The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-17

FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
SENATE

WASHINGTON, June 10.
The chair laid before the Senate the House con-
current resolution giving permission for the exhi-
bition in the capital of model of the Bartholdi
statue of Liberty. The president of the Senate re-
marked that he had the impression that there was a
statue prohibiting that which the concurrent reso-
luton would permit, and the resolution was there
fore referred to the committee on rules.
Mr.. George presented memorial of the legisla-
ture of Mississippi urging Congressional aid to the
! Gulf and Ship Island railroads.
| Senator Plum from the committee on appropria-
tons today reported the army appropriation bill to
| the Senate. AS agreed upon by the committee the
bill appropriates $24 $50 450. This is an increase
| over the House bill of S295, 900 and a decrease
from the estimates of $2,35O,65O.
Mr.. Garland from the committee on the judiciary
reported fayoraby bills removing the political dsa
Alexander of Georgia. These bills were read three
times and passed.
The following resolution was offered by Mr.. Van
Wyck and lies over till tomorrow:
Resoved-That the committee on Judiciary be
directed to enquire whether the Union OF Central
Pac1hc railroad Companies have become responsible
for guaranteed interest bonds other than those
specifically authorized by Congress- or whether any
stock has been issued by either of the said cam
panies in violation of said act.
Mr., ingalls, rose to question of personal priyi-
lege He read from the debate of last Friday on
the bill relating to the claim of the State of Georgia
for money expended for common defence in 1777,
Certain words 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 spoken in the Senate He
was not secure against the Parthian arrows that
nylng zoe might see MT to discharge from the safe
ambush of printing house.
Mr.. ingalls, asked Mr.. Brown of Georgia whether
ne did not after the debate and the report
prepared Tor the printer, deliberately interoplate
into the report of the proceedings thereby faisfy
ing the record and committing forgery upon the
records of the Senate (Sensation)
Mr.. Brown decline to make any reply to that,
MIR. 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 the Thug who waited
till his enemy was asleep and then stabbed him He
moved that the language to which he had called at
tentlon be expunged from the official record of the
debates.
Mr.. German objected to present consideration of
the motion and it went over until tomorrow
Mr. Brown said he had intended to say something
In reply but as the matter was to 20 over he SIM
posed !. ne would be heard, tomorrow. he did not
Wlsn IL TO go unchallenged and would reply at the
first opportunity.
Mr.. Butler called up the resolution offered some
Gays since providing for the examination of New
YORK banks by committee of the Senate. Mr.
Blair said if onetenth of what we saw daily in the
newspapers about the condition of the banks was
true ne did not see how any senator could withhold
assent to the resolution If the comptroller of cur
rency was now doing his duty in the matter he had
withheld activity too long,
After further debate the hour of 2 O'Clock ar1iy.
ing the matter went over until tomorrow
MI. Plumb called up the report of the conference
committee upon the post office appropriation bill
and upon motion the Senate concurred in the action
OF the House on the Senate amendment appropriate
ing $180,0O "For necessary and special facilities
on trunk lines. The House Increased the amount
to $250,0O0 in which the Senate non-concurred)
Mr.. Plumb moved the Senate insist 1non the re-
naming amendment Unanimously agreed to-
Inc Senate resumed consideration of the Utah
Dill, Mr. Brown having the floor replying to Mr..
Hoar. Mr.. Brown said that the Senator from Mass
achusetts had charged him BROWN with having for
the greater part of his life sustained Institution
which prohibited legal marriages among part of the
people OF Georgia. The system of slavery to which
the Senator from Massachusetts had called atten-
ton originated in Massachusetts and the South de-
rived much of its slavery from that state. Mr.
Brown read from Elliott's History of New England
to show that the people of Massachusetts bought
and held as slaves Scotchmen, Irishmen, Indians
negroes and mulattoes; that they sent cargoes of
rum to Africa exchanging the rum for slaves some
Of whom they sold; that they kidnapped indians
and sold them into slavery; that some prohibited
baptism to slaves; that the marriage relation was
disregarded; that they sold negro women and chill
dren in the market and advertised woman with
child six months old to be Sold together or sepa-
rate to suit purchasers that they raised slaves for
market, and when they found it Improbable to
raise them in the climate of Massachusetts, gave
away negro children like puppies to any one who
would take them. The charter of Georgia Mr..
Brown continuek, originally forbade slavery, and
while Massachusetts was importing slaves and SELL
ing them for profit, Georgia was refusing to hold
them Finally Georgia adopted slavery, purchasing
part of her slaves from Massachusetts The Sena-
tor from Massachusetts had said that there was
large number omulattoes 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 historical
works to show thatarge numbers of mulattoes were
always found in Massachusetts during the time that
slavery prevailed in that state. When in ITS
Massachusetts passed act expellng from
that act applied also to mulattoes
It seemed little unnatural to expe mulattoes, not
that they were akin to the people of Massachusetts
but possibly because the climatic influence had
changed their color. until they were more in the
likeness of the good people of shat State. The cold
bleaching winds Of Massachusetts, or some other
cause, had modified the ebony color of the Africans
in that State, and had infused a COM
pound Of yellow, SO that they are no
longer called negroes but called mulattoes.
After these mulattoes had been expelled from
Massachusetts, they doubtless took refuge in the
multiplied still transmitting the modified color in
herited from climatic influences in Massachusetts,
had swept down from Massachusetts and other
Northern States. over the South as frigid and in
hospital as the dreary piercing winds of Massachu-
sett and it bleached large number of very young
children of the African race and made them mulat-
toes.
Mr.. Browns amendment, permitting divorce only
for one cause in places where the United States has
exclusive jurisdiction was rejected. Yeas,
(Messrs. Brown, Butler, George and Van Wyck);
nays, AZ.
Mr.. Hoar submitted an order to have printed an
amendment providing that no building shall be
forfeited that held and occupied exclusively for
purposes of religious worship.
MIR. Vest offered an amendment providing that in
no case shall husband or wife be competent wit
ness in prosecutions for bigamy except as to the
fact of lawful marriage having been contracted
between witness and party defendant. Without
further action the Senate went into executive ses
sion and later adjourned.
HOUSE.
Under the call of States number of bills were
introduced and referred. The only measures of the
slightest general interest one by Mr.. Follett
oil Ohio, granting 100 acres Of public domain to
every honoraby discharged Union soldier and sail
or of the late war; one by Mr.. Deuster of Wiscon-
sin to prevent and punish the prosecution of fraud
ulent claims against foreign governments; one by
Mr. Wood of Indiana, calling for executive infor
nation relative to the fencing in of public lands;
and one by Mr.. Bedford of Colorado, for the erec-
ton of a Union and Confederate soldiers home at
Denver, Colorado.
Mr.. Lowry of Indiana, from the committee ON
elections, submitted report on the contested cleo
ton case of Campbell VS., Morey declaring the
testant entitled to the seat. 1t laid over for
future action
Mr.. Randall of Pennsylvania, moved that the
House go into committee of the awhole on the def
cheney appropriation bill
Mr.. Aiken of South Carolina, hoped that the
House would not agree to the motion, though he
any one. He did not think that the appropriation
committee should monopolze the day.
Mr. Randall said that the House had fixed June
30th as the date for final adjournment, and he I'M
derstood that the Senate was likely to fix July Sd.
Ii either OF those dates were determined upon the
consideration of the appropriation bills must be
pressed.
Mr.. RandalIs motion was agreed to, and the
House went into committee as indicated.
The paragraph relating to compensation of fourth
class postmasters, combining it to box rents and
commissions on the sale OF waste papers, postage
stamps, etc., not to exceed 81 100 year, was
stricken out, "a to So. The item of S3S, 600 was
inserted allowance in contested election cases,
the limitation being 81, 900 to each.
After an unsuccessful attempt by Mr.. Keifer to
have stricken out the section prohibiting the Treas
ury Department from considering any claim against
the United States unless filed within one year from
the passage of the act within five years after it
shall have accrued, the House took recess until
p, m.
Evening Session.
At the evening session the House further consid-
cred the general deficiency bill.
Mr. Long of Massachusetts offered an amend
ment appropriating the following sums for the re-
funding of the States expenses incurred in raising
volunteers: Ohio, $90, 246; New York, $54 ,946;
Michigan, $42, 345j Massachusetts, $28,689.
Adopted.
The House having disposed of so pages of the bill
adjourned.
james E. Kelley, the New York sporting man and
pool seller, who pleaded guilty lately to selling
pools in races, was yesterday sentenced to pay fine