Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-29
Associated Press Dispatches. |


WASHINGTON, June 28.-After minor
business the house went into committee
of the whole on the federal election bill.
McAdoo, of New Jersey, spoke in oppo-
sition to the measure.
McComas, of Maryland, and Rowell,
of Illinois, spoke in favor of the bill.
Bland, of Missouri, twitted McComas
for having taken away from the black
men of the District of Columbia the
power of local government and never
in an uproar on the floor. Bland and
McComas shouted at the top of their
voices amid the applause of their col
leagues and the galleries.
McComas declared that when Bland
affected interest in the 5000 or 10000
black voters of the district, while DUR
ing his long residence here he never
raised his voice in behalf of the 100000
or 100000 poor and oppressed black
him a hypocrite.
Bland vehemently declared that Nc
Comas and his colleagues were hypo-
critics in pretending for party purposes
unfelt interest in the negro.
At this point the uproar became so
great that nothing could be heard save
the commingled shouts of the debaters
and the rapping of the speakers gavel.
McComas managed to shout that the
black men in this district were treated
like the whites, and he appealed to the
people of the south to treat the blacks
and whites alike.
When quiet was finally restored, Cum
mings, of New York, spoke against the
bill. He said the bill was sectional
one. The Republican party proposed to
make the negro chattel to be used as
convenience whenever necessary.
Henderson, of Iowa, read from the
speech of Hemphill passage declaring
that the whites must either rule or
leave the south, and that they would
not leave it. He wanted no further
proof than that defamation that the
blacks of South Carolina would not be
allowed to exercise the rights guaran-
teed by the constitution. He felt war
ranted in saying that it was as danger
GUS as armed rebellion, and he meant it,
He then read from an interview, in
which Representative Mills was quoted
as saying that the passage of the bill
llCstuJ dIl lLCIcdScu luIlDeT Vi uedUnS
among federal election officers in the
were true, but if so, it
notice that the country would
no longer submit to the rule of the
minority. The house had been told
what was needed was not new south
but new north. They would get it.
The north had peacefully and patiently
submitted to this injustice. They had
seen the control of the government by
red hands wrested from it's proper chan
nels, and new north was at hand which
would enforce the law and the rights of
every citizen. Let The south try little
justice. The key to the situation was in
the observation of the law, and where
that could not be secured, the law must
be made to secure it. He spoke briefly
of the recent exhibition of the stars and
bars and confederate gray at Richmond.
He would not have them forget the ten
der relations of the war, but he entered
protest against being told that a new
north was needed when the flag of the
face of the republic.
The conference report on the post
office appropriation bill was adopted.
lican), opposed the passage of the cleo
ton bill AS to the negroes political
rights, speaking for his own state, he
unhesitatingly asserted that no Repub-
lican in the state, black or white, was
prevented from casting his vote. He
was sick and tired of the sentimental
talk about the negro problem. 1t was
delusion to suppose that the negro was
voting the Republican ticket solidly.
Many of them voted the Democratic
ticket, and it was getting more and
more difficult every year for the Repub-
lican party to control the negro. He
had no hesitation in saying that not
three-tenths of the negroes of the south
would vote for the Republican party if
an election was held tomorrow.
The disagreeing conference report on
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was adopted. and the
house took recess