, 1890-01-24

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Mr. Vest
presented the credentials of W. A. Clark
and Martin Maginnis as senators elect
for the state of Montana. They were
read and referred ION Vests motion) to
the committee on privileges and elections.
On his motion. also four gentlemen
claiming to be senators-elect were admit
ted, pending contest to privilege of the
floor.
The bill approprietng $500, 900 for
work at the mouth of the Columbia
river was passed. AS . o'clock ap
preached IDgalls rose to address the sen
ate in opposition TO Senator Buffers bill
to encourage the migration OF colored
people from the United States.
Following are extracts from Ingalls,
address On the threshold OF our second
century we are Confronted with the most
formidable and %portentious problem ever
submitted to a free people for solution,
complex, unprecedented, involving social
moral and political considerations, party
supremacy and in the estimation of many
Qhough not in my own the existence Of
our system of government. Its solution
will demand all the of states.
manship OF the present and future TO
AS'SH . SAhDio NhaN may DCIOLuG u Cdld5
trophe. 1t should be approached with
candor, with solemnity, with patriotic
purposes, with fearless scrutiny, without
suhterfuge and without reserve.
Fred Douglas, the most illustrious liy-
ing representative of the negro race once
said 10 me he thought as prejudice and
social and political antsgonism disap-
peared, the races would blend, ~coalisce
and become homogeneous. | do not agree
with him. Such a solution, in my judg-
ment, would perpetuate the vices of both
races and virtues of neither. After prais-
ing the colUred people for their fidelity to
the South during the war. he said: at
seems incredible that gratitude should not
have defended and shielded them from
the hideous and indescribable wronss aad
crimes of which they had been for a quar-
ter of a century the guiltless and %irresist =
ing victims. ingalls, wen on TO speak
of the determination ofthe South to elm
mate the negro as a factor from its politi.
cal and social history.
ingalls, said the pretexts for this condi.
ton of things all rest Upon the fear Of ne
gro supremacy. To this notification of
the constitution the people of the North
have apparently consented. The South
is standing upon a volcano. the South is
sitting on a safety valve. Already the
mutterings of discomfort by hostile organ
izations, are heard. Use of the torch and
dagger are advised. 1 deplore it; but as
God is my Judge. | say no other people
GU the face of the earth have ever sub
mltted to the wrongs and injustice which
have been for twenty five years put on the
colored men of the South without revo-
luton and bloodshed.
ingalls, ven on to warn the South Of
the natural consequences of its course to
ward|tha colnred- people, Despotism
makes Nihilists. Four solutions of the
problem has been suggested-emigration,
determination, absorption and disfran-
chisement. But there was still a ittilso-
luton which has never beer tried, and
that solution was Justice. | appeal to
the South, he exclaimed, to try the ex-
pertinent of Justice. Stack your gus;
open your ballot boxes, register your
voters, black and white, and il after the
experiment has been fairly and honestly
tried it appears that the African race is
incapable OF civilization, if it appears that
the complexion burnt upon him by the
sun is incompatible with freedom, | will
pledge myself to consult with you about
some measure of solving the race problem.
But until then nothing can be done,
the citizenship of the negro must be abb
solutely recognized. His right to vote
must be admitted and the ballots cast
must be honstly counted. At the CON
clusion of Ingall's address the senate ad-
iourned until Monday.