Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-02-19
SENATE.

After the transaction of q
teresting in character, the Steamboat bill was
recommitted to the Committee on Commerce,
when the consideration of the bill for the gov
eminent Of the District of Columbia was resum-
ed, the question being on the pending amend
ment of Mr.. Morton, to have the three Commits
sioners, provided for by the bill, elected by the
negroes and other qualified voters of the Dis
trict. Mr.. Morton urged the adoption Of his
amendment on the ground that to do otherwise
would cause II to go out to the country that
negro suffrage was failure here weare sure
this would be nothing more than the truth but
the people are well aware that il is failure
wherever tried, and no attempt Of Mr.. Morton
to cover the fact can deprive them OF that now
ledge. Mr.. Morrill, opposed the amendnen
and said that suffrage in the District WAS q
mere sham, that the District was under control
of Congress, and il would legislnte impartially
for the black man well the whites With
out action and after an executive session, the
Senate adjourned
THURsDAY.-Mr. Hamilton Of Maryland, pre-
sented a minority report in the Pinchback case
The bill for the government of the District o.
Columbia was then taken up and after debate
the amendment of Mr.. Morton to make tn.
Commits sioners elective was defeated by a tis
vote of % to %. Mr. Sargent then offered an a.
mendment providing for the election of dele
gate from the District to Congress, because hs
said there ought to be somebody on the hoor
to speak for the people. Mr.. Edmunds said i,
was all moonshine. The people of the District
ought not to be made to incur the expense o.
electing delegate who would nave no vote
1t must be recollected that Judge Edmund:
owns very handsome residence in the city o.
Washington and he has felt in his pocket II.
bad effects of bestowing the right of suffrage
upon the ignorant negro. Whilst therefore
he is willing that they should have the power
Of confscating the property of the people of the
South by ruinous taxation. he is unwilling tc
submit 10 it himself at Washington. In tn.
former case it is all right, in the latter sit il
moonshine' to talk about it, Mr.. Thurman
opposed the amendment on the ground that the
people could without difficulty make their wants
known to Congress. After further discussion
the Senate adjourned.
FRIDAY-Mr Clayton, of Ark, made another
effort to call up the Presidents message on the
affairs in that State, but strange to say Mr.
Edmunds, of Vermont, who lately made such a
furious onslaught on Louisiana, objected and
Mr.. Clayton withdrew his motion. Perhaps
Mr.. Edmunds agrees with the Chicago TriJun.
that one "helP' in the shape of Louisiana is
enough without raising another in Arkansas
Mr.. Nipple Mitchell, of Oregon, reported a
bill for the construction of a railroad from
Portland, in that far-off State, to Salt Lake
City, and providing for guarantee of its bonds
by the U. s. to the extent of only 50, 800, 600
annually. Mr.. Sherman objected to the consi-
deration of the bill Oh the ground that it was
subsidy and that the people had emphatical-
ly declared against all such. Mr. Mitchell
pleaded earnestly, but it was of no use, and the
bill was defeated, receiving only the votes of
that righteous salary-grabber, the educated
scalawag Flanagan, of Texas, and the venerable