The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-26
AID CONGRESS.
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phCHi ny MI. pIHN hNs1 NetltlUn OF 2lI
soldiers for equalization Of bounties, right
of homesteads, without previous term oi
settlement and cultivation; by Mr.. CLARK
to regulate the duty on sugar, and in favor
of 10 cents tobacco tax.
The educational fund bill was taken up
and Mr.. HoAR spoke thereon. lIereplietI
70 the charges usually made against the
Republican party, In reference 10 Its legis.
latiye action, casting the blame of all oh.
jectionable legislation on the Democratic
party. Slavery, poverty, Crme, disorder
and Ignorance, had ever found IN that
party efficient and active allies When
measures ofTedress was proposed in Con-
gress, that party clamored that they
should beleft TO the States, when npropos.
ed TO the States, that party Clamored that
they should be lett to counties and local..
ties, and when proposed to localities, tho
klnX klans OF that party, burned
school houses and murdered or whipped
the teachers. In Tennessee o.day, under
the rule Of that party. there were only
twcnty.three out of ninety.one counties,
that had any such schools, although
there was school system In the State.
Even in Kentucky, where Democratic
rule had been undisturbed for len years,
more than one third Of the entire white
population were pra,4ically. illitcrate -
By Mrl lBEcEi Where .didyon get that
REPORT?
Mr.. HoAn: From the census
BY Mr.. BECK: II was taken by fellows
who tried to make 1t as bad Us possible,
and let me tell the gentleman that nearly
every one Of those men In Kentucky who
cannot read or write, understood the
practice Of the constitution better than
the gentleman from Massachusetts. 49,.
Mr.. HoAR continued at some length,
and appealed 10 the gentleman whose
States were unfortunate in regard 10 illit.
eracy to Join in the attempt 10 remedy the
evil.
Mr.. BuRCHARn supported the hill,
though he favored some monillcatinns,,
Mi, POLAND, reported from the Joint
Committee on Southern outrages. Tie
report recommends the adoption Of the
resolution calling on tho President Tor
the information on which he acted in
exercising, in the State of South Carolina,
powers conferred upon him in the act of
April 90, 1S71-lhe Kuklux act-with
the names of persons arrested and i'm.
prisoned, with all particulars; also, such
other information as will convey correct
idea of the state OF society and security
Of life and property in that State and in
Norrh Carolina, particularly as TO the
LOwery gang, in Kentucky, Mississippi,
Texas and Louisiana, including the recent
legislative conflict there.
Mr.. BECK offered Il substitute combining
the Information asked TO the State Oi
South Carolina, inasmuCL as that Was the
only State where martial law existed, and
as It would require months to give all the
information required in the original reso.
luton. He alluded to the TACT that many
persons who had been arrested in South
Caaolina had been discharged by the
army officers arresting them on payment
of money. In fact, they had been black.
mailed, and he referred, as his authority
for the statement, TO a letter which an.
appeared in the New York Herald OF the
9th Of November-a carefully written let
ter, giving the names Of the officers and
challenging denial.
Mr.. STEVENSON opposed BECK's substi
tute first because it contained statement
that was not true, namely, that the PrCsi-
dent had declared martial law in the
State Of South Carolina. 1t was moi true
that martial law had superseded civil
law, If that had been superseded re.
cent trials in Columbia, South Carolina,
would not have been held here, as two Of
the ablest lawyers in the land were paid
largely to defend the Ku.klux wretChes,
and actually left the court room in shame.
For his own part, he said he should have
had no objection to see hundreds or thou.
sands ol these Ku.Klux wretchcs tried
by drum.head courtmartial and swing
to the highest tree. ~fle
Mr.. VAN TRUMB questioned the state.
ment as TO the counsel for the Ku.KluX
prisoners having been driven out OF court
by shame at the developements made.
Mr.. STEPHENSON replied that one Of
them, Stanbury, Of Ohio, left the court
house while one of his clients was on
trial because he was sickened by the facts
developed, and another, Rcverdy johnson.
left Columbia while tie cases were still
going on.
MIR. VAN TRUMP said that Mr.. STAN
bury had lett only when his duty, that OF
arguing the law points, was performed
+, Mr.. MAYNARD asked Mr.. VAN TRUNP
If he said that Mr.. Stanbury was mot
ashamed of the Developments.
MIR. VAN TRUMP did moi know any.
thing about that.
Mr.. STEVENSON would undertake 10 say
that Mr.. Stanburymust have been asham-
ed, and that II he was not every friend Of
his would be ashamed Of him.
Alter further discussion Mr.. BEcK's
substitute was rejected and Mr.. PoLANp's
resolution adopted. . .. ".
Mr.. HALE, from the Committee on Ap.
preparations, reported the naval appro.
priation bill, which was made tho special
order for Tuesday next The bill appro.
pirates $17,94SS4T. 20 %
The House went into Committee Of the
Whole on the general Legislative appro.
priation bill.
In reference 10 an item for the punish.
ment oil frauds IN The Pension Oltlce,
MIR. GARFIELD stated that the Commit.
tee on Ways and Means had been assured
yesterday, by the Secretary of the Inte.
rior, that fully one.iourth Of the pensions
now paid were frauds. He had been so
startled by such an extraordinary state.
ment, that he had written. down the
words at the time, anil the Commissioner
Of Pensions, who was present at the time,
confirmed the statement.
Mr.. BUTLER, Of Massachusetts, and Mr..
HALE, Of Maine, made remarks cnntirma.
tory Of the statement, the latter alluding
particularly To batch OF two or three
hundred cases in the New York applica-
tious for pensions for the war Of 1919,
which were all found TO be fraudulent and
got up by claim agents, some of whom
had been arrested, tried and convicted,
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