Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-02-14
ReSorted to the Mace.
The Emblem of Authority Pa
raded in the HOUSE
A WILD LOT OF sTATEsKfN.

the SeHt-FOrmal Counting and Declara-
tion of the Electoral vote-Harrison,
eSS; Cleveland, I6S-Our Naturalization
Laws and Their Weak Points.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 1.-The south
ern question was debated in the house yester.
day with some of the old-time warmth, and
at the close Of the debate the members must
have been forcibly reminded Of former scenes
in the chamber. The Smalls- Elliott contest
was the cause of the diversion. Hemphill OF
South Carolina began the debate with
speech in which he charged that the north
did not treat the negro with that respect and
fairness that gave it the right to rebuke the
south. No man with tinge Of color in bis
blood had been elected to congress from that
section and he had never known a colored
man In the north who had the assurance or
presumption to suppose that they would elect
him to Office even If he did aspire to it. Con-
tinuing, Hemphill said that he proposed to
show from a Chicago paper, published In 1887,
that a colored man had not as many rights
in Chicago as In Mobile and New Orleans
Adams OF Illinois demanded specifications
Hemphill quoted from the paper to show
that in Chicago a colored boy could not get
into trades union, and could not learn to be
a mason or a carpenter.
Adams-Neither can any American boy.
IF that's so, exclaimed Hemphill, "Chicago
is worse than thought it wasn [Laughterl
He referred to several other instances of al
legged discrimination against the negro In the
north, and concluded with the advice that the
north had better do some missionary work,
particularly on the question of honesty in
elections
Lafolette of Wisconsin said that the gentle
man from South Carolina (He,nphill], in his
excursion through the north, had demon
strated one thing, that in the centres of
Democracy and ignorance in the north the
behavior towards the negro was just the same
as it was in the south
Lodge Of Massachusetts, said that the argu-
ment OF the gentleman from South Carolina
lHemphilll was the old, old argument that
you're another" He knew very well that
there had been time when the north had
bowed to the dictates of the south and
had wronged the black man just as much as
the south had done. There might be in
stances of race prejudice in the north. If
there were every right-thinking man in the
north regretted them and wished to have
them stopped. But that did not excuse the
refusal of the right OF suffrage In the south
ern states. There must besfar elections in the
south and In the north, in the east and In the
west The north had been too careless, too
tolerant, too easy going, and this debauchery
OF the election, this striking at the funda
mental right, were creeping in and were get
ting dangerous, and the people of the north,
who for the last ten years had passed 1t by
UNDECIDED, had come within the last six
months TO take an entirely new and just view
Of the subject. 1t was the determination Of
the Republican party and of the north to Sc
cure free elections.
Tarsney of Michigan said that he must pro-
test against the assumption by the Repub-
licans that they were the sole guardians of the
colored man. The highest law he knew was
the constitution and his own understanding,
and when the Republicans insisted that this
colored man was entitled to q seat in this
house they were in error.
Crisp of Georgia, in concluding the argu-
ment for the majority of the committee,
denied the truth of the general statements
that had been made touching election out
RACES in the south. The Republicans did not
understand that a great majority of the
colored men of the south cared very little
which party was in power; that they were
utterly Indifferent to the great issues that oc-
of the committee had endeavored to try this
case according to the evidence. The minority
put at defiance all rules of evidence and
began and ended their statement with news
paper articles. Against the unsworn state
ment of the gentleman from Massachusetts,
[Lodgel, he wished TO place the sworn state
ment Of that other Massachusetts, gentleman,
Mr.. Bowies-who was now living in South
Carolina
Johnston Of Indiana tried to interrupt the
speaker, but Crisp replied to him with the re-
mark that the gentleman was initiating the
tactics of Smalls. In a state where they re-
sorted to blocks of five perhaps they had
better look at home before they went abroad
This remark brought the Indiana Republicans
to their feet. Crisp declined to permit inter
ruptions, and in the midst of tbs uproar his
time expired.
Then scene Of intense tumult and con-
fusion ensued During the delivery Of Crisp's
speech the main aisle of the house had become
thronged with members of both parties, who
kept up an incessant demand for the regular
order. The speaker pro tenn. attempted
vainly to quell the tumult, which
was gradually assuming the proportions
of riot. He was finally obliged to call
upon the sergeant-at-arms. That official,
armed with the silver mace of authority,
proceeded up the main aisle scattering the
members on all sides, but even with his as
sistance it was many minutes before the pre-.
siding officer could bring the body to state
Of comparative quiet Then Crisp asked
leave to extend his remarks In The Record
but Johnston Of Indiana objected unless be
could be given the same permission In an
swer, he said, to the fling made against hi.
state by the gentleman from Georgia. A,
Rowelrs suggestion, however, leave wa,
granted to Crisp to print and johnson again
came forward with his request, but OFer
rail- of Virginia objected.