The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Janl

Mr.. Sherman, from the Finance com,
mittee, reported back and asked to be
discharged from the further considera-
ton of the letter Of the Secretary OF
the Treasury, relating to the tax on
forty million dollars, scrip dividends
of the New York Central Railroad.
The committee was discharged.
Mr.. Fenton, from the Finance COM
mittee, reported a bill to provide for
the redemption Of copper and other
token coins. Mr. Fenton explained
that the bill had received the approval
of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Passed.
1t requires the Secretary of the
Treasury to redeem, in lawful money,
all copper medal, and other base metal
coinage when presented in sums Of not
less than twenty dollars.
Mr. Sherman from the Finance COM
mite, reported adversely on Conklings
bill, relative to goods purchased for i'm
port prior to June lst, 1871, allowing
them to come in under the old tariff.
Mr.. Nye offered a resolution, which
was adopted, directing the committee
on Judiciary to examine and report how
far Congress is authorized to regulate
the fare and transportation on railroads
between the States, under the constitu-
tional provision authorizing Congress
to regulate the commerce between the
States.
Mr.. Morton moved to take from the
table the papers accompanying the
Presidents message with a view to
their reference to committee.
The motion was agreed to, when Mr..
Morton moved 10 refer them 10 special
committee on the subject.
RMr. Casserly moved Fan amendment
to refer the papers tothe Judiciary com
mittee
Mr.. Wilson said the Senate had be-
fore it, from official sources, such re-
cord of crime as no land, during the
last five years, could present. What
Congress now wanted to do was to put
down the Ku-Klux organization in the
South, which has all semblance 10 the
old Southern code system.
Mr.. Warner moved that special
committee be appointed, by whom some
remedy would be devised for the in
security Of life and property, and the
wholesale denial Of exercise Of the hts
Of citizenship.
Mr.. Casserly said Mr.. Warner was
inconsistent with his former position.
1t was remarkable that the Senator
should PREJUDICE the question before the
papers referred to had been discussed.
No man Of candor doubted that the re-
suit of the doings of the special COM
mittee was predetermined. This was
too palpable for doubt. Only recently
some OF the most distinguished mem
bers Of the Sen tie, including the Sen
ator from Indiana (Morton), had ex-
hausted themselves in efforts to fan into
new life the embers of the great civil
war-sectional hate and animOsity; but
the result of the late elections had
shown the popular reprobation of such
means of creating political capital
Mr.. Warner said as an illustration Of
political feeling indicating the lawless
condition of society in the South, he
would cite an incident within his own
experience, being an organized attempt,
during the late canvass, to break up a
Republican meeting at the town Of
Eutaw, Ala, which was attended with
the most serious consequences; A Of
the participants in the meeting were
killed or wounded, though in the inter
est of the Democracy and intended by
them as means Of carrying the county
in which it occurred. There was no
greater provocation for it than there
was now for him (Warner) to fire a
shot in the Senate Chamber.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Vermont, said all
such outrages would be suppressed if
Democratic Senators would ignore them
and deplore such a state OF things.
Their frequency was due to Democratic
sympathy. When denounced by all
parties they would end