Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-28
THE NATIONS 'SCAPITAL.
Mississippi Election Frauds En-.
gross the Senate's At
tentiOn.
4 Bill in the House to Reduce
Letter Postage.
The Deficiency Bill, Minus French SpOna-
ton Claims, Passes.
Congress Liable to Investigate What
the Administration has Said to
Canada Regarding Un-
just Tolls.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81.
Senate.

When the routine business was transacted
the Senate proceeded to the consideration of
the report of the judiciary committee on the
jackson, Miss, election, and Wilson contin-
ued his remarks begun last Thursday.
Mr.. Walthall complained of the periodical
|arraignment of southern people tor alleged
offenses that are clearly of the speech of fed
eral legislation. Such attacks would always
be expected when there was any important
political campaign pending or approaching.
Their purpose always was TO gain for the
dominant party some political advantage by
the dissemination of partisan reports and
bitter sectional speeches; reviewing the diff
hculties and task imposed upon the people of
the South, in regard to the to the two races,
living on the same political plane. He qust-
ed speeches from Mr. Lincoln and republi-
can senators, recognizing these difficulties,
and declared that if one race were to rule at
the South, it must certainly be the white race.
lie believed that the whites and blacks might
live together, with the rights of both races
respected, bnt subject at intervals to the
jars which always arose in such cases. He
did not believe that there was a senator pres
ent 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 Walthalrs speech, the re-
port went over without action, and at. $50,
the Senate adjourned.
House
Under the call of States number of bills
and resolutions were introduced and referred,
among them one by Davis, of Massachusetts,
requesting the President to communicate to
the House copies of all communications ad-
dressed by his direction to the government
of Great Britain, demonstrating with that
government against the wrongs and unfair
treatment of our citizens by the Canadian
government in refunding to vessels and car
goes which pass through Welland and other
Canadian canals nearly the entire tolls if des-
tined to Canadian ports, while those bound
to American ports are not allowed any such
advantages, and against breach of the
treaty of 1871 whereby Great Britain prom
ised to the United States equality in the mat
ter of canal transportation. Also one by
Buchanan of New Jersey to reduce letter
postage to one cent per ounce. The House
went into 60 nmttee of the who.e on Il .
deficiency appropriation bill.
In committee chairman Springer stated the
pending question to be on the appeal from
decision of the chair ruling the French spoli-
alton claims out of the bill. After an hour
or more quorum was obtained and the de-
cision of the chair was sustained by a vote
of los to 81.
BY unanimous consent YOst of Virginia
was given the floor and made long speech
favoring the Blair educational bill and
charged its failure of passage to the demo-
cratic party.
Wise replying to Yost said he and his peo-
pie of Virginia favored the bill and charged
that the republicans were in power in both
houses in 1880, and might have passed the
Blair bill then but did not. They he'd when
they said they wanted it. He read the
names of democratic Senators who voted for
the bill last February and republicans who
voted against it and argued that it was
the height of audacity to endeavor to make
party question of it.
The committee then rose and reported the
deficiency bill to the House aud it passed
without the spoilation section. The house
at o'clock adjoaraed.