Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-03

home rule-special privileges to none
and equality before the law. II had
ever been, ns il ever would be, the
safest guardian of the poor and
humble. Labor would find under It's
control OF the Government fair and
securer and better reward, but the
monopoly. fortified and entrenched be-
hind twenty years and more Of Repub-
lican cxactiou and misrule, would have to
60. It's citadel would be stormed and in
this Congress its exactions would be
denied. It's hold on the Threats Of
the masses would be broken the mask OF
Republican protection would be torn
from the face OF hypocrisJ and deceit and
extortion.
In conclusion Mr.. Kenna said the
question before MS at this time is the
bare reference Of the Presidents mes
sage. The debate upon that question
has been precipitated and calculated to
alarm aud terrify the country; but
the country has been long preparing for
this conflict. 1t is now ready for the
fray. 1t is my candid judgment that the
great masses of the people will endorse
and support this brave struggle for their
rights and for the relief Of their bondage.
Our people are becoming more and more
intelligent day by day. Information is
better disseminated and our action here
is subjected to a daily scrutiny which
would not have been dreamed Of
twenty years ago. A generation OF
young men is rising mp about US who
are 10 control the destnios of the re-
pnblic. They are It's pride and is hope.
While places OF power and position are
open to their aspirations they ore to be
taught that the password TO their future
advancement is equality before the
law" they are to realize their obligations
to The country; but they are to realize
and cherish az well the obligations OF
this country to them. The child Of labor
and the child of fortune, linked in a
common destiny bound by ties which
should know no breaking, are to go GA
together, guided by the spirit of our in
ettutions and inspired by the genius OF
our country's freedom. These are to
constitute the men of the republic.
Aitera brief speech from Mr.. Sherman
in reply to Mr.. Kenna and a still briefer
one from Mr.. Reagan, in rejOinder TO Mr..
Sherman, Mr. Stewart addressed the
Senate briefly in support Of the ednca-
ton bill.
Senator Call obtained the floor for n
speech on the same measure, but gave
away to "A motion to 60 into executive
SESSION. Pending the question the Chair
announced with respect 70 the formation
of the select committee for the considera-
ton OF the message of the President on
the reports Of the Pacific Railroad Com
mission that the mover Of the resolution,
the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr.
HOar). would have been entitled 10 the
chailmauship, but the Chair was inform
ed by that Senator that undorno circum-
stances could he accept place on the
committee.
The Senote proceeded to executive
business, and at 4:Z0 O'Clock adjourned
till Monday.
House Of Representatives.
Mr.. Blount, of Georgia, chairman of
the Committee on Post-Oflices and Post
Roads. called up for consideration the
bill amending the statutes so as TO pro-
vide that no publications that are but
books or reprints of books, whether
they be issued complete or IN parts,
bound or unbound, or IN series, or vine
Their sold by subscription or other
wise. shall be admitted to the mails
MS second-claSs matter. The object
of the bill, explained MIR. Blount,
was to prevent an evasion OF the
law which dcsienates what shall
constitute second and third-class
mail matter. Under the law books must
pass through the mails as third-class
matter. But an abuse had sprung up
and the law had been evaded 10y publish
ers issuing books at stated intervals and
passing them through the mails as sec
ond-class matter on the ground that they
were periodicals. While the Bible and
educational books had TO pay eight cents
a pound, yellow-colored novels could 90
through the mails for one cent pound.
Mr.. Cannon, Of Illinois, opposed the
measure, sud stated his recollection 20
be that prior to 1879 legislation WAS had
allowing tins cheap class Of literature 70
20 through the mails at two cents per
pound, on the ground that the dissent
neton OF sound literature should be en-
couraCed.
Mr.. FarQuhar, of New York, thought
that trashy novels, dirty reprints and
dirtier medical treatiscs should not Doe
allowed to pass through the mails for one
cent a pound, while the Bible, Gods
Word, was charged eight cents.
Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, stated
that the only class Of mail matter which
the Government carried at a loss was Sc
cond-class matter, and he did not thlnk
that there should be carried in that class
matter which was never contemplated AT
the time Congress reduced the rate from
two cents 10 one cent "A pound.
Mr.. Cannon moved to recOmmit the
bin with instructions 30 the Committee
on Post-Oiiiccs and Post-koads TO report
back a provision Tor the transmission
through the mails OF books bound or
unbound up to the limit of the weight
/ allowed by law at the rate OF ! cent per
pound. Lost-ycas, ll9; nays, 1iJ.
The bill WAS passed-yeas, no; nays,
Il6.
Mr.. Crisp, chairman of the Committee
on Elections, called mp the contested
election case OF Lowry against White,
from the Twelfth district OF Indiana.
An arrangement was made that the
discussion should continue for eight
hours. but the Republicans declined to
accede to the proposition that at the end
OF that time the previous question should
be considered rs ordered upon the ma
jority and minority resolutions OF the
committee.
Mir. Barry, of Mississippi, took the
floor with an argument III advocacy of
the majority resolution declaring the seat
vacant. II was conceded, lao said, that
I e contestee received large majority
of the votes cast at the congressional
election, aud the only question which the
/ House was called upon to decide was rs
TO the eligibility Of the sitting member
de argued that the only final proof OF
naturalization was the production Of tie
court records. and that 1t could not ne
proven by the oral testimony OF Wit
nesses.
sir Cooper, Of Ohio, sustained the
claims of the contestee. The records OF
Alien county bad been proven 10 be
wholly unreliable. while tine contestee
had thoroughly established the truth OF