Show RV b P 1 cwb 1 A cli 31 congressional aln IV ASHINGTON A 6 kelly of oregon from the committee ou on military at af lairs re reported parted favorably on the bill to provide for the construction st of military roads i in n arizona referred the house bill providing ng for tor tile the assignment of J judge C in the territories was taken up sargent sil sll sub b knitted an amendment providing that the legislature of each of the VIA organized territories of the TI 1 8 except the territory of utah shall illa 11 at at I 1 its t s first regul regular ar session after t the hi passage passa e of the act and thereafter ther earter at any regular session I 1 if f expedient fix the ike judicial districts of said Terr territory tory appoint the ulmes limes and places caces of holding court the therein reini and designate S ignate the judges judges respectively who shall ho hold hoid the same the tiie time allowed the committee having expired the e ba bill 11 WAS laid over 1 washington 27 Thir thurman mahi mafi characterized as the gros est asur pati oer orr tiie tile rule in louisiana during tile tho past two years kellogg had no title to his office except the tho of the president ho he traced tra edthe the trouble to a telegram di erecting general packard tp enforce obedience to the ilie IT U S mandates by whomsoever resisted and when there was das was no resistance durell in a conspiracy with packard seized the state house he hb aib alb said sald aid the lynch returning boards report had not even a a color colo of au iau dhority tho rity every that board was le ie warded rewarded with VAN a lucrative office by kellogg lel iel logg 1099 or by the legislature he next referd referred ed to a telegram in reply Ene rys rss protest t to 0 attorney general williams telling him mcenry McEner 3 that the sooner the people the sooner they would le be restored ibbe mcenery nerys the legislature and the ahe people were refused a hearing while 10 dla DIA packard ard and casey were ilear id there was corruption in this whole question ile he presen preson presented ted a pc picture ture of the financial and business dis di s tur bances in the state and in ili new kew orleans and expressed surprise that such things iti iri free america another fraudulent returning board had dropped twenty nine conservative members of the iehl lehi legislature slature but the army odthe of the U B S was upholding that act ho he argued that five of the members i ejected were legal members mhd constitutional law of louisiana required qu i ired that tha each toach parish should have havo at least one representative and each was to be the judge of the returns of its own members ho he argued that the returning board only omitted the names of these I 1 five members as is there was no contest for their seats he referred to the fat fact rat that conkling had been sworn in in to this senate though his hii credentials were not presented and awid said t at tit the president might as well have marched him out with a nile file of soldiers he next criticized the nies message agg aab of the tile president ln ini answer to the senate resolution as I 1 being seng aeng very incomplete unsatisfactory and full of omle omiE omissions he arraigned the report reports af f Gc general sheridan as a partisan document leaving out mat material erial prial facts and aud making doubtful statements if as many murders had been committed since sinco 63 as sheridan reported it showed that the republican administration there was a failure west read from the tho laws of louisiana in reference to election returns return sj and said baid that in deoto desote demote parish intimidation was wai sa so great that the register would not take the responsibility of making malting the rp returns turns HOUSE fine find from the jud clary ciary celii committee reported a bill providing that mexican citizens residing in in the territories acquired by byr the US from niel mexico zico who choo choe cho o to retain their mexican citizenship but have since resided in those territories shall have and enjoy all rights and privileges of citizens of the st 8 and may become naturalized without any previous doel dael declaration of intention tent ione iono hale of oan NL Y yi offe ed an nu amendment providing pio plo viding that the bill shall not be construed tt to give to tb any person a standing bt puo fuu the tho ame amo ilean llean and mexican commission not wow how entitled to such standing the amendment was agreed 0 to and the bill passed eldredge from the judiciary committee reported adversely to the bill to create a new state out of a certain portion of louisiana and texas laid on th the a table cessna from the judiciary corn cittee reported adversely to the bill forthe for the relief oc 0 the southern sou aou thern states by a compromise and settle ment of their debts lad laid iad on the table tabie potter from the judiciary committee a joint resolution proposing an amend amendment men meu t to the constitution fixin from and after the next presidential election the term of the president and vice president at six years and snaking making the president and vlee vice geil president dent when the office of drw 1 unc hns has devolved upon him in eligible for election reelection re potter said the amendment would not affect the next presidential ter term mand and he moved in 1 oved the previous was seconded and the tile main ques tiou ordered but fin allyon motion of hoar the vote ordering the i main maln n ilin question was waa rec reconsidered question was open for de bate hate hoar while questioning whether there would ever be any occasion when he should favor or when he believed the american people would favor the continuance an ce person in the presidential office beyond two terms was opposed to depriving the people of 4 the right to elect a person as often as they choose an we the resolution so aa as to make t the he ineligibility only applicable to these next succeeding the present term of office i butler mass mas def der defended ended the theau ju diclaro committee from the implied censure of hoar in regard to basss passing king the resolution for a amendment under the pre question the proposition was simply offered to the people and if they did not lot the amendment they could vote it down he ar that the p people eople ought to have the night right to elect a man for president as many times as they choose but ahey they ough to have the correla correia t tive right to say they will not elect a man more than once he argued the benefits to be derived from having one session bession of congress C which could attend to tic business instead of liel being ng as is charged cli eti arged engaged in seeing how it cau can make a new president so as to get officers under wini him this amendment would take away the temptation which now besets a V P who bue sue succeeded ceedee to the presidential chair of figuring nor for election reelection re he however bellev eid eci that circumstances might be 1 such su c h that the reelection election re of a aident for a second and for a third term would be necessary as in a time of commotion a time of re bellion hellion a time when thousands and thou thousands bands are being murdered in one section of the country without any punishment for their murder and the people feel a doubt as to what will be the future of the country without a re reelection election then aid said hel can conceive the possibility of the people coming up as one 1 mah man to the election of a strong hand band that will hold the government in the future as it lias has held it in the past E EH H roberts roberta said 1 As I 1 read history irry republics republica are overthrown bythe by the plea of necessity and in times of great excitement and I 1 declare in cold blood that the american people shall have the 3 opportunity to say whether or not riot they are willing in an emergency I 1 1 I ao to reelect re elect a president for a third I 1 term As I 1 read history lii ili story dangers to republic republica come not as the gen ittleman from mass ma s butler sug bests from below but always from above always on the predence pretence pre tence that 4 the country needs a strong stron man or on the predence pretence pre tence that there is is dastur i s babee somewhere and that there A is need of an army and a military 1 4 ath ak ell cil chieftain lefdal n 11 he declared that even lyl tyl in the case of the election reelection re of hi lincoln it would have been bet leter ten ter to have elected another A rather than to have established tt the b 0 principle of a continuous exec auve etive ho he could not conceive a f contingency in which ho he would bo be p willing villing for a continuous executive af th republic and lie c hd a gentlemen on his side of th the 0 il 1 eatn willy e to consider whether they are willing g to bo be put upon the record as will willing to invite such a EL con cou contingency py in ill future when they shall be be called upon to meet the question ot lot disturbance with a continuous executive his faith was n not 0 t in amerlean strong people men it was waa in the american amerlean amero r ward ilis ills 1119 argued against arain against st the amendment and bovet moved to lay jay it on the table yeas 98 nays he then moved to recommend it to the judiciary committee lost to the joint resolution was then rejected yeas nays less than two thirds yeas all the tile democrats voted for it and the following republicans albright buffington na chittenden clayton darrell dawes durrell field foster gari field gooch Gu rickle harrison hawley ct hazelton N JJ 3 haskins hunter kasson kellogg killinger ra lawrence wrence lowndes mcgrary Mc Monroe Phelp phillips pierce pieree Pol poi lard larl E ii roberts Bo berts sawyer scudder N Y smith QT N Y smith va I 1 smith 0 southard Sou thard thaid stanard strait strai strawbridge thornburgh tremain willard vt willard mich NV williams illiams Mass Wilson md ind randall randal on the introduction of buti butler butier erys erIg motion raised the tile question of its consideration and supplemented it by a motion to adjourn eldridge supplemented this by making makina 11 the next meeting t of the committee on friday for many hours the house voted on these questions it appeared that a number of republicans were determined to force a vote on the tho civil rights bill which the democrats cereas decidedly opposed to at one onetime time mccrary of la ia seemed to have an offer r of a compromise to submit but he was prevented by calls for the regular order of busi ness butler finally proposed I 1 to have the bill considered and id d debate allowed and also I 1 amen amendments mccraty McCrary McC ls resolution I 1 was read it was that on a motion to reconsider two hours should be allowed for debate which was all but thirty minutes that should be allowed the appo bents of the measure and when the bill came before the house four hours should be allowed for debate of which half should be given to the opponents of the bill six amendments to the bill should be allowed to be offered ed and voted on 00 separately but no dilatory motions should be allowed randall handall objected to butlers Bu tIers motion because the appropriation bill was the regular order this civil rights bill was only a question guestion of physical endurance calls for the regular order were here made and the roll call on the usual dilatory motions resumed 1 i 10 loam am the situation is I 1 1 ed the republicans are determined to hoid hola h hold id 0 out ut tillA till londay monday when the rues tim ruca tom may y be suspended they hope by that time that the refractory republicans pu public b 1 ans s will y yield leid ibid the house was has not been e n without a quorum since educe the contest commenced the democrats cri crl ts can c spare about half haff their number nu in ber for rest noon the roll calli till continue there is no probability of any understanding the members show little signs of weariness A hundred and ninety voted the last call there was no change throughout the afternoon McCrary asked when it would be in order to move to amend the rules so as to break the dead lock the speaker said not nob till monday mccrary then gave notice that on I 1 monday lie would make maue such a motion this was objected to and the roll call was continued this indicates it to be the policy of the majority to renew next monday the motion which was made and defeated last monday to amend the rules so as to prohibit for the rest of the session the speaker fro from m entertaining dilatory motions whenever such sueh anie anle a measure asure is before the house under such a rule the passage of the civil rights bill and other acts having the epport mp port of a majority of tho the members bould be plain sailing A AMERICAN AA E R ICAN icah washington 20 25 Sargent made an argument before the senate committee on public lands lauds today in advocacy of his bill to reduce the price of yen ven numbered sections on forfeited railroad grants to the same f figure agu re as odd sections namely per acre the postal telegraph bill intro tidied by b v littler of M iries esq today to tn today day proposes to 0 lr i o liili ii 1 lines post routes and the post 1 master faster general is authorized to advert advertise ize for the transmission of government dispatches as carrying the malls mails are now advertised for the bill also requires that the rates for special news patches dea des and com corn mercial news be the tho same and in no case shall exceed the rates charged the press associations on the first of january 75 aud and the rates are to be uniform to all parties for similar service the secretary of the treasury this pm sent the ways and means committee tabulated statements showing the increased revenue at tai from replacing the duty on ons tea and coffee and repealing repeating the ten per cent deduction on ter cor certain tain articles in the tariff bill of 12 1 2 and imposing a duty on a nugie articles now on the free list in regard to the latter the secretary makes no recommendation but merely enumerates a large larger number of articles which are now imported free to the aggregate of some forty folly million dollars I 1 per er annuli annum and from which the committee may select with this information before them such as can most properly in their opinion be madeko made to contribute to the tile custom revenue the secretary also transmitted izilar statistics and estimates of the commissioner of internal revenue ill in regard to increased revenue to be secured by the increase of the whisky tax the president today to day sent to the senate in further response to a resolution of inquiry a large mass of correspondence relative to the louisiana troubles the correspondence pon dence dates baek back to oct 74 and begins with the translation of cipher deslat dispatches patches des abes from general emory to the war department expressing strong disapproval of merrils action in M making affidavits 1 ts against the citizens zeng of shreve shreveport p it under which they were arrested for alleged violation 01 na 0 of the enforcement act emory 1 informed merrill that his netlon action in violation of the rules of or the ser service r iee lee was mischievous in its ten tendency dency deney whereupon merrill explained that his action was on account of the fact that no citizen could have made the affidavit except at the risk of his life und he submits voluminous reports of the lawless condition of the red biver river region these reports being all MI to the department adjutant general townsend telegraphed dec 7 through the headquarters of the army department that he considered his conduct justified by i the circumstances among the papers is the report of col henry A morrow detached by genera emory to make a thorough nation of of the affairs of the red bed river biver country morrow says saya 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