Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
An Uneventful Day in the Lower House.
Republican FilIibustering.
Coke Makes Speech Against the Washington
County Outrage Billie Strikes Blow
at Northern Methods.
Fiftieth Congress.
THE SENATE

cordance with previous notice, offered
a concurrent resolution returning vote
of thanks to the governor and people of
the state of Michigan for the statue of
Lewis Cass, whose name is so conspicu-
ously connected with the development of
he>Northwest territory and with the emf
nent services to his state and country
both at home and abroad accepting the
same in the name Of the nation, and as
signing it place in the old hall of repre-
sentatives.
Mr.. Hale gave notice that as soon as
Mr.. Joke concluded his remarks on the
Texas election resolution he would call up
the census bill for action.
Mr.. Sherman gave notice that he
would tomorrow morning move 10 pro-
coed to the consideration and disposition
of conference report on the direct tax bill.
Mr.. Frye asked the presiding officer
what was the position of the Union Pacific
funding BILL
Presiding officer-''Its on the calen-
dar.'
The senate then resumed the con sid
Grafton of the Texas outrages resolu ton.
Mr.. Coke began his fourth days argu-
ment against it. He declared he had no
excuse or palliation or Justification for
the TdlulUS OI DduOL DUNES Ill
ton county, but he did not condemn it
more strongly or regret it more sincerely
than did the people of that county
There were similar transactions all over
the United States. He did not say that
the ballot boxes were raided in every sec
ton, but he did say that bribery had and
unblushingly did prevail in every section
of the country except in the South where
they did not have any money TO buy
votes with, and yet he heard of no con-
gressional investigation into bribery in
the Eastern elections. Seventy indict-
ments, he was told, had been found in
Indiana for bribery nineteen Of those
indicted being Republicans, but
no senator had risen and
asked for an investigation there.
Who, he asked would charge the good
people of Indiana on that account?
Who would charge the people of the great
state of New York where millions were
paid out in brides III the last presidential
election? Who wonld charge the good
people of Rhode Island where newspaper
report said bribery prevailed to a great
extent in g the last election?
Who would charge the people of
any of these states with completely
in those crimes? And why should the
be held responsible for a single abuse in
one single county? There were no
white caps'' in Texas. There was no
case of bribery reported from the South.
In the South there was more muscle than
money and there was no bribery there,
and while in the North there was more
money than muscle. There was no vio-
lence, there was force in the South, il was
bribery in the North. Bribery was not
exceptional in the North, but force was
exceptional in the South. OF the two
crimes, bribery was the most dangerous
and the most difficult to provide against.
Raiding of baIlot-boxes, which depended
on brute force, could be provided against,
but corruption of men with money could
not be provided against. If the South
was to be injured on account
of few ballot-boxes being
raided why should not other sections be
inquired into on account of bribery that
was almost open in the recent election?
As to the hanging Of three negroes at
BRENNAN, Mr.. Coke declared it to have
been the work of an irresponsible mob
and the attempt to foster it upon good
people on the testimony Of three mis-
ereants was an injustice 10 the
senators who sign the report.
he stated it was his belief that the shot
which killed him was not fired at him,
but at Holt who sat near him, an active,
aggressive Democrat, and who had been
in number of personal difficulties in
which men were killed. AS TO the race
question it could not be regulated by
statute. Those who established the gov
eminent, while they threw wide open
the doors of emigration, acted
on the theory that no race of peo-
pie could come to this country and
dominate the Anglo-Sax0n. The right of
local self government was inviolable
The black men had the ballot and he
would not wish to deprive them of it be-
cause it was their shield of defense. But
the people of the South should be let
alone, and when such men as HaekWorth
and Schulze were put out they should not
be put back on the people. If he had to
say how the race question was 10 be
settled he would repeat what the senator
from Ohio (Sherman) was represented
i'll the newspaper a few days ago to have
said and that was to let the people of
each state attend to the matter them
selves. If that was not sherman S opin-
ion it was his Cooke 81. If the people of
the South were let alone; if no aid and
comfort were given to agitators, who dis
turbed the public peace in that section the
race question would be settled quicker than
was supposed. The negroes would divide
in politics and would not be solid: the
whites would divide and not be solid and
pence and prosperity would come in that
way.
At the close of Mr.. Coke's speech the
resolution was laid aside, and Mr.. Ali
son, from the committee on appropria-
tious, reported back the sundry civil
appropriation bill with amendments, and
gave notice he would call it up to-
morrow.
The house bill to provide for taking the
eleventh and subsequent eensuses was
passed, ana the senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Mr. Hatch of
Missouri called attention to the fact that
in July Mr.. Conger of Iowa, from the
committee on agriculture had presented
n substitute for the bill regulating the
sale of compound lard and that it had
teen placed upon the house calendar.
This, he maintained, had been an i'm
proper reference, and he held that the
bill should be referred to the committee
OF the whole and secure a place on the
calendar of that committee as of the
date of its presentation
Mr.. Hatch made q motion to that
affaat which u-aS com haftnd bv Mr. Ran-