Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-27

WASHINGTON, D. C. April ga call for
a Republican caucus was issued this after
noon to meet at 10 O'Clock tomorrow. Mr..
Conkling finally favored a caucus because
he feels stronger now than heretofore.
ConkliDg believes he can beat Garfield now,
as numerous Southern Senators join with
him in opposing Robertson. One Of Conk-
Inns best friends said to night that he could
hold meeting of the Commerce Committee
and report Robertson at once, because he
believes he can beat him. Eight Democratic
Senators are pledged to vote with Conkling.
The President has forced caucus, and
Conkling consents, but he thinks he can
beat the President in the Robertson case.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Edmunds asked leave for the Com
mittoe on the Judiciary TO sit during the
recess of the Senate, If that should ever
occur, to pursue some Investigations upon
the subject of bankruptcy. Without OBJ
lection, leave was granted.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
the unfinished business, being the resolution
for the election Of Senate officers. The
usual motion to go into executive session
was lost-yeas "A, nays "A.
Mr.. Jones, of Florida, regretting the alb
sence of the Senator from Maine (Mr.
Frye, proceeded to reply to certain portions
of that gentleman's speech. He eaid he
had been mortified when he heard the Sena-
tor from Maine getting into a dirty little
narrow groove and undertaking to dispar-
age and condemn whatever he could find
Objectionable in any quarter of his country.
The Senator had characterized the civiliza-
tiOn of the North as that of the
school book and Bible, that Of the South as
the civilization OF slavery and barbarism.
The time had come when that kind
of utterance ought to end. Were the
Southern people responsible for that barba
risml Were the people OF New England
responsible, for it had been planted here by
a superior pOwer-by the mother country
and upheld for years under the imperial
power of Great Britain The State from
which he came was no more responsible for
slavery, or the evils growing out OF it, than
the people of any OF the States of the
Union. In this connection he read from
Burke's speech in defense of the Colonies,
in which occures the sentiment, that the
love of liberty exists stronger among the
masters Of slaves.
After short colloquy with Mr.. Hoar with
regard to this quotation from Bnrke, Mr..
Jones said that nothing mortified him more
than to find this question brought forth in
connection with the Senatorial deadlock.
Slavery had passed away, and there was not
a man south of the Potomac who did not
rejoice at it. 1t was not the part Of decency
or of craftsmanship for any Senator from
auy quarter of the Union to come forward
here, even for party or political
purposes, TO dig up the carcass of slavery in
order to iLfame and excite the public mind.
He criticised what he termed the unwise
manner in which the right of suffrage had
been conferred upon the negro. The man
hood ard spirit of the South had resented
the domination Of the negro History would
write that chapter, and justice would yet
be done after the prejudices of this century
had passed away and when some future
Macaulay or Gibbon should come
to write the history of
reconstruction, 1t would be found that
the people of the South would be vindica-
ted In the minds Of mankind. He had read
a good deal of oppression and tyranny, and
knowing the people of the South from his
earliest boyhood, he lad never expected to
live to see the day when that proud and
naughty race would be compelled, as he
had seen it, to humiliate itself
in connection with this question of negro
suffrage. He had never expected to see Gas
he had SEEM the day when ignorant and
thoughtless men, inspired by nothing but
polls and offer every conceivable insult to
white men in order to provoke quarrel,
and when those men would bear those taunts
of humiliation for the sake Of order.
He then referred to the charges made by
Mr.. Frye of fraud and violence in the elec-
tious in Florida, and read extracts from
Democratic papers to show that when fraud
occurred in the South it was denounced by
the Democratic press. The Senator from
Maine had spoken, he said, of the murder of
Republican by Democrat In
Florida for the purpose OF preventing testi-
mony being given In the contested election
case of Bisbee VS.. Hull. The fact was, how
ever, that the murder had been committed
by a villainous negro OF the Republican par
ty upon one of the best young white
men of the State. In concluding his
speech he devoted some time to denuncia-
ton of the method in which the State of
Florida had been carried for Hayes in 1876,
and intimated that the present'cry OF the
Republican aide for free ballot aud fair
count was hypocritical.
An hour was then consumed In Intellectual
roll calls. After some discussion by Messrs.
Groome, Dawes and others of the present
deadlock, the Senate adjourned.
THE FREEDMEN WHO WANT TO GO TO OKLA
HoMA.
Secretary Kirkwood to-day sent tele-
gram to j. Milton Turner, OF st. Louis,
President of the Freedman's OE1lahoma As
sociation, advising him that the question of
the right of colored people to settle upon
the lands of the Indian Territory viii be
submitted in a few days to the highest
authority, and that If Mr., Turner desires to
be heard, he should come 10 Washington at
once. Iu the meantime no attempt must be
made to enter the Territory, the Acting
Commissioner OF the Land Office having de-
cided that the emigration of freedmen into
the Territory is without warrant of law.
CHANGES PROPOSED IN THE POSTAL CON-
TRACT OFFICE.
John L. French, Chief Clerk Of
the Contract office In the Post Office
Department, was removed to-day and
Henry D. Lyman, Of Ohio, ap-
pointed in his place. The removal Of Mr..
French is said to be only an additional step
in the development of the plan OF the pres
ent administration OF the Post Office De-
partment looking to the establishment of
the Contract Office upon a different work
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