The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-03-31

to be referred to committee before action
hv the Senate. The amendment was lost,
receiving only Ia votes.
Mr.. Anthonys resolution was then adopt
ed.
Mr.. Sherman's resolution instructing the
Judiciary Committee to report a bill to
repress the Ku-Klux outrages, was then
proceeded with.
Mr.. Davis, of Kentucky, whose remarks
were interrupted by the expiration of the
morning hour, was awarded the floor. He
gave notice that he would print his views at
length.
Mr.. Wilson invited the attention of the
Senators from Kentucky to the Official list
of victims of murder and outrsges com
mitted in Kentucky during the last month
of 1865 and the first ten months of 1866,
which he proceeded to read from re-
port, from which it appeared lthat in this
time there were l9 murders OF freed
men; and 233 cases of freedmen who
had been malrreated without being killed !;
ten white Union men were In the same
time murdered, and four others assaulted
with intent TO kill. It might be an inter
estipg task for the two Senators from Ken
tucky to attempt to furnish the list OF
offenders who had suffered death or impris-
onment for these outrages, or had there
been single case of punishment ? The
Senators might argue from now till eternity.
but they could not obliterate these facts.
The debate was continued by Messrs
Davis, Morton and Blair, until o'clock,
when Mr.. Pool obtained the floor.
The Senate went into executive session,
and soon after adjourned.
HoUsE.-On motion of Mr.. Kendall! the
House took up and passed the Senate bill
authorizing and requesting the President of
the United States to appoint Board of
thres Com ommissi0ners-two Of whom to be
fcers or engineers of the army and one a
mining or civil engineer, to examine and
report upon the Latro Tunnel in the state Of
Nevada.
The House proceeded to the consideration
of the bill reported from the Special Com
mittee.
Mr.. Beck addressed the House in opposi.
ton to the bill. He said the bill would
make the President dictator to destroy
the liberties of the people and those who
sided and abetted the bill would become
more odious than the Ku Klux desperadoes
of the South. Referring TO the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts,, he
! said that Mr.. Butler asserted the bill me-
the approval of ma joEity of the Republi-
cans in the House, he Beck wanted ths
| bill printed and circulated, accompanied
| with the remark of Mr.. Butler that major
ity of the Republicans of the House ap
proved it, and it failed to become a Law
! m 10 oF ha 0F
! Gratis.
| Mr. DAwos said no man on either side 0
the House was authorized to say q msjorit,
OF the Republicans Of the House were il
| favor of the bill. There was in caucus NJ
such record
| The discussion was continued by Mr. Blair
| of Michigan, who commenced by saving b.
thought the House should have adjourned
Immediately after it's organization. He thel
proceeded to argue that what was wanted
/ in the case of the South, was not more law
| but the execution of the laws already en-
Acted.
| Fernando Wood WAS the next speaker
He discussed the bill at great length, de
nounced, as making the President lswles
dictator, responsible to no one. He SAT-
there was no evidence IN existence of wild
spread opposition to law and order, and a
evidence of the falsehood of the alleged K
Klux outrages in the South, he referred t
the fact of the large Increase in the stspl
productions of that section over forme
years.
The discussion was continued by NJ
Brooks, of n. Y, in opposition to the bill
and Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, in favor =
Upon the conclusion of the lstter's remark
the House adjourned.