Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-15
eth. CONGRATULATIONS SESSION.
WASHINGTON, February IA, 1889.
hennte.

Mr.. Morgan offered an amendment Il
the resolution reported from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, which was laid
on the table and ordered 90 be printed. II
ipstructs the committee so to frame
legislation on the subject OF elections that
II shall not apply to {. 3 State whose Con-
sntution and laws provide ample security
for The honest exercise OF the right 10 vote,
for inst aud impartial counting and the
return OF votes. and for a just, impartial, aud
true ascerlainment aud certidcati0n OF re-
.ults, and m which State these require
menis have been honestly complied with.
Mr.. Edmunds offered resolution. which
was agreed to. directing the Committee on
ommerce TO take into consideration the
question OF the expediency OF the purchase
| by the United states OF the Dismal Swamp
| Canal In the states OF Virginia and North
| Carolina, with the view TO ITS being Improved
and maize an adequate highway for com
merce between the Chesapeake bay and the
principai sounds OF North Carolina, and with
the view to utilizing the fresh water OF the
c nal aud is feeders in the basin for the
, meisl vessels Of the navy.
A conference was ordered on the legisla.
tive approp iaiion bill, add Nessfs. A lison,
Dawes, aud Cockrel were appointed con
| fsrrees.
rhe Senote then, at 2:l0. resumed the con.
| siderstIOn OF the resolution reported fIom
| the Committee on Privileges and Elections
and WAS addressed By Mr.. Coke. He mem
| toned The pleasure With which he had listen.
"a Yesterday 10 the adiahe aud even-tem-
/ pered statement Of Mr.. Egsrts. and said be
would have said nothing " that Senator's re-
marks had not been supplemented by the re-
port OF the Committee on Privileges and
Elections. which had been published IN To-
DAYS Record. li1t that report he could moi
permit to go uneballenged. lie declared, or
his fespon>ibilty as q man and senator,
that IL was unjust. one-sided, aud par
fisau. IL toe committee bad been prose.
eniors instead OF Judges, the inculpatory
testimony could not nave been more tho
roughly congregt ted ia the report, nor the
.xenlpatory testimony more thoroughly ex-
Guided. The sensie aud the country should
r.eoilect on reading the report that II was
politics. IL was based principally upon the
testimony OF three memorlAiists, dessrs.
Haekworth, Moore, ADD schultz, and took nc
uole OF the testimony OF twepty-seyen wit
nesses to the eject that HackwOrlh and
schultz were men OF infamous character and
unworthy Of credit aud that Moore was
about as had as the Others. tie condemned,
a. Tue people On washington county Abu 81
Texas condemned, sll violations OF The law
there, aud declared that the attempt TO ok
the responsibility for them on that people
had no support except the testimony
OF ssthe infamous trio and some oil their
yilest ell iuiors." These three had
tried 10 make II appear that they were
forced 10 leave the eonntry because OF their
politics, while the facs was, he asserted. tOai
they bad left II because they were regarded
a. moral lepers unit tor decent sssoe,afion.
tie would prove thai by reference 10 the
testimony OF the witnesses when bad pol
been rrcited In the report OF the eommittee.
lie declared that when the memonalists lost
Toe pa6lle odices which they nad held 10 The
county they were covered all over With In.
dsctmenis for Official mafesssnce.
Mr.. Soke sent 10 the Clerks desk and had
fead a counter-memoriai OF tne eillzens Of