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Show LATi-ST DISPATCHES, FORTY-THIRD I'ONG RKSS. SENATE Washington, 11. After the tmns-actiou tmns-actiou uf some routine business the tiLaeU3oiou of tiur t-'churz resolution in reference to the Louisiana matter was riBiimed, and SauUbury concluded con-cluded his argument begun yesterday. yester-day. He (Saulshury) in resuming his j-peech, contended that the legislature in Xew Orleans was legally organised; all ttie in embers who had been sworn in recognizing Willi as speaker. There was a rapid tendency towards centralization of power in this country, coun-try, and the stales were to be deprived de-prived of many of their constitutional rights, llo would say irankly ihe tono ol tiie piesidenl's im-.-sagti pleased him. He referred to tiie upcech or tne Illinois senator, Luin, as a denunciation of the democratic party, not an argument. He said nuch an exhibition ol skull and croas-boues croas-boues was to prepare the public uiind for the republican party takiug military mili-tary possession of Louisiana, Miis-sippi, Miis-sippi, Arkansas and Alabama; and he did not know how many more southern states, and compel I hem to vote for the nest republican president. Conkliug said tins reminded him of a newspaper enterprise called tho Exi-tutive Xttrs. Tht; senator was the only one who bad it. Saulsbury said if the senator intimated inti-mated that- he concocted tho story it was false. Conkling characterised this remark as exceedingly out of placo, indecent and offensive, inasmuch as he did not say that the senator concocted the story. . - - . . Saulsbury said he inferred that the senator intimated that he put the rumor id circulation and he resented it. He had never offered an indignity indig-nity to any senator, but so help him (iod no senator should offer an affront to him. If the eenatnr did not intuit in-tuit him he was sorry for what he said, but ho would not tamely submit sub-mit to what ho deemed an insult, oven before the majesty ol the senator sen-ator from New York. S.uilsbury then concluded his speech. Clayton spoke of the kuklux in the southern states, and s;id the white, league- was the remains of it. lie knew of the existence of the -white league in Arkansas, Uaough Gov. Garland told the president there W;is nono. - If so it was because when the democrats gained power they mudo the white leaguers the state militia and furnished them with arms. In Arkansas, of 500 whito democrats win murdered negroes, not one suffered the extreme penalty. He asked several southern senators if in their states white murderers of negroes ne-groes were punished to the full extent of tho law, and was generally answered an-swered that they were. Cooper obtained permission to give tho substance of a dcsDatch from Brown, of Tenn., to the president, but he commenced to read the despatch when Clayton objected, and the speaker speak-er entertained the objection. Cooper appealed to the senate, w .ich laid the appeal on the table. Clay ton, resuming, re-suming, said, "wherever the democrats dem-ocrats control the southern states there is no peace. Slave power still lives and is grasping for all the southern south-ern 'states." Snerman obtained lhe floor to speak on tho resolution, but I yielded for a motion by Morrill to lay aside the pending motion and call up the appropriation bill with the understanding under-standing that he (Sherman) should have the floor in the Louisiana question ques-tion next week. After that bill was disposed of various opinions were expressed ex-pressed as to the advisability of continuing con-tinuing the debate on the resolution. It was finally decided to continue the discussion to-day. Sherman replied to the charges of Bayard and Schurz, against the president presi-dent and Sheridan. Ho said Schurz' argument was based on a false statement state-ment of facts, and was wholly unreliable. unreli-able. He believed many who had taken part in the recent meeting at Cooper Institute would one day regret their action. Neither Grant, Sheridan Sheri-dan nor the iepublican party was ! responsible for the occurrences in New Orleans on the 4th inst. The whole matter was an officer of the army expelled ex-pelled from the legislature five men who bad no right to be there. Thurman contended that the organization organ-ization was legal, but even if it was not, the officer had no right to interfere. inter-fere. Before concluding Sherman yielded for a motion to adjourn; agreed to, seventeen to sixteen. Adjourned. |