Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-28
Eiftieth Oongress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ~.

BILLS TO SUPPRESS YELLOW TEvER.
SENATE.-The House amendment TO tn
Senate bill appropriatinR .$100, 900 10 aid o
yellow fever sufferers having been laid befor'
the Senate, Mr.. Ednunds said that DO hat
examined 1t, and was very much afraid tina
| it missed the point aimed &C In the bill
that was, the capacity to use any Of the money
in aid Of those who were most in need OF It,
He therefore moved that the Senate nom
concur in the House amendment and ask fol-
a conference. It was so ordered.
Mr.. Call offered q resolution instructinp
the committee on epidemic diseases to report
before the adjournment of this Congress such
additional legislation as may be necessary OF
useful to prevent the importation OF conta-
gious or infectious diseases from foreign
countries, and to prevent and suppress II in
Interstate commerce. Mr.. Hale moved TO
demic diseases, and the matter went over till
Monday.
LOUISIANA ELECTION FRAUDS.
The resolution to investigate the election
frauds in Louisiana then came up for debate
and Mr.. Gibson took the floor. he said tho
resolution arraigned the people OF that State
and was a revolutionary measure.
Mr.. Chandler said in reply that the Ameri-
can people were weary of such frauds, false
oountings and murders of legal voters In or
der that the Democratic party may continue
to dominate the South. Mr.. Gibson declared
that everything down there was peaceful and
no investigation was necessary.
Mr.. Reagan took the floor and argued
against the resolution, declaring that he
meant to oppose all propositions for an In
vestigation that simply meant political agi-
tation, in violation of the constitution and OF
the rights of the States and of the people.
MR.. EDMUNDs TELLS WHY.
Mr.. Edmunds remarked that the informed
ding of Congress with the local affairs of a
State was of course very improper. It had
been thought to be very improper in times
happily gone by when such intermeddIpg
took the form of petitions for the abolition of
slavery. So that he was not now greatly sg-
itated in respect to the fear of intermeddling
with the affairs of the State of Louisiana. 1t
seemed to be inconvenient for some reason
that the light of truth, the light which came
from investigation and inquiry, should not
be turned on that portion of the people of the
United States of whom it was said that ma
iority was in the hands of a minority and
that that minority had usurped power con-
trary to the form of State rights under the
constitution, contrary to the spirit of liberty
and justice and equal rights. He could not
understand why the light should not be turn
ed on.
oUTRAGES IN TEXAS.
The discussion then drifted from outrages
in louisiana to outrages in Texas, and Mr..
Coke got 80 wildly excited that the chair
called him to order for supplementary Ian
gusge. Mr.. Coke apologized and the debate
continued. "The allegations" he said, made
against the people of Texas are infamous
ISLANDERS and falsehoods, and such as should
never have been heard in the American Sem
ate."
Mr.. Spooner replying to Mr.. Coke said
that suppression of the truth was as bad as
falsehood. "All that we want" said he
with much vehemence, t'is that which we
are entitled to have, and that is that every
man in the United States who is ntiled un-
der the constitution of the United States to
exercise the right of American citizenship,
whether they lives in Texas, in Louisiana, or
in Wisconsin, shall be allowed to do SO IN
disturbed and undismayed. Bloody shirt
We are not talking about the war.
This is current matter. This is some-
thing which is happening now.
The only men know of who have not ac-
cepted the results of the war are our friends
of the South. One of the results Of the war
was that the negro of proper age should have
the right to vote. The South has deprived
him of that right. The vote of the southern
Republicans has disappeared. Thirteen vol
umes of testimony taken by congressional
committees prove it. I do not know how
long the people of the North will stand it,
but undertake to say that they will not
stand il always.
After some further debate Mr.. Butler inter
posed motion to adjourn, which was car
ried.
HoURE-The conference report on the
sundry civil appropriation bill was adopted
to-day, and after considering a measure to
provide additional clerks in the postal SER
vice the House adjourned