New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-26
CONGRESS-.
Senate.


WASHINGTON, July 25.-In the Senate the
impeachment trial was resumed, and Mr..
Carpenter, of counsel for the accused. spoke.
Mr. Gordon introduced bill to establish
competent nCn-partis. n revenue corps.
Referred to the Committee on Civil Service.
Mr.. Hamilton called up House bill to
amend certain sections of the pOstoffice ap-
preparation bill of June %, 1874, and seo-
ton 1854 of the Revised Statutes in regard
to straw bids. Passed.
Impeachment resumed.
Mr.. Carpenter. by unanimous consent.
was allowed to stand at the desk occupied
by him when q Senator, that he might be
better heard. Mr.. Carpenter will continue
his argument tomorrow.
Legislation resumed.
Mr.. Wright moved to take up the bill to
pay the awards of the Southern Claims
Commission, but yielded to the river and
barbor bill Before reaching q vote, the
Senate adjourned.
The bill reported last Thursday by Mr..
Bland, of Missouri, from the Committee on
Mines and Mining, to utilize the products
of gold and silver mines, came up tor con-
sideration in the morning hour.
Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa, made the point of
order that the bill must first be considered
in committee of the whole.
tinueA all through the morning hour, that
beiDg one way Of defeating the bill. This
bill is the one originally introduced by Mr..
Ranks, of Massachusetts. allowing the issue
of coin notes to be paid by the several
mines and assay officers for the net value
of gold and silver bullion therein deposited,
such notes to be receivable for all dues to
| the United States and to be legal tender
for all debts, public and private.
The Speaker pro tenn, Mr.. Sayler, Of
Ohio, overruled the point of order stating
! that he could not see in what possible sense
!, re bill could be regarded as either making
an appropriation or requiring an appropria-
ton to be made, or as being a proposition
for q tau on the people, The mere fact
that tbs bill might involve expense to the
cover ,nas ent, or that in some way expense
would E~ necessarily incurred in carrying
ont it's provisions, could not bring it within
the rule resairing bills to be considered ia
committee Of the whole.
Mr.. Kasson appealed from the decision.
The ruling of the Speaker was sustained
by $50 to "a, but the morning hour having
expired the bill went over.
The Naval COmmittee's report was made
the special order for Friday, with six hours
debate, equally divided.
The case of Platt vs. Goode, of Virginia,
was taken ap without action.
Mississippi, who rose to personal ex piana-
ton, and quoted from communication in
the Washington Republican,, charging him
with having made speeches at Aberdeen and
Scooba totally at variance with the speech
he had m ade at Jackson. Ths coInmunica
ton stated that he had, in those speeches,
spoken in a laudatory manner of tae White
line policy. He appealed to his colleague,
Mr.. Singleton, who had heard his speech at
ScOOha aa Tn " hat waS the fOno of IL
Mr.. Singleton, of Mississippi, bore testi-
mony to the fact that the speech made by
Mr.. Lamar at Jackson was directly against
what was termed the white line policy, and
that there was nothing in it which tended
to encourage ill feeling between the races.
The article, therefore, did him gross injus-
tice.
Mr.. Lamar expressed his thanks to Mr..
Singleton, and went on to say that his
speech at Aberdeen was also in favor of the
coordination OF races and against the su-
premacy or subOrdinatiOn of any one race.
He fortified his position on that point by
kilograms and letters from A. w. Troop, r.
Davy, formerly a Representative from Mis-
sissippl. As to the allegation that he has,
in q speech made by him after his election
to the Senate, apologized for his eulogy on
Charles Sumner, he denied there was any
truth in it. Never, in the slightest instance :,
nor in tina least particular, had he swerved
from the sentiments which be had uttered
in that speech. He called upon his Repub-
lican colleague Wells to speak as to the
character of his speeches during the
Mr.. Wells, of mississippi, said that he
had heard Mr.. Lamar s,eak at Holly
Springs, in which speech he invoked the
people to throw aside all pref judices of race !,
and to seize the government jointly, and
administer it in the interest of the public
welfare.
Mr. Lamar, in conclusion, apologized to
| the House, and said he would not have
brought the matter to its attention on his
| own account and had only done so on ac-
| count of the interests that were struck
through him.
| Mr.. Hale, of Maine, intimated that he
shared somewhat in the general suspicion
| that the utterance of such sentiments az
Mr.. Lamar had proclaimed in the House
| was safer here than elsewhere, and he called
his attention to the characterization of his
Aberdeen speech by his friend, the editor
of the Vicksburg Herald, as an eloquent
Democratic speech, in which he had de-
clared, in manly and ringing tones, that the
contest involved the supremacy OF the un-
conquered and uncomfortable Saxon races.
Mr.. Lamar explained the sense and con-
nectiOn in which he had used that phrase,
ard said that the editor of the Vicksbnrg
| He:uM udu outlrely ulsuHU0T0COOO his
meaning. As to the gentlemen (Hale's
other suggestion, he said that there was
nothing in their character or relations
which justified that gentleman's interpo
sition in the matter. lApplause on the
Democratic side
The discussion of the contested election
case was then resumed, but was not tin
ished.
Mr.. Hurlbut, of Illinois, from the Com
s..
resolution directing the Secretary of Wal
not to issue the Northwestern Indians the
special patent cartridges which are required
for the arms used by them. Adopted.
The House adjourned.
| Democratic caucus will be held Thurs