CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



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landj Davis, Dawes, De Large, Dox, DuBose, Duke, 

 Eldndgc.Ely, Farnsworth, Harwell, Finkelnburg, 

 Forker, Frye, Garrett, Getz, Golladay, Goodrich, 

 Griffith, Hale, Hambleton, Handley, Harper, George 

 E. Harris, Hawley, Hay, John W . Hazleton, Here- 

 ford, Hill, Holman, Kendall, Kerr, Ketcham. King, 

 Lamison, Lamport, Lansing, Lewis, Lowe, Manson, 

 McClelland, McCormick, McCrary. McGrew, Mc- 

 Henry, Mclntyre, McJunkin, McKmney, McNeely, 



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Kead, Edward Y. Eice, John M. Bice, Eitchie, Ellis 

 II. Eoberts, William B. Eoberts, Eobinson, Eogers, 

 Scofield, Sheldon, Sherwood, Shober, Slater, Slo- 

 cum, Sloss, E. Milton Speer, Stevens, Storm, Suther- 

 land, Swann, Terry, Thomas, Washington Townsend, 

 Tuthill, Van Trump, Vaughan, Waddell, Wake- 

 man, Walden, Waldron, Wells, Wheeler, Whit- 

 thorne, Willard, Williams of New York, Wood, and 

 Young 127. 



NAYS Messrs. Averill, Barber, Beatty, Bingham, 

 Bird, George M. Brooks, Buckley, Burdett, Benjamin 

 F. Butler, Cobb, Coburn, Cotton, Creely, Darrall, 

 Donnan, Dunnell, Eames, Elliott, Charles Foster, 

 Garfield, Havens, Gerry W. Hazleton, Hoar, Hooper, 

 Kelley, Killinger, Monroe, Orr, Packard, Palmer, 

 Parker, Peck, Perce, Porter, Eainey, Eusk, Sawyer, 

 Seeley, Sessions, Shanks, Shellabarger, II. Boardman 

 Smith, John A. Smith, Snyder, Thomas J. Speer, 

 Sprague, Stevenson, Stoughton, Stowell, Sypher, 

 Taffe, Turner. Twitchell, Tyuer, Wallace, Walls, 

 Whiteley, Williams of Indiana, Jeremiah M. Wilson, 

 and John T. Wilson 60. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Ames, Barry, Eoderick E. 

 Butler, Clarke, Dickey, Duell, Henry D. Foster, Hal- 

 deman, Halsey, Hanks, Harmer. John T. Harris, 

 Hays, Kinsella, Leach, Lynch, Marshall, Maynard, 

 McKee, Merrick, Mitchell, Leonard Myers, Packer, 

 Pendleton, Aaron F. Perry, Platt, Eoosevelt, Shoe- 

 maker, Worthington C. Smith, St. John, Dwight 

 Townsend, Upson, Voorhees, Warren, Washburn, 

 and Winchester 36. 



So the amendment of Mr. Dawes was agreed 

 to. 



In the Senate, on March 21st, the amend- 

 ment of the House was considered. 



Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, said : " I will 

 move to amend the amendment by restoring 

 the clause stricken out by the House, giving 

 the committee authority to print and make 

 public, from time to time, the results of their 

 investigations during the recess." 



Mr. Morton, of Indiana, said: "I think the 

 amendment is a very important one, and vir- 

 tually defeats one of the principal purposes of 

 the resolution. I hope we shall not agree to 

 it." 



The Vicc-President : " The Senator from 

 Rhode Island moves to amend the amendment 

 of the House of Representatives by adding 

 'and said committee shall have power to print 

 and make public, from time to time during the 

 recess, the results of their investigations.' " 



Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, said ; " That strikes 

 me as a very novel proposition." 



Mr. Anthony : " That is the way we passed 



Mr. Thurman : " It entirely escaped my ob- 

 servation. If I had noticed it in the original 

 resolution I should have submitted some re- 

 marks upon it and have asked the Senate to 

 strike it out. The committee is to make pub- 



lic from time to time during the recess of Con- 

 gress the result of its investigations ; it is to 

 report to the people from time to time, to pub- 

 lish the results of the investigation ; that is, 

 they are at the public expense to make a set 

 of electioneering documents to go before the 

 public, not for the benefit of Congress be- 

 cause they can make their report on the first 

 day of the next session in ample time for it to 

 be considered by Congress but they are to 

 print at the public expense, to be paid out of 

 the contingent fund of the Senate, from time to 

 time as political exigencies may require, such 

 statements as a majority of the committee may 

 declare to be the results of their investiga- 

 tion! 



"I am not willing to trust the committee 

 with any such power. I believe that almost 

 the whole of this thing is a simple attempt to 

 manufacture political and partisan capital ; and 

 I am not willing to trust any body of men, Sen- 

 ators or others, with the power to go travelling 

 around and issuing from time to time political 

 bulletins to affect the elections of the country. 

 "What business have we to do any such thing 

 as that ? Who has made us the publishers of 

 partisan pamphlets at the public expense to in- 

 fluence elections? No, sir; if this investiga- 

 tion is in good faith, if it is for the purpose of 

 enlightening the Senate and enlightening the 

 House of Representatives, so that we may be 

 enabled to pass such laws as we have con- 

 stitutional power to pass, that object will be 

 achieved by the committee making its report 

 to the Senate and to the House of Representa- 

 tives at the meeting of the next session of Con- 

 gress." 



Mr. Morton, of Indiana, said : "Mr. President, 

 if it is true, as has been argued upon the floor 

 of the Senate, and as is charged by the Demo- 

 cratic press generally, that the alleged outrages 

 in the South have no existence in fact, are 

 manufactured for a political purpose, the South 

 is more interested than anybody else in having 

 the truth known. The belief now exists that 

 these outrages are occurring in the South, and 

 it has the effect to keep emigration and to keep 

 capital from the South, and is doing the South 

 the deepest possible injury. But if these re- 

 ports, of which the air is full, coming from 

 many States, and all of the same character, 

 and without concert with each other, be false, 

 it is the interest of the South especially that 

 that falsehood be made known. 



" Now, I ask, why it is that this investiga- 

 tion has been opposed at every step ? The Sen- 

 ator from Ohio (Mr. Thurman) says that we 

 propose to have this investigation in order to 

 make political capital. If the truth of these 

 charges is established, the Senator seems to 

 consider that that operates against his party. 

 That is a concession on his part. If the truth 

 of these things is not established, it goes for 

 the benefit of his party. If, then, these things 

 are true, he ought to be willing to have the in- 

 vestigation simply with a view to party advan- 



