Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21
Ions, reported the House bill for the adjud:ca-
ion Of claims arising from Indian depredations.

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tiops, reported the House bill for the adjudca-
Calendar.
Sawyer asked unanimous consent for fixing
an early day in Janusry fer consideration ofthe
Ingalls,, at his own request, was granted two
weeks leave OF absence.
Plat introduced resolution appropriating
S10o 900 to enable the President to take action
and to obtain from the German Government q
supply Of the remedy discovered by DR.. Koch,
and the formula for the manufacture Of the
same. Laid over.
The morning hour having expired, the pre-
siding officer laid before the Senate the election
bill. Paddock gave notice that after the con-
the Senate to take up the Pure food bill, which
was demanded by the farmers from one end of
the country to the other.
Edmunds demanded the regular order and
the floor was taken by Spooner
Spooner spoke in advocacy Of the election
bill. stranger in the gallery, he said, listen
ing TO the debate, without knowledge Of the
country, would be impressfd with the idea tb at
all love of liberty and devotion to the Constitu-
| ton and freedom from partisanship were to be
| found on the Democratic side of the chamber.
| would not assume that the Republican sena-
tors were not, equally with them, lovers of lib
| erty. 1t had been said on the other side that
the bill was aimed at the South. 1t was in
| part. 1t was simed at every spot in the United
| States where, by fraud and force. men who had
| right to vote for members of Congress were
cheated cut of that right; The South, he
needed. In proof he read extracts from a
speech by Delegate Chrisman in the late Consti-
| tutional Convention of Mississippi. declaring
that since 1875 there had not been fair election
| in that State; that, in plain words, the whites
| has b en- stuffing the ballot-boxes, committing
perjury ard carving elections by fraud and
violence He read 1.-THE qualifications for voters
! in the Constitution Of Mississippi, among others
] being the ability of the voter latter January,
1892 10 read or to give reasonable explanation
OF the meaning OF any clause of the Constitu-
ton of the State. IT The Constitution OF Missis
| sippI had stopped 81 the educational test, and
| excluded from the right of suffrage every white
| or black who couid not read that instrument,
| nobody would complain of it. But now the g-
norant white voter might have the simplest
! clause read to him, and be asked If he under
| sio5d 1t, and, answering yes be PERMITTED to
vote; while the ebstruse clsuse es to eminent
| domain, or some technical question, might be
| read to the colored voter. who would be asked
| to give reasonable explanation of it. The
| scheme was plainly devised TO let the ignorant
white man vote, il he voted the Democratic
| ticket. and TO keep the ignorant black man from
| voting, unless he voted that ticket; and yet
/ the democratic Senators rallied against the
pending measure as giving the Supervisor lordly
| powers: This Constitution OF Mississippi had
been adopted, too, nos by vote OF the people,
ought not to fold their arms and say that they
| would keep their increased representation,
| while suppressipg the negro vote. 1t had been
said on the other side that the negro should
never have had right to vote, but it was too
| late now 10 argue that question. The tight had
been given him, whether in wisdom or un-
| wisdom, and could not be taken from him. Re-
ferring to Stewards speech yesterday, and his
| remark that the election law could not be en-
| forced in the South, because public opinion
would not support it, Spooner said Have we
fallen on the condition in our country that calls
for the preservation by law of the purity OF the
ballot at the North, but that VIC must stop at the
| Mason and Dixon line, because public opinion
In the South is in favor of dishonest and
/ frqndnlpnt m nf St1fFr aOoo
| 1 cannot believe it."
Spooner spoke over five hours, and his speech
was listened to with mutual attention on both
| sides OF the chamber
ingalls, said 1t was the conviction of the
great mass OF the people North that the Con-
| stitutional Convention OF Mississippi assembled
majority of its citizens, who were a SO citizens
| of the United States. 1t had been assembled
for the express purpose OF multiplying, de eat
\ ing and overthrowipg the amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, by agreeing
| to which the state of Mississippi secured read.
mission into the Union. The southern people
had retained their representation in the House
| OF Representatives and IN electoral college,
while they suppressed the colored vote. They
had retained representation which had given
| them 10. fourteen years supremacy in the
| House, and once placed in the Presidential
! chair man who had never been elected to that
| office in any just sense. Contrary to the usual
| course pursued in free communities, the results
of the Miss ssippi Convention would hot be SUBJ
mitted to the people to be voted upon. 1t had
| been arranged to have it declared the organic
law of the State without any action On the part
| of the voters.
| Edmunds agreed that the Convention came
| into existence by methods entirely outside of
| the Constitution Of the State, which provided
a particular way for its own amendment.
The conference report on the bill for public
| building at Kansas City was agreed to, and the
| Senate adjourned.
| IN THE HOUSE
| WASHINGTON, December 2oth.-In the HonsA
| to-day Miiliken of Maine presented number of
| con erence reports on the public building bills
on motion OF Clunie OF California.
The Senate bill was passed for the relief of
| 3. ID BROOKS, Assistant Treasurer at San Fran
cisco, and his sureties on his official boId.
bill was passed to authorize the construc-
| ton OF tunnel under the waters of the bay of
New York, between Middletown and New IT.
recht.
On the motion Of Herman of Oregon, bill
was passed for the canc> llation of certain
contract for the delivery of stone for the i'm
proyement Of tbs Columbia river.
A motion to adjourn, made by Stone of Ken
lucky, was lost.
The House went into Committee of the Whole
on the urgent deficiency bill, with the Senate
amendment.
Henderson moved concurrence except in the
amendment providing for the payment of the
Senate session employees, including clerks to
Senators.
After long debate the motion was agreed to,
the bill was returned to the Senate, and the
House adjourned.