Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Considers the Aiming OF the
Citizens OF the Dakotas and Nebraska.
Senator 1urpis Speaks at Length Upon the
Proposed Federal Election Bill-Ihe
Copyright Bill.
Ii CONGRESS.
SENATE.

! bill in relation to rebate on manufact-
ured tobacco, Mr. Allison said that the
conferees on the part of both houses bad
| agreed to that section of the tariff bill
the conference report would disclose, but
that it had been omitted in the enroll
ment He had no doubt that the matter
| would receive early attention.
Mr.. Cullom introduced a bill to reduce
letter postage to one cent, and it was re-
ferred.
Mr.. Hawley. from the committee on
military affairs, reported aud asked to
have put upon its passage JOINT resolu-
ton authorizing the secretary of war to
nsue arms and ammunition TO the states
of North and South Dakota.
MIR. Henderson moved to amend it by
also including the state Of Nebraska.
. ana he referred to the threatened up
rising of Sioux Indians on their reserva-
ton there.
Considerable discussion followed on the
part of several senators regarding the
cause of the recent trouble among the
Indians of the Northwest. among which
voorhees, stated as his opinion that in
sufficient retious was the cause of the
trouble.
on Indian affairs, thought the Messiah
+ craze was the original cause.
/ Discussion had not closed when the
/ hour of o'clock having arrived the
! vice president laid hetor. the senate Us
! unfinished business the election bill.
Mr.. TurpIe took the floor in opposition
Ito the bill. The substitute measure, he
| said rested for It's support on what was
| called the suppressed colnred Republi
| can vote of the South Returns of the
| election showed al abstinence from vot-
| ing much greater in Massachusetts land
| other Northern states than elsewhere.
| Extremists with Ineager majoritie3 Ia
! both houses saw thas this was proof
| enough of the suppression of the colored
! vote, and thereupon proceeded to revo-
! lutiOniZe the whole method OF congress
! sonal elections. There had been sup
! pressious. suppression patent well
! known and undeniable and widely pre-
! valent. The recent census would show
! that in the states OF Pennsylvania, Ohio
! aud Illinois there were about 30 200
colored people yet in those states, and
! yet no negro had ever served as gov
| ernor or been elected 10 any depart
ment of the state government. There
had been not only no proportional
division of office, there had been
none Mt all. The colored man in
those states had no more chance of pre-
ferance than Roman Catholic had had in
New Hampshire or Great Britain a huE-
dred years ago. The suppression of the
colOreG vote in the South was thing
mnnifestiy in question, affirmed on one
side and denied on the other, but the
suppression of the colcred vote of the
Z t,S1
lutte ami unconditional The supremacy
of the white race WAS not peculiar to any
portion OF the United States. South
Carolina was not more completely under
its sway than Pennsylvania. Its SUI
premacy was not one whit more
firmly established in Texas and Arkan-
sas than in Illinois and Ohio. Much
might be said of the injustice of this SUI
premacy, and II was easy to write and
print apnorisms and TO give them the
shape of legislative formulas that all
citizens are equal. Political rights as
between races might be granted, defined
and decreed, but political equities could
only be adjusted by action. That action
was everywhere wanting. II was every
where withheld. The supremacy OF the
white race had not been brought about
by force or fear-it had not been
wrested or seized from others, but
It had been given, granted voluntarily,
ceded to those doomed for the time most
worthy of its possession. The men (es-
pecially men of the White House, who
sought TO embroil the white and black
races, for purposes he could not conceal
and dare not avow, was guilty of outrage
tenfold greater than any of those he iu-
vented or desired. The solution of ;he
race problem was a process, not of alb
strRct speculation, but OF real expert
ence. The purpose Of the national cleo
ton bill (so-calied) was, as far as
it related to the South, to work and de-
stroy this pending condition of inter-
racial adjustment. 1t proposed not to
maintain the will OF the majority, but
to overthrow it on the single issue of
race--to make majority of black men,
because they nre black; to establish a
government of complexion, not of
opinion. The kernel and purposes of the
pending bill was that the law OF the land
must be suborned 10 set enmity
between the white man and the black
man. The bill was not artfully framed.
lis only art was its absolute malignity.
Pass this bill and the right of the people
TO choose their representatives, that
right so precious and priceless to every
lover of liberty, was lost, lost beyond re-
covery aud beyond recall.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Turpie received congratulations OF his
Democratic colleagues and tine senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-After the
reading OF the journal the speaker stated |
the pending business WAS for the further |
consideration of the copyright bill.
After arguments against the bill BY |
Messrs. Springer. Peters and Kerr, and |,
in its favor bv Messrs. Breckinridge of |,
Kentucky, Farquahan, Meade. Cum (,
ming and Butterworth, MIR. Peters of !
Kansas moved to recommit the bill |
with instructions TO the committee on |
patents TO report 1t back with an amend |
ment limiting the life of the copyright to |
fourteen years.
Mr.. Breckenridge of Arkansas moved |
to amend the Instructions by instructng |
the committee to provide for the impor-
tation of books of foreign authors at the |
rate now provided by law. Lost-yeas,
%; nays, 40.
Mr.. Peters motion was lost-yeas,
90; nays, 1873.
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