Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-04

of insufficient food. But he questioned
very much whether General Miles made
the statement attributed to him in the
newspapers. The trouble with the Indi-
ans is they are fed and clothed and al
lowed to live on the bounty of the gov
ernment, and "the devil still finds mis-
chief for idle hands to do.'
Voorhees, said he would take the
statement of General Miles far sooner
than that of the senator who lived near
the reservation, and who, with his peo-
Pile, wanted to get the Indians lands as
soon as possible. One was reliable
officer, the other was the fox going
around the pen where the geese were
waiting to get some OF them.
The discussion had not closed, when
at 3 O'Clock the vice president laid be-
fore the senate, as unfinished business,
the elections bill.
Hoar said, in view of the fact that on
reporting the bill, at the close of the
last session, he addressed the senate
upon it. he would now forego any open
ing debate, but would answer whatever
objection had been made to the bill on
the Democratic side.
Turpie thereupon opened the discus
sion in opposition. The substitute
measure, he said, rested for itsssupport
on what was called the suppressed col
ored Republican vote in the south. In
the course of his remarks he said in the
northern states where all this
outcry is made, colored man
had no more chance of preferment than
Roman Catholic had in New Hamp-
shire hundred years ago. The sup
preston of the colored vote in the south
was thing manifestly in question, af-
frmed on one side and denied on the
other; but the suppression of the col
ored voter of the north was thing
without question actual, absolute, un-
conditional. The supremacy of the
white race was not peculiar to any por
tion of the United States. South
Carolina was not more completely under
its sway than Pennsylvania. The
man Especially the man of the white
house) who sought to embroil the white
and the black races for purpose he
could not conceal, and dare not avow,
was guilty of an outrage ten fold greater
than any of those he invented or de-
scribed. Whenever people of different
races were living peacefully together
under the same laws, members Of the
same body polite, without any other
thought than that some must command
and Others obey, the race prob
lem was being solved. The purpose
of the national elections bill, was,
so far as it related to the south, to
wreck and destroy this pending con-
dition of inter-racial adjustment. l pro-
posed not to maintain the will of the
majority, but to overthrow it on the
single issue of race. To make a majority
of the black men because they are black !;
to establish government of
complexion, not of opinion. The
purpose OF the bill was that the
law of the land must be suborned !;
to set enmity between the white man
and the black man. Pass this bill, and
the right of the people to choose their
representatives-tha right which is so
precious and SO priceless to every lover
OF liberty-was lost beyond recovery.
At the conclusion of his speech Turpie
received the congratulations of his
Democratic colleagues, and the senate
adjourned.
The Democratic Senators.
The Democratic senators at the caucus
this afternoon decided to maintain their
opposition to the elections bill, seize
every opportunity to discuss it sxhaus-
lively, and strive to amend every objec-
tionable feature as reached in the de-
tailed consideration of the measure
The caucus did not undertake to form
ulate an order of business, as the Re
publican senators have not completed
their programme.