Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-21

tons, reported the House bill for the sdjud.ca-
ton Of claims arising from Indian depredations.
Calendar.
an early day in January fer consideration of the
postal telegraph bill. but wolcott objected.
ingalls,. at his own request, was granted two
weeks leave OF absence.
Plat introduced a resolution appropriatiDg
500 900 to enable the President to take action
and to obtain from the German Government q
supply Of the remedy discovered by DR.. Koch.
same. Laid over.
The morning hour having expired, the pre-
siding officer laid before the Senate the election
bill. Paddock gave notice that after the con-
sideration Of the pending bill, he would ask
the Senate to take up The Pure food bill, which
was demanded by the farmers from one end of
the country to the other.
Edmunds demanded the regular order, and
the floor was taken By SpoOner.
Spooner spoke in advocacy Of the election
bill. A stranger in the gallery, he said, listen
ing to the debate, without knowledge of the
country, would be impressed with the idea that
all love of liberty and devotion TO the Constitu-
ton and freedom nom partisanship, were to be
found on the Democratic side Of the chamber.
He hoped the gentlemen on the other side
would not assume that the Republican Sena-
tors were not, equally with them, lovers of lib
erty. II had been said on the other side that
the bill was aimed at the South. 1t was in
part. 1t was simed at every spot in the United
States where, by fraud and force. men who had
a right to vote for members of Congress were
CDedttu Vi Thai tight. Inc SOutI, ne
| thought, was where the bill was specially
needed. In proof he read extracts from a
speech by Delegate Chrisman in the late Consti-
| tutional Convention of Mississippi. declaring
that since 1875 there had not been fair election
in that State; that, in plain words the whites
! has b en- stuffing the ballot-boxes, committing
perjury and carrying elections by fraud and
violence. He read Ithe qualifications for vote rs
in the Constitution Of Mississippi, among others
being the ability of the voter latter January,
1892 TO read or to give reasonable explanation
ton of the State. If The Constitution OF Missis-
sippl had stopped a. the educational test, and
excluded from the right OF suffrage every white
or black who could not read that instrument,
nobody would complain of it. But now the ig-
norant white voter might have the simplest
clause read to him, and be asked if he under
| s,o3d 1t, and, answering yes, be PERMITTED to
vote; while the ebstruse clause es to eminent
| domain, or some technical question, might be
| read to the colored voter, who would be asked
| to give reasonable explanation of it. The
| scheme was plainly devised to let the ignorant
white man vote, II he voted the Democratic
ticket, and TO keep the ignorant black man from
| voting, unless he voted that ticket; and yet
| the Democratic Senators rallied against the
pending measure as giving the supervisor lordly
| powers. This Constitution OF Mississippi had
| been adopted, too. nos by vote of the people,
but by the Convention itself. Southern men
| ought not to fold their arms and say that they
| would keep their increased representation,
| while suppressiDg the negro vote. 1t had been
said on the other side that the negro should
1 never nave udu u tight 10 NOle, Uut IL WAS UOO
| late now to argue that question The tight had
! been given him, whether in wisdom or I'M
wisdom, and could not be taken from him. Re.
| ferring to Stewards speech yesterday, and his
| remark that the election law could not be en-.
! forced in the South, because public opinion
would not support it, Spooner said: Have we
fallen on the condition in our country that call:
for the preservation by law of the purity OF the
ballot at the North, but that VIC must stop at the
Mason and Dixon line, because public opinion
! in the South is in favor of dishonest and
| fraudulent aud violent suppression of suffrage
1 / cannot believe it,
Spooner spoke over five hours, and bis speech
was listened to with mutual attention on both
| sides OF the chamber.
great mass OF the people North that the Con
| ssitutional Convention OF Mississippi assembled
| for the avowed purpose OF DISTINGUISHING the
majority Of its citizens, who were so citizens
of the United States 1t had been assembled
| for the express purpose OF multiplying de eat
| ing and overthrowiDg the amendments TO the
Constitution of the United States, by agreeing
to which the state of Mississippi secured read
| mission into the Union. The southern people
| had retained their represe ntation in the House
| OF Representatives and m electoral college
while they suppressed the colored vote. They
had retained representation which had given
| them 70. fourteen years supremacy in the
! House, and once placed in the Presidential
| chair man who had never been elected to thai
| office in any just sense. Contrary to the usual
course pursued in free communities, the result:
| of the Miss ssippi Convention would not be sub
| United to the people TO be voted upon. 1t haC
| been arranged to have it declared the organic
| law of the State without any action on the par
| of the voters
Edmunds agreed that the Convention came
| into existence by methods entirely outside o.
| the Constitution Of the State which provided
| particular way for its own amendment.
| Tie conference report on the bill for public
building at Kansas City was agreed to, and the
Senate adjourned.
| IN THE HOUSE.
| WASHINGTON, December 20th.-In the House
| to-day Milliken of Maine presented a number o.
| conference reports on the public building bills
on motion of Clunie of California
The Senate bill was passed for the relief oil
| 5. II Brooks, Assistant Treasurer at San Fran.
| cisco, and his sureties on his official boJd.
| bill was passed to authorize the construc
| ton Of q tunnel under the waters of The bay OF
New York, between Middletown and New Ut.
| recht.
| On the motion Of Herman of Oregon, a bill
| was passed for the cane. llation of certain
| cortract for the delivery of stone for the i'm
| provement Of the Columbia river.
A motion to adjourn, made by Stone of Ken.
| lucky, was lost.
The House went into Committee of the Whole
| on the urgent deficiency bill, with the Senate
amendment.
Henderson moved concurrence except In the
amendment providing for the payment of the
Senate session employees, including clerks to
Senators.
After long debate the motion was agreed to,