The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-13

OF eacn state were capable not only of dis
charging state duties and of performing
state powers, but also of performing their
snare OF the national duties and powers
NO GUARDIAN STATES.
There was no such thing under the con-
stltutlon as wise states. capable of the
| guardianship of inferior states There was
no such thing under the American theory
OF government as states in wardenship to
other and better states; but yet, Judging
| from the history of recent years. the theory
seemed to be that there were some states
tine New England states and othersl wise
great, good, capable of discharging their
fuil duties to their own people and to the
| FEDERAL union, and, also, capable of guar
dianship over their more unfortunate sisters.
That" said Mr.. George, address,
ing the republican side Of the Sem
ate, rs your theory; that is
your practice. And in your blind zeal II
Will not call it by worse name) to rectify
all wrong, wherever it may be, in your as
sumed wisdom and goodness, to correct the
| Shortcomings OF otlers, YOU transgress the
comfy of the constitution You incite in
the southern section of the union the dagger
! and the torch. Even if we in the south are
not fitted for self-government las we are),
we do not need your tutelage."
JUSTICE IMPARTIALLY ADMINISTERED.
! Answering portion of Mr.. Hoars ques-
ton Mr.. George asserted that there was no
| dlstlncti on in the administration Of Justice
| in Mississippi except that the black man
had both in the jury box and on the bench
a leniency accorded HIM which was not
accorded to the white man. He said that
no black man was tried before jury on
which there were not black men, except
| occasionally when black man expressed
to his counsel his wish to be tried by
white jury. What right, he asked. had the
senator from Massachusetts to impute by his
| question that there was difference made
| IN the administration of justice in
the state of Mississippi between the whites
and blacks! There were certain crimes
| which, whether committed by white or
! black, were followed by swift and terrible
vengeance in the shape of mob law. He
deplored that, and he deplorei the blood
| shed which was occasionally the result of
race conflicts, but, he asked, were there no
mobs in California and other western states
| where conflicts were excited by the presence
| of the mild Mongolian? The senator from
| Massachusetts expected the millennium in
| the south with all its troubles; but he would
never get it. He prayed that there would
be too much virtue and wisdom in the
American people not to allow time and op-
portunity and just means-without i'm
| pertinent interference-to settle the gravest
problem that was ever presented to the
human mind.
HOAR REPEATS HIS QUESTION.
Mr. Hoar said that the senator from
Mississippi had talked about almost every
thing else, but had not answered the simple
question which he (Mr. Hoar) had put to
him. He had asked the senator to state his
plan, and how it differed from the repub-
lican plan of dealing with the south, and he
had answered with the volcano to
which the Senate had just listened.
Tha OrNIa hn ,.,1n
the republican plan, the American plan of
dealing with that American problem that
| confronted the country to-day was simply
this: Where a mass of illiterate American
| children was seen growing up to be citizens,
voters sandsovereigns, to provide means as far
as was possible for curing the evil. Another
| part of their plan was this: They proposed
that the lawmaking power of the country
and the law-executing power OF the coun-
try should protect the right Of every Amer
| lean citizen, poor or rich, foreign born or
native born, black or white, to cast the
| ballot which the constitution conferred
upon him, and to have that ballot counted.
| So far as that was matter of national con-
Germ in the election of ma
tional officers, they proposed to provide
for it-so far as they could-by the exercise
of the national forces. In addition to that,
| they proposed to aid in their private ca
pacity the southern states, SO far as these
states desired to accept it, by private Bone
factions. That was their plan-the whole
| of it-and he challenged the senator from
Mississippi to discover any other plan that
had been proposed enacted, debated, or
thought of, throughout the length and
breadth of the land. He had asked the
senator whether his plan included security
to every voter casting, and the counting Of,
his vote, and to that interrogatory the sena-
tor had been entirely silent
GOING BACK TO THE BILL.
Coming back to the educational bill, Mr..
Hoar declared that the measure was dearer
to his heart than anything else proposed or
discussed before the American people. If
he could be assured las he was assured) that
the bill would become law. and that the
great consequences would result from it
which he expected to result, he would be
willing to go out Of public life tomorrow
and never to be again heard Of among his
| countrymen.
The discussion again took a sectional
turn, Mr. George arguing that the act for
the re-admisson of Mississippi, Texas, and
Virginia forbids those states from imposing
an educational test on voters, and saying
that if that fundamental condition were re-
moved he would then be prepared to make
| known his plan.
Finally the discussion came to q close,
and, after a short executive session, the
Senate at o'clock adjourned