The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-04

hungry the further people got away from
them. He (Pierce) lived within few
miles of the great Sioux reservation. He
had been there for the last two
months ana this was the first time
he had heard it asserted the In
dian was on the warpath because he
was hungry. He saw Indians every day in
the town where he lived, and they were
sleeker and better fed, apparently, than
the Senator from Indiana. Laughter.
He had no doubt but that in some of the
agencies there are Indians who complain of
insufficient food. But he questioned very
much whether General Miles made the
statement attributed to him in the news
papers. The trouble with the Indians is
they are fed and clothed and allowed to
live on the bounty of the government, and
''the devil finds mischief still for idle hands
to do"
Voorhees, said he would take the state
ment of General Miles far sooner than that
of the Senator who lived near the reserva-
ton and who, with his people, wanted to
get the Indians land as soon as possible.
One was reliable officer, the other was
the fox, lying around the pen where the
geese were, waiting to get some of them.
The discussion had not closed when, at
3 o'clock, the Vice-P President laid before the
Senate as unfinished business, the election
bill.
1urpie took the floor in opposition. The
substitute measure, he sale, rested for its
support on what was called the suppressed
colored Repu blican vote in the south. In
the course of his remarks, he said in the
northern states where all this outcry was
made the colored men had no more chance
OF preferment than Roman Catholic had
in New Hampshire hundred years ago.
! The suppression of the colored vote in 1he
south was the thing manifestly
in question affirmed on the one
side and denied on the other; but
the suppression of the colored voter
of the north was thing without question,
actual, absolute, unconditional. The SUI
premacy OF the white race was not peculiar
TO any portion of the United States. South
Carolina was not more completely under
its sway than Pennsylvania. The man,
| ESPECIALLY the man of the White House,,
who sought to emproil the white man and
black races for purpose he could not con-
ceal and dare not avoW, was guilty of an
outrage ten-fold greater than any of those
| he invented or described. Whenever
people of different races were living peace
fully together under the same laws, mem
bers of the same body polite,
without any other thought than
that some must command and others
obey; the race problem was being solved.
The purpose Of sthe national election
Oil was, so Tar as Ii related to the south, to
wreck and destroy this pending condition
of inter-soclal adjustment. 1t proposed not
to maintain the will of the majority but to
overthrow it on the single issue of race and
to make a majority of black men, because
they are black: to establish government
OF complexion, not OF opinion. The pur
pose of the bill was that the law of the LAND
must be suborned to setup enmity between
the white man and black man. Pass this
bill, and the right of the people to choose
their representatives, that right so precious
and priceless to every lover of liberty, was
lost beyond recovery.
At the conclusion of his speech Turpie
received the congratulations OF his Demo
cratic colleagues and the Senate adjourned
The Democratic Senators, at a caucus
this afternoon, decided to main tain opposi-
ton to the elections bill, seize every oppor
tunity to discuss it eXhaustively and strive
to amend every Objectionable feature a.
reached in detailed consideration of the
measure. the caucus did not undertake
to formulate an order of business, as tn,
Republican Senators have not yet com
pleted their programme.