Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-14
4sth Congress---Second Session
WASHINGTON, January IS, 1sS5. cuN r,ry

WASHINGTON, January 13 1885, l SENATE.
 The Senate galleries were packed this
 morning and there were many privileged per l sons on the floor. It was expected that the
 Davis Sherman debate would be resumed,
 and that Senators Vance and Brown, the ex-
 Confederate Governors of North Carolina and | or Georgia, respectively, would state their
 relations to Jefferson Davis and the Rich
 mond government. Senator Vance had said
 privately that he would speak. Senator Brown had given sign, but there were | more books on his desk than usual At o'clock MT. Hawley, of Connecticut, called up his resolution and MT. Vance took 1 the floor. He said that inasmuch as the un- 1 official letter of General Sherman would be
 spread upon the record, and it was incor- I rect, he thought that all persons connected
 with these statements should be heard in the ssnle form. He made a general denial of the statement of General Sherman as to the letter from Jefferson Davis to himself
 He said: tI aver, most positively, on the honor of gentleman and an American Senator, that no letter containing such threat was ever received by me from Jefferson Davis" Mr. Vance declared that while he was opposed to seces- sion in the outset, and to details of Jefferson Davis administration, it is well known that
 after my own honor was engaged, and the honor of my native State, there never was an hour that l did not give my body, mind and soul to the success of the movement to which l had professed allegiance"
 General Hawley said that the Confederate government, near the close of the war, sent
 message to the British government offering to abolish slavery,
 Mir Brown, of Georgia, one of the Confed- crate Governors whose relations to Jefferson Davis are under discussion, finally rose. He said that the chapter of his record in the Confectionery was closed and should not be opened by him in this form. II never dis obeyed any legal order of Jefferson Davis, if he had any right to issue an order to Gov etti6r of a State" said Mr. Brown. He then proceeded to sketch the history of his oppos- ition to the Confederate conscription act.
 General Haw1ey quoted from letters of Governor Brown of Georgia, to show that the letter was in sharp antagonism to the Confederacy. In these letters Governor Brown spoke of "the encroaehment of een- tralized power' on the part of the Confeder- aey. He refused Ito surrender the last yes. tige of the sovereignty of the State" to the Richmond government, and threatened If necessary to use the troops of Georgia against the Confederate forces. MT. Hawley main tained that the evidence shows that the Con. federaey itself was on the verge of civil war on account of States rights.
 The debate closed at o'clock, with the de- earation by MT Brown that he stood by his record, and means every word he had said in Lis correspondence with Jeff Davis.
 The roll call was ordered on the passage of the resolution. The Democrats divided. The following is the affirmative and negative Democratic votei
 Ayes-Bayard, Beek, Camden, Cockrell, Coke, German. Gibson, Jonas, Jones of Florida, Lamar, MePherson, Pendleton, Pugh,
 Vance, Voorhees, Walker, Williams. Nays-Btuwn of Georgia, Colquitt, Hamp
 t,,3, Nav ita-
 bury, Slater, Vest.
 The Republicans all voted in the affrma=
 tive So ths resolution was passed and the incident was ended,
 A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as
 te the recent orders suspending the collection of the whisky tax.
 At , o'clock the chair laid before the Sen ate the interstate commerce bill and the galleries were rapidly cleared, The Senate continued the discussion of it's interstate commerce bill, the question being on pend ing amendment of Senator Vance prohibiting
 discrimination of rates between large and small shippers. MT. Vance, referring to an amendment offered by Mir. Brown when this bill was last under discussion providing that no merchant should
 charge less less. per s.,s cent of of profit profit
 than a small sale provided the goods had
 been transported from another State so as to come within the power of Congress to regu-
 late interstate commerce, said he was at first inclined to think this was a piece of rudeness towards brother Senator, but re- | fiecting on the we'll known suavity of the | Senator from Georgia he concluded he was wrong in this view. He then thought it | must be intended as joke, but here again he concluded he must be wrong, for whatev- CT might be said about the Senator from Geor- gia, in his long public career a successful joke III 4~ l. He was therefore forced to the conclusion {! that the Senator was in dead earnest and could not see the difference between mer- chandise conveyed by a common carrier and | a pair of shoes sold at Georgia crossroads store.
 Mr. Bayard opposed the amendment. The l laws of property were the same to corpora l tions as to individuals What would bank rupt an individual would bankrupt corpo- ration. man would sell at wholesale at a rate of profit which would ruin him at re- | tail
 MT. Sheffield spoke in opposition to MT. Vance's amendment. It was not the purpose of the Senator probably to pass bill of at | tainder, but the effect of his amendment would indirectly be the same. It would rem der property in the hands of it's owner en- tirely valueless.
 The amendment was further opposed by Senators Sewall and Brown and on 8 call of J At 4:20 the Senate went into executive ses- sion and after confirming some unimportant l nominations at 4:4O p. m. adjourned. l HoUsE-Mr. Stockslager, of Indiana, rose 1 to 8 personal explanation and had read dis patch from Washington to the New York | Sun of yesterday, commenting upon the pas | sage between Messrs. Randall and Stocks l lager, charging combination to take $15,- | 900, 1000 from the treasury for the construc- | ton of public buildings. He said he was not surprised at the recklessneSs of co.respOn- | dents, when a member, Warner, of Ohio, has | stated in an interview that there were $2o, l OOO, GOO involved in these bills There were | in all ffty-one or ffty-two bills and the
 whole amount, including building | and the library building and three bills l already passed, only aggregated $6, ,324, ,327: 1 This he said was not an unusual sum, and | considering that no provisions had been
 made for public buildings for the past three l years was reasonable and proper. As to the l charge of log rolling he for himself, the com
 mittee and the members of the committee de | entirely false. Each bill stood alone. If they had desired combination they would | have put the buildings in an omnibus bill | like that for rivers and harbors.
 The regular order was called for and the Judiciary committee was then recognized as l
 were called up and passed. Among them
 were all the pending bills for the removal of
 political disabilities aud the bill limiting the | time for the presentation and payment of
 claims against the United States (This bill
 limits the presentation of claims for back pay or bounty to officers, soldiers, or to any 1 other person for services in the late civil war
 to three years from tEe passage of the act,
 and all other existing claims except for pen | sions to six years, and all claims originating
 hereafter to six years from the date of thei1 l origination.)
 Mr. Browne, of Indiana, announced the
 death of ex Speaker Schuyler Colfax and of
 tered a resolution that as mark of respect
 to his memory the House adjourn. The res
 olution was adopted and at 5:05 the House | adjourned.
 | Sued For Breach of Promise. GREAT HARRINGTON, Mass, Jan. 13.-Miss | Grace Whiting has sued John Brewer fo1 | 1000 for breach of promise. Miss Whiting | is clerk in the dry goods store of Moore & | Cook and Brewer is a hardware merchant.