The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-29
SENSATIONAL TALK.
Lively Discussion over the Provisions oi
the Federal Election bill.

Lively Discussion Over the Prov visions OF
the Federal Election bill.
WASHINGTON, June 2s.-After minor
business the house went into committee
of the whole on the federal election bill.
McAdoo of New Jersey spoke in opposi-
ton To the measure.
McComas, Maryland, and Rowcll, Illi-
nois, spoke in favor of the bill.
Bland of Missouri. twitted McComas
men of the District of Columbia the power
of local government and never giving il
TO them again. This resulted i'm an up
roar on the floor. Bland and McComas
shouting at the top Of their voices amid
the applause of their colleagues and the
galleries.
McComas declared that when Bland
affected an interest i'm 5000 or 10000 black
voters in that district, while during long
service here, he never raised his voice on
behalf of 100000 or 100000 poor and
oppressed black men in the Southern
country. He felt like calling him hypo-
| critic.
Bland vehemently declared McComas
and his colleagues were hypocrites i'm pre-
| tending for party purposes an unfelt in
terest in the negro. At this point the up
| roar became SO great nothing could be
debaters and the rappings OF the speak
| er's savel. McComas managed to shout
that the black man in this district was
| treated like the whites, and he appealed
| TO the people of the South TO treat the
blacks and whites alike.
When quiet was finally restored, Cum
mings of New York spoke against the bill.
| He said the bill was a sectional one. The
republican party proposed To make the
| negro chattel to be used as q convent
| ence whenever necessary.
Henderson of Iowa read from the speech
IN Il. q
whites must either rule or leave the South,
and that they would not leave IL. lie
wanted no further proof than that decla-
| ration that the blacks of South Carolina
would not be allowed TO exercise the rights
guaranteed by the constitution. He felt
| warranted i'm saying il was as dangerous
| as an armed rebellion and he meant IL.
He then read from an interview in which
| Representative Mills was quoted as say
| ing the passage of the bill meant an in
creased number of deaths among federal
election officers i'm the South. He did not
| know IL this were true, but IL so IL was an
other defiance. He served notice that the
country would no longer submit to the
| rule of the minority. The house had been
| told that what was needed was not new
South but a new North. They would get
IL. The North had peacefully and pa
tiently submitted TO this injustice. They
had seen the control of the government
by red hands wrested from its proper
channels, and the new Northwest
was at hand. which would en-
force the law and rights OF every
citizen. Let the south try a little justice.
The key to the situation was in observa-
ton Of the law, and where that could not
be secured the law must he made 10 secure
it. He spoke briefly of recent exhibition
of the stars and bars and confederate
gray at Richmond. He would not have
them forget the tender relations of the
war but he entered n protest against being
told a new north was needed when flags
in the dangerous south were Haunting m
the face of the republic.
The conference report on the post office
appropriation bill was adopted.
Ewart of North Carolina, republican
opposed the passage of the election bill as
to negroes and their political rights
! Speaking for his own state lac unhesitat