The daily critic., 1890-06-27
Mr. COYERTS ELOQUENT PROTEST.
"UnrtpubliCan, Undemocratic and Un-
American" Says Mr., Flower.
COEBELLS GIGANTIC PENSION SCHEME.
How Mr.. LehlbaCh Got the Floor A
Big Blunder District Matters.
In the Senate.

Clerks Leave bill was passed The
bill involves an expenditure Of $4,000.
Consideration Of the Election bill was
then resumed
Mr.. Haugen Of Wisconsin, in sup.
port Of the bill, asserted that Il ives
measure looking to the supervision Of
national elections only-a clear right Of
Congress. The bill was not local. but
general in It's application. Objections to
the bill by Southern members was an
insult TO the South. Property qualif.
cations in voter had been advocated
by a prominent Democratic leader in
Mississippi, with the suggestion that
such a provision would restore su
premacy 10 the whites. That In itself
was a suspicion that the whites wrong
fully exercised supremacy at present.
Another Democrat, Judge Tate of
Arkansas a contestant for seat on the
floor Of the House, had justified the
outlawry by mob violence of certain
negroes who had been elected 10 local
offices on the ground that they were
not property. holders
AN EVIDENCE or DIsTRUsT
Mr.. Covert of New York said that the
bill was an evidence of the distrust felt
by the Republicans Of a Government of
and for the people At the banquet of
the AmeriCus Club at Pittsburg the
Speaker Of the House bad, after long
years Of silence, spoken upon the sub.
iect Of Justification of election returns,
bulldozlng and all the narrowing details
of Southern outrages. Why the silence
was broken he was unable to say, unless
he was conscious that he was not at
the time addressing doliberative body.
lie had spoken Of the emergency that
had confronted ms. The Republican
party was used to meeting emergencies.
They had met them in Indiana when
ihey sent In Dorsey with his money and
Dudley with his tloaters in
"BLoCKs or FTyE,"
aud Quay, the archaupel of the party.
This bill was intended 10 undo the
work Of the fathers Of the Constitution
The small army Of Federal officials at
the polls, with powers superior 10 those
possessed by the inspectors OF the
State--of the people-slgnaled and
heTalded the end OF the Government by
the people and for the people.
This proposition was to bring back
the returning boards OF Florida aud
South Carolina; the days of the Elec
toral Commission; the days that every
patriotic man would forget II he could
The
MOTIFS OF WARNING
had been sounded; they were still ring
ing and should be heard. III Il were
true, as intelligent men predicted, that
the passage Of the bill would have a
fauhauaV gp pavsFtfa Vaga y.vaHttIfo. a.. a..
South and restore the Southern
States 10 the cond tiOn Of reconstruction
days-if this were true, then Il would
turn back the hands upon the dial
and retaTd the progress OF those
sections of the whole Republic.
Race prejudice was extinct. In
Gods name, as lovers of the country.
he besought the House not TO seek
10 revive the prejudice now. He
begged IL TO give assurance 10 the whole
country that the civil war was ended
over quarter Of a century ago. Ap-
plause.
Mr.. Flower Of New York denounced
the bill as
UEREPUBLICAE, UNDEMoCRATIC AND
USAMERICAN.
II was a measure constructed upon the
idea that the swell Republican majority
now in Congress could better legislate for
the people than the people themselves.
any court that would lend itself 10 the
execution Of its corrupt purposes aud
become the unscTupnlous servant Of the
political oligaTchy would richly deserve
The censuTe IL was sure to receive. The
history Of the political persecu'iCns Of
some OF our Federal Courts was alea iy
rank with
UHsCRUPULoUs ABUSES or TIE LAW.
Among the other acts Of this Con
gTess this bill stood pre- eminens as a
reckless desperate MEASURE 10 main
ain minority in power whose purpose
was TO offer an opportunity for fraud
In the senate.
Foasowing morning business. the Sen
ate resumed consideration Of the bin TO
admit Wyoming as a State, and Mr.
Morgan spoke in opposition 70 Il, but
after a few minutes yielded the door 10
Mr. Dawes 10 present the disagreement
Of the House confeTrees on amendments
20 The Legislative, Executive and Ju-
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