The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-14
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS-.
sOmr VERY SPICY LANGUAGE
IN THE SENATE.
Civil Rights md Negro Suffrage Amu>e
the oenatoiial SOlOns.--Thc Usual
North VS.. South Debatc--The Okla-
hQma Bill Passed i'm the House.
lBy United Press.


Senate to-day passed number of pub
lie building bills, among them Que ap
propriating 100000 for u building at
Salem, Va.
Mr.. Euslis, of Louisiana, referred 10
two statements made by NJ. lIoar yes
terday IN reference to the Southern
States -ouc being that in the state OF
L,uisiana, and in some other States
there were laws which made il a penal
offence for q white man to associate on
terms OF equality with colored man.
He asserted that there was not the
slightest foundation for such state
ment.
The other statement of Mr.. l!oar was
TO the effect that there was another law
in Louisiana which provided for the sale
OF colored men for certain time out OF
work, and that the former owner should
have the preference III the purchase.
lie asked Mr. Hoar whether he could find
any such law on the statute books OF
Louisiana lie (Mr. Eustis) knew that
the criticism was directed against the
democratic legislature of Louisiana OF
1865; but he had never heard a republi
can senator criticise the infamous laws
enacted in louisiana by republican leg
islatures There was no such law, he
said, as that which Mr.. lloar had re-
ferred 10, and any sentence that there
was only Illustrated with what reckless
ness aad dcstitution of sense of respon
sibility republican senator's spoke OF
southern affairs
Mr.. Hoar said he had not read about
louisiana, but law of this character
existed in Mississippi.
The educational bill was taken up at
two o'clock, AID Mr., Blair addressed the
Senate.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Mr..
Hoar Resumed the discussion OF the laws
of the southern states relating to south
ern people Had it not been for the OBJ
jectionable laws passed by some of the
southern states, he said, the government
of those states would have been remand
ed in 1865 to those who governed before
the war
Mr. Sherman asked Mr. Eustis wheth
or be did not know that the fifteenth
amen ment never would have been pro
posed but for the fact that laws of the
sou horn states were depriying the negro
OF his rights Of citizenship.
S-Nr. EustiS asserted that all recon
struction measures and constitutional
auendameuts were adopted by the Re
publican party, with the single object o
Africauizng the South and maintainin!
political supremacy; and this he charac
Ierized as the greatest crime ever com
mitted against civilized communities.
Mr.. Slerman then made a long speec
in defense Of reconstruction measures
The first act that passed for the recon
structon of the Southern States ha
been framed by committee OF conServ
atiy. - majors, such as Reycrdy Johnson
Trumbull and Fessenden. There was a
that time no hostility against the peopi
of the South, but rather universal az
preciatiOu of the fact that while the
were radically wrong In waging civ
war, they had been honest In their con
yictions that the doctrine for whlc
they fought was the doctrine of the Cor
stitutiou But the laws passed by SON
of the Southern States had been so III
Just to the colored people and white Il
publicanS in the South, that the peop
North became convinced that the 0bJe
in the South was to overthrow the
suits Of the war and to deprive the free'
men of their rights Of citizenshi
There was, he said, no feeling of ha
existing in the North against the Sou
as intimated yesterday by Mr.. Georg
and If the equal rights OF all people
the South were secured, the people Nor
would be satisfied.
Mr.. Butler replying to Mr.. Sherma
said that if the debate had accomplish
nothing else it had shown by the stat
= - n,
Mes .chusettS. that the suffrage n
been conferred upon the negroes OF :
South not because he was entitled to
not because be was qualified to exerci
IL. bat because Of certain laws pass
by some OF the Southern States imme'
ately after the Mar. The admission
the Senator from Ohio, he thoug
would 90 long way in throwing liz
on any further discussion as to the ri9
OF the negro to vote in the South.
Referring to the administration
President Johnson, Mr.. Butler SAID tl
one OF the most unfortunate days Il
had ever come over the country was
day that brought about a conflict
tween the chief executive and the LEI
lative department Of the United Stat
Between the upper and Inc lower II
one, De.Wceh inc executive pOlicy
the one side and the legislative policy
tie other, the South had been grounC
powder.
Mr.. Butler spoke of the exclusion
eolored men in the northern States
for all political offices, and asserted
there vas no discrimination in the |
of south Carolina, Mississippi, Louisi
or Georgia, against man on accoun
his race or color.
He believed that the great body OF
people north were kindly disposed
ward the people of the south, and
that kindness had been very much s
u!ated by the fact that millions OF me
Y were being sent south for investm
He warned the senator from Ohio
when he attempted to carry out
threat of another crusade upon
y south, through supervisors and UI
Nates marshals, for the purpose of q
mating elections there, he would ha
Are in his rear from the men who
nrried their money and their indu
INTO the south. :.
Mr.. Butler, in concluding, sale
would not exchange one hour OF
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