St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-14
He GREW UNTO HIS SEAT.
The House Decides the Smalls-
Elliott Contest by Seating ELI.

day, in the Smalis-Elliott contested
election case, decided to seat Elicit by
vote of yeas 143, nays i26. The speaker
laid before the house three messages
from the president announcing his dis
approval of private pension bills. Re
ferred to the committee on invalid pen
sions. Mr.. coates, of Alabama, from
the committee on judiciary, reported a
bill to amend the naturalization laws.
Ordered printed and recommitted. Mr..
Wise, of Virginia, from the committee
on naval affairs, reported the
bill for reWarding Chief Engineer
George W. Melville for meritori0us SER
vices. Private calendar. At 1855 leg
iSiative business was suspended. At
o'clock the joint session to count the
electoral vote was begun. 1t lasted UNI
resumed the consideration of the Smails-
Elliott contested election case. MIR.
Hemphill, of South Carolina, made a
very long speech. He asserted that the
people of the North did not show more
appreciation of the negro than the peO-
pie Of the South. Why did not some of
the Northern states, he asked, elect a
colored man to congress. and make a
living example of his fitness to make
laws for the people of the United States.
Not single instance had there been of
man elected to congress who had a
tinge of
COLOR IN HIS BLOOD.
l have never known colored man in
a district in a Northern state who had
the assurance or presumption to sup
pose that they would elect him to office
even if he did aspire to it. Messrs.
Cheadle, Funston, Owen. Rowell and
others were on their feet plying Mr..
Hemphiil with questions which neither
he nor anybody else was able to hear
Cd account of the great confusion in the
house. Continuing, Mr.. Hemphill said
that he proposed to show from Chi
cago paper published in 1887, that
colored man had not so many rights in
Chicago as in Mobile and New Orleans.
Mr.. Adams, of Illinois, demanded
specifications. Mr. Hemphill quoted
from the paper to show that in
Chicago colored boy could not get
into a trades union and could not learn
to be mason or carpenter. MI.
''If that's So" exclaimed Mr. Hemphill,
"Chlcago is worse than l thought it
was" Laughter. He referred to
several other instances of alleged dis
elimination against the negro i'll the
North. and in concluding said: sit did
not lie in the mouths of people who
had treated this race as the people of
the North had treated them to give the
South advice On this question, and par
ticularly on the question of honesty in
elections. until they had
DONE SOME MISSIONARY WORK
among themselves. Mr.. Lafollette, of
Wisconsin, said that the gentleman
from South Carolina (Mr. HemphllD, in
his excursion through the North had
demonstrated one thing-that in the cen
tiers of Democracy and ignorance in the
North the behavior towards the negro
was just the same as it was in the South.
Mr.. Lodge, of Massachusetts. said that
the argument of the gentleman from
South Carolina, (Mr. HemphilD was the
old, old argument that you're an
other" 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 instances of race prejudice in
the North. If there were, every right
them and wished to have them stopped.
But that did not excuse the refusal of
the right of suffrage in the Southern
states. He then went on to review the
methods which he said were practiced
in the South to stitie the
VOICE OF THE MAJORITY.
There must be fair elections in the
South and in the North, in the East and
the West. The North had been too
careless, too tolerant, too easy-going;
and this debauchery of the election,
this striking at the fundamental right,
were creeping in and were getting dan
gerous; and the people of the North, who
the last ten years, had passed it by UNI
needed, had come within the last six
months to take an entirely new and just
view of the subject. 1t was the deter
mination of the Republican party and
of the North to secure free elections.
Mr.. Tarsney. of Michigan, said that he
must protest against the assumption by
the Republicans that they were the
sole guardians of the colOred man. The
highest law he knew was the constitu
ton and his own understanding, and
when the Republicans insisted that the
colored man was entitled to seat in
the house they were in error. Mr..
Rowell, of Illinois, closed the debate
for the Republicans, saying that not
Withstanding all of the
ASSAULTS MADE UPON 1T,
Robert Small's majority OF 125 votes
still lived. Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, in
concluding the argument for the ma
jOrity of the committee, denied the truth
OF the general statements that had been
made touching election Outrages in the
South. The Republicans did not under
stand that great majority OF the col
Ored men of the South cared very little
which party was in power; that they
were utterly Indifferent to the great
issues that occupied gentlemen in the
North. The majority of the committee
had endeavored to try this case accord
ing to the evidence. The minority put
at defiance all rules of evidence, and be-
gan and ended their statement with
newspaper articles. Against the I'M
sworn statement of the gentlemen from
Massachusetts LODGE he wished to
place the sworn statement OF that other
Massachusetts gentleman, MIR. Bowles,
who was now living in South Carolina.
Mr.. johnson, of Indiana, tried to inter
rupt the speaker, but MI. Crisp waved
him off with the remark that the gentle
man was initiating the tactics of
Smalls. In state where they re-
sorted to
s'BLOCKS OF FIVE"
perhaps they had better look at home
before they went abroad. This remark
brought the Indiana Republicans to
their feet. Mr.. Crisp declined to per-
nit interruptions, and in the midst of
the uproar his time expired. Then
scene of intense tumult and confusion
ensued. During the delivery of Mr..
Crisp's speech the main aisle of the
house had become thronged with men,
eessant demand for the regular order.
The speaker pro tenn. attempted vainly
to aueli the tumult, which was grad
ually assuming the proportions of
riot. He was finally obliged to call upon
the sergeant-at-armS. That official,
armed with the silver mace of author
ity. proceeded up the main aisle, scat
oil siloS hut