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THE RACE PROBLEL 3UAReKC OPF MEATOK J. . UnTIS ON TUE CHIWNgS BILL WHICH sB CENTLY PAIERD THE SENATE. Itoacs Questlion in Loulseina-A C.n trast Between This tlate and rallotr aia-Denunciation so the Chinahamen and mupport of the African--lroes Me publican InceasistencY. [Congressional Globe, Feb. 16 I The Chinese bill being under consideratUco, Mr. Eustis said: Mr. President, I desire to say but a very few words to the Senate. Coming from a State where we have a race problem of no modified type, I etl it due to put in a plea on behalf of the white people of Louisiana. I feel the more justifiable, If any justification were necessary, by reason of the factthat I am surprised at the attitude which has been occupied by Itepublicans on this Chinese question. I shall vote for the bill, although I believe the arguments which have been urged against its passage are overwhelming, except upon a single point, and that s1 the race ques tion. I do not bt.leve, nor would I for a mo ment be influenced to cast my vote in favor of the abrogation of a treaty, where we invite another nation to send their people into our own country and then turn round and tell the very people whom we have invited into our own country under treaty stipulations that they shall not come into this country for the simple reason that they cheapen labor. I do not believe that such an ar gument would be addressed to France or England or any of the other great Christian States of Europe. Suppose that the French Canadians were to immigrate In large numbers into the State of Maesachu setts, as they are dolng to-day, and on ac count of their economical habits they could afford to live at a rate 60 per cent cheaper than the American artisan; suppose on ac count of some great changes in the Republic of France a large imligration of French dtizens should come into the State of Louisi ana or into any other State, knowing as we d that they can live upon one-third what It coast the American operative or the Ameri can laborer to live, would any Senator ulder take to legislate, to tell the French or Eng lish government that for that reason their dtizens or their subjects shall no longer come to the United States? What cause of corn laint is it to say that the Chinese eat rats ? Is that any reason why a treaty should be abrogated What cause of tcomplaint is it to say that they eat rice; or what cause of complaint would it be on our part if they did not eat anything at all, which would be cheaper? What cause of complaint can the United States governmenlt have that these emannin wuen air in al r 7wrn 2 p60015 sieep six in a roo em r Mr. Randolph. Thirty-0ix Mr. Eustis-Thirty-six my friend suggests. Suppose they do, is there anything In the treaty that regulates their diet or mode( of sleeping. Suppose they choose to be burled In their own country, what ground of coim plaint is that? It is very disagreeable to be buried anywhere, but it is after all a matter of taste. My friend from California and my self know that a political burial is very dis agreeable, although I believe in the resurretc on of the dead. [Laughter.] I say, Mr. President, that so far as my vote In concerned there has not been a single proposltlon advanced which should influence any Senator to take the positon that after we have made a solemn treaty with a ctvil sied nation we ought to abrogate that treaty on aooount of the habits of the people of that nmplre, of which we were perfectly cognizant in every oarticular at the very time that we made the treaty. When it comes to the question of race, Mr. President, I confess that the Senator from California has touched a very tonder and a very weak spot in my nature. He represents that the Anglo-Saxon race on the Pacific coast are to be engaged in a struggle with the Mongolian race; that the iater~te of society are to be affected; that we are to have turbulence, violenoe, anarchy, revolution, and bloodshed; and that there is no power t authority in the government to Suppress that violent exhibition of white human nature. We heard the Senator from Maine (Mr. Blaine) state that in his opiionv if this immigration was not checked in five years from now it would require the United Mtates army to preserve the peace, merely because the pres ence of this people is of. nsive, merely be cause contact with this alien race is offensive. The interior rase does not claim, as is the case in Louisiana, to exercise any political rights; they do not engage in any contest for politi cal supremacy; they do not claim to enact your laws; they do not claim to adluluister Justice to you; they do not claim t control every interest which society holds dear, and every right and privilege to which man is attached; but simply on account of their presence in your midst the declaration is made in the Senate by Republican leaders that you will have bloodshed and revolution. Sir, one thing has struck me during this and other discussions. Whenoever the ques tion of race is between the Chinaman and the white man, all the denunciation is against the Chinaman; bdt when the problem of race is between the negro and the white man, all the denunciation is against the white man. Mr. President, I will ask the Senator from Maine, if upon a mere apprehension of an in crease of population of this race, if upon a mere dread that th- ir numbh-rs will be in creased so as to equal the white race on the Pacific slope, and if the mere occurrence of the two races there should stimuliate our pride of race, should intensify our pride and hatred of other races, should urge the white men to commit violence regardless of law and regardless of ruthority, why should he ex press surprise and indignation when a race which is not the equal of the Chinese race, a race that has no civilisation, a race that has no literature, a race that has no statesman ship, a race that has no science, by the legis lation of this country undertakes to control the white race and to govern it ? When we Anglo-Saxons inhabit the same territory with the African race, and they have been Invited by the legislation of the United States gov ernment to engage in a struggle for political supremacy, I ask the Senator from Maine why should he be surprised that there should be 'saslonally a little violence or a little ..,,,cherb in the State of Louisiana ? SSir it is a very simple duty for the honora ble uenaatr to arraign the white race of the State of Louisiana before the bar of public opinion and to condemn them. It is a very easy task for the honorable Senator Irom Maine to pass judgment upon that people, ig tnoring the lun iatuental causes, ignoring the provocation and the irritation which he ac know ldges with reference to the Chinese race; but I ask himn how would tie people of MLaine ftel, and how would the people of Maine cotltuct el, c ins if there was subInit ted to thent eith.r the Afl ican or the Chinese problem, I case not which, to theextent to which it has been done in the State o' Louisi ana and to the Rxteut to vhwihi it is appre hended it will be done in the Stateitt of Cahfor nia? Is there any test by which the honora ble gentleman call expre-.s an opinion upon such a problem as thatt? Is there aiiy guide? Consult hl.toly, Mr. President. Where is the example and where is the parallel? There have been civil wars and there have been foreign wars ever since the cr ation of man. We know what the results of war are. At a time in the early perl.ol of his Story the conquering people enslaved the conquered, but tl.e Lonqerors were tie supe rior rack ; but we know that history does nt furnish and probably will never furnish a parall ,l or an example of the problem which has be.n submultt d to the peple of Louisi ana; and tiat is a race, struggle, a race con test for political supremacy which means the right of g, verunilet, and which includes everything on the fate of the earth-a prob. lem which has never before heen submitted to the statesmanship of any civilized country. I rise to do ju .tice to the people of Louieiana. They have never, as I have heard Republican , jotoa do to-day, threatened revolution, az,. and bloodshed; they have never, m j ~ f&ASo todr rela tittootr anyklnd. But the cane is as was stated by the Hnnstor fram salifornia (Mr. Bootbi, when he said: Sir. se do not establleh the distinctions of races, and we cannot obliterate them ev, n by the most solemn political declarations. The laws of ph Rical nature can not he r-eealed even by acts of Oongress. * * * The darkest pas sages of human history hay, been enacted when alien race-s have been brought in contact. There has not been a word of charity, not an expression of the slightest indulgence, not even an allusion to the causes, not the slight est reference to the complications that led to1 the difficulties by which the people of Lou Isiana have been surrounded. The only ex pression of opinion that I h evw ever heard with reference to that great problem, which is pro sented in a much moreaggrat atedI form there than the Chinese proclem has been presented to the Pacific States, Is simply a statement of results, and that so many pI,.ole have been killed, and a reading of the statutes of the United States. Mr. President, I am the last person to speak in defiance of any authority in this country. Far be it from my purpose even by any accidental expression or utterance of language to speak in any other spirit than entire submission to cn -tituted authority; but this I will say, and history will justify me in making the declaration, that if the honorable Senator intends to draw a com parison between the twocaseos by stating that in the one case we have statutes and in the other ease we have not4 that in the case of the, ktate of Louisiana thtse acts are a viola tion of laws, I grant it; if he says in the case of Lonul-lana those acts are a violation of stat ut's, I grant it; but [ say that it is not within the power of any government to change the laws of human nature. You cannot make an Anglo-Saxon otherwise than God Al mighty has made him. So far from t here be ing any cause of con mplaint against the white people of Louisiana 1 say here in all c tndor, as well acquanluted as I am with the disposl tion and with the situation (d that people, considerirg the great coflilcts and dilliculties of the delicate race problem which has been submitted to them, that I cm only express my amaDzement at their for btar-ance and at their law-abiding spirit. As I said before, we make no threats. On tihe contrary, we are trying to live in peace and in harmony with that race. We wish to iim prove their condition; we wish to give them all the benefits and advantages of goodx gov ernment and of education; we wish to elevate them and not to oppress them; we alsh to make them feel contented and not to feel de pressed; we wish that they should live in our midst. live with us, and that they should not be expelled from the territory, as it is pro posed to do with reference to the Chinese. But at the same time we also claim justice; we also claim that it should be remembered that we belong to the white race; that we be long to that race which has been the most domineering, the most conquering and tlhe most civilizng race on the face of the globe - a race that in every clime and on every soil, wherever it has obtained a foothold, has al ways been impatient of restraint, has al ways been restless under restrictions, and has never failed to assert its supremacy and to he the governing race. But apart from this race problem, ldoes not the hotoruable Senator from Maine know that whenever there is a cause of popular discon tent, whenever a great many minds awmnng the ieople concur in believing that there is a wrong, from a thousand different causes, you will have violence and bloodshed. It was only last sumruerin the Dominion of Canada that that Dominion was convulsed, that civil war was imminent, the military forces of the government were ordered out, and why? To state it superficially would be to state it in this way: because some people wanted to have a procession, and other people said they ought not to have it' but that was not the cause. The cause, Mr. President, was a re ligious sentim nt. Although the honorable Senator and myself might not engage in any such light as that, yet I have no doubt that people just as gotod as we are were engaged in it. I rememter reading in history that when Spain acquired Louisiana there was a great riot, and why? Because the French people thought that they would have to suffer the awful infliction of drinking Spatnish wine; and any one who knows anything about the two wines ought not to be surprised that their revolutiodary instincts were aroused. [Laughter.] When I was a boy there was a riot in New York, because some people pre ferred one actor to another. I saw a portion of the German army mobilized a few years sao and sent to the city of Franktort-on-the Main to suppress a riot in which a great many people were killed, and wkat do you sutppose was the cause of it ? It was because the brewere advauced lager beer from three to four cents a glass. So, a r, you might dis cover a thousand causes that leau perople to rise up when they believe they are oppressed by a grievance. Such was the case in the labor riots two years ago at the North. You will have riots, and you will have bloodshed ; I do not undertake to prophesy to-day that to-morrow you may not have a riot in any part of the United. I believe that if the peo ple of the United States were to be suddenly deprived of any btrong stimulant to which thiey are accustomled--tor instance, drinking whisky or reading the liery speeches of nmy friend from Maine -there would he a great many riots throughout the land. [Laughter.] Tha Senator from Maine may say, "What! is this great government to confess its in lirnity and its imP)outency not to execute the laws of the land? Is it to make the admis sion that while statutes are upon the statute hook it is not within the power4of the govern ment to punish the violators of the statuters?" My answer is a very simple one, and I flid it much more easy to answer my own que tions than when they are put to me. My answer is that this is not the first time that any genat government--a government as strong as the government of the United States-has had to confess that an experiment is a failure. His tory is full of such instances where govern ments have heen obliged to recede from the positions which they have taken where there isa strong, united public sentiment against any system of laws or any policy of govern ment. These causes have overthrown gov ernments. As the French say, "quand le peuple murmurr," look out for troubles and for revolutions. Mr. President, as I said before the white people of Louisiana, under the clrcumr stances in which they have been placed, have shown themselves to he a law-abiding people. The remtedy is with time. The remedy is to throw the responsibilty upon them of the solution of this great problem, for they know full well that wherever there is violence, wherever there is disturbance, wherever there is bloodshed, wherever there is commotion, and wherever society Is disturbed, prosperity is arrested and that the developmeint of a country is checked. They understand per fectly well that peace and order and an equal and just administration of the laws secure beneficial results to the people and to the government. If I were in a position to give advice and counsel upon this great question. I would say that the Federal government should repeal all the laws by which it inter feres with the elections in the States, by which discriminations arruade made gainst the white people with reference to sitting upon juries practically. I would destroy the whole ma chinery by which Federal interferenrce is ex erted in the affairs of the State, because it only intensities that race hatred which ought to be modified so that both races may be prosperous and contentented. A HAg's Presentiment. Four day's ago, when one of the many squads of hogs had been driven up the inclined plane at Kinuan's pork-house to rest a mno mernt on a platform while the killer was dis patching them one at a time, one of theswine, seeming cognizant of the fate aw lting him, gave a squeal of terror, and nerved by doepe - ate fear, jumped out of the pen to the fl,sr beneath, a distance of thirty feet, alighi'ing apparently unhurt. This was singular. Whit follows argues a reason almost human. The hog, still squealing with terror, then ran, along the slippery tloor, a distanceof sevcnt y tlive teet or more, and jumped through a win dow into the river, making in his second fall a descent of forty feet. Again he was appa trently unhurt, and struck out swimming bravely for the other side of the stream, whici he reacaed nearly exhausted. The swine had certainly earned his liberty, anr a number of spectators who had seen his efforts crowned with success were congratulating themselves that he had saved his bacon, when a practical employee of the pork-house, without an atom .o t or pity In hils o tm, appeared .ith a martet tf therur aimai Lato #ccErM~ BoS RETIRIN G SENATORS. KEVENBTEN IIA FAMILIAR FAEq% TO LEAVE THE EBN&TE CHAMBER. Personnel and Conspicuous Character. lstdes of the Ourgoing statesmen. ICorrespondene of the Philadelphia Record. WASHINtrTO%, Feb. 7.-The Senate will be a changed! body after the fourth of March; at least seventeen familiar faces will then bt missed from the Senate chamber, and one Is hanging by the gills. The mortuary list is a doleful one; twenty-four sen toln al terms ended, twenty-four expel ience'l solons willing to wear the toga longer for their country's good, and only seven thus far able to pull through ; sixteen rejected, one 1i doubt and one bulldozed out of the Senate. Assuredly, the whirligig of polities is past all guessing. For the sixteen thus far slain ten are Re publicans, to wit: Spencer, I)orsey, Sargent, Ohaffee, Conover, Og()Mesy, Matthews, Mitch ell, Patterson and Howe, and six are ])emo crats, as follows: Armstrong, BIarnum. Don nis, Eustis, Merrimon and McCreory. I mern-u tion Armstrong In the list, although Gen.. bShields now holds the seat, twcause the cl.e tkn of Shields to the small fragment of a ses sion was a personal compliment to Shielde, and only emphasizes the defeat of Arm strong. (if the seven re-elect a lquartette are Re puldicans- -okling, lDon (allern, Jon's of Neivalda and Morrill ; andi a duet -Gordon arlnd Vorhoees---are D)emocrats. The doubtful one is Wadlelgh, andt the dulldozed one is, of course, poor, old Christiancy, who, since he attempted the role of an Independent Repub lican and was so unifortunate as to whip Zch. Chandler and marry a young treasury clerk, has .san beset by more trilblations, public and private, than ought to fail to the lot of a Iiman of his years. hllaracteor and learning,. Reviewing the list. of t.lose who are sure to go, there is moun cause for congratulation than regret, aside from the political biaes which one may have on the subtject. The loss of the four carpet-baggers-S oleer, Dor sey, C.lover and I attbrson-is the country's gala btLyoni the piradventure of a doubt. They all have their good points, but the ag gregate of their indivihluality was not the right sort from which to make good Sena tors. Patterson was the only distingue look ing man in the lot. His abundant, flowing hair has an intellectual, natural wave, after the manner of Matt. Lar penter's. It was handsome and impressive when it was chest nut. It Is more handsome and more impres sive now that it is Iron-gray. Then, again, Patterson has an imperial way of tosoing his head that is very effective. He is one of the nervous, wiry class of men, of medium height and slender build. As a senatorial orator Patterson has been a failure. His voice is harsh and high-pitched; his method ismntiastic and jerky, and even Logan can hardly equal his ability to mangle the king's English. Patterson's strong point is his au dacity. He has the "cheek" of a blind mule. Ile is a skillful politician of tie coarser sort, and is not troubl,'i with too nImuch con scie'nce'. He is a Petnnsylvania product, be ing born at Waterlt"o, in that State, is forty 110ie, and has been an editor', banker, rail road man and political speculator. The ad lnilistration will way good-bye to him gladly, for lie has been a constatnt thorn in its flesh, cursing it openly, iin 5.season and outof season, la the presence of any who cared to hear. S I __ I(ONO(,vEI(r is one of the most in:,dTenstve men who ever turned up in the halls of legislation. He is a Jerseyman by birth, a doctor by profession and a Senator by the grace of God and the ignorance of the colored vote. Hle entered the Senate at thirty-three, and qul's it at thirty nine. Nothing but the anomalou condition of the South after the war could ever have made him a Senator. He could never be mis taken for a great man. From the top of his bald head down the low forehead, the droop ing eyes, the stox)ping shoulders, the cringing attitude, tthe sliding gait, every look and ges ture is deprecatory of himself. Not that Conover is without spirit. He has plenty of it, and good, social qualities, too, but he is out of place, and his appearance indicates that he knows it. Unlike Patterson, he has never aped ability or boasted a power he had not. He has been content to answer roll call wnen his party needed him, and, for the rest, he has been oftener in the so ciety of his boon companions than in the Senate chamber. He has never made hut one speech of importance in the Senate. That was when his party undertook to revile him after having failed in a vigorous attempt to bulldoze him into voting for the admission of the Republican claimant, Corbin, and against the seating of the Democratic Sena tor, Butler, from South Carolina. For some reason, not known to themselves, both Pat terson and Conover refused to follow the dic tates of their party that time, aril they stood by their colors manfully. On that occasion, when Pattetron made an Illiterate harangue, Conover delivered a speech which was a master-piece of sarcastic arraignment, and which laid b~re the sore spots of his party so vigorously thlat those who had sought to lord it over him were glad to cry quits, and leave the mild-mannered apothecary alone. If the speech was original, Conover has mnore power, as a writer, than lie is given credit for. Its trenchant power was in such contrast to the man, and so ill-fitedt the indifflrent delivery, aii to cause suspicion that a greater than Cont|efr was its author, in which case Cono uer showed more sense than Patterson. SPENCER AND DORSEY are men of a stronger type, and they have done intiltely more mischief than Patterson and Conover. Both are short, thick-set, meaty men, of coarse fibre and low tastes. l)Dorsey is the ablest man of the quartette. He is a steolid-looking man and a hard worker. As he sits in the Senate, his bearded chin sinks toward his breast, and his white face seems devoid of even a shade of intel lectuality, but he is a man of much business capacity. Indeed, he is all business. He went into politics as a matter of business. As chairman of the Senate committee on the District of Columbia he has moullded all the business of the District, and his departurewill be regretted by the District ring. D)orsey is only thirty-seven and entered the Senate at thirty-one. le is a Vermonter by birth, but spent his boyhhood in Ohio, served in the Union army during the war, was an employee of the Sandusky 'tool Com pany, went to Arkansas as the president of the Arkansas Central Railroad Company and got into politics in that State. He will be heard from again. Spencer looks like a Western bar-keeper. His face is round, red anti jolly. His hair is auurln, curly and slick. His abdomen is al dermnnle, and, altogether, he has a well-fed. dandifled, devil-may-ca re look and a bonhomie way wth him which is quite taking. Spen cAr doesn't mnake any pretensions to morality. He is fond of women, wine and wassail, and is willing everybody should know it. More than once he has outraged the feelings of the more respectable old solons by giving some dashing memitr eof the denti-monde a seat in the Senators' gallery; out it was his right, and they have had tostland it. If he has ever done anytlinlg in the Senanate except vote and work for himself and his friends, no one has ever dlscovered it. Spen,er iand D),rsey are i)oth poor talkers, although the latter is able to state a fact very clearly In a dry, niatter of-fact, business way. Spencer thrusts both iands into his trousers )pockets, leans back against a desk and talks In a conversational way when he says anything. S kR(CENT OF CALIFORNIA. is a very able man, and has been a very hard working and a very influential memtber of the S" nate and yet he will go out almost unre gretted, beecause he is so unpopular. He is another specimen of the jobber in politics, and is reputed to have amassed a handsome fortune since he came to the Senate. It is an open secret that he has long been in "cahoot" with Ex-Governor Shepherd in extensive real e-state speculations here in the District, and the District ring will miss his able labors in the Senate in their mutual behalf, although it is reported that he will take up his permanent residence in the District after he leaves the Senate. Politilally he has been a rabid Radi cai, and was alm+st the only Senator who could keep pace with Morton in extreme par tisanship. As seen from thegallery, he looks like a nfat-faced, medium-sized man, with close-cropped hair and beard of a yellowish shade, plentifully sprinkled with gray, and a pink and white complexion. In the Senate ne is always dressed m a business suit. He 's a voluminous debater, and speaks to nearly every questin , as Morton did, but his voice is high-pitched, thin sad unmutosical. He has been arprinter, editor and lawyer; was born in Newburyport, Mess., was a member of the Thirty-seventh, Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, came to the Senate In 1878, and Is fifty-two. CHAFFEE, OP 0OLORADO, has been a "no-account" man in the Senate. He only entered in December, 1876, and has been siok most of the time since. He is a full-favored, pleasant-lrk king man, a good liver and a genial companion, but he has been Si) quiet in the Senate that his place is hardly known to the regular dentizns of the gallery. He is a native of New York State, a rich banker and miner, and is ifty-four. MITCIELL, OF ORE(iON, is another of the "no-account" men. He is a dlapl)er-k..Oking man, with a ball sIpot on top of his head, a long, fliwlnq beard, with a a dlark shade of brown, a drooping lmoustache, and the general air of a middle-aged dry godstl clerk. He always dresses In dark clothes, and looks as though he had stepped out of a band-box. Mitchell thinks he is an orator, and is ready to deliver a set speech (ol the slightest occasteon. lie can talk wore and say less than almost any other mtemher of the Senate. He has Irnproved a great deal sline he entered the Senate, but still clears both sidles of the chamber whenever he starts out in a speech. He is forty-four, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, a lawyer, camne to the Senate in 187:1, and is serving his first and last term in C(ongress. OOLE1 SY AND M'C.IERT. In the departure of O()glesby and McCreery the Srenate will lose two of its most pro nounced characters They are as unlike as ien can well be. McCroeery is the most elo quent man in the St-nate. Dick Oglosby Is the greatest. ranter. MeCreery is hlighly olticated; ()glesby is highly unduicate(i. MCretry ex(cels In the su tle play of fancy the lights and shailes of delicate sarcaI( anild refined humor; lRichard is nothing if not blunt and clownish. The following good stIry, which he telts of himself, well illus trates the 11an: "WIhn I first ca.e helre," said he to a friend one dlay, "I looked about me on the great luien of whom I heard so much, and I wonder how in hell I ever got Into the Senate. After I got acquainted with 'em I wondered how in hell any of us got here," and then doubtless Richard. as is his wont, squirtel out a plot or so of tobacco juice, leaned back his white-topped bullet head, opened his mouth full stretch and laughed heartily at his own joke. McCreery is as lonvetrate a tobocco chewer as Ogiesby himself, and is the nlost slovenly man in the Senate. The corners of his mouth are always streaked and his shirt front always stained with the drippings from his massive jaws. He Is, doubtless, the most potinted-out man in the Senate. "Who is that man with the immense head and the straight, jet-black halr ?" Is a cornmmon question in the gallery. His head is Websterian in Its massiveness, and his hair (what there is of it, for he is bald on top) is straight and black as an Indian's. Like liamilin and Merrimon, he always wears a rusty dress suit, an i more often than not his hands are in his pants Dockets. When ever he speaks the Senitors suspend all other business and listen. III side remarks are gems of wit, and his more elabprate efforts are masterpieces of the English la guage. HI.i voice is deep andl full, and his tone is as liquid as falling water, but he is the laziiest ran in the Senate, anti rarely takes pait in debate. His talents and attainments are seciontd to none, but he cares more for ease than preferment,. He is as honest as the day is long, and his departure will be a Iass to the Senate and the country. His boly is as big as his h ad, but his legs are like pipe-stems. Ite is a native Kentuckian and a lawyer of ability, and has served two terms in the Sen ate-first from 1868 to 1871, and again from 1873 until next Mareh. He Is the "nly S-.na tor who declined to give his age for publica tion. Oglesby is a short, rolly-polly, blunt, pro fane, jovial typical Westerner. He has been a carpenter, has swung a pick in a mine, and finally drifted into law. He is a native Ken tuckian, and thoroughly honest. STANLEY MArTIHEWS has not been much of a success as a Senator. He is an able lawyer, and has made some ab'e arguments; but, singurarly enough, every speech has been in support of some measure in the interest of railroad or other corporations by whom he was retained as counsel before he came to the Senate. It seems impossible for him to separate himself from his clients. He is a dry talker, but an able expounder of law, and no politician at all. He is a typical Ohio man not tall but of good height and stocky. .ls head Is broad above the eyes, his eyes are small, and he wears a short, yellowish beard, sprinkled with gray. Howe Is another character, but he has been written up over and over again. He is a very intellectual-looking man, tall and spare, with a white, clean-shaven face and line, wavy hair streaked with gray. He is a lawyer of attainment and a legislator of experience, but he is so conceited, verbose and tiresome that he has lost his influence. When making a speech he poses, and spins words and puses until the Senators long since learned to lee to the cloak room to escape being bored to death. The substance of what he says is destroyed by the manner of saying it. He is a bitter Radeiial, is sixty-three, and has been in the Senate continuously since 1561. MERRIIMON is another one of the windy talkers. He Is an able lawyer, but when he gets on his feet he never knows when to stop. As he warms up in his speech his voice pitches itself higher and higher until it assumes a monotonous, ear-splitting squeak. As a result, he always talks to empty seats He has been one of the most industrious and most honest members of the Senate. He is short, corpulent, and only forty-nine. BARNUM of Connecticut Is no talker at all, but a good manager. He is an iron manufacturer, a suc cessful and wealthy husiness man and a shrewd politician. As chairman of the Demo cratic National Committee he wields large political influence, but he is no factor in de bate. He is pleasant-faced, and liles equally a good joke or a good dinner. DENNIS is a very quiet man. He is a better judge of terrapin than of a speech, and eats the one oftener than he makes the other. He is very popular, but has been in poor health for a year and has a rather sallow look. ARMSTRONG is a white-headed, white-bearded, rough-and ready man, who has been a power in Missouri politics, but has not been in the Senate long enough to acquire any prominence. EUSTIS, the last of the defeated ones, has been a valu able member since he succeeded in getting the seat to which he was elected. He is a quiet, rather phlegmatic sort of a man, of medium height and sturdy build, and fonder of a horse and a cigar than of 'legizlative la bor. lie has a good voic-, and is a very good sp aker of the argumentative sort. lie is a native of New Orleans; graduated at the Harvard law school; served in the Confeder ate army; has been an important factor in State politics, anti was elected to thi- Senate for the term which bI.gan in 1873, but he dild not get his seat until l177. He is only forty live, and is a good lawyer and a man of sound judgment. A Neat Thlog. One of the neatest things recently said in Washington, where neat things are neither said nor done as often as could be wished, was said by Secretary Evarts at a dinner the oth er night, in reply to somebody who happened to have been reading one of the regulation jokes about the Secretary's end i.ss sent 'nces, and gracefully repeated it. "Oh, nonsense," said Mr. Evarts, good-naturedly, "I don't object to that sort of thing at all. People who expect to injure me by calling attention to my long sentences forget that the only persons really opposed to long sentences in this coun try are the criminal classes who deserve them." The locked-out KJeuti, larh, ers and their families, numbering between 490 and 500, leit Maidstone by special train recently, on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway for London, on their way to Plymouth, where they embark for New Zealand. The emi grants, who were lodged and boarded in the Skating Rink, were attended to the railway station by an immense crowd of friends and a large number of sympathizers with the movement. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE S1ENATE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. EX JEC TII'I VJ: SESSION. SEicNATºc CHAMBERt. New Orleans. Fibruary 1, 1s79. The Senate met in executive session. [Hon. Mr. Ellis in the chair.] On the eall of the roll the following Sena tors answered to their names: Messrs. Breaux, B.'nners, .owden, Bryant, Cage, Duct.)s, Ellis, Fontenot, Garland, Hard ing, IHarper, Herron, Kelly, Kenner, Merkel, Mitchell, Norwo, d, Perkins, Richardson, San diford. Steven, Wa\les, Wells, Wheeler, Zach arie-- 25. Absent--Meosrs. Cahon, I)Bouehel, Dela houssaye, G(a, Landry, Seanland, Stamps, Stu ,be, Sutton, Texada, Williarns-ll. On motion of Mr. Breaux the following par dons, lying over, were taken up: Emerson Bennett Stirling, convicted before the Superior Criminal Court for the parish of Orleans of forgery, and sentenced on the twe.'y-seventh day of July, 1878, to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for the term of two years, and to pay the costs of prosecution. Mr. Ga, land called for the reading of the papers. On motion of Mr. Bromux, the Senate did advise and consent to this pardon by the fol lowing vote: For Pardon-Messrs. BIreaux. Bonners, Bow den, Bryant, Cage, Dueros, Ellis, Fontenot, Jarland, Harding. Harper, Herron, Kelly, Kenner, Merkel, Mitchell, Norwossl, Pe kins, Richardson, bandiford, Steven, Walles, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharle--25. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssaye, Gla. Landry Scanland, Stamps, Stubbe, Sutton, Texada, Williams--ll. John E. Boehler, Jr., convicted before the Superior Criminal Court for the parish of Orleans of embezzlement, and sentenced on the twenty-seventh of July, 1878, to impris onment in the State Penitentiary for one year at hard labor, and to pay costs. Mr. Garland called for the reading of the papers. On motion of aMr. Breaux, the .Oenato tli advise and consent to this pardon by the following vote: For Pardon-Messrs. Breaux, Bonners, Bowden, Bryant, Cage, Ducros, Ellis, Founte nout, Garland, larding, Harper, iHerron, Kelly, Kenner, Merkel, M tchelll, Norwoo., Perkins, Richardson, Sandlford, Steveu, Walles, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharise-25. Against Pardon-None. Absent--Messrs. Cabin, DeBouche', Dela houssaye, (la, Landry Scanland, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williamrs-12. Apt Thomas, who was convicted before the District Court for the parish of Concordia, under charge of murder, on the fifteenth day of October, 1875, and sentenced to imprison ment in the State Penitentiary for life. Mr. Garland called for the reading of the papers. On motion of Mr. Bryant the Senate did advise and consent to this pardon by the fol lowing vote: For Pardon--Messrs. Breaux, Benners, Bowden, Bryant, Cage, Ducros, Ellis, Fonto not Garland, Harding, Harper. Herron, Kel ly, elnner, Merkel, Mitchell, Norwood Per kins Richardson, Sandiford, Steven, Walles, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharie-25. Against Pardon-None. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssays, Gla, Landry, Scanland, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williams--1l. Philip O(ter, alias Frank P. Walton, who was convicted before the Second Judicial Dis trict Court for the parish of Jefferson, at the June term, 1877, of petty larceny, and sen tenced to two years' Imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. He has been imprisoned in the parish jail since July 5, 1876. Mr. Garland called for the reading of the papers. On motion of Mr. Breaux, the Senate did advise and consent to this pardon by the fol lowing vote: For Pardon-Messrs. Breaux, Bonners, Bow den, Bryant, Cage, Ducroa, Ellis, Font-not, Garland, Hardinit Harper, Herron, Kelly, Kenner Merkel, Mitchell, Norwows, Perkins, Richardson, Sanilford, Steven, Wailes, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharie-25. Against Pardon- None. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssaye Gla, Landry, Seanlaud, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton. Texada, Williams--ll. Commutation of sentence to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for life of Edward Coleman, convicted before the Superior Crimi nal Court of the parish of Orleans of murder, and sentenced on the twenty-sixth of June, 1874, to be executed. Mr. Garland called for the reading of the papers. On motion of Mr. Breaux the Senate did advise and consent to this commutation of sentence by the following vote: For Commutation-Messrs. Breaux, Ben ners, Bowden, Bryant, Cage Ducros Ellis, Fontenot, Garland. Harding, harper,H r erron, Kelly, Kenner, Merkel, Mitchell, Norwood, Parkins, Richardson, Sandiford, Steven, Walles, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharie-25. Against Commutation-None. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssaye, Gla, Landry, Scanland, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williams,-11 The commutation of sentence to imprison ment in the State Penitentiary for life at hard labor of Michael Moynier, who was convict ed before the Superior Criminal Court, parish of Orleans, of rape and sentenced the twenty eighth of April, ls77, to be executed--"the girl's father recommending the pardon." Mr. Garland called for the reading of the papers. On motion of Mr. Zacharie the Senate did advise and consent 'to this commutation of sentence by the following vote : For Commutation--Messrs. Breaux, Ben ners, Bowden, Bryant Cage, Diucros, Ellis, Fontk-not, Garlandi, Harding, Harper, Her ron, Kelly. Kenner, Merkel, Mitchell, Nor wooxd, Perkins, Richardson, Sandiford, Steven, Wailes, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharie-25. Against Commutation-None. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssay,'. (Gia, Landry, Scanland, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williams--ll. Commutation of sentence to imprisonment for life at hard labor in the State Penitentiary of Herman Clure, convicted before the Dis trict Court for the parish of Calcasieu of murder, and sentenced on the nineteenth De comber, 1878, to be executed. Mr. Garland called for the reading of the papers. On motion of Mr. Wells the Senate did ad vise and consent to this commutation of sen tence by the following vote: For Commutation-Messrs. Breaux, Ben n"rs, Bowden, Bryant, Cage, Dueros, Ellis, Fontenot, Harding, Harper, Herron. Kelly, K-uner, Merkel, Mitchell, Norwood, Perkins, Richardson, Sandifr ,dd,Stwevn, Wailes Wells, Wheeler, Zacharie-24. Against Commutation-Mr. Garland-1. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssays, Gla, Landry, Scanland. Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williamzs-11. On motion of Mr. Zacharie the injunction of secrecy was removed from each and all of the a~=ýý .e':-Y: 'ý.,..., .~ ' i jm:ao foregoing pardons and commutations of sea. tenoe granted this day, and the Secretary dl* rected to notify the Governor. The following Executive communicatiog was placed before the Senate: No. 25.1 EXECUTIVE DEPARTIWIn. "ta, . of Le'uisiana'a, Now Orleans. Febtr ary 1. 179. To the Honorable Presldtnt and Membersof the Se ate: By and with the advice and consent of your honorable body I have thl (lay granted par rldon to Lewis Jones, who was convicted belore the Eighteenthi 1 udivial I)is' rlct Court, sittin for the parish of Webhster, of shooting wit inte.n. to t murder, and sentnt!td April 22, 1876, to inm prisonmennt in the State Penitentiary for a term of six years. P'aprs connected with the case are herewith submitteid. Very respecttfully FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, Governor. Mr. Wells asked anti obtained unanimous consent to take up at this time the foregoing pardon. On motion of Mr. Wells the Senate (lid ad. vise and consent to this pardon by the follow. lng vote: For Pardon- -MeFrs. Breaux Benners, Bowden, Bryant, I nt, Ilueros, Mills, Fonte. not, Garland, Ilarn lint, Ilairper, iHeron, Kelly, Kennerr Merkel. Mtchell, Norwood, Perkins, Richa(trson. SHandlforIl, Steven, Walles, Wells, Wheeler, Zacharie- 25. Against P'arit'don None. AbIsent-Messr-.. C.ehtn, DeBouchel, Dela houstaye, (Gla, Lnidry, Stanland, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada. Williamrns-11. The following Executivje communication was placed before the Senrate: N). 26.] ExrEctrrivn' DEPARTMENT. Silae, i f Loullstiana, New OrIleins, February 1.1879. To Ihe Honorable Prelident and Members of the Senate: By and with the consent of your honorable botly I nominate and will app(tIIt Q. P. Worthy, in-pector of welghts and measures for the parish of East Feliciana. Walter A. White, district attorney pro temrn. for Vermillion ppsi-rh. Francis W. Miscar, tax collector for the parish of Livingston. Leonard Z. Gowersa district attorney pro tern. for the parish of Livingston. Thomas J. Allen, member of the Board of Health of Shreveport, Caddo parish, vice Walter Hilliard, resigned. James F. Ultz, a mermner of the Board of Health of Shreveport, Caddo parish, vice Joseph BoIsseiau, resigned. Harold C. Leoniard, conjstableof sixth ward, Caddo parish, viceW. R. Arnold, removed from the parish. J. L. Dagg, district attorney pro tem. for the parish of Catahoula, vice John 8. Boatner, resigned. Hilarv J. Kemp, tax collector for the parish of St. Helenia. Minos C. lirotlssard, tax collector for the parish of V 0.rrrrillion. Charles F. Lutz, inspector of weights and measures for the paIrish of St. Landry. Louis Butler, just i(.e of the peace,'and Joseph White, constable of the first ward, parish of Ascension. Very respectfully, FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, Go vernor. I also nominate D)'Arcy Simpson for ap pointmnent as utx collector for Caddo parish. Very res;pe'ctfully, FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, Governor. On motion of Mr. Wells the injunction of secrecy was removed from the pardon ol Lewis Jones, granted this day. Mr. Perkins asked and obtained unanimous consent to take up, at this time, Executive message No. 26, received in the Senate this day. Q. P. Worthy, Inspector of weights and measures for the parish of East Feliciano. Walter A. White, district attorney pro tem. for Vermillion parish. Francls W. Miscar, tax collector for the parish of Livingston. Leonard Z. Gowers, district attorney pro tem. for the parish of Livingston. George H. (Grandjean, parish surveyor for the parish of Livingston. Thomas H. Allen, member of the Board of Health of Shreveport, (Caddo parish, vice Walter Hilliard, resigned. James F. Ultz, member of the Board of Health of Shreveport, Caddo parish, vice Joseph Boisseau, resigned. Harold C. Leonard, constab!e of sixth ward of Caddo parish, rice W. it. Arnold, removed from the pariah. J. L. Dsgg, district attorney pro tem. for the parish of Catahoula, vice John S. Boatner, resigned. Hilary J. Kemp, tax collector for the par ish of St. Helena. Minos C. Broussard, tax collector for the parish of Vermillion. Charles F. Lutz, inspector of weights and measures for the parish of St. Landry. Louis Butler, justice of the peace, and Joseph White, constable of the first ward, parish of Ascension. On motion the Senate did advise and con sent to each of the foregoing nominations and appointments by the following vote: For Confirmation--Messrs. Braaux, Ben ners, Bowden, Bryant, Cage, Ducros, Ellis, Fonterot, Garland, Harding. Harper, Her ron, Kelly, Kenner, Merkel, Mitchell, Nor wet d, Prkl ns, Richardson, dandiford, Steven, Wailes, Wells, W heler, Z icharle-25. Agalinst uomnrmnardon-ionf. Absent-Messrs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssaye, Gla, Lantury, Scanland, Stamps Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williams-- 11. On motion, the nomination and appointment of D'Arcy Simpson as tax collector for the parish of Caddo was advised and consented to by the following vote: For C',ntflrat ion-Messrs. Breaux, Ben. ners, Bowden, Bryant, Cage, Ducros, Ellis, Fontenot. Garland, Harding, Herron, Kelly, Kenner, Merkel, Mitchell, Norwoxd, Perkins, Richardson, Sandiford, Steven, Wailes, Wells, Wheeler, Z tcharie--24. Against Confiruatioun-M r. Harper-1. Absent--M 'srs. Cahen, DeBouchel, Dela houssaye, Gla, Landry, Scauland, Stamps, Stubbs, Sutton, Texada, Williams--11. On motion the injunction of secr('Y was raised from each and all of the fore.going nominations and appointments advised an. consented to by the Senate this day, and the Secretary directed to notify the Governor. On motion the executive session was rai:" and the doors ordered to be opened. JOHN CLE(xG, Sec(retary if the SenaW . 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