The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-01-17
"WOULD GIVE HIS LIFE"
THIS is THE PRICE SENATOR
REAGAN WOULD PAY
III he Could, by Doing So, Relieve His
People of The Bayonet Bill Which
is Now Pending.
(By United Press.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 16.--The
Senate, after routine business, proceeded
WI the consideration Of the Federal
Election bill.
Mr.. Hoar had read from the Clerks
desk an editorial from the Anglo Saxon
Churchman, of Little Rocl, Arkansas,
sharply criticising the obstruction Of
free suffrage to the negroes.
Mr.. Jones, Of Ark, replied with de-
NAL that any but full suffrage existed in
Arkansas.
Mr.. Pasco addressed the Senate in
opposition to the Election bill. He was
followed by Mr.. Hampton, who took the
same position, and BY Mr.. Dixon. in
support of the measure.
Mr.. Pasco, IN opposing the bill, said
that the people of the South did not want
it, and that it would make the condition
OF the colored people infinitely worse.
When the two races at the South real
ized that they had to settle their rela-
tlons toward each other. the first step
would have been taken toward the solu-
tlon OF the so-called race question; but
as to the proposed legislation it was
marsh, un American, expensive and dan
gerous. All the trouble with the colored
people arose from intermeddling and
Dad advice, and would disappear if it
Was understood that they must, like
other people, stand on their own feet
and rely on their own efforts.
Mr.. Hampton followed Mr.. Pasco.
he referred with words Of praise to some
Of the objections made against the bill
by Mr.. Wolcott, particularly as to its
stirring up strife and as to the injurious
effects it would have on the colored
people Of the South. He (Hampton)
was one VINO had witnessed the horrors
Of civil strife and who had
suffered his full share Of them, and he
.. prayed God that civil strife might never
again stain with fratricdal blood the
soil of the Republic. He was not will
ling to lend his aid to measure which
in his opinion was fraught with evils to
the whole country and would bring in.
Vulnerable woes on class which he was
sorry to confess, had been too often made
S the victims of injustice at the hands O
d the white race.
g Mr. Dixon spoke in support of th,
!. bill. He said no patriot could object t
: "tiC LIZ dpfJSa1C0 IUl ClNI
l The people, he said, wanted bill tha
would be enforced for the good of til
whole country in order that the de
n clared result of any election should b
t. the voice of the nation
l. Mr.. Reagan argued that the bill was
y violation of the Constitution which CAV
l. to the States the right and duty to Fl
y the time, place and manner Of holdin
elections. He concluded by sho'
IS of strong feeling that dear as his life W.
y tohim, he would,as God was his Judge, j
g he could save the American people fror
the pending measure by giving up b
q life, surrender it as freely as be had eve
q performed any act in his life (Al
rs plause in the galleries, which the VIC
% President reproved, threatening to hay
the galleries cleared if the oGense W;
repeated
WAsHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The HOUSE
'iS after the approval of the journal, wei
into committee Of the whole on Il
as District of Columbia appropriation bi
at. The day was devoted to speeches by NJ
Rogers on the Free Coinage bill; by NJ
Shively on the Subsidy bill, and by NJ
Gu Langston on the Election bill
Without action on the District bill Il
House, at o'clock, took a recess unit
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