Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-01

soldier sai patriot, Let us have peace
Finley. Of Kentucky, spoke in supper;
Of the bill
Turner, Of Georgia. opposed IL. lie
pointed est the dangers be considered
would arise from the administration Of the
law. When next Congress me, the eounsry
would be placed under sssxia not parAi-
leled since the days Of the disputed presi-
Dental election count, The people
would no. trust in the decisions Of partisan
returning boards. They nigh, submit, As
they had submitted before. Ii might be
state suanship. but il vas statesmsnship of
Guy Fswkes and it aaght TO be rebuked BY
tbs whole eoun'rg
Waidsn Of ,sg,nis. sAsi il the bill
would 30 only small extent Of what its
supporters claimed xa. in the bill and
which should be hailed with delight BY all
men. The cry Of the Southern men Was
that all they wanted vas to be left alone
and that WAS the cry made in 1851 lie
warned them of the nulifeAsion of the col
ored vote and of the constitution in
1880, and might do for them wha;
secession did in 1861. and while the Re
publlesns Of the South would NOT submit
to be ruled by force. The supervisors sys-
ten. he declared, vas the only show for an
honest election in the South. There bad
been more election frauds in the State
since lssS than in all the years before that
time.
The frauds in Virginia AZ the last elee.
sien demanded the wronged people of the
North, whose voices were hushed here,
demanded it. The innocent blood Of John
NJ. Clayton cried aloui from the grave and
demanded it,
Tracey, of New York. earnestly opposed
the measure, which be declared no patriotic
man could vote for. No attempt to make
the bill respectable. by associating it with
the name of the gentleman from Mssss-
ehusetts (Lodge) would succeed better in
hiding il from the public. This Va. a
proceeding prepared TO continue the Re
publican party IN power in the 52d Con
gress, in case the people in election decide
oihersise.
Cultivate of Ohio, opposed, followed by
Hopkins Of Illinois.
Burrows of Michigan. spoke in favor and
sail When the popular vote was tsmpered
with, representative government existed
bu. in nssac. Referring to the small vote,
by which many Southern Represe atatives
were elected to Congress, he admitted that
election was quiet, 80 was a cemetery quiet.
II there was anything 10 the bill which
over stepped .he bonds of constitution, let
it b, stricken out but let all stand together
in maintaining free ballot, and fair count
As the only safety of this Republic
The crime against l,he ballot box was the
crime of crimes. He had rather the gov
ornment had been taken by force in 1861
IS than taken nov by fraud. lie could
forgive the man. who, in a moment OF pas
sion, or in an hour OF revolution, fred on
his ittg, but the man who crswled to the
ballot box, where reposed the latest born
offspring of sovereign will land took its life.
WAS an assassin, and In the presence of
such crime as that. treason itself whit
ened into virtue. lie wanted to pass a
measure which would proclaim 10 the pub
lie that the government had at last made
true the declaration of martyred Lincoln.
that this was government of the people,
by the people and for the people.
Chapman, of Michigan, assailed the law
as unconstitutional because il conferred i'm
proper power upon the Judge, because it
required companies of fifties and hundreds
to put 1t in force. because il was not by It's
terms meant to be uniform in its application
u
election reform required that the use OF
money in debaucbing conventions and Sc
curing great official places should be made
felony.
The debate was suspended long enough
TO enable Cannon, of Illinois, to report
from the Committee on Appropriations a
joint resolution extending for thirty days
or until the bills now pending become laws
the provisions of the appropriation acts
of 1889 90 in pro rata amount. Considera
tion Of the election bill was resumed.
Lodge on behalf of the committee. sub
mitteJ a series of amendments mainly
formal in character. Agreed 10.
Lehlback of New Jersey offered an
amendment, providing a chief supervisor of
election for every judicial district shall
take such action as requisite 10 secure such
supervision in each congressional district a.
is provided by the laws of the United
Slater. lie stated the object of his men,l
ment was to make the Law uniform through
out the whole country. II it is desirable to
control congressional elections by tine na
tional government let it be sppliSti To
every district in the country alike. dem.
ocratic applause Let it not be depend
ent upon the petition Of fifty or hundred
men living in the district. lie did not be.
lIeve the amendment would be obnoxious
in the southern section of the country
where the people would believe the bill in
its present form especially directed against
them.
kovell of Illinois, opposed the amend
meBt, declaring il Was proposition 10
change entirely the system of supervisors
wbich had worked so veil in the past
After a passage at arms between Outh
waite and Grosvenor of Ohio, Hemphill Of
South Carolina. suggested that if the peo.
pie Of Ohio were as bad as pictured by the
gentlemen on both sides Of the House, it
showed the necessity of making the bill
absolutely uniform in application.
Lodge said there was no necessity for
making the supervision compulsory. The
argument that the bill was sectional va.
fsllscious; every district could have the
supervision by asking for it. The measure
did not apply 10 any specific district.
Washington of Tennessee denounced the
measure as sectional and partisan. but if it
we're elected into law let it apply from one
end of the country TO the other
Miliken of Maine denied the bill va.
sectional 10 character and gave his hearty
adherence t1 the measure
Allen of Michigan believed that the gen
tleman from New Jersey fLehlbachl var
sincere and honorable in his motive in
| offering the amendment But gentlemen
on the other side proposed to vote for the
| amendment for the purpose Of mssculating
| the bill and 10 order to make j. odions be-
cs1se of the porer it gave unscrDpulou.
men TO increase the cost Of carving on
elections.
| thsadle of Indiana was in favor Of The
amendment. With one or two exception.
1 there was not a republican constituency in
the country 90 greatly suppressed as va,
the republican constituency of Indiana II
the republican party would adhere to the
leading issues Of the day which were press.
/ ing for consideration. il would obtain the
/ 52nd Congress unler the es;ssing Law. II
be voted for this measure, he wanted it ap-
/ plicsble to the district he represented.
| Boothman Of Ohio opposed the amend
ment as tending to make the bill obnoxious
TO the people
! Mccormick. of Pennsylvania. taid that
/ Pennsylvania had a Law very similar to the
one under consideration. II, unde, the
| Constitution Of Pennsylvania, which p-o-
Tiied that all laws should be general in
/ character such Law was general, he could
( not see how any one could raise legal OBJ
/ lection to the bill when she United State.
Constitution contained no such provision.
| Mills of Tsx. said bis republican friends
reminded him of prohibitions, in Tera.
Who drank himself bat wanted the lsw en-.
forced against the Irish and damned mig.
ger. The republicans wanted this bill Ia
7 apply only to Irish and damned nisgers.
I Buchanan Of New Jersey contended the
bill vas applicable to every district in the
4 United States, and there was no sectional.
/ ism in it.
Pending further debate the House took 4
( recess until O'Clock