The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-01-28
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MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
WASHINGTON.
PInChbaCk's Case TO be COnSld-
cred by the Committee on
Elections.
Discussion Of the Louisiana
QuestiOn-Specch OF Sen
atOr Thurman.

WASHINGTON, January 27.-The
house caucus resolved to instruct the
judiciary committee to report the civil
rights bill in regular order This takes
the control from Butler and slaves nc
ton off for two weeks. The best par.
Lamentations cay there is machinery
to push it over the fourth of March.
Butler of Massachusetts, as question
of privilege, called up the motion made
by him last session to reconsider the
vote by which the civil rights bill was
referred to the judiciary committee. a
point of order was raised, but the speak
er decided on the authority of that
days journals of the proceedings that
the right existed and therefore the dem
ocrats fell back upon the policy of fill
clustering, and the house is now en-
gagged in that business.
The words, ain order" inserted in
the caucus action, was misunderstood
by many members. 1t appears that
the judiciary committee had presented
their bill, and that motion to recon-
slider was pending, which Butler, chair
man of the committee, could call up at
any time. This he did to-day in order,
as directed by the caucus.
The house has been filibustering all
day, and is still at it.
The pension committee will report
favorably the bill to pension the Mex
lean war veterans, of whom there are
twenty thousand.
The bill over which the house is fill
clustering excludes the school and
cemetery clauses.
Conkling will follow Thurman on
the Louisiana matter
In the senate Mr.. Scott of Pennsyl-
vania, from the committee on claims,
reported adversely on the bill to facili-
tate and reduce the expenses of taking
testimony on behalf of claimants, to
be used before the commissioner OF
claims, and it was indefinitely post
poned. He said the object of this bill
had been all ready supplied by house
bill.
Mr.. Patterson, of South Carolina, pre-
scented concurrent resolutions of the
general assembly of that state, for an
appropriation ofone bundled thousand
dollars for the improvement of the
Charleston harbor.
The Louisiana question was resum-
ed,and Mr.. Thurman occupied the bal
ance of the day. He reviewed, at some
length, the circumstances attending
the election of 1872, MS well as the last
election, and read frequently from the
report of the senate committee in re-
gard to the frauds of the Lynch return
ing board. He commented upon the
message of the president in reply 10
the resolution of the 9th instant, and
said paper more full of omissions OF
material faclS never emanateu iToui
the chief magistrate of this country.
He argued that the dispatches of Sher-
idan were one sided and did not tell
the whole truth. He replied to the
charges of southern outrages, aud said
the great majority of the homi'
eides in the south were
committed by blacks upon blacks, and
were not committed by whites upon
blacks, as had been.charged. In con-
clusion, he said it was bad thing to
assassinate man, but q worse thing
to assasslnate the constitution OF
state. These acts of the military have
driven q dagger to the heart of free In
situations In this country.
The committee on privileges ant
elections are to consider Pinchback
case. Pinehback seems sure Of havin,