Connecticut western news., 1890-12-24
REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION
Senator Stewart Against the
 Elections Bill.
FIRST OPEN BREAK INTHE RANKS

GNCIlOllS ol1l. FIRST OPEN BREAK IN THE RANKS Tho Nevada Legislator Thinks the Bill
 Will Be . Dead Letter, and That Dead
 Letter Law of Such a Character Should
 Not Be Passed.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. %. - MT. Stewart ures of the federal elections bill in the senate. This is the first open break in the Republican ranks. MT. Stanford address ed the senate at length in support of his government loan bill. The bill was re- ferred to the finance committee The print ing deficiency bill was passed. MT. Blair made long humorous personal explana- tion to show the falsity of published story that he was not on good terms with the president MT. Bate and MT. Gibson also spoke in opposition to the federal elections bill. MT. Bate declared that it's effect would be the organizing of mobs by the government itself and the leading of them by government officers. As the alien and sedition law had pulled down the older Adams, this force bill would, he pre- dicted, pull down the younger Harrison.
 MT. Gibson opposed the bill as not in keeping with the temper of the times. It ought to be entitled "A bill to vest the supervision and control of elections in the Republican party, and to vest in that party the permanent organization of the house of representatives" he sad.
 A Republican Senator's Criticism.
 A Republican senator. MT. Stewart, made an argument against the bill on the ground that the attempt to execute it in the south would be disastrous to both races. He believed that the safeguards thrown around the elective franchise in tho great cities of the north had been on the whole beneficial, but different prob lem was presented in the south. He was friend of the colored man and deeply sympathized with him, but he could not ask him to put his life in jeopardy in order to fight the political battle for his (Mr. Stewart's) advantage. He was equally a friend to the white man, and desired to re- frain from any act which might seem to justify his (the white man) in making war upon the defenseless race which congress had enfranchised.
 @ Ono Race Must Succumb.
 Whatever was done in the matter of pro- tecting suffrage at the south, unless it was done through tho voluntary action of the people of that section, would have to re- suit in one of two things: If the negro were protected by force, tho same force would inevitably be driven to the necessity of de- stroying his enemy. That involved the achievement and final extermination of the whites There was nothing more cer- tain than that. The employment of force ko1v s~, kL~ n~~kn Sy>m tion either of blacks or of the whites. He reviewed the reconstruction legislation and asked how, if President Grant had been unable to protect colored men in their right of suffrage, any other president could do better. The bill ought not to pass, be- cause it never would be enforced; because it would consolidate the southern whites; because it would bring further misery on tho southern blacks, and because it would increase sectional animosities and kindle anew the discords of the past.
 Tho Apportionment Bill Passed.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 18-In the house the discussion of the apportionment bill was resumed, and MT. Flower presented the claims of New York city for recount. favor of the recount. MT. Allen Miss thought it mistake to increase the house mem bership. MT. Tillman (S. O. spoke in favor of the bill. He defended the superintendent of census as also did MT. McKenna (Cal.). MT. Blount (Ga.) favored the bill. The previous question was or dered and 8 vote taken on MT. McRae's amendment to make the membership 350 It was lost-yeas, l13; nays, l45. .-
 No Recount for Now York. MT. Washington offered as 8 substitute for MT. Flowers amendment (to give New York one more representative) an amend ment ordering a recount in New York city and county, the representation of New York to be made thirty five if the recount warrants it. Lost-yeas, 123; nays, 148 MT. Flower withdrew his amendment and the bill passed-yeas, 1S7; nays, s2 The house then adjourned. Spooner Supports the Elections Bill.
 WASHINGTON, Dec 2O-The senate, aftel passing number of private pension bill! in the morning hour, took up the fedora elections bills, and MT. Spooner made long speech in support of the measure. IT the house number of conference reports on bills were agreed to. The urgency de l ficiency bill with senate amendments wa, | then discussed, and was finally returned l to the senate with all but ono amendmen that relating to pay of senate employees ] agreed to. .l.- s His Young Widow Heart Broken. DENVER, Dec O.-Theo Mau was in | stantly killed by the elevator in the Bos ton block last evening. Mau, who ha, been sent by his employer to the building on business, put his head through thu framework of the door to see where tn l ~ln Az ho l> seconded and caught his head, which 1 crushed almost to jelly. Mau was ma, ried last Tuesday, and the bride an, widow of 8 week is heart broken over hi sad death.
 | 0aO, 900 Bail for Each.
 l PH1LADELPH1A, Dec. 1S.-Great interes was taken in the hearings in the cases c George F. Work, Lewis E. Pfeifer an James S. Dungan, who were held on tn charge of being criminally responsible fo the failure of the Bank of America and tn American Life Insurance company. Afte hearing all the evidence in tho case Magi, trate Pole held each of the defendants Ii $2O,0tO bail for court.
 Koch Visits Minister Phelps. BERLIN, Dec. D.-Professor Koch visite the American minister, Mr. Phelps, ye. terday for the purpose of explaining ho, impossible it is, in view of the mass of le, ters and telegrams received from Americs
 to depart from his rule to give out th lymph only to hospitals. He intrusted
 phial of the lymph to MT. Phelps, who vii
 send it to one of the leading medical inst | tutes in America.
 Fatal Shooting at Philadelphia.
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18-At Second an
 Callowhill streets Thomas McMahon she
 his wife, Mary, three times-in the rigt
 and left breasts and in the center of th
 body. She was taken to the Pennsylvani
 hospital in dying condition and McMaho