The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-20


OF tho Cha;nbor--Thc Proceedings of
Tao House.
WApiINGroN, Dec. 10. -ESpcciall-In
the Senate to-day Mr.. Stanford ad-
dressed the Senate in explanation and
advocacy of Il bill introduced by him on
the 9Th instant to provide tho Govern
ment with means sufficient to supply
the national want of sound circulating
medium. At the conclusion of his re-
marks the bill, on his molten, was re-
ferred to tho committee on finance
Mr.. Gray offered q preamble and reso-
luton looking to the establishment of
reciprocity between the United States,
Dominion Of Canada and Mexico, and
asked that it lilo on the table, stating
that ut ~ convenient time no would
move to take it Up.
Mr.. ingalls, introduced bill, which
was referred to tho committee on
finance, to allow the exchange of inter
est bearing dcbS for legal tender notes.
I. The Senate then took up and passed,
with amendmontS, tho printing dc
ficiencY bill.
The cll ctiOn bill was taken I'D, Mr..
Rato finishing his speech md Mir. Gii.-
son also opposing the bill. The CUES
ton was ann unced TO be ON Mr Grav's
"msndno NJ TO strike out the house to-
house provision, MIR. Gray withdrawing
and lcal i x The question on Mr. Butlcl.s
amondm, nt6' claring The elcc Ion super
visorS and deputy marshals executive
and not Judicial Ollie rs. MIR. Faulkner
offered an ;.1lendm mt, OF which he had
given no5ice the other day. being sub
stituic for 50 cCi0n i rs TO tho appoint-
ment Of tht@e election canyasserS for
the STATE ugon application thereof
10 had the floor 10 speak, but yielded
to Mr.. Stewart, who made an argument
againss the bill on The ground that tho
attempt toeNccuLo IL in the South would
be disastrous to both races. lie believed
that the safeguards thrown arol nj the
elective franchise in the great cities OF
The North had been, on the whole barc-
fetal; bat L different problem was pre-
scented in the South. lie was = friend OF
the colorcd man ana deeply sympa,hized
with him. hut he could not ask him TO
lcut his lie in jeopardy in order TO !irht
y political battle for lis (Stewact's, ad-
vantage. lio Was tGua..y q friend to
Tue Whlte N@i., and desired to refrain
s1ron any act which might seem to JUS
City him (thc white many in making
war upon dufenselcss race which Con-
gress had entranchi3ed.
Whatovcr wa5 d0nc in tho matter of
protecting suffrage st tho South, unless
it was done through thu voluntary ac-
ZION Of tho people Of that SECTION, would
result in ono or two things. If tho
negroes were protected by force the
same forca would inevitably be driven
to the necessity of destroying his
enemy. That involved the cnslavalncnt
and final determination of the whites
There was nothing more certain than
that. The employment OF force would
Jesuit ultimately in tho determination
either of the blacks or OF whites
He reviewed reconstruction legisla-
ton, in which no had himself been "a
prominent actor i'll the Senate He
pointed out tho stringent provisions by
which the protection OF the negro voter
was supposed to have been all-suflicient
and quoted arguments made by leading
Republicans in boJh Houses against the
suspension Of habeas corpus and against
allowing tho military power of the
United States to be exercised in the
South during tho presidency OF General
Grant, and no asked how if President
Grant had been unable to protect the
oolorad men in their right Of suffrage
any other President could do better
Tho bill ought not TO pass, because it
never would be enforced because it
would consolidate Southern whites be
cause it would bring further misery on
Southern blacks, and because it would
increase sectional animosities and the
aiscords of the past.
"a 70 Of IN IA To- {Ao
opposition to the bill ON the part of q
Republican Senator caused the closes
attention TO be paid to Mr.. Stewards
apeeeh on both sides of the chamber.
Republican and Democratic Senators
were in about equal numbers (about
thirty on each sidej and all turned to-
wards Mr.. Stewart aad appeared to be
most interested listeners.
At the close Of the speech Mr.. Hoal
rose and said that he would not reply tC
it. but he wished to have put upon tn c
reoords portions OF tho Force bill tc
which reference had been made and
which had passed tho House in 1875
bic had its provisions read for the pur
pose Of justifying tho opposition made
to it by himself and other Republicans
and to show that thore was no inconsist
ency in thoir opposition to that measure
and in their support of the pending
measure. Mr.. Stewart repeated thai
he opposed the pending bill because il
proposed to do things which could not
he done without force.
He believed that he had been good
party man. but as he thought that the
pending measure was going to lead to
bad rules. and that it could not suc
coed; no deemed it his duty to express
his opinion honestly and frankly, as he
had done to-day. (Much applause in the
galleries.)