New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-27
CONGRESS.
Seuate.

WASHINGTON, January 26.-Mr. Edmunds
OF Vermont, introduced bill to provide
for and regulate the counting of votes for
President and Vice President. Referred to
COMMITTEES on Privileges and Elections.
The following bills were passed: Senate
bill to facilitate the disposition of cases in
the Supreme Court of the United States
and for other purposes; House bill to amend
twenty. third paragraph. of section three of
the act to regulate the fees and costs to be
allowed clerks, marshais and attorneys Of
circuit and district courts of the
approved February &c, 1858; House
bill to extend provisions of act approved
March 3, 1851, entitled an act to provide
for the collection of debts due from South.
ern railroads and for other purposes; House
bill to provide for deducting any debt due
the United States from any Judgment re-
covered against the United States by such
debtor; House bill relating to the punish
ment of the crime of fmanslaughter.
The Senate bill to change the boundaries
Of the Eastern and Western judicial dis
tricts OF the State Of Texas. and to fix the
times and places of holding courts in the
same was passed, but Mr.. Hamilton, Of
Texas, entered q motion to rdoonsider.
The Chair presented . message from the
President Of the United Statet, transmitting
the report of the commission of engineers.
appointed in compliance with the act OF
June g, 1874, to investigate and report q
permanent plan for the reclaloation Of the
alluvial basin of the Mississippi. Referred
to the committee on transportation routes,
and ordered that 10000 extra copies be
printed.
After the morning hour the Senate then
resumed the consideration of the resolution
OF MI. Schur1, instruCting the Judiciary
Committee to inquire what legislation was
necessary by Congress to secure to the
people Of Louisiana the rights of self.govern-
ment pnder the constitution.
Mr.. Pease, of Mississippi, continued his
ARGUMENT commenced yesterday. He COM
menteh at some length upon the condition
of affairs IN the South, and said outrages
were daily committed there. In Georgia q
militia company had refused to carry the
American flag. He said the American
Senate and American people should become
awakened to the fact that tho country was
on the eve OF another revolution, more fatai
in its results than the late revolution.
He next referred to the trouble in Colfax
and C0ushatta, Louisiana, and argued that
Kellogg was right in calling upon the gov
ernment for troops, as he knew the char,
acter OF the men he had to deal with.
These outrages in the South were for the
purpose of advancing the cause Of the seces-
sion Democracy. He read from the sta.
tistics of crime, and argued that crime was
much greater in the South than in the
North. Referring to his own State, Missis-
sippi, he said until within the past year
there had been better order and less law
lessness there than in any other Southern
State. 1t was well known fact that it was
one OF the best reconstructed of any of the
States. 1t had the best
judicial system of any Southern or
Northern State, yet there had been
ninety-nine murders committed there in q
year. He read numerous extracts from
the papers published in the South, com
planning. of outrages, and then from the
Louisville COM,1erJOalrnaI, q statement that
crime was blot upon the Southern section:
that grand juries would not indict, and
petty juries would not convict, on account
of politics. Continuing his argument, he
said: In Alabama there were thirty nine
murders committed In three counties. He
lid not know of . single instance where q
white man had been convicted and pun
shed for the murder of q negro. but
here were hundreds of instancee since
where negroes had been
1ung or lncarcerated in prison for
Killing white men. He next read from
Georgia paper Q paragraph advising
he formation Of White Leagues in every
lamlet, village and town, that the people
night prepare ifor Q great conflict. which
eemed inevitable, and said the same spirit
,ervaded the press of the South at this
lour q in 1861. He knew there was large
element in the South which did not sub-
cr1be to these wild doctrines. The old
Nhig party did not subscribe to them, but
nat party was p0werless. The same old
ecession Democrats who brought on the
llmSuity before were the men who were the
esding editorial writers to-day. The men
Who were firing the Southern heart to
murder, assassinate and overturn the gov
nf ha mi q
There were in the South to-day at least half
million of arms OF the most improved
tyles in the hands of these Democrats.
Our1ng the late canvass in Georgia
he distinguished Senator from that State
Gordon) made q speech in Macon county,
Ind he lPease) had been informed by an
gentleman that the Senator,
s not a white Republican in this county
f there is want the good people of Macon
county to drive him out, and not permit him
i've here" He (Pease) was informed Of
his fact by Jack Brown, q man of char
|cter, who belonged to one of the first
0oegia, and he was responsible. :.
's gente and man. Continuing hi
'rgunent, Mr.. Pease said fifty schoolhouee
,ao Deen burned in Mississippi, and the
;reater In almost every case where
me treasury Of a Southern State had
oeen plundered, it had been done by Demo
'rats-a g. democrat was in the scheme some
"ay LIE prospect of q Democratic VIC
.oly IN 1910 had done more to paralyze the
INDUSTRIES OF the South than anything which
sver happened: Many people Of that Soc
non Knew and felt . Democratic victory
3euid ruin them. He would asy to his
Donsnefn democratic friends not to count
!oo .etronGly upon tho aesiAtance of the
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