The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-03
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
o THE DAILY INTELLIGENoER
co N G r E s S.
HOUSE.


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House considered Bands silver bill.
Mr.. Kasson said the practical difficulty
with those Of the House who opposed the
bill, was the want Of sufficient iniorma-
ton 10 vote on the numerous propositions
embraced by the bill, and, therefore
they desire such an opportunity as was
given to other parliamentary bodies for
inquiry by the committee with u written
report. The bill objected to the pay
ment Of the public debt wages oflaborerl
and the payment OF all debts contracted
since 1878. 1t affected the payment oi
. Sl,OO0,OO0OO0 OF the savings in the
savings and other banks, apparently
authorizing the depreciation Of ten pei
cent for paper, and twenty per cent for
gold.
The action ON the bill to-day was pre-
vented by the motion to adjourn which
was carried.
- - COMMITTEE REPORT.
Mr. Mutchler made unanimous re.
port from the Committee on Expendi.
lures in the Interior Department, on the
Insane Asylum, and majority and minor
ity reports Of the same committee in re-
gard 10 survey Of public lands, were
also made. All ordered printed and re.
committed.
PENSION BILL.
The House then went into Committee
Of tho Whole, Mr.. Clymer in the chair,
the object being to take up and act upon
a bill providing that pensions shall date
from the death or disability Of the soldier,
but the Chair decided, and the House sus'
tanned the decision, that each bill pre-.
ceding it on the calendar must first be dis
posed Of or set aside. The first bill on
the calendar was that to transfer the In.
dian Bureau from The Interior TO The
War Department.
MIR. Wilson, Of Iowa, moved its post
ponement, but the House refused 10 post.
bone and Mr.. Cook, who had charge Of
the bill, yielded the floor to Mr.. Lamar
who proceeded to make speech on
political subjects.
POLITICAL address ny LAMAR.
He commenced by saying that it could
not be truthfully asserted that the prac.
tice and the peculiar system Of the meas.
ures adopted by the present administra'
ton commanded the appreciation OF the
majority OF the people, but on tho con-
trary the sentiment with which the Ameri.
can people regarded the conduct Of
national affairs was one Of very decided
dissatisfaction and dependency, accom-.
panied with strong and intense desire Oi
a change. There was deep and anxious
protest against the methods Of admins
tration, the tone and character OF the
public service and the principles Of leg.
islation that had marked the action oi
the government for many years past, and
vet i was remarkable that this popular
feeling had produced no changein the nd
ministration.
Such development Of public sentiment
in England would have produced change
in the administration against tle gov
ernment within "a hours. He did no,
believe that the apprehcnsions growing
out Of the united support by the southern
people OF the Democratic party was well
founded, or that it should stand In the
vay OF the aspiration of great people
for progress and reform. The idea thai
the south under any combination oi
parties or circumstances, would ever
again obtain control Of this giant Repub
lie and WELD its destinies against the will
and instinct Of this mighty people was al
an idea OF
THE MOST VISIONARY AND DAsELEss
KIND.
The people OF the South were PROSTATE
they had been defeated in war, and
made to feel that the sacrifices and
humiliation and helplessness OF defeat
had been allotted 10 them Us theil
share, while the people Of the
North had rcaped the rich results
Of victorious war, and had embodied
them in the very life and constitution o.
the nation. The institutions Of tht
South had been shattered and destroyed
Her industries has been disorganized
every footof her fertile soil sterilized BY
taxation, her educational interest waning
and her population was SO feeble in
comparison with. that Of the grea
Union, that with the South black
and white it would be impotent to secure
the election Of a single Southern mar
or defend single Southern interest. /
was therefore absurd for great people
| to apprehend that the people Of the Soutt
arrogated to themselves the ruling ol tht
interests OF this great nation. There wa
no aspiration which they had that was
not bounded by the horizon Of the Union
II they were united with the Democratic
party 1t was not for the purpose OF
SECTIONAL AGdRANDIzENENT.
It was not for the purpose OF reversing
the policy OF the Government, but II wa
because they observed an instructive ant
imperative law Of self.preservation. HI
quoted from the reports Of the Louisi
ana Investigation Committee and from
the President's annual message, in which
he acknowledged that the people Of tn,
South had vile and oppressive govern
ment to live under, and he asked how
could it be expected to find quiet, orderly
law.abiding communities whose Govern
ors were lawless felons, whose minister
Of Justice were thieves, and whose magis
trRtes were scoundrels2
THIS RACE PROBLEM
was not incapable Of solution. Two sucl
statesmen as Lord Derby and Earl Rus
sell would settle it in three days. Th
people Of the South would be content I,
withdraw from participation in the Pres
idential election II they could do so, anC
let the people OF the North choose Pres
dent, but they could not impose on them
selves stolid inactivity. All that the!
wanted in joining the Democratic part!
was not to rule cabinets, not to dietat,
policy, not to control the interests ot tn
country, but they wanted o.,
ARErREsENrATIvE SHARE
Of the responsibilities and benefits Of
common government, according to th
measure Of their population and race
They were now cooperating with tn
Democratic party under dire and iuex
orablo necessity, and only on the hope o
getting an administration that would no
Be unfriendly to them, that would not fee
itself commissioned to execute r6sentmen
and oppression upon them, they wanteC
| to get an administration which in plact
Of tho forces Of. ...a.t.' u
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