Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Passes the Bill for the adj
mission OF Wyoming as a State.
The Day in the House Spent in Discussing
the Federal Election Bill-Postal
Clerks Vacation In Doubt.
SENATE

Payne and Gray argued against the
| bill, and Plat favored it. The question
was taken on Jones' substitute offered
yesterday an enabling act for wyoming'
| Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico, and
| It was rejected by a strict party vote,
| yeas Is. nays 80.
| Jones of Arkansas then moved as a
substitute an enabling act for Wyoming
alone and it was rejected by exactly the
same vote. The bill then passed by
strictly party vote-yeas, 80; nays, Is.
The bill for the admission of Idaho was
! then taken up and went over as unfln-
| ished business till Monday.
After executive session the senate ad-
! iourned.
HOUSE.
| WASHINGTON, June 27.-Mr. Dockery
of Missouri rising to parliamentary in
| quiry, asked whether it would be in Or
der to reconsider the vote by which
the postal clerks leave bill
was passed yesterday. He had been
informed yesterday by Mr.. Ketcham,
who called up the bill, that it did not
involve an appropriation, whereas, he
now learns that it would involve au ex-
penditure of S3I6 900. AS Mr.. Ket cham
was not present Mr.. Dockery was per-
mitted by unanimous vote consent 10
enter motion to reconsiders, leaving it
pending for the present.
The consideration of the election bill
was then resumed.
Mr.. Houghton of Wisconsin, address,
ing the house in support of the measure,
declared that it didn't propose to touch
state elections, but did propose to super
wise national elections by right of con-
Eress. The bill WASH Il local, but general
in its application. The objections made to
the bill by the Southern members
constituted deliberate insult to the
South itself. A prominent Democratic
leader in Missouri had advocated
the requirement of property quail
ficatlon in votes, and had
suggested that such proposition
would restore supremacy to the whites.
That IN itself was confession that the
whites wrongly held their supremacy at
present. No Democrat judge advocate
of Arkansas, contestant for a seat on
floor of the house, had justified outlawry
by mob violence of certain negroes
who had been elected to local
offices on the ground that they
were not property holders. Now
the bill proposed to follow the local
election systems, it would take the most
ingenius and complicated system that
could be devised, requiring that it should
be honestly conducted.
Mr.. Covert of New York said that the
bill was an evidence of the distrust felt
by the Republicans of q government of
and for the people. Recently the speaker
had attended banquet of the American
club at Pittsburg. He had spoken
after long years of silence upon the fall
sification OF election returns, bulldoZing
and all narrowing details of Southern
outrages. Why he had spoken after that
long silence Mr.. Covert was unable
TO say, unless he was conscious
that he was at the time addressing a de-
Lucrative body. He had spoken of the
Republican party who was used to meet
ing emergencies. They had met them
in Indiana, when they sent in Dorsey
with his money and Dudley
with his floaters and blocks of FIVE, and
Quay, the arcbangel of the party. This
bill was intended to undo the work
of the fathers of the constitution.
This clause of the constitution upon
which it was founded was allowed
to remain in the constitution only upon
the solemn assurance that it was intended
solely to meet the emergency of the re-
fusal of the state to send representatives
TO congress. The small army of
Federal officials at the polls,
with power superior to these passed by
the inspectors of the state of the people,
signalled and heralded the end of the
government by the people and for the
people. Where, then, would be
that government? Gone as the
leaves swept away by blasts of autumn
IL,
public would no longer govern them
selves. This legislation was to
bring back the returning boards of
the South, the days of electoral
commission, the days that every patri-
9th man would forget if he could. The
notes of warning had been sounded,
they were still ringing, and should
be needed. If it were true,
as intelligent men predicted,
that the passage of this bill would have q
tendency to revive race preiudIces in the
South and restore Southern states to the
condition of reconstruction days,
| if this were true, then it would
turn back the hands upon the
dial and retard the progress of those Sec
tons and of the whole republic. The
race prejudice was practically extinct.
In God s name as lovers of the coun-
try he besought the house not to
seek to revive that prejudice now.
He begged it TO give assurance to the
whole country that the civil war ended
over quarter of century ago. Jap
.plause.
MIR. Flower of New York de-
| nounead the bill as un-Republi-
| can, un-Demooratio and un-Ameri-
eau, as a measure constructed
upon the idea that the small Republican
| majority in congress could better legislate
| for the people than the people themselves.
Any court that wonld lend itself to the
execution of its corrupt
purpose and become the INSCRIPTIONS
servants Of political oligarchy would
richly deserve the censure it was sure to
| receive.
Smyser of Ohio said the measure was
conservative and not radical. The cry
of the South was that it wanted to be left
alone to work out its own destiny. That
had behn tried fifteen years and he did
not know that the South
was very near the kingdom. The South
wanted to be alone, he said, to appro-
pirate the negroes rights, and be pro-
tested against that.
Vaux of Pennsylvania said the bill
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