Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-28

disagreement to four amendments oil
the other amendments were "in tho air. "
The House having disagreed TO the con-
ference report, the presiding officer gave
il a. his opinion that ell amendments
we're still open 10 conference. rs well tho
four enumerated, as the other thirty
four. A new conference was agreed to,
aud Senators Allison, Plumb, and Cor.
rnhn appointed conferrees.
Mr.. Allison presented conference re-
port on the sundry civil bill, and gave
notice that he would call IL up to morrow.
The discussion Of Mr.. Stowart's reso-
luton was then resumed.
MIR. Edmunds moved 10 amend by
adding the words except such as ought
to be withheld for the purposes OF JUS
tice." The amendment was agreed to
and the resolution adopted.
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration Of the report of the Judiciary
Committee on the Jackson miss. cleo
ton. and Mr.. Wilson, OF Iowa, con-
tinued the remarks begun by him last
Thursday.
Mr.. Walthall complained Of the peri
odical arraigpment OF the southern peo-
ple for alleged offences that are clearly
outside OF the sphere of Federal legisla-
ton. These attacks, he said, were un-
accompanied by any plan of remedy or
redress. They had borne no fruit but
ordinations and denominations, and had
no effect but to delay the era Of good
will among reunited people, which.
happily, had come in spite of them.
Such attacks might always be expected
when there was any important politi-
cal campaign pending or approach
ing. Their purpose always was to
gain for the dominant party some
political advantage by dissemination OF
partisan reports and bitter sectional
speeches. This had been the case in the
matter OF the Copiah investigation in
1884. Not one word bad been spoken
N the Senate on that report and not one
move made indicating any purpose or
desire to do anything more than to get 1t
before the country, as was done under
the resolution offered by Mr.. Hoar to
print $50, 600 copies of it for distribution !;
so that the whole movement had been
merely pretext and sham. Reviewing
the difficulties of the task imposed upon
the people of the South in regard to two
races living on the same political plane,
he quoted the speeches Of Lincoln and
the Republican senators recognizing
those difficulties, and declared that if one
race was to rule at the South ii must GER
tainly be the white race. BE believed
that the whites and blacks might live
together with the rights Of both races
respected, but subject at intervals
to jars which always arose in such cases
The scenes Of violence which had taken
place in the Pacific States and Territories
in opposition to the Chinese had never
found any parallel at the South. The
substantial Advancement made by the
negroes in the South showed how the
southern people had met the race issue.
AS q rule the colored people when left
free from external influences had done
well. Bad men had sometimes for
political and personal advantages excited
their prejudices and passions and had ar
rayed them againstth their whiteneighbors,
but still it was fact that the two races
in Mississippi, as elsewhere in the South,
had in general approached each other IN
spirit Of mutual concession, and were
tending towards harmonious co-opera-
ton. If that movement succeeded the
peril Of race antagonism might pos
sibly disappear. He did not believe that
there was senator present who, if
he lived in Mississippi, would not
strive to avert from the white people of
that State the curse of negro supremacy.
At the close Of Mr.. Walthall's speech
the report went over without action.
A message from the President return
ing without his approval the bill appro-
priating $50, 600 for a public building
at Sioux City, Iowa, was read and re-
ferred to the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds.
Adjourned.
House or Representatives.