The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-29
BAY0NETS vs. BALLOTS.
THE WAR ON THE FORCE BILL
STILL IN PROGRESS.

The Augusta Cham oer of Commerce
to Take Action-A Protest from ct.
Louis Presented in the Senate-But
Little Chance of Changing the SEN
ate Rules
WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator Vest
to-day presented to the Senate the remon-
STRANGE of number of persons of st. Louis
protesting against the passage of the federal
election bill.
SIGNIFICANT REMARKS
By way of helping out Senators Hoar and
Spooner in their attempt to put their force
bill through the Senate Senator Ingalls,,
president pro tenn. and Senator Frye, a
member of the elections committee, by a
report made significant remarks in the
Senate to-day, Senator Ingalls, predicting
the passage of the force bill and Senator
Frye declaring that the time had come for
the previous question. Senator Plumb,
however. did not second Senator Ingalls,,
nor did Senator Hale second Senator Frye.
The adoption Of the force bill by the caucus
was foregone conclusion, but the change
of rules necessary to pass it in the Senate is
not.
REEDS WORK EASIER.
Speaker Reeds work in making rules
where no rules existed Is easy compared
with changing the rules which have served
the Senate for a quarter of century. But,
somehow or other, say Senators Hoar and
Spooner, the bill must go through. They
use their amendments, every one of which
was defeated by Speaker Reed in the
House, to commend the bill to
those republican senators who could
not swallow the Davenport-Lodge scheme
with its bayonets at the polls, domiciliary
visitation and jury fixers. Senators Hoar
and Spooner, unlike Speaker Reed and
Representative Lodge, have not attempted
to deny that the bill, by re-enacting the
civil rights law. provided for bayo-
ised the senators to take them out.
They were kept busy to-day explaining to
inquiring colleagues that the provision
which they had prepared to eliminate the
bayonets had been left out of the rough
draft of the substitute by typographical
error.
REED WILL COME IN AT THE END.
OF course the republican senators who
| will use these ameliorating amendments to
| justify their support OF the force bill to
their constituents, who have been writing
and telegraphing against the Davenport
Lodge bill, know very well that the final
form of the bill, as it viii go to the Presi-
dent, will be given it in conference by the
molding hand of Speaker Reed, who
will be master of the conference
as he is master of the House,
and that it will be the House bill and not
the Senate bill that will go to the president.
The democrats understand this too, and will
fight the bill just the same. Time flies with
them. The tariff bill will block the way
till September, but the protest from the
country should not be interrupted, either by
deceptive amendments or hopeful prospects
of defeating it.
NO FORCE BILL FOR AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA, GA, July 2S.--Tne members
of the Augusta Cotton Exchange at meet
ing to-day appointed a committee to draft
resolutions protesting against the adoption
of the force bill, to report at meeting
Wednesday.
GOV. TAYLOR DENOUNCES 1T.
NASHVILLE, July 20.-To-day in an in
terview with an american reporter con-
cerning the federal election bill Gov. K. L.
Taylor of Tennessee said "The force bill
is an envious stab at the prospering south.
There is no need in any state for the legisa-
ture to Torment strife, murder and
riot, even if it were legimate and
constitutional legislation. There is noineed
for it in Tennessee. Ii is based on the false
assumption that all the negroes always vote
the republican ticket. If there is a state
where bribery, intimidation and false count
ing are resorted to this bill will not cure it,
because the people are persuaded that it is
unconstitutional, is designed to disrupt the
peaceful relations of the races and reinaugu-
rate the atrocities that characterized recon-
structiOn times