Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-28

pie of Aberdeen, except to say that it was in
evidence that no less than 800 or 400 of them
stood by when the castigatlon was inflicted
| on Faunce, without q word of protest OF
without any attempt to interfere, Mr.. In
gals continued;
The victim of this wrong was not citizen Of
| the State Of Mississippi II he had been
| do not know that l should not be willing to
have allowed the powers in that State to deal
with the transaction as they pleased. He was
not citizen of the State of Mississippi He
was citizen of the United States and the
State of Indiana, temporarily in the State
| of Mississippi. peacefully pursuing his legal
avocation. And we are to be told here
that it Is beyond the competency and power Of
Government of the United States, to inquire in
to wrong inflicted by the people OF mississippi
not on a citizen of that State, but ON a citizen
of the United States, himself a citizen of
another State. Iwant to say to that Senator
that, whenever it is made to appear that the
laws of the United States are not strong enough
10 protect the citizen of Indiana against wrong
on the banks of the Mississippi, or that the
citizen of New York is not safe in his home on
the banks of the Hudson, or that the farmer of
the West is not safe in his dug-out on the
Mr.. Ingalls, left the sentence unfinished and
went on:
1t may be that you will succeed in procuring
declaration from this body that the Senate OF
the United States, that the Government of the
United States. has no power either TO inquire
into wrong against its citizens or TO protect
them against such invasion of their rights; but
say to that Senator that If Faunce had been
citizen of the State of Kansas. and if it should
appear that the authorities of Mississippi would
not avenge that wrong, and il ii should appear
that the Government and authorities of the
United States were powerless to prevent such
wrong, will guarantee to him that the citizens
OF the State of Kansas would take it into their
hands to resent it, and TO exact PREPARATION.
IMurmurs of disapproyal on the Democratic
side, and some manifestations Of applause in
the galleresl
AN OPEN CHALLENGE.
Mr.. George challenged the Senators from
Kansas or any Senator on the Republican
side to put his finger on that clause of the
Constitution which authorized the Federal
Government, in any of its branches, to pun
ish, or to take jurisdiction of crimes COM
mitted within q State, and not against the
laws of the United States.
Mr.. Spooner asked Mr.. George if he
doubted the power of the Senate to change
an appropriation, with the power Of investi-
eating the Department OF Justice and CON-
pelling the Attorney General to produce
any paper on file in his department. If the
Senate could do that. could it not by reso-
luton, require the Attorney General to pro-
duce this document.
Mr.. George repeated his challenge to show
the clause in the Constitution that gave the
general Government power to take jurisdic-
ton of crime committed against the laws
of State.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, in response to Mr..
Georges challenge, referred him to section
2, article 4, of the Constitution, in these
words: 1.-THE citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all the privileges and immuni-
ties of the citizens of the several States"
WANT TO BE LET ALONE.
Mr.. Reagan condemned the outrage at
Aberdeen, but denied the right of the Gov
ernment of the United States to take juris-
diction of it. He spoke of what the people
of Texas and other Southern States
were doing in the way of educa-
ton for the benefit of the col
ored people, and said that if
sectional agitation would cease and the
people OF the South were permitted to shape
their course to the interests of the COM
munity, without having to guard themselves
from attacks from the outside, there would
be much fewer occasions for the violations
of law. The people of the South, he said,
ought to give legal protection to the colored
people, and to secure to them all their
rights; and the people of the North ought
not to use the race problem as football for
agitation.
Mr.. George again took the floor and the
went over till tomorrow without
action. After an executive session the
Senate adjourned.