The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-02

clerk 10 the Congressional Library, the
money to make good his loss last week.
There was nothing Of special interest
done at the Cabinet meeting to-day.
Revenue receipts to-day, slo2,57e; Gus
toms, s2O2,242.
The weather II much warmer, and II feels
again like summer.
Associated Pres Reports by telegraph to the Dis
pafch.i
REPORT OF TIE EXODUS COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-Sepator Vance, on
behalf Of the majority Of the Senate Exc
dus Committee, to-day submitted report,
which. after setting forth the amount OF
labor devoted TO the inquiry, and reporting
that witnesses had been examined from the
States OF North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. Missouri,
Kansas, and Indiana, says: "We think 1t
clearly established. from the testimony,
that the following may be said 10 be the
causes which induced this emigration Of
colored people from various portions OF the
South TO northern States-chiefy Kansas
and Indiana
| "The exodus to Indiana was undoubted-
ly induced. In Il great degree by northern
politicians and negro leaders in their en-
ploy and in the employ OF railroad compa-
MES"
| After favorable review OF the condition
Of the colored race in the South, the CON-
mittee, referring 10 the educational adyan-
| tages in that section, say they are insult
ticient and far inferior to those OF the most
northern States, but such as they are the
same facilities are afforded 10 the blacks as
to the whites.
The report, continuing, says particular
examination into the condition OF colored
men in North Carolina showed that the
causes Of discomfort among the coIored
people could not have arisen from any de-
privation Of their political rights, or any
hardship in their condition. IL was also
shown that the average compensation for
labor in that State was quite equal 10, il
not better, than that IN any northern State
to which the eXoders were going. The
closest scrutiny could detect no outrage or
violence inflicted upon their political rights
in North Carolina. 1t was also shown that
there existed societies in Washington city
and in western cities to promote the exodus.
In conclusion, the committee expresses
the positive opinion that the condition OF
the coiored people OF the South Is not only
rs good as could have reasonably been eX-
pccted. but is better than il large commu-
mites had been transferred to colder and
more inhospitable climate, thus thrusting
them into competition with different sys-
| TEN OF labor; and while gradual migration
might benefit the individual black man and
his family as it does tho Of the whites, the
committee regard this wholesale attempt
! to transfer q people without intelligence
| from the homes Of their nativity as iniu-
rious to the people and labor system OF the
States where they go, and, more than all,
| injurious to the last degree TO the black
people themselves. That there is much in
their condition in the South, the committee
say. to be deplored, no one will deny; that
their condition is gradually improving in
every respect is really true.
"Cla,hings," the committee say, be
| tween the two races is neither 10 be denied
nor to be wondered at, but when we come
10 consider the condition in which these
people were freed as the result OF bitter
and dcsolating civil war, and that for the
purposes Of party politics these incompe-
tent, ignorant, iandless, homeless people,
without any qualifications Of citizenship,
without any OF the ties OF property or the
obligations OF education, were suddenly
thrown into political power, and the enort
was maze not only 10 pace thtul upOH "h
equality with their late masters, but to alb
5lutely place them in front and hold them
there by legislation, by military violence,
and by every other means that could posi-
| DIV be resorted to-when we consider these
things, no philosophical mind can behold
their present condition and present COM
parative state Of peace and amity between
the two races without wonder that their
| ic {
The report is signed by Messrs. Vance,
VOORHEES,, and PendetOn.
Mr.. Window gave notice that he would
hereafter submit a dissenting report Oh be-
half OF the Republican minority.
| THE NATIONAL DEBT.
| WASHINGTON, June 1.-The debt state
ment shows the decrease in the public debt
for MAY to be S15.92S, 033.S7 cash in the
Treasury. S2O6, ola, 516.97 gold certificates,
IS. O5O, 100; silver certificates, sl2, 224,2lO
certificates OF deposit outstanding, ST.
$4,000; refundng certificates, 81, ALB, 100
LEGAL tenders outstanding, $346.6Sl.Ol6 ;
fractional currency, s15, 1872, 934.37.