Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-25
Forty-First Congress Second Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. "a, 1871.
SENATE.

SENATE
Senator Sherman presented a treasury state
ment of the amount of war claims for expenses
in raising volunteers paid to states and the
amounts now due. The total amount paid has
been $50 ,750,76t, of which Massachusetts re-
ceived $500 ,313, and there is now due her
1921 AIS.
Mr.. Sumner, from the committee on foreign
relations reported tie house bill relating to tees
graphic communication between the United
States and foreign countries, W tn an amend
ment, making IL unlawful for two or more cable
companies to consolidate without the consent of
the postmaster general of the United states and
upon such terms as he may determine.
The resolution allowing the committee on
southern outrages to sit during the recess was
reconsidered and laid on the table, and the sem
ate resumed Mr.. Trumbull's civil service fei0rtn
bill, which prohibits congressman from solicit
ing appointments.
MIR. Patterson addressed the senate at length
in explanation of abuses in the diplomatic, con-
sular and civil service. While heartily In favor
| of REFORM he thought the bill defective id The
! diplomatic service. One of the most intelligent
! of our ministers to Europe had told him that,
| for two years after reaching the court TO which
| he was accredited he had nothing whatever to
| dc, In South America, where British commerce
| far exceeds our own, our diplomatic service is
| twice as expensive as that of Great Britain;
| The inefilciency in our consular service was
shown in the class of men sent abroad, these
| being mostly young men, some just from col
| lege, utterly ignorant of commercial laws and
customs, and unacquainted with the nature of
the country TO which they 90. In the early hiss
| tory Of the government, removals from office
were rare During Washington's two terms,
| there were but eight, aud under John Adams
! ten. Jefferson, though coming into office amid
| great party excitement, made but thirty-four re-
| movals, Madison five, Munroe nine. and John
| Quincy Adams but two.
Upon the present condition of the New York
custom house, Mr. Patterson had read a letter
| from VIM. Z. Dodge, which, he said, spoke the
voice of A. T. Stewart, Chittenden, and other
| leading importers of New York. The letter.
under date of a few days ago, charged that APP
| pointmeuts in the New York custom house were
made for political reasons, and not with a view
| TO subserve public interest.
| distingui- he'd member of the foreign lega-
| ton, now in Washington, informed him, Pat
| terson, that upon his coming to this country,
| about two years ago, he was told by an inspect
or that, if he would place two guiueas in the
/ bottom of his trunk, it would be passed, An
| agent for foreign steamship line had testified
before the committee that, only week before last,
he paid $500 of bride money TO inspectors TO get
| his vessel discharged, and only last year he paid
over $4,000 in the same way. Some officials
| lived out in the country, and only came to the
| custom house to draw their pay In one case,
| an old apple woman, who sold apples on street
corner, had her name on the pay roll for months
| and drew her pay by proxy as a weigher
Mr.. COnkling denied some of Mr.. Patterson'S
statements relative to the New York custom
house. He asserted that nothing whatever had
been developed to reflect in the slightest degree
upon the collector or the naval officer, Or the
| surveyor of the port of New York.
| MIR. Patterson denied having, in any manner
attacked or even referred to those officers.
Mr.. Fenton, replying to Mr. Conkling, said
| if he, Conkling, had advised no appointment to
the collector of New York, it was fortunate for
| his reputation.
| After further discussion, and after eulogies on
! the late Senator Norton by Messrs. Vickers
Stockton, Sherman and Thurman, and the usual
resolutions of respect the senate adjourned
HOUSE.
| During the discussion of the San Domingo
| resolutions, some days ago, Mr.. Cox made
| charge that some of the documents had been
withheld from congress, and stated that he had
offered resolution calling for list of grants of
| privileges in San Domingo which had never
| been sent to the house. Mr.. 0rth this morning
| rose to a personal explanation, and denied that
| anv documents had been withheld. Mr. Cox
| had received his information of the existence of
such grants and privileges from 6Ir. Davis, who
| was now deceased, and Mr.. Orth quoted from
| state department letter to show that Mr.. Davis
| was not the clerk who copied the document re-
| ferred to.
| Mr.. Cox, in reply, reiterated his statement,
| and expressed the most implicit confidence in
what Mr. Davis had told him. He did not know
| who withdrew the documents from the state de-
| partment, but he believed they had
been withdrawn. He asked, was he,
| Cox, to sit in the house with the lock-
| Jaw, while this inquiry was being enacted2 Was
| he to be reproached for speaking what he knew?
| His motives for thus speaking were nothing Pc
| cunary or partisan. Was not his statement
confirmed by Mr. Sumner, in the senate, and
| other circumstances now notorious2 If that
paper had been SurreptitiOusly kept from the
rpmOVpd II Looked for fIo
He wished he could not believe what he had
said. He would not then be Inundated as an
American citizen. He should be glad and proud
to aid any project of honorable annexation but
this project did not disenchant him. His old
democratic ideas of the future growth of the
country made him more heedful of the modes
and motives for the enlargement of the national
domain.
A resolution from the committee on elections,
on the North Carolina Shober-Boyden election
case, that the former, the sitting member is en-
titled to the seat, was adopted
The bill consolidating and establishing a ter
ritorlal government for the Indian tribes was
discussed during the morning hour, and recon-
mitted to the Indian committee, with leave to
report after February 2.
A resolution, by Mr.. Logan, was adopted
authorizing the subcommittee in regard to the
kidnapping and compulsory resignation of three
cadets, to proceed to West Point, and take testi-
mony, as being a better and more economical
pau llldil u DIllg WlLuGSSeS 10 Washing on,
Mr. Young presented the credentials of
Stephen Corker, member elect from the 9TH
congressional district of Georgia, and moved
that he be sworn in.
MIR. CorkeTs credentials were in due form, and
signed by Gov. Bullock.
Mr. Butler objected and presented a memorial
Of Thomas G. Baird, the contestant claiming the
seat, and moved that the subject be referred to
the committee on elections.
Mr.. Butler sent to the clerks desk and had
I -apI a.Nsa &c
election was carried by fraud and intimidation.
he also sent to the clerks desk, and had read
an extract from democratic paper of Georgia.
the Chronicle and Sentinel, of Augusta, detail
ing the kukluX outrages in that state, in break
ing into jail, taking out seven prisoners, cut
ting off their ears and shooting other prisoners
He called upon the Union loving men on either
side of the house to say whether, with such allie
cations, and with proof appended, they would
seat member until the matter was inquired
into. Seating him now would end the whole
contest, as testimony could not be taken and
the question decided before the termination of
congress. 1t would be, in some sort sanction
ing and enabling crime. The house should
recollect that the district in question was the
home of Alexander and Linton Stephens. still
unrepentant rebels.
Mr.. Jones of Kentucky inquired whether the
democratic paper referred to did not condemn
the outrage, and whether anybody was respon-
sible for it except the radical government of
Georgia.
Mr.. Butler retorted that democratic papers
generally condemned these outrages, but never
wanted the criminals brought to justice He re-
ferred to the declaration of the Memphis APP
peal, that the federal government was a Tester
ing, reekrg corpse
Mr.. Jones remarked that he could pro-
duce carnations of the same character from
Wendell Phillips and other radicals.
Mr.. Young said the remarks of Mr.. Butler
were only repetition of a stale old story of
southern outrages. He might send up the Po-
lice Gazette, to show the state of society in the
northern states, but the stories were all exag-
gerations. He claimed that the election was
fairly conducted, and Mr. Corker had received
over six thousand majority. There had been
United States soldiers in every precinct in the
district, so that there could not have been in
timidation.
Mr.. Niblack inquired whether the whole cx-
ecutive power in Georgia, state and national,
and almost all the judicial power, was not in
the hands of the republican party?
Mr. Young-"Every bit of it,"
Mr. Butler remarked that, in the case of the
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