Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
He Warmly Advocates Passage ofthe
Election Bill by the Senate.
he DEFENDS JOHN l. DAVENPORT
The House Passes the District
Commissioners Quorum Bill
AND MANY OTHER MEASURES.
SENATE.

| dams on reservations. Referred.
dozen private pension bills were taken up
and passed.
MIR. Moody, from the committee on Indian dep
relation claims. reported House bill for the ad-
judication Of such claims. Calendar.
| Mr.. Sawyer asked unanimous consent for the
fixing of an early day in January for the con-
sideration of the postal telegraph bill.
Mr.. Wolcott objected.
Mr.. Ingalls,. at his own request, was granted
TWO weeks leave of absence.
| DE. KoCH's CONSUMPTION CURE.
Mr. Platt introduced a resolution providing
that the Preaident be authorized to take such
action as he may think proper and expedient to
obtain from the German government a supply
OF the remedy known as DR.. Koch lymph and
the formula for its manufacture and to employ
such measures as he may think expedient for
Its manufacture and distribution in the United
States, and that the sum of 100000 be appro-
priated to carry out the purposes of the resolu-
| ton.
The morning hour having expired the pre-
siding officer laid before the Senate the election
bill.
| MR. PADDOCK GIVES NOTICE.
| Mr. Paddock gave notice that after the con-
sideration of the pending bill (and before it
should be concluded, if its debate was to be
protracted to any great extent he would ask
the Senate to take up the pure food bill. which
was demanded by the farmers from one end Of
! the country to the other.
Mr. Blair inquired what reason the Senator
had Tor supposinS that conclusion would be
| arrived at i'll regard to his bill any easier than
conclusion would be reached on the pending
| measure.
! Mr.. Paddock said that if the consideration of
the pending bill was to continue without limit
and without hope, possibly of q result he
would call up the pure Food bill
Mr.. BLAIR TRIES AGAIN.
| MIR. Blair thought that the Senator did not
understand his question. His query was: How
the Senator could hope Tin view of the action
on the pending measure) that there would be a
short debate on his bill! 1t was true that the
senate and the country might enjoy little
change OF diet. but the true course was to
bring forward the clotnre (he believed it was
callcd) and see whether the rules could be 80
| altered as TO permit the conclusion of debate
| on any question.
| MR. SOONER FOR THE ELECTION BILL.
Mr.. Edmunds demanded the regular
! order, and the floor was taken by
Mr.. Spooner in speech in ad-
vocacy of the bill A stranger in the gallery.
ne SAID listening to this debate without any
knowledge of the history of the country would
be impressed with the idea that all love of
liberty and devotion to the Constitution and
freedom from craftsmanship were to lie found on
the other side of the chamber. He hoped that
gentlemen on the other side would not assume
tnat republican Senators were not equally with
| them
LOVERS OF LIBERTY.
He took pride in belonging to a party whose
history had been love of liberty and defense of
liberty. Senators on the other side constantly
asserted that they spoke for 1.-The Anglo-Saxon
race. Republican Senators were also Anglo
SaxOns and they would be as unwilling as the
democratic Senators to disparage or
t ar;S h;S1 the race. :. Gentlemen opposing
tntional and spoke of their devotion to the
Constitution. He begged them to remember
| that devotion to the Constitution was not con-
fined to the democratic side. The republicans
we're denounced AZ partisans. He begged to
suggest that possibly some persons might
| imagine that the fierceness of the opposition
to this bill was attributable in part to parti-
sanship.
DENUNCIATION NOT ARGUMENT.
Senators ought to be willing to concede that
In the consideration of measure of this char
acter there was room for an honest difference
OF opinion and should not forget that denuncia-
ton was not argument and that epithets never
convinced any intelligent mind. This debate
had been characterized by something of rude
ness. The committee on privileges and cleo
lions had been referred to in language of dis
courtesy. Almost every Senator on the other
side had made harsh and bitter reference to the
Senator from Massachusetts Mr. Hoar) That
senator needed no defense, and if this were 9TH
erwise he would be
ABUNDANTLY ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF.
But he hoped that tie Senator would not
think him Offcious in saying that he had heard
the attacks with regret and indignation. When
Massachusetts counted her Jewels none would
be found richer and brighter than the name
ana Tame OF the Senator III charge of this bill.
He was the peer of any man who had ever
spoken for Massachusetts in this chamber.
DEFENDING JOHN /. DAVENPORT.
Mr.. Spooner then proceeded to defend John
1. Davenport from the attacks made upon him
and contended Certifying his contention with
documentary evidence) that the federal cleo
| ton law, instead OF being offensive to the
democrats of the north. had been put into opera
! tion at their request in many instances He
quoted largely from the decision of Judge
! BiatchfOrd in the Hendricks case against Mr..
davenport. and said that that ought to be
enough to protect Mr.. Davenport against de-
nunciations connected with that case
! The charges had been made and the case had
been investigated. not by committee but by
judge who passed upon every issue, an ele-
men; III his Mr.. Davenport s. favor. 1t would
not do. he said for Mr.. Daniel or any other
Senator to refer TO Mr.. Davenport as the crea-
ture of Judge Blatchford. Honest men had no
creatures That involved reproach to
both. The only wonder to him (Mr.
| SpOoner) was that looking at the
environments under which Mr.. Davenport acted
in those days. he had arrested 20 few men who
ought not to have been arrested. Why Che
asked) has the Senators from Delaware and
Virginia tGray and Danel) deemed it their
duty to go to the rescue OF the people of New
! York?
| THE NEW YORK SENATOR'S.
That state was represented by two distin-
guished Senators, one Of whom had been for
the last fifty years the most distinguished cham
pion of personal liberty in the world If Mr.
Davenport had ridden rough-shod over the
honest people of New York city, arresting them
| by thousands and casting them into bastiles. it
was strange that the Senators from that state
had not come to the defense of their outraged
| constituents -
In the face of the fact that liberty lay bleed
ing in the streets of New York city. it was
strange that the citizens of New York should be
dependent upon the Senators from Delaware
and Virginia to yindicate their rights. He did
moi know. however. that any democrat from
the north or from the south had introduced a
bill to repeal the law under which Mr. Daven-
I Port'was acting.
| RELYING TO GRAY AND DANIEL.
MIR. Spooner then proceeded to discuss and to
defend the details OF the pending measure and