Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-01
FEDERAL CONTROL.
General Debate on the Election
Bill Ended.
BURROWS CLOSES THE LONG TALKS

the Acknowledgement Fails to Get Thu
Appropriations Through on Time-A
Statement of the status of Business
Some Figures from the Census-Frank
LAWYERS Latest 1dea-No Adjournment
Before August.
WASHINGTON CITY, July 1.-The general
debate on the federal election bill was
brought to close in the house Yesterday
Herbert OF Alabama opened the fight and,
referring to the reconstruction period, said
that the result had been that the negro
had been taught to distrust the southern
white man, and during that period the
southern states had been represented in
congress by Republicans. Now they were
represented by Democrats, and hence the
necessity for national election law. If
the south were allowed TO work out the
problemn for itself, the time would come
when the negro, being educated as the
white man was, would be able to take care
of himself as taxpayer and citizen
This bill would have the effect of arraying
race against race again in the south
HOuk Quotes Springer.
Houk of Tennessee said that it had been
his conviction since his earliest reading of
the constitution that it was paradox to
leave to the states the control of the cleo
tion of national officers He quoted from
a report made by Springer in contested
election case, in which he claimed that
Springer laid down the exact principle in
volved in the pending bills. That the laws
of every state of the Union should conform
to the law of the land The objection to
the bill was not that the colored man was
black, but that he voted Republican
ticket.
Another Republican Opposes.
Coleman of Louisiana said that he was
Republican both from conviction and
from principle: southern man hy bilth
education and association He was an
posed to fhe enactment OF the federal cleo
ton law at this time, and, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the promoters of this
measure aimed to secure the great desid
eratum of free ballot and a fair count,
he ia -4at-thipk that this was proper
time to make this pOiitt,"l experiment.
He was az certain that trouble ana blood
shed would follow the enactment of the
legislation, and that the law would fail
in its purpose, rs he was that he would
vote against it in this house.
An Expensive Political Rlunder.
A federal election law would be an ex-
pensive political blunder; the public
money could be used to greater advantage
in paying the honest CLAIMS of the people
of the south, in reimbursing the deposi-
tors of the Freedmens' Saving and Trust
company, in constructing levees on the
Mississippi river, and in educating the
children of the south, black as well as
white. Pass a federal election law and
the men now ready to separate from the
Democratic party would get back into
what they were told was the white mans
party, rather than risk negro supremacy.
Burrows Closes the Debate.
Finley of kentucky, Waddill of Vir-
ginia, and Hopkins of Illinois spoke in IA
vor of the bill, and Turner of Georgia.
Tracy of New York, Cultivate of Ohio.
and Chapman of Michigan opposed it, and
then Burrows of Michigan rose to make
the final speech of the general debate He
said that when the popular vote was tam
pered with representative government ex-
listed but in mama. If there was any
thing in the bill that overstepped
the bounds of the constitution let
it be stricken out, but let all
stand together in maintaining free bal
lot and honest count as the only safety of
the republic. He could forgive man
who, in the hour of passion, or in the hour
of revolution fired on the flag. but dat
man who crawled to the ballot box where
reposed the latest born offspring of the
sovereign will and took its life was an
assassin. He wanted TO pass a measure
which would proclaim to the people that
the government had at last made true
the declaration of the martyred Lincoln
that this was government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the people
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