Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-14
F|FT|ETH CONGRESS,
The Suppression of the Colored Voters
Recently at Jackson, Miss.
Chandler Makes It the Vehicle for 6
Stab at Lamar's Confirmation.
The Chinese Question Brought Up by
Senator Mitchell.
He and Senator Stewart Depict thu
Evils of Chinese immigration.
Preparing for the Paris International
Exposition Of 1889.

i Preparing for the Paris Information
Exposition Of 1889.
=, WASHINGTON, January 12.-Mr. Yes
I from the Committee On Commerce, reports
} a bill authorizing the construction of
bridge across the Columbia river at DALI
City, Oregon. Placed on calendar.
Mr.. Dawes, from the Committee on Ii
liam Affairs, reported lii aIthorlzny ..
appointment of a superintendent OF India
schools. Placed on calendar.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Chandlt
January 10 instructing the Committee o
judiciary to inquire into the suppressio
ofvotes ofcolored citizens Of Jackson, Miss
at the recent municipal election in that cit
and into the alleged participation in sue
suppression by the United States Distric
Attorney, Deputy Collector of Interna
Revenue and Deputy United States Maj
shall was taken up, and Mr.. Chandler ad
dressed the Senate in explanation and sup
port of it. He detailed at length the ALLEGED
| methods that were pursued to
1NTlA1IDATE NEGRO VOTERS
and read from a circular, in which tn
young men OF Jackson, Miss, announced
| their ultimatum which, among othel
things. declared that, having seen one o
their number helplessly murdered in th.
dark by a negro bully, set on by negro
policeman OF negro-cursed city, that tht
| corrupt radical negro government must
be wiped out any cost; that if negroes
ran for Office they should dc
warned all negroes
~rpting to foist upor
4 damnable machinery
lt." The colored citizens
all, instances surrounding them
net in convention, ha, resolved that
Z. would be unsafe for them TO attempt to
pte, and had consequently alb stained from
Wting, so that none but whites voted.
Tie Federal officers engaged il that bust.
nes. were Mr.. Harris, district attorney;
Mr.. Wilson, deputy collector 1of internal
reverue, and Mr.. Livingston, deputy United
States marshal He submitted that the
questi,n, although it affected only for the
time bling municipal election III the city
ofJackson, was one of national impt ,rtance.
The country this year was to EN- ter on a
presidential election-an election which
was to
DECIDE THE PRESIDENCY,
also to DECIDE the complexion OF the ma
tional House OF Representatives. In that
election at least 12, 100000 voters, repre-
senting 60,O0O,OOO OF American people
would participate. Among these voters
there were probably 100000 OF black
men, representing six or seven millions Of
their own race, and it was an important
question whether these 1 800, 600 black
men were or we're not to be allowed to vote.
1t was a question whether that matter
should be settled by fair vote Of all who
are voters under the Constitution or be
settled with 100000 OF these voters dis
ffanchised in pursuance OF that policy
which mas been deliberately adopted in the
capital OF the State nf Missi sippi, which
State was seeking to-day to have an Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court to aid
in passing upon the validity OF the consti-
tutiCnal amendments.
Mr.. Riddleberger remarked there was no
OF the fact that the resolution
was intended to affect matters that ought
to be considered only in executive session
and he gave notice that as to himself he
would vote for The confirmation OF Mr.. La
mar.
Mr.. Walthall was anxious that a resolu
tion should be adopted by the votes OF
those Senators whose views on the consti-
tutional power OF the Senate differed from
his own. If the proposition were to inves-
tigate town election in New Hampshire
he should vigorously oppose it. He
rourted the fullest investigation Of occur
rences at jackson, but he protested against
anv preiudgment OF the case.
Mr.. Jones. OF Arkansas, sent to the
clerks desk and had read kilograms sent
Oh January by Attorney General Gar
land to District Attorney Harris. OF Jack
son, containing the words: Il see by the
papers that you are mentioned personally
Us participating in political meetings re-
Gently at Jackson to suppress the colored
vote OF that city, and to prevent colored
people from running for office, by violence
and intimidation. Report fully to me at
once the whole proceeding and your con-
nection with it."
Mr.. George said his first impulse was to
let the resolution be adopted without any
debate or objection on his part. He would
vote for it, except for one insuperable OBJ
lection, and that was that it embraced
matters entirely outside the Jurisdiction
Of the Senate.
Mr.. Chandler called the attention of the
Senator's from Mississippi to the fifteenth
amendment which declared
that "the right OF citizens OF the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude." He conceived that
whenever in any election within any State
the right of any man to vote was denied
because he was black, that was proper
matter for investigation by the Senate. As
bearing upon the occurrences at Jackson,
he read from the Brandon (Miss.) Republic,
a Democratic paper, OF January 5, an ..rti-
Gle describing the riotous and disorderly
conduct which prevailed in Jackson imme-
diately preceding the last election.
The resolution was adopted-yeas 20,
nays 24-a party vote, except that Riddle
berger voted with the Democrats while the
two Mississippi Senators were excused from
voting.
Mr.. Hoar from the Committee on Priv
leges and Elections, reported a resolution
to pay Daniel B. Lucas, of West Virginia,
81 900 in full for all expenses and salary
as claimant of a seat in the Senate. Re-
ferred.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Mr.. Mitchell called up the bill introduced