The sun., 1870-05-25

TAMMANy,s BITTER Pill,

No Counting Out aaer this Bill Passcs-A
Chance for Appeal to Courts that are Not
Owned by Local Rinss-A Threat Of For
chile Resistance.
wAsHrseror. May A.-1n the Senate Mr..
STEWART presented the report OF the Conference
Committee dilerences between the two Houses
on the Fifteenth Amendment bill 10 enforce the
rgh, OF citizens 70 vote Ia the several States. He
explained tha, the thirteenth section had been
amended to authorize the President 70 employ such
part Of the land or naval forces militia % moy be
necessary to aid in the execution OF Judicial process
Section 30 providing penalties for Unlawful regis
trstions al elections OF Congrcssmen, had been
amended BY adding provision that every reKistra-
ton at which Representative or Delegate In Con-
sress may be elected, shall be deemed registration
within the meaning Of the act. This was to meet 4
suggestion that tie penalties OF the section
ssanst fraudulent voting, repeating &C., related
only to elections Of members OF Congress, whereas
reneral tickets for State ocers were voted In
States aud voters were registered not simply for the
purpose of voting tor Congfessnen, but for the
erai ticket This proviso was intended to simplify
the evidence by requiring that where nan iraudu
lently voted the whole ticket the burden
Of proof to show that tile name OF 4 member Of Con
uess was upon the ticket should not rest upon the
Government II he votes n udulently at an election
where votes taken for CONGRESSMAN, IL shall be
presumed that he voted frauduently for such per-
son.
n
purpose. 1t authorized candidate to 70 into q
United States court and give effect to the votes OF
persons Offering TO vote al the election but denied
that right b OF race color or previous con-
dion OF scrvtudc. For instance, " in any South
ern state candidate for Sheriff received one thou
sand white votes, aud there were ifleen hundred
colored voters ready to vote for him. but excluded
he may into court and have those fifteen hundred
counted for him. The Conference Committee had
merely iredrawn tile section In more guarded Ian
guage so as to ext rcss this purpose more clearly.
MIR. srocKTooS Dem, n, J) mcyed to lay the re.
port on the table and have II printed. As member
| OF the Conference Committee, he said three new
sections had been introduced which lad never been
| before the Senate Il wonid be rememberedb by the
Senate taut though the bin wns originally measure
to enforce only the Fiteenth Amendment II became
| general bin for carrying out the Fourteenth
Amenment also, and making important equations
respecting the chinese imnlgrs.ion. y had been
some " hat improved IN the Conferences Committee.
But in view Of the new natter presented he hoped a
Mr. STEWART (Rep. Scvl desired the bin should
become law to-day. so as TO apply to the election
| in Virginia on the day aler tomorrow.
| Mr.. A. q. Thurman Dem, Ohio thouEht the
| reason stated by Mr.. stewart the very reason
why the bill shou'd not ,i once become a law, pc
cause the election officers throughout Virginia could
not not possibly know on the day OF election what
the law was-tine and imprisonment in one case
| disqualification for Once TO be Imposed upou
those elective officers for violation OF the law. and
yet not could hive The text OF the Law before him
Tor his ruidanes. In Imperial France officers OF the
law we're notined IN advance OF provisions OF law
about going INTO efocA-
Mr.. sAwrER rep, s. C) thought the same OBJ
bill on any day. inasmuch as municipal elections
were constantly occurring. ~ all events the people
of Virginia knew the things forbidden the bill
| were wrong In themselves.
Mr., WILLIAMS (tep.. Oregou) desired the prompt
passage o. the bi Ia order that the people of Oregon
might have sufficient notice OF its requirements be
| fore the 5 ate election on june I. Ills own o0je e
| tio1s had been removed by the Conference Com
| mittee.
| Mr.. STOCKTON laid that much new matter had
been introduced In tie bil by the Conference re
port, among which was tie provision that where q
man voted he was to be presumed as volta. for a
Congress nau II votes for tiat otlce were taken,
The Committee had overlooked the fact that vote =
| often scratched taer tickets. Besides how could
this presumption be rebut,ed II tile voter did moi
show his ticke- to any bodYi
| Durin. the discussion which followed, Mr.. VIII
LiAMs remarked that the Democratic County Con
Nsntions In Oregon hal soemnly resolved TO resis
by force the exercise OF the elective franchise BY
coorcd men. lie desired tue bill to be passed Il
Test their resolutions.
| After remarks By Mcssrs. CAssRRLY and HOWARD
II was agi eed that should be- taken on the re
port to morrow afternoon.