The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-13

sumed in a colloquy between Messrs.
Gibson and Dolph, and at 2 o'clock the reso-
luton went over without action until to-
morrow.
HoAR MAN OF PEACE.
Later in the day Mr.. Hoa- arose and
called attention to the remarks made to-
day by Mr.. Better, stating that any one
who said he had threatened to dismiss the
colored people from his employment il thew
should vote the republican ticket was guilty
of deliberate and willful falsehood. He
sent to the clerks desk, and had read
the official reporters manuscript
OF what took place, and said:
'Ihe rule OF my life. long since formed
does not permit me to reply to the senator
from South Carolina in such language as
he thought proper TO utter. Whether
should be guilty OF deliberate and wilIful
talsehood about matter contained in a
pubic document will be settled in the eSti-
nation Of those who know me. will read
for the Information OF the Senate from the
document TO which / referred
HE CITES HIS AUTHORITY.
Mr.. Hoar proceeded to read from the
minority report made to tho House of Rep
resentatives in 1876, sig cd by Messrs. Law
rs CO oT Ohio, Banks Of Massachusetts and
Lapham OF New York, in which Mr.. Butler
Is represented to have testified as follows:
Odd You say to these colored men
tha6 they could not remain on your land
unless they voted the democratic ticketl
A. do not know that / said that.
said this: | went down and gave them
tickets. and said to them that they had a
right to vote the republican ticket if they
pleased; that they were fres men-as free
as was; but that if they exercised that
right and imposed taxes on me that would
DESTROY nd
throw myself back on the same rights that
had under the laws of the country and
would see that they left my plantation
"Q.-Did they all vote the democratic
ticket!
"A.-No, sir. Six or seven Of them voted
the democratic ticket. Some of them did
not vots at all, aud l do not know how the
others voted, but l intend to inform my
self.
"Q.-With view to turning them off if
| they voted the republican ticket!
"A.-Not for voting the republican ticket,
II they had an honest ticket, but for voting
| for these thieves and rohbe 81
Ii that language, Mr.. HJar said, did not
Justify the statement that the senator from
South Carolina had threatened to dis
charge men from his employment Tor vot-
ing the republican TICKET, then he had done
the senator an injustice; but he thought
tuaV III ulQ.
BUTLER DENIES ITS CORRECTNESS.
Mr.. Butler said that he had denounced as
false the statement that he had threa+ sned
to discharge colored men from his panta-
tion If they voted the republican ticket. He
had no retraction to make. If the senator
from Massachusetts had said that he gave
information to the sena or from Oregon
(Mr. Dol hi not of his own knowledge, but
from public document, the remark would
not, OF course, apply to him. The testimony
quoted was, he said, O garbled statement
lie had never seen the report of the testi-
mony which he had given, and did not now
recollect having appeared before the com
mittes in question. But he repeated now
that be had never at any time, or on any
occasion, attempted to influence a single
negro ON his plantation in the exercise oi
his franchise
THE OLIVE BRANCH.
Mr.. Hoar, while iustifying his own posi-
| ton, expressed the greatest respect which
he entertained for the senator from South
Carolina, and as Mr.. Bu ler gave assurance
that he reoiprocated that sentiment he
| subject was permitted to drop, to the salts
faction of the senators concerned and OF
the senators on both sides Of the chamber.