Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-26

public education, and to provide for 8
more complete endowment and support
of the national colleges for the advance
ment OF scientific and industrial educa'
tiou. Ordered printed and to lie on the
table.
A large number of petitions were pre-.
sented for the repeal of the act of 1877:
relieving certain foreign products of ter
per cent. duty, and against the rest0ra'
ton of the duty on tea and coffee. Re.
ferred.
After the morning business the COM
mittee on naval affairs had the floor fol
the disposition of bills on the calendar
reported by that committee. The bill
for the relief of the survivors Of the Po-
laris was passed.
At the expiration OF the morning hOul
the Louisiana discussion was resumed
and Senator Johnston addressed the SEN
ate. Referring to the Presidents mes.
sage in answer to the resolution of the
senate, he said the President had not in.
formed the senate as requested why the
officers of the army of the United States
had been permitted to interfere in the
organization of the Louisiana legfsla-
ture. The President had really told the
army to go to Louisiana and do what
Kellogg told them, and the orders OF
Kellogg were the orders of the Presi.
dent. The Republican legislature in
Louisiana had retained men in place OF
three or four of those elected by General
DeTTobriand. The men seated in these
splaces had no right in the world to their
seats. Why did not the President have
them put out? They were there in de-
fiance of all law. He next spoke Oi
troops being stationed in the south,
and said their presence there was the
cause Of the great discord in the southern
sections. The President, as commander
in-chief of the army, was bound to obey
the constitution and laws; and it was his
duty to instruct his general to obey the
law, and if they did not know he should
teach them. The President had declared
in his message that if error had been
committed by the army, it had been on
the side of good order and the mainte-
nance of law. Was it to maintain law
that the President OF the United States
undertook to decide who were members
of the Louisiana legislature? Was it to
maintain law that directions were given
that the army should obey the orders OF
Kellogg? Ii so, where was the law? He
denied that any kukluX organizations
existed in the south now, and, in con-
cluslon, said all that the southern peO-
pie demanded was the right TO govern
themselves.
Senator Pease sent TO the clerks desk
and had read resolutions of the Missis-
sippi legislature indorsing the action of
General Sheridan in Louisiana, and said
the President had been declared q
usurper and dictator. He had been ar.
raigned on mere newspaper reports.
When the facts came out, it was shown
that instead Of any attempt to overthrow
the government of Louisiana, the Pres
ident had only performed that which
his oath of Office compelled him to. The
President was bound to recognize Kel.
logg as governor of the State. Congress
has taken no action to establish a gov
ernment there, ard the President had
no other course than the recognition Oi
Kellogg left him. He said the act oi
Wilt was a part of the conspiracy on
the part of the Democrats to overthrow
the government of Louisiana. Not one
word of censure had come from the
Democratic side of this chamber toward
Wilt, who was q revolutionist. He
YVES surprised that an American senator
should stand in his place and apologies
for the Outrages committed in Louisiana
when it had been shown that three
thousand five.hundred persons had been
murdered there for political reasons
since 1866. He read from the report
of Senator SchuTZ upon the condition
Of the south made in 1865, and said
that he begged to assure Senator
Schurz that the condition of affairs he
found then had been growing worse ev.
cry day since. This new movement al
the south meant revolution and destruc
ton of the republic. Under the politi.
cal teachings of the senator from Mis-
souri, Schurz] his State had been turned
over to the secession Democrats, and he
would have the Republican party now
turn over the south to the White League
banditti. The old kuklux organization
and the White League Of to-day were
the same; yet these murderers and as,
sassins had their apOlOgists on this floor
Senator Thurman said the senator haC
asserted that assassins and murdererE
had apologists on this floor, and he de-
manded that the senator name the apol
ogists.
Senator Pease said perhaps he should
qualify that statement. He had not
heard a senator ia his place apologist
for murder and assassination, but wher
a senator on the Republican side spoke
Of these crimes, senators on the Othel
side had treated them lightly, and said
it is your Radical outrage mill, gOtter
up for political purposes; when senator!
from the south said the Associated Pres!
in that section was invariably in the
hands Of the White Leaguers, ETC., tht
senators on the other side paid no atten
ton to such statements.
Senator Thurman said he utterly de-
MED that there had been any menbe
on the Democratic side who said ont
word by way of apology for the assassi
I nation, and there was no foundation fO
making such charge. The Democratic
senators had denounced the eXaggera
! tiOn and falsehood when it came ques
/ ton of veracity between the senate
! from Mississippi and the gentlemen o
! the Associated Press. That Senate
Pease must allow the Democratic sena
tors TO reserve their judgement.
Before concluding his speech, Senate
/ Pease yielded to Senator Sherman, wl'
offered a resolution authorizing tn
/ President to appoint committee to at
/ tend the International penitentiary con
/ gress, proposed to be held at Rome mex
| year. Referred.
/ Senator Sherman presented reso1u
! ton from the Cincinnati Light Guard
/ in favor of the passage of law provid
( ing that the arms issued to Ohio unde
! the act of 1908, shall not be chsrg ed Z
/ the State. Referred,
Adjourned.
a Vicksburg telegram last night ssy
that the feeling against the proposition Y
. compromise the 6hrievalty matter by mas
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