St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-31

Republican Leaders Dis
traught Over Two Favor
ite Measures.
Election and Cloture Bills
Likely to Fail Through
Party OBJECTIONS.
Senator Woleott Jumps Upon
the Infamous Election
Atrocity,
While Senator Teller Per-
forms the Same Agile Act
for Cloture.

met at III a. III. With hardly dozen
senators in attendance. Attention was
called to the fact of the absence of
quorum by one of the two Democratic
senators who were present (Messrs.
German and Faulkner). The roll call
showed the presence of only seventeen
senators, aud The sergeantat-arms was
directed TO request the attendance of
absentees. 1t was IL o'clock before a
quorum forty-four) was secured and
before the journal of yesterday was
read. The vice president laid before
the senate the credentials of Frederick
L. Dubois, as senator from the state of
Idaho, for the term beginning March 4,
1891. They were referred to the CON-
mittee on privileges and elections. MIR.
Regain gave notice of two amendments
to Mr.. Aldrich's cloture resolution.
Then, the morning hour having.eXpired,
the senate resumed consideration of the
election bill. Mr.. Wolcott made an ami
mated speech against the bill, attract
ing the closest attention from its first
sentence to its last.
1t was, he said, source of great re-
greet to him to be called upon 10 differ
with any considerable number of his
party, and 10 decline to take the path
which the older leaders pointed out. 1t
was proper that the reasons which i'm
PEELED the difference be fairly stated.
The time which the bill engrosSed was
Opportune. Nearly One-third of the Ses-
sion was through, and daylight was
not yet visible. There were before the
senate measures of vast Importance
of St
unless they were now acted upon.
Among the measures awaiting action,
Mr.. WolOott mentioned the silver bill.
the apportionment bill, the pure food
bill, the copyright bill and the private
land court bill. We stand The said in
the shadow of great financial disaster.
Thu people turn to congress for relief.
They want the assurance either that
there will be 10 legislation on
The Financial Subject.
so that they can set their house in Or
der or that they will receive an adj
equate medium of circulation for the
Transition of their business. But it
was not only, he SAID, because those
measures were clamoring for recOgni-
ton that he felt compelled to oppose
the passage of the election bill. If the
session were to last Indefinitely, and if
none of these vital measures were pend
ing, he would still vote against it. 1t
was travesty on duty that the senate
should sit, day after day, discussing
changes in the election law that had
stood without amendment for twenty
years. In his opinion the pending bill
should not become law because it i'll
volyed federal interference and eSpion-
age at other than national elections;
and such interference was contrary to
the spirit of American institutions,
and an obstacle to the right
enjoyment of American liber-
critics. 1t was. to his mind. far better
that the local and state elections in the
city of New York. with its thousands of
ignorant, criminal and venal voters,
should be attended by fraud and dis
honesty than that they should be kept
pure by federal interference. They had
tried in Colorado the remedy of federal
interference under the direction of a
Democratic District Attorney
| and Democratic marshal. The law
| had been administered by q judge who
was so intolerably fair that he was op-
posed to both parties. and yet it had
been given up. and now the people of
| Colorado managed their own elections,
| fairly, impartially and incorrutedly.
|
| Wolcott went on to say, wanted no more
civil strife, and it would be impossible
to enforce such law against the united
opposition of the white population in the
| Southern states. The attempt would
bring back the old days of terrorizing.
and the weaker race would be the suf-
ferer. There were many things more
important and vital to the welfare of
the nation than that the cOlored citizens
of the South should cast their ballots.
Referring to the question put by Mr..
EuStis some weeks ago to Mr.. Dolph,. as
to what the people of Oregon would do
under similar circumstances, if Chinese
voters were in the majority in that
state, Mr.. Wolcott said that Mr.. Dolph's
answer seemed evasive. He (Mr. VOL
cott) could not speak for Oregon; but
he gave it as his solemn opinion that in
Colorado, whose mountains inspired
only freedom and love of justice, and
where the Republican party had as
large majority in proportion to its
population, as Kansas or Nebraska had
in their lucid years. if such a condition
of affairs existed, and if the Chinese
vote was opposed to the united and i'll
telligent white vote, the white vote. in
some way and by some method would
govern.