Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-24

to him was not given to him by nation
or by majority of its people, but by.
sovereign states which had commissioned
him to be their chief magistrate. State
rights, he said, had held the ladder for
Benjamin Harrison to ascend the presi-
Dental chair, had given senators their
prerogatives and had lifted the Republi-
can party out of the slough of despond-
ency and over the hill of difficulty and
brought it within sight Of the goal of de-
sres He had been amazed and aston
ished when he read Mr.. Hoar s
resolution graTely requiring the
senate to enter into an inquiry
of the election of members Of the house
of representatives. If anything more
unAmerican or more in conflict with the
spirit of the American constitution could
have been suggested, he was at a loss to
conjecture what that thing was. The
resolution was revolutionary, as it indi-
Gated a tendency on the part of the senate
to usurp the foundations of the house of
representatives. 1t was a resolution to
impeach the character OF q sovereign
state, a resolution which sought
to undermine one of the pillars of
the federal government and TO obliterate
from the national flag one Of its glitter
ing stars. No evidence had been re-
ported to the senate III support of the res
olution, nothing had been presented but
anonymous letters and petitions of de-
feated candidates for Office in Louisiana.
Mr. Daniels continued at great length
after which Mr.. Hoar said there was
abundant constitutional authority for the
proposed investigation. As to the
spectre of state rights sought to
l,e
question involved in the resolution.
What was assailed was not local self
government. 1t was government gener-
ally which the senator from Virginia and
his associates were trying to break down
in this country. That senator had asked
what facts were depended on in bringing
forward the proposition. Did not that
senator know that within six weeks a
man who was cOutesting a seat in other
house had been shot down while he was
making his contest? Did he not know
the history Of political ofenses
over certain states in the South. Gen.
Sheridan had declared some years since
that more Republicans had been murdered
for their political opinions in the state of
Louisiana alone than had fallen IN battle
on both sides in the Mexican war. Mr..
Hoar went on TO comment on the small
ness of the congressional vote in the
Southern states, and gave figures to show
that while two years ago the vote for
delegate in disfTanchised Dakota was
over l04 zoo the aggregate votes of TWEEN
fy-five congressional districts in the
South were only SO 600. 1t seemed to
him that in those facts alone
there was reason enough TO make the
proposed inquiry He quoted from Mr..
heading of 'fShan Negro Majorities
Rule?'' and asked what that question
meant. There was no such thing, he
said as F'negro' in constitutional rights
and the question meant nothing more nor
less than 'Eshall majorities rule?' He
denied there Was anything sectional in
his proposition or that il meant an
attack on the state of Louisiana. If
the charges were true, that state was
lying helpless and bound at the feet of
band of conspirators. The charges
were not that Louisiana had been wrong,
but that Louisiana was suffering wrong
In further commenting on Mr.. Morgan S
magazine article Mr.. Hoar eulogIzed
Southern gentlemen for their bravery,
intelligence, conStancy and other good
qualities, but he warned them that with
i'm the lifetime of some who listened to
him there would be so 900 900
negroes dwelling in Southern states,
and that if the methods reported
were persisted in, white people
of the South were sowing a seed from
which was TO come harvest of horror
and blood to which the French revolution
or that of st. Domingo was light in COM
parison. The people of the North were
anxious to aid the South IN every possible
way il the South would only receive that
help and not spurn it.
After some further colloquy the senate
adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The house |
met at 10 o 'clock this morning, but there |
was a very Small attendance. Under the |
order the sneaker was proceeding to rec