The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
1t is Waved in the House For All
it is Worth.
THE BIG UPRoAR ON THE FLOOR
Caused by Bland Twitting MeComas-C
gresham Henderson, of Iowa, is the
Blacks Godfrey of Bouillon.

WASHINGTON, June IS. After minor
business the House went into committee of
the whole on the federal election bill. Nc
Adoo, OF New Jersey, spoke ir opposition
to the measure, and McComas, OF Mary
land, and Roweil, of Illinois, spoke in favor
of the bill
Bland, of Missouri, twitted McComas for
having taken away from the black man in
the District of Columbia, the power of local
government, and never giving it to him
again. This resulted in an uproar on the
floor, Bland and McComas shouting at the
top of their voices, amid the applause of
their colleagues and the galleries.
McComas declared that when Blaud af-
fected an interest in the eight or ten thous
and black voters of the district, while
during his long service here he had never
raised his voice in behalf of the eight or
ten millions of poor and oppressed black
men in the country, he felt like calling him
a hypocrite.
Bland vehemently declared that Nc
Comas and his colleagues were hypocrites
In pretending, for party purposes, an un-
felt interest in the negroes.
AT this point the uproar became so great
mingled 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 the whites,
and he appealed to the people OF the south
to treat blacks and whites alike.
| When quiet was finally restored, Cum
mlngs. OF New York, spoke against the
bill. The bill was a sectional one; the Re
publican party proposed to make the negro
a n nc
ever necessary.
| Henderson, of Iowa, read from speech
of Hemphill a passage declaring 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 exercise the rights guaranteed
by the constitution. He felt warranted in
saying it was as dangerous as armed rebel
an interview in which Representative
Mills was quoted as saying the passage of
| the bill meant an increased number of
deaths among federal election officers in
the south. He did not know if this were
true, but II so, it was another defiance. He
served EOtice that the country would no
longer submit to the ule of the minority
The House had been told that what was
needed was not a new south but
The north had peacefully and pa
tiently submitted and they would
get it. The north had peacefully, and pa
tlently submitted to this Injustice They
had seen the control of the government by
red hands wrested from its proper chan
nels and new north was at hand which
would enforce the law aud 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 re-
cent exhibition OF the stars and bars and
confederate gray at Richmond He would
not have them forget the tender relations
of the war, but he entered Il protest
against being told a new north was needed
when the flag Of the dangerous south was
Haunting in the face of the republic
The conference report on the post office
appropriation bill was adopted
Ewart, Of North Carolina, Republican,
opposed the passage Of the election law AS
20 negroes political rights.' speaking for
his own state, he unhesitatingly asserted
that no Republican in the state, black OF
white, was prevented from casting his vote
He was sick and tired of the sentimental
| talk of the negro problem: it was a delusion
to suppose the negro was voting the Re
publican ticket sOlidly. Many of them were
voting the Democratic ticket, and It was
getting more and more difficult every yeal
] for the Republican party to control the
1 negro. He had no hesitation in saving that
not three tenths of the negroes of the
south would vote for the Republican party
if an election were held tomorrow
The disagreeing conference report on the
legislative, executive and judicial appropri
atom bill was adopted and the House tool
a recess.
AT the evening session there was very
slim attendance. Several addresses were
made for and against the election bill, and
at II 80 the House adjourned