National Republican., 1876-12-16

cal disabilities Of WIN. sharp Lloyd ]. Beail and |
FTSpci Sa6spPsTNS al al i1d p ,Eom omm,ss
Appropriations, reported back the Senate amend |
ments to the bill making appropriations to pay /
the |
RxPKNsEs OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES APPOINTED
to investigate the recent elections. The House |
bill recently appropriated ~ 001 for the expenses
of the House committees. The Senate amended |
it by putting on $50, 900 to meet the expenses of
Senate investigating committees. Since then the |
House has authorized another committee to visit
he HoSse Is snt tbereSars increased To gooS and
the committee recommend that the Senate appro-
priation be reduced to $4,000, which the commit |
Mr. HALE, Of Me-, opposed the proposed re.
duction Of the Senate appropriation. The Senate,
as 1t had an undoubted right to do, has ordered |
investigations, and It best knows Its needs. The
Senate has already summoned witnesses from
re0g;pe large emount Of There Nsre
some things that the American people desired |
more than saving 10000, and that was the ascer |
tainment Of the facts connected with the late |
elections. There was condition Of affairs In the
State of Louisiana and in South Carolina which |
should be investigated. In order that all the |
facts might be known, he would be willing to
double the appropriation for the House commit
were constituted or how many Democrats were on |
them. -.s-
Mr.. HOLMAN said that none would go fur |
sheT than ne would to inysstga.e ANAL affairs in the
legged but he wanted to call attention 70 the fact
that many OF the political friends Of Mr., HALE
the House. There was tendency to run into a
large expenditure in these Investigations, and it
was the duty of the House to guard against these
Mr.. Cox, Of N. Y, wanted the country to un-
derstand that the Democratic party was not re-
sponslble at least in the expense that would at
tend the investigation of the registration 10 New
York and other Northern cities. The proposition
for that Investigation first came from the other
side, and the Democrats would not place them-
selves in the attitude of opposing any tinvestiga
ton. 49,. /
NO MAN IN THE CITIES OF NEW YORK,
Brooklyn and Jersey City had ever questioned |
the manner In which the elections were conducted
in those cities In the last election. But as the
as Representative IN part Of New YORK, thought
It was their duty to investigate the bare facts.
city was inserted at the request Of Mr. RANDALL
himself because the original resolution as offered
by Mr.. MAoDoUeALL was understood to be for
manner In which the election was condlcted In |
the SPEAKFR's district He was glad to hear the
anxious - for an an investigation. That gentleman
should have been here on the arst day Of the ses
sion, and persuaded his friends to agree to the
man take his place as leader Of his party, and
compel his friends in New Orleans to produce the
80 that Congress could Rave an opportunity q |
settling this whole matter speedily and as In
MI. Hale denied that Governor wells and his
colleagues had refused any information to the
Congressional committee. They had agreed 70
papers that were asked for. 80
Mr. COX said the gentleman knew, as well as
HE KNEW THAT GOD LIVES,
that the frauds do not appear in the copies. The
originals tSas the cor oOn%Issse and d'd the country
MI HALE said the originate were given freely
to the Democratic as we'll as the Republican
visiting committees during the count, and they
were examined item by item. Z, 80.
cans would not give the papers to the committee
on the excuse that they had to be returned to the
Legislatufe. You should be ashamed that your
Mr.. T0WNSEND, Of N. Y. The shame is mu-
NH Mr.. Cox was glad of that acknowledgement.
He was glad that the acknowledgment was put
upon the record. II the shame is mutual 1t must
TowNsENpl and the gentleman from Maine mr.
HALEl NV al assssz Ea-eF-ras.t--r
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NO SHAME.
Laughter on the Ropublican side, and cries of
That's so.nl: We have no cause for shame. Why
investigatioaH The Republican Returning Board
in nIouisiana sat in secret session.
Mr., mr HALE = said 4 had not done 50, and he was
Mr.. cox inquired why the Republicans had
not put Democrat on the Returning Boardf
Were the Republicans ashamed to sit with
BE would ask Mr.. HALE il the board did not sit
the last two days In secret session?
Mr.. HALE said they did net deny the actual
count They were open in all their proceedings,
except when they had occasion to retire for de-
liberation and consultation.
Mr.. COX said that was another confession that
they were in secret. They were Judges consult.
What were they doing in that secret sessionf
That Is just what the Congressional committee
Mr.. HALE said they were making up their
Mr. COX said the committee wanted to ascer-
tain all about that. He then referred to the
REPORT MADE By Mr.. TRuMBULL
and ha 0f ha II vii I'M
mIttee, and said that report confirmed the state
ment that the board was in secret session. Why
Investigation There was never time or an oc-
casion when there should be less secrecy. The
to take merely what IS on the surface ANY body
can get up Primd fdcie case, but the Democrats
wanted to go below mere superficial certification
the great question Of the Presidency be settled.
1t was the only way in which peace could be
coined the patriotic assertion made by the gem
tleman from Maine that he wanted the fullest
Mr.. Cox then proposed to have printed as a
part Of his remarks the report signed by Trum-
bull and others, but MIR. CoNsER and others in
sisted upon its being read. Otherwise it could
MT. HALE congratulated the other side Of the
House on their
NEW BORN ZEAL FOR OPEN INVESTIGATION,
especially when he remembered that at the last
sat upon the espial of members and with closed
DOORS 1t was o marvel to him that any one
should declare in the face of the facts that the
proceedings Of the Louisiana Returning Board
were not open and fair. He was in New Orleans,
and he knew what he was talking about, and the
very report Just read shows that the sessions
were open and fair. The committees Of each
side were present whenever they chose to be.
were mot invited TO be present. It was open and
free as daylight, and there was not the least
knew that they had a good and unanswerahle
case.
He of course could not know what the report Of
not hesitate to predict that the report of the
lority Of that committee, when Il was presented
and his associates, taken up almost entirely with
techncalities. and would not go down to the rea,
questions involved; There would not be fingers
sertion that no Democrat was on the board, Mr.
HALE said that number of Democrats had been
invited to participate In the proceedings, and
Mr. COX said the gentleman was mistaken.
He would like him 70 give the names Of the
Mr.. HALE said he could not now give the
Mr.. GIBSON, of La, denied that any Demo-
crat had been offered the position and had de-
clined it.
Mr.. HALE said that the Democratic commit
Board declined to receive him, because II was an
attempt to force q particular individual upon
them BE wanted thorough investigatiO9 4 It
fore, in favor of voting the money asked for BY
the Senate. An investigation would disclose such
a state of affairs as would horrify the country
with the atrocities perpetrated. He could tell
the gentlemen that there were such atrocities
perpetrated in single parishes in Louisiana, one
half Of which occurring In England would have
REvoLUTIoNIzED THE BRITISH EMPIRE
at any time during the last one hundred years.
Mr.. HOAR, Of Mass, said that the paper just
read contained sllusion 70 report which com
mittee headed by himself had made In 1874, and
it was difficuit to believe that Mr. TrumbuIi and
the other gentlemen who had signed that paper
could have read the report signed by himself
Mr.. WHEELER and others In 1s7l
The TrumbulI report utterly misstates the
facts in his (Mr HoARs) report and tries to make
1t appear that the Returning Board was then con-
demned generally. All that the report says Of
the Returning Board Is that 1t erred in one par
ticular in the construction of its legal powersand
that in doing so 1t had only followed the illegal
example set 1t by the Returning Board Of 1872.
which was Democratic. They had said further
in that report that II the Democratic party Of the
North fully understood the whole matter they
would have no further af1liation with the party
Of murder in Louisiana. The question to be de-
| termined now is. what is the true status of the
voters OF Louisiana Is 1t true that there are
parishes in Louisiana where men cannot cast their