The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-31
THE ELECTIONS BILL.
Scnatot Hoaf Finishes HI;
Speech in It's Advocacy.
4 VERY STRONG ARGUMENT
For Political lsiGhIs"-The LatcAt
Outrage Referred iO".seuatOr
W'0tc"tt freaks Away...The6EE
H"n,e..WashiHgton News.

Wl,niNGroS, Dec 30.-The Senate
INST q. 10 u. H., wish hardly a dozen
s4nltaB in Attendance. Attention ws,
called 70 the lac! oI The absence Of 4
quorum by one 0! the two Democratic
Senators who were present, Irsirs.
GOtman and Faulkner. The roll call
Ahowrd tAp pirSeIce Of only seventeen
Senators, aud Tho ScrgCaat'Rt.Arus WIS
directed to rrqless the Attendance oi
ab8entegs, Il was eleven o'clock before
quorum, l0uy.lour, wH BCCuTcd and
before the JonrnAl Of yesterday wGs read.
The Vice President laid before the
Senate the credentials OF Mr.. Frederick K
I. Duboig IA Senator from the State Oi
Idaho l1r the Term beginning March /,
1891. IHsy weEe referred 70 the Com.
mittec Gu Privileges aud Elections.
Sir. Reagan gave H0:iCG OF tSo Htneni-
monts 10 Mr.. AldTichg ciosure FcEO.
luton.
Then the morning hogr having rxpir.
ed lle Senate resumed Confederation oI
the elections bill, and SIR. Huar con,
tinUed his gpeecn commeuc al yedtCrluy
in It's advocacy.
A SrgOSG ARGUMENT.
Mr. HoAr remintled s0a,hern SsHa.0i8
that they hal pledged thier honor that
they would give their devotion to the
constitutional amentmcals. Aud low
they weEa deaouucjHg iAoEo amend.
mrnts Us "6tupeuduOus Ciime and blum.
der"
Mr.. lIDRr recalled The Clnlah massacrc
In Mississippi, the murder OF Fred
Matthegs "a Kindly citizen, md an ex.
cellent ntighhOr, IN the act Of casting his
ballot, and the burning Of Of his widows
house, and said that within the present
Christmas seg40n, in the tlmg Gf ''peace
or earth and good viii 70 mrn, that
willows son, the Republican postmaster,
q young man OF twenty,one, had been
Bhot down in tho streets Oi CarrollEOn,
the home of Senator George.
"llow long" My. IloAT exclaimed
"how long, Oh, God, ahsll the blood Of
these martyrs cry for YcnHeGrCe fCom the
ground: How lous shall the murder Of
men, because they are Republicans, be
the only C'im9 10 which people aTa in
In conclusion Mr. Huar
atdreeacd himself directly to Southern
Senators aud said: "GOn have tIird
else. Now try Justice
woLc0Tr REPLIES.
Hfr. Woicot: made an animated speech
against The bill. 1t vas, he sIiI, .
source Of great regret to him to be called
upon TO differ with a CONSIDERABLE nun.
ber OF his party aud to dtcltne TO take
the path which the older leaders pointed
out. Nearly oncthird Of the session w.A
through and daylight wns not yet Yisi-
bic. II was a travesty on duty that the
Scrntu stIould sit day Ritcr day disen's-
Ing changes ia. IN election law that had
stood without amendment for twenty
yearB. They had tried Ia Colorado the
remedy OF Federal interference under
tho direction OF Democratic District
Attorney and Democrats Marshal.
The Law had baen administered BY q
judge who was so intolorably fair that
no was opposed TO both parties, and yet
i had been given Up.
lie wa not informed that in any
Southern State there was aug inclina-
lion to !eeisIato against the colo.ed men,
or that texesrt on the question Of sai.
tmHe) there wGs any serious friction be.
tween tho races.
For quarter OF century. Gu: from
poverty and despair, the South had been
reaching for effort to Fla;tt its loot on
the nolld rock Of material prosperity /;
aud, in View Of the marvellous growth
and transformation ToT lAging place in
the Southern SIRtca, i; you'd be, he be.
itercd, unw;s: and unpasr!otic i0r Con.
gress 10 interfere in the conduct Of ito
internal Glairs. lie hal no hope for
the immaiiats political regeneration o!
that asG!:on, but tina. did no: Affect the
question.