The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12
WASHINGTON.
a Field day in the House.
Debate ON the Civil Rights
Bill.
Part of the Democratic Plat
form Tackled on ii.
CIVIL RIGHTS.

Part of the Democratic Plat.
form Tackled ON ii.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Washington, Feb. 5.-The at
tendance at the capitol to-day was
fully as large as yesterday. The
house met at 10 O'Clock, but long
before that hour every seat in the
galleries was occupied and hun
dreds of persons fingered around
the doors in hope of being able to
get inside the chamber. The
mems gallery, covering about one
fourth of the gallery space, was
entirely occupied by colored per-
sons who presented themselves for
admission as soon as the doors
were opened. The civil rights
bill was taken up at 1870, when
embarrassing ten-minute speeches
were made. At a quarter after II,
after several speeches had been
made, the most notable of which
were those of Messrs. Phelps and
Shanks, Mr.. Butler called the pre-
vious question. In the course of
his speech Shanks caused the
equal rights plank of the demo
ca attic platform of 1872 to be read,
which created a burst of laughte.
ali over the house, which was
again and again renewed when he
announced that he would offer il
as a preamble to the bill. Mr..
Butler accepted the substitute and
the bill is now in that shape before
the house.
At twenty minutes to one
O'Clock, Mr.. Butler rose to close
the debate on the bill. The scene
presented in the house has rarely
been surpassed. Every gallery,
including the diplomatic, the Ia
dies, etc, is crowded, and nearly
thousand persons crowded
around the doors endeavoring to
obtain admission. In the course
of his speech, Mr.. Batter caused
to be read petition to the Missis-
sippi legislature in which a white
man asked that seyen different
children, by SIX different colored
women, be legitamized. The read
ing of the names was greeted
with a large burst of laughter.
He followed up the point by ask
lag the clerk to read a letter re-
celved by him from a colored man
in Richmond, in which he .eclared
that colored children II years old,
and even under, were outraged in
that and other states by white
men and boys, and no redress
could be obtained in the courts.
John r. Smith, of the Richmond
district, pronounced the statement
utterly false which drew forth ap-
plause from the democratic side
of the house. Butler maintained
that the passage of the civil rights
bill was imperatively demanded to
correct this condition of society.
Under the guise of showing the
struggle through which the ques-
ton of equal rights for colored
people has passed, Butler endeav-
ored to square accounts with John
Young Brown, who assaulted him
yesterday. Drawing an eulogisti-
cal portrait of John Brown, he
closed by saying that it was John
Brown the elder and not the youn-
ger to whom he alluded. Butler
then sent to the clerks desk to be
read, a reasonable letter written
by Brown at the beginning of the
| war.
Mr.. Hale, of New York, object
ed, and points of order were made
by various members On the Demo
cratic side. but the letter was fl
nally read. Mr.. Hale moved that
the letter be stricken from the re-
cord, pending which, Mr.. Butler
having declared that the language
he used yesterday in reference to
the minority Of the southern peo-
pie was entirely justified, Mr.. Ed
ridge demanded that Buffers
words be taken down. The speak
er decided that Butler had not vio-
lated the rules, and Eldridge with
| drew his motion.
Mr.. Butler renewed his motion
fifteen minutes to two. No dem
onstration, either of approval or
disapproval, took place either in
the galleries or on the floor. The
vote was then taken on the school
amendment to the bill, which was
carried by 12S to 46. The next
vote was on the motion to insert
the amendment of Judge White
as a substitute for Cessna's amend
ment, which was practically the
senate bill. Judge Whites
amendment was rejected, and the
ayes and hayes were called on
Cessna's amendment as a substi-
tute for the house bill, which was
rejected by vote of 14S to 113,
and the vote is now being taken
on the adoption of the preamble
moved by Mr.. Shanks. Several
democrats are voting IN favor OF
it.
The preamble of the bill was
adopted by 219 to %, and at three
o'clock the bill was placed upon
its passage, and the result was
ayes 153, nays SO. j. A. Smith,
Stuart, Crutchfield, Lowndes, R.
r. Butler, Sloan, Bramberg and
Phelps, Republicans, voted in the
negative. No demonstration,
either on the floor or in the CALLER.
les, followed the announcement Of
the vote.
WARRINGTON.
From Washington correspondent