Evening journal., 1891-01-17
TIE SENATORS SAT UP.
Each Party Trying to Tire Out
the Other,
AND PASS OR KILL LODGES BILL

An All Night Session OF the Senate.
Speaking to Delay Aotlon-scnator Rea-
gan Says That he would Die IL He
Could Prevent the Bnl's Passage.
WASHINGTON, Jan. lin the senate
Mr. German presented supplemental pc
titions against the passage OF the elections
bill, transmitted through The New York
Star, from the states OF Arkansas, Cali.
fornia, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mis-.
souri,, North Carolina, New Jersey, New
York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Caro-
lima, Virginia and West Virginia, EN-
bracing over 5000 signatures Referred.
The elections bill was then laid before the
senate and Mr.. Pasco spoke against IT,
He yielded the floor to Mr. Hoar, who had
read from the clerks desk an editorial
from The Anglo-Saxon Churchman, OF
Little Rock, Ark. The paper, he said, was
an organ Of the Protestant Episcopal
| church, one OF the most conservative OF
/ sects.
Safety without RascaIity.
The article was headed Safety Without
Rascality," and advocated the suffrage re
quirement Of 81 600 in property and the
| payment OF $40 poll tax-the white people
OF the state having irrevocably made up
their minds that the negroes Of that state
/ shall not rule.
One statement in the article was that
| stufhng ballot boxes and bulldozing ne
groes were making scoundrels OF the sons
| OF gentlemen, and another was that the
| plan laid down In the new constitution OF
Mississippi tthe reading or intelligence
test) was transparent piece of humhug
| aud would not defeat the negro vote unless
fraud was practised Mr.. Jones ARK
stated that the writer of the article (Mr
| Carnoehaul was not a southern man. He
had not been long enough on the ground
to understand the matter, and therefore
his opinion was worth no more than that
Of the senator from Massachusetts,, or that
OF any other poorly informed man on the
subject. He (Jones) denied that there was
any effort TO deprive negroes in Arkansas
Of their full right of suffrage.
Dir. Hoar's Proposed Amendment.
Mr. Pasco then made a speech in opposi.
ton to the elections bill He gave notice
Of an amendment which he would offer to
punish bribery by the payment Of money,
or by the promise Of procuring employ
ment for voters, aud to punish the use Of
pay envelopes intended to influence work
| ingmen lie yielded to Mr.. Hoar, who
also gave notice Of amendments which he
proposed to offer to the bill, the effect OF
them being TO give to the Judge only the
| power TO determine whether federal super
| vision Of an election Is necessary and 70
| give to the accounting officers OF the treas
ury the power to audit the accounts Of
supervisors as In other cases. Mr.. VOL.
colts motion to adjourn at 6l0 p. m. was
lost-yeas %; nays. 82-Messrs. Stewart
! and Wolcott being the only Republicans
voting aye.
Mr. Pasco resumed his speech He said
that the people OF the south did not want
the bill, and that il would make the condi-
tion Of the colored peoply infinitely worse
Wade Hampton's Plea.
Mr.. Hampton followed Mr.. Pasco. He
had witnessed the horrors Of civil strife
and had suffered his full share Of them.
He prayed God that civil strife might
never again stain with fratricdal blood the
soil OF the republic. He was not willing
to lend his aid to a measure which in his
opinion was fraught with evils to the
whole country, and would bring innumer-
able woes on n class who, he was sorry to
confess, had been too often made the vic
tim OF injustice at the hands Of the white
race Mr.. Dixon spoke ia support of the
bill lie maintained that TO the purpose
of the bill no patriot could object The
people wanted a bill that would be en-
forced for the good OF the whole country in |
order that the declared result Of any cleo |
tion should be the voice Of the nation.
He Would Give His Life.
Mr. Reagan argued that the bill was q |
violation of the constitution which gave |
to the states the right and duty to fix the |
time and place and manner OF holding |
elections. He concluded by declaring. |
with show Of strong feeling, that dear /
as his life was to him, he would, as God /
was his judge, If he could save the Ameri- |
can people from the pending measure by /
giving up his life, surrender ii as freely as /
he ever performed any act in his life. Cap |
plause in the galleries which the vice pres
ident reproyed, threatening to have the
galleries cleared If the offense was re-
peated.)
Talking for Time.
At 10:l5 p. m. Mr.. Buffers amendment
Chat all election officers shall be regarded
as ministerial and not judicial ofiicers)
was laid on the table. The amendment
offered by Mr.. Faulkner on Dec. II was
stated by the vice president TO be the next
question in order. 1t proposes a substi-
tute for section Il, and to provide for the
appointment by the court of a board of
three persons in a congressional district TO
be known as the United States board Of
canvassers. Mr.. Faulkner advocated his
amendment and condemned the action Of
Republican senators in sitting discussion
by moving to lay amendments on the
table.
Mr. Faulkner continued speaking until
l:3O, when the absence Of quorum was
brought to the attention of the chair The
call of the roll showed that there were
only thirty-six present, only five Of that
number being Democrats. A motion was
made by Mr.. Hoar to compel the attend
ance of absentees. but Mr. Harris made
the point OF order that the first motion un-
der the rules was to direct the sergeant-at-
arms to request the attendance Of absent