The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
WASHINGTON.
XLvIIITM CONGRE ~
House.
MAKE IT A MILLION AT LEAST.

WASHINGTON, Feb. A.-Mr. Mckinley
read telegram from Edwin Cowley, Of
Cleveland. stating that the food was now
II feet high, with probability that 1t will
20 to 70 feet. The water could not receds
TO the river bed in less than ten days. One
hundred homes have been destroyed and
10, 600 people are homeless and without
food; that blizzard Is reported as coming
from the northwest, which would make the
suffering much greater; that individual Of.
forts for relief will be too slow to be OF
avail and urging the increase OF the appro-
priation by Congress to a million dollars.
Referred TO the Judiciary Committee.
The House resumed consideration Of the
contested election case Of Chalmers against
Manning.
BelfoId spoke in opposition to admitting
Manning In the interest. he said, OF politi-
cal morality and political decency. In these
election cases the Republican party had
committed blistering outrages, only
equaed by the outrages committed by the
Democratitic party. 1t was time honest
and honorable men determine these cases
as an upright Judge would determine a
cause before him. On two occasions the
Democratic party by brute force and polit-
ica power seated Chalmers when he was
not elected, and now 1t practically refused
TO seat him When he was elected, and that
In face Of the fact that Manning had con-
fessed be had no cause.
CIarly held that nothing In Mannlng's
answer interfered with his right to seat
pending his contest; denying that Manning
had by his admissions precluded the House
from An expression Of It's judgment of the
case; denying that law of estoppel had ever
been invoked In any other case, and holding
that no act Of Manniny's subsequent to his
election, short Of 3 resignation, could estop
him from claiming his seat denying that
the right Of position was private one, and
that it could not therefore be estopped, and
that the people Of his district had right to
b, represented during the pending Of the
contest. His speech was one Of the clearest
and abest made on the subject.
The DRnville Election Riot.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 14.-Senator Sher-
mans committee 10 charge OF the in
vesigation of the Danville, w., election
riot, has begun work. Senators Sherman
and Vance, and Represe NATIVE John s..
Wise, conducted the examination. Direct
examination conducted by Senator Sher-
man, several witnesses were examined re :
garding the shooting, cause, etc.
Walter s. Withers,a colored policeman. Of
Danvile, testified that on November 3 u
white man and colored man got to fight
| ing. When separated the crowd remained.
| The whites ranged 10 line along the curb,
| and the colOred men were In the street.
| The whites had pistols in their hands, and
said the colorsd men could get enough il
they wanted it, and II they didn't leave
some of them would get hurt. The negroes
| objected to leaving, saying, ''that the
whites were trying to override them
Firing then began, the first shots being
fred In the air. The colored people began
TO run and the whites fired at them when.
ever they could sse them. None of the
coored men had pistols. One man was
shot dead and several were wounded in
consequence of the riot. The colored peo-
! pie diu not vote at the election three dayi
later, fearing violence. The affidavit OF
witness before the committee Of forty was
incorrect in so far as 1t stated that the
colored men used firearms. 1t seemed tina
something had been added to the affidavit
after he signed it.
| JACK RUDD (CoLoREp),
chairman Of the Republican Committee,
testified that he was In Danville the day Of
the riot when the firing was began. He
left hastily, after war DIS returning to see the
result. He was met by Col. Cabel
who asked him where he was going. Col.
Cabell said: "This Is Just what have
been telling you would happen" Ned
Hatcher came along with another man ant
asked Cabell who witness was. Being In
formed, Hatcher said, "Let me blow hi
id brains out" Col. Cabell said, "No
let the id scoundrel leave here.
Hatcher struck witness, and as witness lef
they began firing on him. Witness saw hi
white neighbors going into Danville tina
night, and returning with guns they ha'
procured IN Dsnvlle. He saw them goini
to the polls on election day with the sam
guns. The colored people thereby wer
inundated and concluded not to vote.
L. L. IVY (CoLoRED)
saw the white men drawn up along the cur
with pistols aimed and started jaway when
the firing began and the coored men ran
One was shot dead. Jack Rudd (preced
ing witness) came along and asked tn
celored men: 'What you all runnn' for
de white peoples only burnin' powdsh.'
He replied, whats de mesnin' o. da
dead man ovah dab, II dey don't meal
ha'np' Witness described the maltreat
ment Of Jack Rudd by Hatcher and others,
and the threats made to himself the sam
day by white people. Witness did no
vote, because Of fear inspired by the riot.
Senate.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE Chair lait
before the Senate tho testimony taken by tn
committee who inve >tigated the oficia
conduct Of x-Superv,sing Architect Hill
Referred.
Senator Voorhees, resolution requesting
the Secretary Of the Interior to suspen,
approval Of the indemnity land selection
made by the Northern Pacific Railroa
Company was referred.
Pulling the Wool Over Their Eyes.
WARRINGTON, Feb. IA. -Representative
Of the woollen manufacturing interest