Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-23
THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Senator Chandler Makes a Ring
ing Speech
Exposing the Gigantic Frauds in
the Last Louisiana Election.
Some Lively Sparrins Between the New
Hampshire Senator and Rea-
gan Of Texas,
In Which the Doughty Texan Appears to
Great Disadvantage.
The Conference Report on Army Ap-
priation Bill Submitted to the House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. %.
Senate.

Senate
Reagan introduced bill to define trusts
and provide for the punishment of persons
connected with them Referred to the COM
mittee on the Judiciary.
Beck offered as an amendment TO the
House tariff bill, an additional section sus-
pending until further order of Congress, all
laws relating TO the sinking fund. Referred
to the committee on finance. Also u bill to
repeal all laws concerning the sinking fund.
The following House bills were reported
and placed on the calendar Granting pen
sion of $3.50 year to the wife of Gen.
Sheridan; a joint resolution appropriating
$500, 900, to suppress infection in the inter
state commerce of the United States. Ad-
opted.
Chandler called up resolution in relation
to fraud and violation in the last Louisiana
election and proceeded to address the Sem
ate thereon.
He said he would state the facts and prin-
ciples which required and justified the pro-
posed inquiry into the Louisiana election of
April last, under which two senators would
have seats in the United States Senate. The
first fact was the suspicious character of the
face of the returns, which showed 1864
votes cast with majority for Nicoll of S4,-
753, while the Presidential vote of Louisiana
in 1884 was only 60 $40, with majority of
only l6, 1872 for Cleveland. The returns also
showed as Overwhelmingly republican the
parish of Madison, and as having cast for
Nicoll $3.50 votes and for Warmoth none,
while the registered voters of Madison parish
were 279 white and 3,0Sl colored. The
whole six parishes gave l6, ,452 votes for Mic
oil and 1888 for Warmoth, while there were
in those six parishes 4,793 white registered
voters and l2,740 colored registered voters.
There was some difficulty in ascertaining the
official count of the vote of the state. No
official PRONUNCIATION of it has yet appeared
in any democratic newspaper that he was
aware Of but he found in the New Orleans
Weekly Pelican table giving the returns
by parishes, couting 1876, ,747 votes for Nicoll,
and 3 | 1898 for Warmoth, and ma jority for
Nicoll of s4.753. He doubted whether any
Senator would hazard the statement that he
honestly believed that there were 1873 900
votes honestly cast and honestly counted for
Nicoll. He denounced the alleged vote as false
and fraudulent and fictitious beyond all
known Irecords of manifold msjorities
He denounced it as the result of a deliberate
conspiracy, wrong and crime on the part of
the then Gov. McEnery and of
the present Governor Nicoll, two
stupendous criminals against free suffrage,
two instigators of intimidation and murder of
voters, two leaders of thousands of reckless
law breaking election officers and desperate
bloody and brutal torturers and murderers
of black voters in their own State. He de-
nounced the record as a crime against the
republicans of Louisiana, not only against
those that are living but those that are dead
but it was cheered by the bloody rufans
agents of the State government, McEnery
and Nicoll in order to make a democratic
victory. He denounced It as a crime against
republican government which it tended to de-
stroy as the subversion of the Senate of the
United States which was being insulted; as
one of the results of an outrage on humanity,
He read good deal of correspondence and
newspaper statements mot of Southern pa
pers) on the subject of election frauds in
Louisiana, and outrages perpetrated against
the coored people at the South.
Reagan resented the imputation on part of
Texas and declared that the republicans took
their political positions and expressed their
opinions as freely as the people did in New
Hampshire or any other Northern State.
Chandler said he supposed the Senator
from Texas didn't refer to Washington
beat. How many colored voters are there
in Texas?
Reagan cannot say.
ChanIler-The State of Texas almost
comes upin its returned majority to the State
of Louisiana think Texas returns ma
jority of about l36, 900, but / will concede
that is not quite so dishonest return as 1884,
600 majority returned for Nicoll in Louisa-
ma.
Regan-The Senator is reckless and fals-
fes facts when he talks about false election
returns in Texas.
Chandler-The Senator has admitted that
he does not know anything about Washing
ton county outrages. 1t would be well for
him to ascertain what the facts are.
Reagan live remotely from Washington
county and have never seen a word of testi-
mony on that subject.
Chandler have no idea that the gentle
man wants to either.
Reagan.-The gentleman ought not to ex-
ercise such reckless impudence in making
statements. Presiding officer, (Ingalls, J
Senator from Texas, transgresses the bounds
of parliamentary proprlety and order when
he applies such epithets to the gentleman
from New Hampshire.
Reagan am willing to withdraw then.
Chamberlain at liberty in reply, to
use words of "impudence"?
Presiding Officer.-Senator is not, unless
he proceeds in order
Chandler will endeavor to rest under
the infiction. | am glad cannot be sub.
jected to any worse stigma than that.
! Presiding officer-The chair understood
| the senator from Texas to withdraw his Ian
guage
| The discussion about the outrages il
Washington county, Texas, shifted from
Chandler and Reagan to Coke, Spooner and
| Evarts.
! Coke expressed himself as ready to prove
that what had taken place was more thar
equalled by the election frauds of the North
! ern States.
| Spooner admitted the election frauds il
the Northern States, but claimed that they
were perpetrated bv the democrats alone.
Without concluding his speech, Mr. Chan
dler yielded the floor and the Senate at s. Is
adjourned.
| House.
The conference report on the army appro
| priation bill was presented in the House thi
morning, and briefly discussed and posrpoue'
until tomorrow. Itappropristes s29 1851 90
as a compromise between the Senate an
House bills. The Conference report on tn
naval appropriation bill was presented an
agreed to. |, includes both the Senate pro
vision for three gunboats and the Hous,
provision for armed cruisers.
The House then went into the committe
of the whole on the deficiency appropriate
bill. Burnes of Missouri offered an amend
ment appropriating 1852 .4s2 to meet the de
iciency of the inland transportation of tn
mail on the different railroad routes. Agree
to.
On motion Of Burnes, abstract of amend
mendment was adopted. appropriatin
436, 900 to reimburse the State of Kentuck