Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-21
CAR REED
And His Followers Active Again-Senatol
Jones on the Force Bill.

And His Followers Active Again-Senator
Jones on the Force Bill.
Special Correspondence Of TIE REGISTER.
WASHINGTON, January l9.-The Re
pubiicanS OF the House are getting
ready for some sort Of struggle. They
are making strong efforts to get all the
absentee members here. Speaker Reed
is again active In this attempt TO secure
the attendance Of quorum Of his own
party. Urgent letters and kilograms
are being sent out calling on the stay
at-hOmeS TO come back, SO that the Re
publicanS can transact business indie
pendent Of the Democrats. They
realize that the session is rapidly slip
ping away aud that If they wish TO do
anything in the line of partisan legiS-
latiOn, they must make haste and get
their men here. They now seem to be-
lieye that the Force bill will pass the
Senate, aud they wish to be prepared
IN that event TO rush IL through
the House again without delay.
Besides this, they desire 10 stop
at the earliest possible moment the
the tactics of delay which the Dem
OcratS have adopted because of the
refusal OF the Republicans m the Senate
% lay aside the Force bill. Then there
are a couple more Democratic members
whom the Republicans desire TO unSeat.
These are Mr. Anderson, of West Nir-
yinia, and Mr.. Phelau, Of Tennessee.
To do this they must have a quorum of
their own here. But it is going TO be q
hard job for them 10 secure Republic
can quorum. They have not come
within 20 OF II on any vote this session
SO FAR. With each day il will be harder
and harder 10 induce abSenteeS TO come
back unless they want something from
the administration. Ii is not likely that
those who are absent do want anything.
II they did. they would have been here
right along. The abSenteeS are men
who were defeated for reelection and
have lost interest in politics. They
don't care anything about the threats OF
Reed or Of Harrison. They are at home
trying 10 build up their business which
they neglected during their COngreSSiOn-
al careers, and they cant drop them
now for the sake OF passing bills they
know their constituents either don't
want or are Indifferent TO. AT this
time ID does not look as if Mr.. Reed
would have a quorum OF his own to
work with again this session; and if he
doesn't, he will get no partisan legiSla-
tiou through the House.
The Washington Critic of this even
ing has the following
senator Jones, of Nevada, has been
talking 20 reporter In Washington on
the subject.of the IIoar-Lodge-Rowell
Davenport Elections bill. He talked on
this subject, as ne does on every other,
with force and felicity. Among other
things, he said IF this bill should be-
come a law. l shall favor the adoption
OF game laws in the South. so as not To
have the negro shot the year around.
In other words, TO cease joking upon a
serious subject, believe that any such
bill as this, If il were TO be enforced, or
even il attempts were made To enforce
il. would result In great loss of life
among the negroes. have no dispute
with any Of the Republicans who are
back of this bill about the condition
Of affairs in the South. The ne
gro vote is not to-day counted, but the
killing OF the negroes is practically
stopped. Voting itself is no particular
privilege. unless that voting means
something. | think it was mistake
ever 10 have given the vote to the negro
until they had been educated up TO 4
better standard. Perhaps there is too
much suffrage in the country. IL might
be better To restrict il than to extend IL.
| am looking at this whole situation in
IL !, rrnaffuul don I
see what we can do. The white people,
where the negroes are in the majority,
will not submit to being governed by
them. That is fact from which there
is no escape. No law can ever be en-
forced without public sentiment in a
community supporting it. Where the
reverse exists any law, however drastic,
is a dead letter
Again, by way OF Illustration, he said:
Suppose some Of the wise legislators
had given the right of suffrage to the
Chinese, and they had Swarmed over in
enough numbers 10 capture the Western
States. DO you think that we out
there would have submitted TO that
That's lust it, OF course they would
not have submitted to it. Indeed, Mr.
Jones might nave SVuc i"i tHVl "uu
asked whether, if the negroes should
colonize Massachusetts, until they
equaled or exceeded the whites IN num-
Der. the descendants Of the Pilgrim
Fathers would permit them to take pos /
session OF the State. Everybody knows |
they would not. Mr.. Hoar and his |
conductors are endeavoring to fix upon |
the Southern States a condition OF affairs
which they would not dream Of tolerat-
ing i'm their own. And this is fact that |
the whole country recognizes.