Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-28
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Mississippi Outrage Discussed
in the Senate.
Halthall Speaks On Chandlet's Resoln-
ton and The Race Question.
Minority R+port on the Hale Naval
BlI-Uni,ed States PTisons to BE-
Built

today resolution heretofore Offered b,
| Chandler, calling on the Attorney Genera
| for the report of The L. tied States marsha
for the northern district of Mississippi con
cerning the msiireAment Of Henry j
| fsunee at Aberdeen, Miss, was taken uJ
for confederation.
| Senator Waithsll of Mississippi addressed
the Senate. Il could not be possibly pre-
tended he thought thar Congress had s.,
| juri.diction over the subject. From read
ins the report Of Senator Ingalls, speech
| last Thursday he saw that Ingalls com
mensed on the har ging in efdgy Of Secretary
| Proctor at berdeen. and on the most bsuta
and outrageous assault committed on q citi
zen named in the resolution. From whai
Wal,hali had heard of that affair he fell
warranted in saying it was simply the wan
ton conduct of few persons.
He knew the community intimately and
never before heard Of the persons engaged
| in that outrage. Speaking for himself and
Representing the senssoent Of the people ali
over Mississippi and Of the South, he con
demned upquahhe hedly and unreservedly
that outrage on the Secretary Of War and
| on the citizen named 10 the resolution
Walihall agreed with lngalis that the race
question was the most formidable and por-
tentious ever presented to free people for
solution. He saw no remedy congress
could apply that promised any practical re-
sult. The proposition Of federal control
of elections was aimed. he said, at the
Southern States. Its professed purpose
was TO secure tie fair counting Of the ne
gro vote, but its actual purpose was TO
count that vote for the republican party on
the assumption that that all negro voters
were republicans. As proof that the col
ored people of Mississippi were not de-
prived of their rights, he knew that in a
single congressional district in Mississippi
there were more of the negro race In office
(yoted for by white people,, than Harrison
had appointed since his term began. But,
when the negroes are encouraged by the
passage OF such bills by congress, to be-
heve they could rule. vhen they were in
vited 10 array themselves against the whites
the present conditions and troubles of the
two races would be greatly augmented and
he prosperity woulu be hindered and bust
ness enterprises cnppied.
There would be friction and disQuiet,
and even bloody strife, (Which all deplor-
ed) la his opinion, the result of 10 Con
sttHlUUdl dhf ckdtS
would be controlled by any federal law
that Congress could enact The white
people would be driven into closer cooper
alton thaI ever before, for their protection
because he election of negro judges and
officers in that State, meant negro domin
alton, and meant death to every interest,
hope, and aspiration Of the people.
" al,hali criticised all the proposed RENE
dies for the race troubles, including de
portauon and disfrauchisement, IS
being impracticable and impossible.
Douglass and Bruce were Prodisies
Such colored men as Douglass and Bruce
were he said, prodigies, AMI come people
at the NORTH, judging the whole negro race
by them, did not appreciate the dread IL
which the Southern people stood of negrL
rulers. People at the North did not know
that ,hose colored men were phenomena.
and that there was as much difference be-
tween them and the average plantation
ne gro that the Southern people had to dea
with ss between Napoleon and the com
monest solder in the French army.
George spoke of the resolution as un
parsIl-ied in the history of legislation in
this country. SIMPLE. bold proposition
to place on the r. cords of the Senate
report of United S Slstes marshal acting as
a detective.
Sennor Chandler advocated the resolu
ton and declared that he had not read OF
seen the report and did not know what it
con aimed He had heard there was such
report and had offered tie resolution, be
liz wing that the report was one 1t was in
the province of the Senate TO call for
The attorney general and United States
marshal have been doing wrong to the
State of Mississippi, and the Senate ought
and woult find 1t out by the adoption of
the resou ution. If the Senate was not only
to be taunted within for wrongs of this
kind committed, by being asked, What
are you going to do about it9 You can't
help yourselves, as the constitution does
OF allow you to punish wrongs of that
k nd" and was also to be told by the Sena-
tor from Mississippi, You have not right
to inquire. you cannot inquire into outrages
of lhs sort on a citizen" then indeed had
the Senate fallen on woeful and lament
able times.
ingalls, said he had no comment to make
cn the eulogy pronounced on the people OF
Aberdeen, except to say that it was in evil
der ce that no less than 800 or 400 of them
stood by when the castigation was inflicted
on Fsunce without q word of protest or a.
tempt to interfere. The victim of this
wrong was not a citizen of Mississippi. If he
had been do not know that should not
be willing to have allowed the powers of
that State to deal with the transaction as
they pleased He was a citizen of Indiana,
a f,,lt
pursuing his l. gal avocation. We are told
here that it is beyond the competency and
power of the United States Senate aud the
government of the United States 10 iequire
into the wrong inflicted by the
people of Mississippi on q citizen Of
another State.
II may be that YOU can procure q declsr-
alton from this body that the Senate of the
United States, or the government Of the
United States has no power to inquire into
wrong against its citizens, or protest for
them against such invasion of their rights,
but say to that senator if Faunce had
been a citizen of Kansas. if it should ap-
pear that the authorities of Mississippi
would not avenge this wrong and if it
should appear that the government and au
thOrities of The United States were power
less to prevent such wrong, I will Quaran-
tee to him that the citizens of Kansas would
take it into their hands to resent it and ex
act reparation.
Senator George Issues q ChalIs nge
George challenged the senator from K an
sas or any senator on the republican side to
put his huger on that eisnse in the consttu-
ton vhich authorizes the federal govern
ment in any of lss brsnches) to punish or
lake jurisdiction of crimes committed
within Sta,e not against the laws of the
United States.
Spooner asked George if he doubted
the nnvsr of the senate to charge the snnyo