Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Passes Fort Worth's Public
Building Bill, Increased to S175, 900.
The House Puts In the Day Discussing the
National Election Bill, and Greet
Sport Is Witnessed,
SENATE.

Sherman, Jones, of Nevada, and Harris
were appointed conferees on the part of
the senate.
The house bill increasing the limit of
cost of public building at Fort Worth,
Texas, from SIS 1000 TO Sl75, 900, was re-
ported aud passed.
Mr.. Morgan introduced a resolution
which was agreed to calling on the secre-
tary of the interior for information as to
Mexican and Spanish private claims
pending in the department.
The calendar was then taken up and
the following, among other bills, passed:
The senate bill extending for twelve
months from the passage OF the act the
time for filing claims under the French
spoliation act; senate bill for public
building at Palestine, Eek, $50, 1000;
conference report on postotfice appropri
alton bill was presented and agreed to.
The bill granting pension of $1,000
year to the widow of
Maj. Gen. George Crook reported
placed on calendar; also the agricultural
appropriation bill.
The calendar was again taken up and
the following bills passed: Senate bill
to reclassify and fix salaries of railway
postal clerks. 1t increases classes from
five to seven, and fixes salaries of the
several classes at $500, 5000, $1,000.
$1,000, SI400, $1,000 and $500.
Senate bill to grant right OF way to the
Texarkana and Fort Smith railway COM
pany through the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma.
A message was received from the
president announcing his approval and
signature of the dependent pension bill.
The senate bill to amend the census act
was passed. 1t provides penalty for
giving fees or bonuses TO census enumer-
ators or supervisors or for receiving the
same.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, June 28.-The house
went into committee of the whole on the
Federal election bill. MIR. McAdoo of
New Jersey took the floor and made
vigorous speech IN opposition TO the bill.
He based his opposition GU the principle of
home rule, and the right of the people to
control their own affairs without Federal
interference. He wanted the Republic
cans to beware of the experience of Wal
pole when prime minister of England.
Storm after storm had been made against
the excise bill which was pending in par
belief that he could Withstand the people,
declared he wouldn't give way to the
beggars, but finally the wave of indigns-
6849n grew so great the people besieged
parliament itself, exclaiming: Liberty,
liberty. no evcise,' and finally walpole
was forced to give up the bill and to save
his own life go out disguised in cloak,
shouting: "Liberty, liberty, no ex-
else. -
He begged the Republicans-he ad-
jured them by their own sense of right
to abandon this bill.
Mr.. McComas OF Maryland reviewed
the various election contests during the
present congress to show the ne
cessity for the passage of such
a law. The Democrats talked
about people as the fountain
Of power, and the gentleman from New
Jersey (Mr. NcAdoo) had talked a
great deal about home rule. He called
their attention TO the condition of affairs
in Maryland as one of the many in
stances in which the powers were being
taken from people.
MIR. Tillman declared that the law re-
quired inspectors to belong to the same
precinct of which they were inspectors.
Mr.. Rowell said that not only had the
supervisors not belonged to even the
same county, but had been taken from
congressional districts to serve IN an
other at the last election.
Mr.. Tillman-Where is the law?
Where is the law? There never has been
such a law in force in my state.
Mr.. McComas-All the Democrats of
South Carolina are not like my friend,
All of them do not go
out and inquire where is the
law, they only look for results. South
Carolina has law, sought to
perpetuate the old oligarchy of
the state in power, and make il
patricIan white mans government.
Mr.. Tfllman rejoined that this was not
true, and declared the election Law IN
South Carolina was now just what it had
been since the revolutionary war. The
Republicans now proposed to put the peo-
pie down by blue coats and bayonets.
Continuing, Mr.. McComas SAID that
the triumph of the white mans party in
the South meant control not only OF
states, but of the national legislature
against tissue ballots, against false
counting, against night raiders, against
shotgun policy, against intimidation.
The Republicans array the dignity of the
courts, majesty of law, powers of the
constitution, to assure justice to all men,
white or black, In this country. rLoud
applause
Mr.. Bland of Missouri twitted Mr..
McComas for having taken away from
the black man of the District of Column
bia the power of local government and
suffrage and never giving it to them
again. This soon resulted in an uproar
on the floor, Mr.. Bland and Mr. Nc
Comas shouting at the top of their voices,
amid the applause of their colleagues
and of the galleries
Mr- MeComas declared that wheu the
gentleman from Missouri stood on this
floor ana affected an interest in giving |
suffrage to 5000 or 10, 600 black voters of |
the district, and when he recalled the |
fact that the gentleman during |
his long service here had |
never raised his voice in behalf |
of the 5000 200 or 10, 900 900 poor and |
oppressed black men in this country, he |
felt like saying, in the language of the |
Scriptures, Thou bypocrite, first cast |
the beam out of thine own eye.h
Mr.. Bland denounced Mr.. MoComas as
unworthy Of confidence, and vehsmentIY |
declared it was he aud his colleagues who |
were the hypocrites in pretending, for |
party purposes, an unfelt interest in the |
negro.
At this point the uproar became so |