Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-19
Senate.

Mr. MORGAN offered an amendment pro-
hlbitinp any officer of the Government
from paving more than $50 q year or S1.5O
a quarter for a telephone instrument 10
tho District Of Columbia. The amend
ment was agreed to. Inc Dill WAS then
passed.
THE sESATR's COLD TIA.
Mr. Plumb offered q resolution instruct
inc the Committee on Rules to make such
orders as will wholly prevent the sale OF
spirituous. vinOus or malt liquors IN the
Senate wing of the Capitol.
Mr.. Blair suggested the insertion OF the
words land drinking"
Dir. Plumb: have no objection.
MIR. German: Let the resolution go over.
II went over till tomorrow.
Mr.. Cav asked Mr.. Aldrich to consent 20
let the tariff bill 70 stand over tor the pres
ent in order that the Senate might take up
the bill TO transfer the reyenue-marine ser
vice TO the naval establishments.
Mr.. Aldrich regretted that he could not
WELD 10 that request.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The tariff bill was then taken up. the
pending question being on Mr.. Plumb' .
amendment reducing the duty on tin-plate
from two and two tenths cents pound to
one cent and providing for bounty OF
one cent pound on tin-plate produced IN
the United States. The debate took q
wide range upon the general subject OF
tariff protection. .
without coming TO a vote on Mr..
Plumb's amendment the bill was laid
aside, and the Senate adjourned.
House of Representatives.
In the House. on motion Of Mr.. Cum
mings. Of New York, the Senate bill was
passed granting leave OF absence to per dem
employees IN the customs service.
Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, called up
the Mississippi cOntested-electlon case OF
Chalmers against Morgan. The majority
report finds IN favor of Morgan. The sit-
ting member, Mr.. Chalmers, was then
Granted permission 20 address the House
Tor an hour and half in his own behalf.
CHALMERS on THE MISSISSIPPI CONTEST.
After criticisng the House majority re-
port. he asserted that there was now and
had for years been "a conspiracy existing
in the South for the carrying of elections
for the Democratic party. That party YVES
determined 10 carry elections honestly I
il could. fOrcbly If II must. The state OF
Mississippi was a leader IN that conspiracy.
Men who dared to run on the Republican
ticket or 10 make Republican speeches
carried their lives in their hand. That
the black vote in the South was sup
pressed could not be successfully denied.
IL was on the suppression OF TINS vote that
the Republicans of the House had justified
the passage of the Lodge bill. IL the Re
publcans, after passing that bill. should
turn around and adopt the majority re-
port III this case. they would put them
selves in a suspicious attitude before the
country. Before the meeting of Congress
il had been charged that the Republicans
intended to turn out enough Democrats
to give them good working majority. II,
after getting that majority, they declined
to give him his seat, they would give color
TO that charge.
THE ENGLISH OF THE FORCE BILL.
1t would be said that when they were I'M
dertaking 10 pass law TO give them a
chance for a majority IN the next House
they said that certain testimony was true
which in this case they said was not sutii-
Gent 10 establish the conspiracy in Missis-
sippi. He did not believe that the Re-
publican party could afford TO place itself
in that attitude and he did not think 1t
would DO IL.
He then proceeded 10 examine in detail
the evidence of fraud and intimidation in
various counties of the district III order
To substantiate his charge that a huge
conspiracy existed 10 defeat him for Con-
gress. For the House TO sustain the re-
port was to offer premium on fraud and
to say that the stealing of congressional
seat was nothing but political purchase.
FORT PILLOW.
He said that in order TO prejudice his
case The old story in regard to Fort Pillow
had been revived; In the forty-si1th Con
Cress charges had been made against HIM
In connection with Fort Pillow. He had
asked for an investigation and 1t had been
denied him. When the truth of history came
TO be written calmly il would be seen that
not a single man had been hurt who had
surrendered in the fort. Every man killed
had been outside the fort.
But even if every one of the charges
against him were true he had not been
the commanding officer. If the charges
were true they brought disgrace upon gal
liant Forrest. whostood by his side. The fact
that until the end Of the war he had served
with that officer as second in command
was proof that he was guilty of no con-
duet unbecOming an officer or gentleman.
No officer on the Democratic side would
believe a story which would disgrace the
brave Forrest and the men who had
served under Grant and Sherman were too
manly to bring disgrace upon an American
soldier.
AN ALLEGED SOUTHERN oLIGARCHY.
Continuing, Mr.. Chalmers said that he
felt that this republican form OF govern
ment was III danger of being oyerrldden
and trodden under foot 10y a southern
olgarchy. For fifteen years the Republic
can party had been fighting the northern
Democrats in open field while exposed TO q
flank FIRE from southern Democrats en-
trenched behind walls erected by fraud
and violence. They should see TO it that
the national Government was not con-
trolled by fraud and violence. A southern
Governor who had without protest seen
outrages like the killing of negroes at
YaZoo and Carrolton grew frantic with
rage over a fair fight between two pugilists
1t was fair question whether the Demo-
cratic party was not going To the devil as
fast as II could and taking Mississippi with
it.
ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD REJECTED.
Mr.. Kelly, OF Kansas. offered resolu-
ton reciting the following paragraph from
the majority report: " With respect 10 the
other seven counties there is number Of
boxes as to which no testimony was taken,
but II NAV safely be affirmed that in not
one Of these. taken as whole, was the
election an honest one. Fraud in various
forms. including intimidation of voters,
corrupt manipulation of the registration.
stufine and stealing of ballot-boxes. and
illegal voting, finds ample illustration IN
all Of them" And recommittlng the case
with instructions TO the Committee on
Elections to reject from its count the un-
examined boxes. Lost-yeas, 81; nays, 1856.
Mr.. MORGAN RETAINS HIS SEAT.
The minority substitute was rejected
and the majority resolution declaring Mr..
Morgan entitled to the seat was agreed to
without division.
PAY FOR PRINTING.
Mr.. Russell, Of Connecticut, from the
Committee on Printing, moved 10 suspend
the rules and pass the bill fixing the wages
of printers, book binders, and pressmen in
the Government printing office at 50 cents
an hour for day work, and 80 cents for
night work, and providing that for all
piecework on the Congressional! Record so
cents per thousand ems shall be paid.
Agreed to-yeas, l27; nays, "a
THE INTERNATIONAL coNFERgscH.
Mr.. Hit, of Illinois, from the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, voted to suspend
the rules and pass the Senate Joint reso-
luton providing that nothing in the diplo.
matte and consular appropriation bill shall
be construed to interrupt the publication OF
the reports of the International American
Conference. Agreed to.
No quorum voting on the next motion
he. I'd