Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-09
EVENING STAR.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Conclusion Yesterday Proceedip<
SENATE.-After our report closed
THE GENERAL AMNESTY BILE

SENATE-After our report closed
THE GENERAL AMNESTY BIIL
being under consideration
Mr.: Morton moved an amendment providing
that before any person shall be entitled to the
beneht OF amnesty he shall take oath that he
has not within two years been a member of
either OF the associations known As the Inyisi-
Die Empire, the White Brotherhood, the Consti-
organization known As the Kuklux.
MT. Ferry Comm asked of Mr.. sherman
WHAT prospect there was of securing amnesty at
ILLS session when Mr.. Morton upon every occa-
SION sought to amend amnesty bills by restric-
i've and obnoxious provisions?
MI. sherman said OF course it might be
deemed necessary TO throw proper restrictions
around bill.
Mr.. Trumbun said that when Mr.. Foreman,
one of the earliest and most persistent advo-
Gates of amnesty, had moved to take up this
bill, he had been much gratided, but IL seemed
now that. like its predecessor, IL was 10 be tam
Iered with and killed of by indirection be
said that 90 style Mr.. Summers bill civil rights
bill was mistake. 1t was not civil rights bill,
but
ELL TO FORCE SOCIAL EQUALITY,
and Congress had no right to do such a thing.
He said The eolOredPeOple had equal civil rights
row: there was a civil rights bill now in exist
ence. and he had never heard that equal civil
rights were denied them.
MIR. Edmunds asked if going to school was not
3 civil right
MIR. Trumbul said that il was not. that it wa
a privilege.
Dir. Ednunds maintained that IL was a right
and said that he proposed to vote TO give the
cOlOred people the right to go into the common
schools OF this dTistict under the same regula
tons as the whites.
Mr.. Ferry (Conn) said the colored people OF
tins district had precisely the same school privi
leges a. the whites; the only difference was that
they were not educated IN the same hall.
Mr.. Edmunds denied tbAt the cOlored people
had equal rights a. did MIR. Morton.
After further debate, Mr. Morton, in accord
anCe with suggestions, withdrew his amend
menI temporarily, in order that the vote might
hrst be taken on the motion TO substitute AIR.
Summers civil rights bill for the amnesty bill.
Inc Senate then, at 3 p. m. adjourned, with
the understanding that at 5 o'clock to-day the
general debate shall terminate, and voting COM
nenee On the amendments, the bill to be set
cut.
HOUSE-After our report closed
THE TARIFF BILL
being under consideration.
MIR. Ritchies motion to amend the paragraph
IN relation to bituminOus coal by striking out
nifty cents per ton of twenty-eight bushels and
inserting one dollar per ton, was debated at some
length, after which the amendment was rejected
by vote of ayes 60. noes 100.
Mt. McGrew W. Va moved to amend by in
serting seventy-hve cents. Agreed to-ayes
so, noes, IS.
MIR. Dawes moved to insert, ''On culm coal
fifteen per cent. ad valOrem-" Agreed to.
MIR. Duell IN. " moved to amend the line
making the duty on salt eig int cents per one hun
dred pounds, BY striking out eight and inserting
twelve.
Mr.. Mcintyre (Ga.) moved to strike out the
paragraph and put salt on the free list.
Without coming to a vote the committee rose.
Cu VI dawes, IL was ordered that
when the House again go into committee debate
on the salt question shall terminate in half an
hour.
The Speaker announced the following as
MEMBERS or THE CONFERENCE Committees:
On the deficiency appropriation bill-Messrs.
Garfield. (OhiO,) Poland, (Vt.,) and Marshall
lIll.) On the Indian appropriation bill-Messrs.
Sargent, tCal.,) Shanks, (Ind.,) and SEann
(Md)
The House then, at ass p. m, took a recess
till $50 o clock
MILITARY nils PAssFn
The House met at 80 To consider reports from
the committee on military affairs. About 80
members were present. a large number of bills
were reported and passed, among them the fol-
lOwing:-Bll relative to retired officers, pro-
vidiDg that they shall be retired according TO
the actual rank held by them at the time of
their retirement; bill to provide that minors
shall not he enlisted in the military service
without the written consent of parents or
guardians; (the Senate amendments were con-
CURED in and the bill passed;) bill to prohibit
the retention OF soldiers discharges by claim
agents and attorneys; Senate bill to amend act
Of February 2 1861, to establish and protect
rational &C CEMETERIES, with amendments; bill "a
amend national cemetery act so as to allow SOL
ders and sailors to be buried therein; Senate
bill, with amendments, to enable the President
to appoint a paymaster general of the army
with the rank and pay of a colonel.
The House then, at 9i5, adjourned.