Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-14
Dan VOORHEES, Can't swallow Greeley
The Views Of other Democrats.
sAnUther amnesty Bill Started.


Inc VIEWS u OthOI O0AA0CAdSSs
another Amnesty Bill Started.
SENATE
j. WAsHrEsroS, May M Schurz oh,
tanned leave to make a personal statement
and said: see it stated in several papers
of my State that when the vote was taken
on the amnesty bill was not, present IL
the Senate, and that several questions con
nected with that bill might have been deci.
ded otherwise by my vote. wish to say ]
was absent on account Of sickness. and that
/ had taken precaution in order not to lose
my vote TO secure pair off with Senator
NYe.
BayOnet Elections.
At the expiration of the morning hour,
the Senate resumed consideration Of the
bill to amend the enforcement enactment.
Mr.. Casserly offered as a substitute por-
ton OF bis pending amendment, providing
that it shall be unlawful for any civil, mill
tafy or naval officer of the United States or
any person connected with the service TO
attempt to exercise directly or indirectly
under infinence OF control over votes, or to
that end distribute ballots marked In airy
way for thepuFpOse Of ascertaining how
voters have voted, or use any means TO de-
stroY. or impair the secresy of the ballot,
and providing severe penalties for q VIOLA
ton Of this law.
Mr.. Casserly offered an amendment that
no officer in the employ of the Federal
government shall in any way have any
thing to do with elections. He supported his
amendment by stating that the government
officials connected with the Navy Yard at
Mare Island, exercised undue influence in
the most outrageous manner in the last
State election. The employees of the Navy
Yard were compelled to walk up to the
polls like cattle; their tickets were number
ed by the numbers of theiS names on the
pay roll; their obligation to vote that pre-
pared ticket was thus connected directly
with their daily bread, and all this under
the eyes of the government officials, and of
course with their full knowledge. 1t is to
prevent the occurrence Of such scenes in
future that have offered the second sec
ton.
Mr.. Casserly then advocated the first sec
ton of his pending amendment, forbidding
the use or presence of troops at the cleo
tons unless when called for by the civil au-
thorities to keep the peace, and in this con-
nection spoke at length in severe condem-
nation of the presence Of troops at the
election in New York and elsewhere.
Mr.. Cole replied. he said he ageed
with his colleague in condemning Whatever
was wrong or unfair in the manner of con-
Quoting the election at Mare Island, but be-
ieved his colleague was mistaken in many
of his statements. Mr.. Cole said further
that the increased vote was accounted fol
by the increased population Of the town of
Vallejo, which had became, in the interval,
the terminus of the Pacific Railroad, and
had therefore grown very rapidly.
MIR. Stockton asked him how it happened
that the increase was all on the Republican
side.
Mr.. Cole said that was to be accounted
for by the conversion of people from the
error of their ways. He doubted, too, the
of Mr.. Casserly's statement
that the election was carried on under the
direction of government officials.
After considerable debate between Mes
srs. Casserly and Cole, the Senate went
into Executive Committee, and remained
therein until o'clock. Then in open ses-
sion Mr.. Casserly's amendment was re-
jected, the first section by vote of Is to
81. and the tecond by 70 to 81,
Mr.. Trumbull offered as an amendment
the first section of tie House general
Amnesty Bill.
Mr.. Nye moved to amend the amend
ment by adding the second section, requir-
ing that before any person can take the
benefit Of amnesty he must swear that he
has not fGr two years had any connection
with any Ku-Klux organization. ;Adopted.
Yeas, 26; nays, "A.
Messrs. Foreman and Scott stated that
they were in favor of amnesty,
they would not vote to put it upon this bill,
as It was not germain TO the subject.
Mr.. Trumbull said the Senate Lad before
it the amnesty bill as passed by the House
and called on the friends'o of the measure to
stand by it. The country, he said, could
no longer be deceived by these professions
o. favor for amnesty followed by votes
against it.
Mr.. Sumner gave notice that if the aIa-
nesty bill should be added to the pending
measure, he would move his
Civil Rights
bill as a further amendment. (Laughter)
Mr.. Trumbull said he knew of no civil
rights bill pending. The title wac a ais
homer. The bill was Tor the establishment
not CT civil rights but of equality.
Mr.. Sumner said he would let colored
man answer Mr.. Trumbun, and read from
a speech by Fred. Douglass disclaiming on
the part of the colored people any desire
for social equality so called.
Mr.. TrUmbull said he would let another
colored man answer Mr.. Summers colored
man, and then read from a speech by Prof.
Langston an avowal that The civil rights
bill was designed as a measure for obtain
ing social equality. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Sumner said that Langston had as
sured him this was an incorrect report of
bis remarks. Iaughter.)
No further action was taken on the bill
or amendments. 90"
81, Cotton Claims.
Mr.. Cole, from the conference committee
on the deficiency appropriation bill, made a
report.
Mr.. Sherman said he had dissented from
the report because of his opposition to the
clause submitted by the House for the Nor
Ri amendment, and recommended that the
Senate non-cOncur.
Mr.. Cole said the clause inserted by the
House, providing for the payment OF own
ers of cotton seized at the South, would not
REQUIRE more than S5000GC.
Pending discussion on the report,
The Senate took a recess until 1880 p. NJ.
At the evening session a bill passed grant
ing a pension of $4,000 per annum to the
widow of Admiral Farragut.
HOUSE,
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