The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-06-27
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS.
WYOMING WANTS ADMISSION AS
A STATE.
House Still Debating the National
Election Bill.

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House Still Debating the National
Election Bill.
(By Unit2d Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 26.-(Sen-
ate.) The resolution offered yesterday
by Mr.. Ball in the Senate directing the
Secretary of the Senate to prepare Ia
BILE showing the number of bills intro
duced by each Senator and the number
of them passed, was taken up and on
motion of Mr.. Edmunds laid Oh the ia
BILE
House bill for the admission of Wyom-
ing as State was then taken up and
speeches in opposition TO it were made
by MIR. Jones, of Arkansas, and Mr. Eea-
gan, and for it by Mr.. Platt, Of Connec-
tlcutt, and Mr.. Steward, OF Nevada.
In the course of Mr.. Reagans remarks,
he referred to his opposition to woman
suffrage and being interrupted by Mr..
Blair, he said he knew the Senator from
New Hampshire favored long haired men
and short haired women.
At $3.50 the Senate adjourned.
HOnse.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 26.-The
regular order being demanded, Mr..
Lodge, of Massachusetts, began the de-
bate upon the national election bill. He
said that he did not think more grave
and serious subject had ever come before
the House. 1t demanded serious and
deliberate treatment. He had no
personalities or reflections to make. but
desired to treat the question dispassion-
ately. The bill proposed to extend ex-
isting laws regarding the election of
members 50 that they would be effective
throughout the United States whenever
the people wanted them so extended.
He proceeded to stretch the plan of the
| bill in outline. No locol machinery was
| disturbed, he said, ballots we're to be
cast as at present and no secret ballot
system was TO be interfered with where
| it now prevailed.
AS to the -oathern States, it was ap-
parent that many .people believed that
great frauds were there committed. If
| the belief that such a thing as fair
election in the South was unknown,
then it was high time the United States
{ should put stop to the evil, if it had
to exercise every power the constitution
put into its hands.
Mr.. Lodge presented number of sta
tistics to show the iueficiency of repre-
sentation in the South. He said that in
forty one election districts in the South,
the members were elected by an average
of less than Is, 900 votes. He compared
Mississippi and New Jersey, where the
population in 1880 we're equal in num-
Der. The total vote in Mississippi was
III, 900; in New Jersey 245, 900 In
1888 the total vote in Mississippi had
dwinoied to la, 600, while inf Sew Jer-
sey it had swollen to 308,0O0
| AS to the South it was largelya ques.
tion Of race.
The negro problem was one of the
gravest before the American people. 1t
was one in which all were concerned and
were responsible, whether living in the
North or the South.
The wrong Of slavery was to be expia
ted by the North which condoned it, a.
we'll as by the South, which upheld it.
The first step toward solution of the
race problem was to take it out of ma
tional politics. The national govern
ment extends to every citizen the eQua
rights which the constitution guaran
teed.
Mr.. Hempbill, of South Corolina
made an argument to prove the bill un
constitutional, reading from Legislative
declamations by New York, Ohio, and
New Jersey, against Congressional usur
, patton of the right to conduct elections
The bill, be said, was sectional becaus,
, it provided that some portions of tn,
United States should be under the su
| ~ ~ M
cordlng to the respective size of congress
' sional and judicial districts.
a He ridiculel the Republican cry o
< sc free ballot and fair count" and sal
Q tina it WAS useless to tax about fire
J; ballot in Kansas when the State ha
), been 50 gerymandered that the LAT, 90
!, Democrats there had never been repre-
q sented in the House.
/ In conclusion, Mr.. Hemphill sale
, "We know we must either rule th
;. country (the South) or leave it. Now
!, for myself, before the people of th
, United States, and before God, in a
), reverence, swear we will not leave i
[, Applause. 1t is the home of our fail
,; ers. There their bones lie buried; the
bought it with their blood, when Coz
). cord and Lexington We're the battle fiel(
|, of this country.
q; do not hesitate to say the colore
( man has as many rights as l have, bl
y he can't have his rights and more to-
T. and this law is intended to put hi
again in control of the Southern State
intended to awaken that race prejudi,
which is fast dying out; intended
bring about again that constant irrit
tation and clash between the two colo
h in the South, which will retard
ba growth and which will be destructive
a the very principles of human COVER
ment.
"a Mr.. Rowell, of Illinois, saw the b
~ was only an enlargement Of a law upt
~ the statute books since 1871. It W
~ the conviction that every mans ball
Nv Nv counted one at the polls that made tt
I a. a government of the people. He thoug
of there was no question of the power
" Congress to enact this Law, or of t
ra necessity of using that power. 7
% number was increasing of those who
lieved that Mr.. Cleveland was count
IN six years ago. He believed the bls
vote was suppressed in the South ani
el- was the expressed intention of the n
who controlled that section that I
suppression should continue.
MI Mr. Oates, of Alabama, said that
in his own knowledge he knew the sta