Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-01
FORTY.FIFTH CONGRESS,
SATURDAY, February /.

Chief OF engineers respecting the plan OF the
| national survey proposed by the National Acad-
emy OF Sciences: transmitting drawings to ac-
company the report OF the board of officers on
the Eads Improvement at the south pass OF the
Mississippi river; a letter from the commisSary
general OF subsistence relative TO the organiZa-
tlon OF the subsistence department as proposed
by the blllto reorganize the army: and estimates
or addltional appropriations required for the
War department; all OF which were referred t.
appropriate committees.
Mr.. Ntthers presented a petition OF farmers
of Hanover county, Va, fayorng a reduction OF
The tax on tobacco. Referred to the committee
on finance.
Mr.. Sargent presented petition signed by a
arge number OF merchants and others OF san
Francisco tavortng the payment OF war pre-
miums out OF the Geneva award Referred TO
tie committee on the judiciary.
Mr. McCreery. from the joint commtte ap-
pointed at the last session OF Congress TO in
qmre into the expediency OF transferring the
iGGian Durean from the Interior TO the War de-
paFtIlent, submitted a report signed by four
members OF the committee in favor of the trans
| fer. ordered that IL be printed,
Mt. saunders introduced bill to restore re-
| CORDS of the Patent Oflice which have been
! buried or lost. Referred to the committee on
MIR. Coke submitted amendments to tbe Son
ale Dill providing for the construction of ran
load from Galveston, Texas. TO a point on the
! h. no Grande opposite Camargo. in the republic
| OF Ie&lco. ordered that they be printed and
| referred TO the committee on railroads
MI. EdmundS called up Senate bill to provide
ior asceflalnlng and settling private land claims
ia certain states and territories. THE bill az
pies TO private land claims in the territories OF
New Mexico, Wyoming. Arizona and Utah ana
lhe states OF Nevada and Colorado
Mr.. EdnlundS III explanation OF the bill said
It's OBJECT was 10 settle titles to lands derived
from the Spanish and Mexican governments. a
great palt or which are In the territories OF
New Mexico and Arizona.
1he bill was discussed until l:3g nm and
lhen laid aside without action
MT: Hoar. from the minority OF The committee
Y l1fr aD 1al.A
signed by himself and MeSSrs Cameron avis
and Mitchell in favor OF 18TH amendment 10
the constitution OF the United states prohibit-
ing the states from diSfranchiSinr persons on ac-
count CT sex. Ordered 10 be printed
Messrs. Sargent. Anthony and Mcpherson
were appointed the conference committee on
tie part OF the Senate on the bill to abolish the
volunteer navy OF the United States
The Senate then resumed consideration OF the
un1lniSfed business, being the resolutions of Mr.
EdmundS declaring the validity of the 13tn
14th and 18th amendments to the constitution of
the United States
Mr.. Morgan continued his argument in favor
CT his substitute, from the point where he left
Oil on Thursday last He first quoted at length
from the Cruikshank case decided by the Su-
preme Court, and said his substitute was based
upon that decision. He argued that the CON
greSS OF the United States was no place to make
laws Tor the government of men in their capac-
lty as citizens OF the different states. He tMr
morgan was not sent here TO correct ANYTHING
IN Vermont or oregon which he might think
was violation of the Constitution of the United
States. AS national legislator ne had no right
tointeffere in the local affairs of any state He
then made lengthy legal argument as TO
rights OF citizens, their protection by their state
Jaws, &c, and claimed that ii was The duty OF
TIE state TO protect her citizens.
DEBATE ON SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
HOTSE.-The Speaker announced that the
regular order was the morning hour. and the
pending business to be the bill for the relief OF
Maggie Barron.
Mr. Chalmers cared nothing for the payment
OF loyal southern claims because LOYALTY to the
union during the war meant dtSloyalty TO every
thlng that he held dear. That many men in the
south had been loyal 10 the union was never
the!esS true, and he did not envy the cheap no.
lltlcal capital that union soldier could make
by telling such men that he la 4 no more confi-
dence in their honesty than a mouse had in a
stuffed cat skin. The claim now presented
came from Women and children, against waom
The stat ute or limitation seldom ran. The gent
rom Wisconsin (Bragg)-taking advantage OF
tfe Well Known opposition everywhere-Soughr
10 blend war claims with claims for
southern Improvements. and endeayored IN
throw the odor of his dead cat over them
I hat gentleman announced in advance that he
was unwilling to trust the honesty OF either the
claimants or the court. Such readiness TO Sis
rect corruption ia others sometimes indicated
an innate tendency to corruption In oneself
ard he should therefore not charge corruption
on anyone. The issues OF the war were GER
talnly dead with him. He had but one political
faith, to preserve inviolate local self-govern-
ment; put one political hope, TO build up the
lie called attention to the difference between
the speech made by the gentleman from Wis
fonsi1 % M SMF Bragglmnot as toned down in the
Record, but as delivered, and partially published
In tie Ny. Herald-and the speech coming from
arepublican member from New Hampshire (Mr
Blair, both OF which appeared in the Record on
infancy it had been fostered by the south.
Mississippi MI democrats had stood side
by side ta,,, with those from Michigan in
had warned northern democrats, last SeS-
sion, that refusal to recognize the lust de-
maDds of the south might result in the defeat OF
southern democrats, and the sending OF other
repres entativeS, who would form alliances with
other parties The rapid growth OF independent
Candidates tn the south had already sustained
his declaration. He had nothing to take back
LOT a Lille, not syllable. He repeated what he
had then said. He hoped that the solid south
might still be solid for the democratic party, but
Tor That portion OF ft that had the courage and
manliness to treat the people OF the south as
equals, and not as interiors in the Union. The
gentleman from Wisconsin, after having slept
on his speech for nearly ayear and after Hnurs-
Ing his wrath to keep It warm" had come for
ward 10 eXcommunicate him (Chalmer,)
nom the democratic church, and to give
OF the southern men, who dared to ask
for justice and for equal distributions OF
appropriations from the federal treasury He
Ont; Bragg had assumed to speak In the name
or the northern democrats; and, even il he had
authority thus to speak, it was the first time
anybody had ever heard OF minority under
taking to turn out the majority of a party. But
this great leader from the solid democratic
state Of Wisconsin proposed to show him to the
door OF the democratic party, and when the
south asked for small proportion of govern
ment AID ne treated her like a meRdlcant and
sald TO her, like Van Beekman to old Rip Van
Wlnkle, "Give her cold potato and let her
CO." AS representative of the northern demo-
crats, the gentleman from Wisconsin had
staied that they would not sell out, body and
SOU, 10 southern democrats, and had intimated
That they could do better-by getting
recruits from the north-without the south |
than with it: He would like to know
who had appointed that gentleman salesman |
OF the northern democrats. How many northern |
democrats could he deliver, even il he found a |
purchaser? That gentleman reminded him OF |
tne 'CoW Boys and ''Sk1nnerS" of the revolu- |
uonary war, who belonged to neither party, but |
Iobped lndiscr1minately from both and fed I'm |
terror when danger approached. The gent |
struck first on one side and then on the other |
ana whenever question came up requiring |
fearless courage and manhood he rushed In |
frantic terror into the republican ranks to shell |
ter his political head. II such men were demo- |
Gratis, upon what principle of democracy do they |
stand? The principles OF the democratic party /
at the end of the war had been peace and resto- /
ration-that the dead past might bury its dead, /
and that the bloody shirt should wave alone |
from the fag-pole OF republican banners. But /
the gent from Wisconsin had round blooder |
shirt than had ever waved from the battlementS |
of the republican party, and he was stretching |
IN q fro climb n N tn tJ,o /