The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-05
TO MAKE Them ALL REPUBLICAN,
Is the Object of the Force Bill
According to Mr.. Pugh.
he Alabama Senator Discusses tho Bill
and Declares that Under 1t All Demo
cratic Districts Would be Subjected to
Partisan Supcrvision-The Pension
Appropriation nin Discussed In the
House.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Especial Tho
resolution offered yesterday by Mr.
Call, directing tho superintendent OF
tho labor bureau to examine and re-
port as TO the phosphate industry of
Florida, was taken up and agreed to.
after being amended so as to make it
apply to tho whole United States, and
to direct the commissioner 10 mako an
examination and report.
After long discussion The joint reso-
luton 10 issue arms to the States OF
Northjand South Dakota, Wyoming and
Nebraska, for possible use against the
Indians, WIS passed; and then at .
o'clock the election bill was taken up,
and Mr. Pugh addressed the Senate in
opposition to it.
In the course of his remarks Mr.
Pngh said that tho country could not
fall TO understand tho true character
and nature Of the proposed legislation.
ltiwas never intended to be put in
operation in Republican districts. 1t
was founded on one district proposition
and that was that the State election
officers might be watched, guarded over
and ruled because they were Democrats.
ana because for that reason alone it was
unsafe TO trust them.
Under its operation there would not
be single district in the United States
from which Democrats were elected to
Congress that would not be subjected to
supervision bY partisan Republicans.
The whole election machinery of the
United States would become partisan
and necessarily corrupt. The whole
conception OF the lill WAS = transpar-
ont and audacioua scheme. having no
other end or purpose than the capture
OF Democratic districts, and their TRIMS
fer TO the Republican Yarty in Congress
To be used in Qarpcbulting its supren
acy, in dciaucc OF the will OF the
people.
He declared that intelligent white
people OF the South would prefer the
rule OF army officers and white soldiers
TO the intolerablc rule Of the infamous
horde that would be turned loose upon
them through the outrageous election
machinery provided in the bill.
On MS responsibility "a man and as
Senator, no expressed his convict ton
that there WAS not Il State in the South,
IN WHICH, as II. rule, it was not the hon
est and earnest desire to have fair and
FREQ elections for members of Congress-
and for Presidential electors; and that
there were not SO many exceptions to
the rule in Southern States and districts
as there were in Northern States and
districts.
If the system of local self government
was not an established failure, then ii
was manifest that the intelligent and
moral white people OF the South, and
tho State governments OF the South
which were Immediately interested in.
and sorcly afflicted by, these miserable
race complications, would have to be
allowed To meet and mitigate the evil
as far IS possible.
He undertook to say that the hlacl:
people OF the South were better treated
than they would be III thc North under
like conditions; and hc q clarcd, in con
clusion. thai the wiSas; and safe st
course for both races was to trust to the
policy Of Northumberland by the federal
government.
After the passage OF two or three bills
on the calendar and brief executive
session. the Senate adjourned.