Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-17
Senator John w. Daniel on the Force Bill.
ITS UBIQUITOUS CHARACTER EXPOSED AND
SENATOR HOAR RAsPED.

SENATOR HOAR RASPED.
In the Senste Tuesday, the 9th, Senator
Daniel, of this State, made speech iu the
Senate on the Force Bill, in which he ex.
r posed the course Of Senator Hoar, of Massa.
chusetts, who is trying his utmost to have
that bill passed In the Senate. We give
4 the speech as reported for the Richmond
Times as follows -
THE SENATOR'S TEXT.
Il Senator Daniel began by quoting the
, following from the speech in favor of the
Force bill delivered by Senator Hoar on
f the Goth of last August:
"This bill strikes at the North quite as
much as at the South"
Senator Daniel said that, looking beyond
its immediate and transient purpose, this
bill does strike as much at the North as the
South, and the North as we'll as the South
has alre dy struck back. The Senator
from Massachusetts (Hoar) had the ques-
tionable honor of expounding in his imper-
feet way his conception of this bill before
the ides of November. Senator Daniel
then charged that Hoar, after having
spread before the country his interpreta-
tion of the bill and his arguments in favor
of it, now seeks to deny the Democrats the
privilege of holding it up to public execra-
tion; to show the people it's true character
The country had answered. Every one of
the thirteen original States had at the last
election condemned the bill. Hoar had de-
clared his distrust of the capacity and in
tegrity of the people of Massachusetts,, and
they had answered Hoar, who 'tattempted
to warm the cold fingers of this cadaver at
the embers of sectional hate" said Senator
Daniel.
/ Senator Hoar distributed his elaborate
speech, delivered in the Senate last August,
by the thousands in pamphlet form. Con-
| spicuously printed on the back was the
question: "Shall we keep faith with the
people?' Senator Daniel wanted to know
wherein Mr.. Hoar had ever kept faith with
the American people. He referred to the
fact that Hoar had contended for unre.
stricted Chinese immigration; for an in
fux of debased people who establish
opium dens to debauch the young. Hoar
question. He had never "kept faith" with
the people.
| ARGUMENT TO THE PEOPLE.
| Continuing, Mr.. D1niel said that Hoar
had the hardihood yesterday, in connection
with an effort to stop debate, declared that
every mans mind was made up, and
1
single vote. Senator Daniel said that the
Democrats are not addressing their argu-
ments to the Senate Through the instru-
mentality of a gallery Cooking up towards
the press gallery, Mr.. Daniel said the
Democrats were addressing their afgu-
ments to sixty millions of American peo-
pie. Senator Hoar bimself, said Mr..
Daniel, was in large measure responsible
for the necessity of full debate. He had
offered measure of more than forty
pages, accompanied by report which only
skinned the surface; which did not afford
an insight into it's provisions and character
istics. Hoar did not wapt the true charac-
ter of this mischieVous measure revealed to
the people. He had neglected or refused
10 explain the bill, and as it SO nearly
touches the rights, privileges, and even
business interests of the people, the Demo-
Gratis of the Senate were determined that
its iniquity should be fully known. Mr.
Daniel asserted that the bill is utterly un-
constitutional in many of its provisions.
| FEDERAL JUDO Es AND ELECTIONS.
Referring to the provision TO confer con.
troll of elections upon Federal judges, Sena-
ter Daniel said he would not lmpeach the
integrity of the judiciary, but he would
call Senator Hoar as witness on that
point. Here the Virginia Senator read
that remarkable and well-remembered
speech of Senator Hoar, declaring that
during his brief public career he had not
seen anything but corruption, citing the
impeachment of Federal judges, and de-
claripg the judiciary corrupt. And yet,
said Mr.. Daniel, this scholar in politics
| (Hoar) had entered into combination with
ward-heeler John !. Davenport) to hand
over to this judiciary the control of the
peoples elections. Observing that Senator
Hoar had left the chamber, Senator Daniel
4 expressed regret that the Massachusetts
Senator retreated from his own utterances.
He commented satirically upon Hoar's re-
treat. The latter was in the cloak.room
within hearing distance, and just as Mr..
Daniel completed his excoriation Mr.. Hoar
crept back to his seat.
SUPERVISORS AND MARsHALs.
Senator Daniel took up next the authority
for the appointment of supervisors and
deputy marshals. He proceeded to show
that any number of deputy marshals could
be appointed, each to receive $5 per day
There are 81 900 election precincts in the
country, and the cost of supervisors alone
would be $162, ,000. The old cry of 'forty
acres and mule'' had been Abandoned
Now it is ''$40 cash and an Office"
CONTROLLING STATE LEGISLATURES.
Senator Daniel asked if Mr.. Hoar woula
station Federal supervisor in the hall of a
State Legislature t, call the roll on vote
for United States Senator, and have
Fedora, judge present to issue the certif-
cate of election to the Senators This bill
virtually proposes to do that. II, said Mt.
Daniel, this bill is constitutional, then the
control of the United States Senate could
be passed into the hands of such men as
J ohm Davenport. The Virginia Senator
read the paragraph of the Constitution In
rel alton to Congressional elections, and
proceeded by an able and lucid argument
to demo pstrate that the Force bill is in
conflict with it, He said if the interpreta-
tion of Hoar is correct Congress might
exercise control over the choice of State
Legislatures. This assertion might sound
exaggerated, but it was true, and the
Senator, backing his own argument with
quotations from Judge Story and others
who have shed lustre upon the bench, pro-
ceeded to show that by the same logic by
which Hoar seeks to sustain the Force bill
would warrant interference in State cleo
tions.
CoNsTITUTIONALITY OF THE BILL.
The Senator maintained that the consti-
jtutional authority as to time, places, &C.,
upon minute analysis of the phraseology
of the Constitution. He sustained his
views by quotations from able interpreta-
;tions OF the Constitution. Referring to the
word ''manner" in the Constitution, he
said it was the mode or methods OF, and did
not authorize the selection of men to serve
in pursuance of the elections.
The Senator quoted Webster as holding
that the power of Congress ended with pre-
scribipg the time, place, and manner of
holding elections; that it has no power to
prescribe the qualification of voters Or say
who shall be elected. Senator Daniel cut
the goupd right from under the feet of
Hoar. He referred to the electoral COM
mission, of which Mr.. Hoar was member
} and read from the latter's Judgment in that
contest. There Mr.. HOar maintained that
Congress had TO power to go behind State
returns; that the State was absolutely con-
clusive and final in it's finding; "tbat the