Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-25
TOPICS In CONGRESS.
4 MEssAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
SEEMS TO SCARE TIE SENATE.

1t Adjourns at Once, Although Morgan
Tried to Have the Message Heard-The
Garibaldi Statue = Chandler Talks =
what the House Did Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, August 23.-In the Senate,
Stewart offered resolution calling on the
Secretary OF the Interior for copies OF the
reports and afidavits on which the Com
missioner-General of the Land Office based
his letter to Barns OF the House OF Repre-
sentatlves. on the subject of timber depre-
dations, went over till tomorrow, Stewart
| stating he would then submit a few re.
marks.
Sherman offered resolution (which went
over till tomorrow directing the payment
OF the award to the Laabra Silver Mining
Company, under convention with Mexico.
The Senate then proceeded to the consid-
GRAFTON If the preamble and resolutions
from the committee on library accepting
THE BUST OF GARIBALDI
presented =. pac lsaiisssss = .,3sfsee y -
Evarts delivered a euiogy 81 the life and
character OF the Italian hero.
Chandler then resumed the speeeh began
yesterday on the resolution for an iuvesti-
CATION into recent elections. Commenting on
one account as to the murder OF VIM.
Adams, he said: 'They do pot allow Mug
wumps in Louisiana; they kill them. He
was q white man, an ex-Coniederate SOL
lier and Democrat who concluded to
support the. Yarmouth ticket, and he
was not allowed to live. He was shot to
death and his
'.BoDY THROWN INTO THE RIVER,
in order to enable Quachila parish to have
the vote returned from it for Nicoll."
Chandler then turned his attention to
election frauds in New York, and after de-
scrihing the methods there, returned to the
Louisiana case, and concluded as follows:
"If the Republicans of the South had not
the ability, persistence and courage to de-
mand and secure an observance OF universal
suffrage, but submitted to it's notification
by the oligarchy which now rules the North
and South, and if they thus abandoned the
colored people to the wrongs and oppres.
sions which encompassed them, they would
deserve no better fate than to have the
whips and fetters from which Abraham Lin
coin had freed the bondmen,
APPLIED TO THEIR OWN BACKS"
The resolution was then laid aside with
out action, AMI the Senate took up a
reported from the Judiciary
Committee on the subict OF the suppression
of the colored votes at the municipal elec-
tion in Jackson, Miss. Wilson, OF Iowa,
addressed the Senate in support OF the |
resolution. His remarks were interrupted |
by the appearance OF one OF the secretaries |
of the president, who delivered to the |
Senate |
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT,
and Wilson yielded to Edmunds who |
moved an adjournment. Morgan suggested |
that the President intended to send an i'm |
portant message on the subject of the re-
lection of the fisheries t.eaty to the presid |
ing officer. The message having been |
received, Mr.. Morgan said: II hope it will be |
to the Senate before the ad-
iournment.'
Edmunds-"The message can wait till
TO morrow"
Morgan-"I ask the ayes and nays on the |
motion to adjourn"
The question was taken, and the motion
was agrsed to: yeas %, nays 20-a strict !
party vote. Adjourned.