Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-06-27
PRESS DISPATCHES.
Proceedings of Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. o., June q.
SENATE.


The consideration of the bill for the aG-
mission of Wyoming as State wse resumed;
and Mr.. Morgan addressed the Senate in
opposition to it. He said either majority
of the Senate had come to come understand
ing or agreement that the bill was to pass,
notwithstanding any objections or sTg1-
ments that might be urged against it, or else
the matter OF allowing new States into the
Union had become such commonplace az
fair that it scarcely attracted the attention Of
those who were in the Senate as ambas sldors
from their own Siates. The admission OF 3
state into the union was, to bis mind, the
most solemn and important fact with which
the Senate had to deal.
Mr. Jones, OF Arkansas, haviog called the
attention of the presiding officer to the au-
dib!e conversation carried on between Sens.
tore Mr.. Morgan said that the converse
ton did not disturb him OF all, that he Was
talking to the reporters and to the country,
and that be did not expect to get The sttten
ton of the Senate because, although one
rose from the dead" he could not get atteu-
ton in the Senate during the hours of work
ing up political projsots and plans.
HOUSE.
The consideration OF the election bill was
resumed, Mr.. Haugen, of Wisconsin, ad-
dressing the House in support OF the meal :
ure.
| hot la
bill was an evidence OF the dstrust felt by
republicans Of q government of and for the
people. Recently the Speaker had attend
ed the banquet of the Americas Cub ut
PIttsburg. He had spoken, after long years
of silence, upon Justification of election re-
turns, bulldoz:ng and ell the narrowing de-
tails of southern outrages. He had spoken
of the emergencies that had confronted us.
The republican party was used to meeting
Bemergences. They had met them in In
diana when they sent in Dorsey with his
money and Dadley with his hoatersi in blocks
of five and @ lay, the archaugel of the party.
This bill was intended to undo the
work of the fathers of the constitution.
The army of federal officials at the polls
with powers superior to those possessed by
the inspectors of the Slate, of the people,
signalled and heralded the end Of the gov
eminent by the people and for the people.
| Where then would be that government?
Gone, IS the leaves swept away by the blasts
of autumn. Gone forever, and the people OF
this republic would no longer govern them
selves. This proposition was to bring back
the returning boards of Florida and South
Carolina days of the electoral commits
sion-the days that every patriotic man
would forget if he could The notes q
warning had been sounded they were still
ringing and should be headed. In Gods
| nsme, as lovers of the country, he besought
the House not to seek to revive race preiu-
dice now. He begged it to give assurance
to the whole country that the civil war end
ed over quarter of century ago. APP
plause
Mir. Flower, of New York, denounced the
bill as unrepublcan. undemocratic and ur-
American, as measure constructed upon
the idea that the small republican majority
now 10 Congress could better legslate for
the people than the people themselves. The
history of the political prosecution of some
of our federal courts was already rank with
INSCRIPTIONS abuses OF the law, and this bill,
if passed, would add many more such chap
ters. The bill sought to provoke conflict
between State and federal officers.