The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-22
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WAsHLNGToN, ID. g, April 14.-SRN-
ATE The vice president LAID before the
senate the unfinished business. being
a resolution for the election of officers of
the senate. { A motion to go into execu-
tive session was lost. Yeas, 20; nay, 81 I;
and Senator Morgan addressed the SEN
ate. Senator Brown followed, and said
that at the close of the war he had taken
\ position for absolute acQuiesceRce in
the reconstruction measures, and after
the adoption of the fifteenth amendment
he stood in favor Of free ballot and a
fair count He criticised the Republi-
can party for its injustice toward the
colored race. If all the negroes were,
as was claimed, Republicans. they con-
stituted one fourth of the Republican
party. What had that party done for
them during the last administration 1t
had given Friedrich Douglas the position
of United States marshal of the District
of Columbia, but he hadn't been invited
to al of the hopors at the White house,
which had usually been performed by
the marshall. There were seven cabinet
ministers, and yet not one of them rep
resented the race which composed one
fourth of the Republican party. The
Republicans need not be astonished il,
when the Democrats met in grand coun-
Gil again, they should do right to the
negro, as the Republicans had failed to
do so. 'a 17isEF +tf r'4- a-7|Jlf,S - 81
Speaking of the Virginia question
Senator Brown said, the Democrats
proper and the intelligent class of peo-
pie in that state had stood manfully up
for maintaining the credit of the old
state, but they would understand, the
Republican party as rendering this issue
to them: That 1t was Intended to take
hold of the Readjuster element and put
negroes and Readjusters in power.
They might find it necessary then to
drop their internal strife and tumble
over twelve million dollars state debt,
and If necessary TO reunion of society :;
they might tumble over twelve million
dollars more of it, or let the whole go,
rather than have ruin brought upon the
state by putting il under the control OF
a people, the majority of whom would
not be allowed to vote in Massachusetts,
and the war had ceased, the bloody shirt
had been buried, but the Republican
party had taken the senator from Vir-
ginia, confederate brigadier, for its
leader and with that act before the peo-
pie, they would not enter into another
crusade to establish Republican power
in the south. The south intended to be-
come the equal OF the north in wealth
and intelligence, and then Il would be
respected. ~ es Tlfsr % t4-ls ayzE 81 z3g
Senator Hnar replied to Senator
Browns speech, and a good ,humored
discussion took place between them,
until Senator Brown, misunderstanding
q statement made by Senator Hear and
misquotIng IL, was eKcitedly INTERCEPTED
by Senator HOar IS to whether he i'm
piled that be, Hoaf, had SID what was
not true. Senator Brown denied any in
tention of misstating the Senator'S re-
marks and good humOr1 was restored by
Senator .Beck's simulated fear that the
senate would lose both senators from
Georgia. Senator Hawley also replied
to some remark of Browns, and after
some opposition from the Democratic
side the senate adjourned until Monday.
1 Notes From the National Capital. y
| '''s- '@ WINTER WHEAT. 80 "a y" =
| WASHINGTON, ID. c. April 15---The
reports of April list, received ct the DE
4 partment of Agriculture, show an in.
crease of nearly 4 per cent, in the area
sown in Winter wheat. Kansas aud Mi
souri, show the largest The Increase in
/ Ohio and Illinois, is but slight, and New
York and PennsElYania remain the same
as last year. Indiana, Kentucky, Ten.
nessee and Virginia each report some de
crease. Owing to the prevalence al
snow at the date of the returns the con,
dition of the crop was not given in large
i portions of the principal wheat growing
states, but whenever mentioned it was
stated as below the average, as last yeal
the alternate freezing and thawing dur.
ing the month of March was the most
detrimental of all the weather during
the Winter, rs kt-9-
The live stock Of the country, not
withstanding the scarcity Of food and
lprovender caused by the long and severe
winter, has. come out in faIr health
though reported very low in flesh. Nc
malignant nor prevailing disease is re
Eported over any large extent OF country
LEGAL disorder Of the stomach and lung
are often mentioned Great losses from
cold and exposure are reported from th,
plains of the far west.
, MALONE AND THE VIRGINIA .RKPUBI.I
st5.i t.-za s. CANS.5z 9Lf ~ sstssL
A delegation of Virginia Republicans
4 headed nv CONGRESSMAN JOr0anS SEN call