Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-03
The Czar of the House at
His Old Tricks.
The Rights of the Minority
Again Ignored.
The Federal Election Bill Rail-
rOaded Through.
Only Six Majority on the Final Vote-Ex-
citing Scenes Before the Passage
of the Act.
Associated Press Dispatches.


district judge) to pass upon the applica-
ton for supervisors of election.
fuckers amendment was rejected.
Rowell of Illinois, offered an amend
ment making it the duty of the circuit
Judges in each circuit, within one month
after the passage of this act, to open a
special term of the circuit court, and
said judges shall appoint for each judi
cial district three discreet persons of
good character and standing, who shall
be known as United States juror COM
missioners to organize as board and
from time TO time make from
qualified voters a list of persons who,
under the laws of the United States, and
of the state, shall be eligible for jury
duty, without respect to race or color.
Hereafter all panels for jurors shall be
drawn by the board in the presence OF a
district or circuit judge.
Springer, of Illinois, opposed the
amendment, declaring that its purpose
was to pack the juries OF the country
with Republican partisans; this was the
elimination of the outrage contem-
plated by the bill.
146 to 143. A good deal of confusion fol-
lowed the announcement, amid which
several Democrats demanded the yeas
and NAYS, but in such low tone that
the demand was not heard by the
speaker, who recognized Struble, of
Iowa, to offer an amendment.
Then Cultivate, of Ohio, called the at
tention of the speaker to the fact that
the yeas and nays were demanded, and
upon the speaker expressing the opinion
that the demand came too late, Outh-
waite himself requested all those favor
ing the demand to rise. The entire
Democratic side rose, but the speaker
entirely ignored it and did not count
those rising. He stated, however, that
ifethere was no objection the yeas and
NAYS might be ordered. There being no
objection, the speaker directed the clerk
to call the roll, amid volley of protests
from the Democrats at being granted as
a favor what they demanded as right.
The amendment was adopted-yeas,
$50; nays, 144.
Hemphill offered an amendment to
section 81 of the bill, to insert the words
"except section 1889 of the revised stat
utes of the United States" He ex-
planned that this section of the bill en-
powered the supervisors to use the army
and navy at the polls, and the purpose
OF his amendment was to eliminate that
provision.
Lodge denied that the bill had any
such effect.
Blount, of Georgia, said the bill pro-
vided for the appointment OF partisan
supervisors, and surrounded those su-
pervisors with United States soldiers at
their beck and call, to make the voters
feel that they were under the terrors OF
military authority.
Mckinley, of Ohio, said the amend
ment would take from the president all
the power he had to enforce judicial
processes. The bill would be destroyed
If the government were deprived OF the
right to use federal power to execute
judicial processes under the proposed
measure.
Hemphills amendment was lost-yeas
146, nays 155.
MCKINLEY said no honest man could
object to the bill. 1t was said the bill
would be expensive; that it would cost
millions. That assumed that the $50 dis
tricts of the country would invoke the
operation of the law, and there was not
man who did not know that not loo
districts would invoke its operation.
They would diminish the cost OF the
administration of the law in the ratio in
which they diminished fraudulent vot-
ing, false counting, ballot-box stuffing
end the suppression OF votes. [Repub-
lican applause.l 1t would cost nothing
if there was no need for 1T. This ques-
ton would not rest until justice was
done. 1t was the supreme duty of the
hn ty1t n
laws of the United States. Let the gen.
tlemen on the other side obey them as
the Republicans obeyed them, for he
told them the people OF the north would
not permit two votes in the south to
count as much as FIVE votes in the north.
[Republican applause.]
McMilin, of Tennessee, said the Re-
publicans might, like madmen, grasp
the pillars OF the constitution and pull
down the edifice; but, like Samson, they
would perish in the wreck. If he could
register wish in heaven he would ask
not for an extension of boundaries ol
multiplication of territory; not for flow.
ing rivers and fertile fields but that the
nan who laid violent hands upon the
constitution might drop as dead as the
sacrilegious Jew who laid impious hanC
upon the ark of the covenant. Demo
cratic applause.
Perkins, of Kansas, and La Toilette
of Wisconsin, made eloquent pleas il
favor of the bill.
The hour of o'clock having arrived
the speaker declared the previous ques
ton ordered on the bill and the pending
amendment.
Springer moved to lay the bill on the
table. Lost-yeas, 14S; nays, 116.
Springer changed his vote from affirm
ative to negative, in order to move re
consideration. This, upon motion, o
Rowell, was laid upon the table-yeas
1853; nays, l4S.
The vote then required on Hemphill's
amendment relative to the use of troops
at the polls, and it was rejected-yeas
145; nays, 1866.
Springer (having voted in the mega
tive for the purpose moved to reconsider
The motion was tabled.
Springer then moved to lay the bill
upon the table, stating that his former
motion was to table the bill and the
pending amendment.
The speaker ruled the motion out O.
order.
Springer appealed, and the appeal was
laid on the table-yeas, 15S; nays, l46
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