The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-11-22
SENATE.
WAsH1saroN, November IA

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WAsH1SGToN, November IA.
Mr.. Ingalls,, from the Committee on
Indian Affairs, reported, with amend
ments, the Senate bill to enable the In
dians to become citizens Of the United
States. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Conover introduced bill to grant
additional homesteads to settlers upon
public lands in the States of Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida. Re-
ferred to Committee on Public Lands.
At the conclusion of the morning hour,
Mr.. Maxey called up resolution sub
mitted by him few days ago, instruct
ing the Committee on Military Affairs to
inquire into the expediency of construct
ing a system of defensive works on the
Rio Grande frontier of the United States
and spoke at length in regard to the raids
from Mexico into Texas, and the neces-
sity for such defensive works.
Mr.. Window, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported with amend
ments the House bill making appropria.
tions for the support of the army, and it
was placed on the calendar
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Townsend offered resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee to in
quire into the facts of the imprisonment
of Robert Smalls (colored), member of
the House, of South Carolina, and to re-
port whether such imprisonment is or is
not violation of the Constitutional
privileges Of the House.
Mr.. Butler offered as a substitute res
olution giving the Judiciary Committee
power to send for persons and papers in
maxine such investigation. Adopted.
Mr., Wood, chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means, reported back res
olution for the final adjournment of Con.
gress on the 22l inst, at 6 p. m. He said
he would rot call for present action, but
would call it up in day or two.
The House then resumed the Consid-
Grafton of the bill for the repeal of the
Resumption act.
The Repeal Of Resumption.
Mr.. FELTON, favored the repeal of the
Resumption act. He inveighed against
class legislation, and opposed striking by
laboring men. Labor had no right to
make war upon capital, and it was equal
ly wrong for capital to conspire against
labor. The act demonetizing the silver
dollar was as unjust aud wicked as the
famous strikes, which had startled and
alarmed the country. That act demon.
etizing silver was the most deliberate
and inexCusable attack upon labor ever
kn wn in legislative history; but that did
not quite make New York and New
England owners of the cotton fields of
the South, and therefore the black
scheme of contraction had been con
summated just as the wild delirium of
the war was subsiding into reason. All
encouragement was withdrawn and finan.
cial ruin ensued During the war the
bankers of New York and other antigua.
ted ShylOCks spent every dollar not ex-
pended in paying for substitutes in buy
ing u S. bonds, and they became clam
orous for contraction. They cared not
for the resumption of specie payments.
That was but pretense. They had got
up an agitation, and sent down the price
of labor to starvation wages. The geutle.
man from New York (Chittenden) had
said yesterday from isperch (the Clerks
desk !, that the gamblers and loafers and
bankrupts demanded the repeal of the
resumption act. The gentleman from
New York must have kept a ledger, on
one side of which the poor man was put,
and the man who owned 300 or 400
thousand dollars in Government securi-
ties on the other side; the side which
was grinding down the laboring man.
Encouragement on the Democratic side)
AS soon as Mr.. CLittenden heard him
self alluded to in Mr.. Felton's remarks,
he crossed over to the Democratic side
of the House in order to hear more dis.
tinCtly what was said about him, and
made several attempts to interpose re.
mark, but was not permitted TO do so, as
he himself gave notice yesterday that he
would not allow any interruptions.
Mr. FELTON, went on with his denuncia-
ton of capitalists, addressing himself d.
rectly to Mr.. Chittenden, who was stand
ing in one of the aisles ofthe Democratic
side, the butt of jests and laughter on
that side. He said: And yet you un-
dertake to comfort the country by telling
it that all these things will right them
selves. Yes, | know that these things
will right themselves when they have
touched the bottomless pit of despair
and poverty. Look yonder al that storm
driven ocean, hurricane and darkness
are upon the deep. The signal guns are
firing every minute. The ships are GO
ing down by hundreds; thousands of
precious lives are being engulfed; and in
the midst of the ruins there (pointing
over to Chittenden) stands the wrecker,
(outbuTst Of laughter and applause on
the Democratic side) waiting for spoils,
assuring those in peril of destruction
that all these things will right them
selves. Continued applause on the
Democratic side.
Mr. Crittenden (still standing on the
Democratic side) asked minute to re-
ply to Mr.. FELTON,.
Mr.. Douglas-No, not half a minute to
the wrecker. daughter and noisy dem
onstrations)
Mr.. Tucker proposed, jocularly, to have
a recess of few minutes, until some re-
storatives be applied to the corpse of
New York (meaning Mr.. Chittenden.)
Mr.. Hardenbergh, who was entitled
to the floor, yielded five minutes of his
time to Mr.. Chittenden.
Mr.. ChitteDden, speaking from hisow
seat, said: II will not return TO argu-