The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-05-07
THE SUFFERERS Bg TIE OVER
FLOW.
congregational Proceedings.

Conssr .rs.ionaI Proceed inG@.
/ WAsHNGroN, My On motion Of
4 Mr. Pease, the Senate pass.d "a resolu
zion requ sting he Hou-e Of Represen.
talives 70 return To the Senate the bill
I pissed feG days ago appioPriRtiug
500, 900 for the relief %. persons suffering
from the overflow Of the Mississippi
River Mr. Peise said he would move tu
increase the appropriation when the bill
| shonll pc returned.
The foregoing action was taken on in
formation that no provision was made FOR
the sufferers in Mississippi. Pending the
motion a spicy debate took place:
WAsHlSGroN May CoHk,ing
sail, before hearing the Senator from
Mississippi, he thought ne would have
voted for the bin, but Is that Senator bad
stated THAT the State was able 10 care for
its oWn poor, any aid that Congres, should
1--WE should be in ihe lture OF an advance
10 be returned Co rhe Government hereJt-
ter, as no one in Mississippi was di-trIn-
chjse1 he did not see how it was the
people had no voice i'm the management
Of their own adlirs; he required of the
Senator the name Of the person who
was The president Of the Upper Leyee
ID bard.
Acorn said it was NJ. f, Alcorn, his
son.
CouSiing said he would not remain ST.
lent and listen To insinuatious that the
National Administration was responsible
Tor the sins of omission and commission in
the Southern States. The Ini-rule in
Mississippi was not brought about by car
net btrgers or non-resldeuts, and that
Senator Al orn might as well charge the
NAL administration he complains of upon
The Sultan Of Turkey.
Nj. Alcorn inquired if the Senator
from New York, (Conklng) did not
know that in 1867 and 1865 Congress
pissed law torbidilng any one from
holding office in any Southern State an
less that person should take the iron clad
oath and did he not know that oath ex-
cluded all respectable mon OF that section
from office. The oath WIS even extended
10 the voter, 50 that respectable men
could not vote.
Mr.. Alcorn said II was true bis son was
President Of the Upper Levee Board
but Is was also true that the district over
which he presided W the only one not
overlooked today. lie took the off a
against his (AicorR's) advice, bu prob
bly, did so to prevent fraud, rs the con
tracts were about to be given out, aud ho
had DO doubt that 1T did save a large sum .
Of money IN chat district Should this
appropriation be made now, the di-bur-e- I
meut of it should be left solely with the
Secretary of War, and not put into th.
hands ot those who were itching 20 get
hold Of il, and from whom the negroes I.
would get but little of il; the off .ers in
his Stale were not the choice of the tax .
payers, and he would rather appeal 10 che .
Secretary than to those s1traps placed .
over the people. lie charged that Gen.
Ames had removed citizens from the .
Boards in districts now oyerhowed. and .
put IN their places persons who had de .
frauaed the people.
Conkling said the people oc Mississippi .
had ratified General Ames aud made him
their Governor, notwithstanding all the
Senator hal said lie supposed the gen
tlemen alluded to General Ames when he
spoke of satrap.
Alcorn said he knew he was elected to
the Office of Governor, and be also knew
he would never have been elected 10 that
.
the Government OF the United States l.
was given out everywhere bat the sd
mnistration athi- back, aud DO Fed
erai othcer-bolder dared to peak in favor
Of him, Alcoru
Conkling inquired by what way Gov
ernor Ames wds elected.
Alcorn replied 10, 300 ont of a Rapub-
lican majority in the State of 81 600
He, Ames, bad no more interest ia the
State than he, Alcorn, bad I'm New York.
but he did not propose to 20 into thAf
question, though be would defend the
people of his Stale
Alcorn said be held the people OF The
south inexcusable for driving the c0lored
people away from them, bat they bad
been stricken down and taxed uniustIv
tie denounced the tax imposed on their
cotton as unconstitutional and oppressive
Pease said he deplored tbe recoustfbo.
ion debate, which he had been dragpad
nto by his colleague. lie desired ~ 70.
pei the insinuatiOn that that IL should be
By the State officials. Cen
'rai Ames was an honest man, and the
people OF Mississippi, without regard to
politics, gave him credit 81 being one.
AlcOrn said the Senator from PennsvI-
'ania. Cameron, said he was tired of
hese complaints the doings of which he.
Aleorn had spoken, We're matters of histo-
y.
-Sargents motion to recommit the bill
Vas then agreed TO-
Morrill,, of Maine, from the Committee
n appropriations, reported the bill for the
chef OF the sufferers by the overflow of
he Mississippi, increasing the appropria- I
ion from $50, 900 to $3.50, 900.
Mr.. Edmunds moved an amendment
1at the provisions of the bill shall not
pply later than September 1. 1874. L.