The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-04
Strong Opposition to the Pass.
age Of the Lodge Bill.
A Resolution Unanimously Adopted by The
National Farmers Alliance.
Senators Peti.ioned TO Employ All Fair and
Legal Means to Prevent the Enact
ment of the Measure.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

OscALA Fla.), Dec. 3.-The sensation of
the morning session of the Farmers Alliance
was when President Livingstone of the
Georgia Alliance arose to a question of
privilege, and denounced as infamously
false the insinuations in certain newspapers
aimed at DIR. McCune and himself, and even
at President Polk, in connection with the
recent Senatorial contest in Georgia. He
demanded the appointment of fair and i'm
partial committee TO thoroughly investigate
the charges. President Polk and DIR. Nc
Cune also spoke, and it was decided that a
committee of Investigation be appointed, to
consist of one member from each State dele
cation, to make a thorough and searching
investigation in accordance with the demand
OF the gentlemen cenSured.
At the afternoon session McAllister of
Mississippi introduced a preamble and reso-
luton setting forth that the President of the
United States, in his annual message.
recommends and urges the immediate
passage of the Lodge bill; that said bill
involves radical revolution IN the election
machinery of the Union, and It's passage
will be fatal to the autonomy of the State
d,
that the said bill is partisan in its appi "a
ton, thus reyo.utonizinG the hoary ghost Of
sectional estrangement; that the alliance
has declared against seclionalism. The
fresides of the farmers of the North, East
South and West are the ctaiels around
which battles are being fought, and to the
end that victory may crown the crusade,
and fraternity and unity reign. be it
Resolred, by the National Farmers Alliance
aud Isthut oil ITyiAt -
council assembled that We do most solenuy
protest against the passage OF the said bill ana
most earnestly petition our Senators TO employ
all lair and legal means 10 defeat this unpatrGtic
measure, which can result IN nothing but evil
10 our common and beloved country.
MeAllister made strong speech in favor
OF the resolution.
Delegate Deming of PENNSYLVANIA said
he regarded the introduction of the resolu-
tion as untlmeIy; that there was largely
prevalent at The North feeling that the
Farmers Alliance was Southern orsaniZa
ton, and that the passage of these reSolu-
tons would strengthen their opinion and
check the growth of the alliance in the
North and East.
A delegate from Illinois expressed the
sentiment that he feared the adoption of
the resolution would confirm the charge
that the Farmers Alliance is a partisan
grip in the West and in localities where
the Republican sentiment is strong. This
action of the national order would tend to
throw 1t into political disrepute and stop its
expansion oyer the States in the West and
Northwest"
After several other speeches, however.
McAllister's motion to adopt the resolutions
was put and carried unanimously, amid
wild enthusiasm.
a resolution was also adopted denouncing
the Louisiana otteryas as a blow at American
civilization and morals, and asking for the
submission to the people of America an
amendment to the American Constitution
prohibiting the operation of lotteries in any
State.
a resolution will be offered tomorrow in
dorsing Senator Stanford's bill for loauiug
money on land.