St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-29
THE SURPLUS WILL FADE.
Republican Senators Pass the
Direct Tax Bill.

DuDllcan form or government IN MlSSlS-
sippi. Mr.. Morrill, introduced the bill
authorizing the Issuing of treasury
notes on deposits of silver bullion, and
asked its reference to the committee on
finance, and asked that a bill prepared
by Secretary Window to the same pur-
pose be printed and referred. A reso-
luton was adopted instructing the
library committee to inquire and report
as to the propriety of purchasing the
Stanley collection of Indian paintings
now in the Smithsonian institution. On
motion OF Mr.. Sherman the senate bill
to relieve the treasurer of the United
States from the amount now charged to
him and deposited with the several
states was taken from the calendar and
passed. The bill authorizes the ac
counting officers Of the treasury to
credit the treasurer of the United States
with the amount of
MONEY STANDING TO HIS DEBIT
upon the books of the treasury depart
ment now unavailable by reason of the
deposit of three installments of the sur
plus revenue with the states, authorized
by sections 13 and IA of the act of June
%, 1885, the amount to be charged to an
appropriation hereby created for that
purpose, aggregatlng S2S, 101,6 ,644. The
direct tax DILL was then taken up. Mr..
Vest expressed his opposition to the
bill, as did also Mr.. Berry who asked for
the yeas and nays. Mr.. Sherman made
a brief statement of the history of the
direct tax bill and said its passage
would remove bone of contention and
repair an injustice. Mr.. Vest said its
passage was a foregone conclusion, but
he stood by his record of opposition, and
especially by President Cleveland's
veto of the same bill. He regarded the
measure as utterly Indefensible, with
out constitutional authority, and un-
warranted by precedent. Mr.. Vance
offered as an amendment, a proposition
to refund the cotton tax. Rejected
yeas 10, nays 90. Messrs. Blair and
Call opposed the bill. After further
debate the bill passed by d vote of
Messrs. Berry, Blair, Call, Coke,
Plumb, Vance and Vest. (rhe bill
makes it the duty of the secretary of
the treasury to credit to each state and
territory of the United States and the
District of Columbia a sum equal to all
collections from them under the direct
tax bill of 1861. The senate then re-
sumed consideration of Mr.. Chandler's
resolution regarding the i'll treatment
of FAM, at Aberdeen, Miss, and Mr..
George argued against it, declaring his
belief that its adoption would be SER
iOuS
INFRACTIoN OF THE CONSTITUTION
and very serious encroachment On the
rights of the people of Mississippi. He
quoted decisions of the supreme court
in support of his position, and said there
could be no doubt-if the decisions of
the supreme court were to be relied on
that the senate, as part of the law
making power, had no jurisdiction to
pass law to punish the men who had
committed the Outrages at Aberdeen.
Mr.. George said that not only did he
condemn the hanging in effigy
of any respectable officer of the
United States under any conditions or
provocation, but in the case of Secretary
Proctor, there was no prOVOcati0n for
the insult. He had never heard from
any Southern Democrat any other COM
ment on the conduct of Secretary Proc
tor, for which the indignity had been
attempted to be inflicted upon him, eX-
cept that he had performed painful
and delicate duty with consideration to
the feelings, the prejudices even, of
the people of the South. Mr.. George
said the resolution sought to blacken
the name and reputatlonof the people of
Mississippi, whom he eulogized in the
highest terms, instancng among other
distinguished citizens of that state JEFF
ferSon Davis. who ''had never betrayed
his trust or failed in the discharge of his
full duty, whether he served the United
States or the Confederacy." He claimed
in conclusion that the pending resolu-
ton was without any warrant in the
constitution that senators had sworn to
support. If the senate was TO go on this
crusade against the
WHITE PEOPLE OF MISSISSIPPI
would it not be well, he asked, for the
senate to set an example to that de-
spairing people of an observance of the
constitution. Mr.. Sponner said that so
far as the resolution appeared on its
face it was not an assumption by the
senate TO deal with crimes. isolated or
general. in the state of Mississippi. 1t
did not involve the contention that the
United States government by any eX-
isting law, or by any law that could be
constitutionally passed, could punish a
man in its courts for an assault and bat
terry committed in the state of Missis-
slppi. Still he was not ready to
admit that there might not be
circumstances in which jurisdiction
might be conferred by congress
on courts of the United States
to secure a citizen of the United
States mis- constitutional rights
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness, which the state denied by force
and fraud. He was glad that the dav
had come when the United States had
an attorney general who would take no
tice of an outrage on an American citi-
zen, He denied that there existed in
the North feeling of animoSity against
the South, and cited as an evidence of
that the fact that long ago all the
Southern states were represented
in both houses of congress, and that
tOo.mOstly by gentlemen who had fought
under the Confederate flag, and against
the American flag. The hanging in
etfigy of Secretary Proctor brought into
the sunlight the Indifference to law and
decency in the South of which the
country had for many years had Ocea-
sion to complain. Mr.. Spooner said he
regretted that the senator from Missis-
sippi (Mr. GeOrge) had felt called upon
! to pronounce
EULoGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS.
1t was natural that the people of the
| South should have shown Davis that re-
| Spect and honor with which they had
followed him to the grave; but to pro-
| nounce eulOgy of him in the senate
| chamber would strike harsh chord in
the breasts of millions of men through
out the North. The people believed
Oi1to btNio htNt SclO III GliC OCildlC CUdtli-
Der daily and hourly betraying the high
est trust ever reposed in man. But it
was not for that that they execrated his
memory. 1t was because they believed
| him responsible for the deviish atroci-
ties perpetrated in the Libby
prison, Andersonville, Belle Isle and
Salisbury. Mr.. Gray charged Mr..
Spooner with having evaded the issue
raised by Mr.. George. The hanging of
Secretary Proctor in effigy was not so
great a crime as the senator from Wis
consin would have it appear. Recently
President Harrison had been hung in
effigy in Indiana. He moved an amend
ment by adding the words. ''and also
the letter of instruction to said mar
! shal to which the report of said marshal
was response, and that he be request
ed to inform the senate whether in the
alleged assault on FAM any right Sc
cured to him by the constitution or laws
| of the United States was invaded
or violated" Mr.. Butler moved an
amendment calling on the attorney