The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-24
Forty Fourth Congress-First Session.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON,

WASHINGTON, Marcn. 70.
Mr. Anthony of r. l. gave notice that he
would ask the Senate to remain in session to-
day without a recess until a vote should be
reached on the pending resolution approving
the action of the President in regard to Louis
lana.
Mr. Jones of Florida took the floor and spoke
in opposit ton to the resolution.
Mr.. Wallace spoke in opposition to the reso-
luton, and said the action on the part of Con-
gress toward the southern states was ruinous
to the whole country. 1t was like building a
wall around the southern portion of the repub-
lie and thus destroying the market to the north.
In his own great state of Pennsylvania the iron
and the lumber laid in piles at the mines, al
the furnaces and at the saw mills. The busy
industry of the Lehigh and Schuylkill were no
longer heard, and now the people were learn
ing that this prostration was largely due to fed.
eral bayonets in the south and violation of the
rights of the people there by the federal gov
eminent. The people of the north now asked
that the people of the south be allowed 10 con-
troll their own affairs. Give them power TO
grow rich, take away the federal bayonets from
the threats of the people of the south and re-
store prosperity to the land.
Mr. Thurman spoke against the resolution,
thinking it the thnnest cruel ever poured
down sick patients throat.
Mr.. Christiancy said he understood the SUBJ
stitute offered by the Senator from Rhode Is.
land first as an implied recognition of the Kel-
lOgg government merely as one In the actual
exercise of governmental powers in Louisiana,
without reference to the question of its rightful
origin OF legal validity, and in no way invov-
ing the propriety of its establishment; and Sec
ond, that it approves the Presidents action SO
far only as directed merely to the protection of
of that government and the people of the state
against domestic violence and civil war, and to
the enforcement of the Jaws of the United
States without approving any interference of
the military with the legislative body or in the
creation of n state UOVarnmpnt Such heiDg as
it seems to me the most naturally understood
by the people, while adhere to the principles
and conclusions which announced here in my
remarks on the 18th inst, and which 1 here
adopt by reference without retraction or quail
fication, and while l hold that a recognition by
the Senate or by Congress of government thus
initiated, can give it no greater validity than it
had in its inception, still, as domestic violence
and civil war which may lead to complete
dissolution of society, are not the best remedies
for getting rid of an Legitimate government
can approve The action of the President direct
ed to The humane purposes mentioned in this
amendment or tie substitute offered by the
senator from Rhode Island, and believing the
recognition of this government for this purpose
and to this extent is justifiable under the pecul
lar circumstances now existing in that state,
until by a fair election a more legitimate gov
ernment Cal be initiated, can vote for the re-
solution in the sense [ have here attributed to
it, bat in the enlarged and odious sense which
has been attributed to it by some of the speak
ers on the other side, L could not vote for it,
and most deliberately avow my conviction
that in such an enlarged sense or in any sense
that would assert the validity of the action by
which the government was originally set up
and put 10 power, it could not secure the votes
of the ma jority of this body.
Mr.. Wbyteof Maryland, modified his amend
ment offered yesterday so as to read as follows:
Resolved, That the use of the army of the
United States to enforce the unwarrantable and
void order of Sudge Durrel, issued on the 9TH
of December, 1872, directing the marshal to
seize the building occupied as State House for
the assembling Of the Legislature of Louisiana
and the employment of Uaited States soldiers
to invade the ball of the House of Representa-
tves of Louisiana, and to eject therefrom per-
sons claiming to be members thereof, are con-
trary to the spirit of Republican institutions
and cannot be approved by the Senate OF the
United States.
The question being on the above amendment
1t was rejected, yeas %, nays 80, as follows:
Yeas-Bayard Bogy, Caperton, Cockrell,
Cooper, Dawes, Dennis, Eaton, johnson
(Tenn.). Jones, Kelly, Herman, NcCreery,
Maxcy, Norwood, Randolph, SALISBURY, Steven
sou, Thurman, Wallace, Wbyte and Wthers-
q.
Nays-Alson, Anthony, Booth, Boutwell,,
Bruce. Cameron of Wisconsin, Conkling,
Cragin, Dorsey, Edmunds, Ferry of Michigan,
Frelinghuysen, Hamilton, Harvey, Hitchcock,
Howe, Ingalls,, Jones of Nevada, Logan, Nc
MILAN, Mitchell, Morrill, of Maine, Morrill, OF
Vermont, Morton, Paddock, Patterson, Robert