The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-23
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS.
THE FORCE BILL DERATE CIT.
TING BREEZY.

AlNG BREEZY.
The Old Chestnut, s.Negro Suppres.
sion, is Sprung.- -Whereupon Messrs.
Heagan and OOrhees State Some JJn.
vanished Facts.
iRy United Press.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 22.-In the
Senate to day the federal election bill
Was taken up and Mr.. Higgins spoke in
support Of the bill.
lie said the pending measure did not in
any way take the control of elections from
the state authorities, and all declarations
against it We're grOuudless and rested on
nothing but bold misrt presentation. He
commented on Senator Stewards ohjec-
ton TO the bill, not that, it was force
bill, but that it was not force bill.
AS to the claims of southern senators
that they feared. and could not endure,
negro denomination, Mr.. Higgins assert
ed his belief that there was a day when
have the hearty support and following
of the south for the asking. He had
considered that the one great service
which the Democratic party had render
ed was its calling and bringing into it's
fold all the people who from nativity
and other circumstances were least
fitted to discharge the functions of
American citizens; and why, he asked,
had not the southern white Democrats
| done the same with the blacks?
The reason was, Mr.. Reagan replied,
| that in the reconstruction period the
| freedmens' bureau aud the carpet bag
gers had made the blacks believe that
the whites were their enemies, and had
arrayed the blacks in an oath-bound
league to vote the Republican ticket
Mr.. Higgins denied that the problem
Of manho ID suffrage had ever had a
chance at the South, but it could not be
killed and the problem would forevor
come up and up, and up again, until it
was settled and settled right. 1t could
Iot be taken out of the hearts of liberty
loving Americans.
Mr.. VOORHEES, addressed the Senate.
The opening part of his speech consisted
of a criticism of President Harrison for
that portion of his message to Congress
urging the passage of the election bill,
! If Mr.. Harrison, he said, should under
take to put on the stage, "SchOol for
Hypocrisy" he could not do better than
dramatize that portion Of his message
that related to fair and honest elt ctions
The rank corruption Of the Presi
Dental election of 1888 was resting
folded away in 'blocks of FIVE" and was
still fresh and carefully preserved in the
minds Of the American people.
Mr.. Voorhees, charged that within
sixty days after the incoming Of The
', present administration, an extensive
l powerful aud corrupt conspiracy wa
formed to import certain class Of vo
tesr from distant parts OF the country IN
to the states of Indiana, " Virginia ant
Connecticut, in order to secure aJOri
ties in those states for the Republica!
ticket in 1892. The proof of it had beel
. published in the New York World las
4 October, including a letter from Mr.
Huston, treasurer of the United States
to Mr. Lindsay, the author of the plan
"declaring himself heartily in favor c
the scheme" and saying that he woul'
:, speak to the President about it. |
! was painful, Mr.. voorhees, remarked
: to reflect that the man who knew Ben
iamin Harrison better than any othe
man in public life knew him who ha
carried him and his fortunes thrOug
= the stormy and corrupt campaign {
: 1888 in Indiana, who had studied bill
,, and his political methods at close range
) felt himself warranted in submitting fc
70 his consideration aud approval corrnE
project for the overthrow Of honest res
ident maiorities, by the shameless in
pOrtation and colonization Of black vo
~ ers from the South.
y Referring to the condition OF colore
- :. men at the south, Mr.. Vorhees read e.
% tracts from testimony taken before
g. congressional committee in North Car
- lima, showing positively that there vi
e no discrimination made against the &C
- ored men in that state, that many
w. them we're prosperous land owners, tn
= thev had the same school advantages
90 the whites, and that they were nev
interfered with at elections, andvoted Il
Republican ticket without irterferenc
he also read the testimony of color
Republicans of Mississippi to the sar
.es effect, and asserted that, IN every one
va the Southern States, negroes rad recel
rio ed more ana nlguor pollClIai lonoAo VI
rk in all the northern states put togeths
and that in the ownership of real esta
and in the requirement of proper
his Of every description and in t
up possession and use Of ready money, t
! colored people Of the South have,
ed said, man for man, in comparison w
en- the colored people in the north, beat
their northern brethren ten times o.
no. in the great struggle of life.
wo When Mr.. VOORHEES, closed his
,rt. marks, Mr.. Hoar moved to take rec
rls. until 8 p. m.
Or House.
my WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. "a
pills House devoted to-day's session to
is consideration of affairs pertaining to
am district Of Columbia, ald at 3:15 p.
adjourned.
Mr.. Blanchard, of Louisiana, ,introdu
resolution providing for
appointment of committee of five me
OF bers of the House and directing then
nee inquire into and investigate the kill
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