Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

II
| SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Mr. Sherman,
| from the Finance Committee, reported
| back, and asked to be discharged from
further consideration of the letter from the
Secretary of the Treasury relating to the
tax on forty-flve millions scrip dividends
| of the New York Central Railroad Com
pany. The committee was discharged.
Mr.. Fenton, from the Finance Com
mittee, reported without an amendment
the bill requiring the Secretary of the
Treasury to redeem in lawful money all
copper, nickel and other base coinage
when presented in sums not less than
| twenty dollars.
To Regulate RaiIrOad Fares.
Mr.. Nye offered resolution directing
the Judiciary Committee to examine and
report how far Congress is authorized to
regulate the fare and transportation on
railroads between the States under the
constitutional provisions authorizing Con-
gress TO regulate commerce between the
States. Adopted.
Reconstruction and Ku-KIux.
Mr.. Morton moved to take from the
table the papers accompanying the Presi-
dents message in regard to outrages in
the South. Agreed to.
Mr.. Morton then moved to refer them
to special committee.
Mr.. CasseIly moved to amend by refer
ring the papers to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
MIR. Wilson said the Senate had before
il, from official sources, such record of
crime as no Christian civilized land during
the last five years could present; what
Congress now wanted to do was to put
down Ku-Klux.
Mr.. Casserly said it was that remark
able Senators should prejudice the ques-
ton before the papers referred to had
been considered. No man of candor
doubted the result of the doings of spe-
cial committee already predetermined.
This is too palpable for doubt or contra
diction. Only recently some of the most
distinguished members of the Senate, in
GLIDING the Senator from Indiana, Mr..
Morton, had exhausted themselves in an
effort to fan into new life the embers of
civil war, hate and luminosity; but the re-
suit of the late elections had shown the
popular reprobation of such a contemp-
tible means of creating political capital.
MIR. Warner cited an attempt to disperse
q Republican meeting at Eutaw, Ala,
and fifty-four killed or wounded. There
was no provocation for the disturbance.
1t is impossible TO punish the offenders
because thoroughly organized and had
control of the county.
Mr.. Bayard said Mr.. Warner had at
tempted to do what Edmund Burke de-
clared himself unable to do-to draw an
Indictment against a whole people. The
President had deliberately and wsntonly
repudiated the policy, 'Let US Have
Peace" upon which his administration
came into Office.
MIR. Sherman supposed it was intended
TO inquire whether the elective franchise
had been interfered with in North Caro-
lima, Florida and Alabama, but as the
Republican ticket had been declared elect
ed in Florida, that State would probably
not be included. He pictured the indig-
nation and denunciation with which the
Republican members would boil over if
the unlimited power of the authorities of
Texas and other States was attempted to
be welded by the Democratic Governors
of New York and Connectiut. He con-
cluded with suggestions as to the doubtful
authenticity of Ku-Klux stories for parGi-
san consumption. Were his voice poten-
tial he would cry out through the South
for cessation of any practice giving color
to such stories.
Without reaching vote the Senate,
after an Executive session, adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Swami reported bill apprOpri-
ating 300, 900 for expenses of the joint
commission to fix the northwest bound
airy along the 49th parallel between the
Lake of the Woods and Rocky Mountains.
1t was made special order for Tuesday.
Mr. Julian offered a resolution instruct
ing the Committee on Public Lands to in
quire into the expediency of legislation
to guard the rights of States to lands
granted to them for educational purposes
and prevent their monopoly. Adopted.
The House then proceeded to vote on
the amendments to the legislative sppro-
pristiOn bill.
The amendment increasing the appro-
priation of Bureau of Education from
81, 500 to $4,000 was agreed to. The
amendment increasing the salaries of
Chief Justice. and associate Justices of the
Supreme Court to So, 500 and IS, 900 re-
spectively was agreed to. The bill then
passed.
Mr.. Sargent introduced a bill to enable
the people eff Washington UtahS[ts form
a Constitution and State government pro-
viding for its admission as a State. Re
ferred.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Postoffice appropriation
bile Mr.. Blair, of Michigan, in tie chair.
After disposing of it, the committee rose
and the bill was passed by the House.
Brooks EXOnerated.
The House adopted resolution ex-
onerating Mr.. Brooks from the charges
made by Mr.. Hastings and discharging the
Select Committee from further considers-
ton of the subject. Adjourned.