The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-10
THE PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL.

1Nenl OlleIeO Dy -hI. luchel Nbeiii',
Va,) requiring the. Judge Of the Cir
cult Court, associated with the District
Judge, to pass upon applications for
supervisors Of election.
Mr.. Frank rep, Mo- said he was in
favor Of the bill as far as its scope was
to extend the operation Of the super
visory system, but be was opposed to
it as far as it proposed to obtain FEEDER
al control of elections. He was opposed
to the amendment, because it sought to
weaken the law already on the statute
books.
Mr.. fuckers amendment was re-
jected.
Mr.. Rowell Rep, Ill.} offered an
amendment making it the duty Of the
Circuit Judge in each circuit, within
one month after the passage Of this act,
to open \ special term of the Circuit
Court in their respective circuits; and
said Judges shall appoint for each judi
cial district three discreet persons of
good character and standing, who shall
be known as United States Juror Com
missioners. 1t shall be the duty Of
such commissioners to organize as I
Board, and from time to time make
from the qualified voters list Of per-
sons who, under the laws of the
United States and of the State,
shall be eligible for jury duty,
without respect to race or color. Here
after all panels for jurors shall be
drawn by the Board in the presence of
District or Circuit Judge.
Mr.. Springer Dem, Ill., opposed the
amendment, declaring that its purpose
was to pack the juries Of the country
with Republican partisans. 1t was the
elimination of the outrage which was
contemplated by the bill. He warned
gentlemen that they but taught q
bloody instruction, which, being
taught, would return to plague the in
ventors. The bill was an assault upon
popular government. 1t said to the
voters of the country You are not
capable of holding honest elections,
and we will send Federal satraps to
supervise and control your elections.
1t was bill to perpetuate the ill-gotton
power of the Republican party in this
House and in the country.
Mr.. Taylor rep, Tenn. } said that in
his district there was no need for this
law. Fraud, intimidation, and ballot
box stuffiing were unknown there.
But the question was whether he would
withhold relief from his fellow clti-
zans elsewhere who needed it. He an
swered thousand times "No."
Mr.. Rowell's amendment was agreed
to on vote of tellers-l46 to l43.
Much confusion followed the announce
ment, amid which several Democrats
were heard demanding the yeas and
nays. The demand was made in so
low a tone, however, that it was not
heard by the Speaker, who recognized
Mr.. Struble (Rep., Iowa. to offer an
amendment. Then Mr.. Cultivate
(Dem., Ohio called the attention Of
the Speaker to the fact that the yeas
and nays were demand, and upon the
| Speaker expressing the opinion that
the demand came too late Mr.. Outh-
waite himself requested that all those
favoriug the demand should rise. The
entire Democratic side rose to its feet,
but the Speaker entirely ignored it,
and did not count those rising. He
said, however, that if there was no OBJ
lection the yeas and nays might be
ordered. There being no objection,
the Speaker directed the Clerk to call
the roll, amid a volley Of protests from
the Democrats at being granted as a
favor what they demanded as right.
The amendment was adopted-yeas,
$50; nays, IA.
Mr.. Hemphill Dem, S. c. offered
an amendment to section 81 of the bill
to insert the words, "EXcept section
1859 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States" He explained that
that section Of the bill empowered the
supervisors to use the army and navy
at the polls, and the purposes of his
amendment was to eliminate that pro-
vision.
Mr.. Lodge (Rep. Mass denied that
the bill had any such effect as stated.
Mr.. Cultivate maiutaied that Mr..
Hemphill had properly construed the
section. He was in favor of allowing
the President Of the United States to
exercise such authority, but objected to
its exercise by some hireling Republi-
can politician.
Mr.. Blount Dem, Ga.) said that the
bill provided for the appointment of
partisan supervisors, and surrounded
those supervisors with United States
soldiers at their beck and call, in order
to make the voters feel that they were
under the terrors Of military authority.
Mr.. Allen (Dcm., Miss regretted
that the House had ceased to be 4 de-
Lucrative body. 1t made him so mad
that he was almost willing to 90 to the
other end of the Capitol-that is, if the
speaker did not abolish the United
States Senate in accordance With bis
programme. laughter He had lis
tened to speeches casting aspersions
upon his section and his people. He
knew OF no parliamentary language
language consistent with his standing
in the church in which to character
ize those speeches as they deserved to
be characterized.