The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-27
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, January 70.
SENATE.

/ SENATE.
The Chair laid before the Senate Il
message from the President, transmitting
the report of the Commission of Engi-
neers. appointed in compliance with a
resolution of June %, 1874, to investigate
and report permanent plan for the re-
! clamation of the alluvial basin of the
Mississippi Referred to the Committee
on transportation.
Bill TO Regulate Counting The Votes
OF President and Vice President.
Mr. Edmunds introduced bill to pro-
vide and regulate counting the votes for
President and Vice President. 1t pro-
vides that from three to ten days next
prior to the last Monday in every
January following any election for Pres-
dent or Vice President, the Senate shall
appoint four Senators, and the House of
Representatives five of It's members, and
sush nine persons shall constitute COM
mittee upon the election of the President
and Vice President A majority of said
committee chall be Il quorum, and the
concurrence of said majority shall be
|
member of the committee shall take
IL special oath to perform the
duties imposed upon him by the provi-
siohs of this bill. The Senate and House
are required to meet together in the hall
of the House. at one o'clock on said last
Monday in January, and meet daily
Sundays excepted, until the duties are
| performed. The President of the Senate
is to preside and open all certificates and
papers purporting to be certificates of the
| votes cast for President or Nice-Prcsi-
dent, and after so opening these papers
shall all be delivered to the committee
above provided for, who shall proceed
to examine the same and report in
writing, as soon as possible, the vote by
! States, and what person, if any,
have been, pursuant to law, elect
! ed President or Vice President.
If, when the report is made, any question
! is raised by any Senator member of the
House, touching the legal validity Of any
vote or proceeding OF the committee, the
two Houses shall consider the question
separately, and they concur, their judg-
ment shall stand, and the report Of the
| committee be modified according but if
! the two Houses do not concur then the
report of the committee shall stand, and
persons so declared elected shall be re-
spected, and deemed pJiDta facis entitled
| to exercise the function of their offices,
subject to any contest made in due course
of law. Referred.
After introducing a number of bills
and petitions, the business on the calcn-
! dar was taken up, and numerous bills
| were disposed of, among others bill to
wind up the Freedmen's Bank, with one
commissioner instead of three, was re-
ported and discussed, and went over
without action.
/ The Senate resumed the consideration
| of the resolution of Mr.. Schurz instruct
! ing the Judiciary Committee to enquire
what legislation by Congress is necessary
to secure to the people of Louisiana the
rights of self government under the Con-
stitution, and Mr.. Peasc continued his
argument.
| Mr.. Pease continued his argument
commenced yesterday. He spoke of the
lawlessnesS existing throughout the
| ou.U,
vass in Georgia the distinguished Senator
from that State Mr.. Gordon) had made
a speech in Macon county, and he Peasc)
/ had been informed by an honorable gen
/ tleman, that the Senator during that
speech said, IL suppose there is not
white Republican in this county. If
there is | want the good people Of Macon
! county to drive him out, and not permit
him to live here He (PeaseJ was in
formed Of this by Jack Brown, a man Of
| character, who belonged to the first fam
lilies in Georgia, and he was responsible
as gentleman and man. Continuing
his argument, Mr.. Pease said that fifty
| school houses had been burned
in Mississippi, and the number Of
crimes in other States was great. In al
most every case where the treasury OF
Southern State had been plundercd it
had been done by Democrats. A Demo-
crat was in the scheme in someway. The
prospect of Il Democratic victory in 1876
! had done more to paraliZe the industries
of the South than anything which ever
| happened, Many people of that section
| knew and felt that a Democratic victory
would ruin them. He would say to his
southern Democratic friends not to count
too strongly upon the assistance Of north
| ern Democrats, for they would find that
the Democrats OF the North would be
turning away from them AS they did in
1861. They would put down revolution
arv enterprises. In Mississippi the Re
publican party had reconstructed the
public buildings and advanced the inter-
ests of the State i'll every way.
Every dollar of the State debt could be
maid in two wears. South Carolina,
Louisiana and Mississippi, were all I'M
proving. South Carolina had better
government to-day than ever before,
and what was true of that State, was true
of Louisiana and Mississippi. There
had been system of reform inauSurated,
which was beneficial to those States. In
conclusion, he referred to the argument
of the Senator from Ohio Thurman
and called upon that Senator, aS the
leader of the Democratic party, to say to
| the Democrats in the South, that the out
RACES must be stopped. MIR. Thurman
said on the 18th of Jannary, 1871, IN
speech in the Senate, he condemned
ANYTHING like violence, and said every
outrage of the kind complained OF IN
the South, was only injury to the party
to which he belonged, and if his
voice could reach every man IN the
South who violated the law, it would be
addressed to him in three simple words;
"obev the law nothing was to he gained
bv outrage. Those were his words TOUR
wears ago, for which the then Senator
from Alabama, Warner expressed up
on this floor his thanks, and char"rter|,,
ed his lThurmans words as brave ana
useful words tor which he Warner
honored him. If there were outrages IN
the South it WAS not the fault OF the
Democratic party, on this floor or the
other house of Congress. The picture OF
Southern society was not to be drawn oy
by clippings from newspapers II
al namsermI clippings were to be
taken as a specimen Of the society there
might be the picture of northern society
drawn in that way which would make