The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-04
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
10 THR DAILY MTKlLIREEOER
CONG RE S S.


The Speaker called sAs SsIts5 ioF bin.
and hall 4 doEen Of = private nAtnrS
were introduced and referred. Several
filibustsFihg motions were made 70 con-
sumo the morning hour, and prevent the
introduetion Of Mr.. Eelis bill Tor the re-
peal Of the resumption act.
MF. Oliver moved 10 suSpend the rules
and adopt the resolution appointing =
select committee 70 inquire into the dis,
position made Of the ,900, 900 acres Of
land granted for the improvement Of DOa
Moipes rapids.
on motion Of Mr.. Holman the Com.
mittse on Public Lands was substituted
for the select committee and the motion
as modified was adopted.
Mr.. Holman stated the Conference
Committee on the Postohices appFppFiA,
ton bill bat agreed and the bill Fas being
printed had not in time to be ready to-
day, be therefore moved for an Adiourn.
ment and the HOuSe adjourned until
Wednesday.
SENATE. ~
1t was agreed that when the senate aa.
iourn to-day Il be TO meet again on
Wednesday.
Nj. West from the Conference Commit.
tee on the POstofiee Appropriation Bill,
made 4 report, which was read, ordered
printed and laid over until Wednesday,
The Senate resumed the confederation
Of unfinished business, being 4 resolution
to pay P. B. y. Pinchbackf from March Sd,
1878, until the termination Of his contest
for seat in the Senate.
Mr.. Bayatd spoken opposition.
Mr., Morton spoke In favor Of the
resolution. During the course Of his
remarks he said the country was now
about entering on great contest and the
success Of one party depended on over
coming an aggregate Republican mAior-
ity Of 10000 In four or Eve States, ltI
was expected that this m8jority Would
be overthrow; that the shotgun argu-
meut Of Mississippi would prevail.
When the Senator from DelaRAfe talked
about a blot In Louisiana, Mr.. Morton
desired 10 tell him where the blot was!
Mr.. BayArd said he had some kpONl-
edge Of what the Senator (Mortop) called
the shot gun argument Of Mississippi.
When the time for reporting to the SEN
ate the testimony taken by the COMMITTEES
which recently Investigated Mississippi
affairs came, L would be seen where the
shot gun argument originated i would
show where the Governor Of the State
deliberately Waged war upon unarmed
white men with his colored militia, and
was engaged in arraying one race against
the other. II there Wss ever was q ga
thering Of shot guns, II was 10 defend
homes and fresides. He (Bayard) would
NOT have referred TO this Mississippi in
yestigation HAD not the Senator from In
diana (Morton) undertaken 10 give to the
country, in advance OF the report OF the
committee, condition Of affairs which
did not exist in that State.
Mr., Mcmillan said the investigation
Of the testimony Of the MissiSippi Com
mittee would be far from showing this
Government that that State undertook to
array the black race against the white
race. On the contrary, Ii would be shown
that in 1875 armed bands Of white men
prepared to carry the election, and the
slaughter Of cOIored men would not only
astonish the Senate, but astonish the
whole country. He would undertake TO
say that It would show slaughter OF
black men throughout that State never
equalled before, and that the election
was Carried by fraud and violence.
Mr.. Bayard said that what be had
stated would be hereafter confronted with
testimony IN the case, would he not handy
words with the Senator from Minnesota,
but he was quito willing that the teati-
mony should come TO prove his Bayards)
assertions, and the sooner It came the bet.
ter. He believed he would be thoroughly
sustained BY the record, and he did not
rely. on. the testimony Of Democrats,
but on The evidence Of the Republican
party. The white people Of MisSiaippi
would have been little les5than men II
they had not prepared 70 defend them
themselves, and he referred TO the
Democratic Executive Committee in Mis-.
sissippi and the regulations Of that com.
mittee. Had that tcommittee always been
in favor OF peace and law between the
races in that State. The whole telegraghic
correspondence Of the chairman Of the
Democratic Executive Committee had
been seized against protest of himself and
his coIleage-McDonald, and brought
before the committee, but in the whole Of
that correspondence there was not one
word TO inspire Ill feeling.
Mr., Mcmillan said he was astonihed
that the Senator from DeleWare Bayard)
alluded 10 the Mississippi investigation
in advance Of the report Of the commit
tee. II the Senator from Indiana (Mor-
toni did allude TO II II was only in 8
general way, and he was not 4 member 6f
the committee, while the Senator from
Delaware was. he (McMillan) de-
sired 70 report that the out
RACES in Mississippi shocked him,
aud he believed would shock the whole
country.
Mr.. Morton said in his remarks that
he referred to the MissisSippi Affair
because the Senator from Delaware
referred to the outrage in Loui.
siana. The statement of Senator McMil.
Ian, Of Minnesota, corresponded with all
he (Morton) had heard with regard toI
Mississippi He then referred 70 his
speech OF last winter on that subject and
said he believed the picture he then pre-
sented WAS under drawn,
Mr.. Mcmillan said he thought when
the Senator made that speech 1t was an
exaggeration, but since whiting Missis-
sippi he had come 70 the conclusion that
the picture, instead Of being oyerdraWn