New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-07
CAPTAIN WHITE SEATED.
FoRTY-FIvE DEMOCRATS VOTE FOR HIM
THE VOTE 1877 TO 1854 sADDER AND WISER
ELECTIONS CoMNITTEE-MES NOT OF HIS
PARTY WHO VOTED FOR TIE

SIS OF THE VOTE.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Whcther the majority
of the House Committee on Elections is any better
looking tonight than it was this morning Is
doubtful, but certainly it knows more Al
though it was pretty well understood when the
House assembled to-day that majority of that
body would refuse to declare Captain White, of
Indiana, ineligible to his scat, very few among his
friends thought that the majority in his favor
would be so great. The debate which led up to
the vote to-day attracted less attention than it
would have done if it had not been for general
conviction that the majority of tlc Elections
Committee would be defeated by Democratic
votes. The speech of Mr.. Collins, a Democratic
member from Massachusetts,, provoked consider
able applause, and that Of Mr.. McAdOo, a Demo-
cratic member from New-Jcrsey, was received
with close attention.
Two NATURALIZED DEMOCRATS.
Messrs. Collins and McAdoo are both natural
lied American citizens of foreign birth, and their
utteranccs contained enough of the personal ele-
ment to make them attractive. The speech of Mr..
Johnston, of Indiana, a close and careful legal
argument, which showed that he possesses greater
strength Il lawyer than he has been heretofore
credited with by his brother lawyers in the
House Colonel Oates, OF Alabama, spoke against
White making an argument which seemed to in
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plea in behalf Of Davidson, the Democratic con-
teStee from the IVth Alabama District, whose case
| will come before the House within few weeks:
| Chairman Crisp OF the Elections Committee closed
| the debate on the Democratic side in strong ana
earnest speech, which might have been more ccc-
tive if delivered at the beginning of the debate
| in place of the scattering haIanguc delivered ~
| the youthful Mr. Barry. Of Mississippi. On the
| Republican side the debate closed by Henry
Cabot Lodge, Of MASSACHUSETTS,, who easily main
tanned the position which he had Assumed i'll the
front rank Of dcbatcrS.
SAMUEL !. RANDALL's Effective EFFORTS
There was one man on the Democratic side who
did not open his mouth during the whole discus
sion in debate, except at the close to ask par
liameEtary question. but that man was extremely
busy to-day. lie was seen moving about the
| House holding short conferences with members
here and there, and his industrious efforts did not
! cease until the vote was declared. That man
was Samuel j. Randall. of Pennsyly lyanla, VINO
| voted for the substitute offered by Mr.. koWcll,
of Illinois, declaring Captain White TO be eligible.
| Mr.. Randall's colleague, William Il. scott, was
| passive, and did not vote Oh either side oI the
! question.
l. The result Of the vote on the substitute offered
| by the Republican minority of the Committee
| was: Yeas, 1877; nays, lOJ-a majority OF 81
AN ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE.
The affirmative votes were cast by 139 Repub-
licans, 45 Democrats, and 3 Independents, and the
negative votes were cast by lOi Democrats and
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South who voted that Captain White is Ameri-
can citizen were Mcssrs. Barnes DOcllery, O'Neil
and Stone, of Missouri; Compton. Rayncr and
Rusk. of Maryland; CulberSOn, Hare, Sayres,
Stewart and Lanham. Of Texas: Enloe Phelan,
Glass and Neal, of Tennessee; FOney, OF Ala
bama; Latfoon, of Kentucky, and Rowland, of
North Carolina.
Anderson and Springer, Of Illinois; Bliss; Bryce,
T. j. Campbell, Cochran, Mcrriman and Mahoncy,
OF New-YOrl; Burnett and Collins, of Massachu-
setts; Bynum and Shveley Of Indiana Chapman
donald and Wilson, Of Minnesota McAdoo,. OF
New-Jcrsey Mckinney, of New-llampshire; Nc,
| Shane OF Nebraska Randall and SOwden, OF
| Pennsylvania, and Weaver, Of Iowa.
The Independents who voted for White were
Anderson Of Iowa; Nichols of North Carolina,
and Smith. of Wisconsin. Hopkins, of Virginia,
| independent. voted against White.
close analysis Of the vote would indicate that
some 3 20 Democrats have not abatcd Their
| resentment on account Of the treatment which
Thobe received at the hands of the Elections Com
| mttee They seem to desire that the Committee
! shall he made to understand that there are limits
| beyond which it cannot 90.
| cox .ND CUMMINGS KEEP IN THE TRACES
In addition TO that feeling there was, of course,
restraint upon certain Democratic members who
are naturalizcd citizens who hold their seats in
! Congress mainly by the votes of naturazcd citl-
zens This consideration not potent with all
| the Democrats however For example, McSsrS.
| Iawlcr of Illinois. and 6. S. Cox and Amos y.
| Cummings of Ncw-Yorll, all Of whom were under
stood to be in favor of Captain White up to the
| last moment. voted against him when their names
were called bu, all of them represent Districts
| in which a large proportion of the voters is com
posed of naturazed citizens Messrs. S. 5. Cox,
| Amos J. Cummings and Frank Lawler, deserve
credit for their courage and independence.