The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-21
FeRTY-EHGHTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

agreed to looking to the return of rolls of
revolutionary soldiers belonging to any of the
States to the States.
Mr. Hoar caled up the bill to authorize
issuing OF register To the owners of the
schooner Druid. vessel which bad been
wrecked, and the wreck of which had been
bought and repaired. The bill was passed.
The Senate then resumed couside ration of
the Dill Increasing the salaries Of . 8. district
judges TO $1,000, the pending Que stion being
on Mr. M rgau's amendment providing that
the increase shall only be to judges hereafter to
be appointed.
Mr.. George opposed the bill. 1t could allow
to district judges who were only judges OF the
inferior courts of the United States higher
salary thsh was paid by thirty-one of the
States Of the Union to judges of the highest
courts within their jurisdiction. The dignity
and Importance of the State government
should not be belittled, and high salaries paid
TO United States officials would have the effect
to seduoe from the service of the State the
most talented OF her sons, who would unduly
augment the prestige Of the national Offices
aud correspondingly depress that of the tfices
of separate States. The selection of Uuited
States judges since the close OF the war had
not been made on the principle of selecting
the best man for the place, but a man whose
politics suited the party in power. When the
Republicans we're in power in Mississippi he
believed they had gone so far as TO appoint q
doctor to be iudge, man who had not even
Deen licensed 10 practlco law.
Mr.. Morgan addressed the Senate 10 support
Of his amendment, but the hour OF O'Clock
arriving he suspended his remarks until to-
morrow
The consideration of Mr.. Blair's education
bill was then resumed
Mr.. Van Wyck remarked that the elective
franchise had been conferred by the United
States on the colored people of the South and
had been secure by constitutional amendment,
and he inquired of Mr.. Blair whether even
that had secured TO the colored people the
right it had been sought to give them.
Mr.. Blair replied be did not think 1t had,
but one OF the reasons for that was because the
colored people were not educated. There was
10 other means than education open to us to
aid the colored people to the right Of suffrage
A vote was taken on Mr.. Ingalls, motion
specifying the school age, and 1t was not
agreed to.
Mr.. Plumb moved an amendment, which
would require that the States should expend
ou education for the first five wears of the
operation of the bill amounts equal to the
amounts received by them severally from the
national fuUd the provisions of the bill only
requiring an expenditure by each State for
that period OF a. sum equal to oHe-tbird of the
sum TO be received from the national fund.-
There was no pretence, Mr.. Plumb said, that
Massachusetts, Connecticut or New York
needed this money, and he did not think d
State that did not provide for the education of
vided for it by other people.
The provisions of the bill were discussed at
length, the matter finally going over until
tomorrow.
Adjourned.
Immediately after the reading OF the Jour
nal, Mr.. Turner of Georgia called up the Vir-
ginis contested election case of Garrison
against Mayo, the report declaring the con-
testant, Garrison, entitled to seat.
Mr., Mayo, the sitting member admitted
that ii the act of the General Assembly of
Virginia requiring the prepayment of capita-
ton tax there was const tutioDal, the report
of the committee was absolutely correct. But
he believed that the act was unconstitutional
and void and that If the votes of persons who
lad been rejected for not having complied
with that law were counted he wo Id be-
found TO be entitled to the seat.
The attacks made on him by the so-called
Democratic party in Virginia we're made be-
cause the party to which he belonged believed
the war was over and taught their children to
believe it. To say that he was rsjoiced at the
restoration CT the ULion and the abolition of
slavery, was treason down South and he was
called "deserter" after the war. That was
the spirit that animated the fight in Virginia;
that was the state of things whereby his State
had been disgraced. The people of Virginia
were not murder4rs and they did not go delib-
erately TO work to kill anybody, white or COL
ored; bpt the Democratic party did array one
clase against another false issues until strife
was stirred up in the hearts of the ignorant of
both classes.
The resolution DECLARING Garrison entitled
to the SCAT was unanimously adopted aud that
gentleman appeared and took the oath of
office.
On motion of Mr.. Keifer OF Ohio the con-
ference report on the military academy sppro-
nriaton bill was taken up and it was ageed to-
(fhe bill as passed appropriates 1914, ,5l6.)
The morning hour having beeu dispensed
with the House without opposition, AZ O'clock
went luto committee of the whole (Mr.
DoTsheimer of New York in the chair on the
whskey bonded period extension BILL Its
features we're explained by MIR Willis of Ken
tucky. be declaring that failure to pass the
bill meant bankruptcy and ruin to many of
the most important and influential firms in
Kentucky and throughout the West. II
meant bankruptcy and ruin not only to manu-
facturers bat to innocent holders of whiskey
IL meant bankruptcy and ruin to many OF the
leading banking interests West. As a result
OF the tax agitation the whiskey interest bad
been Obliged to come to the last Congress and
ask for relief and the committee ways and
means, Of which the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania (RaDdalll was member, mad unAni-
mously reported back the bill for an unlimited
extension.
Mr.. Randall called the gentleman's atten-
tion to the fact that though there had been no
minority report the bill had not been favored
by all the members of the committee any
more than that all the members of the present
committee were in favor of the pending bill
although there was no minority report. He
had b. ca absent during the vote and therefore
was not recorded on either side, but the gen.
tleman had no Ri ht to assume that because
he had been member of the ways and means
committee he mad been In favor of the bill.
Mr.. Willis denied any intention of making
personal attack upon the gentleman from
Pennsylvania. He had merely stated facts
The bill had now been passed under suspen-
sion OF the rules with only 20 votes recorded in
the negative.
After further remarks against the bill Mr..
Cox of New York took the floor and delivered
an elaborate speech oh the tariff. Referrins
to the dangers OF large surplus In the treas
ury he said it was thought by some gen tle-
men that the last business tinkering of the
tariff by the commission and Congress would
produce result so as to reduce the Surplus A
very small percentage was the measure of that
reduction. It was beyond question that the
act of 1883 had failed and must continue to-
tally inadequate to afford relief from unnec-
essary taxation and surplus revenue. The con-
servative opinion of the country demanded
that reduction should be made in the present
tariff. Gentlemen might say the ID. mocra 4,
party was divided on this question, and he ad-
mitted there was some division, but he trust
ed they would be reconciled and he believed
that the party would be harmonious on the
US wipe out from our statutes the horrible sec
tion under which you legslize the robbery OF
more than 99z DER cent. OF the American peo-
pie for the enrichment and sgggrandizement
OF thesother one-quarter per cent and then am
with you for the levying of any constitutional
tax by customs or internal revenue or both or
either that will fall equally on the people in
proportion to their ability to pay it," Mr.. Cox
had not time to deliver the whole of his
speech and obtained leave to have much of
it printed In the Record. In one portion he
touches upon the approaching campaign in
the following wordsI 81 believe that if the po-
litical party to which / belong were to go be-
fore the country in the next Presidential can
vass On thesissue of free trade vs. tariff protec-
tion it would in all probability be defeated at
the polls, for there Is no class of voters whose
minds are more tainted with the tariff here
sizes oil protection than tho lsboring classes
who are most injared by them"
After further debate the committee rose
without taking action on the bill. Tomorrow
is private bill day aud it will require two
thirds vote to take up the bonded extension.
IL IS not probable that consideration will be
resumed before Saturday.
Adjourned.
Died i'm the Woods.