Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-06-17
RORTY-EIGHTR COyGRgSS.
First session.
SENATE.

an exhibition in the capitol of the Bartholdi
statue of liberty.
The president of the Senate remarked that
ne had the impression that there was a statute
prohibiting that which the concurrent resolu-
ton would permit, and the resolution was
therefore referred to the committee on rules
Mr. George presented a memorial of the
legislature of Mississippi, urging Congress
sional aid to the Gulf and Ship Island rail-
roads.
The following resolution was offered by
Mr.. Van Wyck and will lay over until to-
morrow:
Resolved, That the committee on judiciary
be directed to inquire if the Union or Central
Pacific companies have been responsible for
guaranteed interest on any bonds other
than those specifically authorized by Con-
gress. whether any new stock has been issued
by either of said companies in violation of
said act.
Mr.. Garland. from the judiciary commit
tee, reported favorably bills removing the
political disabilities of Alfred Iverson of
Florida and +. p. Alexander of Georgia.
These bills were read three times and passed.
MIR. Ingalls, rose to a question of personal
privilege. He read from the debate of last
Friday on the bill relating to the claim of the
State of Georgia, for money expended for the
SomiuOu utIcuCe III l1ll. OerLal0 WORDS, ne
said, had been inserted in the handwriting of
Mr.. Brown in the official reporters MANI
script of the debate, and which Mr. Ingalls,
claimed had not been spoken in the Senate
He was not secure against parthian arrows
that flying foe might see fit to discharge
from safe ambush of the printing house.
Mr.. ingalls, asked Mr.. Brown (of Georgia.
whether he did not, after the debate was
over and the report prepared for the printer,
deliberately interperlate into the report of
the proceedings, thereby falsifying the record
and committing forgery on the records of the
Senate. (Sensation.)
Mr.. Brown-I decline to make any reply
to that.
Mr.. Ingalls-I supposed he would decline.
Mr.. Ingalls, then concluded by saying that
the mode of attack referred to required about
the same amount of courage as was exhibited
by Thug, who waited till the. enemy was
asleep and stabbed him. He moved that the
language to which he had called attention be
expunged from the official record of the de-
bates.
Mr.. German objected to present the con-
sideration of the motion, and it went over
until tomorrow.
Mr.. Brown said he had intended to say
In reply, but as the matter was to
go over he supposed he would be heard to-
morrow. He did not wish it to go unchal-
lenged, and would royle at the first oppor-
tunity.
Mr.. Butler called up the resolution offered
some time ago, providing for the examina-
ton of New York banks by a committee of
the Senate.
Mr.. Blair said that if one-tenth of what we
saw daily in the newspapers about the con-
diton of the banks was true, he did not see
how any senator could withhold assent to
the resolution. If the comptrcllec of the
currency was now doing his duty in this
matter, he had withheld activity too long.
After further debate the hour of two o'clock
arriving, the matter went over till tomorrow.
Mr. Plumb called up the report of the
conference committee on the postoffice appro-
priation bill, and on his motion the Senate
in the action of the House on the
Senate amendment appropriating SlS0,000
for necessary and special facilities on trunk
lines.
The House increased the amount to $780,,
900, in which the Senate non-concurred,
Mr., Plumb moved that the Senate insist on
the remaining amendment; unanimously
agreed to.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
Utah bill.
Mr.. Brown having the floor. replying to
Mr. Hoar, said the senator from Massachu
setts charged him with having greater part
of his life sustained the institution which
prohibited legal marriages among part of the
people of Georgia. The system of slavery
to which the senator from Massachusetts had
called attention originated in Massachusetts,
and the south derived much of its slavery
from that State. Mr.. Brown read from
Eliot's history of New England to show that
the people of Massachusetts bought and held
as slaves Scotchmen, Irishmen, Indians, ne
groes and mulattos that they sent cargoes of
rum to Africa, exchanging rum for slaves,
some of whom they sold; that they kid
mapped Indians and sold them into slavery;
that some prohibited baptism to slaves that
marriage relations were disregarded that
they sold negro women and children in mar
ket, and advertised woman with child six
months old to be sold together or separate,
to suit the purchaser" that they raised slaves
for the market, and when they found it un-
profitable to raise them in the climate of
Massachusetts, gave away the negro children
like puppies to anyone who would take them.
The charter of Georgia, Mr.. Brown contin-
ued, originally forbade slavery, and while
Massachusetts was importing slaves and
selling them for profit, Georgia was refusing
to hold them. Finally Georgia adopted
slavery, purchasing part of her slaves from
Massachusetts,. The senator from Massachu-
setts had said that there was q large num-
Der of mulattos to be found in the south.
He Brown did not claim that the south
was guiltless in this particular. His effort
had been to show that no section of the
country was guiltless. He read from vari-
ous historical works to show that large num-
bers of mulattos were always found in Massa-
chusetts during the time that slavery pre-
vailed there. When in 177S Massachusetts
passed an act expelling from the State
all negroes, the court held that
this act applied also to mulattoes.
1t seemed little unnatural to expel mulat-
toes, not that they were kin to the people
of Massachusetts,, but possibly because
climate influence had changed their color until
they were more in the likeness of the good
people Of that State. The cold, bleaching
winds of Massachusetts, or some other cause
had modified all the ebony color of the Afri-
cans IN that State and had infused a COM
pound of yellow so that they are no longer
called negroes but mullattoes. After these
mulattoes had been expelled from Massachu-
setts they doubtless took refuge in the South
ern States and their descendants multiplied
still transmitting the modified color inherited
from the climate influences in Massachusetts.
About 81 or % years ago an immense cold
wave had swept down from Massachusetts,
and other Northern States over the South as