Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-23
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE SENATE.
Report Of Proceedings Of the Sen
ate in Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April q

ate in Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 21.
A motion to adjourn having been
made and voted down, Mr.. Call took
the floor in denial of the charges
made by Mr.. Frye yesterday against
the freedom of the ballot IN Florida.
The charge which the Senator
read implied that in the contested
election case of Bisbee VS.. Hull the
witnesses were kept from testifying
by murder, rested on the fact that a
peaceful Democrat had been killed
IN crowd of cnlored persons. He
(Mr. CalD had never seen or heard
of a single instance Of an outrage
for political considerations, on blacks
or whites, in Florida, and he chal-
lenged anybody to bring any reason
able evidence Of such outrages.
Commenting on Mr.. Fryes remarks
as to the small amount OF money
appropriated for the malnteo-
ance of free shoots IN Flo da,
he asserted that in propo4 tiol
to her wealth, that State gave
as much to the school fund as
Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
He (CalD had never made use of
any such expression as starving
serfs," as applied to the working
men of Mas .chusetts, which the
Senator from Maine had attributed
to him. He could not see where the
Senator had obtained that express
sion.
In concluding his speech he made
some reference to suffrage in Mas
sachusetts, and the usual uninterest-
ing colloquy ensued between himself
and Mr.. Dawes upon that subJec'
Mr.. Dawes continued in a humorous
way, and ridiculed the idea of an
honest vote in the South, taking for
his text an article clipped fron the
Charleston, S. O., News, of ne 18th
of March, in which the following
sentence occurs: ''In their Demo
crats) eyes cheating as a means OF
securing an hofest government is
a widely different thing from
cheating for the benefit of local
workers and machire-made Office
seekers" This, he said, was a sign
of the warfare which was going or
in the South, a warfare SO important
that any man who could strike 8
blow was welcome into the rali1s o1
the Republican party.
Mr.. Hampton said that the doc,
trine laid down in the article
read was Democratic doctrine
in so far as it dems dec
fair vote. That paper had bee
; striving to repress fraud, and be hf
never said that there had been NJ
! fraud. He could say with a clel
conscience that he had never seen one
nor by any act, word or though
, of his, had there ever been fraut
! committed. He had advocated th'
rights of the coloIed man in Soutf
G trolina. He tried to show the peo
pie that the interests of both race
were identical. He owed his elec
lion as governor to the colored vot,
of South Carolina. There had beer
irregularities and frauds. Fl.
admitted that. But he plead
| ed as justification the crue
wrongs committed on the people o
South Carolina, He would announce
as he had done elsewhere, his IN
utterable determinatio to try at th
earliest possible moment to rectif,
this wrong.
Mr.. Jonas said he had yesterda,
telegraphed to inquire as to tn
| truth of the charges that the Mas
, sachusetts man, Charles Heath, ha'
suffered persecution in Louis ana, an,
| he had been informed by TELEGRAPH
from New Orleans that complet
vindication of the people of Caldwel
8 parish would be forwarded to hin
: in Aedis 5ely. He had also receive'
letter from Massachusetts gentle
! man, stating that Heath's reputation
e for truth was not such as ought t
n be defended by the Senator fror
|, Massachusetts, (Mr. Dawes.)
Mr.. Jonas declined to give th
e name of his informant, for fear b
d would imperil his life in Massachu
}, sets" L. lighter. He had, how
) ever, telegra phed to the gentlema
! for auth ority to use his name.
t A long discussion ensued, partici
8 pated in by Messrs. Dawes, Morgan
Call and Hampton, after which th
Senate adjourned.
' WASHINGTON, D. c., April 22.-Th
e 7 President laid before the Senat
: Q unfinished business, being th
. resolution for the election of Senat
O officers.
o The usual motion to go into exec
II utlve session was made by MI
harris and met with it's usual fat,
IS oelng lost-yeas II, nays 22.
sr MIR. Morrell then took the floor i
o denial of what he termed the baseles
q charge OF corrupt bargain which / J.
been SO fiippantly made and whic
g implied that Republican Senator
r were parties to that bargain. 81
r would be sorry to know that an
= Democratic Senator should have sue
apoor opinion of him that denis
of that charge should be needed. S
far as the vote of the Senator fror
, Virginia (Mr. Mahone) was concern
al. he Mr. Mnrre1b had 11nderstoo