Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-18

ence of monopolies, and the depression of
every industrial interest upon the manage
ment of the Republican party. He attacked
the financial policy Of the party and the ma
tional banking system as altogethe. in the
interest of capital and against labor, and said,
with exemption from all kinds Of taxation,
this nation was paying higher rate of inter
est than any civilized nation on the face of
the globe. He advocated the retirement of
the national bank notes, and the substitution
of four hundred millions Of greenbacks in
their stead, thus etecting an annual saving of
over twenty millions. He denounced the pro-
tective policy of the Republican party, and
asserted that it exacted four-fold higher
rate than free trade and direct taxation would
demand, and imposed it in undue proportion
upon the laboring classes. Rapier, colored,
of Alabama, addressed the House on the
civil.rights bill. He said the only unpardon-
able sin in this land seemed to be that men
were colored. All that he and his race de-
manded was equal rights with white men. OF
these, he contended, they we're now denied by
State authority, in spite of the thirteenth and
fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of
the United States. In the course of his re-
marks he alluded to Mr.. Stephens, of Geor-
gia, as Rip Van Winkle who had not yet
learned the issues of the war. After alluding
to the course of Mr.. Stephens and others with
regard to the negro, he said nothing but full
recognition of his manhood would ever satisfy
him. He had no compromises to make on
this subject. Either he was man or not a
man. If man, he was entitled to all the
privileges that attached to manhood. If not
a man, he was not entitled to vote, and had
no right to represent any constituency on this
floor He had respect for certain prejudices
as expressed by white men toward the negro
on the subject of civil rights. Ransier, of
South Carolina, followed. Abiding to the
remarks of Mr.. Lamar, made the day before,
that the colored men had all their rights, he
denied it, and asked for the passage of the
civil rights bill at the hands of Gen. Grant
and the Republican party. He also disputed
the statement made that intelligent colored
people did not want the civil rights bill, and
when Mr.. Butler, Of Tennessee, made that as,
sertion he misrepresented his constituents.
In the Senate, on the 10th, resolution to
pay Sykes, defeated contestant from Alabama,
the salary of Senator for nearly year, was
taken up and discussed at length, and finally
went over. In the House, large number of
bills were reported adversely upon, and re-
ferred to the committee of the whole. The
bill in relation to the abatement and repay.
ment of taxes on distilled spirits in bond,
destroyed by casualty, was passed. The con-
ference committees report on the army ap-
preparation bill was concurred in.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the House bill
to admit free of duty articles intended for the
International Exhibition of 1876, was passed.
The proposition to pay Sykes, the late con-
testing Senator from Alabama, was again
discussed. The conference report on the
currency bill was called up and discussed at
length, but without action. In the House,
Mr.. Donnan made personal explanation in
refutation of certain charges made against the
public printer. Senate amendments to a
large number of House pension and relief
bills were concurred in. The House then
went into committee of the whole on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill.
In the Senate, on the 18th, a number of
bills and memorials were presented, when
the unfinished business, being the conference
report on the currency bill, was taken up, and
after remarks had been made by various
members, the report of the committee was
adopted by a vote of 80 to %. Mr. Ramsay,
from the committee on post-of6ces, reported
bill amendatory of the act to revise, consol-
idate and amend the statutes Of the United
States relating to the post-of6ce department
fixing and prescribing the method for adjust
ing the salaries Of post-masters The post
office appropriation bill was next called up,
when the Senate went into executive session
and then adjourned. In the House, Mr.. Hale,
from the committee on appropriations, re-
ported bill approprating $500,O00 for the
relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the
Mississippi river and its tributaries, which
passed. The remainder Of the session was
devoted to discussing civil service reform, and
the civil service appropriation bill.
In the Senate, on the 18th, large number
of bills, mostly of private nature, were
passed, and in consequence of a message from
the House, announcing its disagreement to
the conference report on the currency bill, a
new committee of conference was ordered.
In the House, on motion of Mr.. Dawes, simi-
lar action was taken respecting the currency
conference committee, and by vote of 1876 to
4S, a new committee was ordered from that
body. The House then resolved itself into
committee of the whole and resumed consid-
Grafton of the suudry civil appropriation bill.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the judiciary
committee reported a substitute for the House
bill regulating the removal Of causes from
State Courts to the Circuit Courts of tie
United States The provisions of the bill
elected a lengthy debate, when after several
amendments had been agreed to, it was
passed. In the House, the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill was passed. An amendment
to the bill abolishes the civil service commits
sions, and requires the heads of executive
departments to make appointments on the
ground of honesty, efficiency and fidelity, and
to apportion them among the several Con.
gressional districts, preference to be given to
nold;ons nd enilor, q nd their famale relatives