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are enn, CONGRESS. The Civil Rights Bill) Passed by the House. YEAS, 162; NAYS, 100. Defeat of the Prohibition of Dis- | tinetive Schools. The Debate Closed in Bitter- | ness of Feeling. | BUTLER RETALIATES UPON BROWN | A Shameful! Picture of Southern Society Before the War. Infamous Association of Mas- | ters and Slaves. DARK STATUTORY EVIDENCE. The Death of Buckingham Announced in| the Senate. SENATE. WasHrveton, Feb. 5, 1875. The ciaplain im his opening prayer alluded to the death of Senator Buckingnam, of Connecticut, saying :— We come before Thee, O Lord, admonished by the tidings of the mornmg that im the t of | life we are in death. Another member Ot this body | bas beem calied trom the scene of bis thiy labors. Bless and uphold the members of his fam- uy and surviving iriends, Immediately alter the reading of the journal Mr. | FEary, (rep.) 0! Conn., said:— Mr. PRESIDENT—I rise to ube performance of | ‘what is to me the sadcest duty of my pabliic life. Lannounce to the Senate the death of my iat cokeague on this floor, whicn occurred this mort log io Norwich, Conn., at twenty minutes past twelve o’ciock. Just as night was turning into | morning Governor Buckingham died. [ hope. on aporher occasiom to be abie to say something be- fitting his memory. At present I offer tnis resolu- Resolved, That a committe to consist of five Senators ve appointed by the Chair to attend the funeral obse- | ies of William A. Buckingham, at Norwich, Conn. ‘The resolution was seconded by Mr. ANTHONY, (rep.) of K. L., and unanimousty agreed to. Mz. FERRY aiso offered a resolution that, further mark of respect to the deceased, the Sen- me do now "1. ‘The Chair appomied as the committee to attend the tuneral:—Messrs. Ferry, rep.) of Conm. ; Sher- man, (rep.) of Onio; Stevenson, (dem.) of | Fenton, (liD.) of N. Y., and Wasbburo, (rep.) of | | Mr. FERRY said the Senate was aware that in his | own infirm condition of health it would hardly be ssibie for him to go to the home of his late col- ue and return here without great risk to him- sell. So iar as he was concerned he would not de- cline to go om account of bis physical indisposi- | tion, but there were others who were interested in bis Bealth, apd he must, thereiore, ask tobe ex- | cused. . The Vice President appomtea in his place Mr, Bamitn, (rep.) ot Maine. The Senate then, at twenty minutes past twelve, adjourned (1/1 to-morrow at twelve o’ciock. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 1874 4 | man, in view of t! were found im this House voting as one man | but I was not aware until t the to: @ colored man to ride in a rai Mt ennownced by the gentiema to sheltered tn an imp, to attend @ common school, to be admitted to @ place of amusement, or even to be carried to the cemetery where dead meu sieep, His frien on the other side had made @ fatal miatak tnig bili ig the face of that deciarati e of the Domination to the Presidency eas | of Mr. Greeley, the leader of the abolition party. In the first fush of victory they Rad been too | of race, color, n hasty and had removed the mask too soon. He Was in tavor of the provisions of the bill unqaah- fiediy and uncompromisingly, It there was any one thing necessary in this country it was free | schools open to all. He was in taver or t vision aud that provision only which gat | lute iree schools, st | On & course of legislation whieh drew a lin t below the common flag. If ine discrimmation of | ‘e is the separate schoots were made there would be | more in it than those gemtiemen themselves have at the end of @ generation a hostility between the | supposed, for it declares in piaim terms that races more bitter thin to-day, and which must | it 1s essential to a just government | mevitably end In bioodshed and & war of rac that the rights of all people shall be guarantecd, | It would bo taking a step directiy back- | It declares m express terms 4 the aemocratic | ward, undoing whi had beeu done. If | pene Trecognizes those riwhts, and it alsu deciares | go forward apy further in 2 its positive terms that it 13 the duty of the gov- tie pame of Heaven let them stand still until | ernment, the national government, in its dealings braver men could take their places, He went on | witu the people to secure equal aud exact justice 10 #ay:—By such & provisivn, pro’ for sey- | to all the people, irrespective of color, race or arate schools, you turn the pointer on the dial | previous condition, I Mud no trouble in coming to & squarely backward a half or three-quarters of a | concluston either on tms biilor any oiner. 1 wilt century. This hostility, this contest, 1s pot on the | vote fur that which | think ts right, and wili leave ground that the man is Diack, tt 1s Bet on the | the resuli, not to my management, but to God wuo Around o} bis race; the real bostility hes tn the | made the right. 1 ask no questions. I never look opposition to the education of the diack man at | behind me to see what tie result of wnat Ido may 4il; the South to-day is struggling by every mcans | be, tf I believe it ts right when Ldott. 1 never 1m its power to regain its lost autho'ity,and it | look over my cap only doso by trampling on the black man. | God Aimighty cannot afford to do wrong, Give mim equal riguts tm the schools, at the baliot | aud no man icss than He can aflord box and before the iuw and the power of the | todo wrong, and that which is less than rgnt 18 South is gone. Itcanm succeed only by trampling | 1n itself Wrong. Mr. Speaker, we beard to-day upon him, jrom a@ republican—a re; ublican, do not lorget tt HONORS TO A BLACK KING. (laugater)—that he will vote againsc this meas- It ts not his color that ts objectionable. This | colored peo) | Si8t Om the passage of tnis bill, not unly for | protection of the bi: G3 | Jor the prorecti country. 1 will be’ needed jor those, ere vise, (Luugnter.) Now, I want a speci. attention to thts democratic ;latiorm. Tb: taey coud not @boulder ior that purpuse, ure, aod.n what ground? Why, thata bundred bation cannot * that tt oojects to tne color of a | republican members have been snaken out of their @ recent spectacie in this Cham: | seuts here Deciuse this bill was up ut the last scs- ber. But recentiy the golden gates of the West | sion of Congress. Ah! How did he (Mr. Pneips) swung Wide open and received a biack King. | vote’om the vil last session and how was he Municipal autnorities bastened to greet him suaken? (Laughter.) He voted against that on hts journey across this continent and | bill. The gentieman who talks avout people being to tender to him hospitaltties. State author. ities arose to do him homage as he passed. The executive head of the udmitted him in the royal chamber, and there the | (laughier)—wmie his iriend and neighbor price, tce wealth and the beauty o/ this capital in the adjoining district (mr, Dobbins), city assembled to dv him honor. Grave senators wane voted for the bill at last sexsion, lett their seats and members of this House stood | was elected by 1,000 majority. (Laughter.) Who with bim in solemn reverence and received him, | have been shaken out of their seats? ‘iid men while you, Mr. Speaker, descended irom your high | have been siaken out of their seats. Men who place to Welcome tim on bebali of @ tree peoo! were afraid to stand here and to do right have to weicome His Biack Majesty. (Lamghter.) But, | been shaken out oi their seats, Butthe men who sir, it will be said that be was a king. ‘Truc, he | endorse the broad principles of tis ofl! and of the was, but there is not a black citizen, nay, not a | demueratic piatiorm, which Ihave had read, and lazgaront, if the gentieman irom New York wil | Who stand by it, will not ve shaken out of their have it so, clothed with citizensmp who dees not | seats, and if they do they Will have a good piace wear a crown of royalty which mages him the | to go ‘0, and @ quiet conscience to sustain them, peer of any sovereign upon earth. I bad noped | (Loud laughier aud applause.) that tis persecution aguinat tue lack race was Mr. BULLER, (rep.) 01 Mass., said he would allow atanend. Isit pot epough, let me ask the other | the deniocratic platiorm to be voced on aa @ pre~ fide of the House, that you nave held him ia | amble to tue bili— (laughter and appiause)—ana movers rom generation to generauon ? Is tt not | he would then cat the previous question. enough that you overtook him in wis fight for Iree- | wi Cox, (dem.) of N. Y.—One word before that e. dom with “bloodnounds and dragged = tim do! back to thralaom? Is it not enough Mr. BUTLER—I cannot yield. You know I haye that you dragzied in blood the sarments of our | only a litcie time to stay here, while you have a virgip territory 1 the innuman effort to drag ber | great deal of time. (Loud laughter.) to the altar of slavery, Wne:e the upnoly prostitu- Mr. Cox—I want to say ope word in rv to the ton might be consummated? is it not enough | gentleman irom Indiana. (Loud calis of “Regular that you have drenched the Repabiic in bivod to | order!’’ and great confusion.) perpetuate this taraidom? 1s it not enough that ‘THE SPEAKER—I[ genticmen Will take their seats you aave resisted every amendment to tne consti- | it will greatly conduce to regular order. tution? Js it not enouxn that in the Jast oiteen Mr. Cox (persistently)—l merely want to call years, in the subitme effort for human rights and | attenttion—— (Renewed calls of “Reguiar order! jusuce, you never have struck @ blow or given a fs oye order!’?) Vote in benal! of the equality of men? And now . COX (uot cobsenling to be put down)—I let me say to the repnolicans on tnis side of the | wish to say that the preamble to the bull states House, Will you hesitate now ¢ The issue ts with | that exact and equal justice shall be dune. you, the responsibility is witn you. For mys If, {| calis of “reguiar order.’’) Will not hesitate. Shail this grand party, which | and equal justice were to doue the geutieman did Dot hesttate to uulurl the banner of equality | irom Indiuaa (Mr. Shanks) should be hung, like and to achieve the victory cf 1860, hesitate nuw? | Adsalom, by the hair. (Luugnter.) Shall you, wno stood on the borders of our terri- Mr. GAkFIELD, 0! Obio, addressed the House in tory ‘and beat back the propagandists of siav- | He said that it hau veen ery, hesitate now? Snali you, who with | eaming swords struck the shackles irom the support of the bill. abstraction rather than @ matter Of practical levrs- limbs of four millions of people, hesitate now? | latiog. On that same ground the whole aboiltion Snail you, who made them citizens and treemen, | movement had been upposed irom the beginuing. hesitate now? For myself, | uever will be guilty | The men who had begun the anti-slavery struggle of such shameless treachery. By their unswerv- | forty years ago had been denounced as dreamers ing loyalty in tne hour oi treason, by their patent | and abstractionists, who were looking away down endurance in camp and on the march; by their | to the bottom of society mud attempting to see fidelity, which knew no treachery; by toeir herv- | something gvod, sometuing worthy, in the charac- ism in battle, which made them insensibie to dan- | ter of a biack slave. ger: by their devotion to the Kepubiic in the hour | sentimental wora was begun bad been assatica oy Of its supreme peril, ana in the name of (ne con- | preciscly the same arguments by which this bil sutution under which they stand secure, 1 de- | was assailed tu-aay. I had hoped, years ago, suld mand tor them equal civil rights and equal pro- | he, that we had at last achieved a position on this tection wherever the shadow of our banuer flies, great question when we could remit the black There was loud applause in the galleries and on | man to his own tate under the equal and exact the floor as Mr. Burrows took hia seat, and many | laws o: the Uuited States. 1 never asked for niut Tepublican members crowded around and con | anything veyond tuat—that he should be placed gtavuisted him reartily. where God’s sunlight and His all-encasing air ANOTHER KEFUBLICAN PROTEST. place the wicked and good alike—under tne equal Mr. PHELPS, (rep.) of N. J, Made @ stropg and | light of His iaws, apa with the equal right impassioned speech againet the bill in the miast of intense excitement. 8; ing of Cnaries Sum- ner as the author of the Uivil Rights bil, he said that bistory would record that Sumner died asa good man shouid die—iree ifom animosity. But equai world, ne should work out for binscif what- ever jortuve bis owa merits might bring. Bui we are brought to-day to coniront @ situation m had it been otherwise—bad Cnaries Sumoer died | which he 1s not entitied to that equal right, to a fall of animosity and with his % ueartimbued | situationio which a great polttical party 1s now, The House me* at ten o’ciock A. M. and (con- | of revenge, be woud not hi tinuing the session of yesterday) resumed the consideration of the Civil Rights pill, Bejore the hour of opening the north gallery, assigned to gentlemen, was packed with colored men, and the other three galleries were gradually being filled | up. Prior to the reopening of tne discussion the lollowing proceedings took place — Mr. RanpaLt, (dem.) of Pa., offered a.resolation directing the Committee on Appropriations to consider the propriety of purchasing Mise Ransom’s painting of “General George H. Thomas on the Battie Field of Chickamauga.” Adopted. Mr. BUTLER, (tep.) 01 Mass., introduced @ bill to Smend the act removing the restrictions on the rignt of Representatives elect to receive their pay during the recess of Congre:s. Relerred. Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Obio, irom the Commit. tee on Appropriations, reported a joint resolution adding oO to the Contingent Fund of the House. Passed. Mr. RAINEY, (rep.) of S. C., offered a resolution for the appointment of a commissioner jor the for Qsheries of Alaska. Keferred to tae Committee on Commerce. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, The discussion Of ine Vivil Rights bill was then Tesumed, Mr. SouTmaRD, (dem.) of Ohio, argued against the consticutiouallty oi the measure. Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn., advocated his amendment to reerence to schoois, leaving tnat subject to the States, He arzued toat bis propo- er as Satan’s with unquencnable will and the spirit | for @ time at least, to take charge of his destiny, Jeit tunis legacy to | and we are called upon to inquire into what hands the party which he created, and lett a iegacy so | he will fall wie. that party takes up vis ate. in ore full of the seeds of disiniegration and death. And | der that the House may sec how the lines are drawn | yet. im order to pass this vill, the procedure uoder }, when I heard 0 irom Aississippl (ir, Lamar), thatthe white people of Missivsipp! did not bave as taira chance im that State as the ple have. Mr, ani, (dem.) of Miss.—The gentleman is Mr. SuaNks—Walt. [think lam not mistaken. the democratic platiorm leclares ior equality before the law, irrespective avity, reiigiom or politics, I = but irtends, who seem to have no iriends any- } Shaken irom their seats was lected to this von- | | gress by nearly 4,000 majority and he was elected nation | to the next Congiess by less than no votes at all— | (Loud | Athimk that if exact | | + bioition of soctal equality, is th over ali the States? Ifis isa good law, wi should 1s mot be eniorced by on yropriate penalties to restrain bad men from violating it? And that is all this bill does, What are the Objections to this bill? ‘The frst objection Stated on the other side ts that it establishes soctal equality. By no means. { undertook to show before how social equaiity was not touched by it, lt allows and women to come only en together in public, in the th coach, in the public house. I a: that the only equality which tn 1m the South was social equality. blacks ever had highest ex. communication between the sexes, and I nave here a law on the statute books of Mississippi which will give ao idea of the extent to which social equality had reached iu that State before the war. Butler sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read @ statute of Mississippi, passed tu June, 1870, legitimatizing the children of James Ander- sn, Of Holmes county, Mississippi, by six differ- ent mothers, the reading of whicn caused Mr. NrB.ack to ask Mr. Butier whetncr he had not | done well to keep ladies out. Mr, Butler aiso sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read what he calied, “A cry trom a Soutnern mother,” being a letter written to biumself by a colored woman, o! Rich- moad, Va., complaining of the insults and out- Tages to which colored girls were subjected at the haugs of White men without apy redress in tue courts, Mr. SMITH, (rep.) of Va, pronvunoed the state- ment utierly fulse, and, at a subsequent stage of the proceedings, tried to make a question of priv- Meége, waich the Speaker, bowever, refused to recognize, Mr. BUTLER—Of course, every statement ts false when the cry oi the colored woman comes up. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Puelps) teiis us that it is no use fo pass this bill because of the Prejudices at the South, Whou | beard tat ian guage | remembered his rose-colored report upoa the good teciog eat io Lousiana, and 1 was astonisied to Mnd that if there | Was such a strong prejudice it Dad not crept into | that rosewator report. (Laugnter.) ‘This blil does not touch the worst, the moat terrible, the most awiul question o! social equality that grew | up under the slavery system when men traded in | yee the results of their last. The next objection ts i that this Dili Was Lore Of malignity, I bave agood j authority on that point (holding up & book con- taroing the eaiogtes on Churles Sumner). It is generally supposed and believed that tute bill was owtered by Mr. Cuarles Sumaer, of Massachase:ts; and now | will quote what the gentleman trom Missisaippt (Mr. Lamar) said of that Senator. (Readiug.) VENGEANCE ON BROWN OF KENTOOKY. Mr. Butler, going on to trace the growth of the abolition movement, pronounced a eulogiuin on old Joon Brown, and said he was & brave man, who had never done a cowardly act, never struck ata man bend his back and never told a lie; ana then ne went on to contrast him with an- otuer John Grown, the younger of that name (re- jerring to Mr. Brown, of Keutucky), and be sent | to the Clerk’s desk to be read a communication to the Louisviile Courier im 1861, in which he ade | Mis Naving declared ata public Mecting tbat not | oue man nor one aollar would Kentucky turnisa | to Lincoin to aid him in tis unboly war | against the South, and that if the Northern army | shouid attempt to cross the borders o: Kentucky, it would be resisted to the death, and that i one | Man Were found im the Commonwealth to volun- teer to join it, he ought to de and would be shot | down before leaving the State. sefure the Clerk | had completed the reading of the letter a poiny of | order Wus raised oy Mr. LALE, (rep.) 01 N. Y., who | lusisted that if it reflected on a member ol the House, It should not ve read. Mr. BUTLER, On tne otner hand, insisted that it | was an official ;eport made by the Election Coum- mittee to the House of Representatives, ‘The SPRAKER represented the diteulty of decid- ing on the points in debate, but heid that ii the geuticmun irow Mussachusetts asserted that it ‘Was pertinent to the suoject belure the House, it | could not be exciuded, even if it did reflect upon | a member, because 1. Wus contained in ap vulcial | report, opposed on the ground of being @ sentimental | Every step since that fret | to all the peneticevce of nature; und that, | being admitied to tnat equal sky and to that | I ask the Clerk 'o read a iew passages wnicn | | Which ior flity years tne House transacted its | I have marked in the report made by tne minority | | business had oeen altered. ‘ne rule under which | of the ku Ktux commitiee—a report not written | | tae minority Mad enjoyed peace and security had in passion, not Victaceu in tbe heat of @ political been altered. order to pass this the campaign, but the deliverate utterance ol,leaders | Opinion of the people of the United States was 1 tne cemocratic party, declaring their faith and | detied. If there wus any one issue that weat to their piilosophy concerning tne future of the | she country at the last election it was tnis:— | black mau on this continent, and sigued by their | “We -wil iree you irom tne civil rigats;” and | own names, | nearly ali the repuolicans said, “We will give you | ‘the Clere proceeded to read some extracts trom | Civil rignts.”” On this issue both parties Had goue | the report 10 question, signed by Senators Blair to judzment, and the people veciared their judg- | and Bayard. and Representatives Vox, Beck, Van Men: 1p thunder ‘ones which soook @ hundred re- , Truinp, Waadell, Rovipson and Hanks. publican memvers out of their seats. Ji tbe House | Mr. BECK, (dem.) of Ky., explamed that the re- were Dow to pass the Sepate bill it would pass an | port made by the sub-committee aid not curtain unmitigated e+ii, and 11 it passed the bill reported | the language read or anything like it, bat that Mr. | rom tue Juaiciary Committee it would mitigated evil; but it was an evil and noth! south Carol aacecvil. The effect oJ the school clause would Le | did not bind t! 10 close the common schools at the South. There | committee. ‘Was Dut one spot there on which the dove of peace j Mr, G. 1LD—I am very glad to hear what the might rest. That wes tne school system. it was | gentit trom Kentucl tes, but it does not yousg nd tender, Lut Jul of promise, full of hope. | change the fact by one ba: i & discord jall on tbat and Promise would be destroyed and the door | years. A report, drawn by aman wno was hon- of every public scnool would be closed. | oredin the democratic party and whose senu- After oue more autumn there would not be a | ments have never been repudiated to my kuowl- State in the sSoutn woere dollar would be | edge, containing a plain declaration that when- voted ior mixed schools. This is what would be | ever the republican party goes down and the accomplished by the bill, And for what? To give | democratic party gets into power 1t will be the colored people @ sentimental advantage; to | THE DEATH KNELL i. that the colored man when he dics may | of the power of the uegro as a political force on buried im Hollywood ; that while he liveshe may | this continent, and he must go down not only eat at the St. Nicbolas; taat he may occupy a box | politically but bis future willbe asad and gloomy at the National Theatre. And in order to obtain | one fora humanitarian to look at, There 1s a entimental auvantages, which the black | declaration so iar as I know uacontradicted. The other minority members of the #itlon wag in the interest of the colored children as weil as Oo! tue white caildren. Jn reply to Mr. Chittenaen’s remark of yesterday, he declared | that there was nota church of public sch piace of amasewent in Connecticut that not open to ail ¢lusses, colors and nationalities, with- | out distinction, and their rights shouid be Tecog- nized and protected everywhere in this land. | Mr. CHITTENDEN, (ind.) of N. Y.. said that he felt shocked in reading im the Kecord report of hia | remarks yesterday that be was represented as | saying ttat in New York and New Engiana ai | sorts of white people were not admitted into the | Gharches. 11 in the veat of unpremeditated speech | ms to legis! be said apytbing of the kind he now withdrew tt, because suc a taought Was coptrarv to every feeling of nis heart and every practice of his lile. | Mr. Moxnoz, (rep.) of Oluo, advocated Mr. Kel- | logg’s amendment to strike out of the House piil the provision reluting to schools. He thought that m the oli woula be more acceptable to the Hou-e and | Cease legisiating against the south. the country in the form proposed by the gentie- | man irom Conuccucut. Botn the colored and white people wuuid be better pleased with bil af | everything about schools were taken out of it, and he ould i better | bimseli so. Tue repre sive met of the colored | Tace said they would rather have thetr people taxe their chances under the constitution protected by the courts than rely on this attempt to conler on | 20d upposed tue these Mab would never use, the common schools would gentieman (Mr. Beck) does not say now that he be destroyed. While some things might be accom. | repudiates thi aprerl Just read, plished by legislation tu were other things that | He oni: r ite never could be accompil ag might be Mr. Cox—it was repuuiated ast session. taken into tne halls o! Soutnern Legislatures and Mr. GARFIELD—By whom was it repudiated? Does the gentieman now repudiate 1t? Mr. Cox—I did then, for 1 never signed it. Mr. GARFIELD—Do you repudiate its doctrine f Mr. Cox—I do. 1 do not acknowledge it as my sentiments. 1 did not read that report, and never their members ve driven out, but bayonets could hever iorce them to vove money tor tue education of colored chiidgen, and witnout education toe colored people would be, thanks to the Fepubiican party, left to linger in perpetual darkness. but ne had one great geoeral objection | saw it until alter it was printed. which applied to all the provisions of the | Mr. GarFizLD—The theory on which I base my bili, It was that by it ene was attempt | criticism is whis:—That by no action of'tn m0- late against baman prejudice. 10 the preamble which its repre- it it could not do. No enactments would | rejected and refused so allow to Toot out prejudice. Prejudice could only be hat party ever given avy sign educated away. No bayonet would jet it ous To endeavor by law to change buman prejudice | was as idle ag to send cavalry to charge up ® itcando. I have heard enough during the | ountain peak. He appeaied to the House to | twelve years of this fear that we should shake Had not that | down the piliars o! our party by doing just such land sufferea enoagnh? He had voted against the | things. I remember very well when 1t was pro- bill last session sor ull these reasons, and be »1@ | posed it novnday, it could | to help us in the field, that in the Ar here, been planted by the repuoiicaa party in so jar his opinion, ciear as the su) of be shown by,aby constitutional lawyer who was | the Cumberland, where there were 000 training to break the constitution as bull- | Kentuckian and Missouria! troops, many in at the jeash that both in letter and in it 1t Was hosille to the constitution. Mr. WILLIAMS, Wis., aavocated the bill of the officers told as that the troops would throw down their arms and would never fight @ day if ) $he negro was pat in bive and given Go bur it ndment offered by Mr. Kel- | was done, and the men who joved the Union stood logg to strike out the clause relating to public | by and joined the negroes to save it. When wo schools, He asked where the colored line in | we: bolishing #lavery by the thirteenth amend- scuools should be drawo—whether st the full m to te constitution were warned bere bi the waif blood, the quadroon or the octa | tuat we were bringing me: al: roon? Ii two 01 schools were to be estav- | the Kepublic. Vid they lished throughout the South, which of them would | Cassandras of tbat day, who sung ¢ e to be maiotuined aud whico ge to the wall? | rain over our head: we passe! cie thirteenth ie warned tne House no% to legislate to-aay so w the fourteenth what the next Centennial would see the nal end DIL. of Kansas, also advocated to the striking out of the Was proposed again to ilit the negro op sbip and to give him the ballot it the bill and objec was said school clause as merely ering to the meanest, to be the iast drop in the measure basest and lowest prejudice. | of our rum: bat did that rum come? And now, when it 18 simply provided ia this bill that a citizeo, & man, a memver of this House, & member of the Senate, snail in his own State enjoy those pudlic privileges, those char- | tered privileges granted unser the laws of tne Stute unto all citizens, we are told th: 1 FORM, Mr. CESswA, (rep.) of Pa., said that he had im | tendea to speak in support of the Senate bili, but, | as he had only five minutes leit, he would yiel that time to the gentleman from Indians (Mr. Shanks), in order that he might have the demo- cratic platform of 1872 read. col Mr, SHANKS, {reps of Ind., thereupon sent to | —— princi the Clera’s desk an ea read that, persion oe | Sant, rom, the tie morn Poy ure Barre’ Mi i own race was Jadissotubiy lin! wl has tollowed this anti-slavery minning to the efd, and Go ight that the with the iate of i this morning by M ichigan. Mr. NipLacg (dem.), of ind,, remarked some- biack race on this Contunent—not socially, for wh t that plank im the piatiorm being the none Of us, linked by social ties except hy welt ch comeaine pa dation. Fa our own consent; out poilticaily, in rights under y N Mae Lenk much murs Of | Rade seems the each swarthy tac, colleague (Mr. Nibluck), but 1 think much mot song: the pletion which he Was just udiated. { have Flame-lighted, ru ai. tried to get this platform before the country sev- Ws bonnie thing tha: eaied them the privileges of education in connection With imviaious ciscriminations. He thougot that ‘would please nobody. Mr. MERRIAM, (rep.) of N, Y., remarked Pagiee P would oe more satisiled 10 have freedom ff the theatres and cemeteries than in the sch He said repodiican instituions knew notpiag of the privileges of race or of the barbarism of caste. mike the Veciaracion of Independence @ living reality. The democratic party Was a party o! priv- its banners ever floated the God-detying sentl- ment, “Keep the negro down! im the the champion of equal rights. By its platiorm, its principles and iis past lustory it stood lorever be preserred to have the ot: paseed io a somewhat modified form. White 1s was sight thas the colored je white people, still it suouid be rememoered that je@islution could DOL always control pubile biecks im the schouls “as an intense and an hun- 0, prejudice. To put both races im the not work well im the Soutn or in any part of the country. Mr. BURROWS, (fep.) of Mich., said the struggle over the bi! that the contes: for the eq tended. It proved at aithoug : th Ea’seoe by when the highest judicial tribanat in that part of the vill would irritate ail classes and cording to Mr. Mouroe’s views the colored Mr. Lewis, (fep.) of leon., advocated tne Dill, This Dull Was to carry out tuese principles and to liege, of monopoly, o1 class, of proseription; on comtrary, the repadiican party was the friend, Conmitved to justice and equal rights sor ali. Still Bowe snould have the same scuovil privileges as sentiment or prejudice. ‘Ihe prejudice against me schouls at present would THE CONTEST POR EQUALITY NOT ENDED. Mp rights of ali Am nh citizens be.ore the aw the country could stearic tue World wita cae sol. bmn adjudication tuat o biack man had nO fights — Was bound to respec’ stil five millions of viack pevpie were to be made the objects of & merciless pareoeation and continued insult. The coniest requal igits bad been transierred jrom the which a White man battle field to the less sanguimary, bul not less rious, arena Of American politics. The coantry ad hoped that the great demo uc party vad abandoned ite unholy crusade agaiast (he yace. in i872 the National Democraue Douvention had soremnly declared ns one oF its cardinal privet) les it regugmized the eqnaity di all men belure the and bed thacit was tne duty of ihe governed. 10 \(s Geaiuge Suh the Je to mete VUE Equal Bud EXE! Juotlos to all, Whatever futivity, race, clot, pesuasion, Foti bss tad lites eee Tepresentatives ob that pary time | plese od OF AL; That Tawar chanweleas justice bind with o} . + Sloe as * i vunering Joined ‘e march to tate abreast, (Applause. ) Cral times during this struggle. It was belore the | Coumtry once belore, but was then before the | country in such bad hands that the peopie did not give itcreaence. That is to say, they did not be- heve that the men who presepted it presented it | Im good faith. It 18 peculiar to see now discrimi MH. BUTLER’S CLOSING SPEECH. Rating the public mind is on ali these questions. It Mr. BuTLes, of Massachusetts, then took the is only about @ year since that platiorm was of- | floor to close the devate. Beiore commencing to Jered to the people in bad faitn, and now the | speak Memover proposed that, on account of people are couvinced that their judgment at that the overcrowded condition of the galeries, ladics | tine was periectly right) Whea they suid ) snould be admitted on the floor, but Mr. NIDLACK, | the democratic party, you do not indorse ihe | of indiana, said that ne fe1t bound to ovject. doctrine which you put out, Now we, the repute | Mr. BUTLER then proceeded. ‘The Dil, he said, | leans, do indorse that doctrine, and | have sent is the very essence of constitutional liberty, What | 10 co the cletk’s desk [or another purpose than does it du? Lt simply provides that there snail ve | merely reading }!. I wil ask to-day a vote apon | an equality of law all over th uion. My irend 1, a8 & preamole {to the bill oejore the House, from Mississipp: (M that 1 Missis- (Laughter and applause.) | am in favor of the | sippt the waite an jored Men ave equai privi- | Senare bill now on the tavie. [ am tn javor o! it | leges, to which I say—good jor Missiast( But because 0; the broad principles of justice Which it that law was made by a repubiican Legislature, in contwins, and! am in iuvor of this democratic | which there was a colured majority. Waere 1% platiorm because it contains the same principles | that law in kentucky—*the dark and bioody even in broader terms than the Senate bill, | ground?” Where is it in Tennessee ’ Where is it lave heard many things said 1m regard to the iD @ majority oF the Southera Staves? if tt ts @ | sire Of tae people Of tue country 1a this matte: Good law iu Mississippi, why siouid is not be ex- its budding | report which has stood on your record ior two | that it will not go back and plough up ali that has | to put arms into the bands of the black men | | @ committee of the House, and o a Van Trump, of the minority who had visited | ing bus bad set out his own views, which | | | | | passed this dill & year azo. Because we were a do- red ruin | | all men beiore ig | because the Civil Kights Dill Was not an accom- | | \ | is that the reason why many of us do not come Blount oy . ihfims of Mich., righty jarris of Ga, we gon ef kr” Town, Mebens, Tou PassaGR OF THR BILL. The bill wae then passed. Yeas, 162: nays, 100, as followa:— Ai re Yeas—162, Haasleton of Wis, i abe if Mon ofa", Ress, Barber, BR Hosr, Richmona, riedges, Roborts, B. Hooper, ees i ie . Sawver, Hubbel, Saylor of Ind., urbe Beudder of N. Ju. Soudder of fee sso Phunkee Belg Bhedts, ell sheldon, my Shoemaker, Cessna, ome, Smart, Clark of ¥. J, Giarke of i. Y, feria smith of ie Clayton ug Smith of N. ¥., Sietneale we, ‘Smith of obb ot ‘ach, der, Doburn, fartin, prague. g rr joprary, btark weather, Corwin, eDull of Wis. Byovans of Mass, Crooke, jo Dougal Strawbri Crounse, MoKee. azener, Curtis, ¢ McNulia, lor, Darrail, jerriam, Thomas of N. C., pa lonroe, Thompson, Denna Morey, i Basis Byers Feematae” gannell Rie” Walgron, Field,” Not, Wallace, Fort, Orr, Ward of Th, Foster, Ort, Ward of N.J., Garfola, Packard, Waite oc p Whiteley, Gunckel, Paze Uber, Hagans, Parker of Mo, Willard of Vt, Hale of Me, Parsons, Willard of Mich., oN. ¥, Peiham, a 1 Wie, jarmer, Pendieton, Williams of O68, Barris of Mase, fetlips Wilhame of Ind., Hathorn, | Freres, Wittiamns of Mich, Hawley of Coan. Fintof Va, Wilson ot 1nd” Hayes, Polana, Woodwortb, Naxs—100. Adams, Gtddi: a ‘darener, Glover,” Heng? Arthur, Hob! Atkins, Roptasen ar th. Bennie, ier of Ohio,” Boil, Schumaker, erty, ner, uy Sloan, Bowen, Ermith of Vay Bright, 28 Brown, gtande ord, Buckne: Bre) G Butler of Team, Bone, Caldwett, torm, Uhittens Clark of Mou, Thornourghe”” tants Sanee. io : ime oon ms Wells, box, Whitehead, Ci itten jen, ‘hitehouse, Crossland, hitthorne, fois Bers Wile of Dewitt, Enrker of N. 8, Wore, | M4 Tens Pacis Young o Bidreites, Potter, Heung Sag" TEXT OF THE BILL. The following ts the bill! a8 passed, without tne preambie:— Sectiox 1.—That all persons within the juriadi the United States shall oe cutitied te. the ull and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, tacil- Mr. HALE then said that he trasted the gentle- man irom Muasachusetts would not suame the | Tepublican side of tte House by such an attack | upon & member, when nu response could be made. | ‘Mr. BUTLER, but having heard the remark dis- | tioctly, agked Mr. Hale to repeat 1, which tue | later ' did, strongly emphasizing the word | “suvame.” i Mr, BUTLER—I cannot understand it. Isat here | with my ltps sealed for hours yesterday and beard | every uard Word spokeo against me and there was ho objection up the part Of the vbjecung | member irom New York. | Mr. HALE—ine gentieman 1s im error. I did raise the objection, | Mr. BUTLKN—Yes, Wheo your Own remarks were quoted against sou. | Mr. HALE—Ng, sit. | Mr. KUTLER—I Nave Iived to see Many things, and I expect to live to see many things more, barring | accidents, but 1 never expecred fo live to hear, in | a House of Kepresentatives, that a public report adopted by a former Mouse cou.d not be read over Out OF kind consideration to the Jeelings of sume | man who pus bimseis | IN REBELLION AGAINST THE COUNTRY. After a long discussion on the point of order, and | Qiter the reading of toe letter, Mr. BUTLER re- sumed his remarcs, He said the gentleman trom Kentucky (Mr. Brown) made a speech against the | Civil Kights vill, and 1 pave endeavored to pus belore tie House bis publisned sentiments to snow Low litile heed we saouid pay to any hing he sas on the subject—to show how litile we suouid take | bis advice, bow littic we sliould hear trom mm at ali—uniless he has repented, and I nave nu knowl- edge oi his repentance. Again, I buve been uc- | cused here of being the only muiderer on the floor, 1 produce the solemn report of the man’s own ieiter to show that tuere were men who | counselled murder in the Soutn—not only murder, | Dut assassimation—and toat lustead of my being hits accuser be was ug OWn accuser, and that ti18 Btate of things exisuing Shows how Ccumpletely the negro, if we do not prutect him in his rights, is ab the mercy of tne same men who would snout down the gentiemau aimself (ar. Brown) if he had ever daied to step across the line ol Uuion bayonets during ‘he war. (Appiause and clapping | of hands on tue four and im toe galleries.) | Mr. UXOSSLAND, (dem.) 01 Ky., cailed the atten- | tion of the Speaker to this’ violation of order. | The speaker thereupon directed the Sergeant-at- | Arms on the recurrence of avy such munilesta- | tion to clear the galleries. | Mr. KUTLER—Tne reason why we desire to have | this bill passed 1s tne jact which has been 80 oilea put defore us—that we are avout passing from | (4 er. Weare to surrender the } ower Oo! one | ri g ncn of the government at least inte the hands of | entiemen Who enlertained the seitimenis to- ‘warus Union men and Union soldiers that Inave bad | read; who bave avowed them on the stump, and | who haye never, to my kuowiedge, retracted | them. If 1 was wrong the other day, and went too | Jar in saying that there was a minority of mur- | derers in the South, here 1s my justification. The | House of Representa’ has solemusy said it by adopting that report—not only muraerera, but | assassins—and thereiore I was right in sayiug | thas the minority were so. ir. ELDREDGE, (dem.) ol Wis., Made & point of order on Mr. Butler's last remargs, which were Teduced to writing. } ‘The SPEAKER ruled that there was not'ing in me panne which tramscended the rights of jebate. THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH. Mr. BUTLER, resuming, satd toat he 8, mpathized ‘with the condition of things in tne soutu. When | the Northern army was disbandea there were thousands of men discnarged wao would have become the pesia of society 1! they had not peen | Tapidly absorved and ovtained employment in mechanical, manutacturing, seafaring and other Uisuits. But it was nut so with the men (ise | dec trom a sgt rn army. They were leit | demoralized by war, without work, without employment, largely without educa- | | tion, by which they might divert their | | minds; with do except | to to brood over their wron,8 and think now wrong it Was that the result of the war haa been that the negroes, who nad worked tor them belore the | war, had been taken from them. That state of | natural irritation has leit in the South @ large | number oi demoralized and uuraly men, and most | 1 the White Leaguers are men of that class. I | call upon the people of the svuth, if they want prosperity, tnat they shall themselves check and | control this class ol men. They are impoverish- ing the South and impoverishing the whvie coun- try. When I spoke tue other day about the South | having a large minority of murderers and raiders | 1 spvke of that class of men who form the Ku Kiux Klaus. But we are told owe) = pass this, tl, «we = shall ~=not come back to Congress. My deliverate conviction back to the next Congress is because we had not Dotning party, afraid ot our own snadow; because we were ap ly described by the angel who asked to have written to the Church of Laodecia, ‘being | neither hot nor cold, I spew you out of my mouth. My successor, a very clever ventieman, could no more have veen elected than he could be trans- lated to heaven as was Eljab, if he had not agreed to stand on the doctrine of equal riguts to | the law in every stump speech in my district. Why we Were veaten was lished fact. So now if the republican party wul | nish 118 great work, 11 it wili Dring, by bayonets or | Ovwuerwise, peace, prusperity, quiet, order and | law into the South, aud put down the raiders there, &3 the people of the South ough! todo them- i) then you will fd that we spall come back VOTING ON THE AMENDMENTS. | The House then proceeded to vote on the bill and amendments. ‘The tirst vote was on the Kei- logg amendment to strike out of the House bili all In relerence to schools, and it- Was agreed to by & | large majority, but without the yeas and nays. | ‘ae neXt votre was on Mr. Cessna’s mution to | substitute the Senate bili for the House bul, and it Was | ejected—yeus 113, nays 149, The next vote was on iuserting a8 @ preamble to the bili that portion of the democratic platiorm of 1872 quoted by Mr. Burrows, of Micnigan. Mr. Porter, (dem,) 01 N, Y., asked leave to add as an amendinent to the preamble the iourta sec- ton of the same platiorm, as tollows:— “Local sell-government, with impartial suffrage, | will guard the rights of a)! citizeus More securely | thao any central power.” Ovjection was made, and the amendment was not received, The preamble was then adopted—yeas 219, nays 25, ‘Tue iollowing is the vote in the negative >— | nor mor ities and privileges of inns, public conveyance: or water. (theatres and other place: or’ p ‘@muse- ment, silage onty to the conditions and limitations established by iaw and appitcavie aliko to citizens of every race and color, regaruless of any previous condi- toa or servitude. eagle ae ts SEC. 2—lhat al rson who shall violate the fore- going section by deni if to any citizen, except ior reasons by law ap cable to citizons of cvery race and color and regardiess ot any previous con.tition of servi- §:d9, the full enjoy ment ot aly of the aezommolativns advantagcs, tactlities or privileges in said section enumerated, or by alding or inciting such denial. shall for every such oflenoe torieit aud pay tue sum of $510 to the person aggrivved thereby. to be recovered in an ac- tion of debt with tall costs, aad # iso, tor every such offen’, be deemed guilty of x miacemcanor, upon conviction hercof, shall | be tim less than $0 nor more than $1,000, or shi be imprisuncd not less than thirty ‘¢ than one your, Provided that all persons may elect to sue tor the penalty uloresaid, or to procecd under their rights at common taw and by staw stat- utes, and, having so eleciel to procced 1m one mode or the other, their righ: to proveed in tne other jurisdiction shalt be barred. But this p-oviso shall not apply to | criminal proceedings, either uncer this act or tl ¢rim- inal aw of any state; and provided turther that a judg- ment for the penaity in tavor of the purly acarieve be a bar to either ‘trict and Circuit Courtsof the all have, exclusively of the Courts of il States, coxuis ince all crimes ani offenses against an! ‘violations of t acl, and actions fur the penalty given by the preceding may be prosecuted im the Jerritorial, District or Gireuk Courts of the United States whonever the de- fenuant may found = without re; to other pai and the District attorneys Mar and Depuiy Marshals of tl United "states, too Commissioners apooin' we” Gir. cuit and ‘erritorial Courts of the Uni States, with powers of arresting an sift sont ailing offenders against the laws of the are hereby especially authorized and required to Instl- Ulle procecditige against every person who shall violus tne provisions of this act and cause him to be arrested and imprisoned or bailed, as the case may be, tor trial Detora snoh court of the United states or Torritorial court as by jaw has cognizance cf the offence except in respect of the right of action accruing to the person ag- Gritvod, and such district attorneys sball cause, such ad be prosecuted to their termination as det that nothing contained in tiis 0] to deny oF deve any person whe Y FOAsOn of this act or otherwise. And any District Attorney who shall wiliully tail to institute and prosecute ihe pro- ceedings herein required shall for every sach offence forielt ‘and pay tie sum of 0 the person Spepieves thereby to be »ecovered by an action o: debt with 1ull costs; and shall, on conviction therzot be deemed cuilty of @ msiemeanor, to be fined uot less than $1,0Nor more than $500): but provided turther that 4 judgment for the penalty im favor of the party avgrieved against ony such District Attorney, or a jndg- ment upon any indictment ayainst any such i-istrict Attorney shall Sec. 4.—) hat no citizen, poxsessing all other qualitica- tions which wre or nay be prescribed by law, i be disqualified for service asa grand or sclect juror in any court of the United States, or of any State, on account of race, coor of previous condition of servitude. Ana any officer or other nersun charged with any duty tn the selection or summoning of jurors, who shail exclude or tail to summon any eltizen for the cause aforesaid, shai, on convictioa thereot, be deemed guilty of @ misde- meanor and be fined not more than $5,009. Suc. * ‘That all cases arising under the provisions of this actin the courts of ths United States shall be re- viewable by the supreme Court of the United States without regard to the sum in controv same provisions and regulations as are now provided by Jaw for the review of other causes in said Court, Mr. OEssNa—The battle is over, and the result is before us In the shape of a modified vill. Lask | consent now that the Senate bill be taken from the ‘able—from the Speak: table—and this bill substituted for It, so as to save time. Messra. SPEER, (dem,) and RANDALL, (Cem.) of Pa., vojected, This bill now goes to the Senate asan original House bill, without any relation whatever to the Senate bill already passed.) OTHER NESS, The House then took up, by # vote of 142 to 82, whatls known as the Hennepin C bull, ana | {6 now remains beiore the House until alsposed of. | Mr. HAWLEY, (rep.) of Iit., Who bas it ip charge, Yleided for action on tne Appropriation bills. ‘The SPEAKER announced tho appointment of Messrs. Maynard, Merriam and Durnam as the conierence committee on the bill in regard to the jees of bank exuminers, Mr. Swann, (dem.) of Md., from the Vommittee on Appropriations, reported the Senate amend- ments to the Consular and Diplomatic Approprias tion bill, Ail of which were concurred tn. GARFIELD, Of Onto, from the same commit- tee, reported the Senate amendments to tne wslative, KXecutive and Jadicial Avery ration bill, all of which ‘e acted on—some con- curred in and some non-concurred 1. During Its consideration some angry res- sions were exchanged between Mr. Eldar of Wiscovsin, and Mr. Gariield, of Obio, whi he aker said arose entirely from a misapprehen- B10! Tue House then, at twenty minutes to six P. M., adjourned till to-morrow, “CONCORD FIGHT.” The tollowing is a copy of @ circular issued as an invitation to the people of Massachusetts to co- operate in the celebration of the centennial anni- versary of the “Concord Fight’ :— 1775, —conconD, Lie ag 3 Sin—The town of Concord, Mass., te the centennial anuiversary 6 Fighv” on tie 19th of April. 1875, in a mau Ate to the importance o1 that duy whien “ma How impyssibie und independenes certain. ses Will consist ol an oration b; George Wilain urtis, of New York ana civic proces. sion to the sire of thi ” the wn’ D: jurposes to celeb ° Bone the spot where Davi “fired the shot heard round the world, with toasts and speeches, and a grand ball in th ing, ‘ The President of the United 8} it and his Cabinet; jovernor, Legisiature an ry of Massachu- the Governors of each of the New /ngiand otates, any other disthiguished men are expected to be s the guests of the town, copie oF Acton, Bediord, Beverly, Billerica, Brookline, Cambridge, Chartestown, Chelmsford, Dau- vers, Dedtiain, Framinzham, ington, Lynn, Medford, Needham, Newton, Koxbury, salem, ‘Siow, Sudbury, Watertown and Woburn have been invited’ to partici: pate in the celebration, as their fathers did in the struggle for liber the town ot Coricord hopes that ali those who are con- nected with her by descent of affection will join with her ta this inveresting commemoration. Very truly yours, Geor) mul Hoar, Rich: ward C, Damon, A. BU. vakin, Richard F. Barrett, Brown, ‘ slLat Wood Sumuel W. brow Humphrey H. Puttick, James C. Merv. n, Charies u. Walevit, Wiuitem Buttrick, urge B. How, bidney J. Bartett | Kawin Wheeler, Heury L. shattuck, James D. Wright, Lewis Fiint, | Joseph Derby, Wiliam H,'tHunt, ‘ard W. binerson, ries Thompson, ndrew J. Harlow, Henry J, Waicott, Albert E. Wood, . Putie, Adam: Caldweil, Melitkin, arthur, Chitte, don, enmity i, ross) . Berry. oe ry Scuell, Charles Cominitiee of arrangements omni Conconn, Mass, January, isih arcellus Houghton, ny right of a bar to either prosecation respectively. | y.under the | THE RAPID TRANSIT QUESTION. Capitalists Ready to Buy the Franchise, NEEDS OF THE MERCHANTS It ts in the way of a person writing about rapid tranasit—the obstacles to tt, and the nesdsis will Overcome—to speak, not only of that system oj railways which ougbt to be inaugurated immedi. ately, but also of that whicn must be provided in the future. Of asurety eomething must be done within a few years to increase the facilities of our commerciai shippers for freight traMc and to save to them those enormous sums which they now lose every year. ‘The general public cannot understand how muot our merchants lose by breakage in bulk of thetr Packages on the docks and by theits trom such packages lying exposed in that way. The city loses through the losses of its business men. It uw @ fac: that men, most of them concerned in the cotton trade, nave been forced to leave this city and to go to other cities to carry on thelr business because their lossea irom theits on our docks, where the packages must he ungarded for a long time, leave them bat a small margin for profit. The merobante nad agreed among themselves to bear their losses Patiently for some time longer, because they be lieved that they saw a prospect for relief when THE DOCK DEPARTMENT had completed their work laid out, They though! there Was coming 8 halcyon business Period, when goods would be landed dt rectly from vessels into great storehouses, ana then transported tbroughout the city ona m track rallway ranning slong the river fronts. But their hopes end beliefs have received @severe shock, The Dock Department passed 4 resolution on Wednesday requeating tne Legis lature to empower it to draw in the lines o/ the bulkheads and piers 110 feet nearer to the houses on South street than it was proposed to run those boundaries, The Obief Engineer of the De partment, General Charles K. Graham, inspired thas action by reporting that iM the space mentioned was cut from the proposed Width of South atreet the city would 1@ $760,000 on every mile of artificial river boundary con- stracted. The merchants are very angry st the action of the Dock Commissioners, and declare that if ita new project 18 executea New York will be kept behing all the other commercial cities, “Ak ready,” they say, “the city is dying, Does the Dock Department want to kill th ag one atroke? if we do no have those facilities for business which merchants in other cittes have we cannot compete. Toe twe questions of rapid transit for passengers and of Tapid transportation for freight, from secure Ware. houses and dooks throughout the city, are intimately connected. By providing her with the frst desideratum you will sécure to New York her population; by giving her the second you will not only secure ber present share of bustoess, but insure ite ten- imcrease.” Thus speak the merchants sbout | the action of the Doce Department on Weanes- | day. | After leaving the tar tainted atmospuere of the neighborhood of the docks the writer, following | the sinuous ways O/ the ttreets that lead irom it, arrived at the great money mart o! tho city, | a NEW SIGN. | Bent upon shearing more ideas upon rapi transit, he vistteu the offices of several capitalista | and conversed thoretn, but tne only iniormation cited Was (uot “rapid transit would be a | go.d tying.” ‘Ihe geatiemen were ali ready enough to show why it would be “a good thing,” | Dut none of them bad any accurate idea as to Low | a6 may be brougnt into being. Finally, Dowever, well known capitalist, who is a hearty, jovial, modest map, iS wet, aud he was ask “How iar are we from tne realization oi ra; tran-itt? “Now, that’s a queer question,” * you make an ate of ‘woen shall reach the period at which we shall cojoy a daily wairl | aor New York at the rate of jorty milles an ur | ‘che answer was made in a symparnetic tone, | very pieasing to the reporter, wh ir inier= | viewing nomerous people, had com m with. out @ solitary new item or idea apout the subject | upon which he intended to wri “Yes, sit,’? ree sumed the Cunsoiatory capital:st, who now seemed to have be overcome by that oucoeties which he was about to condemn, Yes, sir, tuere {gs tov much talk about rapid transit, and tnere is too little real efurt mu.je tu bring 16 into exiscence. Now, I don't want to Say auything against Mr. Drake person ally. Ltouk he 1s, heart and soul, in the plao which he has conceived. 1 know that he 13 4 good, Bieady worker at anything winch He | Wishes to effzct, Yet this time, I think, he has struck upoo a project whica u | too theoretical; to accomplish waich too much 1a ; demanded of men who gave money. Mr. Drake assumes that good sease resides in the minds of | men who are poss2ssed of means, and that, taere- | fore, those men will discern that if tuev give @ certain sum to enforce bis project they wil gain immensely irom rapid trausit in the future. He is wrong in tut and 80, 1 believe, nis rospect will not have any result but Jatlure. Buti don’t want ite Jauure CO Le Conspicuous. | want sone other plano | to spring up immediaie,y which wiil attract all | Classes of peopie to ity a'd, and which by its pro- | portions will bide Mr. Druke’s aud allow it to aie unobserved. Mr. Drake, 1 am sure, wou'd not | Care ior the demise of his project if rapid transit could be _ procured through some other means, He has already etfected a guod work. He has fevived the subject of | rapid transit; has estaolished a com etiton amon | severai partios that must cuiminate in vane them building argilway. I hope that the pariy into whose nanos this Work 14 given will nut be | tne city goveroment, The road can be built bya | Plivate cul poration, and, if@ geueral railway law | 18 passed by the Levisiature, auchorizing tha city authorities to sell the franchise ior an RLEVATED RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAY, | there will be a general scramble for that privilege, I know of several associations that are wailing ¥ ly for a chance tv bid for such @ trancnise, hose associations include tae richest men of tala na one o! them, the latest organized, 1s com- posed at present of six men wno represent more than $30,000, Perhaps you can see now why tne grea: capitalists do not come to the support ol dir. Drake and his fellow workers.’’ ‘THE C:TIZENS’ MOVEMENT.” All the gentiemen who have identified them se! With the pioject inaugurated by Mr. J. a Drake are stil conident that it will end in suc ‘There were many callers at the office Drake yesterday, anu all them eaetet ne with the G also received a number of letters expressing sym- pathy with bis pian. Ho visited several capital ute himself tor the purpose of enlisting them io moneyed men and ® number of “subscription sists” to ap licants, He saw f A Edson, he President of tne Produce Bxcnange, who spoke encouragingly of the project he represen‘ and said that the subject of providi pid tran- sit would probably be discussed at the next meet ing of the Exchange. Mr. Edson assured Mr. josevelt that ne Would endeavor to nave the XChange take some useful part in forwarding the | scheme to bring rapid transit into life. WHAT WILL OUCUR TO DAY. The Assembly and the Aidermanic committees will both meet in the Vity Hail to-day. They will hear some arguments, but they will pever be abie to hear one-tenth of tne peuple who will try to address them. It is likely some new projects will be brought into the ligtt by the speccnes that are made, aud ba considerable argument will be used tu set the Assembly Committee agains: au thorizing the city government to build a rapid transit railway and in iavor of a general lew, un- der which any responsible corporation may have the opportunity to construct one, DEATH FROM LAUDANUM. Mr. Henry Ford, of Boston, who has been on visit to Brookiyn for several days past, and stop, Ping at the residence of Mr. W. J. Cheney, of No 93 North Oxtord stroet, died there on Toursday evening irom the effects of an overdose of lau danum. The deceased had attended at the Beecner trial during the day, and, returning in the afternoon, anout three o'clock, complained of 1ng an earache, He bad @ small Lotte ot a ‘K liquid, and, asking Mra, Uneney for @ piece ot cotton, saturated it with that opate, which proved to ve laudanum, About seve . o'clock air, Cheuey went to Ford’s room to cal! him, as nis wie had arrived irom Buston. He tound Mr, Ford lying on the bed vreathine heavily and in sensidie, Medical assistance was procured, and it was /ound that be was suffering (rom the edecte oi landanum, Bilorts to restore him failed, aad fe died at eleven o’viock, He was oi nervoal sng excitable vemperament, and had been n against the use Of oplates as dangerous, Me was @ bephew of Mr. J. UB. Ford, of the Dook publiening drm of Ford & Co, of New Yorw. scheme.” tbe secretary of the committ amber ol. Vommerce, siso made visits to the ofticer ot many distri zuted