, 1890-12-04

lived within few miles of the great
sioux reservation. He had been there
.or the last two months and
this was the first time he had
heard 1t asserted that the Indians were
on the warpath because they were
hungry. He saw Indians every day
IN the town where he lived, and they
were peter ied apparently, thu, the
senator from Indiana. Laughter. He
had no doubt that In some of the apen.
cles there are Indians who complain OF
insufficient food. But no questioned
very much whether General Miles made
tue statement attributed to him in tho
newspapers. The trouble with the In
uinns Is they are fed and clothed and
allowed to live on the bounty of the
government, and the devil finds mis-.
chiei st for idle hands to do"
Mr Voorhees, said he would take the
statement Of General Miles far sooner
thah that OF the senator who lived near
tne reservation and who, with his peo-
pie, wanted to get the Indian lands a 8
soon as possible. One was q reliable OF.
hcer, the other was the fox, lying around
the pen where the geese were, waiting to
get some of them.
Inc discussion had not closed when,
at o'clock, the vice president laid be-
lore tho senate, as unfinished business,
the elections bill.
=, MIR. Turpie took the floor in opposi-
hon. The substitute measure he said,
rested for its support on what was
called the suppressed coored repub-
mean vote in the South. In the course
OF ms remarks. he said in the Northern
states where all this outcry was made,
coIoreu men had no more chance of
preierment than the Roman Catholics
mnu III New Hampshire 100 years ago.
ne suppression of the colured vote in
the south was the thing man festly in
question-'atiirmcd on one side and de.
med on the other. But the suppression
OF the colored votes of the North was u
lhing without question. The actual
absolute and unconditional supremacy
OF the white race was not peculiar to
any portion of the United States
south Carolina was not more com.
pletely under Its sway than Pennsyl.
wanna. The man. especially the man of
the white house, who sought to embroil
the white man and black races for
purpose he could not conceal and dare
not avow, was guilty of an outrage ten
iold greater than any of those he in
vented or described.
Wherever people of different races
were living peacefully together under
the same laws, members 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 the national cleo
ton bill WINS, 80 far as IL related to the
South, to wreck and destroy this pend.
ing condition of inter-racial adjustment.
IL proposed not to maintain tine will OF
the majority, but to overthrow 1t on the
single issue of race, to make a ma jority
OF Dlaok men, because they are black, to
establish u government of complexion,
not of opinion. The purpose of tho bill
was that the law OF the land must be
suborned to set enmity between the
white man and the black man. Pass this
bill, and the right OF the people to choose
thsir representatives, that right so
precious and priceless to every lover of
liberey, is lost beyond recovery.
At the conclusion of his speech,
Turpie received congratulations from
his democratic colleagues and the senate
ad ourned.