Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senator Chandler Charged with the Be
sponsibility for Saunders Death.
The House Votes Eight Times ON Location for
the worlds Fair and Chicago is Chosen.
The Vote in Detail.
Ii. CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Mr. Chandler,
rising to a question of personal privilege,
called attention to the fact that the sena-
tor from Florida (Mr. CalD, in debate
last Thursday, had uttered words per-
sonally offensive to him, which he had
not then heard, and followed up that
breach of order by changing and adding
to the official report of his remarks
paragraph still more offensive.
He (Mr. Chandler) deemed it his duty,
before replying TO the assault made upon
him, to bring the senator's conduct be-
fore the senate for such action as might
be deemed just and suitable for
such transgression. He therefore offered
a preamble and resolution stating that
the senator from Florida had charged
him in debate with personal responsibility
of the outraging of women and murder
ing of children and destruction of haDDI-
ness of households in the South by men
who were emssaries behind him, and
that the senator had, in addition, in
serted the following paragraph, which
he had not spoken:
"The blood of Saunders Gf the evil
dence shall show his death was in any
way connected with prosecutions III the
United States courts) will rest on his
conscience. The shrieking ghosts of out
ragged and murdered women and chill
dren, the victims of wild lust and
the passions of q race who owe
all they know of religion and civilization
to the Southern white people and not to
the senator from New Hampshire, will
disturb his sleeping and his waking
hours-llke Banquo's ghost, it will not
down, and the ocean will not wash his
bloodstained hands from the guilt of the
rape and murder of these tender white
women and children. -
The resolution condemns such action as
a breach of privilege for which the senator
(Mr. CalO is censured, and orders words
so inserted and paragraphs so added to
be stricken from the report in the con-
gressional record.
MIR Call defended his course in the
matter, asserting that he had in debate
expressed substantially the same idea as
was expressed in the additional para
graph. He had simply changed the
phraseology, as he had right to do, and
therefore the statement made by the
senator from New Hampshire was not
true. It was the first time in all his
eleven years service in the senate that
he had heard il claimed that it was not
admissible for senator to correct, to
explain, to ampIify language used by
himself SO as to express more clearly the
idea intended to be conveyed.
Mr.. Chandler repealed the intimation
that anything which he had stated was
not true. He desired to have decision
Of the senate on the question he pre-
sented. He asked no protection for
himself; he only asked that the senate
decide whether such language might be
used by one senator in relation TO an
other senator, and whether the senator
from Florida was to be permitted with
his pen alone in his room to write out
additional charges and send them to the
public printer to be published through
out the country as if they had been
actually spoken in the senate chamber.
He sent the original of the Objectionable
paragraph by page to Mr.. Call and
asked whether that was IN his writing.
Mr.. Cali said that this was an extraor-
binary performances on the part of the
senator from New Hampshire, and he
repeated his assertion that he had IN de-
bate clearly and distinctly charged that
senator with the responsibility for the
death of Saunders and other in1quities
committed in the South. The report,
when it came to him was not, he said,
fun and accurate report of his remarks,
and he was authorized by the committee
on practice of the senate to correct and
to trapspose, and he had done no more
than that.
After debate on the objection, Mr..
Harris? resolution went over till to-mor-
row.
A communication from the attorney
general with the report of Marshal
Mizell as to the assassination of Saun-
ders, United States deputy marshal in
Florida, was presented and referred to
the committee on privileges and cleo
tions. The senate proceeded IL business
or the calendar and passed bills author
izing the construction of RAILROAD AID
other bridges over navigable waters as
follows: Across the Arkansas sTiver.
connecting Little Rock and Argenta,
Ark; across the Missouri river between
Pierre and Hughes Stanley county South
DGkota; across the Arkansas river at
PeEdieton, Deshea county, Ark.
At 2 'clock the Blair educational bill
came up as unfinished business and Mr.
Faulkner addressed the senate in oppo-
sition to it. Coming down 10 the praeti-
cal provisions of the bill, Mr.. Faulkner
pointed out the inconsistency OF HrSt dis
tributing the fund within the states
between the two races on the basis of the
school population of each: that while on
the basis of illiteraoy the eolored schools
st the South ought to secure S3S 900 900
and the white schools S13 900 600. These
figures ION the other basis) would be
reversed and the white schools would
receive SIG 900, 900 more than the colored
schools.
Mr.. Blair asked whether it was not
proper to apply the money so that it
would reach the white children and col
ored children alike.
Mr.. Faulkner replied that the bill had
been justified on the ground of its re-
lisving illiterscy in the states, aud yet
when the fund got into the states one
third more would be given to the white
children than TO the colored children ION
the basis OF school population) while the
illiteracy of the colored children was 40
per cent. greater than that of the white
children. That eontradicted the prin-
eiple of the bill.
Mr.. Blair said that was misapprehen-
sion of the bill, manifest error anu was
about to explain, but Mr.. Faulkner de-