The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-26

the passage of lottery matter through
mails. Adopted.
Mr.. Butler introduced bill restoring
the legal tender currency TO the consti.
tutional requirements. Referred.
The text of the bill is as follows:
Be it enacted, de-, That section 1888 of
the revised statutes making United
States notes legal tender for the pay
ment of all debts public OF private, ex-
cept for duties on imports, or interest on
public debt, is hereby repealed, and
that hereafter gold and silver currency
shall be the tender in payment of debts.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IS.-The following
bills were instroduced and REFEREED
By Senator COke-To provide for the
appointment of commissioners TO aScer-
tain and report the losses sustained by
citizens of the United States by reason
of the Indian depredations.
Mr. Salisbury from the committee on
privileges and elections, reported reso-
luton that an attachment issue To the
sergeant-at-arms commanding him TO
bring to the bar of the senate for con-
| tempt, Smith, and other witnesses sub
penaed by the subcommittee to investi-
| gate charges against senator Ingalls,,
and who have refused to testify. Adopted.
The pension appropriation bill pass
| ed
Senator Voorhees, resolution for the
| appointment of committee to investi-
| gate the cause of the negro emigration
from the south was taken up, and
! Voorhees, spoke upon it.
Senator Voorhees, acclaimed political
motives in offerins his resolution. The
negroes were evidently being deluded,
and his resolution was offered in the IN
terest of humanity and justice.
Window spoke briefly in support of his
amendment, instructing the committee
to inquire into the expectancy of setting
apart a territory for the negroes.
Senator Hill spoke against the resolu-
ton. He was tired of these investiga-
tions of the unimportant negro migra-
ton question. Itwould settle itself. The
negro was no longer a ward he was
free to go where he pleased. The negroes
were contented, in proportion to the
| length of time the southern states had
been under home rule. In Georgia from
| 10000 to 10000 colored children are at
tending school, and the blacks own
$5,000,O00 in real property. The talk
about this question was all CANNON.
1t was kept up by designing and I'M
scrupulous men.
Senator WINDOWS amendment was re-
jected. Yeas, 10; nays, %.
Mr.. Ingalls, said that he was not great
ly in sympathy with the exodus move
ment. If it assumed larger proportions l.
would be disastrous to those moving and
to those among whom they settled. He
had conversed with many of these ne
groes and had yet to find one who did
not say that his only reason for leaving
the south was a hope of obtaining the
free enjoyment of electoral rights and a
fair days wages for an honest days
work. One of those with whom he had
| talked came from Georgia, and corrobo-
rated, to some, extent, what senator Hill
had said about provisions made for edu-
cation in that state, but the negro had
said, Also there was a convict system IN
Georgia that amounted to practical sla-
very, and under which negro who stole
biscuit was imprisoned Tor ten years
and white man who killed negro was
sentenced for only two years.
Mr.. Voorhees, modified his resolution
so as TO omit special reference to North
Carolina and Indiana. He also accepted
the amendment suggested by Window,
so that the resolution reads:
WHEREAS, Large numbers of negroes
from the Southern States are emigrating
to the Northern States, and
WHEREAS, 1t is currently alleged that
they are induced to do so by the unjust
and cruel conduct of their white fellow
citizens towards them in the south, and
by denial or abridgement of their per
sOnal and political rights and privileges,
therefore, be il
Resolped, That committee of five men,
bers of this body be appointed by the
presiding officer, whose duty 1t shall be
to investigate the causes which have led
to the aforesaid emigration, and to report
the same to the senate; and said CON-
mIttee shall have power to send for per-
sons and papers.
HOUSE.
The gentle Ute Indian got into the
house of representatives. There was a
bill to authorize the secretary ofthe inter-
Tor TO negotiate with the Ute Indians for
the REIMBURSEMENT of their reservation
1t called forth general discussion. Conger,
for the Utes, and half dozen other men,
bers, including Haskell, of Kansas, for
the settlers and miners. No conclusion
was reached when the house adjourned.