Daily globe., 1879-05-16
FORTI-SiXTH CONGRESS-.
Extra Session.
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TREATY WITH FRANCE.


France with view and for the purpose of ne
gotiating a 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 U lited
States preliminary to the making of such
treaty. Their compensation to be fixed by the
secretary of state. Referred
RELIEF.
Senator Finley introduced a 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 was 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 $1S000 for the mints
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
commissioner 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,sa as in numerous cases the expenses
of colleeting. revenue far exceeds the
receipts. He hoped the COM
mlCLee on APPROPRIATIONS WOulu consult Win
the proper committees of the House, SO that at
the n ext session Congress should have data on
which to act iutelligently. 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 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 stor claimed was paid by Kentucky was
whisky.
swered his question to his (Beck's) atisfaction
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 S11 900, 600, 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 re-
quiremcnts 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 view to remedy.
A CAMPIGN LIE NAILED. ,-.r
Senator Hampton rose to personal explana-
ton. He said Senator Window in 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 injustice.
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. l
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
vould 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 was in tho sense he approved the
words and respected them, but he didn't put
them into the platform.
Senator Windom-The Senator does not deny
he made the speech, and this is all want
SENATOR THURMANs ADDRESS.
Senator Thurman then took the
floor and before beginning to
speak ont he pending bil said he
surprised that the Senator from Kentucky,
(Beck), had to TX the trouble to treat seriously
the proposition of the Senator from New York
(Conkling), that the people residing in the dis
trict where the taxes are collected are the peo-
pie upon whom the tax falls. Such a state
ment refuted ITSELF and an absurdity not
to be tolerated by any honest intellect.
Senator Thurman said they had before them
appropriation bill for the support of tho
legislative, executive and judicial branches Of
the government. Nobody denied that the
amount was sufficient, but opposition had beer
made to the bill because of the provisions re-
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 place
in the appropriation bills, and that they wer,
dictated by the South, because gentlemen il
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 muct
interest in order peace and the prosperity O.
the country and perpetuity of the government
as any man belonging to the Republican or any
other party. The most intammatory, unfound
ed and unjustiiable attempt had been made tc
f1ray one portion of the people against tht
other, thus endeavoring to make sectionalisn
as permanent as the continent itself. Why die
not these gentlemen point out the defects O.
the provisions if they believed their existence
They were told these provisions were inserted
ut command of Southern domination, bu
there 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
in the South against Kuklux, but thei
real object was to oppress the voters in tn
North. and especially to disfranchise, impriso,
and persecute naturalized citizens of the North
The Almighty Father, said Thurman, ha.
given him a capacity to feel for which he wa
truly grateful, though he sometimes in
convenienced by it. His Indignation some
times made him forget that he was weak anc
ought not to give away to his feelings too
much. In speaking of the election laws ther
came to him q picture of their operation il
New York city, of cage full Of men, swelter
ing and suffering under the arbitrary and die
tatoral mode of a
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