The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-28
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE HELATESTNEWSBY WIRE
THAT INSULT TO PROCTOR IN
MISSISSIPPI.
II IL Discussed In the senate Yes-
terday and by Many Prominent
SenatOrs-The House Introduces
Bills and Resolutions.

terdaS ana nS MANY Frohhinen
senators-The House Introduces
Biiis and RESOLUTIONS.
WASHINGTON. January 27.-SENATE
The house bill to simplify the lawsin re
latiou tot the collection ofcustoms reyenu,
was presented. and on motion of Mr.
Morrill,, ordered to be printed and re
tcrred to the finance committee in order
as Mr.. Morrill, stated, that it may b,
considered tomorrow bv that committee
Mr.. Hoar presented the resolution.
adopted at mass meeting held recent,
in fremont Temple, Boston, on the sui,
icct of the cruel deprivation of the colore,l
people of the right to take part in elec
lions in some of the Southern States. He
read the substance of them, and had them
referred to the committee ON privileges
and elections.
Among the bills reported from the
committees, and placed on the calendar
was the Hale bill, Substance tclcpraphct
Saturday, further, to increase the
naval esta ablshment of the United States,
Mr.. Chandler presented the views of
t ,e minority signed by himself only.
He said that there were other dissenting
members of the committee, but they had
not signed his report. The following
bills were introduced and referred:
BY Mr.. Hale-To require the supcrin-
tcndcnt OF the census to ascertain the
number of people who own their farms
and houses, and the amount of mortgage,
Indebtedness thereon.
BY Mr.. Chandlcr-Fur the erection of
Il monument to Mathew Fontainc
Maury, of Virginia.
BY Mr.. Cockrcll-To repeal the silver
coinage bill of Fcbrury 2S. 1878, and to
require the purchase and coinage of five
millions per month in standard silver
dollars. Mr.. C.ckrcll respectfully re-
uicstcd the finance committee, to which
the bill was referred, to take immediate
action upon it, and to report il back to
the senate for its action.
I'm motion of Mr.. Call, the adverse re-
port heretofore made from the committee
on foreign relations in regard to the estab-
llshmcnt of a republic in Cuba, was
placed ON the calendar so that he may
hereafter address the senate ON the sub
jcct.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Chandler, calling ON the attorney
general for the report of the United
States marshal for the northern district
of Mississippi, concerning the mal-trcat-
mcnt OF Henry ]. Fauncc, at Aberdeen,
Mississippi, was taken up Tor considera-
tion.
Mr.. Walthal addressed the senate.
II could not bc possibly pretended, h.
thought, that congress had any juris-
dictinn oi the subject, IL had been re-
icrrcd to by the distinguished senator
from Kansas. llngallsj last Thursday,
in his. lWalthal's) absence; but from
reading the report Of the senator's re-
marks. he saw that he had commented
ON the hanging in ctfigy of Secretary
Proctor, at Aberdeen, and on u most
brutal and outrageous assault committed
on u citizen named in the resolution,
from what he, iWalthal.I had heard oi
that affair. hc felt warranted in saying
that il was simply the wanton conduct
of a few persons disapprovcd by the
community in which IL occurred. lie
he had never before heard OF the persons
in that outrage. Speaking
for himself. and representing the scnti.
mcnt oi the people all over Mississippi
aud Of the South, he condemned un.
qualiiicdly and unrcservcdly that outrage
ON the secretary OF war, and on citizen
named in the resolution.
Mr.. George spoke oi the resolution as
in the history of legislation
in this country. II was simple, bold
ion To place on the records oi
The senate the report oi United States
acting as u detective; while
I here might bc some excuse for that
official inicrmcddling in an affair with
which hc had no legal authority To IN.
tcrmc,ldc. there was M excuse for the
senate. composed oi able. discreet. aud
he hoped fair minded men. for calling
such q document from pigeon hole in the
department of justice, aud digliiying il
ms an official document. lie asked the
senator's to pause. To stop. To ,liinl, what
hey were doing. By the courtesy of the
attorney general he lGcorgcl had been
Furnished with copy of the marshal's
report. and he had no objection to have
Il read from the clerks desk. lie admitted
| hat the facts had been correctly stated
by the senator from Kansas the other
day. perhaps with n little col"ring,
and he had no hesitation in declaring
that the transaction demanded by the
legislature of the State oi Mississippi.
an early rcparation to the man who had
been thus mal.trcatcd.
Mr.. Chandler opposed the resolution.
aud declared that he had not seen the re.