Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-21
THE DEBATE
On the Quay Resolution in Detail-It Goe
Over Another Day.

over the Quay resolution opened to-day.
Mr.. Quay'S resolution, fXing the time
for voting on the Tariff bill and desig-
mating the other legislative business to
be taken up at this session, was laid be-
fore the Senate.
Mr.. EIoar demanded tie yeas and
nays on agreeing to the resolution. and
then offered as substitute for Mr..
Quay's resolution his own proposition,
making it in order when any bill shall
have been under consideration for Il
reasonable time, for any Senator to de-
mand that debate thereon be closed.
He also moved TO amend Mr.. Quay's
resolution by adding to it a provision
to include in the business to be taken
up, the Federal Election bill, and to
have the vote on it taken on the i,h OF
September.
Mr.. Quay gave notice that at the
proper time he would demand a division
Of the question, meaning that he would
ask separate votes on his own resolution
and on Mr.. Hoar's amendment.
SENATOR HOARs SPEECH.
Mr. Hoar then addressed the Senate
as follows: Il suppose that ordinarily
it would not be necessary TO discuss at
all the merits OF a measure proposed to
be inserted in an order OF business, but
this motion which ! have offered, 10 in
clude one Of the most important sub
iectS before the Senate and before the
country among those to be dealt with at
the present session, requires, as IL seems
to me. compact statement OF the pur-
pose, the mechanism and the necessity
Of the bill which l have proposed to
place on the list of subjects to be dis
posed Of.
There never was measure so much
miSrepresentcd or so much misunder-
stood as that which has been sent TO
us by the House of Representatives. 1t
/ has been carefully considered by com
mittee of the Senate and has been de-
manded by ccrtainlya a very large and
respectable proportion OF our fellow
citizens, ! think that nothing has been
heard Of il here except a threat, from
one highly honored Senator, OF blood
shed if its provisions should be adopted
land should be attempted TO be put ia
force. think il proper. therefore, to
/ call the attention OF the Senate for Il
/ few moments TO proposition which is
nothing more nor less than proposition
/ to remove force and fraud from the
election OF officers of our great repre-
sentative chamber, and substitute for
the election processes with with which
we are all unhapply too familiar. the
peaceful command of the courts OF the
limited States.
4 TILT WITH PUGlG.
Mr.. Pugh said that if the Senator re-
ferred to him, he wished it understood
that he had made no such threat, he
had merely made a prediction-an eX-
preston of opinion that had been re-
peated in the House and in the press.
lie charged that Mr. Hoar had made
willful pervcrSion of his language.
Mr.. Hoar replied that the difference
between a prediction and threat, COM
ing from the leaders of the gentlemen
who had managed elections, in some
parts Of the country, was very thin
! and narrow one. He withdrew the
phrase, however, and then read from the
| Record the remarks made by Mr. Pugh
| at the time the bill was reported.
Mr.. Pueh had said: "lf this bill be-
comes a law its execution will ensure
the shedding Of blood, and the deStruc-
/ tion of peace and good order. Its pass
age will be resisted by every parIiamen-
tary method and every method allowed
| bv the constitution Of the United
States
Mr.. Hoar said he would leave it to
| the Judgment of the country whether
| this was threat or not.
MERITS OF THE ELECTION BILL.
Speaking OF the merits of the Federal
| Election bill, Mr. Iloar said that when
Senators came into Office they took an
Ioath to support the Constitution. This
| hill undertook TO defend the Constitution
of the Unitod States against an attempt
to overthrow it by depriying the major
lty of the people Of their right honestly
Iond freely to elect Representatives IN
the other House of Congress. Its malu
object was to obtain the evidence upon
which the House of representatives
could safely proceed in renderldg Juds-
ment as to the election OF its members.
The provisions of the bill were the re-
sult of most satisfactory experience
/ in the United States and Great Britain.
/ There was nothing new in 1t. III struck
nj evil i'm all parts OF the country allhe.
/ II applied To the whole country with au-
lditional precautions and safe guards
what the North had applied to itself Tor
nearly twenty years. In proposing thlS
measure. Congress was doing exactly
what the trainers OF the Constitution eN-
tod when they declared that the clcc-
lions for Senators and Representatives,
should be prescribed in each Stale oE
/ tho legislature thereof, but that lhe
/ Congress- may at any time by law make
or alter such regulations. congress
has exercised that power over anu
oyor again. The whole manner ana
time of electing Senators was regulated
Inv the act of 1865. Provisions had also
noon made long ago, and much against
/ the will of some of the States, IN regard
~ the election of Representatives. Inc
Federal Election bill struck at the North
and south alike. He did not believe
that bribery was claimed to be south
orn oTense. He could not affirm that
/ his own Commonwealth had escaped en-
tirolv from it. Unless well infoamed
men were mistaken there had oeeh one
election where it had rained sheNeIS
nnder the shadow of Harvard College
THE RESOLUTION AGAIN GOES OVER
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Hoar :
snecch. Mr.. Spooner moved to refer the
0nav resolution 10 the Committee on
/ Rules. i ,5-
Mr.. Frye mlde an impasSioned ad-
dress to Republican Senators against
that motion, and in favor Of an amend
meut to the rules providing Tor tne
adoption of a previous question. lie
soid that if forty-three Republican SEN
otors would sit from ten TO six O'CLOCK
cvery day and all night, If necessary
the rules could be changed in three
days. the tariff bill in ten days after
and the election bill in ten days after
tbat but cowardce, he said. had never
Won q battle and never a retained Il
/ friend. IT,.
Mr.. Edmunds replied to Mr.. FRYE ;
remarks, and declared his opposition To
the muzzling process.
While Mr.. EdmundS was speaking lnr ~,
Clerks clock struck -, add the Iarih
hin was laid before the Senate A. the
unfinished business. Mr.. Aldrich was
asked TO let the Tariff bill be laid ASIDE
temporarily, but he declined doing so
and the Senate proceeded with It's con-