National Republican., 1876-08-10
CONGRESS,
TConfinued from First Pane.

Valeu IN the carrier ad mlnlstratlon OIL the GOy-
erDmeut. said be could not envy the man who
would hold these things up to the gaze of the
world. II was done to vindicate the corrup-
tiCn snd peculstions that prevailed in the ad-
mtaistration Of the present day. The arraign-
menI that was ade of the South was an ibti-
zna'ion that they were all assassins AMI that
they were raising up thtir children with as
tassip-like ideas.
He believed 1t was the desire of all the
American people to properly understand this
whole Southern question, and when they did
do go there would not be this arrsignment of
the South. When 100000 negro voters were
| cast upon the South 1t wSs o serious problem
in that section as well as in the North how to
educate them for their new duties of citizen
! ship. Even the Senator from Indiana (Mr.
MoRToN) wanted to give them probationary
period Of seven or of ten years. Referring to
Mr.. HoAR's statement that the Mississippi
Legislature of 1865 had passed laws which
would remit the slaves to a condition of slavery
again, Mr.. HOOKER said that that Legislature
was composed almost entirely of the men in the
State who, during the war, had been known as
Union men, and that Legislature elected as
United States Senators two of the most promi-
nent men in the State, Judge Sharkey and
the present Republican Senator ALcoRN.
Mr.. III. then went on to argue that In all
slayery-frOm Massachusetts,, the first, to
New Jersey, the last-the most penal restrict
i've and prohibitory laws had been adopted for
the control of the newly-freed race. He
quoted the laws of Massachusetts, on the sub
ject from the revision of the code of 1914 to
show that restrictions were placed upon the
newly-emancipated race.
Mr.. HOAR said that there were no laws
passed in 1914 In Massachusetts ON the sub
ject, as slavery had been abolished there long
before.
Mr.. THOMPSON, of Mass, suggested that
the gentleman was doubtless reading from a
work embracing digest of some of the old
laws.
Mr.. HOAR said that there was no such re-
vision of the code in 1914 as that quoted from.
The gentleman was doubtless quoting ancient
laws, enacted in the old Colonial days.
Mr.. HOOKER said whether old Colonial
days or not, it showed the sentiment that then
pervaded the people of Massachusetts. He
desired to call attention to the fact that neither
Massachusetts, nor any Northern State had sent
a coIored representative to the National Legis-
lature. The reason was that the negro there
was not more than one in a hundred. The
people OF the South had accepted the results
of the war in good faith, and he had never
heard man, woman or child in Mississippi
express desire for 4 return of the old order
of things. The races there lived together in
the greatest harmony.
It was the politicians who went South who
stirred up the strife tor the basest political
purposes. They had been used by the Repub-
lican party to shake the bloody shirt and stir
up strife between the races. These men went
South, and instead of going to the front door
and ringing the bell, they entered at the back
gate, and, while the white men were sleeping,
they held midnight meetings with the negroes
and tried to persuade them that there was an
irreconcilable contest between the black and
white races. When the blacks are left to
themselves they are contented with the whites,
and unite with them as they had done in Ala
bama. [Applause.l In Arkansas, Virginia,
Tennessee and other States, where the politi-
clans did not interfere, there was peace, and
soriaiiyy and politically the old slave would act
with his old master. ii
Mr.. SMALLS of s. c., said that was not so.
Mr.. HOOKER said it was so.- He declined
to be interrupted, and wcIid repeat that all
the difficulty came from the politicians, who
stirred up the strife.
Mr.. SMALLS said it was not so. If the Ku
Klux were->kept back the negro would never
vote the Democratic ticket.
~Ar. HOOKER said he had seen in his own
State whole lines of
NEGROES MARCHING IN PROCESSION WITH
DEMOCRATS
and to Democratic meetings. There was no
intimidation. In districts where there were
Federal officers and where there was ample
protection the negroes had voluntarily voted
the Democratic ticket. Every good man in
the South reprobated crime and outlawry, and
there was every motive why the two races
should live in perfect harmony. These re-
ported outrages and murders are SANDERS upon
both races. With regard to the affair at
Vicksburg and in Warren county year or
two ago, Mr.. HOOKER said that the whites had
never armed, except to protect the city, and
after they were Informed that the negroes
were marching on it. Leave the races alone,
and the differences would adjust themselves.
Did the people of the North desire to raise
wall between the two races in the South! Did
they wish to oppress the Anglo Saxon race
The party that ior party purposes would stir
up this strife in the South was guilty of more
infamous outrages than any of the reported
outrages of the South. Leave the races to
themselves, and they will adjust their own diff
ferences.
Mr.. RANDALL, of Pa, submitted the re-
port Of the conference committee on the legis
lative appropriation bill. He said that after
protracted conferences and taking up the bill
paragraph by paragraph, the committee had
been enabled to reach conclusion upon all
the questions except two. One was as to the
salaries of members of Congress, and the other
as to the salary of the President. Neither
House was willing to yield on these questions.
The line of policy pursued by the House was
to reduce the salaries of all the officers of the
Government, and of course they could not
COHslSlcutlN uulCSS
they also reduced their own salaries also.
1t was due to the Senate to say that their
conferees argued that since the salary had
been fixed at 5000 the franking privilege
had been abolished, and that had added
materially to the expenses of the Con-
gresham. As to the salary of the President,
the House conferees contended that it had been
on an appropriation bill, and that
therefore it should Ue repealed on like bill.
The Senate conferees met this with state
ment that a i'll had been passed reducing the
salary and that the President had vetoed it,
and to put it now on an appropriation bill
would seem Ike an attempt at coercion. The
Senate is fixed and unalterable in its determin-
alton on these questions, and is willing to take
the responsibility. 1t has sustained the con-
ferees on that point. The House conferees de- |
cided that the House itself should vindlcate
its views, and assume the responsibility of the |
course to be pursued.
Mr.. MORRISON, of H., said the House con-
ferees had pressed their views to the eXtrem- |
ity of right and duty. The items upon which |
agreements had been reached would result in |
the discharge of seven hundred and sixty-fve |
employees and in a reduction of million and |
a half of dollars below what the Senate had |
appropriated in the bill. He could see no |
prospect of agreement on the other two points |
of difference, and therefore, the House, he
thought, must yi:ld, as they could not force !
the senate 10 ADOPT Jner views.
Mr.. KASS0N, of Iowa, said that with refer !
ence to
THE PRESIDENTS SALARY !
the Senate proposed that the constitutional |
amount should be appropriated during the |
of the present incumbent's term,
and the question of the whole salary could be |
settled at the next session.
Mr.. LORD, of N. Y, offered q resolution |
directing the House conferees to recede from |
their disagreement on the two points presented |
by Mr.. RANDALL; which was adopted by
vote of 109 to Sc, and the old conferees, Messrs.
RANDALL, MORRISON and KAssoN, were re- |
appointed.
Mr.. RANDALL offered a resolution reciting |
that Hallet Kilbourn had brought suit against |
the Speaker and a committee of the House for |
damages for false imprisonment, and directing |
the parties sued to consult with the Judiciary |
Committee in relation to the suit, and author |
izing said committee to employ counsel to de- |
fend the suit. Adopted.
The SPEAKER appointed Messrs. LAW
RENEE, of Ohio; LORD, of n. Y, and HoAR,
of Mass, eonferees on the bill in relation to |
the partition of real estate in the District of |
Columbia.