The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-23
CONSPIRACY.
VOORHEES, CHARGES HARRISON
WITH IMPLICATION.

Colonization OF Negro Voters in
Indiana, West Virginia and Con-
necticut Its documentary
Evidence in Proof of the Charge.
Higgins Speaks in Support of the
Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-Discussion Of the
election bill was resumed in the Senate this
afternoon. Mr.. Higgins taking the floor. The
pending measure, he SAID, went but slightly
beyond the one now on the statute books.
1t did not in any way take the control of
elections from the state authorities. The
whole subject of elections was left by the
pending bill to the states; and all declama-
tion against it as to its interfering with
elections in the states was groundless and
resulted in nothing but bald misrepresenta.
tion.
PRESENT MANAGEMENT OF ELECTIONS.
Mr.. Higgins went on to discuss at length
the present management of elections in the
various states Qncluding Delaware) in or
der to show the necessity existing for such
reform as is proposed in the pending
measure. If he could reach the iniquity of
such election frauds by federal election
law, he would like to do 1t. Why, he asked,
should the purity of elections be secured for
a city, and denied for a county and state.
NEGRO DOMINATION.
As to tho claim of the southern senator's
that they feared, and could not endure
negro domination, Mr.. Higgins asserted his
belief that there was never a day when the
southern white leaders could not have had
the hearty support of the black men of
the south for the asking of it.
He had always considered that ona
xuh ha
had rendered was its coralhng and bringing
into its fold all people who from nativity
and other circumstances were the least
fitted to discharge the functions of Ameri-
can citizens; and why, he asked, had not
the southern white democrats done the same
with the blacks?
REAGAN's EXPLANATION.
The reason was Mr.. Reagan replied, that
in the reconstruction period the freedman's
bureau and carpetbaggers had made the
blacks believe that the whites were their
enemies. and had arrayed the blacks in an
oath-bound league to vote the republican
ticket.
Mr. Gray replied to Mr.. Higgins strict
ures upon the state of Delaware and said
that he had never before known a senator
to take advantage of his position in order
to traduce and vilify the people who had
honoreG him with a seat in the Senate but
he (Mr. Gray wonld not admit that there
was particle of justification for what his
colleague had said.
VOORHEES, ARRAIGNS HARRISON.
Mr.. VOORHEES, addressed the Senate. The
opening of his speech consisted of criticism
OF President Harrison for that portion of
MS message to congress urging the passage
OF the election bill. If President Harrison,
he said, should undertake to put on the
stage "a school for hypocrisy" he could not
Il sNF Iii.
message that related to fair and honest
elsctons. The rank corruption of the cleo
tlon OF 1888 was resting, folded away in
blocks of tive," and was still fresh and
carefully preserved in the minds of the
American people.
COLONIZATION ON VOTERS.
Mr.. VOORHEES, charged that within sixty
days after the incoming of the present ad-
ministration an extensive, powerful and
corrupt conspiracy was formed to import a
certain class of voters from distant parts OF
the country into Indiana, West Virginia
and Connecticut in order to secure
majority in those states for
the republican ticket in 1892
Proof Of it had been published in the New
York World on Oct. last, including a
letter from MIR. Huston, treasurer of the
United States, to Mr.. Lindsay, the author
OF the plan, declaring himself heartily in
favor of the scheme" and saying that he
would speak to the President about it.
A PAINFUL REFLECTION.
1t was painful, Mr.. Voorhees, said. to re-
Meet that the man who knew Ben Harrison
Detter than any other man i'll public life
Knew him, who had carried him and his
fortunes through the stormy and corrupt
campaign OF 1888 in Indiana, who had
studied him and his political methods at
close range, felt himself warranted in
SQDmIttiner =. .ic
proval a corrupt overthrow of honest resi-
uen6 maJorities by shameless importation
ana colonization of black voters from the
south. And yet that man (Huston) retained
nls nigh office; had met with no rebuke and
continued to bask in the executive favor
and confidence.
DUDLEY AND QUAY.
The names of Dudley and Senator Quay
having been introduced in connection with
Inls scneme for colonizing negro voters in
lnolana. Mr. VOORHEES, said that he took no
pleasure in commenting on the names of
Tue men connected with that conspiracy
uu5 ne would not remain silent when even
Tue most exalted dignitaries of the govern
ment were found conspiring, plotting and
ourrowing amid filth and corruption in
order to overthrow the rlghtful maiorities
III ~ Indiana, to deprive her people of the
nrst principles of self-government, and to
pace them under the rule Of the lowest and
most venal negro element that could be
bought and imported from the south.
APPROVAL OF THE PLAN.
r, Mr.. VOORHEES, went on to read letters from
senator Quay and some republican repre-
sentatives from Indiana approving of the
coionlzatiod plan, as well as correspondence
uet"een Mr.. Lindsay and his co-worker in
1ne enterprise, MIR. Whitehead of North
Carolina, giving some of the points of the
plan and suggesting that some 5000 negroes
from North Carolina must be placed in the
state Of Indiana.
AN HISTORIC BIT OF ADVICE.
IN one of the earliest epistles of Mr.. Lind
say 20 his confederate the following rich
ana historic morsel of advice and instruc-
sloh, said Mr.. VOORHEES,, was given: "Now,
ly Gear friend, read this letter, which,
IIope, will put you in better spirits.
Auo Then. in the language OF one Of our
greatest statemen. burn this letter. Do not
'ear IL up, but burn it," [Laughter.]
III, Mr.. Voorhees, continued, Mr.. White
neau mad burned Mr.. Lindsays letters or
MepJ sober, AS he was enjoined 10 do the
Torld would have lost one lesson at least in
Sa Sae art OF securing republican majorities in
ueInocrGtic states.
THE THREAT TO USE FORCE.
dhe bill now before the Senate, he said.
@ u which was made an administration