[72] House Deb., 1869, 139; 1870, 191, 231. Sen. Deb., 1870, 705. [73] Sen. Deb., 1870, 639-40. House Deb., 1871, 87, where the gentleman from Orleans declared that he would not come to order, and did not heed the sergeant. [74] House Deb., 1869, 294. [75] _Ibid._, 1871, 90. [76] Carr had come from Maryland in 1865, was now twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, shrewd and wily in the extreme. House Misc. Docs., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 217. [77] _Crescent_, Jan. 26, 1869. [78] House Deb., 1871, 135-6. [79] _Ibid._, 1869, 111-12. The following statement of the speaker establishes the fact for 1871 clearly: “I will not allow while I am speaker of the House, to have spirituous liquors brought into the House. I must maintain the dignity of this House, if the House will not maintain its own dignity. I do not desire such a thing shall be done again.” _Ibid._, 1871, 114. [80] _Ibid._, 1869, 524. [81] Senate Deb., 1870, 222-3. [82] See speech on the constabulary bill, _Ibid._, 223-4. [83] Sen. Deb., 1870, 222-3. [84] House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 534. Note also the opinion of Nordhoff, prejudiced for negro rights. He was “unpleasantly startled,” not because they were black, but because they were so transparently ignorant and unfit, 49. [85] House Deb., 1870, 236. [86] _Ibid._, 1870, 345. [87] _Ibid._, 326. [88] House Deb., 1869, 331. [89] _Ibid._, 1871, 7-8. [90] _Ibid._, 200. [91] _Ibid._, 1869, 204. [92] _Ibid._, 1870, 78. Mr. McMillan characterized this spirit as follows: “That the House will pass it, I am convinced, for there is always something peculiar in the air which tells me when a bill of this character is sure of being put through, and I feel the breath of that air distinctly at this moment,” 268. [93] House Deb., 1869, 330. [94] _Ibid._, 264. [95] “Such influence we all know has been exerted for personal aggrandizement and to such an extent that in point of fact the General Assembly was actually turned into a machine for the advancement of the individual interests of its leaders.” _Bee_, Jan. 24, 1869. See also _Commercial Bulletin_, Feb. 6, 22. [96] Charges of bribery were brought in connection with the penitentiary bill, the slaughter house bill, and Chattanooga Railroad bill. The boldest charge came out on the paving bill: “I know who are lobbying this bill, and know the men they are using, and state upon the floor of this committee that this is simply for the benefit of that very man, and for the benefit of the lobbyists.” _Ibid._, 357-8. [97] House Deb., 1869, 72. [98] House Jour., 1870, 21. [99] House Deb., 1870, 10. [100] House Jour., 1870, 46. [101] Committees were appointed to investigate if bribery had been used in the appointment of officers of the Insane Asylum, the sale of levee bonds, the school-money, the defalcation of the Land Registrar, the councilmen of Jefferson City, the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, and Board of Public Works.