Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-26
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
APPROPRIATIONS IN THE HOUSE.
$l00,00 for Yellow Fever Sufferers
THE NATIONAL INQUEsTs BILL.
Senator George Talks About the War.
The Senate.

The Senate.
Mr. Edmunds, from the judiciary COMMITTEES,
reported the Senate bill approving the settlement
OF the boundary line Qn the waters OF the sea)
between Connecticut and Rhode Island. He stated
that 1t was mere constitutional ceremony-the
two states having agreed to q new line OF demar-
cation, but the agreement requiring the assent OF
Congress in order to be valid The bill was
passed
PROMOTED ON HIS DEATH-BED.
Mr. Chandler, from the commil tee on naval af-
fairs, reported the bill authorizing the President
to issue commission as rear admiral to Philip C.
johnson, to be dated January 25, 1887, and 10 de-
nVer the same 10 his widow. He asked It's present
JOnnson became entitled to the promotion when
on his death-Ded, and that his widow, as q matter
OF family pride lor herseibani children, desired to
nave the parchment commission, which would not
anect In any way her rate Of pension.
MT Edmunds questioned the power Of the senate
10 pass sucn BAL, and Mr.. COckreli objected en-
phatlcaily TO ITS present consideration.
Inc Olu was placed on the calendar.
"INoUEsTs UNDER NATIONAL AUTHORITY"
The bill reported by Mr. Hoar on the 9th OF Feb
ruary last ITO provide for inQuests under national
authority" was taken up, and Mr.. George pro-
ceeded TO address the Senate Mr.. George said
tnat ne spoke under u full sense OF tue great re-
oponsiUility resting on him as an American Sena-
TOR cnar led with The high duty OF promoting the
ana charged also Win the no less high trust OF
repellng unjust implications cast upon the people
whose connlsson ne holds as a member or the
Senate.
SLAVERY AND THE WAR OF SECESSION
After review Of the origin and his ory OF Afri-
can slavery. and OF the causes lea ing up to the
civil war, Mr. George said that he did not wish to
0e understood as saying that the South had lust
cause lor secession, or that the Interpretation
which IL had paced on the Constitution was cor
IL Inf
opinions were was well known TO those with
whom lie associated. Nor would he say which OF
the sec ions had fired the first gun and precipitated
the war. War haI Ueen certain, as Ger, ain as the
DEGREES OF late, and war came 1t had been no
petty lnsurleclion, no conflict even between Or
gan.zed military IOtce,; but
THE MIGHTY STRUGGLES OF PEOPLES AND srArRs
With what valor, heroism, anu devotion the SOL
diers OF the Union had fought, and with what he
roc Resistance they had been met, al. .ested by
the monuments erected to them everywhe
throughout the land. The necessities or that war
mad brought out the Southern soldier whose en-.
uuiance, Seli-sacrifce, and heroic tOrlllude had
never Deen surpassed In all the long ages since
men learned TO Kill each otner in War. But the
South could not succeed against fate; 1t went
down before Irresistible numbers, and was left to
commence the world anew.
REPAIRING TO The QUARREL BETWEEN PRESIDENT
JOHNSON AND CoNGRESs,
ne declared 1t to be the greatest misfortune that
could have befallen the South. The Southern
followed those dark years Of government pillage
and Official brigandage, of bellIgerent peace and
1urti.e peculatfng war, In whicn virtue public or
private, was treated as a crime, and personal
tgnominy held TO be no bar (out even q lust
claim) TO high public station. In discussing the
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO RACES AT THE SOUTH
Mr. George. in Justification OF the position OF the
whites quoted from speech delivered In the SEN
ate by Mr.. Eimunds. insisting on the necessity OF
the homogeneity OF a people as essential to the
reDuO1cS no fall NJ
the Greek republic to the absence OF such homo
genety, and asserting the belief that the state OF
sion Of million OF the Inhabitants Of the
dark continent" He described the result OF the
pontlcai teachings TO which coored men had
oeen subjected by republican politicians at the
South. The fountains OF the great deep of human
depravity had been III. saidD broken up: the
waters OF race hatred mad flooded the land, and
society mad been saved from utter dissolution an a
anarchy only by the conservative forces OF the
wnlts race. The people Of Mississippi had had to
encounter all tnese hangers in the most aggra-
waited form. Instead or one harmonious people
they had Two races-twO distinct people; the most
aivergent 10 physical formation or all the human
iamlly, locally interIningled, but
AS WIDE AsUNDER AS THE POLES:
the one smarting under defeat and irritated by
enforced political association with an inferior
race, the other ignorant with memories OF recent
wrongs and with passions inf med by their un.
scrupuious political lead rs. The result had been
negro supremacy In Sissis ppi ns nIis 1h year o.
lakes mad been increased 500 per cent 400
per cent the next year, and 1850 per cent tue
ulth year, and county taxes had ueen increased
IN an equal, and In In some instances greater pro-
pOrtlon Negroes had been commissioned as
Judges and Justices OF the peace. The prisons had
become (as an eminent lawyer OF Mississippi ue-
clared) Tue abode or honest men, and dishonesty
sat entnr0ned IN the mples or justice Tue blacks
Qed 0y few whiteS) had been la absolute control
OF the state. and Lne complaints OF CRUSH nv Taxa
tion had been met Dy avOweis OF a purpose 20 ,Oad
property with such burdens as would make its sur.
election OF 1875 (whatever might be said OF It) had
saved The sLate from anarchy and society from
dissolution: Affairs lhe was glad to say had been
improved SINCE the whites had come into power
House Or Representatives.
CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Immediately after the reading OF the journal Mr.
Forney Ala-) presented the conference report on
the sundry civil appropriation bill
MI. Cheadle und.) asked that the report lie over
until tomorrow on the ground that Senator voor-
hees, who was very much interested In the library
provision, was absent from the city.
Mr. Rogers Ark.) seconded the request, basing
his desire on the ground that in acting upon such
an Important measure the House should nave be-
fore IT, in print, the proposed agreement
MrWheeler lAla.) while not antagonizing the
requeSt, urged the Importance OF continuing the
WORK on the library without further delay,
Inc request was acceeded to, and the report
went over until tomorrow.
FORFEITED LAND GRANITE
Mr.. McRae (Ark.), from the committee on public
lands, reported, and the House passed without de-
bate. bill 10 forfeit certain lands granted to the
NorthPacinc Railroad Company.
(It provides that all the lands granted IN the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company BY the ACT of
July 1854, except such as are adj Jacent to ard cce
ternln0us Win road constructed prior to july f.
with the right OF Way through the remainder OF
the route including all necessary grounds for sta
turntables, and excepting also all lands In
Guided within the limits or any village.
town or city, be and the same are de.
clared forfeited and restored to the public
domain, because OF tue failure OF the Company to
perform the conditions on which the grant was
mace Inc FORFEITURE shall not extend to lands
ad1acent and coterm1nous with completed road
500 py said company prior to Jan. l. lSSs 70 bona
noe purchasers IOr value, but the title to such
lands are confirmed TO such purchasers their heirs
or assigns. upon condition that ali persons claim
Ing the benefit OF this section snail, within one
year arter the passage OF this act make and fle
before the register and receiver OF the proper land
0nce, subject TO an appeal TO the Commissioner OF
the General Land once, proof OF the good faith,
CONSIDERATION date, and extent Of his or her pur-
chase. All settlers upon the forfeited lands are
acres under the homestead law.l
BILLS PASSED.
On motion Of Mr.. Grout (vt) the Senate bill was
passed authorizing the construction OF Q bridge
across that part OF the waters OF Lake Champlain
which separates the islands OF North Hero and
South Hero.
on motion Of Mr.. Dunn (Ark) the senate BIN was
passed changing the boundaries OF the fourth col.
bectlon district OF Virginia.
TIE GENERAL DEviCrxNcY BILL