Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-05
FEATHERSTONE vs.. CATE
The Principal Theme in
Congress.
THE BLOODY SHIRT AaITATED.
Arguments in the Arkansas Contested
Election Case Still in
Progress.

Associated Press Dispatches to THE HERALD
WASHINGTON, March An the Hous
today Coleman, of Louisiana, offered {
resolution requesting the President t.
send to the House copies of all CORE
spondence between the United States ant
Mexico relating to the seizure at the por
of Tampico of the schooner Rebecca OF
February, 1888. Referred.
The following committee appointments
we're announced by the Speaker: Tar
sney, OF Missouri, and Reyburn, Of
Pennsylvania, on claims; Brickner, Of
Mississippi, on Mississippi levees
Cheadle, of Indiana, on posto ffices and
postroads.
Consideration of the Arkansas con.
tested election case of Featherstone
VS.. Gate was then resumed Dal-
zell, of Pennsylvania, taking the
floor in support of the claims
of the contestant. He said in the elec.
ton of the First District of Arkansas,
Winchester rifles, revolvers and bowie
knives played an important part
This district, he said, was adjoining that
in which Clayton, man of national rep
utation, when in the exercise of a right
which belongs to the humblest American
citizen, had been murdered in cold blood
at the very altar of liberty.
Dslzsll confined his remarks prin.
cipally to the election methods of the
Democrats in Crittenden county, charg.
ing intimidation and fraud, and contro-
verting the statement by Outhwaite, OF
Ohio, that there was no evidence that
the 'double.action" ballot box was used
in the county.
Cultivate challenged the production
OF any evidence that the box exhibited
by him yesterday ever had been used.
Daizell replied that the contention of
majority of the committee on elections
was that ballot box identical with that
presented had been used in Crittenden
county in at least three polling
places. The contestee, in his brief,
himself admitted that the chivalry
OF Crittenden county, armed with Win
chester rifles, found it necessary to drive
out twenty or thirty unsrmed black men.
Crisp, OF Georgia, submitted argu-
ment in favor OF the claims of the con-
testant Cate. The case, he said, was pe-
cullar. Counsel Tor the contestant was
w. w. Dudley, better known perhaps as
BLOCKS. of Five" Dudley. 1t was an in
teresting thing to hear that notorious
gentleman discussing before the commit
tee on elections the importance of the
purity OF the ballot and the necessity of
giving the voter the untrammeled and
free right to vote as he pleases. To bor-
row simile Of gentleman from Massa-
chusetts (Greenhalge), when he Crisp
I'd Ind Inxyt to OF 10. L., l.
would say: "This is the devil quoting
Scripture"
Cheadle, of Indiana, entered protest
against an attack on the character of q
man who on the field of battle shed his
blood in the defense of his country, and
whose life he (Cheadle) challenged any
human being to attack. Applause on
the Republican side. The body on the
other si5 was unable to prove q single
charge against the Republicans of Indi-
ana. Renewed applause
Crisp was unaware that he had said
anything to provoke an outburst on the
part of his friend from Indiana. He
had spoken of O mans reputation
throughout the country, and he had not
spoken unkindly. He had been illus
trating the popularity of the case, that
was all.
Irish then took up the evidence in the
case and argued that in it's report the
majority of the committee had not obeyed
the law of fair play, a law which was dear
to the American people.
Rowell, of Illinois, charged that the
apparent majority through which the
contsstee obtained his seat was procured
by crime of the highest character,
which, if not perpetrated, would have
turned his apparent majority into
a minority. He criticized the Cover
nor of Arkansas for allowing q
hundred armed men to expel from
their positions legal officers of the county
without raising his hand to vindicate the
law. The day had come in the history
of the United States when the people had
determined that the Constitution which
enfranchised the black man should no
longer be nulli6ed.
Moore asserted that the testimony
taken by the contestant in Memphis was
q forgery in all particulars.
Breckenridge, of Arkansas, referred to
the peaceful condition of affairs in Ar.
kansas, which brought Kelly, of Kansas,
to his feet with question as to what had
become of the colored detective who had
gone to the gentleman's district to find
out who had murdered the man whose
bloody shoes the gentleman stood in to-
day.
Breckinridge replied that the negro
had been engaged in trying to look ur
the murderers of Col. Clayton. He had
got into difficulty with boy, Repub
lican boy, whose father was kepub
lican. The negro was drunk and applied
opprobrious epithets to the boy anC
struck him with stone, when the boy
shot him. The gentleman had not only
gone against the testimony in the pend
ing case, but nearly every member who
had spoken on the other side had spoken
of the death of his lamented opponent
as if it had been the result of Democratic
policy. The committee had before it the
whole case. 1t had not summoned 6
witness, and he was told the case haG
not been docketed. Yet as if it had beer
tried and found in all it's conclusions
members came here and took not only
his honor, but the honor of the people
he represented. Was that an evidence
of the fairness his people were to re-
ceive.
Springer thought that the case had
not been thoroughly investigated, and
favored resolution which, he said, he
would offer at the proper time, appro
priating 100000 to enable a sub-com
mittee of the committee on elections to
proceed to the first district of Arkansae
and investigate the elections.
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