Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-07-04
WASHINGTON.
SAND 1EACH HAR8oR OF REF
UGE APPROPRIATION BILL.
Blar's Educational Bill is Revived by
Mr.. O'Donnell.
General Notes on Affairs at the
Capital.
WASHINGTON. June 30.

WASHINGTON, June 30.
The people of Sand Beach, and the own
ers Of vessels who are interested in the inn
provement of the harbor of refuge there,
are very much displeased ut the action of
the senate committee in so lowering their
appropriation as TO make it of little or no
service TO them. Several of them have
written to the senator's, Representative
Whiting and Representative Stephenson,
who are members of the house committee
on rivers and harbors, secured the inser-
tion of the appropriation in the house bill,
saying that if they had imagined the senate
was antagonstic TO this most important
improvement they could have flooded the
body with petitions from all along the
chain of great lakes in favor Of Sand
Beach.
James O'Donncll has amazed the house
and astonished the country by resurrecting
the Blair educational bill. When the bill
was defeated in the senate several months
ago it was regarded as dead, not only for
this season but for ever. 1t was not dis
cussed in any way in the house and even
escaped mention in the house commitree on
education, of which O'Donnell is chairman.
There was a well defined notion that
O'Donnell was personally averse to the bill
and that in any event il was dead enough
to need a monument. The bill, however,
which was introduced by the only Negro
member of the house. Mr.. Cheatham, has,
to the surprise of everybody, emerged from
ODonnell's committee with favorable re-
port. Chairman O'Donnell called meet
ing of his committee after dusk TO take up
the consideration of the bill. The demo-
Gratis of the committee did not attend the
meeting. Several republican members
were present and they all voted TO report
the bill
The debate in the house on the Federal
elections bill was opened Thursday by Mr.
Lodge of Massachusetts. He said he did
not think that more serious subject had
ever come before the house. 1t demanded
serious and deliberate treatment. 1t was
not enough that elections were fair, he
said. They must be known to be fair. II
had been charged that the bill was section
al. The acts which it was proposed to ex-
tend had been called into existence by the
gigantic frauds in the city of New York
prior TO 1870 and 1871. Mr.. Lodge gave a
description of the state of affairs at that
time in New York city, citing among other
things the tenth district Of the sixth ward,
where, he said, the democratic vote latter
throwing out all the other votes) was SS4,
or II more than the total number of every
man, woman and child resident in the dis
trict. In his own state there had been
complaint of the registration system, and
accusations had been made that the lists
were not right. If they were not, the bill
would remedy the wrong thing. He said
he did not believe that any body honest in
intention would be afraid to have the
truth and the whole truth known.
AS 10 the southern states it was apparent
that many people believed that great frauds
were there committed. If the belief that
such thing as a fair election in the south
was unknown. t&en il was high time the
United States should put stop to the evil
If il had TO exercise every power the consti-
tuition put into its hands. Mr.. Lodge pre-
sented a number of statistics to show the
insufficiency Of representation in the south.
He said that in I'll election districts in the
south the members were elected by an
average of less than Is. 900 votes.