Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-12-06
FORTT-FOURTH CONGRESS.
WEDNESDAY, December 6.

| MT. wright, from tne committee on rules.
submitted a report of the standing commit
| tees OF The senate; which was adopted.
Mr.. Wright moved that all bills and papers
| lying on the table for reference be referred 10
the proper committees. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Morton, three Senators
10 De appointed by the chair were ordered to
be added TO the committee on privileges and
elections, TO aid them in carrying out the
resolution adopted yesterday by the Senate.
| providing for inquiring into the elections OF
| several of the southern states.
=, Mr. Morton asked that the usual number of
the report OF the select committee TO inquire
into Chinese emigration be printed. SO or
/ dered.
AIR. Thurman presented petition in rela-
/ ton TO Alabama Claims. II efcrred TO COM
mittee on foreign relations.
rsE OF TROOPS INTHE SOUTH.
Mr.. Wlthers aksed that the resolution intro
DUBBED yestepiay calling upon the President
for information in relation TO troops being
stationed AT Petersburg, Va. be taken up.
Mr.. Logan moved its reference 10 the COM
mittee ON military affairs.
Mr.. Withers opposed such reference and
wanted the resolution adopted.
Mr.. Logan said the President had right TO
send troops anywhere he pleased. They must
| be stationed somewhere, and the was no
! PROOF but that these troops We're i'm transitu
10 some other point, and merely camped in
Petersburg.
Mr.. Thurman said he totally denied the
right of the President to send troops any
where he pleased, and read the statute on
Mr.. Morton said if the Senator would charge
| that the troops did anything wrong while in
| Petersburg, II would be "A different matter;
| but they really appeared 10 be doing no
harm, and there was absolutely no reason
| for making this call upon the President.
Mr.. Sargent said he approved Of the act.of
the PRESIDENT in sending troops there, and he
very much regretted that more troops were
not sent into different places throughout the
south. There was good evidence that armed
rife clubs existed i'm different sections OF that
region. who took possession of the polls and
defied honest elections He very much re-
gretted that troops were not stationed at
Hamburg last July and at Louisiana when
Eliza Pinkston was being ravished and her
husband being killed. He cited other in
stances in which he regretted that troops
were not on hand TO keep the peace and stop
outrages.
Mr.. Logan said that certain Senators were
getting very much afraid OF the army. They
seemed to fear the presence of il anywhere i'm
their sections. He did not know what they
should do with the army if they took cogni-
Zance OF all the fears OF those gentlemen. IL
was urged that the President had no right to
SEND The troops anywhere near the polls
during elections. He would like to know
what they were TO do with the troops at such
times. Perhaps they would be compelled To
send The army up in a balloon and keep il
there TIL The election was over.
Mr.. Johnston said there was no occasion
for sending troops to Petersburg. Why were
Lhey not kept and quartered at Fortress
Monroe? The question was not what they
were doing there, but what were they there
at all for.
Mr. Logan still commended that the Presi-
dent had right TO station troops where he
pleased, as he was the commander n-chief
and il was strange that people were much
afraid of them. The people of Illinois were
not afraid 10 have troops quartered in that
state. He had known a whole state TO be
frightened by the rustling OF the leaves by
cows head. He had known of another STATE
being terribly frightened al the appearance
OF a major in their midst.
Mr.. Morton said lie would withdraw his OBJ
position TO the resolution and vote for il. lie
Ipf1 fg-aU
IN Virginia last May, and said as Senators
wanted information why the army was i'm
Virginia he would vote for the resolution,
and hoped Senators would get all the inlor-
nation they wanted.
Mr.. Thurman asked what had come over
the Senator To produce this charge. He had
left his seat and come back again and brought
in a slip of paper and read from il a list of
Outrages Who knows anything about the
authority OF this piece Of paper? Senators
talk about being afraid Of iniuring the army.
he believed that those who advocated the use
of the army in these political SquabbIes did
IL the most injury, and ne believed that every
man VINO wore the uniform Of the army
would much prefer 10 spend winter on the
bleS.
Applause broke out in portion of the gal
lery, whereupOn the chair said If il was re-
peated he would call upon the sci geant-at-
arms 10 execute the rules of the Senate and
clear the galleries Of all offending parties.
Mr.. Thurman conceded with the char
and said this was a deliberate body, and if
ever there was time when their delibera-
tons should be undistuTbed and untram-
melled that time was now. They were here
TO discuss and decide momentolIs questions
and he hoped the rules of the Senate would
be Vigorously and vigorously enforced.
Mr.. Edmunds also urged that the rules be
enforced upon this and upon all occasions
MT. EdmundS favored the passage of the
resolution, and said the opposition did not
come because they thought there was any
thing wrong in the resolution, or because they
thought the President would not answer the
question and give the Information called for
a resolution might be submitted asking
why the troops were at the Black Hills
al a certain time, and the President might
decline To answer it. not because there was
anything wrong i'm their being there but be-
cause IL was needless and unwarranted i'm
ter1erence with the public business He was
in favor OF the adoption of the resolution.
The question was taken on the adoption of
me resolution, and 1t was carried in the at
The Chair laid before the Senate a message
from the President. transmitting a letter and
accompanying documents from Hon. John
sherman and others, who were requested by
The President TO visit Louisiana and witness
the counting OF the electoral vote. II was or
dered printed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
ter the reading of the Journal the Speaker
proceed Ell TO call the com ittees for reports
Mr.. kehr. from the committee ON com
mefce, reported "A bill TO authorize the Ocean
CHy bridge company of Maryland 10 main
constructed across
The LinepuXent bay in Maryland. Passed
MI Reagan. from the same committed re-
ported bill 10 amend section 3,lI7 of the Re-
yised Statutes In relation TO the entry and
delivery of goods at intermediate ports TIT
provides that IL any vessel enrolled i'm the
United states shall touch al an intermediate
port OF the United States il shall b. permit
ted TO enter and deliver goods upon the pre-
>entatlon OF The manifest and having the
same filed.l Passed.
Mr. Sampson offered n resolution, which
was agreed 10, directing the committee ON
appropriations TO inquire whether the appro-
priation for the purchase of artificial limbs
Tor soldiers has been exhausted
The Speaker laid before the House a mes
sage nom the President OF the United States
transmitting letter from Senator sherman
ana other distinguished citizens OF the United
SIates IN relation to affairs in Louisiana.
Mr.. Garfield was at his own request excus-
ed from service on the special committee ON
Florida, ard Mr.. Woodheim was appointed.
Mr.. Springer moved that the Presidents
message be referred TO the special committee
on Louisiana.
Mr. Conger demanded the reading of the
letter enclosed.
The Speaker said Mr.. C. had perfect right |
TO make that demand.
MI. Holman moved to adjourn, and the re-
pnDiioans demanded the yeas and nays.
Ine motion To adiourn was reiacfed-yaaS