Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-19
News by Telegraph FR0M ALL QUARTERS. IA STATUE OF GEN. CASS. The Senate Considers the
 Texas 0utrages. TWO LIVELY REvIVALISTS. Will Germany's Policy Bring
 Peace to Samoa2 GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC J0TTIHGS. The Panama Canal COmpa- ny Declared Bankrupt.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIc JOTTIhGS.
Fiftieth Congressional Session

SENArE-Mr Vest entered a motion to re- consider the vote by which the conference report on the direct tax bill was agreed to Saturday. The matter then went over, but a message was sent to the House requesting the return of the bill. MT. Palmer (Rep. Michigan) offered concurrent resolutions re- turning the thanks of congress to the govern or and people of the State of Michigan for the statue of Lewis Cass, "whose name is so conspicuously connected with the develop nent of the Northwest territory and with eminent services to his State and country, both at home and abroad, accepting the same in the name of the nation and assign ing it in place the old hall of representa- tivas."
 Mr. Hoar said he had seen the statue of General Class and thought he was not mis- taken affirming that it would be regarded al- ways as one of the finest, if not the very fin est work of it's kind yet contributed to the National Gallery. It YVES manifestly aecur- ate in portraiture and was full of strength, spirit and life. The young artist who was it's author although not yet mature in his powers has already made himself famous by the "minute man at Concord" one of the very few American statues that were alive by a beautiful statue of John Harvard made for the University at Cambridge; by the ideal figures on the Boston Postofhce and by the wonderful portrait bust of the illustrious poet and sage Ralph Waldo Emerson.
 On motion of MT. Stockbridge the resolu- tions were adopted unanimously.
 Mr. Cu1lom from the committee on terri tories reported back the House bill to organ ize the territory of Oklahoma and it was placed on the calendar.
 MT. Butler, @ member of the committee, presented substitute as representing the views of the minority. MT. Platt, another member, said that he did not agree with the majority of the committee, but would sup- port the substitute presented by MT. Butler. Mir. Eye asked the presiding officer what was the position of the Union Pacific funding bill and received an answer that 1t was on the calendar.
 MT. Frye-There will be a meeting of the Pacific railroad committee to morrow morn ing and will then have it determined wheth- CT or not it will ask for the restoration of the funding bill to it's place. It had been very carefully kept in It's place for two or three weeks. I was called away suddenly without being able to come to the Senate chamber or communicate with anybody touching the con- dition of the bill, and was very much sur- prised to find it displaced.
 The Senate then resumed consideration of the aTexas outrages resolution. and Mir. Coke began his fourth days argu- ment against it. He declared that he had no excuse or justification for the raiding of bal lot boxes in Washington county, but he did not condemn it more strongly or condemn it
 
 county There were similar transactions all over the United States. He did not say that ballot boxes were raided in every section, but he did say that bribery, bald and unblushing, prevailed in every section of the country ex- cept down south, where they did not have any money to buy votes with. And yet he heard of no congressional investigation into bribery in the last election. Seventy indict- ments. he was told, had been found in Indi- ana for bribery-nine-tenths of those indicted by representatives, but no senator had arisen and asked for investigation there. Who, he asked, would charge the good people of Indiana on that aceountl Who would charge the good people of the great State of New York, where millions were paid out in bribes in the last presiden. tial election. Who would charge the good people of Rhode Island, where current news paper report said that bribery prevailed to Q great extent in the last election. Who would charge the people of any of those States with complicity in those crimesl And why should the people of Texas, and of the whole South, be held responsible for single abuse in one single countyi
 | As to the hanging of negroes at Brenham, MT. Coke declared it to have been | and that the attempt to fasten on ! the people the responsibility for it on | the testimony of three miscreants was an 1 injustice to the senators who signed the re- port. As to the racs question it could be regulated by statute. Those who established 1 the government, while they threw wide open ! the doors of immigration, acted on the theory \ that no race of people could come to this country and dominate the Anglo-Saxon. | At ths close of MT. Coke's speech the reso lution was laid aside and the conference re | port on the Senate bill providing for trial by jury in the police court of the District of Co- | lumbia was presented and agreed to.
 | The Sanata then ra1Rpd the HOuS0 bill tC provide for taking the eleventh and subse \ quent census.
 On motion of MT. Morgan the vote by | which the House bill as to printing bank ! notes, etc., by hand presses rather than by | steam presses, which was postponed inde6 | nitely some days since, was considered anC the bill was placed on the calendar.
 The Senate at 6 pm. adjourned.
 HoUsn-Mr Crisp then called up the Cal
 ifornia case, against which MT. MoKenna O. California raised the question of considera- tion. On rising vote the Republicans out
 voted the Democrats, 7S to "A, and the yeas and nays were ordered. The Republicans | efrained from voting and left the house
 without quorum, the vote upon taking up
 the election case standing: Yeas 130, nays 12 A call of the House was ordered. I've ! hundred and forty-three members having re ! sponded to their names further proceeding
 under the call were dispensed with, and tn
 vote was again taken on the consideration O
 the case. Again the Republicans refrainet
 iron, voting; again the absence of quorum
 was developed-the vote standing yeas 135 nays 6-and again call of the House wal demanded by Mr. Crisp. The call was or
 dered, and pending this, on motion o
 MT. Crisp resolution was adopted direct
 ing the sergeant-at arms to telegraph fo
 absent members Then Mir. Crisp called at
 tention to the fact that the Republicans wht
 last week were so anxious to proceed to tn
 consideration of one election case wer
 now flibustering against the consider
 atiou of another case "Twas strang
 indeed whet difference betwixt tweedledur
 and tweedledee." MT. Reed of Maine sug l gested that last week the Republicans ha