, 1890-03-05


ton of the Arkansas contested election
case of Featherstone VS.. Cate was resumed
in tie house, Dalzell of Pennsylvania
taking the floor. In supporting the
claims of the contestant he said that in
an election in the first district of Arkan-
sas Winchester rifles, revolvers and bowie
knives played an important part, This
district, he said, was adjoining that in
which Clayton, a man of national reputa-
ton, when in the exercise of a right
which belonged to the humblest American
citizen, had been murdered In cold blood
on the very altar of liberty. Daizell con.
fined his remarks principally to the el,c-
election methods Of Democrats in Critten
den county, charging intimidation and
fraud, and controverting the statement
made by Cultivate of Ohio that there
was no evidence that the double action
ballot box was used in the county.
Outhwaite challenged the production of
any evidence that the box exhibited by
him yesterday had ever been used,
Dalzell replied that the contention of
the majority of the committee on cleo.
tons was that a ballot box, identical with
that presented, had been used in. Critten-
den county in at least three polling
places. The contestee, in his brief, him
self admitted that the chiyalry of Crit
tender county was armed with Winches-
ter rifles, and found it necessary to drive
out twenty or thirty unarmed black men.
Crisp OF Georgia submitted an argu
ment in favor of the claims of the con-
faGinn flafn I'M 400. l. -
cullar. Counsel for the contestant was
W. W. Dudley, better known. perhaps7
as Blocks of five Dudley. 1t was an
interesting thing to hear that notorious
gentleman discussing before the com.
mlttee on elections the Importance of the
purity of the ballot and the necessity of
giving the voter the untrammeled and
free right to vote as he pleased. To Dor
row a smile OF the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts (~Greenbalge) when he (Crisp)
heard Dudley's statement he thought he
would say: This Is the devil quoting
scripture.
Cheadle of Indiana entered a protest
against the attack on the character of a
man who, on the field of battle, spent his
blood in the defense OF his country, and
whose life he (Cheadle) challenged any
human being to attack. Applause on
the Republican side Nobody on the
other side was able to prove a single
charge against the Republicans of In
diana. Renewed applause
Crisp was unaware that he had SAID
anything to provoke an outburst on the
part OF his friend from Indiana. He
spoke of the mans reputation throughout
tho country, the general repute in which
qe was held, and he had not spoken I'm
kindly. He had been illustrating the pc
cullarities of the case, that was all. Crisp
then took the evidence In the case and
argued that in its report the majority of
the committee had not obeyed the law of
fair playa law which was dear to the
American people.
Rowell OF Illinois charged that the APP
parent majority through which the con
testee had obtained his title to the seat
was procured by crime of the highest
character, which If not there repeated
would have turned his apparent majority
into a minority. He criticized the gov
ernOr OF Arkansas f5r allowing a hundred
selected men to expel from their positions
the legal officers of the county without
raising his hand to vindicate the law.
The day had come in the history of the
United States when the people had de-
termlned that n constitution which en-
tranchised the black man should no longer
be nullified.
Moore asserted that the testimony
taken by the contestant in Memphis was
a forgery in all particulars.
breckenridge of Arkansas referred to
the peaceful condition OF affairs in Ar
kansas, which brought Kelley of Kansas
up with a question as to what had be-
come OF the colored detective who had
gone to the gentlcman's district 10 find
out who had murdered the man in whose
bloc y shoes the gentleman stood in to-
day.
EBreckenridge replied that the negro
had been engaged in trying to look up
the murderers of Clayton. He had got
into a difficulty with a boy-a Republican
boy-whose pa then was a Republican.
The negro was drunk, and after applying
a%pprobrious epithets to the boy, struck
him with a stone. The boy shot
him. The gentleman had not only gone
against h testimony in the pending
case, but nearly every member who had
spoken on the other side had spoken of
the death of his lamented opponent as
if it had been the result of Democratic
policy. The committee had before 1t the
whole case. 1t had not summoned a
witness and he was told the case had not
been docketed yet.
Springer thought the case had not been
thoroughly investigated and favored a
resolution, which he said he would offer
at the proper time, appropriating
500, 900 to enable the sub committee on
elections to proceed to the first district of
Arkansas and investigate the election.
Grosvener said he would move to
amend this resolution by doubling the
appropriation and by having the %investi-
CATION extend to other Arkansas districts.
Springer accept that.
Pending further debate the house ad-
iourned.