New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-11
TWENTY PERSONS KILLED
he MEXICAN REVOLUTIONIsTs
Another Boiler Explosion Epidemic
CONGRESS.

Senate Sales of Arms COmmittee-TwO Re
ports COming-FOrtiicatiOn Bill Passed
Louisiana FOrts-TaFiff BiII-Sumner's
Civil Rights BiII-LOuisiana Election
BnI-An Acrimonious DiscussiOn-Its
DenunciatiOn as a FOrcibIe Control of
State EIectiOns-Passage of the Bill
Bill to Amend the Enforcement Act-Tts
Observation-Disclosures on the Rampage.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 10.- The
Senate committee on the sales of
arms will make their report tomorrow
They exOnerate the government officers
from all blame, and argue that there was
no violation of our neutrality during the
Franco-German war. They censuFe Sena-
tor Sumner for his refusal to testify. as
serting that he had no privilege of exemp-
ton, the law as to witnesses applying to
all alike, especially as there is no distine-
ton before the law on account of race,
color or previous condition of servitude
They assert that if Senators Summer and
Sehurz had put themselves to the incOnve-
nience of five minutes walk to the war and
treasury departments, they could have sat
isfed themselves there was nothing wrong,
and thus saved thousands of dollars which
have been expended in the investigation.
The committee say the Marquis De Cham
bFun was the instigatOr of the inquiry.
Senator Stevenson will eMbody his views
in a minority report.
House.-The bill taking away the circuit
court Jurisdiction of the United States Dis
trict Court for the Northern District of
Georgia, and to create circuit court in
that district, passed.
The fortifcatiOn bill passed. 1t aggre-
gates $4,000, 900, and includes the forts in
Baltimore harbor, $34 ,0O0S the forts in the
Potomac river, $4,000; Fortress Monroe,
Virginia, $42, 2,500; Forts MOUltrie and
Sumter, Charleston, 81, ,0000; Forts Jack
son and Pulaski, Savannah river 10000;
Forts Taylor and jefferson, Florida, $S5 900;
Forts jackson and st. Philip, Mississippi
river, $l06,5O0.
The tariff bill occupied the balance of the
day with big fight over pig iron, without
any definite action.
Senate.-Mr. Sumner introduced his civil
rights bill, and moved to have it placed
upon the calendar. The bill was ordered
printed.
Mr.. Kellogg called up the Louisiana
election bill.
Mr.. Casserly denounced it as one more
step toward a general forcible Congressional
control of the State elections, but he fOrbOre
to discuss it at length, knowing that its
passage was fOreordained by the Senatorial
caucus.
Mr.. Bayard questioned the constitutional
power Of Congress to pass the bill, and in
cidentally said that having examined the
election laws of Louisiana, he was satisfied
that they were framed for the purpose Of
facilitating fraud.
Mr.. Trumbun opposed the bill on the
same grounds.
Mr.. Carpenter denied that the bill had
any other object than to save the expense
and trouble of two elections,
Mr.. Morton expressed the same views
and in reply to Mr.. Bayard said that the
election laws of Louisiana vested extraOY
dinary powers in the Governor of the State
and that. as the present Governor had now
| abandoned the Republican party and joined
( its opponents, they were probably expect
/ ing to have those powers exercised for theiI
I benefit
Mr.. Bayard said he would object just as
strongly to giving such powers to political
| friend as TO an opponent.
Mr. Morton read extracts from the report
| of the House committee on the Louisiana
riots to show the disturbed condition OF
| that State prior to the last Presidential cleo
| ton, and argued that this bill was neces
sary to guard against similar Outrages al
| the next election.
| Mr.. Blair said that the report from which
! Mr.. Morton read was a partisan document,
| and he charged that the majority of the
Ku-Klux committee appointed to investi
! gate the condition of the South last veal
| bad overruled all attempts by the minority
to investigate the state of affairs in Louisi
ana, because they were afraid to face the
| facts.
Messrs. Pratt and Scott denied this, anC
said that the reason the majority refused t,
| investigate Louisiana was that they though
| 1t their duty to do first what the cOmmitte,
was appointed to dO-inquire into the Ku
Klux Outrages, and had not to do more
! After wandering political discussion, thu
| bill was passed by thirty-three yeas to six
! teen nays.
The Senate then held a brief executive
session, after which the open session was
resumed, and the bill to amend the enforce
| ment act was taken up.
The act provides for the appointment oI oI
supervisors of election, at the cOngresslonani "
elections, in each voting precinct WneIe Ia :.
request for such appointment Is hl'Ue "
| two citizens.
In the discussion that ensued Mr. HeIogg
referred to the delegates who atte9ueI q tI l Ine
convention at Cincinnati from the oouGherh
| States. saving MANY of them were aGVen-
turers and bad men who bad oppfesseu anu anu
plundered the people OF the states Whlcn; as as
self-cOnstituted delegates, Uney pfoIeSSeu 10
represent. ~. c,4o-, - -.o -
,vbatber those who committed the Outrages
ba Janonnces. did so after or before they
became Liberallzea:
Mr. Kellogg again intimated that many
Of +be delegates to Cincinnati from other
States M we're no better than some of those
from Louisiana, and called upon the SEN
ators from other States-Georgia, Florida
and Texas--to state who the men were that
assumed to represent those States
Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, said he would like
the Senator to tell if he could who they
were who represented his State (Georglali
that he was sure he did not know them
Mr., Hamilton, WhO attended the Cincn-