are questions which ask With
SORROW; nor should do otherwise than fail ip
1usuce 70 The occasion 10 did not declare my
Undertaking conviction that had the President
been so inspired 81 20 bestow upon the prstec-
ton OF Southern Uniontsts, white and black,
one-haf-nay, sir, one-quarter-Of the time,
money, zeal, with personal attention, personal
eHort, and personal intercessiOn which he has
bestowed upon his attempt to obtain half an
island in the Caribbean sea, our southern
tranquility reigned everywhere within our
BORDERS. Here there Uas a burst OF applause
G-Om the galleries, with hisses1
The Vice President said If they were repaated
he would clear the galleries.
MR. SUAEE.
PROCEEDED NOW, sir, ~ I desire the suppras-
SION OF The hu-kluN, and as seek the elevation
OF the African race, insist that the Presiden-
tai sChe me, which instAlls a new form of the
hu kluX on the coasts of San Domingo and
Nhlch, AZ the same time, insults the African
race, represented IN the Black Republic shall
De arrested. speak now against the KukIux
on the coast Of San Domingo, of which the Pres
ldeEt Is the head, and speak also for the Az
rlcan race, " HON the President has trampled
down. Is there any Senator in earnest against
the ku-k luN2 Let him arrest it on the coast of
San Domingo. H. there any Senator ready at
all times 70 seek the elevation Of the African
race? Here IL the occasion or his best efforts
Mr. MOTIONS SPEECH.
Mr.. Morton said he did not propose to reply
TO Mr.. Sumner at this time, as that would
require time and preparation, but simply TO
show that the sole object OF that Senator'S cab
crate speech was TO charge the President and
at least two members OF his Cabinet with the
commission Of high crimes and misdemeanOrs
his was more clearly shown by the Senator's
own express admission in the beginning OF his
remarks. that he did not propose to argue the
question Of annexation. He (Mr. Morton) had
10 argument 20 make for or against San Do
mingO, either to- day at this session. IL h al
been decided, in order to settle differences OF
opinion on the subject. to send a commission to
the island, who should report TO the country
upon the prOpriety of generation and the ques-
lions thereWlth connected. Ii had been thought
best to dismiss the matter from politics until
that report Was made; but it had suited Ger ain
men to keep the question before the country
and TO present II constantly in an exaggerated
and distorted form, as If TO antIcipats
the report and prejudice the public mind
acter. { Jod taste and p. OprieSy required tha
the Senat IT from Massachusetts should have
deferred his speech until the report was msis.
While he dad not know anything OF its charac-
ter, be (Mr. Mort M felt confident that many
OF the charges against the President, aud
large part of the Senator'S speech, would be
Answered by that report. The vindication of
the President upon all the charges here made
out would be complete upon statement OF all
tuc IdCl-- we htsI h6ar1 TO-DAY OF 4 made
By Csurpation OF Presidential power but
after al II was the most peaceable war ever
heard OF. Not a gun had been hred, nor an act
al violence committed upon a single Havtlen
:" Tar as the evidence went, and there was no
evidence OF the slightest complaint by Havti
Not word Of complaint haf ever come from th IT
country, and 10 had remained for the Senator
from Massachusetts TO bring in a COMPLAIN
As further reply 10 Mr.. Sumner, he reminde I
the Senate, g. an evidence tn at the administra.
ton had not proposed 70 take any immedi ate
action upon annexation; that the commissioners
had no power TO negotiate a treaty, and no one
went with them who could take single stem in
that direction. The Haytien government in
violation OF the law Of nations, haf given free
passage across its territory 10 Cabral, and fur
niShed him with war vessels to attack Dominica
and the United States had merely notified
Hayu that while our negotiations were peniIng
with Dominica we would not allow her TO make
war on that Island No one need tell him Mr.
MortOnl that the Senator from Measurements
was a friend OF liberty, OF OF the colorsd man,
when he so industriOuslv spent his time in the
enOFt 70 put the democratic party In power
The Senator could not strike q blow AT the
President without at the same time striking AT
the republican party. "
hr. Howe commenced a speech in opposition
70 Mr.. Sumner, but Welded for an adjourn
ment, when, at 40 O'Clock, the Senate ai-
iOurned.