The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-28
A Hot Debate in the Senate
Yesterday
ON LOUISIANA ELECTIONS.
The Talk Reminiscent of the Days
Just Preceding the War
The House.
SENATE.


appropriating 100000 to aid the yellow
fever sufferers, having been laid before
the Senate, Edmunds said he had ex-
amined it and was very much afraid it
missed the point aimed at-that was
the capacity to use any of the money in
aid of those sick and distressed and in
danger of starvation. In the hope,
therefore, that something better could
be done, he moved the Senate now con-
cur in the House amendment and ask
for conference. So ordered.
Call offered a resolution lnstructing
the committee on epidemic diseases to
consider the report before the adjourn
,ment of this session of Congress, of such
additional legislation as may be neoes-
sary and useful 10 prevent the spread of
contagious or infectious diseases from
foreign countries on the coasts and
boundaries of the United States, and
prevent and suppress it in Interstate
commerce; for the subsistence Of such
persons as may be detained by public
authorities.
Is was ordered that when the Senate
adjourn to-day, it be till Monday
next.
Sherman reported back the resolution
offered by him for an inquiry as to the
state of relations between the United
States and Great Britain, and the Do
Minion of Canada, and 1t was placed
on the calendar.
The conference report on the sundry
civil appropriation bill was presented
and agreed to.
The resolution offered by Chandler
60 int O.
ton, involving choice of United States
Senators, was taken up. Gibson said
thathe was under the impression that
the American people were weary OF
such unconstitutional and revolution
ary modes to revise relations between
the people of States and the Federal
government. This resolution ar
raigned an indestructible State
because the States had been
80 characterized by the Supreme Court
of the United States. What, he asked,
was the occasion of a resolution so
formidable in its scope. so comprehen-
sive and so fatal in the common
weaiths of the Union. There was no
complaint from any part OF the people
of that State asking the Senate to pro-
tect them in their rights, political or
civil. Criticizpg the course of Chandler
in reading before the Senate private
letters and newspaper extracts as
sociating the people of Louisiana,
Gibson said he would rather be "a dog
and bay the moon" than make him
self a scavenger Or medium by
which base impulses and neigh
borhood feuds and difficulties OF
his countrymen in any State
could be brought into such an august
body. For one, he (Gibson) did not
know of a1y recompense great enough
to induce him to inaugurate an lndIct-
ment against decency, Christianity,
civilization ard the good character of
his fellow citizens of New Hampshire.
Chandler replied to Gibson that the
Senator had said that the conservative
people of the country were weary OF
inquiries into the affairs OF Southern
States. He (Chandler) did not so I'M
derstand the temper Of the American
people. He believed that they were
weary of frauds, false counting and the
murder of legal voters that were going
on in the South in order to make the
election solid and to enable it to govern
the North and the country. The
charge was that the outrages
and murders of colored people in
Louisiana and other Southern States
were committed for political reasons.
They were not sporadic in their nature.
They were part of a widespread and
deliberate system Of political acton on
the part of the Democratic party IN or
der to control Congress and the Pres
idency. Referring to the disarming OF
the colored people he declared that the
colored people of Louisiana would keep
their arms in spite OF the White League
of Kukiux ruffians, and of all gamb-
Iers, thugs, thieves and villains VINO
had been organized in the interest OF
the Democratic party and especially IN
the interest of the Senator from Loulsl-
ana In The course Of the discussion
which ensued, Butler asked Edmunds
if he would hold that either house OF
Congress had the right to make an in
vestigation of its own motion In the
absence of some protest or memorial or
complaint from some body in the State.
EDNUNDs-I most decidedly do.
The discussion then drifted from out
RACES in the State of Loui 5iana to out
RACES in the State of Texas, and in this
discussion prominent parts were taken
bv Sens, ors Chandler, Blair, SpooDer,
Reagan and Coke. The most notable
incident in it was the fact OF Coke be-
ing called to ord r for unparllament-
airy LANGUAGE directed against ChaDd-
Ter. Coke's violation of the rules OF or
der consisted il his denouncing the
statement that the Republican party OF
Texas had failed to put State ticket IN
the field because it was afraid of per.
sonal consequences, as absolutely and
unqualifiedly false, without a particle
of foundation. made for political
effect and dishonest and unfair
purpose; and he added: at is
a statement not believed by
the Senator himself who makes it."
On being called to order by Mr..
Chandler, Mr.. Coke promptly said:
"Mr. President. if 1 have said anything
derogatory to the dignity of the Senate,
[ take it back and apologize for it."
Spooner said in reply to Coke that
the suppression of truth was IS bad as
falsehood. The day when 1.-The man
ner of the Niger driver" frightened
Omen in the United States Senate had
gone by and gone by forever. "You
(referring to the Southern Ssnators)