Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-16
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 15.--Bills were
for retirement of small legal tender notes
By Pendleton--To regulate the civil service
OF the United States and to promote the ef1i-
cheney thereof; also TO prohibit federal officers,
claimants and contractors from making or re-
ceiving assessments or contributions for DO.
litical purposes.
The Senate resumed consideration of the bill
public lands to public education, and Burn
side, its introducer, advocated it. He was fol
lowed by Morrill,, also in support of the bill
Senator Brown followed Senator Morrill, in
support of the bill He pointed out that near
ton to Garfield, had been of poor parentage,
and hal, by their thiart for knowledge and
their industry, worked their way up to the
top. Doubtless thousands of boys of equal
capacity with those he had mentioned had re-
mained mute and inglorious through absolute
impossibility of overcoming unfayorable cir
cumstances and obtaining the necessary cdu
cation to lift them above the mass.
The bill was then informally laid aside
until tomorrow, when it is designed to reach
a vote upon it,
At o'clock-On motion of Senator Cockrell
the Senate took up the Senate bill for the re
lief OF Samuel A. Lowe, appropriatmg S4, ,750
to pay him for services and expenses as clerk
Of the Territorial egislature of Kansas IN 1S55
Senator Ingalls, said this was an attempt to
have payment granted for the compilation for
what are known as the "bogus statutes of
Kansas, or the slave code which was repealed
and publicly burned by the free soilers
as soon as they obtained control of
the State; the statutes were the blackest, most
damnable body of laws ever attempted to be
passed They were never recognized as the
laws of Kansas. Lowe had no authority to
compile it, and his claim had slept all these
years until apparently it was now hoped that
the vigilance Of the country could be eludcd
Ingalls,, responding to Vest, said he did not
propose at this period Of the nations history,
TO enter upon vindicatlOn of John Brown
John Brown was executed as a traitor on the
second of December, 1859, but the nation took
up the flag that he laid down at Harpcr's Fer
ry and bore it i'll triumph through four years
of war TO Appomattox court house. John
Brown was about four years ahead of his time.
1t was the nation that WAS laggard, and it re-
quired but a very few years after his decease
for the nation to occupy the platform upon
which he stood.
Senator Edmunds said he began to get inter
ested in this bill John Browns name had
been brought up, although, he added, nothing
that can be said of him in this Senate, good or
evil, will mar the brightness of that fame
that will go down as the type of honest,
though it may be misguided, love of liberty
His body lies moulding in the grave, but his
soul, thank God, is marching on. Edmunds
then cited the act restricting expenses of terri
torial legislature of Kansas TO certain amounts
for defined purposes, and as loves services
were in excess of these specifications, Ed
munds held that he was not legally entitled to
pay for them.
Senator Cockrell, in replying to Senator Ed
munds, spoke of the inevitable excess of ex-
penses of public buildings over the amounts
appropriated for them, though the excess was
always allowed, yet this just claim was to be
cvaded because the employers of Lowe were
said to have slightly exceeded their authority.
Senator Allison moved to go into executive
session. Senator Coekrell hoped vote would
first be taken, and called for the yeas and nays
on Senator Allison's motion. The call was
not seconded and the Senate went into execu-
tive session. after which adjourned