The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-13
FoRTy-THlRD CONGRESS-.
WAsHINGToN, January II.
SENATE.
Permitted 10 Receive Wedding
Present

Committee on Finance, reported joint
resolution. authorizing Thomas w
Fitch. engineer of the United States
Navy. to accept W .dding gilt sent his
wife, Minnie Sherman Fitch, by the
Khedive Of Egypt. Mr.. Morrill, SAID the
present was sent by the hhediye 10
The daughter of Gen. Sherman, whose
husband, Mr. Fitch, was engineer IN the
Navy. and it was necessary to pass res
oution to enable him 10 accept OF the
present. The resolution was passed
without discussion.
Mr.. Scott, from the Committee on III
nance, reported with amendments the
House bill to amend the national bank
act, and fixing the compensation OF the
national bank examiner. Placed on the
calendar.
Schurz' Resolution.
Unfinished business beng next the reSolu
tion of Mr.. Schurz instructing the Judi
ciarv Committee to inquire what lcgISla-
t!on hv Congress is necessary To secure
to the people Of Louisiana their rights Of
self government under the constitution,
and report with the least possible delay
bv bill or otherwise, was then resumed.
Mr.. Howe. of Wisconsin, said the
Senator from Missouri Mr.. Schurzl in
his speech Yesterday advertI2ed himself
as being above party prejudices or passion.
He had left all party ties and political
aspirations behind, and from that point
senator Schurz screamed to the country
his charges against the party to which he
Howe belonged. The charges which
were Us mOnstrouS and he believed as
groundleSS aS Senator Schurz could posi-
hlv have fabricated if he had dedicated
10 the work not merely the holiday
recess but the whole summer vacation.
General Sheridan was not i'll command
in New Orleans when the events Of Mon
day complained of took place. lie did
not order any one to take any one out oil
tn" legislature of Louisiana. and finally
no member Of the legislature was taken
out of the State House by any body. As
the second charge of the Senator that the
Republican party encouraged the mur-
der of Republicans in one section, etc.
He (HowcJ had two things to say. First,
that the Republican party was not guilty,
and second, that he did not think any
one would defer that such III accusation
did full Justice to the Senator himself or
the intelligence OF the people of the coun-
try.
Mr.. Schurz said Senator Howe did not
quote him correctly, and read what he
did say from the Record Of yesterday.
Mr. Howe replied he was glad he was
mistaken in constituting the remarks OF
the senator. Continuing his argument,
he said the Senator from Georgia tGor-
dom in Il recent speech, had complained
of the exhibition of the State towards
the people of the South. On the Repub-
lican side Of the chamber, he tllowe) de-
MED that the Republican party hated
any portion Of this country. 1t was lm-
possible for that party to hate one section.
1t ha, sacrificed too much for the whole
country all the laws made for the South
were made for the North. The Republi-
can party had poured out the treasure OF
the country as freely to open the chan
nels of the southern harburs rs it had t"
open the channels Of the northern ones.
Murder and other species OF violence
had been multi lied in the South
for political purposes. He believed the
fact 10 be- So. and to make it manifest to
the country would do great service. Mr..
Howe then spoke ofthe Red River troubles
in Louisiana, and said the perpetrators
of those crimes went unpublished.
Senator Gordon puts i'm II CIineher.
Mr.. Gordon said he would ask Senator
Howe il it was not true that the govern
mrnt of Louisiana Was in the hands OF
Republicans? If the Republicans had the
judiciary of the State, and if II majority o!
the people supported the Kellogg gov
erumcnt H. was claimed by the Senator
on the other side of the chamber Howe.
Wa. il the courts of the State aided by
the army of the United States who did
not bring the perpetrators of these crimes
To Justice.
Mr.. Howe replied that he would not
go into that question, but to the best OF
his information, the courts of the State
We're weak.
Mr.. Gordon said the Senator by i'm
pication. if not by direct words, charged
that the murders were committed in Red
River parish. Ii it be- true it was a
most remarkable fact that the Attorney
General of Louisiana, who. belonged t"
The same party ~ the Senator, did not
prosecute the criminals. The Senator
had said that the courts were weak. II
the Attorney had not the brains or nerve
t" draw up the bill of indictment, the
Democratic party was certainly not
responsible. Applause in the galleries.
The Chair, IMr. Ferry of Michigan, }
directed the Scrgcaut-at t-arms to see that
the rule was enforced and all applause in
the gallery he restrained
Mr.. Howe said he liked the language
Of the Senator from Georgia and liked
the applause which followed it, no matter
what the senator might think of the per-
~onal qualifications of the army for
Louisiana He Howe would say that
# the Democratic party of Louisiana
would say to Governor Kellogg that they
would sustain him in every effort to put
down murder, no such transactions rs
took place in Red River Parish would
ever take place again. He believed if
half Il dozen Senators ON the Democratic
side would tell the people Of the South
that they would not tolerate these otlcnscs
there would be- no more of them.
Mr.. Morton said ii was well understood
in Red River Parish that the witnesses
who testified against these criminals,
that the grand jurors VIII" were disposed
to indict or the petit jurors who were
disposed to convict them, would be muir
dered, and that was the reason why these
criminals in Louisiana had not been pun
iShed.
Mr.. Gordon-May ask the Senator
who is his informant?
Mr.. Howe declined to yield the floor
any further, and resumed his argument.
He spoke of the Nicksburg troubles, and
said murders had been committed there
until all these things should be success
folly coutradicted; Senators on either
side must not be aStonished at the fact
that the opinion prevailed that life was
not secure in the South; it ought to be
Ii was generally believed in the North
that there was hostility entertained IN