The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-28

upon the constitutionality of the bill almost
supernuous. A railroad engine could not
drag into that section the meaning given it.
Shaking his finger at the members clustered
around him, he said he wanted to tell them
that by this bill power to choose their rep
resentatives was no longer vested in the
people, but In a federal election officer
brought to do the bidding of him who ap-
points him, and in order to give further re-
spectabihty to his appointment, the act pro-
Vlded that circuit judges were to do the ap-
pointing, and judges were to be brought
into the dirt and filth Of partisan politics.
WILL FORCE IT ON THE NORTH.
He wanted to tell his friends that the
democrats of the north would see that
Maine was one of the first places where
this law should be carried out. If it cost
$l5,OOO, 900 they would see it carried out in
the north, and every dollar coming from
the western farmers would be the
seed OF angry republican votes.
lApplause. There was somewhere
a committee on rules, who were as effective
agents as these proposed supervisors.
Laughter. That committee had brought
In report on the ''mannern of holding this
debate. 1t did not presume to regulate the
debate itself. This bill made slaves of men
to federal office-holders Our foreign
ofhce-holders brought on the revolutionary
war and our fathers had separated from
Great Britain because they didn't believe
in taxation without representation. He
warned congress that the time might come
when legislation depriving the people of
representation would drive them to another
revolt for the same principle. Loud ap-
p!ause on democratic side.l For the bene-
fit, he said, of the republicans he read
approvingly extracts from a recent address
in which Justice Harlan said 1T was to the
states that we must look primarily for our
liberty. The democrats were as familiar
with the doctrine as with the holy Bible.
Laughter After reading further from
Justice Harlan's address Mr.. Vaux sat
down amid the applause of the members,
which broke out afresh as his picturesque
figure. surmounted by his unique headgear.
was seen to move out of the aisle and
through the House to the lobby.
DISPARITY OF THE VOTE.
Mr.. Kennedy of Ohio, in the course Of
speech advocating the bill, again alluded to
the disparity in the size of the vote in the
congressional districts in the south
and in the north, and said at
least thirty of the southern members were
here because the blacks were counted in the
census of 1880, and if the southern states
were deprived of representation based on
the black population they would lose some
of their political power and pres ige. If
the ignorant black man was unworthy to
exercise the right of suffrage let him be
stricken from the enumerated list of citizens
entitled to representation and with him let
the ignorant white man be stricken from
the list also. If ignorance was the rock Of
danger let US erect lighthouses of popular
education.
The discussion was interrupted by Mr.
Butterworth, who presented the conference
report on the legislative appropriation bill,
and demanded consideration for it. 1t was
adopted and further conference ordered
upon the few remaining points Of differ
ence, which relate to the salaries of Senate
employees.
The speaker announced the appointment
of Messrs. Conger of Iowa, Walker Of
Massachusetts, and Bland of Missouri as
conferees on the silver bill.
On motion of Mr. Buckalew and Mr..
Hemphill, orders were entered setting apart
Saturday and Monday nights for debate
only upon the federal election bill.
The House then, at $40 o'clock, took a
recess until o'clock, the evening session to
be for the consideration of private pension
bills.
The House this evening passed 105 private
pension bills, including a large number
which came over from previous sessions,
and at 1880 o'clock adjourned.