The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-18
THECONGRESS.
msCUssIo' OF THE BLAiN REsoLu-
rIoNIN THE SENATE ITS
FINAL PASSAGE.
Aueed Debate In the House on the
ptaI Deficiency nnl-Mr. Kew Re-
-ked FOR Exceeding the Appropria-
ION.
ION.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-After PRAYER by In
hapiain and reading of the journal of yes
.eI Gay, the Ghalr laid before the Senate u lei
ter from the Secretary Of the Treas,,rv cor .,
veying the report of the superintendent Of tn
COAST survey, also letter from the Secretar
OF war, inviting attention TO the fact that et
L dmates f0r deficiencies for the current yea
Will be required before the end of the fiaca
4 priations. ppi'
letter from the Secretary Of War cover
ing .he estimates Of the Quartermaster Gene
raj Tor funds necessary for the construction 4
M1nracks, also from the Secretary OF tn
treasury, informing the Senate in respons
70 Q resolution, of tho amounts expended q
pubic works In each State and Territory H.
tween 1913 and 1878; also several House bills
WHEN me were appropriately referred.
Inc Cnair named Senators Anthony, Sar
gent and White as members OF the Joint Com
On motion Of NJ Hereford tn. House hi,
nxing the days for holding United States
DuICs 10 west virginia was passed.
numerous petitions were presented anf
Iiied under the rules by Senator'S Cameron O
Wisconsin, Cameron OF Pennsylvania Mitch
eli and others.
Mr.. Dorsey introduced q bill TO fix water
rates In the District.
:, Ihe House having non-con CURED in th,
oenaOe amendment to the Military Academy
appropriation bill, and asked u committee q
conference the Senate insisted On its amend
i aHin am the Chair named Messrs. Blaine
Allison ind Davis OF West Virginia. as the
con1erees On the part OF the Senate.
VI mourn OF Mr.. Window, the Senate pro
priations. "ppi'
1T II was rported from tho Appropriation
UOmmltteeoy Mr.. Window, who explained
,tnat the sehte committee had added $50, 100,
which Is $500 less than the estimates and
S4o,zeo inorethan the appropriation for the
present lisca year. The changes are made
as substantially to correspond to the APP
1ropriations made for the present fiscal wear
shu 10 restorthe salaries OF the ministers to
| Hreat BrltalnFrance, Germany and Russia.
~ some milr missions, to what they were
lpeIore the rebellion by the present law. The
lcommttee bepve that a less amount than
show RECOMMENDED will not serve the purposes
f the goverDnnt
The amendmts OF the Committee on Ap
roprlatlons w@ reported to the Senate and
agreed to.
The morning our having expired the Sen
, pc resumed co5ideration OF the unfinished
! business OF yestday, being the resolution of
h Sne senator fror Maine, the discussion com
mencinR on hiamendment, that the com
fnlttee and sub)mmittees be authorized to
edminister oath in such portions OF the
country as theiruty may lead them to visit
Mr., MerrimoI addressed the Senate at
length, directinAlis reply particularly to the
IcpStCu vi BnD9 last week,
7 Mr.. Wallace jstified his motion OF yestar
DAY to table the psolution. claiming that the
country general, and particularly its bust
ness men, are hertily sick Of the investiga-
lions and .politicl agitations that have been
80 frequently fored upon 1t lately. What the
country needs not politics, but time and
wise legislation 0 recuperate its energies
but the Senate aving almost unanimou sly
refused to lend itelf to this good work it only
remained to NEE fully and court the investi-
gauOns, which hJ party would do.
he then ATTACHED the arguments used bv
Mr.Bialne In Is debate. and offered proof |
Ina! tne negro population were free and I'M |
controlled and nintimidated voters. Citing
Lhe practice prehilng In different States, he |
showed conclusbeIy that while in many Of |
Ihem the Democatic party had large natural |
.a!orltles, the republicans had, under form
OF law and by he enforcement of technical
rules, succeeded n deprivlng large majoritles
OF voters of their chosen representatives. The
remedy for tbs state OF affairs was not in
such resolutions as that offered by the Senator
from Maine, 'ut by helping tho material
interests of The country.
ME-: Blaine, interrupting, asked how, il In
lne otate OF pennsylvania a great wrong
against natural majority existed as he
claimed, he came to be In the Senator
MI. Wallace replied: In tho history OF all
countries political volcanoes sometimes oc-
tie on one Of these.
MIR. Blame thought the Senator was still In
state OF eruption, but he desired to call at
entlon to the fact that the Senator was the
econd gentleman Of Democratic procliyities
Who had been sent to the Senate from Penn
ylvania since the state of things which he
portrayed was inauguratcd in that State.
MI Wnyte was opposed to rowing commits
IONS lie had never seen any results from
ucn Investigations, save public excursions at
upllc expense. He desired to know from the /
enator from Maine where his voice was dur {
NJ the great political disturbance of 1914 and
~ Was he against the greatest fraud and
limitation that had ever disgraced a free
ntry why did not he stand up then q
4 the rights Of the whites Mt that dav2 n
as convenient for the Senator to be silent in
lose days. Where was he then ,
MIR. Blaine produced much merriment nv
'plylng that at that time he was boy in an
eademy, and that he did not remember raia ,
g his voice very loudly then {
Mr.. Whyte inquired where then was he
lrlng The disturbances of later years when
J must have been twenty-five years old2
as he boy then?
Mr.. Blaine would answer that he had never !,
ted with the men who had created these
which was more than many n
ntlemen on the Democratic side could assert.
J the debate was closing he desired to saw to
ese Senators who had deplored interference "
tn the South as retarding its deyelopment =
q prosperity; that such state of things
listed there because the feeling existed In
Q North and abroad that emigrants from
NOrtn are not welcome in these States
d that neither they nor the colored popula-
N will be received there on terms of politi-
equality. He thought that during the
st five years. except In Florida. more .
'rtherners had come away from Southern th
ites than had gone there. While he was a ps
end OF the South, and wished its prosper n,
;, he must warn Southerners that they n,
smselves were building wall Of fire around ~
cir country, and to themselves was due the p
of prosperity the South experiences. =.
DIR. Whyte again arose and deplorpd that NJ
Senator, ever since he came into the SEN II
!, had been tirebrand in its midst. Ifhe
been boy In the troubles OF 1874 and r
., he was certainly now very old bow. i
ere had been no peace, no order In the SEN p
since the Senator had been transplanted M
m ehe other chamber, which had been W.
med an air garden, and If the Senator IN i
ded to keep the country disturbed with ~.
les of this character he wished he thl
lld go to the other side to epring 80
m. 1t was within his knowledge tilat III
close OF the war the negro vote was wholly
trolled by the Freedmens Bureau, and he Co
ted several amusing anecdotes ilIust-at-
his position. He wanted to see Congress- ,
its legitimate business OF disposing or I