Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-17
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
SENATOR BROWN THE FIGURE
OF THE DAY.


! WASHINGTON, June 16.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Garland, from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported favorably the bills
4 removing the political disabilities OF
Alfred Iverson, Of Florida, and E. P,
/ Alexander, of Georgia. These bills were
read three times and passed.
Mr.. George presented a memorial of the
Legislature of Mississippi urging Con.
gressional aid to the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad.
Mr.. Plumb, from the Committee on
| Public Lands, reported the House bill to
| forfeit unearned lands granted to the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company,
and from the Committee on ApprOpria-
tiOns the army appropriation bill was
reported. The bills were placed on the
calender, Mr.. Plumb saying that he would
shortly call them up.
Mr.. 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
common defense in l777. He objected to GER
tain words which he said had been inserted IN
the handwriting of Mr.. Brown IN the official
reporters manuscript of the debate and
which Mr.. Ingalls, claimed had not been spO-
ken in the Senate. He said that he was al
ways willing to submit to the fortune of dali
ly debate. whether of victory or defeat but
was not secure against Parthian arrows that
flying foe might see fit to discharge from
the safe ambush of the printing house.
THE ODIOUs WORDS.
The words objected to were "His monopoly
OF which have no right to infringe" refer
ring 70 what Mr.. Brown had calledOne of Mr..
Ingalls, characteristic speeches." and the
words, she VIII not so state" referring to one
Of the legal points arising in the discussion.
This mode Of warfare Mr.. ingalls, continued,
was eminently safe tOthe one who waged il, but
not satisfactory to the victim. Mr.. ingalls,
inquired whether the Senator from Georgia
MIR. Brown was satisfied that he used the
language quoted.
Mr.. Brown replied that It was his recolec-
tiOn that he used IT.
Mr.. ingalls, asked whether he did not. after
the debate was over and the report prepared
for the printer. deliberately interpOlate into
ing the record and committing forgery upon
the records of the Senate.
This bold speech created a sensation.
The Chair said that the Senator was out of
order. If he had any accusations to make he
should make them in a different way.
Mr.. Beck (sottO voceI-I would not answer
that.
Mr.. Ingalls-Language that was not uttered
In debate and susceptible of offensive inter
probation.
Mr.. BROWN DECLINES TO REPLY.
Mr.. Brown decline to make any reply to
that.
MIR. IngaTs-I supposed that he would.
The Chair-The Senator from Kansas is out
of order
Mr.. Brown addressed the Chair.
MIR. Ingalls, have the floor, / believe.
The Chair agreed that Mr. ingalls, had the
floor, but, in the opinion Of the Chair, the
senator's remarks imputed improper conduct
to another senator. If there be no obec-
tiOn," the Chair added, ''the Senator will
proceed in order"
Mr.. Ingalls, said that the mode of attack re-
ferred to required about the same amount Of
courage that was exhibited by a thug who
waited till his enemy was asleep and then
stabbed him. He moved that the language to
which he had called attention be expnnged
from the official record of the debate.
Mr.. German objected TO present cOnsidera-
tion of the motion and it went over till to-
morrow.
Mr.. Brown said that he Intended to say
something in reply, but as the matter was to
90 over he supposed that he would be heard
tomorrow. lie did not wish it to 90 unchai-
lenged. He did not intend that any inference
OF acquiescencc by him should be drawn from
the fact that the matter was going over.
THE NEW YORK BANKS.
Mr.. Butler called up his resolution, offered
some days ago. providing for an examination
OF the New York national banks by COM
mittee of the Senate.
BIr. Plumb called uI the report of the con-
ference committee on the post office apprOpri-
alton bill. and upon his motion the Senate
cOncurred in the action of the House on the
Senate amendment, appropriating SlS0, 900 ''for
I
lines" The House increased the amount to
$3.50, COO, in which the Senate now concurs.
Mr.. Plumb moved that the Senate insist
upon its remaining amendments, three in
number, one increasing the appropriation for
transportation on railroad routes from $lI,-
100000 to Sl2, 100000, another striking out the
House provision relating to the readiustment
Of compensation to railroads, and a third ad-
ding $500, 900 to the appropriation of $1,000 0e0
for railway post Office clerks. This was agreed
to unanimously.
BROWN ON SLAVERY DAYS.
On motion Of Mr.. Hoar, the Senate resumed
consideration of the Utah bill, Mr.. Brown
having the floor. Replying to Mr.. HOar, Mr..
Brown said that the Senator from Massachu-
setts had charged him (Mr. Brown with hav-
ing for the greater part of his life sustained
an institution which prohibited legal mar
riages on the part Of the people of Georgia.
| This was a thrust at the people of Georgia for
having held slaves, and at the Senator from
Georgia for having supported that institution
He admitted that Georgia had been a slave
holding State and that he had supported the
institution with all his power; and while he
would not now restore slavery if he could do
| so by turning over his hand, he claimed that
there were many excellent points connected
with the society and civilization of that period,
| but he did not propose at present to enter
OF slavery. or of the superiority and excellence
| of the civilization of the South in slavery
| days. The system of slavery to which the
Senator from Massachusetts had called atten- =
| ti0n originated in Massachusetts, and the
| South derived much of its slavery from that
| State.
MASSACHUSETTS, BAD RECORD.
Mr. Brown read from Mr.. Elliott's History
of New England to show that the people Of
| Massachusetts bought and held as slaves
| Scotchmen. Irishmen, Indians, negroes and
mulattOes, and that they sent cargoes of rum
| to Africa, exchanging the rum for
| they kidnapped Indians and sold
| them into slavery; that some
prohibited baptism to their slaves, that mar
/ riage relations were disregarded, that they
and advertised women 'with child six months
/ old, to be sold together or separate to suit
purchasers" that they reared slaves for the
market, and when they found it Improbable
/ to rear them in the climate of Massachusetts,
| gave away negro children like puppies to
anyone who would take them. The charter
| of Georgia, Mr. Brown continued, Origl-
nally forbade slavery, and while Massa-
| chusetts was importing slaves and selling
| them for profit Georgia was refusing to hold
them. Finally Georgia adopted slavery, pur-
| chasing part of hersaves from Massachusetts,.
ACCOUNTING FOR THE MULATToEs.
The Senator from Massachusetts had said
| that there was large number of mulattOes to
| be accounted for in the South. He (Mr.
| 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 various hstori-
cal Werds to show that large numbers of mu-
| lattOes were always found in Massachusetts
during the time that slavery prevailed in that
State, and when in l7SS Massachusetts passed
an act expelling from the State all negros the
courts held that the act applied also to mulat-
toes. Negroes. who were the subjects Of the
Emperor of Morocco, were, however, eX-
cluded from the eXpelling clause for the rea-
son, Mr.. Brown supposed, that the CONNER
cal transactions of Massachusetts with
Morocco were profitable to Massachusetts.
POSSIBLY A CLIMATIC EFFECT.
l,or
negroes after they were set free, it may have
/ been very natural to eXpel them from the
| State Of Massachusetts, but il seemed a little
unusual to eXlel mulattOes, not that thew
| were kin to the people of Massachusetts, but
/ possibly because the climatic influence had
| changed their color until they were more in
likeness Of the good people of that State. The
| cold bleaching winds Of Massachusetts, or
some other cause, had modified the ebony
| color of the African in that State and had in
| fused tinge OF yellow so that they are no
/ longer called negroes. but mulattOes. After
these mulattoes, whether naturally or un-
naturally, had been expelled from Massa-
| chusetts they doubtless took refuge in the
| Southern States, and their descendants there
have multiplied, still transmitting the modi-
| fed color inherited from the climatic influence
| in Massachusetts,. Any casual observer who
would go into Massachusetts would see that
| the proportion that mulattoes bore to the
number of negroes in that State was much
| greater than the proportion at the South.
| again attributable to climatic influence.
HOW THEY ARE IN THE SOUTH.
Thus Mr.. Brown could account, to some ex-
| tent, for the mulattoes in the South. When
| therSwas not slave in Georgia, Massachu-
setts was legIslating regarding mulattoes.
| They were numerous when they were eX-
! PEELED from her borders, they had been pro-
| life since their expulsion. and they still re-
| tain compound of yellow, inherited either
| from the climatic influence or from some
other cause in Massachusetts,. The influence
| OF the climate had, after the lapse of a long
| time, followed the mulattOes even INTO the