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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATE Following ia a continuation of tho proceedings in the United btalja senate on Monday, the report not having been received when the Herald wont to press on jTueeday ! morning: j The question then bsing on the amendment of Blaine, Davie, West Virginia, moved to amend so ua to provido that the committee or auy sub-coraiiiiltee should sit with open doorB when requested to do to by iiuy member ot the committee. Bayard said, bo far this resolution .and tho amendments have been acted upon almost with unanimity. Why should it not continue? The courts always took testimony with open doors, and if auy investigations should be made publicly it should be that uflociing the character ot the wholo community. Thero was something un-Amercian in ihis secret investigation. investiga-tion. If the charges made were truo he hoped exposure would follow, and puuishment follow exposure. If the charges were untrue ho hoped punishment would fall upon thoBe who place them on foot. He hoped the Benate would unanimously agree that no Buch thing as a secret inquisition should be held. He had been on investigating committees in Mississippi and elsewhere and men came before the committee to swear to just what they pleaped. This should not be a parly question, and iuo yuitfB lib luu giveu nuu uuuu 10 prevent it being Buch. ,He hoped this investigation would ba conducted on principles that justice everywhere lays down for the elucidation of the truth. Xernau favored the amendment. Merrimon said he had experience, two years ago, in investigating committees com-mittees iu the south, and he would not conceive a better plan to encour age perjury than closing the doors. Howe said as an iuvpsliator in Louisiana bath white and colored persons had told him they daro not testify. Oue such witness did appear and Win afterwards killed on account ot his testimony. Blaine said according to Thurman's idias whites could inliuenco the committee com-mittee much more then colored men, because ul their intelligence ami properly. He dec hired a frte elect. on was utver tuowu in the aiuth. Never a man in Virginia, Georgia or. Florida djrtd vo'e lor Abrah im Liu coin, and in none iu tho a. ulh wcui'J v te for James G. Biru-y. McMillan argued that inliiimi-tiouo should be punished. Kansuni said be could persundc any patriot to retire from the position held by Blaine in his argument that a free election in the s:mtii w.n impossible. im-possible. This resolution Lai beeu supported by democra's. They wiuiu'd this investigation and had Ubkd a proposition to abaukn It. lie lippe-ticd to Blaina if this opposition opposi-tion to tlie amendment was not mockery. Tne aenatcr ! .ad called for 'he light of heaven on these iransac-tione, iransac-tione, but when the democ: Ua Sitd "Turn it on," bo exclaimed, "Oh, no; put it in a dirk room; draw tho euruin." Light is an enemy of ir-iud nn J. corruption. It protects our homes and allows no shadow of suspicion as to the method employed. It would n'vt he beet for Blaine to assault the southern people. It was a mistako to think anything could be Baid to provoke recrimination. Looking Look-ing towards Blaine he said: ' Senator, Sen-ator, if you are to havo war with us, it shall be yuur war, not ours." A year ago southern people acted patriotically, and gave this country peace instead of great trouble and revolution. They did not throw impediments im-pediments in the way of the present administration. Southern men loved the country, loved its peace and honor and expected to derive its blessings, and if they had the power would not exercise it over tho people of the north. Southern peoplo desired de-sired to be let alone to build up their fortunes, for they were as poor as tho land on the sea Bhore. For seven long years he had eat hero and beard his people abused, but his duty wbb to bear it. Now. wheu it waa pro posed to indict them, thoy would meet their accusers half way and Bay, turn on the lighta. God forbid that it it Bhould go out to the balance ol mankind to go down the Btrcam of time for ever, that this American senate declared that an investigation should not be made in the light of day. Blaine, in reply, read from a Raleigh paper to the e fleet that this was a white man's government, and that white men should rule it. But they did not intend the negro Bhould be deprived of EufTrage, as tho south gained in representation on account of Buch right to the negro. Blaine said lie indicted in-dicted the democratic parly as the foe of lree Bpeech, and as the life long foe of free elections in tho south. He bad heard a good deal about preventing prevent-ing trouble in the seating of President hind congress was that same people who had expended life without Btiut aud money without count, and for the fate of a thousand Mr. Tildens or a thousand Sir. Hayes they would not have gone to war. - The Bouthern men in that count did their duty, Kmsom Yet, in the face of that, the senator from Maine says now we I will not do our duty to our fellow cili- Izens. I Blaine Baid if either he or the senator sen-ator from North Carolina Bhould fail ; to do their duty tney would both be ! smitten with withering condemna-I condemna-I lion if their constituency knew how ; to do so. Arter some further discuBaion the : amendment of Davis waa rejected, 1 yoas 28, nays 29, a strict party vote. Pending the discussion, WhyteBaid ! thero were other senators who desired to ppeak on this resolution, and he therefore moved that the Benate go into executive Bession, Agreed to, and the senate, after a brief executive session, adjourned. Tuesday's proceedisgs. Washinglon, 17. The aenate in-sifcted in-sifcted upon its amendments to the military academy appropriation bill nnd Aliiaou, Blaine and Davis, (W. Va.) were appointed a committee of conlerence. Plum, from the committee of mili-, mili-, tary aflaira, reported with amendment , tho bill recently introduced by Pad-! Pad-! dock, providing that the posse comita-. comita-. tti3 clause in tho army appropriation bill, Bhall not ba construed as applying apply-ing to the army employed in the . protection of life and property in the Btates and territories subject to Indian , incursions. Placed on the calendar. 1 Windom, in explanation of tho . consular and diplomatic appropria-. appropria-. tion bill, said ae it come to the senate ! it appropriated 1,045, 735. Thesen-! Thesen-! ate cemmitteo added $82,000, and as , now reported the bill appropriated ' $50,800 less than the estimates for tho next fiscal year. 'J he committee has , restored the salaries of tho ministers to Great Britain, France, Kuasia, j Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy and , other places. The various amend- luulru prupuaeu uy ino cumiuiiist) were agreed to without discussion. The brll then passed. Consideration waa resumed of tho Blaine resolution regarding the constitutional con-stitutional right of citizons. I Merrimon read a prepared speech in reply to Blaine. He spoke for peace, harmony and the breaking tlosn of all eectiocal feuds. |
