The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-01-14

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testedasainst any prejudgm mt ofth
case. Instead of mere anonymou
communications, he desired that tn
motives, provocations, grievances
and surroundings of the people il
that city, together with their actions
should be laid bare before th,
country, and that the verdict of tn,
country should be had upon them
Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas, sent to thu
clerks desk and had read tele,
gram sent on the ID of January, by
Attorney General Garland, to Dis
trict Attorney Harris, OF Jackson
in these words: Il notice in the
papers that ysu ars mentioned per-
sonally as participating in the po,
lltical meetineS recently at Jackson
to suppres the colored vote of that
city and to Drevent the colored peo,
pie from running for nfice tv vio-
Ience and iutimidstion. Report
fully t" me at otce the whole pro
ceeding and your connection with
| it,
Mr.. George sAl1 tia. lis e~.t i'm
pulse had ben to. let the resolution
be adopted without any debate or
objection on his part. He would
vote for it except for one insupera-
BILE objection, and that vas that it
embraced matters entirely outside
of the jurisdiction of the Senate. If
it had been confined to an invest
cation of the conduct of federal of
fiCials concerned he would have
voted for it. For fourteen years the
Republican municipal administra
ton had existed in the city of Jack
son without difficulty, without pro
test, without any violent efforts to
oyerturn it. Up to Christmas there
was no opposition to the Republi-
can nayoralty ticket, the election
bcing for the first Monday in July.
but on Christmas eve an occurrence
happened (the murder of a quiet,
respectable white man by colored
man. which excited the passions
and apprshensions OF the white pop
ulation. He did net mean to say
that even such brutal murder justi-
fed the violation Of law, but only
tha, it WAS well calculated to excite
passions and to produce irregular
and illegal action.
The resolution was adopted
yeas, %; nayes, "a; a party vote ex-
cept that of Mr.. Riddleberger, who
voted with the Democrats, while the
two Mis- -issippi Senators were ex-
cused from voting.
HOUSE Mr. Caswell, of Wiscon-
sin: From the committee on judicia~
ry reported adversely on a bill lin
iting the time for the presentation
and payment of claims against the
United States. Laid OIL the table.
Mr.. Wilkins, Of Ohio: Under in
structions i.ga the committee on
banking and G6rrency, called up for
present consideration a bill provid-
ing for the issue of circulating notes
to the National Banking Associa~
tions.
Mr.. Weaver, OF Iowa, made it a
point of order that the bill was not
accompanied by the report such as
was contemplated in the rule requi-
ring the committee to submit written
reports with every measure. The
report upon this bill was one mere
ly Recommending its passage"
yet upon such a report the house
was asked to act upon the measure,
whose certain effects was to increase
the rate OF bank circulation to the
extent of $40, 900, and whose
possible effe>t was to increase it to
the extent OF more than $500, 900, 900.
Mr.. Bland, Of Missouri, made the
further point OF order that the bill
must receive its first consideration
in the committee of the whole.
The speaker over ruled both points
Of order, Mr.. Weaver's on the
ground that it was not within the
province of the chair to decide upon
the suficiency of the report, and
Mr.. Bland's on the ground that the
bill made no appropriation of mon
eY.
Alter discussion the bill our pas
sed over until to morrow. Mr..
Townshend, from the military com :
mittee, reported back the Boutelle
"bsttlc flag" resolution as amended
by the committee on military affairs.
MIR Boutclle had no objection to the
amendment, though he did not
think that the broadening oi tie in
quiry SO As to obtain information as
to the re!urn Of flags t the uorihern
states ha1 any bearing on he pur-
pose o. the Original resolution. No
banners belonging TO the 10, n states
had been captured by the United
States, though he had seen it stated
that certain flags captured by the
rebels and recaptured by the union
troops had been returned to tire
sur> ivors of the regiments which
had borne them into battle.
Mr.>Cox, OF New York, lejoiced
at the unanimity with which the
committee on military affairs had
reported the resolution. The coun-
try was to be congratulated upon
the tact that this resolution which
hat touched public sensibili:y so
greatly could be reported unanimous
sly, and even receive the approba-
ton of the gentleman from Maine
(Mr. Boutelle.)