Year: 1875

THE POLICY OF PARTIES


THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL STUMBLING DLocK-BoTH


PARTIES VIEWING THE RESULTS OF DELAY WITH


ASxIFTY-DEMoCRATs AS WELL AS REPUBn-


CANS DREAD AN EXTRA sEssIoN-sCHEME FOR


CAUCUS TO SECURE HARMONY.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.l


WASHINGTON. Feb. LII the interminable pre-
liminary contest ever ends in the House ana zen
Butler's Civil Rights bill is reached. the Repubh-
cans will be by no means unanimously III lafoI Va
its passage. In the first place many Southern he
pnbIcons who understand that the enactment OF
anv sunplementa civil rights bill Will drive out OF
,beir marty more white voters than they Will lose
among the oolored people if they fail to pass IT, VIII
no snre to vote against it. Then there ore some he-
nublicans who desire q stronger bill than that pre-
nared by Gen. Butler and would therefore prefer 10
vote for lhe Senate bill with its mixed school pro-
visions and all Nobody seems to like the reference
10 the schools made in Gen. Buffers BILL 1t Is as
follows:


Irorided That any State OF the proper authorities IN
,ate having the control OF common schools or other
public institutions OF learning, shall establish and
maintain separate schools and institutions giving equal
,duoatonal advantages In all respects for different
classes OF persons entitled to attend such schools ano
Institutions, such schools and institutions shall Do
sufficient compliance with the provisions OF this secuon,
so far they relate to schools and INSTITUTIONS oi
learning


The Democratic and Republican opponents OF any
legislation of tins kind WILL of course vote TO strike
out this proviso add the colored members and
those who vote with them would prefer that no
reference be made to schools at all, than that such
distinctions should be put into law. Its probable
therefore that the Civil Rights bill that VIII pass
the House will not be either the Senate bull nor the
Butler bill and that when ii reaches the Senate II
will find its pathway beset with so many obstacles
that it will hardly become law this session.


While the Democrats in the House are agreed
that good policy requires that they shall stand
firmly together and oppose to the last the effort OF
the Republicans TO amend the rules or to pass any
political bills they look with alarm upon the back
ward condition of business in the House, and are
more anxious than are the Republicans to pass the
necessary tax and appropriation bills at once, IN
order that an extra session shall not be necessary.
Such session they would look upon as party cal
amity, and they are already devising ways and
means TO insure harmony and the utmost dis
creetness of action, when the responsibility
for the business of the House devolyes upon them.
Among other plans that have been mentioned TO Sc
cure harmony and care in regard TO the measures on
which they will have to act is the appointment of
caucus committee composed Of one member from
each State that sends Democratic representative.
TO which committee all public measures shall be
submitted before they are brought up in the House.
This it is believed, would prevent wTaDgles within
the party which have greatly impaired the strength
Of the Republicans.