The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-26
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national stability.

national stability.
Congress Yesterday - The Amnesty, chi.
cago, Educational and Appropriation
Bills.
The work done by Congress in passing the
bill for the relief Of the people of Chicago, by
taking the duty off all housebuilding materials
used in the restoration of that city, was not
allowed to remain done. The Senate, under
the rule which permits motion to reconsider
to be made on the day following that on which
the vote is taken, took up the Chicago bill
again yesterday, and had considerable discus
sion upon it before 1t was laid aside for another
turn at the Amnesty bill and the Sumner rider
to 1t. The Chicago bill was assailed by Mr..
Chandler, of Michigan, because its benefits
were not extended to the Michigan towns that
were devastated by the forest fires of last
summer, and he read letters from some of his
constituents denouncing the measure as
swinde and fraud perpetrated by free traders,
also Michigan newspaper paragraph
branding it as q scheme concocted
by Chicago spectators. He appealed to the
Senate not to rob the already ruined lumber
men of Michigan and Wisconsin for the benefit
ofChicago. Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, who
had voted for the bill originally, recanted and
confessed that he had seen the error of his
ways to such an extent that he was now con-
vinced that the bill was unconstitutional. He
also had letters to read from his constituents in
the same vein as those which Chandler had
read. The world will be astonished to learn that,
after the universal sympathy which the Chi
cago confagration evoked, and after the gen.
erous contributions sent to the relief of the
sufferers from all over the United States and
Europe, men can be found in the Senate of the
United States so lost to all humane, generous
feeling as to oppose this measure of relief, SIM
ply because, under our oppresaively high
tariff system, the lumber to be used in rebuild
ing Chicago may be imported from
Canada instead of from Michigan, and the
screws and nails and bolts may be imported
from England instead of from Pennsylvania.
We have seen the calculation that this mea-
twenty-five millions to the people Of Chicago,
while it would not diminish the revenue more
than fifty thousand dollars, these figures Civ
ing about the general proportion between what
the tariff costs the people and what it benefits
the government.
An adverse report was made on the petition
of the woman suffragists, and then, the Am
nesty bill having been taken up, Mr.. Hill. of
Georgia, made statement illustrative of what
he said the other day as to the exclusion of
the best men of the South from public life.
He said that there was vacancy on the bench
the Governor was anxious to fill it from
among the best jurists of the State, but could
not do SO until their political disabilities were
removed. Mr.. Morrill,, of Maine, advocated
the bill and opposed Mr.. Summers negro
palace car amendment to it as unwise
and unconstitutional. We wonder whether
the Massachusetts, Senator would not next
propose similar measure to punish hotel
keepers for not placing nurses and servants at
the same table with their employers. There
would be as much sense in the one as the
other.
The House had up yesterday, first, the
Educational bill, which was discussed during
the morning hour, and afterwards the General
Civil Appropriation bill, with an entremets
in the shape of an Executive call for informa-
ton as to Ku Klux affairs, in the course of
the discussion on which Mr. Beck, of Ken
lucky, instanced acts of oppression on the part
of military officers against citizens Of South
Carolina, quoting the HERALD correspondence
as authority for his statement. The. only
notable matter in connection with the Appro-
priation bill was q statement by Mr.. Garfield,
on the authority Of the Secretary of the In
terror and the Com missioner of Pensions, that
one-fourth of the pensions paid by the govern
ment were frauds. As the pension list is
about thirty millions year, the people have
thus the satisfaction Of knowing that they are
paying between seven and eight millions
year to pension thieves.
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