Evening journal., 1890-01-29
THAT HANGING IN EFFlGY
The Insult TO Secretary Proctor
Debated Again.
GEORGE EULoGIzEs JEFF DAVIS

the Late Southern Leader in the Sem
ate--senator spooner's RepIy-rhe Di-
rect Tax Bin Passed Washington News.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. The senate further
debated the Chandler Mississippi outrage
resolution The direct tax bill was passed
also. A memorial from the Augusta lAIe.l
board of trade favoring New York as the
site for the Worlds fair was presented and
referred; also a memorial by Mr.. Chandler
for the establishment Of a republican form
Of government in Mississippi Mr.. Morrill,
introduced the bill authorizing the issue Of
treasury notes on deposits Of silver bullion,
and asked its reference TO the committee
on finance. and asked that bill prepared by
Secretary Window to the same purpose be
printed and referred. On motion Of Mr..
Sherman, senate bin to relieve the treasurer
Of tho United States from the amounts now
charged to him and deposited with the several
states was taken up from the calendar and
passed, the amounts to be charged to an APP
preparation hereby created for that purpose
aggregating s2S, lOl, GA.
Vest Stands by Cleveland's Veto.
The direct tax bill was taken up. Mr..
Vest expressed his opposition to the bill. as
did also Mr.. Berry, who asked for the yeas
and nays Mr.. Sherman made brief state
ment of the history of the tax, and said its
passage would remove a bone Of contention
and repair an injustice. Mr.. Vest said its
passage was foregone conclusion, but be
stood by his record of opposition, and especi-
ally by President Cleveland's veto Of the
same bill. He regarded the measure as
utterly indefensible, without constitutional
authority, and unwarranted by precedent
Mr.. Vance offered as an amendment a
resolution TO refund the cotton tax. Re-
iected--yeas, 15; nays, So Messrs Blair
and Call opposed the bill. After further
debate the bill passed by a vote Of A TO z.
The negative votes were Mess r.. Berry,
Blair, Call, Coke, Plumb, Vance and Vest
The bill makes it the duty of the secretary
of the treasury to credit to each state and
territory Of the United States and District
OF Columbia sum equal to all collections
from them under the direct tax bill Of 1861.
The Aberdeen Affair.
The senate then resumed consideration OF
Mr.. Chandler's resolution regarding the i'll
treatment Of Franz at Aberdeen, Miss.
and Mr.. George argued against IT, declaring
his belief that its adoption would be a seri-
! ous infraction of the constitution and a very
| serious encroachment ON the rights Of the
| people Of Mississippi He quoted decisions
Of the supreme court in support Of his posi-
tion, and said there could be no doubt--if
the decisions of the supreme court were TO
be relied oD-that the senate, as a part Of
| the law making power, had no jurisdiction
| TO pass law to punish the men who had
committed the outrages at Aberdeen. Mr..
George said that not only did he condemn
the hanging in efligy of any respectable off
| Ger OF the United States under any condi-
tions or provocation, but in the case Of Sec
retary Proctor there was no provocation for
the insult He had never heard from any
southern Democrat any other comment on
the conduct of Secretary Proctor, for which
that indlgnity had been attempted to be in
| hicted upon him, except that he had per-
| formed a painful and delicate duty with
consideration to the feelings-the prejudices
eyen--of the people Of the south
Jefferson Davis EuIogized.
Mr.. George said the resolution sought to
| blacken the name and reputation Of the
! people of Mississippi, whom he eulogized in
the highest terms, instancing, among other
| distinguished citizens of that state, Jeffer-
son Davis, who "had never betrayed his
| trust or failed in the discharge of his full
duty. whether he served the United States
/ or the Confederacy.n He claimed, in con-
clusion, that the pending resolution was
without any warrant in the constitution
that senator's had sworn to support.
spooner Strikes at George.
Mr.. Spooner said that so far as the resolu-
tion appeared on its face it was not an as
sumption by the senate to deal with crimes,
isolated or general. in the state of Missis.
| sippi There might be circumstances in
which jurisdiction might be conferred by
congress on courts of the United States to
secure a citizen his constitutional rights Of
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness,
which the state denied him by force and
fraud.
He was glad that the day had come when
the United States had an attorney general
that would take notice Of an outrage on an
American citizen Tho hanging in efiigy OF
Secretary Proctor brought into the sunlight
the Indifference to law and decency in the
south, Of which the country had for many
years occasion to complain.
He Regretted the Davis Eulogy.
Mr. Spooner said he regretted that the
senator from Mississippi lMr. George had
felt called upon to pronounce an eulogy on
jefferson Davis. IL was natural that the
people OF the south should have shown Davis
that respect and honor with which they had
followed him to the grave, but to pronounce
an eulogy OF him in the senate chamber would
strike harsh cord in the breasts OF millions
of men throughout the north The people
believed that Davis had sat in the senate
chamber daily and hourly betraying the
highest trust ever reposed in man. But il
was not for that that they execrated his
memory. IL was because they believed him
responsible for the devilish atrocities perpe
trated in Libby prison, Andersonville, Belle
Isle and Salisbury.
Other Hangings In Rmgy.
Mr.. Gray charged Mr.. Spooner with hav-
ing evaded the issue raised by Mr.. George
The hanging of Secretary Proctor in effigy
was not so great a crime as the senator from
Wisconsin would have it appear. Recently
| President Harrison has been hung in effigy
in Indiana He moved an amendment by
adding the words land also the letter of in
struction to the said marshal to which tbs
report Of the said marshal was a respons'
and that he be requested TO inform the sen
ate whether in the alleged assault on Fauncs
any right secured to him by the constitu
tion or laws Of the United States was in
vaded OF violated
Mr.. Butler moved an amendment calling
on the attorney general for the papers il
the Dudley case. The debate was continued
for some length. At its conclusion the frs
part Of Mr.. Gray's amendment was agreed to
Mr.. Call offered an amendment calling