The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12
AN EXCITING SCENE.
Hon. John Young Brown AZ.
tacIZs Gen. BnGIer IN the
House.
He Is Arrested and Brought Before the
Bar for Violating the Rules.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Feb. 5.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 5.
Immediately after the reading
of the journal this morning, the
debate on the Civil Rights bill was
continued by Mr.. Blount. The
galleries are crowded, the colored
element largely predominatlng.
There is very little interest or ex-
element on the floor, most of the
the Republican members being in
the Hobbies.
Mr.. Hoar spoke briefly in reply
to Mr.. Blount, after which Mr..
Hale of New York obtained the
floor, and in a short speech de-
tended the constitutionality of the
bill.
When Mr.. Hale had concluded
loud cries came from the Demo
cratic side of the House, asking
if he knew of a single state in the
South where the provisions of the
Fourteenth amendment were not
in full force.
Mr.. Hale replied he could not
say.
Whereupon Mr.. Lamar declared
that if there was in all the statute
books of the Southern states a
single law in conflict with the
Fourteenth amendment he was
equally with Mr.. Hale ignorant of
it.
A large crowd of the members
gathered around Messrs Hale and
Lamar, and for a few minutes
there was quite an excitement,
which ended in burst of applause
and laughter from the opposition
side of the floor, at the declaration
by Mr.. Lamar that in Mississippi
the negroes have moro privilege in
railroad cars, and elsewhere, than
the whites.
Mr.. Cain, the colored represen-
tative from South Carolina, spoke
in favor of the bill, and Mr.. Chit
tenden, Republican, spoke against
it.
Mr.. Brown, of Kentucky, OPP
posed the bill, although he &C
knowledged it as foregone con-
clusion that to-day's sun would
set upon it as a law of the land.
Men on the Republican side had
been dragooned into it's support.
It's success had been accomplished
by daring and revolutionary inva-
sions upon the time honored rules
of the house. 1t had been born in
malignity and would be passed in
| defiance and violation of the
constitution, and would be execut-
ed in violence and bloodshed, as
he feared. You men who propose
to pass this bill have been weigh
ed in the balance and have been
found wanting.
The speaker informed Mr..
Brown he must address the chair. |
Mr.. Speaker, the South is bro
ken; it lies in helplessness and
despair, with homes dilapidated,
Villages wasted, its people bank
rupt. Is there nothing in the sit
uation to touch your heart with
pity? If your magnanimity can
not be reached, will you not be
moved by some sense of Justice?
Onward and onward you go in de-
fiance of the sentime nt of the coun-
try, without pity and without JUS
tice, remors elessly determined, it
seems to drive the Southern PEG.
pie to destruction, to give their
roofs to the flames and their flesh
to the eagles. A federal general
steps on the scene, and sends dis
patch to the world that the people
of the State of Louisiana are a
banditti. We have heard it echo
ed elsewhere that they were thieves
and murderers. The clergy of
Louisiana, Jew and Gentle, have
denien it; the business men and
Northern residents have denied it,
committee of your own house
has given it it's solemn and en-
phatic contradiction, and nailed
the SANDER to the center. Now,
what should be said if that accusa-
ton should come from one who is
outlawed in his own home from
respectable society; whose name
is synonymous with falsehood;
who is the champion, and has been
such on all occasions, of fraud;
who is the apologist of thieves:
who is such a prodigy Of vice and
meanness, that to describe him
Imagination would sicken and in
vective would exhaust itself. In
Scotland years ago there was a
man whose trade was murder, and
he earned his living by selling the
bodies of his victims for gold. He
linked his name to his crime, and
to-day throughout the world it is
known as Burking.
The Speaker-Does the chair
understand the gentleman to be
referring in this language to a
member of the house?
Brown-No, sir. I am describ-
ing a character who is in my
minds eye. This mans name
was linked to his crime, and to-
day throughout the world it is
known as Burking. If 1 was to
desire to express all that was pu-
sillanimous in war, inhuman in
peace, forbidding in morals and
infamous in politics, should call
it Butlerizing Sensation.
The Speaker (interrupting Mr..
Brown: The gentleman did not
deal in good faith with the chair;
he did not answer in good faith
the questions addressed to him.
Mr.. Hale of New York, insisted
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