Show THE test TET OATH it is 19 probable bat that there ia is yet some iu in regard to io the oath formulated under the edmands tucker lews before the bill became a law there was a gen eral ini impression abi that nt it pr proscribed O 0 scribed all who wilo avow avowed ed a belief in the rightfulness of certain things made offensive by a L law of the buted states this impression waa was created by an erroneous report of the proceedings of the conference committee that was widely circulated perhaps the matter can be explained clearly by IL a reproduction of a apportion portion 1 of the discussion in the senate upon this very question in a answer to the object objection ibn if tf rie notor vest to the test oathar oath mr E edmunds baid kaid the constitution of the united stacee when hen it was snit formed had test oaths carefully incorporated la in it end and every one of us has been obliged to take that test teat oath to this day before he lie could take part in governing gover goyer ning the people of the united mates states the u of the united states and stud every other of abes be united baates s and every leer of a state is by that constitution and always has been to take a test oath which iu in substance an fand d effect Is exactly like th iaone abat the house af if representatives has incorporated iu itt this bill abid o 0 that is tbt tb t they will support and obey and uphold anil and the laws lims of the united stales state 80 we are not without good precedents fur for that and that tliatha 6 all that this bath require mr 11 hoar ai I 1 wish to ask a of the senator from vermont not to remove any difficulty ing in my own mind but one which I 1 understand bas his prevailed pretty extensively does this bill anywhere as the senator from vermont unde understands it either in prescribing an oath or in prescribing a qualification or a disqualification qualification for office or the elet exercise elso of any civil right attack a mere op opinion lany nio separated from froin any criminal I 1 act or any purpose to dj di or abet any criminal act mr edmunds not in tire st degree not in any respect the most astute and inge olous sophist can not mot find any anywhere here in this becklun about oaths any of such a thing tiling it was carefully excluded just as the former law liw excluded it mr hoar A remonstrance has been add addressed reused to ine ihie this action based upon a belief which I 1 yip sup posed to 10 be cu entirely berrt leous tut b ui 1 think it I 1 it proper that the public uneasiness in that respect be removed by the chairman of the committee mr edmunds that remonstrance was addred addressed sed to a preat many of ua its before the remon knew what the provision was they it was one think thing while we intended it t to lie je and mad it quite another ali thing i A Z mr vest I 1 shall not waste any time debating the proposition that there la I 1 nu no between our oath to iti support the constitution of the united states and the oath incorporated corpora corp orated tid in this bill tue tive president of the united S slates tates and ich etch member of at earn to support the constitution of the united state states but who ever heard board before that that was a test nath oath A feist oath as we it and aa as it emust must be understood ia Is one that tests the conscience of the party as its tou to a particular act or belief bellef and unless be he ran can swear that he lie has not done I 1 a certain taing and that lie wl not daa do a certain cannot botand that test and he fie is excluded from frum from office N kow 0 w to draw sony p parallel arallen between abe 0 ordinary off lial oath taken by I 1 the united td states and abata these sections U simply in my wy jag meal ansurd absurd here is ft a lonn long oath look at the lars here mr arv vest read ath it ishille to put thie this upon the same footing with the ordinary viii oath of the caun try it jt Waso ia special lecial test oath dinits spin pint went and is nothing but a s teat test ach nath within the ordinary meaning of abat t upon this sub GU hect senator ingalls eald mr president the instincts of my aare euca that as one of tho the confere conferees eq upon this bill I 1 was led to deliberation in very every particular in which I 1 supposed that its terme terms might jn any way what eve trench upon uon the liberty or of con science and the be absolute and unrestrained Bi freedom of personal belief mr edmunds Edmi inde or opinion mr Irig In gallet alist ye ves aa as the senator from vermont eugesta eug ests or of opinion because cial claiming ming for myself the eldest t liberty erty to question to doubt or to 0 believe as reasor and my impulses direct I 1 should be the laet last to that same right to any other person or any other ither no matter where it might be or what its clainie claims might be for consideration either by contrast with the tenets or doctrines of any other organ organization iz I 1 I 1 n I 1 understand that te uie provision of the which tha senator a from missouri considers to be in come some way or other infringed by the ierma of tub this bill ia is khat bat which ia in found in the t following language bat but no religious shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or pub he trust aeder der the united states t it is for me to eay say that 1 I have lis as much fauch respect for the al ein n cere convictions of a mormon I 1 have for those of an episcopalian a mg a baptist or a bt all religious belief ho hon n estly entertained is ii respectable ble it ii cn ay be my judgment may disapprove d is approve and condemn it but any religions religious faith is entitled to respect if honestly entertained it is to not the mormon religion m th which we are dealing in this measure but the practice of polygamy which is a one of the doctrines doctrin eA of if a portion of that church and if laup I 1 supposed eup posed or ort believed or if I 1 edudd be made to perceive now that there were anywhere tony where in th text of this bill latent even concealed any purpose or intent to interfere with the religious reli zious belief of ever the humblest member of the mormon church any interfere wilh with opinions entertained upon religious question I 1 would disavow it I 1 would retract so far as I 1 might my concur rence with the conference report but I 1 do not so understand it ite itis not my belief bellef that mat by any of th the provisions of the oath whit it nose people eople are required to take they are in in any manner compelled abandon to their religions religious opinions concerning any doctrine 1 e on ou which individuals in lif the christian world disagree and and I 1 should be clad glad if tho Ator from Alimo url with whom I 1 sympathize eyma in many of the views he hae has othild point out to the senate wherein the oath in this bill imposes any religious test tee t which would be c or inimical to the pro provision vidon ot of the constitution tio to which I 1 have referred bir sir test oaths are not so uncommon as the senator from missouri Miss Mill outi souil would have us suppose As the senator from vermont bae his eaid taid lio man can en enter terou on the discharge of the high duties he performs here berd without taking a test oath an ad oath that attests the fealty of him who takes it to the constitution and the country man can admitted to citizenship having been a foreigner unless lie takes abe debt oal oath h and by that tes renounce the political allegiance that isms hitherto controlled him and d declara dec larB that thit he will thereafter bear blino himself elf as a faithful and loyal citizen ul of this republic bear true and loyal alia alle siance to the constitution and the laws odthe country of which he lie is here hereafter after fter to be a citizen therefore I 1 do not think the report of the committee ie is open to the objections chions which the se senator has his coff offered ered and if any line or syllable of any 1 oas ous test ai as a preliminary qualification for exec exercising ising political rights for voting fora forfer erving ving upon juries or for theo th duties of any civil office I 1 am opposed to it here then we havethe have bave the opinion of two of the men who were most active in in securing the passage of the bill alet let their opinion be compared with thore espres expressed ed by the mormon eaters in utah and the then see if they harmonize SEVERAL IBISES STRIKES of messenger boys hay have e taken place annew york cuy citi the boys are paid from to 5 per week and it is 14 eald said the district companies make 3 a day out of them the boy boys have to work fifteen day days at a stretch and from fourteen to seventeen hours a day for overtime they are paid 5 cents an hour if they be ten minutes late they are docked three hours if a boy goes to the wrong bouse house he has to lose 10 cents aid an d if absent on saturday sunday or monday ho he is fined an ex tra daye days pay RAILWAY manufacturing and agricultural interests inte reits are all in a I 1 f fair 4 way war in railway matters the V viima of traffic is steadily improve ins ing as ii is shown by the returns from one hundred railroads whose hoe gross egros earnings for january were 4 million dollars as against 20 million millions for the edme same month mouth last year tux titz RAILROAD I 1 managers are making e every itry possible effort to obey the interstate commer Com mere a law but fr for the present the business in heavy material is more a less checked on account of the uncertainty of freight rates there Is great activity in railroad construction FOB nine bushels of wheat exported last season 32 bushels were exported this season corn 26 bushels to 17 hour flour three barrels to 41 bar rela the total stocks of sugar in iq the principal countries is teas tons against tons tuns now TUB tat BAK exchanges for 30 cities exhibit an increase last week over the same week last yar year for ayery 81 worth of business last year same week 87 worth was transacted this year fox 23 failures fat fal luree lures up to this date last year there have been 21 failure failures this yer year and for every 58 men who struck up to this date laet last year have struck this year As A result of the recent new york strikes over knight knights and union lete are till still idle the criticism made on them ii Is that way the should have baye bad hail wiser leaders I 1 14 i channel buil rilas is of mo moderate derale proportions owing to the season all manufacturing in terest speak encouragingly dimits WIM i be a national convention di 0 i house painters pain tera and decor attore on march I 1 15 B at baltimore THE tur of cotton gooda goods p produced throughout the world esti mated at sit |