, 1890-03-20
CAPITAL CHAT.
New York's Foolish
Jealousy of Chicago.
PACIFIC RAILROADS
An Address by Charles
Francis Adams.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Opposition to tho Educational
Bill-The Urgency Deficiency
Bill Under Consideration.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

ph'cnNets OF hucA appliances under the
law ms 1t now stands. The bill was
placed ON the calendar.
The senate thon proceeded to the cal
endar and passed bills for public build
ings ms follows; stockton, Cal, $40, 900;
Mammoth Hot Springs in the Yellow
stone National park, $1,000; Virginia
City, New, SIS, The Dnllos, Or,
$4,000 Salem. Or, 10000; Reno,
New, $4,000. All tho foregoing were
senate bills.
Mr.. Eusiis took tho floor and referred
to the statement made by Mr.. Hour yes.
terday, one Of them being that in tho
ttate OF Louisiana and some of the
other states there were laws which made
II a penal otlensc for white man to as.
socintc on terms Of equality
with "A negro, and another to tho
effect that there was u law which pro
yides for the purchase of any cvlorcd
pan found for certain time out of
work. and that the former masters
should have the preference in the pur-
chase. He denied emphatically that
there were any such laws in Louisiana,
and spoke of tho rccklossness of and
destitution of sense OF responsibility
with which the republican senator spoke
concerning Southern affairs,
Mr.. Hoar said that he might have
erred a. to the state In which such laws
wero passed. but quoted them substan.
TALLY from the laws Mississippi passed
In 1865. He thought that substantially
the same laws had been enacted in
Lou sana.
The educational bill then came up,
aul Nj I.lutF -. ..I.l
also read extract. from the speech of
President Harrison, when senator la
lSSG, i,Voring the bill and said that tho
pr~nossit held the same sentiments to-
dav
Tho Southern question came up again,
and S'R Hoar admitted that his state
ncnt about tho laws Of Louisiana was
incorrect.
Mr. Sherman asked Mr.. Eustis whether
the did not know that the hfteonth
amendment never would have been pro
posed but for the fact that the laws of
the Southern states were dopriying the
negro Of his rights OF citizenship.
Mr.. Eustis replied that 1t was his
honest conviction that all rccunstruc-
tion measures were adopted Ly tue re-
publican party with the single object OF
AfrlCani2ing the South aud maintain
ing political supremacy, aud character
izco IL as the greatest crime ever COM
mittcd against . civilized community.
MR. SHERMAN rAKEs PART.
Mr. sherman then took part IN tho
discussion, which became heated pu-
litical controversy. lie traced the
course OF the reconstruction movement,
and said that at the close OF the war IL
had not been contemplated to arfn tho
negro with suffrage, but that the laws
passed by some OF the Southern states
worc 50 unjust TO the cOured p-epl0 and
TO the white republicans in tho South,
that tho people Of the North became
convinced that the object of the South
WAS 10 overthrow tho results of the war,
and deprive tho freedmen of all tho
rights of citizenship When tho
time came, II was seen that there was
no way to protect the cmancipated poo.
pie, except by arming them with suf-
iragc. Congress had reluctant.
ly and slowly and deliberately
adopted that remedy as the only one
fitted for the case. lie (Shcrman) had
sometime, thought that II might posi-
bly, have been better not to have adopted
the fifteenth amendment conferring mf.
irnge OH colured men, because that right
had becn nullihcd aud uprooted. 1lo
result of tho iillocnth amendment was
practically TO give the Southern states
increased representation In the house of
representatives, and increased power In
the electoral college. Ii there was any
thing wrong in the situation of southern
affairs, tue people Of the South had
brought II on themselves. There wa. no
fnlluWInfF nI nntn I'm Nnrth ouutt,.t
the South. IL the equal rights OF all
people In the South were secure the
people OF tho North would he satisfied
IL WAS truo that the fifteenth amend
mcnt did not turn out rs expected, be-
cause no man dreamed that no such
measures MS had been rosortod to in the
SOu,h would have been resortcd to to
deprive tue negro OF his rights. No one
had dreamed ot tho klu klux Khan and
all he savage machinery by which that
exclusion had been perfected.
DIALOGUE
MIR. Butler suggested that the recon-
struction measures and the fifteenth
amendment were not so much due to
Objectionable legislation in tho Suuih as
10 the conflict botweon Andrew johnson
md the republican congress-
MIR, Sherman replied that tho selection
OF Andrew Johnson, n Southern man
and democrat. for the vice presidency
was proof OF the generous treatment the
North had shown the Sonth. But John
son had deserted tlic republican party
and turned hts back on IL when hu cninc
into power, and then congress tied his
hands and prevented him from carrying
out his policy.
MIR. Buler-"Then l understand the
senator from Ohio To admit that the
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