Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-12-13
HOAR AND BUTLER.
South Carolina and Massachu-
sets in Discord.
AN IMpUTATION OF wLLrUL LYING

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the States That Gain sIembers-Pro-
posed New Law for Naturalization.
WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. l3--when the
resolution offered by Dolph instructing |
The COMMITTEES on privileges and elections
to inquire and report whether the right of
suffrage is denied or abridged in any state
except for participation in the rebellion or
other crime was taken up in the senate
yesterday, Dolph said that the states Of
Mississippi, Wyoming, Massachusetts,,
and Connecticut imposed restrictions on
the right, OF suffrage and he had read the
inaugural message OF Governor Tillman. of
South Carolina, which, he said. was an
official declaration that the great mass of
coiored men in the south were not to exer-
else the elective franchise.
Vest Gives Dolph Nut to Crack.
Vest moved an amendment instructing
the committee to inquire further whether
by any state legislature any citizens of the
United States We're denied the right TO
work on any public Improvements by rea-
son of their color. He then read clause
from recent statute of the Oregon legis
lature authorizing the building of bridge
and providing that none but white labor
ers should be employed on the work
Dolph replied to Vest and further allu-
sion to Governor Tllman's inaugural
message brought out the declaration from
Butler that he was perfectly willing to
stand by that message.
Butler Says Somebody Lies.
Dolph said that be was informed by a
senator on his side Of the chamber that the
senator himself (Butler) had threatened
colored men in his employment that he
would discharge them If they should vote
the Republican ticket.
Butler-Whoever made that statement
is guilty of deliberate and wilful false
hood-a deliberate and wilful falsehood
Hoar-I suppose that within twenty
four hours read the testimony of the
senator from South Carolina before com.
mittee of this body or of the other body,
in which he stated that he had told the
colored people on his plantation that he
should dismiss them from his employment
If they voted the Republican ticket
made the statement myself to the senator
from Oregon.
Was ''Aiiuding at Hoar.
Butler-Then the remark that made
| applies, of course, to the senator from Mas
sachusetts.
Hoar-I am not to be deferred from say.
ing what have to say
Butler-I Go not propose TO deter the
senator
Notwithstanding the SENTENCED eithsr
by the manner or behavior of the senator
! from South Carolina. ] have read that in
public document within twenty-four
lrxst Il -
about 1t have made the mistake
! The subject was then dropped for tbs
| time.
EdmuDds Comes into tho Fray.
| Blodgett and Walthsll then spoke
| against the election bill, aud the latter
| spoke of the improved condition of certain
counties in Mississippi In respect TO peace
and order Edmunds inquired whether
the perpetrators of the acts of violence re.
ferred 10 by Walthall had been tried or
convicted
| Walthall-I think the chief parties ac-
| cused in connection with that matter were
tried regularly by a jury, before Judge
| OF high standing, and were acquitted
Edmunds tsarcasticallyl-Tha is what
Isupposed-
Some More Superstition.
Morgan-I suppose that the senator
from Vermont would want them convict
ed whether they were guilty or not
Edmunds-No The senator hardly sup
poses that
Morgan-Yes, I do.
Ednunds-Then the senator is more
/ crazy than usual
Edmunds went on to say that he could
understand state of peace where all lib
erty had been suppressed-peace In the
sense of nobody needing to be killed any
more.
Hoar Not Done with Butler.
When Walthall had closed his speech
| Hoar rose and call ed attention TO the re-
marks made by Butler to the effect that
any one who said he had threatened to dis
miss colored people from his employment
II they should vote the Republican ticket
was guilty of deliberate and wilfull
falsehood. He sent to the clerks desk and
had read the official reporters manuscript
of what took place, and said: "A rule of
my lie, long since formed, does not per-
init me to reply to the senator from South
Carolina in such language as he thought
proper to utter. Whether I should be
guilty of a deliberate and willful false
hood about matter contained in public
document will be settled in the estima-
ton OF those who know me. / will read
for the information Of the senate from the
document to which ! referred"
The Record Produced.
Hoar proceeded to read from a minority
report made to the house of representa-
tives in 1876, in which Butler is repre-
sented to have testified as follows:
Odd you say to these colored men
that they could not remain on your land
unless they voted the Democratic tickets
Al do not know that said that. /
said this; / went down and gave them
tickets. and said to them that they had a
right to vote the Republican ticket If they
pleased; that they were free men-as free
as ! was; hut If they exercised that right
and imposed taxes upon me that would
destroy my property and prospects,
should throw myself back on some rights
that had under the laws of the country
and would see that they left my planta-
ton.
Submitted for Justification.
Odd they all vote the Democratic
ticket
| A.-No, sir Six or seven voted the DEM
ocratic ticket. Some of them did not vote
| at all and do not know how the others
voted, but / intend to inform myself,
| Q.-With II view of turning them off II
they vote the Republican ticketS
A.-Not for voting tine Republican tick
ct IL they had an honest ticket, but for
| voting for those thieves and robbers.
II that language fHoar said did not JUS
tify the statement that the senator from
/ South Carolina had threatened to dis
| charge men from his employment for vot-
ing the Republican ticket, then he had
| done the senator an injustice; but he
| thought that it did
| Butler Sticks to His Denial.
Butler said that he had denounced as
false the statement that he had threatened
to discharge colored men on his plantation
II they voted the Republican ticket. He
had no retraction to make. II the senator
from Massachusetts, had said that he gave
the information to the senator from Ore
gon tDolph) not Of his own knowledge, but
from a public document, the remark
would nor Of course apply to him. The
testimony quoted was. he said a CARRIED
statement He had never seen q
report of the testimony which ne had
given, and did not now recollect having
| appeared before the COMMITTEES In question.
But he repeated now that ne had never at
| any time or on any occasion attempted to
influence a single negro on his plantation
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