The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-19
WASHINGTON.
Mar. Edmunds Introduces u IsiIl
Declaring That No Con-
stitutiOnnl Government
Exists la Louisiana.
NJ Nv Rejected by "a Vote Of
Thirty-NinesO Twenty
TwO.

UNSATISFACTORY, February IS IN the
senate Mr.. Merfimon, OF North Car
olina, closed SIX hours speech ut niue
o'clock this morning,
Mr.. Edmuuds ~ hall-past nine o'clock
this morning offered the following
amendment: "Strlke out the resoln-
ton seating PlnchUack, and insert that
the committee on privileges ana cleo
lions be aud II Is hereby instructed To
report forthwith q bill declaring that
no constitutional government exists In
Louisiana, and providing for the cleo
ton of II governor, lieutenant governor
and mem bers Of the general assembly
for louisiana, and all other state Olll'
GERS which are, by the constitution or
that state, electivcb by the people in that
state.
Mr.. Ransom, of North Carolina, then
took the floor and spoke atsome length
on the desire to restore peace between
the north and south.
Mr.. Thurman said the question be-
fore the senate was not u question for
congress, but question for the senate
alone. If there was to be an extra SECS,
sion this resolution could be considered
then, and it seemed to be admitted on
all hands that an extra session OF the
senate would be convened on the 4th
of March. He believed it was the iirst
duty of the senate to provide means to
carry on theg government, and he would,
therefore, vote for taking up the appro-
priation bills.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Maine, said he was
disposed to regard this resolution en-
tirely out of the order of business and
with the view to getting the Indian
appropriation bill before the senate,
he moved TO lay the resolution ON the
table.
Upon this question the yeas and
nays were ordered and the resolution
was tabled-yeas thirty-nine, nays
twenty-five, as follows
Yeas-Allison, Anthony, Bayard,
Bogy, Conklng, Cooper, Davis, Dennis,
Cation, Edmunds, Fenton, Frelinghuy-
sen, Goldthwaite, Gordon, Hagar,
Hamilton, of Maryland, Hamilton, of
Texas, Ingalls, Johnson, Kelly, Me
Creery, Merriman, Morrill,, of Maine,
Morrill,, of Vermont, Ransom, Robert
son, Salisbury, Schur2, Scott, Sprague,
Stevenson, Stockton, Thurman, Wad.
leigh, Washburne, Window and
Wright SO.
Nays-Boreman, Cameron, Chand.
Ter, Clayton, Cragen, Ferry of Michi-
gan, Flanagan, Hamlin, Harvey,
Howe, Jones, Logan, Morton, Ogles-
by, pratt, Patterson, Ramsey, Sargent,
Spencer, Stewart and West. -.
Mr. Ferry of Connecticut, who would
have voted in the affirmative, was
paired with Boutwell, who would have
voted In the negative.
Mr.. West moved that the senate ad'
iousn, Rejected ayes 9 {; nays %,
Mr.. Window of Minnesota, moved
that the senate proceed to the consid-
Grafton of the Indian appropriation
bill, agreed to.
The Indian appropriation bill was
taken up and the senate adjourned.
The house spent three hours on the
tariff bill. All the Amendments o1er-
ed by the opponents of the measure
were voted down, hut an amendment
was adopted, on motion of Mr.. Dawes
increasing the tax on domestic cigars
from SIS to SO per Thousand, ana Oh
cigarettes from $500 TO 500.
Having got through iiiot WV S.O
tions of the bill--the whiskey ana TO-
bacco acknowledgements rose anl
the house took up, Us special order, tn'
bill reported by Mr.. Stanard, OF MIS-
souri,, from the committee on com
merce, for the improvement OF the
mouths of the Mississippi river OF
Eads' jetty system. The house passed
the Eads bill without division.
The house then resumed the tarlf
bill. The third section abolishing th'
tax on matches was struck out. Ih'
fouth section, increasing the duties on
molasses and sugar twenty-five pc
cent was amended 10y including meladO
The committee then rose and Mr.
Coburn, of Indiana, reported the eau
Gus "forcen bill which was ordered
printed and recOmmitted.
The house committee OH the Pacih
railroad voted to-day on the Pacih
railroad bill. They where about equal
ly divided.
1t is stated that the majority of tn
senate judiciary committee conside
the Pacific mail subsidy as a contrac
which congress cannot abrOgate.