Butte semi-weekly miner., 1889-02-16
HEMPHILL'S HOT SHOT.
A SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSMAN
MEETS THE ENEMY BRATELY.

MEETS THE ENEMY BRATELY.
He Shows Up the Absurdity and Hypocric,
of the Republican Arguments About
the Negro Suffrage and Representation
Why do not Northern Republican
States Elect Colored Men to Congress
The South the Only Section that Ii
Represented by the Black Race
WASHINGTON, February 13.-In the Sen
ate Hale presented q conference report on
the diplomatic aud consular appropria'
tion bill, which was agreed to after q state
ment by Hale Tin reply to question o'
sherman) that the appropriation Of hal
a million for the protection Of American
interests in Samoa be retained, and that
the appropriation of one hundred thou
sand dollars for coaling station at
Pago-Pago had been transferred to the
naval appropriations bill, which passed
the Senate yesterday.
Iu6 OcudUc Jill IOE UuO 1SCOE vi
the amount Of money expended, and invss
tigation assumed by California growing
out OF Indian hostilities. was, on motion
of Stewart, taken from the calendar and
passed.
The Senate then proceeded to the
House to assist in counting the electoral
vote.
The Senate returned to it's own chamber
- DO hnhof ~
the Senate tellers, reported the result OF
the counting and ascertainment of the
electoral votes for President and Vice
President of the United States.
The report was ordered entered at
length on the journal"
PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS.
The resolution reported from the COM
mission on privileges and elections, in.
structing that committee to revise the ex-
listing law regulating the election of men,
bers of Congress, was taken up, and Ev-
arts spoke in it's support. After carefully
going over the case and read.
ing the petitions, ETC., Evarts
said the great question had come,
at last. to be whether there is to be tolera-
ted in this country an authority and per-
sistent power that to set aside the govern
ment of the constitution and of the laws.
If there should prove to be an irreconcila-
BILE conflict between public opinion in Texas
or in New York, and the public opinion of
the country at large, his opinion was that
the opinion of the whole country must
finally prevail.
Coke obtained the floor, and the Senate
adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 13.-The House
committee on agriculture to-day decided to
report adversely the bill introduced by
Thompson, of California, for the develop.
ment and arrangement of silk culture in the
United States. The bill proposed to create
a division of silk culture in the department
of agriculture, and to establish expert
mental silk culture stations throughout the
United States.
Hemphill spoke at great length, and in a
sarcastic vein. All this talk about an un-
fair election law in South Carolina was
nonsense. The people of South Carolina
believed the negro should have his rights,
but they did not believe he should have all
his rights and the W hite mans too. If the
colored men were so dear to the people of
the North, as indicated by the speeches Of
some OF the gentlemen on this floor,
why did not some of the Northern States
ELECT coLoRED MAN TO CONGRESS
and make living example OF his fitness to
make laws for the people OF the United
States? There were a number OF states in
the North which would not have a shadow
OF chance of being carried by the Repub-
licans except for the colored race, and yet
not in a single instance had there been a
man elected to Congress who had a tinge of
color in his blood.
Hopkins OF Illinois asked Hemphill if he
knew OF Northern state where q colored
man aspires in that direction; and il he
did not know that the colored men were
taken care OF in the North by the white
men.
II know that" cried Hemphill, sarcasti-
cally, II know that | have never known q
colored man in Northern state who had
the presumption to suppose they would
elect him to an Office, even il he did aspire
to it,"
This aroused the Republicans, and Messrs.
Cheadle, Funston, Owen. Rowell and Others
were on their feet Immediately, plying
Hemphill with questions, which neither he
nor any one else was able to hear on &C.
count Of the
6hEAI OONf OoioC> AN LIE a0OoH
and the persistent demand for regular
order. Finally, Rowell's voice was heard
above the rest, declaring that in Illinois,
colored men had been elected to the legis.
lature.
Hemphill responded that this was so
common in South Carolina that he would
not think of mentioning it. Hemphill con.
tinued to cite incidents to show the bad
treatment of the negro in the North, telling
OF the colored men employed in tobacco
warehouse in Marion, Indiana, being or.
dered to leave town on pain OF summary
punishment. Colored children were turned
out of white schools at Fort Scott, Kansas,
and white people at Oxford, Ohio, were
protesting against the admission OF colored
children to white schools.
In response to this last assertion,
Williams, OF Ohio, declared that Oxford
was q town with twenty-four hundred
Democratic majority. uaughter.)
Hemphill contiL ued, saying he did not
know any people more interested in free
ballot and fair count and some just solu.
tion OF the negro problem than the people
OF the South.
LaFollette OF Wisconsin, said that Hemp.
hill demonstrated one thing clearly, thatin
the centers of Democracy and ignorance in
the North, the behavior toward the negro
was just the same as in the South. He
warned the gentleman on the other side
that the majority would ultimately control
in every corner OF the union. What would
the gentleman think if colored men turned
and said: "The villalny taught us we will
execute, and it will 60 hard if we do not
better the instructions" From the blood.
hound and the raw-hide to South Carolina
election laws was but little step.
Dodge of Massachusetts,, said that Hemp.
hills argument was the old argument that
You're another" He went on to review
the methods which, he said, were practiced
in the South to
sTIFLE THE VOICE OF THE MAJORITY,
referring to the Clayton case in Arkansas
and the Withholding OF certificates from
Republican congressman elected on ths
face of returns in West Virginia and Ten
nessee. Did the gentleman suppose thu
people of the North were going to submit
to such thing as that?
After further debate by Tarsney
Cutcheon and others, Powell closed tht
debate for the Republicans, saying that
notwithstanding all the assaults made
upon it. Robert Small's majority Of 12C
votes still lived.