The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-16

publican side OF the chamber and iacet
the Republican members while speaking 9
bnt he wsa listened 10 with marked In
terest by all present. =,
The bill was then informally laid asidl
till tomorrow, when 1t Is designed Y
reach o vote upon 1t at O'Clock.
SLAVERY DAYS" RECALLED.
On motion Of Mr.. Cockrell, the Senate
took up the Senate Bill for the relief o
Samuel A. Lowe, appropriating SIC, $50 u
pay him for services and expenses, a
clerk ofthe Territorial Legislature Of Kan
aas in 1855. Mr.. ingalls, said this wa
an attempt to pay man for the com
piation OF what are known as the bogus
statutes" OF Kansas, or the slave code
which was repealed and publicly burned
bv the free soileTs Is soon as sthey obtained
control OF the State. The statutes were
the blackest and most dSmnAble body o.
laws ever attempted to be passed. They
never we're recognized as the laws OF Kan
sAs. Mr.. Lowe had no authority TO com
pile II, and his claim has slept all these
years, until apparently 1t was now hoped
chat the vigilance Of the country could be
e!uded.
Mr. Ingalls, read, as a sample, one Of the
sections OF this bogus code, which made II
felony punishable by imprisonment at
hard labor for two years, to bring into the
Territory any printed or written matter
denying the right Of persons 10 hold slaves,
and making it capital otfense 70 bring q
fugitive slave into the Territory. He also
read other like provisions. LOVES claim
was repudiated by his own party, who
y ere In power in Kansas for five or six
wears after he compiled this book. The
laws we're not enacted. They were never
signed By any officer Of the legislature.
AR. Cockrs!l showed that the Legislature
that authorized The compilation was the
only one that ever asSembled under the act
OF 1854. It was not the fault OF Mr.. Lowe
that the laws he was empowered 10 COM
pile we're bad, and were subsequently re-
pndiated. He deserved pay for the SER
vices rendered to legally organized Leg
islature.
Mr. ingalls, asked why the Democratic
par,y had not allowed Mr. loves claim
out OF the Territorial expense fund. lu
fact, it was rejected by the proper officer
Mr.. Harris, OF Tennessee, said the re.
fusal TO pay the claims was because the
work was not com pleted until after the ap.
preparation for legislative expenses had
been exhausted. This was why the claims
had remained unpaid.
Mr.. Vest referred to the remark OF. Mr..
ingalls, that the code was based on the
code OF Missouri No such statutes ever
existed in Missouri. He did not propose
to revive the questions OF that terrible
period. Slavery was dead, and he had
no wish to bring it 10 life again, but he
could not refrain since the subject had
been brought up from saying that violence
begot violence, and outrage provoked out.
rage. People sent out by tho Plymouth
Church and other pillars oil God ard
morality, headed by that old ecolndsel
John Brown, who afterwards justly ex.
plated his crimes Oh o scatfold at HarPer's
Ferry, were responsible for much of the
violence OF that unfortunate time. He did
not propose to quietly hear the people OF
Missouri charged with projecting the
slavery statutes In Kansas. Lowe was an
irresponsible servant aud should be paid
for his clerical work.
HloQUEST DEFENsE OF JOHN BROWN.
Mr.. Ingalls,, responding 10 Mr.. Vest,
said he did not propose at this period oI
the Nations history 10 enter on vindtca-
lion Of John Brown. John Brown was
executed M q traitor on the second OF De-
eember, 1859, but the Nation took mp the
flsg that he laid down at HGrper's Ferry,
and bore 1t in 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 la2gard.
It required but very few years after his
decease for the Nation TO occupy the plat
form on which he stood.
Mr.. Ingalls, did not intend to be drawn
into any controversy with the gentleman
from Missouri on this subject. He had
simply stated that the laws OF Missouri
formed the basis OF the code in question,
being changed or supplemented in such
respects as to fit them for the peculiar
state Of society desired to be established
in Kansas. He continued to argue og 4inst
the validity OF loves claim on its own
merits.
Mr.. Harris, OF Tennessee, summed up
the evidence before the Committee on
Claims, showing loves services and the
failure 10 pay him because the appropri.
alton was exhausted, and stated his opin.
ion that on its merits as an ordinary
claim It was good.
Mr.. Edmunds said he began to get inter.
ested In this bill since John Browns name
had been brought up, "althongh," he add.
ed, nothing that can be said Of him in
this Senate, good or evil, will mar the
brightness of that fame that will 20 down
as the type Of honest, though ismsy be
misguided, love OF liberty.
"Johu Browns body ll.sa moaldsrIus In the grave,
But his soul gOs maichinS on,'
thank Godp
Mr.. Edmunds then cited the old act re.
strictipg the expenses Of the Territorial
Legislature Of Kansas to certain amounts
for defined purpose, and as loves ser.
vices we're in excess OF these specifications,
he (EdmuDds) held that Lowe was not
legally entitled to pay for them.
Mr.. Cockrell, in reply to Mr.. Edmuuds,
spoke Of the inevitable excess OF the ex.
penses Of public buildings over the
amounts appropriated for them, though
the excess was always allowed, yet this
Just claim was to be evaded because the
expenses OF Mr.. Lowe we're said to have
slightly exceeded their authority.
Mr.. Allison moved to go into executive
session.
Mr.. Cockrell hoped q vTte would first
be taken and called for the yeas and nays
on Allison's motion. The call was not Bec.
onded and the Senate went into executive
session, alter which they adjourned.
HOUSE.