The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-27
BY TELEGRAPH.
CONGRESSIONAL.
THE SENATE.


Secretary of the Interior, in answer to the
Senate resolution of the 18th inst, iuclosing
copies OF the report of the Commissioner
General of the Land Office in relation to
swamp lands in Louisiana
Ordered to be printed and laid on the
table.
Mr.. Edmunds, of Vermont. introduced a
bill to provide for and regulate the counting
of votes for President and Vice-President'
Referred to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections.
The following bills were passed Senate
bill to facilitate the disposition of eases in the
Supreme Court of the United States, and for
other purposes.
House bill TO amend the 23d paragraph of
section }, of the act to regulate the fees and
costs to be allowed clerks, marshals and at
torneys OF circuit and district courts of the
United States, and for other purposes, ap-
proved February 26, 1858. House bill to ex-
tend provisions Of act approved March 3.
1901, entitled an act to provide for the col
lection OF debts due from Southern railroads,
and tor other purposes. House bill to pro
vide for deduc,ing any debt due the United
States from any Judgment recovered against
the United States by such debtor
House bill relating to the punishment of
the crime of mans'aughter.
The Senate bill to change the boundaries
of the Eastern and Western Judicial Dis
tricts Of Texas and to fix the times and
places of holding courts in tho same, was
passed. but M. Hamilton, of Texas, entered
motion to reconsider
The Chair presented a message from the
President OF the United States, transmitting
the report Of the Commission of Engineers,
appcintea in compliance with the act of June
y, 1874, to investigate and report a perlna-
Ian FIN 70 In natl IF III,
basin of the Mississippi. Referred to the
Committee on Transportation Routes, and Or
dered that ten Thousand extra copies be
printed.
After the morning hour, the Senate resumed
the consideration OF the resolution of Mr..
Schurz, instructing the Judiciary Committee
to inquire what legislation is necessary by
Congress to secure to the people Of Louisi-
ana the rights of self government, under the
constitution.
MIR. PeAse (of Mississippi) continued his
argument which he commenced yesterday.
He commented at some length upon the
condition of affairs in the South, and said
outrages were daily committed there. In
Georgia militia company had refused to
carry the American flag He said the Amer
lean Senate and American people should be-
come awakened to the fact that the country
was on the eve of another revolution more
fatal in its results than the late rebellion
He next referred to the trouble in Colfax
aud C0ushata, Louisiana, and argued that
Kellogg was right in calling upon the govern
ment for troops, as he knew the character of
the men he had to deal with. These outrages
i'll tac South were for the purpose of ad-
aavar cling the cause of the Sc .esson Demo-
crazy.
lie read from the statistics of crime, and
argued that crime was much greater in the
South than in the North. Referring to his
own State. Mississippi, he said until within
the past year there had been better order and
less lawlessness there than in any other
Southern State. 1t was q well known fact
that it was one of the best reconstructed of
any of the insurrectionary States. 1t had the
best Judicial system OF any Southern or
Northern State, yet there had been ninety
nine murders committed there within year.
He read numerous extracts from the papers
published in the South complaining Of out
RACES, and then from the Louisville Courier
Journal statement that crime was blot
upon the Southern section; that grand juries
would not indict and petty juries would not
convict on account OF politics. Continuing
his argument he said: In Alabama there
were thirty-nine murders committed in three
counties. He did not know of a single in
stance where white man had been convicted
and punished for murder ola negro, but there
were hundreds OF instances since reconstruc-
ton where negroes had been hung. or incar-
cerated in prison for killing white men.
He next read from a Georgia paper para
graph advising the formation of white leagues,
in every hamlet, village and town, that the
people might prepare for q great conflict,
which seemed inevitable, and said the same
spirit pervaded the press of the South at this
hour as in 1861. He knew there was a large
element in the South which did not subscribe
to these wild doctrines the old Wing party
did not subscribe to them, but that party was
powerless. The same old secession Demo-
Gratis, who brought on the difficulty before,
were the men who were the leading editorial
writer's to-day-the men who were firing the
heart to murder, assassinate. and
overturn the Government of the United States
if necessary.
There was in the South to day at least half
q million of arms of the most improved
styles in the hands of these Democrats.
During the late canvass in Georgia the dis
tinguished Senator from that State (Gordon)
made speech in Macon county, and he
(Pease) had been Informed by an honorable
gentleman that the Senator during that
speech said: II suppose there is not
white Republican in this county. If there is,
want the good people of Macon county to
hIlNc AluA OuI aAu uOI pcIullt ulIu 10 i've
here"
He (Pease) was informed OF this by Jack
Brown, a man Of character, who belonged to
one Of the first families of Georgia, and he
was responsible as gentleman and man.
Continuing his argument Pease said fifty
had been burned in Mississippi,
and the number of crimes in other States
was greater. In almost every case where the
treasury of Southern State had been plum
1ered it had been done by Democrats. A
Democrat was in the scheme some wav
The prospect of Democratic victory in
1876 had done more to paralyz re the industries
Of the South than anything which ever han
pened. Many people of that section knew
md felt Democratic victory would ruin
hem. He would say to his Southern Demo-
cratic friends not to count too strongly upon
the assistance Of the Northern Democrats.
They would find the Democrats Of the North
would be turning away from them as they did
n 1861 !; they would support the flag and put