The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-21
LIIDx e0NaREss..sEeoND SESSION.
SENATE

hilDA9 ON6RESS.-SECOND SESSION
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SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 2O.-NIr EdmuDds called
3 up the supplemental superintendent bill, which
| went over for further examination. rA
Mr.. Sprague said he had received a commun
ication setting forth serious objections to the
steamboat bill passed by the Senate last week
and moved to reconsider the vote.
The Vice President ruled the motion out OF
order, the House having already acted ON the
bill, but said it would be in order to send mes
sage to the House asking it to recede from its
| action ON the bill. H- ts
| The bill for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails was called up.
The following resolution was presented by
Resolued, That A. Devine be and he is hereby
expelled from the Senate gallery.
| Mr. Sprague objected to the present consider
| alton of the resolution and it went over.
The Senate resumed the consideration OF the
| habeds corpus suspension bill. and Mr.. Blair ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to it,
1ncidently brief remarks on the other side
| were made by Messrs. Sawyer, Scott, Clayton
| and Spencer.
MIR. Cameron, chairman of the Committee
| on Foreign Relations, gave notice that he would
| ask for an executive session at noon on Wednes-
day. ... ....4 -Ht al ..HA
Mr.. Wilson introduced a bill authorizing the
adoption of a system of general regulations for
| the army. .t .
The Senate then took a recess. .r-.--ss
r Evening Session.
The consideration of the hdbeds corpus bill
was resumed Messrs. Osborn AlcOrn and Ames
taking part in the discussion, the main features
of which was a colloquy between the two Mis-
sissippi Senators, Mr.. Alcorn charging Mt.
Ames with not being resident of the State
and with assailing its people as murderers in
former speech, wherein he said that sixty eight
of Mr.. Alcorns administration as Governor,
when but eighteen were really committed.
Mr., Ames said that ever since his colleague
had been in the Senate he had talked of moth
ing but himself till tonight; and now had
brought in him (Ames) He would reply at a
proper time.
Mr.. Alcorn contrasted the peace which pre-
vailed during his term as Governor with the
violence and disorder when Mr.. Ames was Mil
itary Governor, and claimed there had been no
Ku Klux convictions under his administration
nor under the rule of bayonets He protested
against the lives and liberty of the people of
Mississippi being placed under the heel of the
bayonet The Southern people will not come
to the support of any President who has power
placed in his hands by Congress to deprive
them of their liberties. self
MIR. Pratt followed, reading from the testi-
mony of Gov. Powers before the sub Ku Klux
committee to the effect that the passage of the
Ku Klux law had most salutary effect in Mis-
sssippi. fs
= Mr.. Alcorn concluded with an earnest appeal
against any further suspension of the habeds
corpus, and expressed the belief that if the bill
passed his State would be lost to the Republic
can party. az
Mr.. Ames said that when his colleague was
not prOnouncing the pronoun l, when he was
not talking of his plantation and when he was
not misrepresenting Mississippi he assailed him.
my colleague" said Mr.. Ames, event to Mis-
sissippi before did. He was one of the chiv-
alrous spirits, but am only from Yankee land,
and fought my way down to the Mississippi
with my own right hand. My colleague buckled
on his armor and went into the war on the side
OF the Sonth. He did not remain in the army
more than three months and then he retired to
his plantation, of which he speaks so much.
Ii we had only such men as him to fight we
would not have much war. As he (Amesl
said, he fought his way down to the Mississippi
over many a bloody battle field and had right
to stay there even if he had not plantation.
We often 60 to a circus to see man ride two
horses but my colleague exceeds that. He
rides all parties in Mississippi at the same time,
he has been elected by one party and then by
another. He was repudiated by all parties.
He (Ames) had as Military Governor, tried
to do his duty and to protect the poor colored
people from outrage and oppression, and he had
punished the perpetrators of crime.
Mr.. Alcorn interrupted to say that he had
served eighteen months in the Confederate ar
my instead of three.
Mr. Ames said bis colleague owed every
thing he was to the carpet baggers, he was so
constantly assailing He charged that by his
colleagues pursuading the colored people to
accept seperate schools they had been deprived
OF equal advantages of education. He also
charged that the unionism of Mr.. Alcorn was
fe1gned and that he had no real regard for col
ored people. He said that no account had ever
been given of $4,000 put into Mr.. Alcorn's
hands to put down the Ku Klux and not one
Ku Knx had been arrested. 4
Mr. Alcorn had put many Democrats in office
and as result the State came near being lost
to the Republicans last fall. He had removed
Flannery, Republican editor of Mississippi,
from the Office of Brigadier General of militia,
because he styled General Lee traitor He
(Ames) denied that such man had any right
to assume to represent the Republicans of Mis-
sissippi. The Republican party nominated him
in doubt. Many had never heard of him utter
ing Republican sentiment, and he (Ames)
had never heard him to this day utter one
Speaking for the Republican party he (Ames)
claimed that they did want the Ku Klux law
and that they did want the passage of the BILL
The Senate at midnight adjourned.
HOUSE.
To-day the time was taken up with unim-
portant bills until Mr.. Hooper's supplemental
civil rights bill, when the remainder of the
hour was occupied with dilatory motions.
The House refused to go into Committee of
the Whole on the tariff and tax bill, IS to 135.
rules Aha pass f ~ t4Rhssfaeng the
Committee on Ways and Means to report forth
with the Senate concurrent resolution for adj
journment on the 10Th of May Rejected-yeas
1913, nays 50 less than two-thirds in the affirma-
tive. s-.e-...e ..re is
Mr.. Dawes of Mass, moved that the rules be
suspended and the Committee of the Whole dis
charged from further consideration of the tariff
and tax bill, and that the bill as amended by
the Committee do pass. This includes the in
ternal revenue sections and all. Agreed to-
lat to 81. 4af@ atBeH 5FGE gAlf.a b.. q
The following is the estimated reduction of
duties, which the tariff bill effected: Coal,
$215 254; salt $615, 522; leather, $529, 490 chic
DRY, $92, S80.17: cotton and manufactures there
of, s., OF, 1888 25; wool and manufactures there
Of 50, 348, ga 0S; iron and manufactures there
of, $1,376, 612.13; metals and manufactures
thereof, 1924 $3.50. IL rubber and manufactures,
$53, 207 16; gutta, percha and manufactures
thereof, So, 099; straw and manufactures there
of, $75, 347.57; oil cloths and manufactures
thereof, $2,786.61 steel and manufactures
thereof, $4S9, 256. rs; burlaps, &c, flax dressed,
no estimate can be made; Lumber and manu-
features thereof, $185, 98O.57; all other articles
including chemicals, &C., 1854, ga 80; books
printed &C., no estimate; mustard ground,
| $40, 1926; currants, figs and raisins 81 1885,
| SIT 80; copper and manufactures thereof, $751;
1858; plate glass including silvered, $98, 291 o.
features thereof not included, So, 101.10; total
reduction dutiable 81 ,076, 629.56; on free list
SIS, 500 1850; total reduction, 1929 645 IT'S o.
| The total reduction by tariff and internal rev.
! enue sections is estimated at $44, 100000.
Mr. Dawes then moved to suspend the rules
| and concur in the Senate resolution for final
adjournment May 29th. Agreed to-yeas 1859,
nays 81. (The nays were Republicans, includ-
| ing Messrs Frye and Lynch.) The announce
merit of the result was received with clapping
of hands and general jubilation.
Mr.. Getz of Penn, from the Committee on
| Public Buildings, reported a bill appropriating
| 81, 500, 900 for the purchase of lot and cree
| ton of building in Philadelphia, for a Post
| Office and United States Circuit Court purpo-
ses. Passed under suspension of the rules.
| Mr.. Coburn, of Indiana, from the Committee
| on Military Affairs reported a bill reciting the
| disappearance from the files of the War De-
partment of the records of the court of INQUIRY
in the case of Major Gen. Buell., and directing
the Secretary of War to employ Benz. Pitman,
Photographic reporter of that court, who has
retained his notes thereof, to furnish two trans.
lations, one for the War Department and one
for Congress. Passed.
The Senate bill, to allow the Potomac & Pied
mont Railroad to operate its line within the
District of Columbia, was passed. ~
Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts, moved to sus.
pend the rules and pass preamble reciting the
recent statement of Sir Stafford Northcote. that
the understanding of the British Commission.
ers was that promise had been given tina,
claims for indirect damages should not be pre-.
scented, &C., which statement of q member n
the Joint High Commission ON the part Of
Great Britain deeply concerns the good faitI
and integrity of American Commissioners ant
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