Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-31
CONGRESSIONAL.


WASHINGTON, December 3Oth.-German made
point of no quorum when the senate met to-
day. The Sergeant alarms was sent TO secure
the attendance of absentees. II was II CLOCK
before quorum wss secured and the journal Of
yesterday was read.
The Vice President laid before the Senate the
credentials of Frederick T. Dubois, Senator from
idaho, for the term beginning March 4, 1891.
Referred to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections
Aldrich's cloture resolution.
The morning hour having expired the Senate
resumed consideration of the election bill, and
Hoar cont nued his speech. commenced yester-
day. in its advocacy. he reminded the SOUTH
ern Senators that they had pledged their official
oaths and honor as men that they would give
their devotion to the Constitutional amend
ments if they were only let back into the old
condition in the Union, free from the conse-
quences of the rebellion, and now they were
denouncing these amendments. He recalled
the Copiah massacre in Mississippi, the murder
ow's house, an6 said that now the widows
son, a Republican Postmaster, had been shot
down in the streets of Carrollton, the home of
Senator George. How long" exclaimed Hoar,
shall the murder of men because they are Re-
publicans be the only crime to which the Re-
puplicans are Indifferent
In conclusion, ,Hoar, addressing himself di-
rectly to the Southern Senators. It'd them that
they had exhausted every other policy and
failed. NoS Try justice.
Wolcott made an animated speech against
the bill. 1t was, he said, a source of great re-
greet to him to be called upon TO differ with any
considerable number of his party, and to de-
cline to take the path the older leaders pointed
out: but nearly one-third of the session was
through and daylight was not yet visible There
were before the Senate measures of vast i'm
portance that would fail for en- other year. at
the silver bill, the apportionment bill, the pure
food bill the copyright aud private land court
| bills. But il was not only because these meas
ures were clamoring for recognition that he
f.1t laf1 ad hn oil act ipr
| bill. If the session were to last indefinitely,
| and none of these vital measures pending, he
would still vote against it. The pending bill
| should not become a law, because 1t involved
| Federal interference and espionage at other
| than national elections, and such interference
was contrary to the spirit of American ins.itu-
| lions and an obstacle to the right and enjoy
ment OF the American people of the United
States. Woicott said he wanted no more civil
strife, and it would be impossible to enforce
such law against the united opposition of the
| attempt would bring back the old days of ter
rorizing, and the weaker race would be the
sufferers. There were other things more import
| that the colored citizens OF the South should
cast ballots.
Referring to the question put by
the people of Oregon would do under similar
| circumstances if Chinese voters were in the
majority, Wolcott said Dolph's answer seemed
evasive. He (Wolcott could not speak for Ore
gon, but he gave it as his solemn opinion that
| in Colorado, If such state of affairs existed,
| and the Chinese vote was opposed to the united
| and intelligent white vote, the white vote, in
| some way and by some method, would govern.
! Democratic approval If Congress did not
| foment the trouble 1t would surely come when
the white voters of the South would be hardly
| as unanimous rs now. The signs of the times
| point to serious differences among them, and
| when those differences became solidified the
| Colorado voter would be in demand II the
| Republicans had every Southern member of the
| next House they would still be short of a ma
| jority. Two years from now, when the benefi-
cent tariff law had time to demonstrate its wis
| Southern Republican representation which the
| bill sought to give. But there was another and
mightier reason why it should be defeated.
| For a quarter Of q century out from
poverty and despair, the South has been reach
ing forth in an effort to plant its foot on solid
rock OF material prosperity; and view the mar
| Vicious growth and transformation now taking
| place in the southern States. 1t would be un.
wise and unpatriotic for Congress to interfere in
| the conduct of its internal affairs Rejoicing in
| the prosperity of every section of the common
| country, he (WoleotD was unwilling to thrust
| with his vote, on that people at this time, a
measure which seemed to them but renewal
| the spirit and dangerous to the freedom of re-
publican institutions. General applause in the
galleries and on the Democratic side.
The election bill was then laid aside infor
| mally, and the financial bill taken up and dis
| cussed by Stewart, Teller and others, after
| which an executive session was held, and the
Senate adjourned.
| IN THE HOUSE.
| WASHINGTON, December 3Oth-After the jour
nal of the last days session was read and ap
proved, the House adjourned until Friday.