The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-04
FORCE BILL PROSPECTS.
prrn AND LODGE HOPE TO GET 1T
THROUGH TIE SENATE.

Mckinley, Blaine and Harrison All
AGAINST the Passage of the Meas
ure-The Plan of It's Advocates Con-
templates the side-Tracklng OF the
Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, July S.-Speaker Reed
and Lieutenant Lodge went OH to-day on
their first vacation since congress met, say
;nc that the Senate would surely pass the
Johnny Davenport force bill at this session.
Pressed for the ground of their oehei IN
view of tie unwillingness of the Senate 10
change it's rule so as to permit forcible
closure of debate, they said that the sentl-
ment among the republicans in the country
would grow so strong in favor OF the Dill
and would be impressed so strongly here
that the Senate would be compelled TO take
whatever measure might be necessary to
mt the bill through. It seems evident that
some attempt is to be made to work up
sentiment of the kind they mention.
TO pIsPLACE THE TARIFF BILL.
The thing they really seem to be relying
upon to procure the consideration OF the
force bill in the Senate, is the growing 1eeI-
inc among republicans in both houses that
If WOulQ De well 10 lSb bL0 OtAt III 81 wv
until next session, so as to get the party out
of the embarrassing position Secretary
Rlaine's frank avowals have put 1t IN. The
proposition is to postpone the tariff Dill Tor
the force bill, pass the latter this session and
make the bloody shirt campaign OF the
party, abandoning the south to the demo-
Gratis.
MKINLEY's OPPOSITION.
Mr.. Mckinley is. naturally enough, one
of the strongest opponents OF this plan.
This may account for his significant un-
willingness to take any prominent part in
the force bill debates, but certain 1t is that
his influence will be thrown against any
such action on the part Of the Senate. So
will that of Secretary Blaine,
who has already warned his
friends ON the republican side
of the Senate against making the mistake
which he saved his party from whom he was
speaker. President Harrison, for wonder.
is advising the republican senators
the republican senators as senators
believe that 1t would be unwise for any
temporary advantage to abridge the liberty
of debate In the Senate, and as partisans the
leading ones think the force bill had better
wait until the next session. So far there is
every reason to believe that it will.
CAN'T BE ENFORCED.
Rev. Sam Jones, who is in the city tenn
porarily, in the course of an interview with
Post reporter said tonight: ''These folks
who think they can do any thing with the
federal election bill are mistaken. A free
ballot and fair count in the south means ne
gro domination, and the south won't have
it. The election bill will be dead letter
like the fifteenth amendment. 1t would
take half million soldiers to enforce it, q
regiment In every county. A negro is
killed in the south once in while, killed
with lead. Up in Indiana they kill white
voters with silver. You buy voters uI
north with money. In the south one get;
killed once in awhile. 1t is cheaper. But
100 are purchased in the north where oiS
is killed in the south, and where the pur
CHASING of votes is as dangerous to the re
public as killing of voters"