Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-29
CONGRESSIONAL.


WASHINGTON, June 2sth.-In the Senate to day
q message was received from the House asking
COME renee on the silver bill 1t was imme,
dlateiy lad before the Senate, and on motion of
Jones OF Nevada and Harris were appointed
conferees on the part of the Senate
Morgan offered a resolution (agreed tot calling
on the secretary OF the Interior for information
as TO the Spanish and Mexican private land
claims pending in that Department and in the
United States Courts.
The calendar was taken up, and the follow.
ing bills passed: The Senate bill 10 enable the
State of California to take lands (in aid of
schools) IN lieu of the 10th and Seth sections.
found to be mineral lands; the House bill 10
provide for the disposal of abandoned military
reservations IN wyoming, with amendments:
Senate bill to reclassify and fix the salaries of
railway postal clerks; the House bill 10 provide
for an additional Associate Justice of the SUI
preme Court OF New Mexico, with an amend
mcnt; referring to the Court of claims the claim
on account OF the use by the Government OF the
Iice spirit meter the Senate bill to amend the
Census Act. 1t provides penalty for giving a
lee or bonus 10 census enumeratOr or Super-
visor, or for receiving the same.
The agricultural appropriation bill was placed
on the calendar.
message was received from the President
snnouhclng ms approval and signature to the
The conference report on the postoffice ap-
preparation bill was agreed to, and the Senate
adjourned.
~ ihE hOtsk-
WASHINGTON, June 2Sth-After minor bust
ness the House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Federal election bill. McAdoo
ure.
McComas of Maryland and Rowell of Illinois
spoke in favor of the bill.
Bland of Missouri twitted McComas for hay
ing taken away from the black men of the Dis
trict OF Columbia the power of local govern
ment, and never giving Il to them again This
resulted in an uproar on the floor Bland and
McCOmas shouted at the top of their voices,
amid the applause of their colleagues and the
McComas declared that when Bland affected
an interest in the 5000 or 10000 black voters of
the district, while during his long service here
ne had never raised his voice in behalf of the
eight or ten million poor and oppressed black
men in the country, he felt like calling him a
hypocrite.
Bland vehementiy declared McComas and
his colleagues were hypocrites in pretending
Tor party purposes an unfelt interest in the
negro.
AT this point the uproar became SO great that
nothing could be heard save the commingled
shouts OF the debaters and the rapping of the
Speakers gavel.
McComas managed to shout that the black
man in this district was treated like whites,
and ne appealed to the people of the South to
treat the blacks and whites alike
When quiet WIS finally restored Cummings of
New York spoke against the bill. The bill was
d sectional one. The Republican party pro-
posed to make the negro a chattel, to be used
as convenience whenever necessary.
Henderson of Iowa read from a speech of
Hemphlll passage declaring that the whites
must either rule or leave the South, and that
they would not leave it, He wanted no further
proof than that declaration that the blacks of
South Carolina would not be allowed to exer-
else the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
He felt warranted in saying that it was as dam
gerous as an armed rebellion, and he meant it.
He then read from an interview in which Rep
resentatlye Mills was quoted as saving that the
passage of the bill meant an increased number
of deaths among the Federal election officers in
the South. He did not know If this were true,
but II SO, 1t was another defiance He served
notice that the country would no longer submit
TO the rule OF the minority. The House had been
told that what was needed was not new South,
North had peacefully and patiently submitted
to this injustice. They had seen the control OF
the Government, by red hands, wrested from its
proper channels, and new North was at hand
winch would enforce the law and the rights of
every citizen Let the South try little Justice.
The key to the situation was in the Observation
OF the law, and where that could not be secured
the law must be made to secure it. He spoke
briefly of the recent exhibition of the stars and
bars and the Confederate gray at Richmond
He would not have them forget the tender rela-
lions of war, but he entered protest against
being told that new North was needed. when
the flag of the dangerous South was Haunted in
the faces of the Republicans.
Ewart OF North Carolina Republican, opposed
the passage of the election bill AS to the
negroes political rights" speaking for his own
State, he unhesitatingly asserted that no Repub-
lican in the State, black or white, was prevented
from casting his vote. He was sick and tired
of the sentimental talk of the negro problem
1t was deluslon to suppose that the negro was
voting the Republican ticket solidly. Many of
them voted the Democratic ticket, and It is
getting more and more difficult every every
year for the Republican party to control the
negro. BE haG no hesitation in saying that not
three-tenths OF the negroes of the south would
vote for the Republican party if an election was
held tomorrow.
The conference report on the postoffice appro-
priation bill was adopted.
disagreeing conference report on the legis-
lative, executive and judicial appropriation bin
was adopted. and the House took recess.
At the evening session there was a very slim
attendance. Several addresses were made for
and against the election bill, and at 11:So the
House adjourned.