Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-31
WASHINGTON CITY.
wOLCOTTS GREAT SPEECH
AGAINST THE FORCE BILL.
Lofty. Patriotic, and Friendly TO the
neutrality-suspicious. and Aiiussons
Not Reiished by Radicals.
,rrom Our Regular Correspondent,

WARRINGTON, DectuDcf Oh. no ie"s"io
of to-day's proceedings OF the Senate was
the speech of Mr.. wolcott in opposition
10 the force bill. II has been known here
for some time that he was disguised with
the policy of the leaders in his own party,
but many people were hardly prepared TO
believe that he would so vigorously state
his reasons for proposing TO vote against
the measure. MIR. Wolcott had large au-
dience. not only on the floor, but in the
galleries. and the senators on both sides
Of the chamber listened with intense
interest. The young Senator from
Colorado is "a fine orator, and beng
a man of splendid physique he
delightfully."- entertained his auditors. Few
men in the Senate have so clear and plea
sing a delivery "a Mr.. Wolcott, and his
speech to-day was certainly an oratorical
gem. What he said was specially crafty
ing to ali lberal-minded men, and tho
South will ever remember the Colorado
Senator for the friendly and Just illusions
to that section. His brosd-gauged views
and the logic of his argument combined TO
make his utterances lofty aud patriotic,
and il was By long odds the greatest speech
that hes been delivered on the Republican
SIDE Of the chamber during the present
Congress.
poLPH DEcAPTTArED.
Southern people who were present keen
ly enioyed Mr.. Wolcott's illusions TO Sena-
tor Dofph. IL will be remembered that
when the latter recently made his bitter
malignant speech on the force bill he was
unfair in every particular TO the South.
Mr.. Eustis. OF Louisiana, asked him wbat
the people of Oregon would do were that
State to be overrun with low, ignorant
Chinese and they should have the right 10
vote. Mr.. Wolcott to-day alluded TO the
colloquy between Messrs. Eustisan Dolph
and said that he was sorry that
Mr.. Dolph eyaded a direct answer TO
this question. He (Mr. Wolcott could not
speak for Oregon. but speaking for Colo
RADIO, he had no doubt that the white peo-
pie OF Colorado, were they TO be confront
ed with such question, would find way
10 rule This was o terrible dig at the
Radicals who want 10 bring about negro
domination in certain portions OF the South
where the blacks are largely in tho MAORI
ty. MIR. Wolcott talked as an Anglo-Saxon,
and he told the Radicals some things that
they can put in their pipes and smoke.
HoAB HAMMERED.
Just here it can be remarked that If 1t
had not been for the Democratic votes IN
the Senate and House the laws TO restrict
Chinese immigration would never have
been passed. Nearly all of the votes cast
against the laws now in force were by Re
publcans. Old Uncle Frisbie" Hoar
voted for cheap Chinese labor and wanted
TO supplant the white labor III the
Massachusetts factories with Chinese.
President Harrison when IN the SEN
ate was another man who was IN
favor of the Chinese, and 1T was charged
aginst him when he was counsel for tho
railroads in Indiana during tho strike OF
1877 that he said 81 "a day was enough
money for any white laboring men and too
much for the Irish. He denied these state
ments during the campaign OF 1883, but
men Just as reputable as he made afhdaviis
TO the fact that he said 81 u day was plenty
OF pay for workingmen.
COLORADO CONGRATULATED.
Mr.. Wolcott's great speech will be read
no doubt with delight in the South, and 1t
is believed that il will impress the country
fayorably in all sections. and particularly
in the West. There were truths to which
he called the attention of his own party
leaders that public sentiment will certainly
uphold. The first Republican senator TO
congratulate Mr. Wolcott was Mr.. Davis,
of Minnesota. The latter sat Just In
side the cloak while the speech was
being delivered, and heard it all. As soon
as Mr.. Walcott had finished Mr.. Davis
rushed out and grasped vigorously the
hand of the plucky young statesman from
the Centennial State. Then Mr.. Teller
shook his hand. and after him Mr.. Plumb
congratulated him. and the latter was fol
lowed by Mr.. Stewart and other Republi-
cans Old Hoar was not in the chamber when
the speech was delivered, except toward the
close. He made it convenient TO leave the
room. But he doubtless heard good deal
of il from the clOak-rOOm. Later IN the
day the Massachusetts man went over and
talked with Mr.. Walcott. but made no i'm
preston on him. The Colorado Senator
gesticulated wildly as If he were having
big argument with theNew England Radi-
cal.
TELLER TERRIBLE.
IL was Colorado-day in the Senate. Late
in the afternoon Mr.. Teller read the not
act to the Radicals advocating the force
bill and went for the whole crowd without
gloves for trying to sttie debate. lie
practically charged that the force bill was
being kept before the Senate TO defeat
financial legislation and said that was the
general feeling ~ the West. This speech
stirred up the Radicals almost as much as
that of MIR. Wolcott.
THE End NEAR.
All interest here centres in the fate of
the force bill Everything else is fat. The
House IL doing no business, and tn ngs are
dull in the departments and at the hotels.
Within few days matters Will probably
come to a head in the Senate. Opinions
differ as to the prospects of the passage OF
the force bill. but there are some Repubii-
cans here who even do not believe 1t can
pass. Much depends on the efforts now
being made to whip the dissenters into
line.
PosTMAsTERs AND PATENTS.
Ppstmasters for Virginia: II. A. DeShazo.
hiarrowbone, Henry county, ua@ w. 4.
DeShazo Jr., resigned.
North Carolina: j. w. Barbee. Fish Dam,
Durham county. oice Il. Nj. Barbee, re-
sigped; Mrs. X. Wright, McClammy, Wayne
county, uice Nettie Andrews, resigned; A,
Berry, Swan Quarter, Hyde county, rlce e.
Brum, resigned; W. IL. Wick, Wake. BERTHE
county, rice J. II. Bowen. resigned; i. j.
Green, Whitehall. Bladen county, csoe j. ID,
Gillian. removed.
PGtents for Virginia Charles W. Michel.
son, Assamorsic, fertilizer distributor
John C. Estelle. Norfolk. rending appa
tus; Bernard ID. Chalkley, Richmond
leather finishing machine.