The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-22
LATEST FRoM EUROPE.
XLIVTH CONGRESS--First Session.
WASHINGTON. June u, 1875.
SENATE

SENATE.
The Presidents cXtradition message was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Rcla-
fionS. .. ~
The Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tionS was directed ia inquire what ieglSa-
rion was necessary to secure telegraph
messages from seizure 10y unauthorized per-
sons.
The C"m,nittec on Indian Affairs reported
House bill transferring the Indian Bureau,
with recommendation that lis considera-
tion hc postponed until December.
Mr. Ingalls, asked that the bill be laid on
tn. table for the present. So ordered.
House bill authorizing the issue OF Sl0,-
0tH, 900 specie for legal tenders was passed
with the following amendment:
Provided that the trade dollar shall not
hereafter be legal tender, and authorizing
the Secretary OF the Treasury to limit the
coinage thereof to such amount rs he may
deem sufficient to meet the export demand
for the same
The Indian appropriations bill was re-
>umcd. The debate occupied several hours,
when motion TO take up House bill trans
frrring the Bureau prevailed by vote OF
twenty TO seventeen.
The Senate went into Executive session,
after which recess was taken for q night
session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House went into Committee OF the
Whole on the >lndry civil appropriations
I'LL.
During the discussion Mr.. Stenccr. OF
PENNSYLVANIA spoke in bitter denuuciation
II the managers nf the Freednlcn'> Bank.
lie showed that the negro depoSitorS will
lose S2.nn0,u00.
Mr.. Stcnger gave history OF the rise, de-
cline, and fall OF the institution. rejecting
severely on its various officers and on the
Finance Committee. He charged that Henry
p. Cook, William S. Huntington, and the
other members of the Finance Committee,
and the two actuarics, Eaton and Stickney,
inside Of the bank, and Alex. X. Shepherd.
Hallett kilbourn, J. V. W. Fcndenburgh,
and others outside Of it, had formed ring
by which at various times and in various
ways money was procured from the bank
on worthless or insufficient security, or no
security at all. to be used in divers enter
prises and speculations by members OF the
ring. .,r
He described the class of persons whose
victims the freedmen had been AS class
Governed by Il mock philanthropy, and
yilest hypocrisy. They had stolen the lv-
cry Of heaven to serve the devil III. They
had gone TO the freedmen with words of
promise, and hope. and encouragement
upon their lips, but with consuming greed
and avarce in their hearts. They had borne
10 these helpless and ignorant people prof
sers of help, whilst their minds were buslly
engaged in schemes to rob them. They had
gonc with the teachings OF Christ in their
mouths, whilst their chief ambition had
been to be Of the class Of political
I 4 Il. e
men. Towards them the good people of
the South, and of the North as well, enter
tanned an unc0mpromising and undying
hatred, and could extend no charity TO-
wards such human vulturcs. II was into
the clutches of such people that the unedu-
Gated, helpless but confding freedmen fell.
Their confidence had been secured to such
an extent that in nine years OF The bank
existence its deposits amounted to SJ6, ,O0o,-
900. The whole South had been drained OF
its money. and it had gone into the custody
of the men who had charge,of the WASH
ington office.
In conclusion he said: "The freedman
no longer regards the Washington ring as a
MYTH. To hlm IFS existence Is stern, sol
emn, sad fact lt has cast great shadow
over his home and life. 1t has efsslpated
the earnings and savings Of wcarisome
Toll. 1t has brought penury, want, suffer-
ing, and deep distress to his loved ones. 1t
has driven hope from his heart, undermined
his confidence in man, and shaken his fa!th
in God. Some there are who fattencd upon
the freedman's savings for time and are
now. from the shrinkage OF their invest
ments, total bankrupts i'll fortune. But they
are exceptional cases. Most of them have
large possessions, and see them revelling
in the lap OF luxury. AS witness the
investment OF their ill-gotten gains in mag
niiicent business-houses and pa!atial resi-
dcnces along these beautiful streets; as
hear OF them by the power Of their wealth
and social influence packing and de-
bauching juries, controlling courts, and
suhsidiZinS. newspapers; as listen 10
the story OF their nearness to him who exc
cutes the laws for this great free people, and
then turn my eyes upon the poor freedman-
ragged, Il hungry, suffering, wretched,
robbed--whose money has been filched from
him by these very people, wonder Whe-
ther all these things will not one day shrink
away from them also"
Mr.. Cook, OF Georgia, addressed the
House on the subject OF the grievances in
the southern States, and in advocacy OF re-
funding the cotton tax.
Night session