Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
Bills Introduced a2d Referred.

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By Mr.. Hite, OF Colorado-For the
retirement OF the small legal tender
notes.
Bv Mr.. Pendleton-To regulate the
civil service OF the United States, and to
promote the efficiency thereof.
Also bill to prohibit Federal officers,
claimants and contractors from making
or receiving assessments or contri6u-
tions for political purposes.
MIR. Call offered a resolution instruct
ing the Judiciary Committee to INQUIRE
into and report upon the alleged abuse
OF power by the L. S Courts. Laid on
the table, to be called up by MIR. Call
hereafter. >,
The Senate then resumed the consid'
Grafton OF the bill devoting part OF the
proceeds oi the sale of public lands to
public education, and Mr.. Burnside, its
introducer, advocated it. He was fol.
lowed by Mr. Morrill,, also in support oi
the bill.
After debate the bill was laid aside
till tomorrow, when 1t is design Ad TO
reach vote upon it at four . clock.
On motion of Mr.. Gockrell, tie Senate
took up the Senate bill for the relief OF
Samuel A. Love, appropriatlng $40, 100
to pay him for services and expenses
as Clerk OF the Territorial Legislature OF
Kansas in 1855.
MIR. Ingalls, said this was an attempt
to have grant for the compilation OF
what are known as the "Bogus Statutes"
of Kansas, or the Slave Cole, which
was repealed and publicly burned by
the Free Sellers, as soon as they Oh
tanned control of the State. The statutes
were the blackest and most damnablea
body of laws ever attempted
to be passed. They never were recog,-
nized as the laws OF Kansas. Lowe had
no authority to compile it, and his claim
has slept all these years until apparently
it was now hoped that the vigilance oil
the country could be eluded.
Mr.. Ingalls, read, as a SAMPLE, one OF
the sections of this bogus code, which
made it felony, punishable by imprl'-
onment at hard labor for two years, to
bring into the Territory any printed or
written matter denying the right of per
sons to hold slaves, and making II cap
ital offense to bring fugitive slave into
the Territory. He also read other Ike
provisions loves claim was repudia-
tel by his own party, who were in pow.
er for five or six years after he compiled
this book. The laws were not enacted.
They were never signed by any officer
OF the Legislature.
Mr.. Cockrell showed that the legisla-
ture that authorized the compilation
wa, the only one that ever assembled
under the act Of 1854. Ii was not the
fault ( Lowe that the laws he was en-
powered to compile were bad, and were
subsequently repudiated. He deserved
pay for the service rendered 10 the legal
ly oryanized legislature.
Mr.. Ingalls, asked why the Demo ratio
party hal not allowed Loves claim
out OF the territorial expenses fund. In
fact it was reie:ted by the proper officer.
Mr.. Harris, ot Tennessee, said the
refusal to pay the claim was made he,
cause the work WAS not completed until
after the appropriation for legislative
expenses had been exhausted. This
was why the claim had remained un'
paid.
Mr.. Vest referred to the remark OF
Ingalls, that the Code was baced 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 il TO life. but he
could not refrain, since the subject lad
been brought up, from saying tlst vio'
lence begat violence and outrage pro-
yoked outrage. The people sent
out by Plymouth church and other
pillars OF God and morality, head
ed bv that old scoundrel, John
Brown. who afterwards Justly
expiated his crimes on the scatiold at
Harper's Ferry, were responsible for
much OF the violence OF that unfortunate
time. He did not propose 10 quietly
hear the people of Missouri charged With
projecting the slavery statutes in Nam
sas. Mr.. Lowe was an irresponsible
servant and should be paid for his c!eri-
cal work. 49,.
Mr.. ingalls, responding TO Mr.. Vest
said he did not propose at this period oil
the Nations history t, enter on the v!n'
dication OF John Brown. John Brown
was executed as a traitor on the ID oi
December. 1859, but the Nation took up
the flag that he laid down at HarPer's
Ferry and bore it in triumph through
four wears OF war TO Appomat-
tax Court House. John Brown
was about four years ahead OF his time.
1t was this Nation that was lsgcard 1t
REQUIRED but very few years after his
decease for the Nation to occupy the
platform on which he stood. Mr.. In
galls did not intend to be drawn into
any controversy with the Senator 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