Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-14
TIE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
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Officials appointed.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
n THE SENATE.


IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 18th in the Senate to-
| day the House bill providing for bridges across
| Oregon similar to the Senate bill passed and
| sent to the House,, was reported back from the
| Committee on Commerce, amended by a few
verbal changes, and was passed.
The eenate Committee on Commerce reported
| the bill to repeal the law of the last Congress
| requiring steamships to carry guys and rockets
for casting lines in case of distress. The object
4 of this as was stated, was TO do away with the
| of their appliances under the law as it now
| stands. The bill was placed on the calendar.
| The Senate proceeded TO the calendar, and
\ passed bills for public buildings as follows:
| Stockton, sS5,000; Mammoth Hot Springs, in the
| Yellowstone National Park, S10.0o0 Virginia
City New, $4,000; The Dalles, Or, 500 COO; Sa-
| lem, Or, 100000; Reno, New. $4,000. All OF
| the foregoing we're Senate bills
Eustis look the floor and referred to the state
ments made by Hoar yesterday, one of them be-
| ing that in the State of Louisiana and some of
, the other States, there were laws which made it
| a penal offense for white man TO associate on
| terms of equality with negroes. Another was
i to the effect that there was a law which pro-
| vided for the sale of any colored man found for
| a certain time out of work, and that their for
mer masters should have the preference in such
purchase. He denied emphatically that there
was such q law in Louisiana, and spoke of the
re ecklessness and destitution OF sense of respon-
| Eibility with which Republican Senators spoke
OF Southern affairs.
| Hoar said he might have erred as to the ate
| in which such law was passed, bnt quoted
them substantially from the laws OF Mississippi.
| and he thought substantially the same law had
| been enacted in Louisiana.
The educational bill then came up and Blair
made brief address He also read extracts
| from speech of President Harrison when a
| Senator in 1885, favoring the BILL and said the
| President held the same sentiments to-day.
The Southern question came up again and
uOar rodr tod OF anf hftrf bn
| laws of Louisiana was incorrect.
| Sherman asked Eustis whether he did not
know the fifteenth amendment never would
have been proposed but for the fact that the
| laws of the Southern States were depriving the
negroes of their rights OF citizenship.
kustis replied that it was his honest conYic-
| tons that the reconstruction measures were
| adopted by the Republican party with the sin
| gle object of AfricaniZing the South and main
| tanning political supremacy, and characterized
| il as the greatest crime ever committed against
| civilized communities.
| Sherman then took part in the discussion,
which became a heated political controversy
| He traced the source of the reconstruction
| movement, and said at the close of the war it
| had not been contemplated to arm the negro
with suffrage, but the laws passed by some of
| the Southern States were so unjust to the COL
| ored people and to white Republicans in the
| South that the people of the North became con-
| throw the results of the war and deprive the
| freemen of all the rights OF citizenship. When
| the time came it was seen that there was no
way to protect the emancipated people, except
| by arming them with suffrage Congress had
| reluctantly slowly but deliberately adopted
| that remedy as the only ons fitted
| for The case. He (Sherman) had some time
| thought it might possibly have been better
| not to have adopted the fifteenth amendment,
| comforting suffrage on the colored men, because
| that right had been nullified and uprooted. The
result of the fifteenth amendment was practi
| cally to give the fouthern States an increased
representation in the House of Representatives
| and increased their power in the Electoral Col
\ lege. Ifthere was nythiDg wrong in the stu
alton of Southern affairs the people of the South
| hsd brought it on themselves There was no
1 feeling of hate in the North against the South.
II the equal rights Of all the people in the South
(! were secured, the people OF the North would be
satisfied. The fifteenth amendment Lad not
turned out as expected, because no man
| dreamed such measures as had been resorted to
| in the South would have been resorted to to de-
| priYe the negro of his rights No one had
| dreamed of "Ku-Klux Klans'' and all the saw
! age machinery by which that exclusion had
| been perfected.
measures OF the fifteenth amendment were
| not so much due to Objectionable legislation in
/ the South as to the conflict between Andrew
| Johnson and the Republican Congress.
| SheIman replied that the selection of Andrew
| Johnson, Southern man and Democrat, for
| Vice President was proof OF the generous treat
ment the North had shown the South. But John
son had deserted the Republican party and
| turned his back upon it when he came into
power, and Congress tied his hands and pre-
vented the carrying out of his policy.
Butler-'Then understand tue Senator from
| Ohio to 4 nit that the Southern people were
not alone responsible, but that Andrew John
sou, his President, was more responsible for the
| enactment of the extreme measures sgainst the
| southg'
| Sherman-tI look upon Andrew Johnson as a
| Southern man and Democrat
| Butler He was your Republican President,
: and the people of the South had no other au-
| after
| the Executive.
Sherman" The Southern people had a right
| to look to Congress as the governing power OF
| the country" Sherman went on to say TO the
Senators on the other side that there is ceiling
| ia the North that not only have the neg -oes OF
the South been deprived of their votes, but that
| the people of the South now enjoy larger pc
litical power than the same number of people OF
| the North. Let the South obey the constitu.
| tioual amendmt nts. Let it give the negro his
] vote and permit him 20 vote as he will l would
| not care if the whole of the negroes would vote
the Democratic ticket; but this feeling of injus-
| tice does prevail in the North-that while you
are depriving the colored people of their votes,
| you are exercising undue power in the Govern
ment. The North denies hatred, but demands
| Justice, and now | say that beyond and above
/ this educational bill, or any other pending
/ measure, is an Act of Congress that will secure
TO every man in the United States entitled to
vote his right to cast his vote and have it
counted Whenever Congress rises to The dig
nifty of passing such law that viii be uniform
| throughout the United States, affecting Massa-
| chusetts aud Ohio as well as South Carolina,
every will feel that it is Just and fair law
ard there will be no further ground of COM
| plaint.
Congress cannot exercise any control in the
local affairs of the Southern States but what we
insist upon is that there shall be law that will
| protect the right of suffrage, and that the law
shall be executed with such power that no man
dare expose himself to its penalty.
Butler followed Sherman. He spoke of the
| exclusion of the colored men in the Northern
frfara AR ~.
contrary there WAS no such discrimination in
i the South. This very day, and for the past
week, the newspapers have been teenaing with
| accounts OF white men in Oklahoma and Re-
pub leans among them, announcing to the
world that If the colored people dared to assert
their right TO control the Territory by superiority
of numbers they would drive them out at the
point OF the bayonet. He had seen accounts OF
outrages on the colored people in Ohio and In
diana, and yet he had heard not one syllable of
protest. He would tell the Senator from Ohio
that wherever he attempted to carry
out his threat of another crusade upon
the south through Supervisors and United
states Marshals, for the purpose of
dominating elections he would have fire in
ried their money and their industry into the
South and whenever he attempted TO re-estab-
lish in the South those reconstruction govern
ments which had left in their train the black
mark of spoliation disgrace and humiliation, q
protest in his own State and county would
cause him TO hesitate before he carried it out.
ne kbulleIl ffOu1Q uOL eAcQdURc one 1Our OF
good order in the South for all the political
power that negro suffrage had given the South.
He appealed to the Senators and the people of
the North to believe Southern men when they
said they were far more interested in orderly,
humane, honest settlement of the quz stion
than the people OF the North could possibly be.
Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, March 13th.-In the House to-
day the bill was passed granting the right of
Nez raxa in
Idaho to the Palouse and Spokane Railroad
Company.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole for the consideration of the Oklahoma
bill
The House substitute for the Senate bill pro-
viding for Territorial Government for Okla
hom. passed the House by vote of 100 to 25
On motion of Tandey an amendment was
adopted for the establishment of Land Office
in NQ-Man's Land.
On motion of Holman an amendment was
adopted providing that no person who has a
fee simple to leo acres OF land in any State or
Territory shall be entitled to enter the land
covered by this Act.
The committee rose and reported the bill to
| have an amendment providing that Section
2134 Of the Revised Statutes prohibiting the in
PRODUCTION of Intoxicating liquor into the In
dian Territory, be enforced in Oklahoma until
after the adjournment Of the first session of the
Legislature This was agreed to-13l to lO3
/ The bill then passed-i6G to 25
This substitute fcr the Senate bill on the same
subject contains provisions which in substance
TX the boundaries of the new territory to in.
Glade the Cherokee Outlet, with the proviso
that no lands which tue Indians oce upy under