Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
AT THE CAPITOL.
The Election 0utrages in
Texas Discussed.
"a TRIO OF INFAMOUS SCAMPS.'
The Admission of New Mexico into
the SisterhOOd Argued for
and Against.


and Against.
A Associsted Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, February 14.-The reso-
luton heretofore offered by Stewart for
a select committee of seven Senators on
the irrigation and reclamation of arid
lands with clerk at sc per day. was
agreed to.
Moran offered an amendment to the |
resolution reported from the Committee
on Elections and Privileges, which was
laid on the table and ordered printed. 1t
instructs the committee so to frame legis- |
lation on.tbe subject Of elections that it
shall not apply to any State where the
constitution and laws provide ample se-
curity for the honest exercise for the
right to vote, for the just and impartial
counting and return of votes, and for the
Just, impartial and true ascertainment
and certi6cation of the results, and in
the States where those requirements have
been honestly complied with.
Wilson, of Iowa, addressed the Senate
in support of the bill relating to imported
liquors, introduced by Frye on the 21st
of December, 1887, reported back ad-
versely from the Judiciary Committee on
the 10Th of March, 1888, and then placed
on the calendar. No action was taken.
The Senate then resumed considera
ton of the resolution reported from the
Committee ON Privileges and Elections,
and was addressed by Coke. He de-
clared the report of the committee un-
lust, one-sided and partisan. 1t was
based principally on the testimony of
three memorialists, Hackworth, Moore
and Schultze, and took no note
of the testimony of twenty.seven wit
nesses to the effect that Hackworth
and Schutze were men of infamous
character and unworthy of credit, snd
that Moore was about as bad as the
others. He condemned, as the people
of Washington county and of Texas con-
demned, all violations of the law there,
and declared that the attempt to fix the
responsibility for them on that people
had no support except the testimony Of
''the infamous trio and some of their
vilest coadjutors." These three had
tried to make it appear that they were
forced to leave the county because of
their politics, while he declared
that when the memorialists lost
the public Offices which they had
held in the county, they were covered all
over with indictments for official mall
feasance. Coke sent to the Clerks desk
and had read counter memorial of the
citizens of Brennan, painting in very
dark colors the characters of Haekworth
and Schutze, denying their material allie
IN in
side of the troubles in Washington
county. Without concluding his speech
Coke yielded for other business, and
after executive session, the Senate ad-
journed.
WASHINGTON, February l4.-In the
House the Senate bill passed. providing
for the reference of writs Of error to the
| United States Supreme Court in all cases
involving the question of jurisdiction Of
the court below.
| Senate amendments were non-concurr-
ed in to the legislature and executive ap-
preparation bills.
| The committee on appropriations re-
ported back the fortification appropria-
ton bill with Senate amendments. Re-
ferred to committee Of the whole.
The conference report on the Senate
bill for admission of the State of South
Dakota, which is total disagreement,
was agreed to and new conference was
ordered.
Baker, of New York, offered resolu-
tion giving the House conferees the fol-
lowing instructions: First, to exclude
the Territory of New Mexico from the
bill; second, to amend the bill so as to
provide for admission of South Dakota
by proclamation of the President under
the Sioux Falls constitution; third, that
the proposed States OF North Dakota,
Montana and Washington be admitted
on the same basis, either by proclama-
tion of the President or by formal acts
of admission.
Cox, of New York, offered a SUBJ
stitute differing only from Bakers prop
osition in that it provides for the admis-
sion of North Dakota, Montana and
Washington by proclamation of the
President.
Springer insisted on retaining in the
bill the provision for the admission of
New Mexico. Symes, of Colorado, de-
clared that no petition had been
presented and no bill introduced to show
that the people of New Mexico desired
admission into the Union. He did not
see why the people of New Mexico
should be forced into the Union by hav-
ing a provision tackled on to the Dakota
bill for political purposes. Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, argued against the
exclusion of New Mexico. Wilson, of
Minnesota, spoke against the proposition
that the House should yield in regard to
New Mexico. If it was known that the
House was firm in its position, the Sem
ate would recede from it's disagreement
to the House amendment. Joseph (New
Mexico) said the Oldest Territory in the
Union came knocking for the fourth time
at the doors of Congress, asking for ad-
mission. He would rather be citizen
of a Republican State than Of Demo-
cratic Territory. Rogers (Arkansas)
thought the time had arrived when the
whole Territorial system ought to be
wiped out. He would adopt a
Constitutional amendment preventing
Utah, an impure sister, from coming
into the sisterhood of States, and then
admit every other Territory as State.
Baker accepted Cox's resolution as q
substitute for his own,
Breckenridge of Kentucky, demanded
q division on the instructions, and vote
was first taken upon that portion of the |
resolution instructing the conferees to |
eliminate New Mexico from the bill. It |
WAS aOrQod IN vooo 1oS, ~orc 1On L. /