The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-01-09
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE AND
HOUSE YEsTERDAY-McCOMAs'
BILL ON THE DISTRICT.
REMOVAL OF THE NEGROES.
Morgan's Speech on Buffers Bill for
Removal of the Negro From the
Southern States.
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, January Among the
bills presented and referred was one by
Mr.. Faulkner, to provide for the world ex-
position at the national capital in 1892.
Mr.. harris, in the absence of Mr.. Beck
and in his name, introduced bill to sus-
pend the operation of the sinking fund laws
until further order of congress. Referred
to finance committee.
Mr.. Voorhees, offered preamble and res
olution reciting newspaper report that
Mr.. Chambers, United States district attor--
ney at Indianapolis, had interfered in
his official capacity to prevent the
arrest OF W. W. Dudley on a charge of fell
oniously violating the election law of In
diana in the last presidential election, and
calling on the attorney general to- report
what instructions the department of Justice
had issued to Chambers on the subject, and
to furnish copies of the correspondence.
He asked that the resolution go over until
tomorrow when he would submit some re-
marks upon it.
Mr.. Edmunds-Th is right; am in
favor of the substance of it. The resolu-
10 n went over.
Mr.. Morgan proceeded to address the
senate on the subject of the bill heretofore
introduced by Mr.. Butler, to provide for
Southern states. He said that when Mr..
Window was a member of the senate he
had advocated the proposition for the vol
untary emigration of the colored people.
He (Morgan) was then in favor of that pol
icy, and was still in favor of any plan that
could be devised 10 meet an evil. He had
reached the conclusion that there was a
natural incongruity and an irrepressible
conflict between the races which nothing
could cure except their final separation.
The return of the negro race to Africa was
the final and only solution to the problem
After executive session the senate ad-
journed.
| Mr.. Culberson, of Texas, from thu
committee on judiciary, reported anC
the house passed bill to change
and fix the time of holding terms O
district and and circuit courts at Austir
and Brownsville, Tex. The speaker stated
| to the house that in accordance with au
thority vested in him yesterday he had ad
ministered the oath of Office to Samuel
Randall, of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. McCombs, of Maryland offered Q
resolution that the house resolve itself into
a committee of the whole for consideration
of tile District of Columbia appropriation
bill the committee to be governed by the
rules of last congress.
Mr.. Breckenridge raised the question Of
consideration against the resolution.
The speaker ruled that the question o.
consideration could not be raised against
the resolution because the resolution wa:
in the nature of a motion regulating the
business of the house.
Mr.. Breckenridge appealed from the de-
cision and yielded the floor to Mr.. Car
Isle, of Kentucky, who vigorously at
tackled the speakers ruling He argued
that no question of consideration could bt
raised against the motion to go into COM
mittee of the whole, but the pending reso
luton went far beyond that and provided
temporarily, it was true, for the code o
rules.
Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, was opposed t.
the adoption of therules of the last hous'
piecemeal, and Mr.. Bogers, of Arkansas
and MI. Hooker, of Mississippi, argued
against the position taken by the speaker
Ire decision of the speaker was sustained
by vote of yeas, 1856; nays, 1A.
The house then adjourned.