The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-24
STATE RIGHTS.
Confederate senator Daniel Speaks
in Defense Of Rulldoxiur.

WAsuIS6ToS, Feb. 7&-On motion ol
IIoar the senate agreed. by q party vote,
70 consider his resolution as TO alleged
election outrages. Daniel spoke ia opy.o.
sition TO the resolution. ..Nr. Harrison !
little present" he said. (which has been
sealed and delivered 90 him. was MOI
given to him by the nation or hy a uaa-
ioEify of the people. bat by the sovereign
states which bad commissioned him As
their magistrate state rights, he said
had held the ladder for BENJAMIN Harrs'
SON 20 ascend TO the presidential chair:
lad gwen the senators taSir prSrugalives
and lifted the Republican party out OF Z
slough OF deSpondency, over the hill, OF
difficulty. and brought II in sight of the
goal OF its desires He had been amazed
when he read Hoars resolution. gravely
requiring the senate To enseg into an in
qetry as 10 the election of mem bers of the
house OF representatives II anythinx
more un-Ame-ican or more In conflict
with the spirit of the American sonsEitu-
tlon hau been suggested, he was at loss
to conjecture what that thing was II was
resolution 20 impeach the character OF
sovereign states. resolution which
sought ta undermine one OF the pillars
o! the federal government aud oblfterate
from the national dag one of Its glitter
ing stars.
Referring To the letters. petitions and
newspaper clippings presented by the sen.
sfor from New HAMPSHIRE. Daniel said he
| had some newspaper extracts. and sent
them 70 the clerks desk. The clerk pro-
ceeded 70 read from newspaper extracts a
description Of a negro rios In Norfolk. Va,
and of the shooting Of policeman by =
negro in Charlottesville, etc.
The reading WAS interrupted by Harris.
who moved that the senate proceed to ex-
ecasiys business
Pending action on that motion sarioas
house amendments 10 private pension bills
were presented aud concurFed in.
when those matters were disposed of
Harris Withdrew the motion and Daniel
concluded his remarks.
Hoar said there was abundant csanstitu-
tioaal authority for the proposed invest.
cation. As 10 The specter OF state rights
question, Hcar said, involved In the Feso-
lation. IL was the government generally
which the senator from Virginia and his
associates were trying to break down in
this country. That senator had ssket what
facss were depended apou In Bringing for.
ward che proposition Did not that sena-
tor knog that within six weeks a man who
was contesting seat Ia the other house
| had been shot down while be was making
| hls evutest9 Did he not know the history
OF political offenscs ali over certain states
/ in ihe Soata1 Gen. saerfdan had declared
some years since that more Republicans
! had hRen murdered for their political op5u.
Ton in Louisiana than had fallea IN bastle
on both sides ia tue Mexican war. He de-
MED that there Was anything sectional In
his proposition or that IL meant an affack
mpon the state of Louisiana. II the
| eharges were true that state was iYiBs
| helpless and bound At the feefof hsad ol
eonspIrators.
/ Daniel criticised Hoar's speech as hay
/ ing contained no response ~ the question
asked hisa.
Fiags..?, alter speaking nearly Eye hours
Daniel slelsiesi for . motion - 90 info ex
ecHtfye session. Thr motion, howcvcr.
Was not passed. and the senate a6joarned