Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-19

cision, and declared his conviction that
Packard had been illegally deprived of his
office. The Democratic party had not only
by fraud and violence sought to control the
Presidential election, but it had actually
succeeded in depriving of their offices the
duly elected Governor and members Of the
Legislature.
Then he proceeded TO read extracts from
speech made in the late canvas by Senator
Eustis, in which he declared it to be the.
determination of the white men of
louisiana to solve the race question with
out regard to Northern sentiment. IF
that said Sherman, was the desire and
determination of the white people of
Louisiana, the Constitution of the United
States would have to be changed"
When it was said that there must be a
white mans government in Louisiana, it
meant an unrepublican government. The
people of the South, instead of seeking to
win the eolored people by kindness. had
maintained systems of domineering, crime
and violence. He had felt called upon to
make these remarks, partly to correct the
historical error into which many persons
had fallen, and to show that not only did
the Returning Board of Louisiana have
sufficient evidence before them of fraud,
and violence, and outrage in the election of
1876, but that the present Governor of that
State, and one of its Senators, had con-
fessed all, and more than had ever been
claimed by the Returning Board. If ever
anybody had any doubt of the election of
Hayes, that doubt had been removed by
the admission Of the very men who had
participated in the wrong Of that day in
Louisiana.
Sherman continued his defense of
Hayes election, and made general ar
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ern States of intimidating negro voters
He was listened to with profound atten-
ton.
Vest said he still denied the honesty and
legality of that election. The question
which he had asked about Packard and
Hayes had not been answered satisfactorily.
Vest referred to a speech made in the
Senate by Blaine, in which Blaine declared
that the elections of Hayes and of Packard
were indissolubly connected. Vest passed
on to the question of the Louisiana Re-
turning Board, and asked why it had been
that every man connected with the Re
turning Board, from the highest TO the
lowest, had been rewarded with Office
There was no page of Administration his
tory that demanded more explanation than
that which stared him in the face. He
Vest stood there to youch that whatever
had been done in Louisiana on that occa-
sion been done-not to bring about an
unfair election, not to trample on the
ballot of any human being--but to defend
themselves against an outrageous and
criminal conspiracy against their property
at the hands of men who had gone there
for the single and sole purpose of plunder.
The House.
WASHINGTON, April 1Sth.--In the House
to-day Belmont introduced bill to pro-
hibit the coming of Chinese laborers into
the United States. Referred. Its main
provisions are similar to those contained in
the new treaty. The Act of May 6, 1882, is
repealed.
The conference report upon the bill au-
thorizing the President to arrange con-
ference between the United States and the
South and Central American Republics,
Hayti, San Domingo and the Empire of
Brazil CTownsend's Zollverein measure)
was agreed to.
The bill to establish a Department of
Labor was passed.
The bill to create Boards of Arbitration
for the settlement of controversies and diff
1erences between interstate common car
riers and their employees was considered in
Committee of the Whole
O'Neill briefly explained the provisions
of the measure.
Parker of New York and others opposed
the bill as being weak and insufficient.
Buchanan and Others favored it.
The debate finally drifted into tariff
discussion, which continued some little
time.
Finally on motion of Cannon, the sixth
section-wbich provides for the appoint
ment by the President of Boards of Arbi-
tration-was amended by substituting the
words Commissioners " for ''Arbitrators''
and decision " for award"
The committee rose and the House ad-
iourned