Show BY pa ry congressional SENATE mr washington ashington 28 Ml mitchell LA Itchell of oregon introduced a bill ma making kingan an appropriation for the improvement of the coquill river in oregon by the construction of a canal connecting irl lil g its waters with those of the pacific a ocean referred the following bills were passed A bi bill 11 providing for the appointment of a commissioner to ascertain the right of subjects of great britain to lands in the territory which was subject to the award of the emperor of germany under the treaties of 46 and 1871 between the S and great britain the senate bill amendatory and supplementary tary to the act of marcil march 1 1872 entitled an act to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the head waters of the yellowstone river river as a public park conkling said hald the time had come when silence only prolongs the wrangle he then referred to the presidents message c which lie he said sald should have ended 7 the discussion by its ita manliness thurman who occupied led the time nine of the senate for houma houra yesterday tell what to do with the louisiana question though he was the recognized leader of tae the democratic party it had been the gospel of the tile democrats io fo keep up a ferment since reconstruction be began bean an and it was their policy to do th this 19 till the nation demanded a change of any kind he affirmed that warmouth tb the leader of the opposition made the election of 1872 a fraud chevas he was to have carried the state for Grele Greeley yand and therefore the election in louisiana was an organized fraud his control of th the c election machinery was worth twenty thousand votes congress con Cen gress the courts and the tho president decided against mcenery the resident was not responsible for the doings in new orleans on the ethl the president only heard of them like any other othe r citizen through the papers conkling then stated the presidents reason for sending sheridan south which was the suffering there not the elections had the army been withdrawn from new orleans the president would have been openly y in league with murderers and traitors he refer referred red to the whisky riot in west pennsylvania when Washington quelled the riot with fifteen thousand men the white leaguers had seized the U S arms in september and though often commanded to lay jay them down they had not yet vet complied he be arraigned schurz for declaring e I 1 arlu ariu I 1 g that devould he would speak wit with h C calmness lm in em and impartiality and then condemning the president without stin stint tand and without knowledge he justified the position taken by sheridan although unfortunately his ills advice could nob not ot legally be followed out conkling then argued that it was the encouragement which the tiie democrats of the south received from front those of the north that caused these outrages the northern democrats must no longer seek to deter them thern by denouncing the laws of congress he next referred to the recent outbreak in the penitentiary at lincoln neb and to the call of the governor for federal troops from omaha which was waa instantly obeyed this was a paralea para par alel alei lei lel case washington 29 tho the credentials of francis lC icerman ernan senator from N Y for six years from the fourth of march pta 75 were presented and placed on file washington 29 19 sprague J holn hoin the committee on public lands reported adversely on the bill providing for thoi tho permanent location ef of the southern terminus of the oregon central railway and to amend the act granting lands lauds to aid in the construction st of a railway and telegraph line from portland to astoria and mcminnville McMinn vilIe oregon apar approved 0 v may ath 1870 and ana it was in indefinitely d e postponed conkling defended the federal t troops nga aga against st the charge of being h hirelings ir elings which was applied lyo to t them he by t the e senator from maryland hamilton Ra milton he said that they rece received ived but eight dollars bollam a mont month and to theo them the senate owed its existence but for them we might not bo be permitted to breathe breath the ethe free air of the republic this remnant must remain somewhere if south of mason allason and dixons line the nobility of the south was offended the democratic party buried the soldiers there with anathemas ana themas their lot rashard was wa shard hard this was not always so once the democratic party was wm the party that sighed for war with cuba and then they applauded the soldiers when Andrew Johnson set a military guard over the assembly of louisiana and imprisoned a judge the democrats glorified hina him when a democratic executive and a democratic secretary of war dispersed and humiliated both houses of a state legislature congress and the country rang with democratic plaudits pl audits that was one page in 0 one fhe fie of the most revolting chapters in the history of human tyranny and wrong in the days of human slavery fraud and violence the democrats never apologized for law breaking but ridiculed the idea of punishing it the senator here quoted the expression I 1 bleeding kansas as a specimen of the ridicule of the democrats he mentioned a number of instances showing a di merence difference between the opinions of the democrats formerly and now among other cases he alluded to the IT S marines killing five men and wounding seventeen in a municipal election in 56 to McClel lans ians arr ari arresting esting the members of the legislature of maryland in 1869 to burns arrest in boston in 1851 on which occasion he was defended by federal bayonets to john browns death and exclaimed yes the soldiers are hir bir hirelings elings the senators are hirelings the great body of the american people are hirelings but no man forfeits his ills citizenship or his rights in this country by being a hireling conkling argued that citizens might be called on as a posse com corn batus to quell a disturbance just as citizens and read a law to fortify his position evenia kellogg was falsely counted in as these desperadoes claimed tid did lid that justify the nameless melesa na horrors that have stained the annals of the state bo so was hoffma n counted in governor of new york in 68 yos when griswold was elected this was done by the manners manque rs of the democratic party who for years had seated in the legislature men whom the people voted down these men also made fraudulent naturalization papers appointed corrupt returning boards and inspectors of elections and arranged for repeaters the republicans did not resort to sword and ball and outrage 3 they called on congress and the denio demo brats jeered them but the tha law was passed in spite of their denunciations ciati clat ions lons ons and an election ap approaching p roach fairness was held henert he next referred to the moral rebellion of today to day and said that various ways were su suggested rg ested to repress it 11 peace would be brought r about in time by a manly mailly acquits ence once in in the system under which we live the best system mankind had yet known schurz desired to modify his resolution making it set forth that interference by the federal military in state legislative proceedings was repugnant to the principles of constitutional government and that pe do interference was unwarranted and that the committee on the judiciary be instructed to enquire into it he said the first part was from tha the presidents message and the second only asserted a conceded fact gordon referring to his recent s speech pee b said he made no attack on the president he believed the people of the north did not sympathize with the bitter feeling that characterized this debate since the surrender of the confederate army at had spoken no word against adaina the federal government gordon continued ansome length in answer to conkling and others who had spoken on this question he repelled the statement made before the hau rouse house c committee recently as untrue that he had made a speech in alabama advising the democrats to carry the election by force he had read at the clerks deais deals telegrams from various parts parta of the south fo to refute the charges of oppression and outrage gordon refused to yield the floor to pease who rose to ask a question and in conclusion he appealed to the republicans to do to others as they would be dono done by HOUSE the roll still continues many of the delegates appear pretty thoroughly wearied and disgusted it is not unlikely that th the proceedings ma may y run all through the night th the last call showed the p presence re reenee enee ence of members |