The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-12
NEGRO VS.. S.AN'iL0-SAX0N.
nuE sMALLs-RLLIoTT CONTEST UP
IN The HOUSE.

bloody Shirt Line.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lin the House
tbis morning, after objection by Mr.. Oates
If Alabama to the request Of Mr.. Johnston
If indiana, for immediata consideration Of
.be Senate bill for the relief of Warren Hall,
and after brief passage of words between
Messrs. Ho kins of Illinois and Hooker of
Mssisslppi over another war claim bill
VIII ch was not taken up, the House was
called upon to decide what business it
vould proceed to transact. Mr.. Hemphill
of South Carolina was on the floor demand
in0 recognition on behalf of the committee
IN the District of Columbia, and Mr. Blount
Of Georgia brought forward the postofflce
anpropriation bill for consideration.
Mr.. Crisp of Georgia antagonizsd both of
these gentlemen, and, as a question OF
highest privilege, called up the Smalls-
Elliott contested election case.
MIR. Blount the eupon raised the question
of consideration. The House determined
by vote Of 131 yeas to SO nays to consider
the election case. Twenty-four dem crars
-Messrs. Bynum, Chipman, Crisp, Cum
mlngs. Dargan, Glass, Holman, Hooker,
Johnston of Norrh Carolina, LaGdeS, Law
Ter, McDona d, Mckinney, Moore, Morse.
O'Ferrall, Cultivate, Spinola, Taulbee,
Thompson OF CdlllOTnld, Tracey, W alker,
Wise and Yoder-Yoted with the reDubE-
cans in the aft NATIVE.
Mr.. Crisp then took the floor for the pre-
sen alton Of the case, promising his re-
marks with stat ment that at 2 o'clock
tomorrow he would ask the House to sus-
tain the demand for the previous question.
In considering the case, he said the COM
mittee ad considered it in the hight of es-
tablished law.
GUIDED BY LAW RULES.
In consideri the evidence the COM
mittee bad applied The rules Established in
courts of justice He would not ask the
House to appy Y to the consideration of
the case any rule which would
not be applied in a court of Justice
He protested against that other So
called rule which was sometimes invoked
in the II use in the trial Of election cases
that the House was bound by no RUE of law
or of evidence, but that because its decl-
sion was alb bsolutely final and conclusive it
had the right to arrive at That conclusion
in manner at variance to the rules eseab-
lshed by the courts He then proceeded to
review the evidence in the case, first calling
the attention of the House to tue alleged
fraud il the pDcOtalli8o precinct. There.
more ballots we g found in the box than
there were names on the poll list There
was no evidence to show who put in the
surplus ballots.
HOW THEY EVENED UP.
At the suggestion of Bampfield, who was
sun-ln law of he contestant enough bal
lots ere drawn from the box to make the
number remaining tally with the mum Der
on the poll Ii t. The drawing out Of the
excess seemed to have been doue in accord
ance with the law, in the presence of the
federal supervisors of the election and the
son-in-law Of the contestant.
In the Green Pond precinct no allegations
Of fraud were maze Until after the vote had
been counted aud 100 votes given to Elliott
and 35 to Smalls. The contestant then
brought forward $50 witnesses to swear that
they voted for Smalls As a specimen of this
testimony given by these witnesses he
quoted the evidence given by Matthew Ed
wards, who, after swearing that be voted
for Smalls, declared that he didn't have
nary ticket
THE BRICK CHURCH PRECINCT.
The minority claimed that in the precinct
of the brick Episcopal church 277 votes had
been illegally rejected on the ground that
the voters had not been properly registe ed.
The evidence did not show that votes had
been illegally rejected; and if the evidence
upon which the contestant relied were to
have weight with the House then, indeed
would decision Of election cases be a mock
cry ana shame. He thea called attention
70 the Gadsde precinct, where the man
ager OF the election refused to serve and
where, after 10 o'clock on election dav.
the federal supervisor appointed three
managers. The vote of this precinct
had very properly been thrown out
ana neither the contestant nor his attorney
had claimed that it should be counted. But
the minority of the committee came for
ward and contended that 45l votes there
cast Tor Smalls should be counted. Leaving
The details Of the case Mr.. Crisp proc seded
Q1nnTal pCl arip hat
Gie position OF the minority was that the
aLtrlc- being negro district must nece5-
Sarlly send a negro to congress.
DENUNCIAToRY EDITORIAL
lie criticized the minority for incorporat-
IHe IN lJs report newspaper editorial de-
hounclng the democrats of the Seventh con-
greS'onal district of South Carolina That
was, ID MS opinion, an improper method of
approaching decision of tae question of
NV lie then referred to the conviction of
ol'tIS Tor accepting a bribe while a state
senator and contended that that conviction
nad l"Ju ed him with the colored people.
Mr Ddlzel of Pennsylvania quired
"nat relevancy that had to the question of
now many votes Smalls received at the cleo
-, Mr. Crisp replied that the gentlemen on
.'e republican side assumed that because
o'eIe was colored majority in the district
majority would woe for colored man
ne prop sed to show that among the colored
people OF the district there were some good
nieh VINO rebelled against being dictated to,
d"u declined to vote for man who had
zen convicted Of crime. 1t was true
sua1 omalls had been pardoned by the
soFerhor but in the minds of estimable
men no pardon could wipe from him the
''oll hxed by conviction.
UrFoslIloN OF COLoRED REPUBLICANS.
ne quoted the evidence to show that
On ,'oIeu o. republicans were opposed to Smalls
bn account OF the manner Ia which he had
zen zen homl ated and on account OF his char
eF The minority of the committee
ri. '.uo Hght OF this testimony and charged
illnesses illnesses with perjury. He protested
,sa.ns1 the assumption that a mau, even
wusu an Ignorant black man, was not
solyy OF belief IL he chose 10 believe that
theohVict was not proper person to send to
t; W. uaiIS OF congress He denied the assump-
.' won that a man because he was oolored
tba, ntecessarlly republican. He admitted
La' the politicians were, but declared that
t,j u9 kIeat mass OF tie negroes we're not poll
slAnS; In South Carolina a good many
tUuBiul and violent acts had been com
,ILIvVeu by the republicans in the DAYS when
oEJ 'ggJ had had the ascendancy. Among the
Uuig,ehoiders had been some OF the most un-
gaagated scoundres that had ever been
'0''ere1 upon defenseless people.
RESULT OF THEIR CONDUCT.
NaE l.