The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-10
General Capital News.

Washings Z, 9.-The minority re
port of the Senate committees on the
Dany.lIe riots, says that decent re-
spect for the opinions of mankind,
| should have impelled the Repub-
licsns TO C ,pduct the inve Stigation
with fairness and selt.respect and
report its results with JUDICIAL im-
pariiaIity. a glance at the ma
joIi;y report would satisfy every
Just mind that thls had no. been
done. The examination was con-
Quoted with that sharpness and
vigor, and the shutting out of I'M
favorable testimony, the leading up
and solicitation of that which was
favorable which usually character
ICES trial of numerical cases in
a husIings cour:. he people of
Danville were all the way through
treated as though they were on trial,
with Republican Sc ,ators as Judges
Things were assumed to be true on
the ram bling statements OF Ignorant
negroes, Though dlsprOved by repu-
table persons, both white and black.
The report describes the riot from
the standpoint OF the minority. as a
local affair, not the result Of politics;
it goes at length into the history Of
the laWless neSs OF MODS in north ern
cities, IWelIs on crimes in the north,
alluGes to the Cincinnati riots,
TeWkes bury almshOuse inveStigs>
tion, in Massachusetts, the killing.
o. int fensive negroes in New York,
and other northern states and sug-
geSts that investigation of these
matters would be as proper q sub
ject of Congressional inquiry az the
investigation OF the killing of four
[ negroes in Danvills.
Ex-senator Dorsey has written
letter to springer, chairman of the
committee of expenditures in the
departm ant of justice in
which he ailudes to tie testimony
OF MacVesgh and James as
pictures que specimens Of falsehood,
and to James story Of Garfield rs
miserable fabricatI n of a mise able
man. Says he believes that Sauls-
bury Of Salt Lake paid $200.001 to
the Bliss Brewster crowd, to pl otect
what the law ought to protect him
in, and George E. Spencer demands
ed Of the late j. w. BOsler and him.
self dorsey 5000. 90 to pay Erskine,
for the purpose of avoiding i,ldict-
ment and prosecution.
Whilst tae Senator from Ohio
was investigating the riot in Dan.
vile and holding up his bands in
horror at the shooting of four negroes
in a crowd Of some 200 who had
oeen attacked and crowded to the
wall, by some fifteen or twenty
whites. bl0odshed, murder, and
arson were running riot in his own
city, Cincinnati, during which more
thru fifty persons were killed, twics
that number wounded, and 81, 000,-
600 worth Of property destroyed. |
The minority ask how it would
be if committees were ap-
pointed to investigate the killing
of negroes in Ohio for the sale Of |
their carcasses TO medical colleges, |
and to report upon the state of trade |
in that branch of American indus.
try, and whether it is likely to in.
terfere with the pork business in |
the city of Cincinnati. The report |
charges the majority with making a |
partisan threat of depriRing the |
people Of Mississippi of representa-
ton IN case they do not vote for |
Republican candidates, and of shift
ing the expense fer printing CAM
paign documents from the Rspub-
lisan national executive com mittee |
on the public trea ury.
The Treasury Depar ment is in
formed that in some instances GER
tificates as prescribed by section 4,
May 9Th, 1892, have been granted to
Chinese laooTerS at ports other than
that of the exit Of laborers from the
United States, and such
certificates had teen given
to Chinese merchants. Under this
practice duplicate certificates may
sometimes be granted, one at the
first port and one at the port of exit,
and one at least OF these can be
fraudule lily used to gain entrance
to the Z aited States of Chinese la.
borers not entitled to the privilege.
Customs officers have therefore been
instructed to be careful to confne
the issue of such documents to
Chins Sc 1aborers who depart d.
rectly for foreign ports and to re-
frain from issuing to ]abOrers who
intend to proceed to China or any
other foreign place via some other
port in the United States, or to
Cinnamon who are not laborers.
The President to-day sent a mes
sage suggesting the prnpriety of
Congress apprJpriating 1856, 900 for
the purpose OF making a complete
and harmonious exhibition on be.
half Of the govern ment at New Or.
leans. 1t was referred to the COM
mite on appropriations. |,