The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-17
FORTY-EIGHIH CONGRESS-
SENATE.

w dSuiuStOHs IO.-1uc IOllOHlu
was offered by Wyck and lai
over till tomorrow:
Resolved, That the committee oil
judiciary be directed to enquir
whether he Union or Central Pacl
!. fic companies have become respon
sible for or guaranteed the interes
on any bonds other than thos
specifically authorized by Congress
outstanding at the date of the pas
sage Of the act making sppropria
ti0ns for the legislation, executive
and judiciary expenses of Govern
ment for the year ending June Both
IA, and if go to what extent ant
under what actual or ale Jed au
thority. Also whether any new
stock was sued by either of sait
companies in violation of said act
Senator Miller, of California
offer d as an amendment to the de-
ficiency bill: the bill introduced by
him at this session to provide fol
granting to the state of California
per cent of the net proceeds from
the sale Of public lands in thai
state.
Senator Plumb, reported favorably
to the Senate from the committee
on public lands to the House bill to
declare forfeited the unearned lands
granted to the Atlantic and Pa eific
railroad company.
Plumb, from the committee on
appropriations, reported the army
appropriation bill. AS agreed upon
by the committee the appropriation
is $25s,eOo more than the House bill.
A sensation was caused in the
Senate to-day by ingalls,, who inS
timated that Senator Brown had in.
serted In the official report of a de-
bate words not spoken by Ingalls,,
thus committing forgery upon the
of the Senate.
The chair called Ingalls to order
and after considerable excited talk
the matter went over until to- NOR
row.
Butler called up his resolution
providing for the examination of
New York banks by q committee of
the Senate.
Morrell moved a referen e cons
mittee on finance. A short debate
and the matter went over
until tomorrow.
The Senate concurred in the &C.
ion of the House on Senate amend-
nent appropfiating $780, 900 for
necessary and special facilities on
;runk lines. House increased the
to $256,000 IN which the
senate now concurs.
The Senate unanimously insisted
N its three remaining amendments.
Consideration of The Utah bill
vas resumed, Brown having the
Ioor. replying to Hoar. Brown said
he Senator from Massachusetts had |
harged him BROWN with having,
or a great part of bis life, sustained |
n institution which prohibited |
3gal marriage among q part of the |
eople OF Georgia. The System of |
rom Massachusetts had called afr
ention originated in Massachusetts,,
nd the south derived much of its
Iavery from that State. Blown I
aaI from EIIiott's History of New
,ngland, TO show that the people of
massachusetts, bought and held as
aves Scotchmen, IrIshmen, India rs
egroes and mulattoes, and that
ley sent cargoes Of rum TO Africa,
SchangiDg rum for slaves,
'me of whom they sold, that
ley kidnapped Indians anu sold
lem into slavery; that some pros
Ibited bsptism to their slaves;
lat the marriage relation was dis.
garded; that they cold negro
omen and children in open,
srket and advertised a woman
lth a child, six months old, to be
Id, together or separate to suit the !
that they raised slaves ]
market and when they
und it improbable to raise !
EN- IN the climate Of Massschu- {
tss, they gave away negro chill Q
en- ike puppies to any one who Il
ould take them. a
The charter of Georgia, Brown !
ctinued, originally forbade sla> I
~, and while Massachusetts, was .
porting slaves and selling them a
profit Georgia was refusing 10 "
Id them. Finally Georgia adopted G
very purchasing part of her u
YES from Massachusetts. The IL
nator from Massachusetts had v
d there was a large u
mber of mulattoes to be &C. {.
lnted for in the south, he (Browp) "
not claim the south was guilt II
8 in this particular. His effort 81
been to show that no section of u
country was guiltless. He read 4"
N various historical works to CT
Nv that large mum bers OF mulIat~ 81
s were always found in Mass. p'
IL g the time slavery prevailed Ill
re, and when in 1888 Massa- 81
lsetts passed an act expelIiDg al
M the State all negroes, the court at
d the act applied to mulattoes; &C
nsy have been very natural to pr
Del the negroes fro ! Masrachu- al
IS, but it seemed little unna- FL
al to eXpel mulattoes, not that To
y were akin to the people of Ma IN
chusetts, but possibly because M
natic influences had changed pc
ir color, until they were more jn or
mess 20 the good people of that az
te. The cold bleaching winds OF an
:sschusetts Or some other cause !
modified the ebony color of the su
lean in that State, and had in &c
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