Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-01
WASHINGTON.
ANOTHER BOUT IN THE SENATE.

PATENTS TO CALIFORNIA INVENTORS
Senator Conkling and the New Yorl
Collectorship
Efc..................E Etc. ............,....E Etc.
WASHINGTON, March 3lst.-It is under.
stood that the principal object of Secretary
WINDOWS visit to New York is to determine
whether the S1O4. 100000 OF bonds which he
has authority to sell for refunding purposes
should be issued as four per cents or as four
and 8 half per cents. There would be of
course about half million dollars year diff
ference in the amount of interest in favor of
the four per cents, but the greater premium
that would be attained by the Treasury on
the sales of the four and half per cents
would effect a saving of about one-t third of
one per cent. in favor of the latter in the
total amount of interest to be paid. The
four and halls have ten years to run,
whereas the tours would not be redeemable
ANsNSS
one construction of the law, for thirty years
from their date of issue. The sentiment of
the last Congress and of the mass of the peo-
| pie has been Enthusiastically manifested against
| the issuance of any more long-term bonds.
the belief being that by reserving a short line
of time of payment the Government will be
able to discharge the bulk of its funded in
debtedness within a comparatively brief
period by means of the constantly accumulat-
| ing surplus revenues. 1t is therefore highly
probable that Secretary Window will con-
| Guide to issue the four and a halls, and that
with these and portion of the present sur
plus in the Treasury all the maturing six per
cent. bonds will be taken up Immediately.
PATENTS TO oALIFoRNIA INVENTORS.
Patents were issued this week to Califor
MIA inventors as follows: Ezra Coleman, at
San Francisco, ore feeder; Joseph Hobart,
Nordhoff, boot and shoe manufacture John
r. Adams, Oakland, pillow-sham frame and
| holder Hamilton Spence, st. Helena (as-
signer of one. half to J. Hale, of Carlin. New,
steam boiler; John |. Sabin, San Francisco,
electrical switch board Jonathan S. Pitcher
and w. L. Williams, San Diego, reinholder.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 31st.-Dawes called
up the pending business.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, said the present
issue was too plain to be misunderstood
The Republicans said the majority had
right to decide who should be the officers of
| the Senate. The Democrats said the mi
| nority had it. The Republicans could not
abandon their right, though the Democrats
made question of endurance. The majority
could endure as long as the minority. The
contest was something more than to secure
officers. 1t was the coming political contest
| in Virginia. Malone had terrified the old
Democrats OF the South, who had appealed
to the Democrats to cover Malone with op-
probrium, SO his followers at home would not
| dare support him. He had made political
slavery in Virginia impossible. He had
sympathy with the Republican party in
cbampioning free elections. Virginia would
see the North fraternize with exConfeder.
ates who by acts as well as words favored an
honest ballot and fan count. They voted
| for Riddleberger as an earnest that it wasnot
| sectional. This was the only bargain it had
to offer its Southern friends. If Virginia
took her stand on the platform of an honest
ballot, the solid South was thing Of the
past.
Maxey said that, though Dawes insisted on
the will of the minority. he had taken part in
setting aside 1000 Democratic majority in
Louisiana in 1876. Dawes might claim the
majority was procured by fraud. The people
thought the majority in this Senate was SC,
but he demanded investigation into the
strange methods by which the majority was
obtained. The Democratic party stood here
to secure to the American people the boon of
free ballot and an honest count, and de-
mand it.
Dawes said there was a difference be-
tween what he called vote and what
many called a vote. He counted as
nothing a vote that had not a free bal.
lot behind it. Thousands of such bal
lots az he held in his hand about two
inches square) had been found in the ballot
boxes with nothing behind but the viii
famous hands that put them there. 1t
was because an attempt had been made
| to substitute these for freemens votes in the
hallot-boxes in some States and to put blum
derbusses in the place of freemens flags in
| other States that he had done what he could
| to stand by what he supposed every freeman
/ in the land understood to be the meaning OF
! the ballot. It was when it was undertaken
TO make freemen with pieces OF paper, to
compel him to wade through blood to the
| ballot boxes, and when he was found as silent
on election day as those who lay III the bloody
graves they filed in '76, that he Dawes felt
! called upon to remind the Senator that there
was difference between a piece OF paper
and the vote Of freeman that executed the
will of God in executing the will Of free
nan.
Maxey inquired how it was that those bal
| lots which executed the viii Of God bad been
sufficient to elect Hayes and not sufficient to
elect Packard though Packard had received
more of them 1t was difficult for any one,
when he attempted to uphold such high
crimes as the disfranchisement of two States,
| to be consistent.
Dawes agreed that Packard had been
elected, but the Louisiana Lottery Company
had succeeded in establishing the Nichols
government.
A discussion arose between Kellogg and
Jonas respecting the debt Of Louisiana, and
most of the Senators thereupon retired.
Kellogg reviewed the figures Of fraud and
! the stories of outrages in various parishes. In
eighteen months twenty schools in Caddo
parish had been wiped cut, and there was not
one left. The Louisiana Lottery Company
| furnished the money to run the Democratic
| party. It had q fifteen years franchise yet.
| For fifteen years the earnings Of sewing girls,
| men and women would be invested in it. The
newspapers said certain prizes were to be run
through e machine, Beauregard turning the
crank and Julian Early distributing the
prizes. That company and the Repatriation
! OF the State debt were the standing lniamy OF
| the Democratic party. He declared
that in many parishes OF Louisiana
there were hundreds of colored men
who did not know that under the terms OF
! the PROCLAMATION Of emancipation they were
no longer slaves. but who believed that they
were owned by their masters. Against
Jonas assertion that the colored people &C.
cupied a condition of comparative comfort,
and were satisfied with the existing order Of
things, and content with Democratic rule, he
entered anew his earnest protest. because to-
day the name of Democracy made every
freeman in Louisiana shudder. To say that
such a man would vote the Democratic ticket
is to utter a statement contradicted IN letters
of blood, written all over the history OF Louis
lana. 1t was stating that which all those
hillocks and those bones lying on the banks
of Red river now and for all time give
lie to. If he had not put this protest en-
record to day, he felt that he should be re-
preached by thousands of victims who slept
the long sleep of death, who had fallen under
the relentless hate and undying and awful