Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-17
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
SENATOR BUFFERS SCHEME
His Proposition For Negro
Colonization.
SENATOR H0AR'S REPLY.
The Scheme Chimerical in
His Opinion.
MRS. STEWARDS WILL.
A Settlement Between the
Contestants.
MRS. STEWARDS WILL.


THE FlFTY.FlRsT CONGRESS.
Lease Of the Seal Fisheries Postponed
.Mr. Butler ON tho Emigration of
Negroes-Mr. Hoar's Reply.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.
SENArE-The Senate passed concurrent
resolution, reported from the committe on
finance, requesting the secretary OF the
treasury not to take any steps towards
new lease of the seal fisheries until after
February 30.
The Senate then took up the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Butler on December IL, to pro-
vide for the emigration of persons OF color
from the southern States.
Mr.. Butler proceeded to address the Sem
ate. Cupidity, he said, had brought the
African here. Cupidity had inveigled tho
Chinaman here and cupidity had driven him
out. The Indian had been here and would
not be reduced to slavery and SO the Indian
was bounded and corralled. He was bounded
and corralled now, but he was still here and
q menace. What was to be done with
with the Indian, make citizen OF him?
Give him the ballot with full civil and po-
litical rights, why not7 The Indians were
here before the white man, the African or
the Mongolian. He spoke of the granting of
suffrage to colored mon craze, which
had come on the hem Of battle, but as hav-
ing been neither wise nor judicious. But
the act was done, and he could not see now
how it was to be undone. He would not
discuss the responsibility for it. He would
admit fer the sake of the argument that both
sections and both political parties were re-
sponsible. Some persons, who held high
rank in the intellectual world, hold that In
the history of the African race In this coun-
try was to be seen the hand of God for the
accomplishment of a great purpose in an
other hemisphere. Events appeared to be
shaping themselves in the manner to justify
such a conclusion. The race question raised
by the changed attitude of the two races
toward each other was q burning evidence
that the issue was not confined to any locale
| ty, section or party.
| of prophecy on the question. Scenes shifted
60 rapidly, the unexpected 80 often hap
pened, and events followed each other with
such unforeseen precipitation that he became
almost dumbfounded by the historic kaleido-
scope, and was impressed with profound
sense of human inability to shape and con-
troll events. The bill, he said, contemplated
gradual, orderly, voluntary movement OF
colored people out of the Southern States,
and provided government aid to enable thera
to do 90. If he were called upon for the au-
thority whereby Congress could prop
| erly make such appropriation of money no
should point to the appropriations made to
aid the Indians in moving out OF the North
erp, Middle, and Southern States, and to
| the appropriations to exclude Cinnamon. 1t
! appeared to him that it would be proper
exercise of the constitutional power of Con-
qress to appropriate money for the national
welfare. The citizenship of the negro
strengthened his claim over that OF the In
| dian for such government assistance. he
| might be asked, why should the negro move
| out of the southern Statesi His answer might
be that the negro would not do 20 except on
| his own motion. There was nothing In the
| bill that would coerce or compel him to move.
| But his answer, however, would be that 1t
would be for the Negroes own good and Tor
| the good of his white neighbors also. While
! the negroes remained in large masses and ex-
ceeded in numbers their white neighbors,
not only did the negroes not advance in the
scale Of civilization, but actually retro
graded.
proposition of Mr.. Butler was the most as
| tonishipp that has ever been heard in the
legislative history Of the Senate, or in the
legislative history of any free, civililized and
prosperous people. The United States was
AZ this moment, as il has been since the war,
and still the demand for labor kept more
than abreast with the general growth of the
country, From all chimes under the sun,
from sunny Italy, from beautiful Spain, from
Lisbon-that earth's jewel; from England
from Ireland, from the Scandinavian islands
of the north, from Germany, from the dis.
tsnt Russia, tho laborers were thronging. AL
the one way in their eager desire to share
the harvest of national prosperity and ma
tionsl rlory, And yet, in the SEN
ate of the United States, q pro
position was made by tho force Of tn.
nation aided by its treasury eight millions o.
laborers, born on American soil, everyone o.
them entitled to every right, were to DO de
ported to what the. senator had justly styled
the dark region of the dark continent; ant
which, in spite of the recent explorations o
their illustrious fellow citizens, were len
known to the readers of history to-day thar
il was when the father Of history ATTEMPTED
the description of 1t three hundred years BE-
fore the birth of Christ.
I Mr.. Blair spoke against the bill, and wcun'
. up with an argument that the solution OF tn
? difscultv Law in the enactment of his bill I,
3 promote education.
The bill then went over without action.
A message from the President In reference
to the claims of the government OF Swedel
and Norway In regard to tonnage dues wa
presented, read, and referred to the commit
tee on foreign relations.
Mr.. Teller presented the credentials o
: Wilbur w. Sanders and Thomas Q. Power q
Senator's elect from Montana. They wer
read and referred to the committee on priv
ileges and elections.
The Senate then proceeded to the cor
sideration of executive business, and at Al
adjourned till Monday.
Housr.-Mr. Mckinley. of Ohio, from tn
& committee on rules, reported q resolution to
J. the appointment of q committee on tn
; Worlds Fair to consist of thirteen member
= | which committee shall within three days n
8 port plan by which the HOUSE can dete,
e mine the site OF the proposed fair and sut
4 seauently report bill providing for the fail
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, as the ninorit
of the committee, reported substitute rese
luton as follows:
whereas, on the 18th and Goth days I
December, and at other times, the house r
ferred to the committee on foreign affair
divers bills, petitions and memorials touch
ing the projected Worlds Fair of 1870;
thereby giving full jurisdiction to that CON
mittee Of the whole subject matter, and cal
committee has given exhaustive consider
ton to the same.
Resolved, That the committee on foreie
= affairs be instructed to report q resolutic
providing q method OF selecting the locali!
Of the worlds fair of 1892 by vote of Il
ID House of Representatives. First, wheth
,. said fair shall be held east or west of Il
3. Allegheny Mountains; second, the selectit
On of the place for the location of said fai
= After such vote shall have been taken 81
, committee ct the earliest possible day sh,
report bill providing for q worlds fair
1892, to be held at the place selected a. abo
provided.
After long debate, In which the frien
Of the rival cities for the fair participate
&. Mr.. Cannon modified his resolution by stri
ing ont the requirement that the frat ve
should be taken on locating the fair east
the Allegheny Mountains and offered 1t ~
subsritute for the resolution reported by
Mckinley and it was defeated; yeas L
nays 142.
Without casting any imputation on anyc
Mr. Springer demanded . recount Of the vo
The recount resulted in the adoption of q
|. mons substitute; yeas 1877, nays 1874.
The next vote was upon substituting
81 majority resolution for the original re