Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-29
Debate in the Senate OH the Louis
lana Outrage Continued
COnkling Makes a Su-
preme Effort for
His Master.
Grant and His Infemies and Sher-
idan's InsOIence Sustained
The New York Senator
Goes the Whole
Hog.
The House on q FillibUSteriDg
ExpeditiOn-The Civil Rights
Bill Puts a Deadlock Oh
National Legislation
at $4,000 Per Day.


SESATE.
WASHINGTON, January Ex-senator
Morrill, Me. from the committee on
appropriations, reported favorably on
the bill to pay the interest due February
lst on the three siXty-five bonds of
the District of Columbia. Passed.
Senator Bogy submitted resolution
instructing the judiciary committee to
inquire into the expediency of repeating
the act of June l, 1872, granting a SUBJ
sidy to the Pacific Mail steamship COM
pany.
Senator Sprague R. l. objected to
the present consideration of the Tesolu-
tiou, and it was referred to the judiciary
committee.
After the presentation of large num-
Der OF fpetitions against the restoration Of
the duty on tea and coffee, and for the
repeal OF the act of 1872 relieving certain
foreign products of ten per cent. duty,
the business on the calendar was pro-
ceeded with.
The house bill granting the right Of
way and depot ground to the Oregon
and Central Pacific railroad company
through the public lands Of thesUnited
States from Winneunie, Nevada, to CO.
lumbia river, via Portland, Oregon, was
amended and passed.
At the expiration of the morning
hour the Louisiana discussion was re-
sumed. Senator ConkliDg took the
floor. The galleries were densely crowd
ed, and many persons having the priv
ilege of the floor occupied seats there.
Senator CoTkling began by saying
that the drama which entertSins the
senate must have its run, and that
time had now come when silence only
serves to prolong wrangle. The Presi
Dental contest for 1876 has been opened
in the senate. The way in which my
amendment was received by the sena-
tor from Ohio Thurman told Us in
stantly that we were to be charged all
along the line. Every administration
supporter was ready to vote for the res
olution if made courteous. The course
Of the President was prejudged; the OPP
position had almost the entire neWspa-
per press of the land with them. After 1t
had become notorious that our action
would be anticipated if we longer de-
layed the resolution was passed; the
plain, manly message came, and now
lies on our table; then the discussion
should have ended, but il did
not. The senator from Mis-
souri, came forward with his resolution,
and so the machine for grinding out pO-
litical capital runs on. Senator Thur
man occupied the attention of thesenate
for four hours yesterday, and others are,
doubtless, waiting to take his place to-
morrow. He is the recognized leader OF
the Democratic party, bat he did not tell
us what to do with the great Louisiana
r. -,
Thurman to whom the nation looked
more than any other man to originate
the policy of his party. Senator Thur
man, when commenting on southern
Outrages, said, in effect, if such was the
condition Of society in the south, it was
time that The party which had been in
power through the war and since the
war should give way and let another
party come in. There was the clue
which unravelled this web that had
been the gospel OF the Democrats since
the beginning to make reconstruction 3
failure, make it q miscarriage, keep
up an agitation, disturb, fer
ment, and revolutionize, and the time
will come when the country, WeaIied
and worn with cOmmOtiOD, will accept
anything for a change. The sole policy
any measure which originates with the
Republicans. The honorable senator
from Ohio, in his argument, went back
to the election of 1872, and made that
period background for the events OF
three weeks ago. Who made the elec-
ton of 1872 a fraud? 1t was WarmOth,
the leader of the opposition in Louisi-
ana, the champion of the Democracy,
VINO was to carry the State for Greeley,
ard thus help to make him President.
The election of 1872 in Louisiana was
an organized fraud. The testimony be-
fore the senate committee showed that
Warmoth's control Of the election ma
chinery there was equal TO twenty thou
sand votes. In every form in VIII ch this
question had been tIied the decision had
been against M'Enery. The commit
tees of both houses of congress and the
President have decided against NJ M'Ene-
~. No responsibility for the dOings in
New Orleans on the fourth Of January
touches the President of the United
States. The first information he re-
ceived in regard to them was simultan-
eous with the information given to all
citizens at large. The newspapers of
the following day were the first inform
ers. II there were those in Washington
who knew that a revolution was to be
attempted on the fourth of January, the
President was not one of them.
Senator COnkling next referred to
the reasons which induced the
President to send General Sheridan
to New Orleans, and said that before
this letter of the President directing
General Sheridan to go south the Presi-
dent had been compelled to listen TO the
tales of suffering, to which no man
could be deaf. They did not concern
the election but they concerned lives,
homes and property. Those who had
never been false TO their cOuntry's flag,
under that flag Were hunted as If
they were wild beasts. These entreaties
summoned the chiefms2istrate to his
feet. One of these entreaties had reached
them but three days before. 1t came
from one who for twenty years had been
a resident of ShrevepOrt-a judicial of
ficer-not appointed by the President,
but appointed by the court. He said
the troops were stationed in Louisiana
and their presence there was lawful, be-
cause the slender remnant of our army
must be stationed somewhere.
1t must be stationed in some
State, and no matter where found, its
right to be there was unquestiOned, and
its withdrawal from New Orleans would
have been possible only with the chief
magistrate. In open cOnnivance with
murderers and trsitOrs, what would
General Washington have said about
ordering troops away from NewOrleans,
where the air was murky and heavy
with violence, and statiOniDg them
somewhere where all was peace. This
question was presented to Washington
when four counties in the eastern part
OF Pennsylvania resisted q whisky tax.
An inspector and q surveyor were
resisted and Washington ordered
out and pat on foot fifteen thousand
men and went to command them him.
self. The revolt was abandoned, but
armed men in great numbers tTod the
I soil of Pennsylvania to preserve peace
and prevent any further outbreak. Sen
ator Conkling then referred to the seiz'
ure of arms at New Orleans in Septem
ber last by the White League, and saiC
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