The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-06
In the House. several BILLS a I ioca]

In the House, several bills of i local
character were passed. Bntler, OF Mas
sachusetss, moved to 60 to the business
on the Speakers table, and gave notice
that his object was to get at the Senate
Civil Rights Bill, and move to substi-
tute for it the bill lagreed to by the Ju-
dietary Committee. Randall failed to
see the necessity OF going to business
on the Speakers table, and Beck gave
indication Of determination to fillibus-
ter, when the Speaker ruled that the
first question was on Wheeler's motion
to go into Committee, OF the Whole on
the Army Bill; which Was carried. Tho
bill appropriates $28. 600. 600; forbids
recruiting beyond 25. 600 enlisted men.
Without concluding the bill, the COM
mittee rose. when Butler renewed his
notion, locking SC reaohiDg the Civil
Rights Bill, when Democrats began
hllibustering. - EF''
After couple of hours spent In
hliibustering, On effort was made ct O
compromise. In the course OF tho col.
io4uJ tending TO that eHd, Butter, OF
Massachusetts. expressed bis willing
ness to have tho Civil Rights Bill
fully discussed and all proper amend.
ments offered and voted on, He asked
whether it was the purpose OF tha De-
mocratic side OF the House TO fillibuster
against report OF the Judiciary Com.
mittee. Randall-"Enfioient unte
the day is the evil thereof.m Butler
understand the evil Of the day to be
that we are wasting the public time.
Randall-No public basiness Whatever
is suffering by the course whish this
side OF the House is pnFsuing. Beok.
OF Kentucky, declared that the DEMO-
cratic side of the House was willing to
go on now and at all times With thea
appropriation bills, but that whatever
means he had to defeat the Civil
Rights Bill. he vould use. He did
not intend to consent to 20 to the
Speakers table, aud thus give that
bill any advantage, il he knew how TO
prevent it. He though. be had right
to do that and he would do it. not TO
defeat public business. but to fscili-
tate it. which was blocked up by the
throwing in OF this fire-brand. Butler
declared that he was one of those Who
believed that there was other business
for Congress to do besides passing ap-
preparation bills. He thought that
the question OF settling the righta Of
the citizens was as high aa that Of get.
ting little more or little less money
voted away. Cox. of New York, re-.
marks, while House was fiiliibueterinn.
soldiers OF the United States were throttling
the sovereign State Of Louiaians, and CoNs
gross was utterly indifferent to IL. rane, re
from some Republican members. ] If Icy
M vrn nj m nius1
should call of the Federal bayonets from
Louisiana. Tho Civil Rights Bill, II passed.
would only make the trouble worse and
worse. For one, he would not help the Ju.
dietary COMMITTEES, which had failed to re.
port on the Louisiana question. Let that
committee settle that question properly and
give peace to the South, and then the civil
rights Of the people, North and South,
would be better taken oare Of Butler de.
olared that he was aB anxious to get at
Louielana az any man on earth; laughter
and clapping OF handa;] but q committee of
the House had been sent there, and he did
not propose to consider the subject before
the report OF that committee was received.
tandaii.Then Why doee your President
Butler-I do not propose to make any ot.
tack Or defence In regard to affaira in Lou.
lsiana simply on tho lying telegrams OF the
Associated Press. or ON any report, except
the report OF our oommtstee; and uhen that
until peace te given to Louisiana. I gave
1t peace once. and ehall be glad to do it
once more: [Clapplng OF hands by nepuD.
loan members and sneering r,,naerko By
Democrats.l Oox-Why didn't the gentle.
man do it, then, so "a to make peace per-
msnent2 II he did we'll then, he has undone
It all ever aimee. Randall asked BntIer
| whether he justified she interference OF tho
military IN New Orleans and the expulsion
from the Legislature Of members who wero
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