Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
Nh HIGGINS MIsRePRssENTs DELLA
WARE AND THE SOUTH.
IT.. =. Taken to Task by His Colleague, Mr..
Gray-voorhees on Harri'on's
Political Hypocrisy.
Try telegraph to the Dispatch-l
WASHINGTON, ID. c., December e. 1880.
Senate


Tho avail attendance Of senators this
,rorning attracted the attention OF the
democrats. and Mr. Harris demanded
call of tho roll Thirty-two senators re-
.nonded TO the call-twelve less than
nuorrm The Sergeant at Arms was
d,rected ON motion OF Mt. Hoar, torequest
the presence of absent senators. Ia tue
course of half an hour quorum maze us
appearance. c.;..oo ON
Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported ana the osna's
passed the bill to estabiish teco1t anu
pension Office in the War Department
MIR. Dawes presented, and the Senate
adopted. the conference report On the
Sioux reservation bill.
PUBLIC BUILDING Bills.
Mr. Spooner having submitted various
conference reports on public building inea:
sures. Mr.. German criticised the policy OF
Congress in making no Appropriation Tor
the erection OF edifces, although llmlta-
tation was placed upon the cost. Under
such policy It was impossible that there
could be economy IN public expenditures.
The reports were agreed 10.
The bills authorize tho. construction OF
public buildings at Norfolk, Va, Sioux
CITY. Ia. Kansas City. Mo-, Taunton, Mass.
Stockton. Cal. Newburgh, N. y, and Paw
tucket, Il. /, As agreed upon IN conference
the bills are left as they came from the
House, which struck out the clauses
making tho appropriations. The House
amendment TO the. Senate amendment 10
the urgent deficiency bill, striking out the
appropriation for the pay OF clerks OF sena-
tors, was non-cOncurred IN.
HIGGINS FOR THE FORCE BILL.
The discussion Of the election bill was
then resumed. Mr.. Higgins taking the
floor.
The pending measure. he said, went but
slightly beyond ono now on the statute
books. II did not In any way take tine con-
troll of elections from the State AUTHORITIES.
The whole subject Of elections was left by
the pending bill TO the States; and all the
defamation against it as TO its interfering
with elections in the States was gr0uDdless
and resulted in nothing but bald misrep-
resentatlon.
1T Is AN ILL BIRD" &C.
Mr.. Higgins went on to discuss at great
! lenpth the present management OF cleo
ti0ns in various States Gncluding Della
ware) In order TO show the necessity exist
inc for such reform as IS proposed IN the
nendinc measure. IF he could reach the
/ iniouity of such election frauds by Fede-
raj election law he would like 10 do IT..
| WHY, he asked, should purity OF elections
be secured for a city and denied for a coun-
| ty and State?
TOUCHING NEGRO DOMINATION.
As TO the claim of the southern senators
| that thew feared and could not endure
negro domination, Mr.. Higgins asserted his
| belief that there was never n day when the
| southern white leaders could not have had
the hearty support Of the black menof the
South tor the asking.
ME-. HIGGINS FACETloUs.
| He had always considered that one great
service which the Democratic party had
/ rendered was its cOrralling and bringing
/ into IFS fold all people who from nativity
/ and other circumstances were least fitted
I to discharge the functions. of American
citizens: and why. he asked, had not south
ern white Democrats done tine same with
/ the blacks?
FULL AND SUFFICIENT ANSWER.
I The reason was. Mr.. Reagan replied.
/ that in the reconstruction period the
I Freedman's Bureau and the carpet-bag-
[ gers had made the blacks believe that the
whites were their enemies, and had ar
rayed the blacks in an oath-bound league
10 vote the Republican ticket.
DELAWARE DEFENDED.
Mr.. GRAY replied 10 Mr. Higgins's strict
ures upon the State of Delaware, and SAID
that he had never before known a senator
! TO take advantage of his position III order
to traduce and villify the people who had
honored him with a seat IN the Senate !;
but he GRAY would not admit that there
was particle of justification for what his
colleague had said.
BENNY HARRIsoE's HYPoCRIsY.
! Mr.. VOORHEES, addressed the Senate. The
! opening of his speech consisted of a criti-
-.
ton of his message TO Congress urging
the passage of the election hH'. If Mr.
! Harrison, he said, she'',G undertake 10 put
on the stage "a school for hypocrisy" he
! could not do better than dramatlze that
portion of his message that related to tair
| and benest elections. The rank corruption
of the election of 1888 was resting, folded
away in blocks of five" and was still
! fresh and carefully preserved III the minds
| of the American people.
AsrEcInES OF "FAIRNEss AND HONESTY"
| Mr.. Voorhees, charged that within sixty
| DAYS after the incoming of the present Adj
ministration an extensive, powerful, ana
corrupt conspiracy was formed 10 import a
| certain class of voters from distant parts
| OF the country into Indiana, West virginia,
J and Connecticut in order TO secure malOri-
! ties in those States for the Republican
/ ticket in 1892. The proof of 1t had been
published in the New York World on the
/ 4th of October last. including letter from
/ Huston. Treasurer of tine United States, to
/ Lindsay, the author of the plan, declaring
| himself heartily in favor of the scheme,
and saying he would speak TO the Presl-
dent about IT.
| A PAINFUL REFLECTION.
II was painful. Mr.. Voorhees, said, TO re-
fleet that the man who knew Ben. Harri-
| OF
public life knew him; who had car
RED him and his fortunes through
| the stormy and corrupt campaign
of 1888 in Indiana who had studied him
and his political methods at close range.
felt himself warranted in submitting for
his consideration and approval corrupt
project for the overthrow of honest resi-
dent majorities by the shameless importa-
ton and colonization of black voters from
! the South And yet that man (Huston)
retained his high Office. had met with no
| rebuke, and continued TO bask IN eXecu-
tive favor and confidence.
cossPIRAToRs IL HIGH PLACES.
The names of Dudley and Quay having
been introduced in connection with this
scheme for colonizing negro voters in In
diana, Mr.. Voorhees, said that he took no
pleasure in commenting on the names OF
men connected with that conspiracy, but he
would not remain silent when even the
most exalted dignitaries OF the Govern
ment were found consplrlng, plotting, and
burrowing amid filth and corruption III
order TO overthrow Tightful maloritles in
Indiana, TO deprive her people of the first
principles of self-goyernment, and TO place
them under the rule OF the lowest and
most venal negro element that could be
bought and imported from the South.
SOME POINTS IN THE PLAN.
bIr. Voorhees, went on 10 read letters
from Quay and some Republican repre-
sentatives from Indiana approving of the
colonization plan as well as correspond
ence between Lindsay and his co-worker In
the enterprise, Whitehead of North Caro-
lima. giving some of the points OF the plan
and suggesting that some 5000 negroes
from North Carolina must be placed in the
State of Indiana.
BURN THIS"
In one Of the earliest epistles Of Lindsay
10 his confederate the following rich aud
modest advice and instruction, said MIR.
| Voorhees,, was given:
Now. my dear friend. read this letter.
which hope will put you in better spir-
its -; and then, IN the language of one of
| our UrgafaSt 80 llurn this az tar