Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-28
WASHINGTON.
On Epidemic
Diseases.
The CORY GARMENT AIRED.
Gibson and Chandler and Coke and
SpOoner Engage in Sectional
Controversy.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

propriating 100000 to aid the yellow
fever sufferers having been laid before
the Senate. Edmunds said he had exam
ined it and was very much afraid it
missed the point aimed at-that was,
capacity to use any of the money in aid
of those sick and in distress and in dar.-
ger OF starvation. In the hope that
something better could be dome he
moved the Senate to no.. ..concur in the
House amendment an :. ask for a confer.
ence. So ordered,
Call onere.d resolution instructing
the Con. r.mittee on Epidemic Diseases to
consider and report before the adjourn
ment of this session OF Congress such ad-
ditional legislation as may be necessary
and useful to prevent the importation of
contagious or infectious diseases from
foreign countries, on the coast and
boundaries of the United States, and
prevent and suppress it in interstate
commerce, and for the subsistence of
such persons as may be detained by the
public authorities.
The matter went over till Monday.
Sherman reported back the resolution
offered by him for an inquiry as to the
state OF the resolutions between the
United States and Great Britain and the
Dominion of Canada, and it was placed
on the calendar.
The conference report on the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill was presented
and agreed to.
LOUISIANA ELECToN-GIBsoN' REMARKS.
The resolution offered by Chandler for
an inquiry into the Louisiana election,
Involving the choice OF United States
Senators), was taken up.
Gibson said that he was under the i'm
preston that the American people were
weary of such unconditional and revolu-
tionary modes to revise the relations be-
tween the people of the States and the
Federal Government. This resolution
arraigned an indestructible State, be-
cause the States had been so character
lied by the Supreme Court of the United
States. What, he asked, was the occa-
sion OF the resolution, 30 formidable in
its scope, so comprehensive and 80 fatal
(if we'll founded) to one of the Common
wealths of the Union? There was not a
complaint from any part of the people Of
that State, asking the Senate to protect
them in their rights, political or civil.
Criticising the course OF Chandler in
reading before the Senate private letters
and newspaper extracts, and assailing
the people of Louisiana, Gibson said he
"would rather be dog and bay the
moon" than make himself scavenger
or medium by which any OF the base
impulses of neighborhoods heads, or
the difficulties of his countrymen of any
State, could be brought into such an
august body. For one, he (Gibsop) did
not know OF any recompense great
enough to induce him to ipaugurate an
indictment against the decency, Chris
tianity, civilization and good character
of his fellow citizens of New Hampshire.
CHANDLER'S REPLY.
Chandler replied to Gibson that the
Senator had said that the conservative
people OF the country were weary of in
quiries into the affairs Of the Southern
States. He (Chandler) did not under
stand the temper of the American peo-
pie. He believed what they were weary
of was the frauds, false countings and
murders of legal voters, that were going
on in the South in order to make the
elections solid and to enable it to govern
the North and country. The charge was
that the outrages on the colored people
in Louisiana and other Southern States,
were committed for political reasons.
They were part of widespread deliber-
ate system of political action on the part
of the Democratic party in order to con-
troll Congress and the Presidency.
Referring to the disarming of the col
ored people, he declared that the colored
people of Louisiana would keep their
arms in spite of the white league of
Ku-Klux ruffians and Of all the gamblers,
thugs, thieves and villains who had been
organized in the interest of the Demo
cratic party, and especially in the inter-
est of the Senator from Louisiana. In
the course of the discussion which en-
sued, Butler asked Edmunds if he would
hold that either house of Congress had
the right to make an investigation in the
absence OF some protest or memorial, or
complaint from somebody in the State.
Edmunds-I most decidedly do.
BLooDYs HIRL TALK.
The discussion then drifted from out
RACES in the State of Louisiana to out
RACES in the State of Texas, and in this
discussion prominent parts were taken
by Senators Chandler, Blair, Spooner,
Reagan and Coke. Most notable in it
was the fact of Coke being called to
order for unparliamentary language.
directed against Chandler. Coke's VIC.
lation of the rules of order consisted in
his denouncing the statement that the
Republican party of Texas had failed to
put State ticket in the field because it
was afraid Of personal consequences as
absolutely and unqualifedly false.
without particle of foundation, made
for political effect, with dishonest and
unfair purpose and he added: "It is
statement not believed by the Senator
himself who makes it,"
On being called to order by Mr.. Chan
dler, Mr.. Coke promptly said: "Mr.
President, if have said anything der
ogatory to the dignity of the Senate, /
take it back and apologize for it,"
Spooner said in reply to Coke that the
suppression Of the truth was as bad as a
falsehood. The day when "the manner
of nigger driver" frightened men in the
United States Senate had gone by. and
gone by forever, which is happening
now. "You lreferring to the Southern
Senators) filed the land with graves.
That is all forgiven. The country is re-
presented in almost every public office
abroad by men who served against our
flag during the war. We make no com.
plant of it. We do not like it, and we
will try to prevent a recurrence
0f IT, The OnlV men I know uho bo,,o