Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-30
CONGRESSIONAL.
COnkling Completes His Speech
for the Next Presidential
Campaign.
Senator Gordon Makes an BIZ
fectiVe Reply.
A Continuous Session Of the
House for FOrty-SiX Hours
and Twenty-Five
Minutes.
SENATE.

presented the credentials Of Francis ker-
nan, United States Senator from New 1Ork
for six.years from March 4, $50. Read
and placed on file.
The Senate, by Y0te Of 81 yeas to %
nays, agreed that when il adjOaTn to-day It
be to meet Monday next.s E
Mr.. BOgy presented the credentials Of +.
NJ. Cockrell, United States Senator from
Missouri for six years from March 4, 1910.
Read and placed on file.
Mr.. BOgy presented the joint resolutions
Of the Missouri Legislature, condemning
the military interference in louisiana, and
had them read at the-eleEkZ's desk. Ordered
printed and lie on The table.
Mr.-Sherman said If the people IN ~
sOuri thought the interference Of the gov
ernment in Louisiana was uneOnstitutiOn-.
al, he thought they had better study the
Constitution of the United States.
Mr.. Scott presented q petition Of citizens
Of Pittsburg and vicinity, asking liberal
appropriation for the improvement of the
Ohio River. Referred.
Mr.. Sprague, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported adversely on the
bill for the relief Of certain settlers on the
public lands in certain portions Of Iowa,
Minnesota, Nebraska, and it was indefinite
ly postponed.
Ihe'cenate then resumed the unfinished
business, being Mr.. Schurz's resolution in
concluded his Presidential campaign
speech commenced yesterday.
Mr.. Schurz said he desired to modify his
resolution to read as follows:
Whereas, Any military interference by
the officers or troops Of the United States
with the organization Of State Legislature
or any Of its proceedings, is repugnant to
the principles Of constitutional COVE. n
ment; and whereas, the military interfer-
ence Of Gen. DeTrobfiand, Of the United
States Army, and soldiers under his COM
mand, with the organization Of the Legis-
lature of louisiana, on the 4th Of January,
inst, was without warrant Of law; be it
Resolved, that the Judiciary Committee
be instructed to inquire what legislation
by Congress is necessary to secure to the
people Of Louisiana their rights of self
government under the Constitution, and
to report with the least possible delay by
bill or otherwise.
Mr.. Schurz said the first sentence of this
preamble was taken from the Presidents
message, and as no Senator on either side,
not even the Senator from New York, hal
undertaken to assert that Gen. DeTrO-
brands action was warranted by law, he
hoped the preamble would have the apDrO-
val of the Senate.
Mr.. Gordon, Of Georgia, referred to the
speech he made a few days ago, and said he
had not made any attack on the President.
In that speech he expressed his confidence
that the bitter sentiment which character
lied this debate found no response with
the Northern people. Such was his Opin-
ION, notwithstanding the false charges
made on this floor against him. Since the
surrender Of the Confederate army no man
ever heard him utter any sentiments
against the Federal Government. He re-
feTed to the arguments of Messrs. Conk-
ling, Morton, and Others, and cOntended
that Nigers, the Clerk Of the Louisiana
Legislature, holding over, had no
right TO call the roll, and he
did not think any people would sus-
tain the Senate in any such proceedings.
The honorable Senator from New York
| (Mr. COnkling) had said the times change
and so did the people. He (GOrdOn)
thought so, and be said it with no disre-
spect, but the majority in this body changed
its action according to its own political
! prOclivities. He then referred 20 the action
of the Alabama Legislature which elected
Spencer, stating that it did not meet at the
! time nor the place required by the COnsti-
tuition OF Alabama, yet the majority in this
Senate admitted Spencer to his seat. hr.
Gordon then spoke of the feeling in the
| South, and especially in his own State, and
denied that there was any animosity exist
| ing between those Of different pO-
litical sentiments. BE desired to lay
/ before the Senate the words of
| a gallant soldier, who, while the war lasted,
ever had his sword cleaning in the front Of
battle, but who, when the war ended, laid
his sword upon the altar of civil law. He
| referred to Maj. Gen. w. S. Hancock, and
read from an order of Hancock issued while
/ that officer was in command at New Or
leans in 1867. Resuming his argument he
said those words ought to be stamped upon
the records Of this land, as they are to-day
stamped upon the hearts of the people of
Louisiana. The Senator from New York
had not touched upon the question
as to whether the law authorized
/ the invasion of Louisiana. Meth
/ er had other Senators on that side
/ of the chamber. When asked TO point out
I AAlC Id LAkAA Us IlOAAoC Ldu DCtn .
| outrage. That had been the sum and sub
| stance Of all the speeches made upon the
/ other side. What was the use of cOntinu-
/ ally hurting in his (GOrdOn's) teeth and
the teeth Of his people, that they were
/ Rebels. They differed in opinion with the
/ people Of the North, an opinion honestly
entertained. Perhaps if he had lived
/ North, he might have been in the Northern
/ army. The people Of the North thought
| those of the South were wrong, but that
was no reason why the sections should be
| quarelling forever. He referred to the tes-
| timony offered before the committee in
| the other house Of Congress recently,
| in which a witness said that he (GOr-
DOM, in a speech in Alabama, had
| advised the Democrats to carry the election
BY force. To show how much truth there
was in that statement, he (Gordon) would
say he had not made political speech iu
| Alabama in five years, and at the time he
| was charged by witness with making
| this speech, he was two hundred miles
away from the place, in another State. He
! sent to the clerks desk and had read tele-
/ grams from W. G. Morrill,, Of Me-, who was
| formerly agent Of the Freedman's Bureau
in Georgia, and now a resident Of that
State, TO the effect that there was nOOppres-
sion of blacks by whites, and also had read
a telegram from the Governor Of the State
in respect to educational privileges Of the
/ blacks, to the effect that there was no differ
! ence between whites and blacks under
the State system, though whites
| paid taxes upon S265,000,00O, and the
blacks paid taxes only upon 100000, and
that over $1,000 colOred children attended
| public schools last year. Numerous Other
| kilograms and letters were also read by re-
| quest OF Mr.. Gordon, all tending to show
| the amicable relations between the races
and resuming his argument, he said: Gen.
! Grant once made tour through the SOutE
| and reported thereon, but be, too, was
charged with having whitewashed the
| Southern people. He had not been in the
South since, and the only information
he had from there was from those
who, for nine long years, had Sian
dered the people he (GOrdOn) repre-
| seuted. he next had read a telegram
from the Governor Of Georgia as to the en-
fOrcement Of law in that State under
! Democratic rule, and its enforcement undel
BullOck's (Republican) rule, showing that
the present Governor had p1rdOned two
white men who had been convicted o!
murder and cOmmuted the death sentence
Of four, two Of whom were white and two
cOlOred; Of persons executed, ten wer'
negroes and six whites; while under Bul
locks government, fOrty-siX persons wert