The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-25
OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS.
How a Representative of Southern
ChivaIrY Writes Speeches.

OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS.
How Representative Of Southern
chivaIry Writes Speeches..
WASHINGTON, February 24.-In the SEN
ate, today, Mr.. Chandler, rising to question
Of personal privilege, called attention to the
fact that the Senator from Florida Mr.
Call in the debate last Thursday uttered
words personally offensive to him, which he
had not then heard, and had followed up
that breach of order by changing and adding
to the official report of his remarks para
grapher still more offensive. He Mr..
| Chandlerl deemed 1t his duty before reply
| ing to the assault made upon him, to bring
the Senator's conduct before the Senate for
such action as might be deemed just and
a preamble and resolution stating that the
| Senator from Florida charged him in debate
with personal responsibility for the outrag-
1lg OF women, the numbering of children and
% the destruction Of the happiness Of house
emissaries behind him. The Senator had,
| in addition, inserted the following para
graph, which he had not spoken: 1.-The
blood of Saunders, If the evidence shall
nected with prosecutions in the. United
States courts, will rest on his con-
science. The shrieking ghosts of
outraged and murdered women and
children, the victims of the wild lusts and
passions of a race who owe all they know of
religion and civilization to the Southern
white people and not to the Senator from
NewHampshire will disturb his sleeping and
waking hours. Like Banquo's ghost, they
will not down. An ocean will not wash his
blood stained hands from the guilt of the
rape and murder of those tender white w0m-
en- and children
The resolution condemns such action as
breach Of privilege for which the Senator
Mr. Call is censured and orders that the
words SO inserted and the paragraph SO ad-
ded be stricken from the report in the Con-
gressi0nal Record.
Mr.. Call defended his course in the mat
ter, asserting that he had, in the debate,
expressed substantially the same idea
as in the additional paragraph. He
had simply changed the phraSeology as he
had right to do and therefore the statement
made by the Senatar from New Hampshire
was not true. 1t was the first time In his II
years OF service in the Senate that he had
heard 1t claimed it was not admissible for
Senator to correct, explain and amplify the
language used by him so as to express more
clearly the idea intended to be conveyed.
Mr.. Chandler repelled the intimation that
anything he had stated was not true. He de-
sired to have the decision of the Senate ON
the question presented. He asked no pro-
lection for himself He only asked that the
Senate should decide whether such language
might be used by one Senator in relation to
another Senator, and whether the Senator
from Florida was to be permitted, with his
pen, alone in his room, to write out addition
al charges and send them to the public print
er to be published throughout the country as
If they had actually been spoken in the Sem
ate chamber.
paragraph by page to Mr. Call, and asked
whether that was in his handwriting. Mr..
Call said that this was an extraordinary per-
formance ON the part of Mr.. Chandler, and
he repeated his assertion that he had in de-
ator with responsibility for the 's death hot Of
Saunders and for other iniquities committed
In the South. The report, when it came to
port OF his remarks.
The resolution went over until tomorrow,
A communication from the Attorney Gem
eral with the report of Marshal Mizell as to
tn sne az. assassination Of Saunders, an United
States Deputy Marshal in Florida, was
presented and referred to the committee on
privileges and elections.
AT O'Clock the Blair educational bill came
up as unfinished business. Mr.. Faulker ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to it. In
the grayest evils to the whole country, more
especially to those states which, it was as i
sumed, would be more benefited than 9TH
erS by its enactment. Its passage would
Comnit NougresS 10 tne unreStralneQ Gen.
structlon of constitutional power. and would
establish a novel. an almost unprecedented
and free Interpretation of the general well
fare" clause. Three questions. he said, pre-
sented themselves which would have to be
ported the bill These were: Is the bin
the federal y constitution DfO's Are is is
provisions. which affect the distribution
Of the fund between thu states and between
the two races In the states, just and benef-
cial? Is 1t the part of wisdom and practical |
statesmanship for the national government |
to embark on this boundless sea of unre-
strained and unlimited legislation?
He took the negative of these three propo-
sltions. and argued in support of his view of
bates in the federal convention, from the de-
cisions of judges, and the writings of recog-
nized publicists and statesmen. From the e
he argued that the establishment of COM
ted to the care and control Of the states. The
principles laid down BY Chief Justice Mar
shall, in the case of Gibbons against Ogder,
restraining any attempt at encroachment on
the rights reserved to the respective states,
or to the people, had never been questioned
Supreme Court. He preferred to build his
record on that foundation, rather than on
the shifting opinions of active politicians or
the irresponsible and unreliable patchwork
VI Llo IIcSluout. OOulluB uOWu 10 Tue
practical provisions of the bill, Mr..
Faulker pointed out its inconsistency in
first distributing the fund to the states on
the basis of illlteracy and then distributing
the fund within the states between the two
races on the basis Of the school population
of each, so that while on the basis of litter
acy, the colored schools at the South ought
to receive $50. 6.000.0 900 and white schools S13,
100000, those hgures, on the other basis,
would be reversed and the white schools
would receive S16,00 900 more than the col
ored schools.
Mr.. Blair asked whether it was not proper
to apply the money so that it would reach
white children and colored children alike.
Mr.. Faulkner replied that the bill had
been justified on the ground Of its relieving
illiteracy in the states and when the fund
got into the states, third more would be
gwen to the whites than to the colored chill
dren,o on the basis Of school population, while
the illiteracy of the colored children was 40
per cent greater than that of the white chill
dren.
Mr.. Blair attempted to explain and Mr..
Faulkner declined to yield. When Mr..
Faulkner finished Mr.. Platt said he should
insist that the bill be discussed and consid-
eaGn 1n,s during aySs Sd h
ought not to block the work of important
business now on the calendar seeking for
consideration,
A message from the President, with COM
muuiCdtlUu ltuul tu6 OtCIttdIy Ol tu6 lu-
terror and draft Of the bin authorizing the
removal of the Indians from the Gila Point
reservation, Arizona, to another reservation
in the territory, was presented and referred
After brief executive session the Senate
adjourned.
The New silver Bill.
WASHINGTON, February 24.-The silver
bill to be reported by the Senate committee
on finance as a substitute for several bills on
the subject referred to it, is understood to be
in shape for action by the committee at its
meeting tomorrow. The committee is prac-
tically unanimous in its favor. The princi-
nal features of the hill arc that the Sacratarv