Show 0 11 TV L E Q R A pa 1 TIT SENATE li it schurz said he approached the tho subject in no DO party spirit he lre was about to re tire to private ilfe lite and aud the success of any party would not net benefit nor the defeat of any party injure lim kim him he proceeded to review the scenes of last monday in the Loul loui louisiana slina siina legislature and asked where was the constitutional warrant where tho law for such proceedings he recited the various excuses made for military interference in this case but declared that thit none of these touched the question the question was where was the law foith for the iams iaUs acts nets it was his deliberate Judkin judgment ent conscientiously formed that the deed done on the ath of january in louisiana constitutes a gross and manifest violation of the constitution and laws it was an act indicating a spirit in our government which either ignores the constitution and laws or so interprets them that they cease to be a safeguard of independent legislation and of the rights of the people and this splint spirit shows itself more alarming still in the instrument the executive has chosen to tocarra eairy carry cairy out dut his will 20 no Aine alne american rican citizen could have read without profound regret and apprehension the recent dispatch of general sheridan to the secretary of var vai suggesting that a numerous class of citizens citizen should by wholesale be outlawed as ban dittl by the mere proclamation of the president to be delivered over to a military commander for summary judgment by y a military commission he spoke in the highest terms of admiration adm fration of Sheri dans military record but said he was wa another illustration of how bow great a man may be as a soldier and how conspicuously unable to understand what the civil law and a constitution mean the question fuestion was asked on every band if f such thin things could be done in louis louls louisiana ana ann ho how gs long would it be before they would be done dene in other states or in the house of the nations representatives he lire commented upon affairs in the south and criticized criticised the legislation of congress as having had a bad effect on southern partisans who had come to look upon the president and congress as their natural allies aud and sworn protectors bound to sustain them in power powen by whatever means referring to the war mouth kellogg quarrel barrel be lie said your casays ang and packards carried off the state senators on a U S revenue revel ue cutter and shut up the republican governor in the custom house guarded by U S soldiers to keep ouVa nother republican faction nay more the same packard a U S marshal during r the last election managed the kellogg campaign and also the tho movements of the U S troops to keep his political opponents from intimidating b his Is peli pell political friends while the department of justice of the IT S appeared to td be like ilke a central bureau for the regulation of state elections speaking of the colored people he said he would hall hail the day as a most auspicious one for thew tiem them when they throw threw off the scandalous leadership of those adventurers who taking advantage of their ignorance nor nce nee made them tools for their rapacity he declared that the people of the south wore not murderers aud bandit tf there were bad elements among them but the national govern government me rit itself was giving these bad elements strength they would never otherwise have possessed by constitutional tut ional proceed proceedings ingi ile he argued that virginia north Caroli carolina nay naj and georgia where seif self government was unobstructed were advancing in prosperity while in louisiana aud and othon othor 1 states in a similar poll poli tic there was no prosperity and the lawlessness of power was becoming far more dau dara berous th than thin an the lawlessness of mobs referring to the lawlessness and the alleged intimidation of voters in the south he condemned everything of the kind bat batt asserted that it was not all on ono one side and in this connection he referred to the discharge of the government employ employees ebs eis solely for political reasons aud nud argued that when the national government was the champion of intimidation we need not be surprised if partisans on OB all sides profit by the example he advised the people of louisiana to exercise judgment and t moderation and trust in the justice of their cause and eventually a spirit of peaceful victory would bu bury ry usurpers usurp ers erh under a crushing load of patriotic indignation he declared that the people had lost conal derice iii in those who parade bloody stories bf out rages because it was often too apparent that they were merely partisan sith rith stage L e thunder to catch votes he d declared bl his bis bell beli belief bellef e i f that the tho conservatives fairly carried the election and were defrauded out of the result by ohp returning board and this net het had imd beau sustained by aby U B S lerm leme he hoped his mo mch tion to instruct the judiciary corn com matteo ouid would not miot result in a 9 bill for a n new elee elet election tion in louisiana sheridan as chief ruler and packard to conduct the campaign yo no measure would avail which did not boldly vindicate the constitutional privilege of dr the land and pre preserve berve to tile state the the right of self I government I 1 1 har at t the expiration of the mornin morning 9 hour Clay clayton toti moved to proceed with of his resolution calling upon the secretary of war for the tue official report and communications of major lewis merrill of the U 8 A in reference to the coushatta coush Cough hatta atta trouble agreed to davis asked if this was the same merrill who had while in command HI south carolina commit ted teddo so many od outrages trages and who was now under arrest in louisiana for handcuffing citizens cutting the telegraph wires aei aci ac and suggested an nind amendment adment of the resolution so as to have gen general eini emory r report eort on merrills men ills lils conduct clayton defended merrill as an honorable true of fleer r d hou kou ROUSE S E I 1 fields introduced a bill to in creise crease import duties teu ten per cent after march 25 75 and hud an additional ten per cent quarterly till the price of american Americ angold gold shall shail not pot exceed the par of legal tender notes cox offered a preamble setting forth the interference of the tho U S military forces in the organization n of the louisiana legislature resulting in dispersing said legislature and that such action had bad received r the tb sanction and ratification of the pre president aident of the U aj B and resolution that in the judgment of the house bouse such intervention and control were in violation of the federal constitution subversive of the principles upon which our system of government is founded and without a precedent int in ift the history of this or of any other free government that they were defiant ancl anu insolent breaches of parliamentary privileges illegal and revolutionary infractions of local government chartered liberty and solemn treaty obligations and not only unjustifiable outrages up i on the state of louisiana louilla nn but it a menace to the thu rights liberties and dignity of every other state that therefore the representatives of the people of the united states demo demand nd the restoration of tranquillity order and civil discipline in louisiana by the immediate withdrawal oi of the military force or of the U S and the condign punishment to those tho guilty or of this reckless usurpation referred td the judiciary committee it AMERICAN VICKSBURG 11 conger announced j that the Cop congressional gressional coom comm would cime close its sittings on wednesday the witnesses examined testified to 0 o additional acts of cruelty outrages and illegal proceedings ce edings on election day crosby was examined at great raab le length rieth ho lie said he resigned because he be feared for his life if lie he refused and also for that of G general packer he was informed that he fie had bad authority to summon a posse but though he lle authorized the call it was put in much stronger language than he designed harrisburg pa pay 2 11 the house of representatives this ibis evening evie evje ning adopted adopter resolutions condemning the recent nution aution or of the military usurpation of power and directing the chair to appoint a committee commit tep to report resolutions em bodying the sense of the house in the tily 4 oxana omalia 11 thu the ihu cu fc ulita ivl ivi 1 in iii I 1 te I f state penitent penitentiary lary iary under the lead of the notorious today to day and seized the armory they over overpowered pow ered tho the guards and shot one named julius goshen wounding him seve severely beverely rely another is re ported to be dying two citizens who were approaching wl with th an J armed crowd were wounded by shots from the convicts tho the warden was absent in the city his wife wira and children and a female convict were loc locked ked in the upper part of the building and grave apprehensions hen hens were felt felb for their safety as the convicts are desperate men the warden and a large body of citizens nie ate patrolling outside the pilson prison and it is momentarily expected that the convicts will sally saily forth governor F furnas arnas jb las as applied to general ord for aid and a company pany of troops left eft this evening on an a special train for lincoln nemr NEW ORLEANS ll il the republican members of the legislature fonward forwarded forward pd their account of the recent tc troubles to congress today today SAN ll 11 arrived toddy today the ship A annis nic sf from new york vork she reports that when in the straits of ofle mairene picked up abot containing the captain aid ald wie steward and wife two mates carpenter sail maker and foUr seamen of the British bark avillie ethompson TT hompson from st joh job johns lis ris ils N B burned fifteen days daya previously sly the annual report of the exchange gives the wool product of california for 1874 at nearly forty million pounds ide ing a large jarger increase over any previous year washington 11 S secretary ecret ary belknap today to day received A a letter from froila wendell Ril kli billips lips expressing gratification at t the tone of sherd shen i dans dispatches an and d his thanks to the administration for upholding him andrew johnson the only union democratic candidate seems to have a fair prospect of being cho eho mn been venator senator by the tennessee legislature which begins balloting tomorrow it Is expected that the union knib democrats i will wili concentrate upon him against the re regular gillar democratic nominee who will be an ex confederate erate brate governor hawley while hesitating to express definite opinion on the entire louisiana case and the legality of the tile action there disapproves of the interference of the military in any event 2 and would have preferred that the legislature i hould bould have been organized illegally and frau fraudulently duli antly rather than there should have been any interference beyond what was necessary to keep the reace peace bace the troops were sent to new sp e w or orleans e ans t to 0 res train thre people from a por nor forcible cible elbie collision and not to organize the leal legislature slature A strong sus sur suspicion ia expressed by well informed part parties partis ls that the mishap to then the N Y train on the Bal bai baltimore timote and philadelphia railway on nn the night of the tile ath was not wholly an accident the fact that in paper money was admitted to have been on board and thatis that it is claimed to have been all destroyed by lire is looked on aj ai corroborating these suspicions an investigation i Is not improbable A bilawa s introduced by sargent today to day authorizing tho the 1 issue is sue ue of miuling patents in certain case cases it provides that fore foreigners ignets may be granted patents for gonz bonz fide wining mining claims purchased by thern them from citizens prior to may mas vias lias 1372 it if all the provisions of the thu law liw of that date have sines been complied with the bill also provides that citizens in bona dide arde possession of mining claims shall not be refused patents on the ground merely that one or more wore of the locators thereof may have been foreigners at the date of loca location tion tiou provided the tile location was made prior to may 10 72 i luttrell will tomorrow to morrow intro 1 duce a bill which will be supported by clayton clay ton page and houghton to provide for the reclaiming of desert dehert lands in lasen basen las bas en co cala it autho authorizes any citizen to file in the lo local calland land office a declaration that lie he intends to reclaim a particularly desirable tract of desert land laud not exceeding one section by conducting water thereon in two years thereafter and upon mak ing proof of doing 0 o lie he shall be allowed to purchase the same on payment to the government or of one dollar and tw twenty nty nive five cents per acie acle acre all idof abr mineral lauds or timber land lands which do not produce grasa grass or which will not without irrigation produce some agricultural crop shall be considered desert lands lauds in the meaning mealing of this i bill the measure Is ia carefully guarded against monopolies and other abuses it will be hear heartily tily supported by the pacific coast members as a means for giving value alue to birge 1 irge tracts of alkali and sage page brush lands now returned by the government surveyors as worthless the record in the tho case caso of ali ah fook a chinese woman claimed tobaie to have been brought to california Cal fornia for fon immoral purposes purpose sand and involving the right of the state to return her hus bus reached the office of the supreme court and has been nied bied and it is expected that a x motion will wil soon be made to advance it on the docket I 1 before the supreme court today to day t the h e ca case 8 e of F french ren eh vs edwards edward et ei at in error to the circuit court of Califor california ula uia this was an action of ejectment tha the plaintiff conveyed lands to trustees for the use of certain railroads providing in a deed that the conveyance in trusts trusta hould behold in case the road was not bulf tand the road not being built cominek c ed to recover possession the court held that the legal title colv conveyed e to the trustees was still vested in them thera and that therefore the plaintiff could not recover this court holds that this conclusion of law w was asa an n error that the p presumption su p should dhave have been on 1 the 0 contrary that the trustees ha had recon re con keyed to plaintiff and t that at the property was wag invested in him ohp judgment of the lower court was reversed mr justice swayne hwayne S wayne delivered dee doe liver ilver e d the opinion |