The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-13
ALMOST THE LIE.
AN ONCoM MFORTABL SPAT BE.
TW ZEN SENATORS HOAR
AND BUTLER.
Ihey Sweetly Make Up and Are Good
FRIENDS Agaiu- 1.-The Ruffle Occurs
While the Force Bill is Up.

While the Force Bill is Up.
lBy United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 in the Senate
to-day the resolution providing that be-
ginning Monday next the Senate meet at
lo a. M, and that the morning hour con-
clude at IL was passed.
Mr.. Dolph's resolution requiring the
committee onsprivileges and elections to
enquire whether the right of suffrage is
denied or abridged was taken up.
Mr.. Dolph said that the States of Wv
oming, Mississippi, Massachusetts, and
Connecticut imposed restrictions on the
rights of suffrage, and he had read the
inaugural message of Gov. TiIlman, Of |
South Carolina, which, he said, was an |
official declaration that the great mass |
OF cOlOred men in the South were not |
permitted to exercise the election fran
chise.
Mr.. Vest movsd an amendment in.
structing the committee to INQUIRE fur
ther whether by any State Legislature,
any citizens Of the United State were de-
MED the right 70 work on any public
improvements by reason of their color.
BE then read clause from a recent
statute of the Oregon Legislature author
izing the building of a bridge anc pro
viding that none but white labor should
be employed on the work.
| Mr.. Dolph replied to Mr.. Vest, and
| further allusion to Gov. Tillmau's inau-
gural message brought out the declara-
zion from Mr.. Butler that he was per-
fectly willing to stand by that message.
| MIR. Dolph said that he was informed
by Senator on his side of the chamber
that the Senator himself (Mr. Butler)
had threatened colored men in his EN-
ployment that he would discharge them
if they should vote the Republican ticket.
Mr.. Butler-Who ever made that
statement is guilty of deliberate and
willful falsehood-a deliberate and wilful
falsehood.
Mr.. Hoar Il suppose that within
twenty-four hours l read the testimony
of the Senator from South Carolina be-
fore committee of this body or of the
other body, in which he stated that he
had told the colored people on his plan
tation that he should dismiss them from
his employment If they voted the Re-
publican ticket. | made the statement
myself TO the Senator from Oregon.
Mr.. Butler-Then the remark that |
made applies, of course, to the Senator
from Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Hoar-I am not to be deferred
from saying what | have to say
Mr. Butler-I do not propose to deter
3 the Senator.
Mr.. Hoar, concluding the sentence) =
: either by the manner or behavior of the
j Senator from South Carolina. have
: read that in public document within
r "a hours, 1 suppose If there is any
5 mistake about it I have not made the
r mistake.
9 The subject was then dropped.
Mr. Gibson quoted statement from
Dr. Mayo, of Boston, gentleman he said
who had dedicated his life to the pro
motion of education, the welfare of hi
fellow citizens, that Sin all essential re
spects the negro citizen is better off il
\ the South than in the North"
d Further discussion was INDUCED in
;, and, at 2 o'clock the resolution wen
- over, and the election bill was taken up
70 Mr. Blodgett's first great objection t.
=, the measure was that it would unsettl
- the peace and prosperity and develop
>, ment of a considerable portion of tn
, country next the bill was in direct an
. tagonism to the Democratic spirit OF POP
!. ular government.
Mr.. Walthall also argued against th
. bill. In the course of his remarks b
T spoke of the improved condition of Gel
- tain counties in Mississippi in respect
= paace and order.
Mr.. Edmunds, in the course of som
= remarks, observed that he could unde
-, stand state of peace where all libert
- had been repressed-peace in the sens
W. of nobody needing to be killed any NOR
IL Mr.. Walthall asked if Mr.. Edmund
- was familiar with the country he can
from and being answered in the negati'
he declined to continue the cOntrOvers,
III III Proceeding with the speech Mr.. Wa
~ thall called attention to the strongpetitiC
no against the election bill received fro
oi Bolivar county, Mississippi, a county
80 80 which Al of the A offices were held
:m negroes-more than were held by n
sn 81. groes in any Northern State.
WI WI When MI. Walthall closed his speet
Mr.. Hoar rose and called attention to t
~ ~ remarks made by Mr.. Butler, stain
'h. "a that anv one who said he had threatent
,no ano to dismiss colored people from his Ell
HoS ;n ployment, if they should vote the Repu
,us lican ticket, was guilty Of delibera
~ and willful falsehood, and read from
'0'' report made to theHouse in 1879, in viii
Mr.. Butler is represented to have tt
" . titled that he told the employees on
plantation ''that they had right
vote the Republican ticket II tn
pleased; that they were free men,.
os+ free as I was-but that if they exercls
a~' ,,o that right and imposed taxes upon
un uar that would destroy my property a
tha u prospects, l should throw myself ba
.ns orS on some rights that I had under
,ror laws of the country and would see Il
' they left my plantation
Mr.. Butler said he had denounced
false the statement that he had thre
ened to discharge colored men on
plantation if they voted the Republic
has ticket. He had no retraction to ma
,ern II the Senator from Massachusetts,
Sar- said that he gave the information to
IONS Senator from Oregon (Mr. Dolph) not
anv his own knowledge, but fr
r. Of Ia public document, the rems
would not of course, apply to him.