St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-24
OUTRAGEs Ar THE POLLS.
Senators Devote Whole Day to
the Discussion of Alleged Elec-
ton Frauds in Various States.

Senators Devote a Whole Day to
the Discussion of Alleged Elec-
ton Frauds in Various States.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The senate
to-day devoted almost the entire day to
the discussion Of the resOl GtiOn for the
investigation of election frauds in vari-
Gus states. At the conclusion of the
morning hour. the senate by party
vote of 26 to % took up the election out
RACES resolution. Mr.. Harris gave no
tice that he would move to amend the
resolution by striking out the words re-
ferring to the election Of members OF
the state Legislature of Louisiana. Mr..
German moved that the resolution
which is utterly political in it's nature,
postponed until Monday. The motion
Daniel addressed the senate in opposi-
ton to the resolution. He began
by saying that state rights had
elected Benjamin Harrison president
of the United States, and had
recalled the Republican party to power,
while majority Of 94,601 voters had
cast their suffrages in favor of Grover
Cleveland. 1t was an old saying that
the traveller must pass over the bridge
which carried bin over the stream;
and, now that the states rights bridge
had carried the Republican party safely
over the turbulent stream of conflict it
was time for that party to confess that,
after all. it was a pretty good bridge.
He could conceive of nothing more i'm
proper, more indecorouS of the proper
functions of government than (peAding
contested election cases in the house,
for the senate to undertake, by partl-
san committee. to throw all Of its au-
thority and prestige
INFAVOR OF ONE SIDE.
Referring TO an attack on the state Of
Virginia, made by MIR. Chandler, Mr..
Daniels said that it was unjust. The
cases of the men who had been lynched
(Cole and SMITH were not political
cases. They had been killed for assault
ing white women. He did not believe
there was community in the civilized
world where the AnglO-SaXnn held up
his white brow that would have pro-
duced senator to deliver an eulOgy on
those murders or to weep his crocodile
tears over the factious wrongs pre-
sumed to have been committed, Mr..
Daniels clasnaed that the resolution was
based on letters and newspaper scraps
which had been emptied on the floor OF
the senate by the senator from
New Hampshire. Mr.. Daniel then had
paners extracts concerning murders by
negroes in the South. During the
reading there were motions made to
adjourn and to go into executive ses-
sion, but they were beaten by Repnbli-
can votes. Mr.. Hoar said that it was
government generally which the SEN
ator from Virginia and his associates
were irving to break down in this
country. That senator had asked what
facts were depended upon in bringing
forward the proposition. Did not that
senator know that, within six weeks, a
man who was contesting seat in the
other house had been shot down while
he was making his contest? Gen. Sher-
idan had declared some years since that
more Republicans had been
MURDERED FOR THEFT. POLITICS
in the state of Louisiana alone than
had fallen in battle on both sides in the
Mexican Wal. He denied that there
was an gthing sectional in his PROPOSE
ton. or that it meant an attack upon
the state of Louisiana. If the charges
were true that state was lying helpless
and bound at the feet of cOnspirators.
The charges were not that Louisiana
had done wrong, but that Louisiana
was suffering wrong. He warned
Southern gentlemen that if the meth
DDS reported were persisted in, the
white people of the South were sowing
a seed from which was to come har-
vest of horror and blood, to which the
French revolution or that of st. Do.
mingo was light in comparison. Mr..
Daniels renewed his speech, and al
though he had been speaking five
hours, had not concluded, when at $50
the senate adjourned.