The morning call., 1890-06-29
THE HOUSE.
An Uproar Csused by the Debate on the Fed
eral Election Bill.

eral Election Bill.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-After transact
ing some minor business this morning the
House went into Committee of the Whole
on the Federal Election Bill.
McAdoo spoke in opposition to the meas
ure.
McComas and Rowell spoke in favor of
the bill.
Bland -twitted McComas for having taken
away from the black men of the District of
Columbia the power of local government
| and never giving it to them again.
This resulted in an uproar on the floor
Bland and McComas shouted at the top of
their voices amid the applause of their col
leagues and the gallery.
McComas declared that when Bland af-
fected an interest in the 5000 or 10, 600 black
voters of the District, while during his long
service here he never raised his voice on
behalf of the S,000.0OO or 10, 600, 900 poor and
oppressed black men in the country, he felt
like calling him hypocrite.
Bland vehemently declared that McCOmas
and his colleagues were hypocrites in pre-
tending for party purposes an unfelt inter-
est in the negro.
At this point the upIoar became SO great
that nothing could be heard save the CON-
mingled shouts of the debaters and the ra -
ping Of the Speakers gave.
McC0maS managed TO shout that the
black man in this District was treated like
the white, and he appealed to the people of
the South to treat blacks and whites alike.
When quiet was finally restored Cum
miugs spoke against the bill. The bill, he
said. was sectional one. The Republican
party proposed to make the negro a chattel
10 he used as convenience whenever
necessary.
# s
Hemphill passage declaring that the
whites must either rule or leave the South,
and that they would not leave it. He
wanted no further proof than that declama-
tion that the blacks of South Carolina
would not be allowed to exercise the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution. He Ielt
warranted in saying that 1T was as danger
Gus as armed rebellion and he meant it.
lie then read from an interview in which
Representative Mills was quoted as saying
the passage of the bill meant an increased
number of deaths among Federal election
officers in the South. He did not know if
this were true, but if so it was another de-
tiance. He served notice that the country
would no longer submit to the rule of the
minority. The House had been told that
what was needed was not new South, but
new North. They would get it. The
North had peacefully and patiently SUBJ
mltted to this Injustice. They had seen
the control of the Government by red hands
wrested from its proper channels, and
new North was at hand which would en-
force the law and the rights cf every citizen.
Let the South try little justice. The key
to the situation was in the observation of
the law, and where that could not be Sc
cured law must be made to secure it, He
spoke briefly of the recent exhibition of the
stars and bars and Confederate gray at
Richmond. He would not have them forget
their tender relations of the war, but he
entered protest against being told new
North was needed when the flag CT the dan
gerous South was Haunted in the face of the
republic.
Ewart of North Carolina Republican,
opposed the passage of the Election Bill.
As to negroes political rights" speaking
for his own State lie unhestatingly as
serted that no Republican in the State,
black or white, was prevented from casting
his vote. He was sick and tired of the
sentimental talk of the negro problem. 1t
was a delusion to suppose the negro was
voting the Republican ticket solidly. Many
of them voted the Democratic ticket, and 1t
was getting more and more difficult every
year for the Republican party to control the
negro. He had no hesitation in saying that
not three-tenths of the negroes of the South
would vote for the Republican party If an
election was held tomorrow.
The disagreeing conference report on the
Legislative Executive and Judicial Appro-
prlation Bill was adopted and the House
took recess.
At the evening session there was very
slim attendance. Several addresses we're
made for and against the Election Bill, and
at II 80 o'clock the House adjourned.