The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-02-12
THE BEAST GoADED,
Exciting Debate in Congress on the Civil
Rights BiiI-BrOwn of Kentucky gets an
intestine winder i'm ON Butler-Ihe Great
Spoonist skinned.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.--ln the House
Lenor defended his action as Repub
lican member in voting steady against
the motion to suspend rules so as to
adopt the new rule by which the civil
rights bill could be passed. He de-
clared himself a strict Republican,
but he opposed the civil rights billin
accordance with the views OF the peo-
ple of his district, because at the last
moment rumor was circulated that
under the party lash he might yield
his honest conviction and support to
the civil rights bill. The Republi-
can party in forcing this bill, was at
tempting to do by legislation what
was never done by legislation-to
correct and cure prejudice.
E. R. Hoar advocated the bill not
for any immediate effect for good it
might have, but the value of the act |
was similar to that Of the Declaration
of Independence.
Stanard, of Missouri, opposed the
bill because he did not believe it was
for the interest of either the colored
or white people, but would work IN
calculable damage.
Grain (coloredD advocated the bill,
and said colored people had control
of the whole school system OF South
Carolina, yet had not mixed schools
in +ha State except in the State Col
lege. Secure to us, he said, our
liberty, give us chance to live, put
no restriction ON us, and we ask no
more of the American people. Chit
tenden, Caldwell and Eldridge op-
posed the bill, the latter declaring it
was only for the benefit OF unprincl-
pled carpet-baggers and scallawags,
who would make merchandise OF the
colored race and their bodies and
souls, if thereby they could keep
themselves in power and place.
Brown, of Kentucky, opposed the
bill declaring its success had been in
in a measure accomplished by daring
and revolutionary invasions on the
time-honored rules of the house. 1t
has been born in malignity, would be
passed in defiance and violation OF
the Constitution and executed, he
feared in violence and bloodshed.
Hale, of New York, objected to
the last sentence but the speaker
ruled it within the limits of parlia-
mentary debate.
Proceeding with his speech, he
referred to the Louisiana troubles
brought about by conspiracy between
,he attorney general and Kellogg and
a corrupt federal judge, and spoke oi
Sheridans banditIi dispatch, adding
"We have heard it echoed elsewhere
: tbat they were thieves and murdereri
and night riders. Now what should
be said if that accusation should
come from one-I speak not OF men
but in language within the rules o
this House-ift that accusation agalns
that people come from one who II
outlawed in his own home iron
respectable society, whose name j
SYNONYMOUS with falsehood, who i
champion, and has been such on al
! occasions, of fraud, who is the apollo
: gist of thieves, who is such prodig.
of vice and meanness that to descrlb
him imagination would sicken AM
: invectiye would exhaust itself? Il
Scotland, once there was n maj
whose trade was to murder, and b
y earned his livelihood by selling tb
! bodies Of his victims for gold. Il
e linked his name to his crime, and to
u day throughout the world, it
u known as Burking.
o Speaker-Does the chair under
" stand the gentleman to be referrln
J in this language to member OF th
= HouseP :,
IS MIR. Brown--No sir l am descrit
n ing a character who is in my mind
" eye.
Mr.. Speaker--The chair undel
= stood the gentleman to refer to
'S member of this House.
D Mr.. Brown-No SIR; / call n
70 names. This mans name was linke
10 to his crime, aud to-day throushot
% the world it's known as Burking.
"a was desirous of expressing all thi
D. was pusilanimous in war, inhuma
" in peace, forbidden in morals an
IL infamous in politics, / should call
6 Butlerism. Sensation.
10 Mr.. Speaker Interrupting)-Tl
1t gentleman did not deal in good fait
% with the chair.
d Mr.. Hale IN. ~ demanded thi
% Browns language be reduced
IS writing and read from the clerk
s, desk, and while the reporter WI
"a transcribing it the excitement was
40 red heat.
b. The speaker remarked further tn
ne he was not paying close attention
n the gentleman's language, and hG
be addressed him an inquiry, which hf
81 been answered either denyingly
er evasively, the chair couldn't tc
a' which. 1t would be lnexcusaolo
na the chair to have permitted su'
On language, and his ezculpation rest
'le on the evasion of the gentlemi
NJ from Kentucky.
ue The report Of Mr.. Browns o
to iectionable language being rea
nd Mr. Hale, OF New York, offered
ng resolution declaring that by the u
NV Of language, as well as by the pi
varication by which he was enabl
cd TO continue its utterance, Mr.. Bro'
as has been guilty Of a violation Of I
en' privileges Of the House, and merit
rm the severest censure Of the houi
rn' and that ho be brought before I
he bar, in custody by the sergeant
as arms, and publicly cenmred by I
naI speaker
Dawes offered a substitute p.
yidine for Browns expulsion,
lad Hale declined 10 yield, and NOV
ler the previous question.
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