The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-02
QUAY'S BIG PLOT.
CENSUS ENUMERATORS NOT TO
COUNT NEGROES.

Secure an Overwhelming Majority i'm
the Next Congress-.Senator ingalls, tn
Lend a Helping Hand.-The Old Fo.
sies Of the Senate.tO he Controlled at |
the Last HOur..Speaker Reed to |
Pave the Way in the House Under |
Its New Rules--An Effort to Rear
range the Distribution of the Electo.
raj VOte--West Virginia Captured for
the Plotters by Steve Elkins and His |
Mining Interests--What Secretary
Leach Disclosed After "a Banquet at |
the Americus Club in Pittsburs.
Especial Dispatch TO New York Star.l
PITTsBURG, April 30.-On the occs-
sion of the Americus banquet last Sat
urday night, Congressman Bayne be-
came so eXhilarated that he was unable |
to collect himself when he was called |
upon to respond to the toast, '.The
Ways and Means" on which committee
he held such prominent position.
1t was also observed that the private
secretary of Postmaster General Wan
amaker, who attended as his representa-
tive, was so absorbed with the popping
of corks that he became enthusiastic
enough to take a hand in a game of
draw poker early Sunday morning at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel, at hich the
cards did not run in his favor.
1t was not until to-day that it was dis
closed that during these hours of rev.
elry, important political secrets were re-
vealed The American Club is en-
| phatically a Quay organization, but num-
bers among its members not few ad-
| herents of Chris Magee, Of whom Con-
| gresham Dalzell is one of the most
| prominent
| 1t was with some Of these faithful
followers of Magee, while some outsiders
were present, that Frank Willing Leach,
the private secretary aud factOtum of
| the chairman Of the National Republi-
can Committee, became involved in
heated argument soon after the close of
| the banquet.
! In such company the conversation
| naturally drifted to Quay's leadership of
the party and then the Magee man be-
came indignant and loudly proclaimed
that Quay had sacrificed the orgauiza-
ton for the sake Of one point, and that
was that as the next House of Represen-
tatives would surely be overwhelmingly
Democratic, he foresaw the signs of dis
aster. The Chairman was thus, accord
lug to common report, getting ready to
resign.
Leach's Bombsheli.
Don't fool yourself.' responded
Leach, in half-apgry, half supplicating
zone. THAT meeting of the Repub can
Committee on May is called for an
entirely different purpose than for the
acceptance of Quay's resignation. 1t is
called to take official action upon plans
which were perfected by Quay
''Some of them, under his direction,
were already under way, which prom
ised to insure the permanent control of
all branches of the Government to the
Republican party.
Leach stopped moment and then
abruptly asked his companion, 'Who
is taking this census, anyway"
'Robert P. Porter and his assistants,
l suppose replied Mr.. Leach's com
panion.
Eyes, and you can rest assured thai
| the census will be taken right" was the
5 speedy answer. "What do you suppose
] Quay spent all those weeks in Florids
D for-tarpon fishing? Well, hardly
let me tell YOU land here his voice be
came at once emphatic and mysterious
"that Southern negro will have to b.
very conspicuous to be counted in th
census this year."
"What do you mean T.
A New System of Counting.
= ''Just what say. The census enum
- orators will discover very few Souther
IL negroes tins year. You can see in
;. moment, the important result of this
a We expect to have the census compile,
l, ed by June 20, thanks to all amendmen
q to the laws proposed on the subject b.
ID Sunset Cox"
- ''The certificate Of Superintendent
Porter is all that Congress needs
take action for new apportionment b
our system of counting. We expect th
" Southern States to lose at least eightee
!, or twenty Representatives, If the negr
A' is not counted at the polls He sha
not be in the count.
y just about the proportion that the Sout
- ern ones will lose. Minnesota will g
u three Or four more Congressman, al
q Kansas and Nebraska perhaps ha
ge dozen each, not to speak Of the Dakot
and the rest of them.
ID "But can such action be forc
he through Congress at the eleventh hou
20 against all precedent?' exclaimed
10 listeners, in astonishment.
SIT can, and easily, too. You sc
this is not hasty scheme. 1t was 6
cided upon as soon as it was found th
:. the Democrats would redistrict Oh
:. McComas' bill will not be passed, as
p'- does not cover the exigencies of the ca
Part of a Great Plan.
to ''There is need for more radical
to ton. Everything that has been done
~ Congress SO far" continued Mr.. Lea
'ce "has been part of great plan. w
the Reed and his rules We now have
art House in such shape that any meas1
be- can be rushed through whene
the and in short time as may be nee
Inc sary.
len ''The Senate has still to be fixed, a
that is why Chandler introduced his I
olution for the new rules few days a
,rf. l9ortop hos Oonn away and will mot