Wilmington journal., 1875-01-29

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any judgment recovered against the
United States by such debtor.
House bill relating to the punish
ment of the crime of manslaughter.
Debate was then resumed, and
Pease, of Mississippi, concluded his
argument commenced yesterday. He
that outrages were daily comm t.
ted in the South. The American
Senate and the American people
should become awakened to the fact
that the country was on the eve of
another revolution more fatal in its
results than the late rebellion. He
argued that crime was more frequent
in the South than the North and read
from statistics to show that such was
the case. He denied that white men
were ever punished in the South for
the murder of negroes. The same
spirit which pervaded the press
of the South in 1861 existed to-day
He knew there was a large element
in the South which did not subsc ibe
to these wild elements. The old Wing
party did not subscribe to them, but
that party was powerless. The same
old Democrats who brought on the
difficulty before were the men who
were leading editorial writer's to-day;
the men who were firing the Southern
heart to murder and assassinate, and
overthrow the Government of the
United States, if necessary. In eve
ry case where the treasury of q
Southern State had been plundered it
had been done by Democrats: MEM
bers of that party were in the scheme
some way. He argued that Miss ,ssip-
pi was the best reconstructed of the
insurrectionary States and every dol
lar of the State debt could be paid in
two years. In conclusion, he called
upon the Senator from Ohio CThur-
MANI, as leader of the Democratic
party. to say to the Democrats in the
South that the outrages there must
be stopped.
Thurman read from speech deliv-
cred by him in the Senate on the 18th
of January, 1871, where he condemn
ed anything like violence, and asked
the people of South to obey the laws.
He argued that the picture of the con-
! dltlon of Southern society could not
be drawn by newspaper clippings. If
| they were to be taken, picture of the
| condition of Northern society could
| be drawn which would make any man
| living north of the Potomac shudder.
| Thurman will conclude his speech
! tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Jan 7-Noon-HoUsR
Tho Republican members in caucus
resolved to instruct the judiciary Com
mite to report the Civil Rights bill in
! regular order. This takes the control
| from Butler and slaves action off for
| two weeks. The best parliamentary
ans say that there is machinery to
push it over the 4th of March.
| Butler, of Massachusetts,, as a ques-
ton of privilege, called up the motion
made by him last session to reconsider
the vote by which the Civil Rights bill
was referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee. A point of order was raised. but
the Speaker decided on the authority
of that days journal of proceedings
that the right existed, and thereupon
the Democrats fell back upon the
policy of fllibustering, and the House
is now engaged in that business.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Night. The
words in order inserted IN the eau.
Gus action. was not understood by
many of the members. 1t appears the
Judiciary Committee had presented
their bill, and that motion to recon
slider was pending, which Blu Ter
Chairman of the Committee, could cal
up at any time This he did to-day il
order, as directed by the caucus.
The House has been fillibusterine
all day. and is still at it.
The Pen sion Committee will report
favorably on the bill to pension the
Mexican war veterans, of whom ther,
are 10000.
The bill over which the House ii
fillibustering, excludes the school anc
cemetery clauses.
ConklIn will follow Thurman on tn,
Louisiana question.
SENATE-Scott, of Pennsylvania
from the Committee on Claims, re
ported adversely on the bill to facili
tate and reduce the expense of takinf
testimony in behalf of claimants to bt
used before the Commissioners o.
Claims, and it was indefinitely post
poned. He said the objects of this
bill had been already supplied BY
! the House.
Patterson, of South Carolina, pre-
sented concurrent resolutions will
the General Assembly of that State
providing for an appropriation of one
hundred thousand dollars for the i'm
provement of Charleston harbor, which
were reported to the Committee on
! Commerce.
The Louisiana discussion was re-
sumed and Thurman occupied the
balance of the day. He reviewed a;
some length the circumstances attend
ing tie election of 1872. as well as the
last election, and read frequently from
| the report of the Senate committee in
regard to the frauds of the Lynch
Returning Board. He commented
upon the message of the President in
/ reply to the revolution of the 6th inst.
and said paper morefullof omissions
| of material facts never emanated from
| the Chief Magistrate of this country.
| He srgued that the dispatched Of
| Sheridan we're one-sided and did not
| tell the whole truth. He replied to
the charges of Southern outrag es. and
| said great majority of the homicides
| in the South were committed by blacks
upon blacks and were not by whites
upon blacks, as had been charged.
In conclusion, he said it was a bad
thing to assassinate a man, but a worse
thing to assassinate the Constitution
of State; these acts of the military
in Louisiana have driven a dagger to
the heart of free institutions in this
country.