The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-14
PICKING AT AN OLD SORE
The Educational 8tii Leads to q Bit
ter Discussion oS the Southern
QuestioU-0lalr Admits Tn
correct Statements.

ported n hill to repeal tine law OF congress
requiring steamships tn carry gums or
rockets for casting line: I'm cases OF dis
tress. The object of this was tn do away
with the extortion practiced by patentees
for their appliances under the law ms u
now stands.
The bill was placed on the calendar.
The senate proceeded to the calendar and
passed bills for public buildings as fol-
lows: Stockton, CAL, ssS,0OO; Mammoth
Hot Springs, Yellowstone National park,
$1,000; virRinia City, New. $1,000; The
Dalles, Orc, 100000.
The president sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations: Henry T.. GootlinG
of Indiana, chief Justice Of the supreme
court of Arizona; Andrew Davidson OF
New York, first deputy commissioners OF
pensions, vice Hiram Smith. jr.. resigned;
Robert Waugh OF Iowa, tn bc agent for
the Indians of Uintah and Ouray agency,
Utah.
Eustis took the noor and referred tn the
statements made by Hoar yesterday, one
of them bcinR that i'm the state Of Louisi-
ana and some OF the other states there
were laws which made it n penal offence
for u white man to associate ON terms Of
equality with q negro; others to the effect
that thcrc was a law WHICH provided for
time out of work and that the for
mer masters should have preference
IN. r. purchase: rd ns me s,,nh S, ,e sn1Is !n Isass.
ana, and spoke OF tho recklcssncss and
tlestitution of the sense OF responsibility
with which the republican senators spoke
Hoar said he might have erred as to
the state in which such n law was passed,
but quoted them substantially from the
laws of Mississippi passed in 1858. He
Thought substantially the same law had
been enacted in Louisiana.
The EDUCATION bill then came up and
Blair made q brief address. He also read
extracts from u speech OF President Har-
rison when senator i'm 1886, favoring tho
bill. and said the president held the same
sentiments to-day. The soutlern slues,
tion came up again and Hoar admitted
his statement about the laws OF Louisiana
Sherman asked Eustis whether ne did
not know the 18th amendment never
fact that the laws of the southern states
were dcprivinR the negro of the rights OF
E,sstis replied that it was his honest con-
viction that all tic reconstruction meas
urcs were adopted by the republican
ing the South and maintaining political
supremacy, and characterized Il as tho
greatest crime ever committed against
Sherman then took part In the discus
sion, which became a heated political con-
'raS ns 'd' an said ' %s
the close of the war il had not
bccn contemplated tn arm the negro with
the southern states were unjust 70 the
colored people and to white republicans
in the south. that the people 9f the n North i
South was to overthrow the results of the
war and deprive the freed men of all
came il is seen there was no way to pro-
tect the cnancipated people except by
arminR them with suffrage. Congress had
asioptcd that remedy as the only one fitted
for the case. He tShermanl had somc-
times thought il might possibly haxc bcen
amendment comforting snifrage on the
coloretl men, because that right had been
Fifteenth amendment was practically to-
give the southern states Increased repre-
sentation i'm the house Of representa-
electoral college. II there was anything
wrong in the situation of Southern affairs
shemseixss eiRs There %as na foiIaMins Of
hate i'm the North against the South. IF
| the equal rights of all the people in the
Sth Son,h werS would s be sasisea % %as time the
fifteenth amendment had not turned out
as expected, because no man dreamed
| that slch measure as had been rcsorted
| to i'm the South would have been rcsortcd
| to to deprive the negro of his rights. No
and all the savage machinery by which
| that exclusion had been perfected.
Butler suggested that the reconsit'c "a
mcnt were not much due to- objcctional
| legislation in the south to the conflict
between Andrew johnson and the reIHIbli-
II
Sherman replied that the selection Of
| Andrew Johnson. IA Southern man and n
democrat, for the vice presidency was q
proof of the generous treatment the North
had shown the South. But johnson hntl
| deserted the republican party and turned
mis- back upon Il when he came into power
| and congress tied his hands and pre-
| vented him from carry ing out his policy.
| B,ItIer: Then understand the senator
| from Ohio 90 admit that the southern peo-
| pie were mot alone Responsible, but that
| Andrew johnson, his president, was more
| measures against the south.
Sherman: i look upon Andrew john
son as q southern man and q democrat.
Butler: He was your republican pres j.
4 dent; and the people OF the south had no
| other authority TO look to after they had
| surrendered all except the executive.
sherman: Southern people had the
right to look to congress as the governing
power OF the country. Sherman went on
TO say to the senators OF the other side
that there In n feeling in the north that
| not only haye the negroes OF the south
| been d,orfve1 of votes, hut that the peo-
| pie b 50, th now enjoy n larger p ,liti-
cal pow er thass the same number of peo-
| pie in the north. Let the south ot&.y the
constitutional amendment. Let IL give
| the negro n vote and permit him to vote as
he will. j would not carr IL the whole
Of tho negroes would vote the democratic
ticket. Hut this feeling Of injustice does
prevail in the North, that while you are,
1 deprivinR the coloresl yssoKie Of votes, you
are exercising undue power in the gov