Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-21
QUAY'S PROPOSAL.
Hoar Opens Fire on 1t "Some
Vigorous"
A DEFENSE OF THE ELECTION BILL.

A DEFENSE OF THE ELECTION BILL.
The Speech Develops Opposition from
Edmunds and Paddock-Importers Pre-
pairing for the New Tariff Duties by
Filling Up with Foreign Goods-A
Costly Invitation to the President
Women Who Want Lyman's Official
Head-Another silver Purchase.
WASHINGTON CITY. Aug 2l.-The de-
bate on Qusy's resolution with Hoar's
amendment began in the senate yester
day. Hoar began the oratory with a long
speech. He said that the elections bill had
been misrepresented by the Democrats
everywhere. Nothing had been heard oft
in the senate, however, except a threat
from one highly honored senator of blood
shed If its provisions should be adopted
and should be attempted to be put in
force. The proposition contained in this
bill was nothing more than q proposition
to remove force and fraud from the cleo
ton of members of the house of represent
atives.
Pugh said that if the senator re-
ferred to him, he wished it understood
that he had made no threat, he had merely
made prediction, an expression of opin-
ion that had been repeated in the house
and in the press. He charged that Hoar
had made willful perversion of his Ian
guage
Hoar 0notes the Language.
Hoar replied that the difference between
a prediction and a threat coming from the
leaders of the gentlemen who have man
aged elections in some parts of the coun-
try was a very thin and narrow one. He
withdrew the phrase, however, and then
| read from The Record the remarks made
by Pugh at the time the bill was reported:
Pugh had said: IF this bill becomes a law
its execution will insure the shedding of
| blood and the destruction of the peace and
good order of the country. Its passage
will be resisted by every parliamentary
| method and every method allowed by the
constitution of the United States" Hoar
said he would leave it to the Judgment of
the country whether this was threat or
not
The Bill Not Sectional.
The speaker then declared that the bill
simply undertook to give the majority of
the people their right to elect representa-
tives. There was nothing new in it. It
struck at evil in all parts of the country
alike. 1t applied to the whole country,
with additional precautions and safe
guards, what the north had applied to
itself for nearly twenty years. Congress
had exercised the power over and over
again. The bill struck at the north and
bribery was claimed to be a southern of
Tense. He could not affirm that his own
commonwealth had escaped entirely from
it. Unless well-informed men were mis-
taken there had been one election where
it had rained shekels under the shadow
| of Harvard college.
Some Recent History Cited.
The election law of 1870 had been passed
at time when Tweed had said that he
did not care who did the voting if he did
! the counting. That law had encountered
| (as the pending law hadD an cutlery from
| the whole Democratic party. In that con-
nectiOn Hoar read some extracts from
The New York World of October, 1870.
calling upon the citizens of New York to
| resist military interference; and said that
\ he had learned, on good authority, that
| there had been no contested election case
| in New York city in regard to members of
congress since 1870. He quoted the COM
| mittee report of Chairman S. S Cox COM
| mending the statute of 1870
Not an Issue of the War.
1t was idle 10 speak of the pending bill
| as sectional measure or as threatening
bloodshed. 1t was also idle to tell its
| friends that they were reopening the is
| sues of the war. Was cheating at cleo
tions IAN issue of the war;" Had Jackson
| died; had Lee gone through that struggle
(more bitter than death) between his allie
glance to his country and his love for his
| state, in order that ballot-boxes might be
| stuffed; that naturalization papers might
| be forged; that returns might be altered,
| and that votes might be falsely counteds
Grave Accusation.
A majority of the people believed to-
day that for fourteen years the house of
| representatives had been usurpation, and
that for four years ausurper had sat in the
executive chariot the nation, and yet when
| it was sought to transfer the ascertain
| ment of the will of the people from such
processes to the courts the friends of the
bill were met by the cry that they were
raising race issue, and that this was
"force" bill. There had never been a
| more senseless utterance than to call that
| n force bill which transferred the settle
| ment of a great public question from the
| shotgun to the court, unless it was to call
| it bill to create negro domination, or to
create a race issue.
Republican Pledges Referred to.
The Republican party was pledged to
the policy of the bill by everything that
could bind party. Among the proofs of
that fact Hoar quoted from messages
| of Presidents Harrison and Hayes and
President Garfield's inaugural; from the
Republican national and state platforms
Paddock, interrupting, said that at the
recent Republican state convention in Ne
braska not word had been said on the
subject of the election bill. Hoar sug-
gested that the reason was that the con-
vention did not deem it necessary to re
peat instructions in that regard. He con-
cluded by saying that he would take little
satisfaction in the pending tariff bill if its
passage was to be the price of the dis
honor OF his country or of the broken
pledges of his party.
Frye Runs Afoul of Edmunds.
Frye said he placed the responsibility
for the defeat of the election bill on those
senators who declared in a Republican
conference held earlier in the session that
they would not support rule for the pre-
vious question. Cowardice never yet won
a battle or retained friend.
Edmunds said that there were twok kinds
of courage. One was that, having deter
mined that you wanted another mans
property, you went and took it and were
not afraid of him. Another was that,
having made up your mind to put muz-
gle upon everybody, at any time that
pleases you, you get the power to do it in
advance. That was not his kind of courage.
They Are After Lyman's Scalp.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 2l.-At a meet
ing Of the Ladies' Progressive assembly
No 2 Q9l Knights of Labor Wednesday