The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-13
xL4II CONGRESS.
SENATE.
WAsHINGroN. Ian q.


reported, with amendments, Mr.. Morton's
bill authorizing national banks that have
decided to reduce their capital stock, TO with
draw pro rata proportion of the bonds up-
on retiring their own. circulating notes. or
depositing the same money of the United
States and the proportion provided by law.
The only material amendment recommend
ed is one requiring that whenever such re-
duction shall be authorized under the thir-
teenth section of the national CURRENCY act.
any notes of such bank thereafter coming
into the United States Treasury shall be
cancelled, together with such as shall be re-
deemed, which shall equal the amount of the
reduction authorized.
The salary bill was then taken up.
Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada, desired TO further
amend the bill to compel the reiunding OF all
back pay received.
Mr.. Wright, of Iowa, raised the point of
order that two amendments were already
pending. He thought to cucumber the bill
with all these amendments would defeat it.
He favored square repeal of the bill.
MIR. Flanagan, of Texas, thought s., 500
not an exclusive salary, and had
remarked when the bill passed
that it should have been ten
thousand. Since then he had not changed
his opinion. He had drawn the money
producing greenbacks from his poeket)
Here they are, sir; this is my pay. / am
going to fight for it till the last. Laughter
have not stolen that pay. 1 have nothing
that preys upon my conscience. / have en-
deavored to earn it. Renewed laughter
After the adjournment of the Senate ne re-
turned to Texas and was received by the
legislature Of that State, and not having
been condemned by that body he felt easy,
1t was not so much the salary bill the people
objected TO as the Credit Mobilier bill, but
he did not think that such an odious meas
ure. He thought Oalxes Ames one of the
best men he ever knew, and believed it was
the demagogues of the country who prefer
red this indictment.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Sypher, of Louisiana, asked leave to
introduce joint resolution, which, he said,
had the approval of the President. The res
olution recites that well authenticated re-
ports say that i'm certain localities of the
South the people are in a condition of star
vation, owing to the failure of the crops, and
directs the Secretary of War TO issue army
rations in such quantities as may be required.
Mr.. Willard, of Vermont, moved its refer
ence to the Committee on Education and
Labor, with leave to report at any time. 1t
was so ordered.
Mr.. Bowen, of Virginia, presented the
resolution of the Virginia Legislature pro-
testing against the passage of the supple
mentary Civil Rights bill. It was referred.
On motion of Nh. Lamar, of Mississippi,
the Committee on Elections was discharged
from the further consideration OF the sup
Elementary Civil Rights Bill.
Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, gave notice of an
amendment providing that the law shall not
be so construed as to require hotel keepers
to put whites and blacks into the same
rooms or beds, or to feed them at the same
table, or require that whites and blacks shall
be put into the same room and classes at
school, or in box seats in theaters, or in the
same births on steamboats, or other vessels,
or in cemeteries
Mr.. Durham, of Kentucky, protested
against the bill as an attack on state rights
the Anglo-SaxOn race against the African
race: as calculated to destroy the
whole common school system of
the South; as retarding the education of
blacks; and as likely to provoke war of
races that would result in the determination
of the black race in America.
Mr.. Elliott (colored), of South Carolina,
addressed the House in advocating the bill
reading his speech from manuscript with a
very fine delivery. He referred TO services
of men of his race on the battlefields of the
country in the late war and in the war of
1872. He reminded the gentleman from
Kentucky-Mr. Beck-whO was always so
active against the negro in 1861, that the ne
gro was true to that patriotism and lovo to
the couatry which had ever characterized
and marked his history on this continent.
He came to the aid of the government in
its efforts to maintain the constitu-
tion, and to that government the negro
now appealed. and that constitution
he now invoked Tor protection against the
on caste. Replying to the argument of Mr..
Stephens, OF Georgia, yesterday, MI. Elliott
contended that Congress had, under the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments TO the
constitution, complete power TO pass this
law, and to protect all citizens of the coun-
try in all their rights. He discussed the
doctrines of the decision of the Supreme
court in the New Orleans slaughter cases,
and asked the gentleman from Georgia (Mr.
Stevens) whether they gave color even to
the claim that Congress can not legislate
against plain Determinations in State laws,
and State customs against that very
race for whose complete freedom
and protection those great amendments to
the constitution were elaborated and
adopted. 1t would not be pretended that
the evils of which the colored people COM
plaine /, their exclusion from the public inn,
from the sleeping car on the railroads, and
from the right of sepulture, were the exer-
else of the police powers of the State. These.
he thinks are a denial of the equal protec-
ton of the laws which those constitutional
amendments were formed to guard against.
He shared those feelings of high personal re-
gard which pervaded the House in respect to
the gentleman from Georgia (Stephcns), but
when that gentleman lent his voice and in
fiuence 10 defeat this measure, he (Elliott)
would not shrink from saying that
it was not from him (Stephens) that an
American House of Representatives would
take lessons in matters touching human
rights. No consideration should restrain
him from saying that that gentleman now
offered to the government, which he had
done his utmost TO destroy, very poor re-
turn for its magnanimity in coming here
and seeking to continue, by association of
doctrines obnoxious to the true principles of
government, the burdens of oppression
which rested on those who had never failed
to pray for the success of the government
which that gentleman had sought to blot out
from the galaxy of nations. [Applause from
the floor and in the galleries, which were
filed with colored people
After further discussion the. House ad-
journed.
SENATE.