The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-14
xLIID CONGREss..sECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

| <AAAAD SEI1JxVN.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 13-Mr. Wilson intro
duced bill giving New York company the
Point
A conference committee was appointed
on dlsagreeing vote of the amendments of the
House to the bill for refunding taxes on bonded
spirits lost by fire or other casualties.
| 0Ine Dill relative to'the appointment of Fed
erai Supervisors of Elections was taken up.
| MI Casserly denounced federal interference
IN the election at Mare Island, California
! MT Cole agreed with his colleague in con-
dennlng whatever was wrong and unfair in the
manner OF conducting the election at Mare Is
land, but he believed that his colleague was
| mistaken
| Inc senate went into executive committee at
z.oU CLOCK and remained therein till o'clock.
linen IN The open session Mr.. Casserly's
amendment was rejected-the first section by a
vote OF Is yeas to 81 nays, and the second sec
ZION by vote of 10 to 81.
MI. Irumbull offered as an amendment the
nrst section of the House general amnesty bill.
MT. Nye moved to amend the amendment by
adding the section, requiring that before any
person can take the benefit Of the amnesty he
must swear he has not for two years had any
connection with any Ku Klux organization.
Adopted-yeas 26, nays "a.
MT; Sumner gave notice that if the amnesty
would move his civil rights bill as further
amendment
No further action was taken on the bill or
amendments
A.. MI Cole, from the conference committee on
tiie uenciency appropriation bill made a report.
MI sherman, one OF the conferees on the
part OF the Senate, said that he had dissented
from tne report because of his opposition to the
clause substituted by the House for the Morrill,
amendment, and he recommended the Senate
to non-concur
Mr.. Cole said that the clause inserted by the
house providing for the payment of the owners
81 coSton seized at the South would not require
Pending discussion on the report the Sem
ate took recess,
Bills passed: Granting pension of $4,000
per annum 10 the widow of Admiral Farragut;
tor relief of the widow of c. H. Pendleton, late
OF the navy; granting ten years additional SER
vice on the active list to 1t. Commander VIM.
b. Gushing for the capture of the rebel ram
Albemarle:
HOUSE.
Among the numerous bills introduced and re-
ferred were the following: By Mr. w. r. Rob-
erts of New York, directing the President to in
tercede with the Canadian authorities for the
discharge OF Fenlan prisoners; by Mr.. Brooks
of New York, to establish an iron ship building
yard on the waters falling in the Atlantic and
another on the mississippi or one of its tributa-
ries, and to afford facilities to the navy.
~
reading. Mr.. Kelleys bill, sent up by Mr.. Ed
ridge with the title altered, the object being to
prevent action on Mr.. Hoopers supplementary
civil rights bill.
Mr.. Voorhees, (dem.) of Indiana rising to a
personal explanation, submitted paragraph
from the Washington Republican, to the effect
that he was halting and hesitating on the cues
ton of supporting Greeley, and as all his Dem
ocratic colleagues were said to be in favor of
Greeley, he was likely to lose the favor of the
district, where his voice was so long potential
He declared that he did not halt or hesitate as
to the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention
Whoever believed in his high protective tariff
principles might support him, but he (Voor-
hees) would not. Greeley was the lifelong
champion of doctrines he (VOorhees) opposed
the most clamorouS advocate in all the land for
Ku-Klux legislation which desolated the homes
of the Southern people, while the present ad-
ministration had simply executed a law dictat-
ed to Congress by the Cincinnati nominee
Within recent date Greeley had desired furth-
er extension of the Presidents power to sus-
pend the hdbeaS corpus, and he was an earnest
and urgent advocate of present force bayonet
election law. he had two months ago clamor-
ed in his great organ for law to place elections
in the State of New York under federal con-
troll, and in certain contingencies under militia
ry control. Was such man to receive his vote
or to be President? Was he called upon as a
friend to the Southern people to vote for man
who advocated the right of secession, and vet
when the Southern people did what he told
them, no wild beast hungry for blood ever
screamed oyer 9, its its: prey as Greeley did "on to
ing what he told them they had right to do
A red sea of blood. had not been enough to sat
isfy this man, but he had also insisted upon the
confiscation of the homes and property of wo-
men and children of the South. Others might
do as they liked, but it was better to be ght
than to succeed. He protested against the right
to transfer the Democrats of the country to
camp where there was nothing belonging to
them.
Mr. Roosevelt of New York, asked if Voor-
hees would support the candidate of the Balti-
more Convention? .-Ist-.rr
Mr.. Voorhees, was not in the habit of voting
against the Democratic nominations. He be-
ieved the gentleman himself would have some
difficulty in answering his own question, but
he did not despair of success. He would stand
by his own party and would vote for the man
who represented them. He had no fears of
what the Baltimore Convention would do, but
he could not vote for man who spoke of the
Democratic party as one to which all the haunts
of debauchery gave nine-tenths of their sup
port.
Mr.. Voorhees, said he sometimes regarded it
as piece of restless impertinence on the part
of Greeley to offer himself as bail for jeff
Davis and added that when Andrew johnson
and Edwin M. Stanton proposed to arrest Gems
Lee and Johnston and others. there was but
one man could prevent it, General Grant told
them these men had given him their parole as
soldiers and that parole should be respected.
If he should be driven to take the stump to
press the claims of Greeley he would find can
didate opposing him who had done more and
kinder things for the South than this nominee
had done.
Mr.. Roosevelt suggested that Mr. Voorhees,
had been recently in conference with President
Grant.
Mr.. Voorhees, said that he had not crossed
the threshold of the White House for three
years, and whoever made such statement
made vile calumny
Mr.: Roosevelt had been informed some days
ago that such an interview occurred.
Mr.. Northeastern the gentleman associates
with men who don't tell the truth
Mr.. Randall of Pa, asked if Mr.. Voorhees,
would have voted for Judge Davis and advocat-
ed his election il nominated at the Cincinnati
Convention.
Mr.. Voorhees-There were many things in
common between their views, and Davis, if
nominated, would probably have been accepted
by the majority of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Randall would not vote for either unless
endorsed by the Democratic party.
Mr.. Voorhees-That's right.
Mr. Randall-And should vote for either of
them if endorsed by the Democratic Conven-
ton.
Mr.. Bird of N. j., would not vote for either
of them if he were endorsed. s .EE
Nh. Kerr Of Ind, said that SO far as the
statement in the Republican referred to him it
was simply untrue. ...
Mr. Niblack of Ind, made the same remark.
adding that nothing but the power of organiza-
ton would compel him to vote for Greeley but
whenever the Democratic party acted on the
question he would yield obedience to its action.
Mr. Holman of Ind, also repudiates the Re-
publican's article SO far as it referred to him.
He did not propose to forestall the action of the
Baltimore Convention.
Mr.. Myers introduced and asked to have pass
ed a bill for the relief of the sufferers by the
late fire at Somerset, Pa, similar to the Chica-
go bill. LC.A 1L ..
Mr.. Butler of Mass, desired it extended to
the sufferers by fire at Aver, Mass
Objections were made and the bill was re-
ferred.
Mr. Butler, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported bill removing political disabilities
from all persons who were related to the late
rebellion except Senators and Representatives
in the Both and 37th Congresses officers IN the
judicial military and naval service of the u.
s., and heads of Departments, and Foreign
Ministers of the U. S.
Mr.. Cox OF N. Y, suggested that the bill
was one of the results Of Greeley's nomination
at Cincinnati. s ua-t 10y
MIR. Butler said it was not, nor was it the re-
suit of voorhees, speech. Laughter.)
Mr.. Eldridge of Wis, remarked that it was
the best and most liberal bill of the kind that
ever passed the House.
The bill passed by the requisite two-thirds
vote and without division.
Mr. RuflQr al rtaI q