The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-19
! Senator BIsine's Great Speech in
Tho Senate Yesterday on His
Resolution.
Re Deals His Blows Right and Left
Without Fear or Favor.
Being Replied to by Senator Thur
man who Makes Accusations
but no Argument.
SENATE.
SENATE.

al correct An error in the enrolment Of
en- suDdry civil appropriation bill in regard
y, Hot Spring., A reconsideration was AK
10 for present consideration, bat il ",
We over.
Mr.. BECK introduced 3 bill for the
N peal Of the sections of the revised slstur
which prohibit the appointment 10 the arm
., OF any pe-son who has served under ii
"A confederate government. Laid on the tai
= for the present
Mr.. FERRY introduced a bill 10 FIX {,
!, salary Of persons in the railway mail Sc
~ vice. Referred
:. Mr.. MERRINON submitted rasoIu,is
calling upon the Secretary CT War for
statement "a 10 the arms and equipme0
: issued Tor use by officer- Of the treasury Al
Interior departments and the department ,
. justice, where such arms are now sr
ghetb-- any Il them had been sold. Agree
10.
> On motion Of Mr.. HAMLIN the Senat
proceeded 10 Consider The motion @
resolution submitted by Mr.. Blaine in regsr,
8 10 lnquiring a. 10 whether al the recen
E elections the constitutional rights O
: American citizens were violated, &c. Tn
resolution was finally laid aside and III,
consideration resumed - the bill % amend
the pstent Laws.
debate followed psrlicip sil,d in hr Nessr.
Thurmsn. Lsmar, EImuUd-, snd Blaine
The debate between Lsmar, Blsine and
Etmun3s WIS characterized by a good
many personsl allu-ions
On motion OF Mr.: HAMLIN the Senate
proceeded 10 the consideration Of Mr..
biainee resolution to inquire a. to whether
At the recent elections the constitutional
| rights of citizens we're violated. g..
Ir. BLAINE thea spoke ia support 81
| his resolntion. 80 followr:
Mr.. PnTsTDrsT: The pending resolu-
ton wss otfer0i by me With : tao fold pur-
pUse in vis'E:
First, 10 Place on record, in = definite
and authentic form, the fraUds and out
rsges by which some recent elections were
carried by the Democratic parry in the
Southern Ststes.
Second, To find il there be any method
by which i repetition OF these crime.
against free ballot may he prevented
The Newspaper - The channel through |
which The people Of the United States are |
informed OF current events, and the accounts |
given IN the press represent ths elections in |
come OF tho Southern S;atcz to have been
by violence; IN not a few
cases reaching the destruction Of life; to
have besn controlled 10y threats that awed
and inundated large cIssa Of voters: to
have been manipulated 10y frsud OF the
most shameless and shameful description.
indeed in South Carolina there seems to
have been 10 election n al 10 snv urnper
sense Of the terra. There Was :1sseqd a Sc
les Of skIrmishes over the state IN wh!c!!
he trEllIpy MI I
'e captured by one party and held sgains: {
he other, and where this could 40; De done ;
With convenience, frauis ia tie Couut and :
issue ballot devices were rescrted 20. in or {
er to effectually destroy the voice OF the I
nsjority. Thee in brief are the accounts
iven IN the bipartisan pres, Of the dis r
raceful outrages that attended th.. recent r
lections, and so far "a | hsye seen. these L
tstemeUts are without serious c0niradic 3
on. Ii is but Just and fair To ell parties, J
owever, that an impartial investigation OF =
ne !acts shall be made by a committee Of q
the law and representing the power Of I
re nation. Hence my resolution. Al
But We do MT need inve-tig ,tirn TO es- "
blish certain facts already 81 official rec 1t
ID. We know that one hundred and six OF
fAS0ShtdtAsNr AZ NDbEIfrr were DlIN ! "
losen in the States formerly slsveholding to
Id that the democrats elected one hun l.
ed and one or possible one hundred and d.
10 and the republicans four or possibly Of
'e. We know that ihirty-fve OF these ~
representative We're assigned 10 III. : nth ds
n States by reason of the colored pupuls. c.
VI, snd that the entire political power en-
us fouuded on the number. If the coIored er
ople has been seized aud appropriated to tn
E aggrandizsmen. OF its own strength hy of
democratic party Of the South. &C
he issue thus raised before the coGUtry. pc
!. President, Ii not one Of mere sentiment oil
the rights Of the negro-Ihough far dis- Ter
II be the day when The rights Of Any I'D
nerican citizen, however black or how sut
r poor, -hsll form the mere du-i of the tn,
lance in any controversy nor is the j. IN.
, one that involves the waving Of the ms
oody shirt" to quote the elegant yernsc- be
II OF democratic yituperalion, nor still res
Their IL the issue Is nov presented only DEL
esIion OF the equality OF the black voter the
the South with the white voter Of the err
18th the issue, NJ. President, has taken gar
Pr wider range, one vi portenioUs MS gni-
&c, and that IL, whether the white voter | d
he North shall r. equal 10 the white ses
er OF the South in shaping the policy Soy
liking Tie destiny Of lhis country or pull
ether, TO PIT Il stiil more boldly, the eve
lie msn who fought in the ranks Of the his
ion Army -hsll Lsye a. weighty and in vol
nIisi vote N tie Government @! the dee
'Gblic as the white man wEo fought in vii
ranks oil the rebel army. Inc ore rae
Eht 20 uphold, the other TO e 5iToy, the rec,
on Of the s;at--. and TODAY he who sue
eh; 10 destroy il far more important a.
or IN the Government OF the nation equ
n lie who fought TO uphold il. n,
et me ILLUSTRATE my meaning bv com the
ing groupe OF States Of the same reare- in
alive strength North aud South. Take dczi
Staies Of South Carolins, Mississippi, the
Louisiana. They send seventeen Rep. fect
Natives 20 CopyEe-s. Their aggregate
Ilstion j. composed Of ten hundred and H..
ty-hve thousand whites and twelve 80
tred and thirty-.our thousand colored w..
colored bling nearly two hundred ind
sand in excess of the whites OF the III.
nteen Repre- sentstIves, then, il is evil hro,
that nine were spportioned 10 these ves,
Is by reason Of their colorcd populs- ,;or,
and only eight by reason of their alac,
e Popuistiop; snd yet in the choice OF -,
entire seventeen Representative. tho ~ "
red voters had no more voice or power III,
/ their remote kindred on the shores of in \,
gambia Or on the Gold Coast. The Gov,
hundred and ihirty-fye thousand white erd
lie had the cole and absolute choice of iror,
.ntire seventeen Representatives. In h..
rast. take two States in the North, Iowa 20 ..
W isconsin, with seventeen Representa- hon,
!. They have white population OF turn
million two hundred snd forty-seyep mad
more than double ,be ,
,utlre white population of the three Mo !
bern Statea l named. In lows and III,
,onsiu, therefore it takes one hundred ,;,,;
thirty-two thousand white population II ~
nd Representative TO Congress but nrsv
'u,h Caroiips, Mississippi, and Louisi- rr- ,
every sixty thousand white people y,
Representative. In other words, so.i,
; thousand white people in those South IN ~
states have precisely the same political ne in
Y In the government Of the country go,,,
one hundred and thIrty-;xo thousand nro,'
Q people have in lows and Wisconsin. -
Ike another group of seventeen Repre- mir
tlves from the South sud from the inc /;
b. Georgia and ALBANIA have q enc
rp.Aon Q, eisSen hundred ana Anne
Of ten hundred and twenty thousand. -;sb,
send seventeen Representatives to Con. in m
, OF whom nine we're spportiored on nh "a
INT OF the white population and eight on nf,en
At OF the colored population. But c,rrt
oi1,so 'o'ers are not soie 10 choose right
e representative, the white Democrats fnd
ing the whole seventeen. The four ,e,c,
bern States. Michigan, Minnesota, Ne ment
"a. and California, have seventeen Re- fsct,,
native, based on a white populstion -