Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-08-21
REPUBLICANS DISAGREE.
The Elections Bill Fight in the
s.... Senate.
NIB. HoAR SPEAKS OF IT'S MERITS.

Is Dead for This Session.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2l.-The announce
ment that Mr.. Hoar VOID address the
senate in opposition to MrNQuay's resolu.
ten fixing the time for voting on the tariff
bill and shelving the federal elections bill
brought quite a crowd Of spectators in the
galleries Wednesday. Mr. Hoar demanded
the yeas and nays on agreeing to the reso-
luton, and then offered the two amend
ments Of which he had given notice-one
TO include the federal elections bill in the
proposed order Of business and the other
to provide for demanding the previous
question Mr.. Quay gave notice that he
would ask division Of the subject when
the vote should be taken. In speaking for
his amendment, Mr.. Hoar said the cleo
tions bill had been misrepresented II was
nothing more than proposition TO remove
force and fraud from the elections Of mem
bers Of the house Of representatives.
senator pugs's Alleged Threat.
Messrs. Hoar and Pugh then had a tilt
over Mr.. PuRh's speech concerning the
bill, in which he said that 'if this bill be-
comes a law its execution will insure the
shedding Of blood and the destruction OF
the peace and good order Of the country.
It's passage will be resisted by every par
liamentary method and every method al
lowed by the constitution OF the United
States Mr.. Hoar said he would leave 1t
to the Judgment of the country whether
this was a threat or not. He said that
when senators came into Office they took
an oath to support the constitution. The
elections bin undertook TO defend the con-
stitution Of the United States against an
attempt to overthrow il by depYiving the
majority Of the people Of their right hon
estly and freely TO elect representatives in
the other house Of congress. Its main OBJ
ject was to obtain the evidence upon which
the house Of representatives could safely
proceed in rendering Judgment as TO the
election of its members. The provisions Of
the bill were the result of a most satisfac-
tory experience in the United States and
Great Britain. There was nothing new in
IT, It struck at evil in all parts Of the
country alike. It applied to the whole
country with additional precautions and
safeguards which the north had applied to
itself for nearly twenty years.
Not Local Measure, He Said.
IN proposing this measure congress was
doing exactly what the trainers of the con
stltution expected when they declared that
the times, places and manners Of holding
elections for senators and representatives
should be prescribed in each state by the
legislature thereof, but that congress
may at any time by law make or alter such
regulations Congress had exercised that
power over and over again. He did not
believe that bribery was claimed to be
southern offense. He could not affirm that
his own commonwealth had escaped en-
tirely from it. Unless we'll informed men
were mistaken there had been one election
where it had rained shekels under the
shadow Of Harvard college
A Previous Cutlery.
The election law OF 1870 had been passed
81 time when Tweed had said that he did
not care who did the voting il he did the
counting. That law had encountered las
the pending law had) an cutlery from the
whole Democratic party In that connec-
ton Mr.. Hoar read some extracts from The
New York World OF October 1870. calling
upon the citizens Of New York to resist
military interference. lie said that the
law had been specially designed to affect
cities having population OF 10000 or up
ward BY the census Of 1880 there were
ninety-nine such cities in the United States,
all hut twenty-five Of which were in the
north II was idle TO speak Of the pending
bill as a sectional measure or as threaten
ing bloodshed Was cheating at elections
an issue of the war; Had jackson died.
had Lee gone through that struggle be.
tween his allegiance to his country and
his love for his state In order that ballot
boxes might be stuffed, that naturaliza-
tion papers might be forged, that returns
might be altered, and that votes might be
falsely counteds
The Bins Opponents.
1t was q foul wrong upon the authors Of
the bill to say that it reopened the issues
of the war. IL was fouler calumny Of the
mighty shades Of the Confederate dead
There had never been a more senseless ut
terance than to call that force bill which
transferred the settlement OF a great pub
lie question from the shotgun TO the court,
unless it was TO call il a bill TO create negro
domination or TO create race issue. The
negro was in large minority ia every state
in the Union but four. What tendency, he
asked, had the bill to put any state under
the dominion OF the African. The Repub-
licau party were pledged 20 the policy Of
the Dill by everything that could bind a
party
The Quay Resolution.
Referring TO the Quay resolution Mr..
Hoar said that nobody doubted that it's
purpose was to defeat the federal elections
bin for this congress. The next session
would last but thirteen weeks, from which
the Christmas holidays would have to be
deducted. The passage OF the great appro.
priation bills, the apportionment bill and
other business which pressed upon the at.
tention Of congress would be enough Z
defent the resolution.
Every body who voted for the resolution
he said, committed himself TO the prin
ciple that the senate could cut of debate
st discretion. No man, he thought, coulc
challenge the sincerity Of his devotion Z
the protective system, but he would tax,
little satisfaction IN the pending tariff bill
Il its passage was to be the price OF the dis
honor Of his country or Of the broker
pledges Of his party.
Mr.. Frye Attacks Republican Senators.
At the conclusion OF Mr. Hoar's speech
Mr. Spooner moved the reference OF the
resolution ana amendments to the com
Inittee on rules. Mr.. Frye expressed SYM
patty with what the senator from Nassa
chusetts had said. He believed that il
foYty-three Republican senators would sac
rifice their convenience for time the pre
vious question could be adopted as a rul,
OF the senate in three days, the tariff bill
passed in ten days and ten. days thereafter
al elections bill could be passed.
Mr., Frye said be placed the responsibility
for the defeat Of the elections bill on thos
senators who declared in a Republican
conference held earlier in the session tina
they would support a rule for the previou
question. Cowardice never yet won bal
tie o. retained friend