The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-24
In the House.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Harmer. of Pennsyl-
vania, presented memorial of the Manufac-
turers' club of Philadelphia in favor of prompt
action on tariff legislation which shall check the
people. Referred.
The House went into committee of the whole
on the legislative appropriation bill, the pend
ing question being a motion to strike out the
clause providing clerks for Senators. Lost s.
to 81.
In speaking to the verbal amendment Kelley,
of Kansas, replied to remark by Allen to the
effect that some newly appointed poStmaSters
in Mississippi had moved their offices into the
country by aging ne learned at tae poStoffice
department that in some places it was impos-
Slble for Republican postmaster to secure a
toe" ion in town and he was obliged to go into
s..c country. He also read letter from Post
master Finley, of Abbeville, S. c., stating that
shortly after his appointment he was set upon
man Cothran, beaten with barbed wires
and ordered to leave town. This provoked
heated political debate.
Enloe asked il Kelley wrote the letter for the
postmaster and Kelley replied that he had. be-
cause on account of the beating received Fin
ley's arm IS paralyZed. These statements were
received with much derisive laughter on the
Democratic side, which led Rowell of Illinois,
to remark that the gentlemen on the other side
thought 1t was funny to hear accounts of muir
ders and beatings with barbed wires
Kelley proceeded to read from letters of
sou hern postmasters to First Assistant Post
master General ClarkSon complaining of out
RACES.
Tarsney asked about the litigation going on
between Kelley and his son against the colored
congregation in Fort Smith which prevented the
erection OF the colored church on the ground
that it was nuisance.
Kelley denied any such litigation. and said he
did not own any land in Arkansas.
McRae and Rogers, however, stated that
Kelley's son was involved in such litigation
Allen, OF Mississippi, said the gentleman from
Kansas seemed to be the recognized mouthpece
of the postoffice department OF the administra-
ton. There never had been time in the his
tory of the G. o. p. when southern outrages
were more necessary for the purposes of that
arty. 1t had gone to the wall on the tariff and
was busted higher than kite on civil service,
the elections were going against it, and if it
could not carry an election on southern out
RACES, the chances of the G. o. 2. were gone
He had in his desk long list of Kansas out
RACES, but would not descend to that sort of de-
bate.
Cothran, of South Carolina, speaking of the
Abbev1lle matter, said after the war northern
man was appointed postmaster and served I'M
til Arthurs term, when he died and his widow
succeeded him. When this administration
came in Finley filed an application in which he
miSrepreSented and DETAINED the character of
the postmistress. There was feeling Of out
rage against him, and a number of young men,
including CothranS son, went to Finley's house
one night and made demonstration, but not
for the purpose of doing him any harm With
guilty conscience he ran out the back door,
and in jumping down broke his leg. The young
men sent for d physician and paid all the ex-
penSes.
Rogers. of Arkansas, called attention to the
fact that under leave to print Kelley printed in
the Record vile calumnies on the state of Ar
kansas and proceeded to score Kelley sharply
He read a long list Of Kansas outrages and
asked if it wasn't time Kelley should exercise
his business intellect in home missions. In the
course of his remarks he bitterly assailed
Pocket jack Mcclure who had been appointed
to conduct certain government case in Ar
kansas.
Featherstone, of Arkansas, replied sharply to
Rogers, defending Judge Mcclure and Powell
Clayton. He (Featherstone) was not here to
to tell the truth. The party in power in Arkan-
sas rested its power not on the votes of the
honest majority, but on stuffed ballot boxes.
Pending further discussion the committee
rose, and the House adjourned.