The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-22
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Democrats Kill the Whole Session by
Fiiibustering-Adjou at Midnight.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 2l.-In the Sem
ate, as soon as the journal of yesterday
was read, German moved TO correct it by
striking out the words stating that
Aidrich's motion of yesterday to proceed
to the consideration of the resolution as to
cloture was determined in the affirmative
He asserted that a ballot occurred and that
the result of the vote was not announced
He read from the Record to sustain his
position, and expressed his belief that the
Senate would not permit the journal to
stand when it declares a falsehood.
Aldrich was willing to concede that the
vice-president had not declared the motion
carried, and had no objection TO the motion
to amend the journal. The vice-president
said that from his own recollection he did
not formally declare the vote was carried
though he stated that the ayes appeared
to have it, and he would therefore
again submit the question. After long
discussion Eustis took the floor and spoke
against the elections bill. He said it was
aimed at Southern communities and
Southern states. 1t was intended to re-
vive, re-organize and re-habilitate the Re-
publican party in the South. 1t was in
tended as a second reconstruction measure
and it deserved the failure of the first re-
Eustis referred 10 the Boston riotagainst
execution of the fugitive slave law, and
said that never in any Southern state had
there been such an exhibition of fierce de-
termined and relentless opposition to fed
eral law as that in Massachusetts, and that
riot, he said, was headed by the first and
leading citizens OF Boston, and in the face
of that record the senator from Massa-
chusetts was constantly arraigning and
condemning Southern communities and
Southern states.
Hoar replied to what he termed the dia-
tribe and Philippe of the senator from Lou
isiana. and thought it the most extraordi-
mary spectacle of colossal assurance he had
ever witnessed. General Sheridan when
jill command of the department of the
South, declared that more men had been
murdered in the state of Louisiana for
their political opinions than had fallen on
both sides during the Mexican war. 1t
was state whose morals were known by
its terrible and bloody history.
Carlisle addressed himself directly to the
question OF the proceedings OF yesterday
and dt the motion TO correct the journal.
Vest gave as justification for his address
ing the Senate now the fact that the
shadow OF cloture rule rested on all the
senators might do and say. He went on
TO give q review of the Senate at the time
that cloture rule was proposed and when
II was opposed by leading Republicans,
and he also quoted from an article in the
Youths Companion in which Hoar said:
I'm that assembly (the. Senate of the
United States) speech is absolutely unfet-
tered" He also referred TO articles in Re-
publican newspapers all over the country
IN condemnation of the elections bill. He
said that if the Republican senators
passed the bill, and especially as they
proposed TO pass it by trampling on the
rules, the Senate. not the free states of the
Union. would give their electoral votes.
He warned the Republican senators that
they were playing with edged tools and
they might innict a mortal wound on the
South and on the whole country.
At Is O'Clock a motion 70 adjourn was
lost. The absence OF quorum was noted,
and the sergeant-at-srms was directed TO