The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-13
MR.. CHANDLER AS THE FRIEND
OF A FAIR VOTE
Mr.. BOutelle Advances Under Cover
of the Flags.
Senate Judiciary Committee Instructed
to Investigate the Municipal Elec-
tion in jackson, Miss


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| WASHINGTON, January 12.-Mr. Platt
presented mem orial in regard to print
| ing on third class mail matter, and
| remarked that he did not think there
| was any fault in the law, but that the
| trouble arose from incorrect interpreta-
tion of the law by the Postmaster Gen
| eral; also petition for the issuance of
| fractional currency and the abolition of
postal rates.
Mr.. Hiscock offered resolution,
which was adopted, calling on the Presi-
dent for information as to the Judgment
Commission.
MR.. CHANDLER AGAIN UP.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Chan
dler on the 10th of January instructing
the Committee on Judiciary to inquire
into the suppression of votes of colored
citizens of jackson, Miss, at the recent
municipal election in that city and into
the alleged participation i'm such suppress
sion by the United States District At
torney, Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue and Deputy United States Mar
shal, was taken up, and MIR. Chandler
AL dressed the Senate in explanation and
support of it, He said he had a com
munication from jackson asking for
such investigation and asserting that the
facts of the conflicts stated could be
proved by the testimony of the best men
of both political parties. He had not,
in the resolution, provided for the power
to send for persons and papers because
he apprehended that the facts would be
all found ON file in the Department of
Justice.
If that, however, should not prove to
be so, he would desire to have the power
given to make a complete investigation.
He sent to the Clerks desk and had read
several letters and kilograms received by
him; also a manifesto which first con-
veyed to the colored people of jackson
the information that they would not be
allowed to vote. This manifesto, he
said, displayed at its head an engraving
of couple Of pistols, couple of shot
guns and powder flask. In it the
young men of Jackson announced their
ultimatum.
1t declared that having seen one of.
their number hellishly murdered in the
dark by "A negro bully, set on by negro
policemen of the negro cursed city, that
the corrupt Radical negro government
should and must be wiped out at any
cost: that if negroes run for office they
should do SO at their extremist peril,
and it warned all negroes against at
tempting to foist upon us this black and
damnable machinery called govern
ment
OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
The colored citizens, under all cir
cumstances surrounding them, had met
in convention and had resolved that it
| would be unsafe for them to attempt to
vote, and had consequently abstained
men voted. The Federal officers en-
gagged in that business were Harris, dis
trict attorney; Wilson, deputy collector
of internal revenue, and Livingstone,
| deputy United States marshal. He sub
| mitted that the question, although it af-
fected only for the time being the muni-
| cipal election in the city of Jackson, was
one of national Importance. The coun-
| try this year was to enter on a Presiden-
| tial election-an election which was to
decide the Presidency and also to decide
the complexion of the National House of
| Representatives.
| In that election at least twelve mil
lion voters, representing sixty millions of
| the American people, would participate.
| Among those voters were probably one
and half millions of black ones, repre-
senting six or seven millions of their
own race, and it was an important ques-
! ton whether these one and half mil
lions of black men We're or were not
to be allowed to vote. 1t was a question
| which concerned those citizens who de
sired to protect the tariff whether that
matter should be settled by fair vote of
all who are voters under the Constitu-
tion, or be settled with one and hall
millions of those voters disfranohised in
pursuance of that policy which had been
deliberately adopted in the capitol of the
State of Mississippi, which State was
seeking to-day to have an Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court to aid in pass
ing on the validity of the constitutions
amendments.
| RIDpLEBERGER WILL VOTE FOR LAMAR
Mr.. Riddleberger remarked that there
was no concealment of the fact that the
resolution was intended to affect matter.
that ought to be considered only IN ths
executive session, and he gave motto,
that, as to himself, he would vote fol-
the confirmation of Mr.. Lamar.
THE POWER OF THE SENATE.
Mr.. Walthall said he had not risen I.
offer any opposition to the proposed in
vestigation; on the contrary, he was anx
ious that the resolution should b,
adopted by the votes of those Senator
whose views on the constitutional powe
OF the Senate differed from his own. fth
proposition were to investigate tow
election in New Hampshire he shoul,
vigorously oppose it. He courted tn
fullest investigation OF tie occurrence
1t Jackson. but he protested against an
lprejudgment of the case. Instead Q