Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-28
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.


WASHINGTON, September 27th-In the
Senate to-day, the House amendment to
the Senate bill appropriating $10O 600 to
aid the yellow fever sufferers, having been
laid before the Senate, was non-concurred
in and conference ordered.
Sherman reported back the resolution
offered by him, for an inquiry as to the
state of the relations between the United
States and Great Britain and the Dominion
of Canada, and it was placed on the calen-
der
The conference report on the sundrv
civil appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to-
The resolution offered by Chandler for
an inquiry into the last Louisiana election.
involving the choice of United States SEN
ator, was taken up.
Gibson said he was under the impression
that the American people were weary of
such unconstitutional and revolutionary
means to revise the relations between the
people of the States and Federal Govern
ment. This resolution arraigned an inde-
structible State, because the States had
been so characterized by the Supreme
Court of the United States. What, he
asked, was the occasion of q resolution so
formidable in its scope, so comprehensive
and so fatsl, if well founded, to one of the
commonwealth of the Union? There was
not complaint from any part of the peo-
pie of that State asking the Senate to pro-
tect them in their rights, political or civil.
He criticised the course of Chandler in
reading before the Senate private letters
and newspaper extracts assailing the peo-
pie of Louisiana, and spoke at considerable
length.
Chandler replied to Gibson's statement
that the conservative people of the country
-x-Q arxy Df sprt ,,,t<~ l. lc..-
Southern States. He (Chandler) did not so
understand the temper of the American
people. He believed what they weary of
were the frauds, false countings, and muir
ders of legal voters that were going on in
the South in order to make that section
solid, and to enable it to govern the North
and the country. The charge was that the
outi ages, murders of the colored people in
Louisiana and other Southern States were
committed for political reasons. They were
not sporadic in their nature-thev were
part of widespread and deliberate system
OF political action on the part of the DEM
ocratic party in order to control Congress
and the Presidency.
Referring to the disarming of the coiored
people, he declared that the eolored people
of Louisiana would keep their arms in
spite of the white league of kuklux ruff
fans and of all the gamblers thugs, thieves
and villains who had been organized in
the interest of the Democratic party, and
especially in the interest of the Senator
from Louisiana
In:the course of the discussion which en-
sued Butler asked Edmunds if he would
hold that either House os Congress had a
right to make an investigation, of its own
motion and in the absence of some protest
or memorial or complaint from somebody
in State.
Edmunds--" most decidedly do.''
The discussion then drifted from oat-
! RACES in the State Of Louisiana to outrages
| in the State of Texas, and in this discussion
prominent parts were taken by Senators
Chandler, Blair, Spooner, Reagan and
| Coke. The most notable incide OF in it was
the fact of Coke being called. to order fol
anparliamentary language directed aeains
Chandler. Coke's violati On of the rules O
| order consisted in his d.enouncing the state
meut that the Repr.olican party Of Texa.