The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-12
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS-.
IL e FEDERAL ELECTION BILL
DISCUSSED,

"A Bayonet Behind Every Ballot Advo-
Gated oy MIR. Frye..Mr. Daniel OPP
poses the BiIl--In the House Several
Bills Were Passed.
lBy United Press.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. lin the Senate
to-day Mr.. Plumbs resolution providing
Tor early meetings of the Senate and for
night sessions was debated until D. m.
when the federal elections bill was taken
up.
Mr., Wilson, of Iowa, spoke in support
of the bill.
He argued that the question present.
ed by the bill was race Question.
but one of duty In several States the
rights OF the individual citizen had been
outraged, and the equality of the States
In the matter of representation had been
invaded and denied. No more impor-
tant subject commanded the attention
OF the American people than the one un-
der discussion. If Congress obeyed the
dictates of duty in this matter it would
establish peace throughout the country.
II 1t refused, it would but involve the
country IN the perils of retributive JUS
tlce, which was ever the ally Of the op-
| pressed.
Mr.. Prye made reply to the allusion
made In Mr.. Daniels recent speech to
the Lynd report on Chief Super visor
Davenport. He said that there had
never been any Lynd report. The Lynd
report so-called) contained the views of
Mr.. Lynd. 1t had never been laid be-
fore the judiciary committee. He then
reviewed the history of the attempt to
repeal the laws for the protection of the
ballot DIX, saying that Tammony Hall
bad united with the Confederacy of the
South to open up the ballot box to every
fraud and outrage of every character.
Mr.. Frye said he did not think the
law one-tenth wide enough or one tenth
elastic enough. Ifit were necessary tc
put bayonet behind every ballot, he
would be in favor of putting a bayone1
behind every ballot. (Applause and Kisses
in the gallery.)
Mr.. Daniel commented upon Mr.
Frye's declaration as to associating
bayonet with every ballot, and that suf
frages should be deposited at the muzzlt
of guns. That. he said, was the Sena
tors Mr.. Frye's) conception of a repub
liza bayonet and a ballot side by side
But that was not the conception of re
public which Its founders had, and Wa
not the conception of republic whicl
the American people had to day.
Mr.. Frye-l said elf it was necessar
to secure free ballot"
Mr. Daniel-"There is much virtue il
an if This bill has got bayonet wit
every voter. if the supervisor of electio
chooses to put it there"
Mr.. Daniel admitted that elections i
= New York city had been purified, bu
4 claimed that that result was due not I
Mr.. Davenport, but to the good citizen
r of both political parties.
q At the close of Mr.. Daniels remark
l the Senate went into executive session
t and, at 5:45 adjourned till to morrow {
= noon.
House.
WASHINGTON. D. @. Dec. 11.-In tt
. House to day the Notifications and def
= cheney appropriations bills were passes
, also the bill providing for the remov
: Of causes from state courts; the bill
prevent manufacture of counterfeit di'
:, and the bill to provide penalty for IL
alteration of election returns with inter
}. to affect the result. The bill to linden
. Nifty purchasers Of swemp lands was the
y taken up and debated without final a
% tion until adjournment.