Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-11


Is, nays 25.
I Several other amendments were Of
fered and rejected, and the bill then
! pAssed-yeas 80, nays 1e.
The Nice-President announced that
ne had appointed Senator Sherman as
teller on the part of the Senate to count
the electoral vote.
Senate adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Cox New York; moved 10 sus-
pend the rules and adopt the following
resolution:
WHEREAS, there are epochs In the
history OF Governments when, for their
pure administration, 1t IL necessary to
secure to them their organic form and
genius; and whereas, the abuses of our
administration have arisen by reason ol
perilOus departure from the Federal sys-
tenn; therefore,
RcSOlred, That the Government of the
United States Is as II ought to be, q
Government of united powers; that
these powers are prescribed and emu
merated in the Constitution Of the Uni
/ ted States; that they are granted by the
people to the Government, not for the
purpose of conferring general, in
definite, unlimited rights of legislation,
but for the purpose Of accomplishing
certain well-defned and specified OBJ
jects that all rights OF legislation not 30
conferred are reserved to the State or
people thereof. While the central gov
eminent is not an agent of the confed-
erscy, or mere league Of the States,
but Of the Government proper upon the
adoption Of people, and creating direct
relations between it and ali its subjects
/ it is still less as a supreme, unlimited,
/ imperial, consolidated government, the
most dangerous form Il could possibly
assume; that while the central govern
meut hiss its distinct and recognized
sphere OF action, already ample, the
4 governments Of the separAte States have
/ their distinct and recognized sphere Of
action; and that II il to the last degree
important to the harmonious co-opera-
/ ton of both, to the preservation OF local
| independence, TO the universal diffusion
Of political vitality, to the prevention Of
military despOtiEm, TO the security OF
| individual rights and property and our
| Institutions that these sepnrste spheres OF
action should be kept forever distinct
and inviolable.
Mr.. Amber asked Mr.. Cox to with
| draw the preamble and then all could
vote for the resolution.
Mr.. Cox said that he would withdraw
the preamble in order to see how many
Republican votes the resolution would
receive.
Mr.. Dickey suggested to insert in it
that four and four make eight.
Mr.. Bingham ssked Mr.. Cox to take
out OF the resolution all about local inde-
pendence.
Mr.. Cox declined TO do 30, SIS that was
the point he wanted most. The resolu.
ton, he said, had been written by Parke
GOODWIN, OF New York, good Republi-
can authority.
Mr.. Dickey suggested that ths Consti-
tuition Of the United States be read, in
order that members might vote intelli-
gently.
The resolution was rejected. Yeas S4,
nays 81, not two-thirds in the affirma-
tive.
a message was received from the Sen
ate announcing the appointment Of
Senator Sherman as teller to count the
Presidential electoral votes, on Wednes-
day next. The Speaker appointed as
tellers on the part Of the House, Mr..
Dawes Massachussets) and Mr.. Beck
tkentuckyl.
Mr.. Garfield asked permission to offer
a resolution to change the hour Of meet
ing TO eleven O'Clock in the morning.
No objection wss made, and the House
adjourned.
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
The Senatorial Credit Mobilier Com
mittee met this morning, but nothing
was done, as complete copies Of the tes-
timOny have not been furnished the
committee Of the House. Il Is expected
that copies will be furnished to-day or
tomorrow. Il is probable that several
days win be occupied in examining the
evidence before further action Is deter
mined on. The committee will ask
leave 70 sit during the session Of the
Senate. Oakes Ames has returned and
will be examined tomorrow.
The President has signed the bill au-
thOrizing the construction of eight Rd-
ditional vessels Of war.
The Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections reported to-day In part on
the Louisiana case, in which they say
the election of the Greeley Electors was
certified to by the Governor, but the
official returns Of the election have not
been counted by the Returning Board
created By the laws OF Louisiana for that
purpose, and persons who In fact made
the examination and count bad no legal
right to do 30. The election Of the Grant
Electors is certified to by the Lynch
Returning Board, but that Board did
not have the official returns before them
and their election was not certified to
by the Governor of the State as required
BY act Of Congress, the committee are
Of opinion that neither the Senate Of the
United States, nor both houses jointly,
have power under the Constitution to
canvass the returns Of an election and
count the votes TO determine who have
been elected Presidential Electors, but
that the mode and manner Of choosing
electors are left exclusively to the
States. As to the other questions upon
which the COMMITTEES were Instructed TO
report, touching the existence OF legal
State government in Louisiana, and the
admission of 3 Senator from that State,
they are not at present prepared to re-
port.
THE LOUISIANA ELECTIONS.
The report of the Senate Committee
on Elections on the Louisiana case, in
addition 70 what has already been
stated, says that the claim by the
Lynch Returning Board OF the right to
count the af1idavits Of persons who
were refused registration under the law
for the enforcement OF the Fifteenth
amendment is unfouDded, the law con-
tanning no such provision. In the
tweuty-third section Of the act it is pro-
vided that if any person has been de-
feated in obtaining an Office by reason
Of such denial to any person or persons
Of the right to vote on account Of race,
color or previous condition Of ssrvitude,
such person may briug suit in
the courts of the Uuited States
to recover the Office, but the
fits shall not extend to candidates for
State Legislatures nor for Congress and
electors for President and Vice-Presi-
dent. The report also says that Gov
ernor Warmoth, under the act Of 1870,
had the whole machinery Of elections in
his own hands. He had the appoint
ment Of Supervisors Of Registration, and
in different parishes the appointment of
Comm RsiOneTs Of Election. and these
officers, with but few exceptions, were
appointed from the ranks of those
who were opposed to the Republi-
can party, aud we think from the
Informal evidence before the Returning
Board, and from what this Committee
has learned In the course of this ipvesti-
CATION, there Is little doubt but that those
advantages were used to the utmost, and
every means resorted to In order TO Sc
cure the triumph Of the psrty with
which Governor WsrmOth was acting.
Great difficulties were thrown in the
way Of registration. Republicans In
many parishes were put to great incon-
venieDce to fnd registration, and in
many instances were unable to do so.