The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-24
A PARTISAN DEBATE.
Southern Outrages Cause Fiery
Speeches.
a PosrMAsTER.s rRousLgs.



House today Mr.. Harmer Of Pennsyi-
ufaeturers' Club. OF Philadelphia, in fsyor
OF prompt action on tariff legislation
which shall prevent the importation OF
articles produced by our own people The
House vent into committee OF the whole
on the legislative appropriation bill tt
pending question. being = motion to strike
out the clause providing clerks for senator's,
Was lost by SIS to 81.
In speaking TO verbal amendment, Mr..
Kelly OF Kansas replied to the remark by
Mr.. Alien to the effect that some OF the
newly appointed postmas.ers in Missis-
sippi had moved their offices into the
country by saying that he learned
at the postoffiee department that
IN some places 1t was impossible
for Republican pbstm aster to
secure . location in town and he was
Obliged to 60 TO the country. He also
read letter from the postmaster of Able
vile. S. c.. stating that shortly after his
appointment he was ser upon by q mob
led by the son OF Congressman Coihran,
beaten with barbed wire and ordered to
leave town.
This provoked heated political debate.
Mr.. Enloe asked il Mr.. Kelly wrote the
letter for the postmaster and Mr.. Kelly re-
piled that he had. because, on account of
the beating he received. Finiey's arm was
in . paraiyzed condition. These state
ments were received with much derisive
laughter on the Democratic slde, which led
Roweli OF Illinois to remark that gentle
men on the other side thought il Was funny
to hear accounts of murders and beating
with barbed wires
Mr.. Kelly proceeded to read from the
letters Of Southern postmasters to Frst
Assistant Postmaster-Generai Ciarkson,
complaining of outrages.
In the discussion Mr.. Tarsney asked
about the litigation going on between Mr..
Kelly and his son and = colored congrega-
tion in Fort Smith, to prevent the erection
of . coiored church. on the ground that it
was Q nuisance. Mr.. Kelly denied that
there was any such litigation. and said he
didn't own any land in Arkansas. Messrs.
Mclean and Rogers, however, stated that
Mr.. kelly's son was involved in such liti-
CATION.
Mr.. Allen of Mississippi, said that the
gentleman from Kansas seemed to be
recognized as the mouthpiece OF the post
H
There had never been time in the history
of the 6. o. p. when Southern outragcs
were more necessary for the purposes of
that party. 1t had gone to the vail on the
tariff; busted higher than . kite on civil
service; the elections were going against
it and If il could not carry an election on
the Southern outfages, the chances of the
g. Q. P. were gone. He had in his desk .
iss OF Kansas outrages. bat would not de
scend to that sort Of debate.
Mr.. Cothran of South Carolina, speak
ing OF the Abbeyville matter. said that af-
ter the war Northern man was appointed
postmaster, and served until President Ar.
thurs term. when he died and his widow
succeeded him. When this administrx-
ton came in, Finley filed an application
in which he misrepresented and DETAINED
the character Of the postmistress. There
was a feeling of outrage against him and q
number of young men, including Cothran's
son, went to Finley's house one night and
made demonstration, not for The pur.
pose OF doing him any harm. With q
guilty conscience, Finley ran out of the
back door, and in jumping down broke his
leg. The young men sent for q physician
and paid all the expenses.
Mr. Rogers Of Arkansas called attention
to the fact that, under leave to print, Mr..
Kelly had printed on the record vile cal
umnies on the state of Arkansas, and pro-
ceeded to score Mr.. Kelly sharply. He
read long list of Kansas outrages, and
asked if it wasn't time Mr.. Kelly should
exercise his luminous intellect in home
missions. In the course of his remarks he
bitterly assaiIed Poker Jack" Mcclure
who had been appointed to conduct GER
tain government cases in Arkansas.
Mr.. Featherstone of Arkansas replied
sharply to Rogers. defending Judge Nc
Ciure and Powell Clayton. He (Feather-
stone) was not here TO defame Arkansas,
but it seemed to be q crime TO tell the
truth. The party in power in Arkansas
rested its power not on the votes of the
honest majority, but on stuffed baliot
boxes
Pending further discussion. the commit
tee rose and the house adjourned.