Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-23
MIR. INGALLS, TALKS TO-DAY.
He Addresses Crowded Galleries and an
Interested Senate.


He Addresses Crowded Galleries and an
Interested Senate.
HIS VIEWS ON THE RACE oUEsTroN-rHE cAu-
cAsrAN AND NEGRO RACES, HE SAYS, CAN NEVER
MINeLE-rHx OPENING OF HIS ADDRESS At THE
CAPITOL TODAY.
Noon was almost an hour away today when
the door keepers, whose duty it is to care for
the limited space allotted to the public in the
galleries Of the Senate, ceased to do anything
but inform newcomers that they really must
desist from crowding up against the doors, be-
cause the physical force of giant would fail
to find either a seat or even an opportunity to
| stand.
In the outside corridors was a heated, surg
ing crowd that swayed to and fro, iamented its
hardness and cried for help. There was no
help for it, though, for Senators had taken
great care to reserve pretty nearly everything
| In the shape of seats, and all the dear public
could do was to indulge in its inalienable right
to kick"
Senators were rendered almost desperate.
and it may be truthfully stated that some Of
them were driven to the absorption OF sundry
liquors in the obscurity of the basement by the
pertlnacity of friends and woud-be-friends,
who demanded gallery tickets in spite Of the
apparent fact that not even hundred pounds
Of the most energetic specimen OF the male or
female kind could find an entrance anywhere.
blue oasis of rest in very lively desert OF
| crowded discomfort was the gallery which is
sacred to the diplomatic corps. Hundreds Of
those who faint, yet pursuing" stood around
in the corners, gazed longingly at the ten
rows Of unoccupied seats and wished
the diplomatic corps was unanimously in
Jerusalem some other distant city, so that
its gallery might be temporarily possessed by
hot
which desired to hear Senator John j. ingalls,
of Kansas talk for a couple of hours on the
race question.
ON THE FLOOR.
On the Senate floor there was that calm
which inevitably precedes storm. When
Chaplain Butler opened the regular proceed
ings with prayer there were less than ten Sena-
tors in their seats and there was neither a
fairly full attendance nor an enthusiastic
attention to business until shortly before 2
o'clock, when everybody began to wonder
when the Senator from Kansas was going to
put in an appearance. Members of the House
began to stroll in and find seats on the
sofas or in the easy chairs which
Alger of Michigan. Gov. Shoup Of Idaho and
Secretary of Agriculture Rusk were prominent
among the visitors on the floor. While the
regular business Of the day proceeding
Mrs. Morton and one of her daughters took
on the east side. Delegate Glenn Studebaker
of the international American conference, en-
tered the diplomatic gallery about the same
time.
1t twas ten minutes before o'clock when the
long-looked for orator, Senator Ingalls,, en-
tered the chamber from the republican cloak
room and took his seat. Half a dozen
big volumes were on his desk and
there was great array of typewriter
preparation for big speech. The Senator'S
entrance the SIGNAL for suph hnZZ of
versation in the galleries that Vice President
Morton had to use his gavel several times be-
fore business could proceed.
MR.. INGALLS, OPENING.
When Mr.. Ingalls, rose and asked for the read
ing of the bill in full the noise and confusion
instantly ceased, and perfect stiffness sue
ceeded.
he opened his speech in a clear, ringing
voice, saying: Mr.. President.-The race 10
CANT and rapacious, the most exclusive
and indomitable in history. 1t is
the conquering and the unconquerable race
through which alone man has taken possession
of the physical and the moral world. To our race
humanity is indebted for rei gion for literature
for civilization. 1t has genius for conquest,
for politics, for Jurisprudence and for admins |
tration. The home and the family are its con- |
tributions to society. Individualism, fraternity
liberty and equality have been its contributions
enemies and its victims. This is not the tme |
nor is it the occasion to consider the profoundly
interesting question of the unity of races 1t
IS sufficient to say that, either by instinct or
design
THE CAUCASIAN RACE
at every step of its progress from barbarism to
enlightenment has refused to mingle it's blood
or assimilate with the two other great human
families the Mongolian and the African and |
has persistently rejected aluteratiOn
PARADOX OF GOVERNMENT.
Mr.. ingalls, went on to speak of the triumphs |
accomplished by the exies of Plymouth |
and jamestown who had ventured on |
this continent, on a hitherto untred |
experiments paradox of governmental |
which those who rule are those to be governed. |
Under the shield of the American |
government he said. every faith had
found its shelter, every creed a sanctuary and |
every wrong a redress 1t had resisted the |
rancour Of party spirit the violences of faction,
the perils Of foreign immigration, the collisions
of civil war snd the jealous menace Of foreign |
and hostile nations.
After eulOglZlng the first century of |
mcrican history, Senator Ingalls, took up his |
real argument and said that on the threshold of |
the second century the country stood confronted |
with problem that might if not properly |
and carefully handled, result ia national |
catastrophe. glowing tribute was paid to
the late Henry w. Grady, and the last |
speech of the southern orator was |
literally quoted from Statistics were
then produced to show that according to the |
records there had been an increase in the COL
ored population of 2.100, 900 from 1860 to 1880.
This increase, said the Senator, can only be ac-
counted for by gigantic fraud on the census
laugh followed senator Ingalls, remurk
that Frederick Douglass, the greatest living
representative of his race. greater by his eau
casian reinforcement than by his African
blood" but the Senator in earnest and
there nothing humorous in his words
as he went on to insist that the Douglass idea
of absorption of races was empty and worthless.
He insisted that the races could not, would not |
mingle.
The ballot which was alleged to be in the