Daily globe., 1879-05-16
FORTY-SiXTH CONGRESS-.
Extra Session.
The Senate.
TREATY WITH FRANCE.

questlng the President OF the United States to
open correspondence with the republic Of
France with view and for the purpose of ne
gotiating proper treaty of reciprocity and
commerce with that government, on terms
alike honorable and just. Three commission
ers are to be appointed on behalf of the q ,ited
States preliminary to the making of such a
treaty. Their compensation to be fixed by the
secretary of state. Referred.
RELIEF.
Senator Finley introduced bill for the re-
lief of John Sutor on account of lands taken
from and services rendered by him to the
United States.
THE LEGISLATIVE BILL.
Consideration then resumed of the leg
islative executive and judicial appropriation
bill, and Senator Beck explained the provis-
ions of the bill as it had been amended, stat
ing that the increase by the Senate was $94,-
500, making the total sum SIS, ,54l, 900. Among
the amendments were $4,000 for the mints
and S27, 200 for the interior department. ad-
ditional to the appropriations in the bill for
these purposes. He suggested what reforms
should be made. By the reduction of the
number of store keepers and gaugers under the
commissio.e of internal revenue $4,000 an
nually should be saved. He thought hundreds
of thousands of dollars could be saved by re-
adjusting the machinery of the customs de-
partment, as in numerous cases the expenses
OF collecting revenue far exceeds the
receipts. He hoped the
mittee on appropriations would consult with
the proper committees of the House, SO that at
the ext session Congress should have data on
which to act intelligenty. He would prefer to
have the reforms made now instead of waiting
till the Democrats came into power, which they
expected to do.
TAXES PAID BY STATES.
Senator Beck alluded to the remarks of Sena-
tor Conkling on former occasion with regard
to the amount of taxes and duties paid by
States that didn't go into the rebellion, and the
amount paid by those which did. He said
Kentucky paid seven millions and half of in
ternal revenue.
Senator Conkling said much Of the tax which
the Sen ttor claimed was paid by Kentucky
ON whisky.
Senator Beck remarked the Senator had an
swered his question to his (Beck's) satisfaction
when he said consumers paid the taxes. Sena-
tor Beck also noticed the remark of Senator
Conkling that the reduction of the duty on to-
bacco had diminished the receipt of taxes to
the amount of $3ll 600 900, and read from Off
cial figures to show that the revenue had been
increased rather than lessened. He also al
luded to the fact that notwithstanding the
quirements of the law that the number of
clerks in the several departments shall be
divid I'd pro rata among the States. Kentucky
had not one, while Maine had ninety. This
among other things ought to be looked into
with Il view to remedy.
A CAMPIGN LIE NAILED.
Senator Hampton rose to a personal explains
ton. He said Senator Window in q recent
speech stated he (Hampton) had put into the
Democratic national platform of 1868 the plank
declaring that the reconstruction acts of Con-
gress were usurpations and unconstitutional
and void. Senator Hampton said he had time
and again denied he did SO and had proven he
did not before the Kuklux investigation COM
mittee He was satisfied the Senator did not
intend to do him an in njustice.
Senator Window said he did not, but during
the campaign he saw what purported to be a
speech of the Senator, in which the Senator
said: 'That was my plank in the platform. I
wanted nothing else for when the great Demo
cratic party had pledged themselves to that,
when they had declared that these acts were
unconstitutional, revolutionary and void, I
was willing to wait in patience till that party
would be triumphant and apply the remedy in
their own good tim
Senator Hampton replied that he could not
say whether he used that language or not. If
he did it in the sense he approved the
words and respected them but he didn't put
them into the platform.
Senator Windom-Thc Senator does not deny
he made the speech and this is all l want.
SENATOR THURMAN's ADDRESS.
Senator Thurman then took the
floor and before beginning tt
speak ont he pending bill, said ht
was surprised that the Senator from kentucky
(Beck) had to * the trouble to treat seriously
the proposition of the Senator from New York
(Conkling) that the people residing in the dig
trict where the taxes are collected are the peo
pie upon whom the tax falls. Such state
ment refuted itself, and was absurdity no
to be tolerated by any honest intellect
Senator Thurman said they had before then
an appropriation bill for the support of tn
legislative, executive and judicial branches o
the government. Nobody denied that tn
amount sufficient, but opposition had beel
made to the bill because of the provisions re
lating to trial by jury and to elections. Rattle
than agree to these the minority say in effec
they will stop the appropriations and defea
the bill. Scarcely anything has been uttered
by the minority on the merits of this question
1t is said these provisions had no proper plac
in the appropriation bills, and that they wer
dictated by the South, because gentlemen i,
their imagination supposed there was
HUGE CONSPIRACY TO PRODUCE ANARCHY,
as if the majority here and the Democratic
people of the United States have not as mucl
interest in order, peace and the prosperity o
the country and perpetuity of the government
rs any man belonging to the Republican or an,
other party. The most infammatory, unfound
ed and uni ustifable attempt had been made tt
array portion of the people against tn
other, thus endeavoring to make sectienalsn
SS POI sbo uuC CoutlIltllO lCSeli why ul(
not these gentlemen point out the defects o
the provisions if they believed their existence
They were told these provisions were inserted
at command of Southern domination, bu
there was not one word of truth in it. The,
were not in the interest Of Southern men o.
Northern men particularly.
BUT IN THE INTERESTS OF ALL THE PEOPLE
of the country. These laws were pretended
when passed to be for the protection of freed
men in the South against Kuklux, but thei
real object was to oppress the voters in til
North. and especially to disfranchise imprisol
and persecute naturalized citizens of the Nor tn
The Almighty Father, said Thurman, hat
given MIN capacity to feel for which he wa
truly grateful, though he was sometimes in
convenienced by it. His indignation some
times made him forget that he weak ane
much. In speaking of the election laws ther
came to him picture of their operation i
New York city, of a cage full of men, sweltel
ing and suffering under the arbitrary and die
tatorial mode of a
CORRUPT AND coNrEMPTIBLE
commissioner of elections, and he could n,
suppress the thought that transaction ha
taken place in this country that could not ha,
occurred in any other civilized country wit
out blood being shed, but ho proposed to spes
dryly to-day, hoping thus to make bett
legal argument than if he exhibited feeling
He proposed to speak on the subject of Il
constitution, if that instrument may be me-
toned without irreverence. He then argu.
that the trial by jury law was the shield of tt
people and safeguard to liberty and the LAY
proposed to be repealed were enacted in the i
terest of the Republican party. Though
Jeffreys may hold his bloody assizes in th
country, yet in a minor degree, if not to Il
full extent, if these enormities should be co
tinued, the courts of justice, as Hallam says,
WOULD BECOME cAvERNs OF JUDICIAL MURDE
and mere instrumentalities of party feelil
and personal advantage. Senator Thurm'
proceeded to analyze the laws proposed to
repealed and argued that they were in the I