The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-02
THE LODGE BILL.
Mr.. CARLISLE DISCUSSES PROPOSED
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION.

It VIII Cost over Ten Millions Every Two
Years to Operate It---Ot!lcr Objections to
the scheme.
The Washington Gazette publishes
an interview with aX-Speakel' Car
Isle upon the attitude OF Democratic
representatives towards several i'm
portaut measures pending before Con
grcss.
in the interview III. Carlisle first
attacked the Lodge bill, providing
for Federal regulation OF election fol
representatives. He said: The Demo
ocIats in the house are q unit Of OPP
position 20 The &Gs5 clause. which III
practice HottlA make ;he bill operate
only u ra::.,:,i, sections Of :lc c0un-
try. II We are to have such Il law, it
should operate everywhere alike and
not TO be left. as the Lodge biz leaves
it. to operate here and there IS may
be requested by q given number Of
voters in such q Congressional dis
tlict. Tie intention Is. IL other
words. 70 control the machinery Of
elections for representatives IN Con
sress from Southern Congressional
districts. and from Il few Northern
districts only. This We shall op
pose.
Continuing, NJ: Carlisle next est
mates that 20 carry out The prov
sions Of the bilI wolldreq,!;re the en-
ploymen5 OF $4,000 officers OF cleo
tions. at IN expense OF from S10,000,-
900 TO S15.00O.000 every two years.
which would have 70 be met by the
United States Treasury. This est
mate is based upon the present nun-
Der OF polling places. but he holds
that the system Australian proposed
would prove soslow and cumbrousas
to necessitate Il vast increase ii the
number OF polls. Then, too. he n
CUES, the bill is 50 complex that its
requirements could not be made clear
to iiliterate voters OF to ignorant Re
publican election officers III the South
and Il legal election wovild be impos-
sible. Said he. The bill is full Of
requirements difficult Of execution
by officials. and not easily to be TN
dcrstood by voters.
1T would be 3 prolific source Of
in1.lmerable contests. continued lLr.
Carisle.speai;ins with great empha-
sis. and that is just what they want.
They could take advantage OF every
i1regularity that might and would
arise under this multifarious law, and
additional machinery OF the law pro
vides how this may be done.
He contended that the bill did net
come within the meaning Of the
clause Of the constitution comforting
upon Congress tie right TO prescribe
the manner OF elections. It deprived
governors Of the right 10 issue Ger
tifcates Of elections: IN fact took
away all controls Of election.
Mr.. Carlisle further SAID that The
McComas bill. providing that cleo
tons for representatives III the next
Congress shall be held il districts as
they were constituted at the last cleo
ton. was open to the same objection.
SAID he. II the bill be no. unconsti-
tutional. at least it IS el.tainly llnwise.
1t puts too much power IN the hands
Of the canyassing board II conjunc-
ton the clerk of the House-always
partisa!-and would provoke con
tests and lead to innumerable
frauds.
In conclusion Nj. Carlisle saidthar
while the exttrayagan5 expenditures Of
the party in power and is proposed
partisan laws Were important cues
tons they would not be the oveltop-
ping issues Of the fall campaign. but
that the great question would con
tinue to be the relief OF the people
from unnecessary taxation by tariff
laws