The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-11
CONGRESSIONAL NATTER.
THE APPORTlONMENT BILL PASSED
BY THE SENATE.

House-EffootS to Increase the Numbe>
Voted Down-Kelly Flaunts the Flood.
Shirt Which is Resented by Severa
Democrats.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In the en-
ate at the close Of the morning hour tht
Senate proceeded to the consideration
of the apportionment bill as unfinished
business" and Edmunds addressed the
Senate, calling it's attention TO the tact
that the bill took no cognizance what.
ever of the provisions of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, that II
case the right of suffrage be denied
or abridged in any State, the representa-.
ton Of that State should be diminished
accordingly.
The Senate then proceeded to vote on
the amendments proposed by the MI
nority, the first being to Increase the
representation Of Arkansas from 6 to !.
The amendment was rejected yeas, 32;
nays, 33. All the Democratic Senators
voted for the amendment and were re.
inforced by FIVE Repubiicans-Senators
Davis, Mcmillan, Paddock, Stewart
and Washburn.
The next amendment was to increase
the representation of Minnesota from /
to S-also rejected; yeas 81. nays 80.
On this vote Casey voted with the Dem
ocrats, ofwhom two less voted than on
the preceding vote.
The next amendment was to increase
the representation Of Missouri from Is
tol6. Rejected; yeas 80, nays So. The
only Republicans voting aye or this
amendment were Davis, Paddock and
Washburn. Casey, Mcmillan and Stew
art voled no.
The next amendment was to increase
the representation of New York from 81
to IS. Rejected; yeas 80, nays 3o.
Davis and Paddock being the only Re-
publicans voting N the affirmative.
Davis then withdrew the amendment,
fixing the total number of representa-
tives at $50.
Berry offered an amendment fixing
the total number at $50 and giving an
additional member to Arkansas, Mime
L w
it voted on as one amendment.
A division of it, however, was In
sisted on By Hale.
Hale then moved to lay the amend
ment on the table, and that motion was
agreed to-yeas IS; nays 90. The only
Republicans who voted in the negative
were Davis and Tashburn.
J IL II ,N{ nfA ar
the bill. It was because a large amount
ofthe population in Missouri. Minnesota.
Arkansas and New York was lett en-
tirely without representation.
German also opposed the bill because,
as it has been reported, it showed that
an error had been made in the city OF
New York, were there was deficit of
some 100000 in the census returns, as
taken, and because he believes that
that State and the States of Arkansas,
Minnesota and Missouri should each
have an additional representative. He
thought that in fairness to all the appor-
tlonment should have been left to be
made in the next session.
Jones of Arkansas declared his belief
that for his State the census returns
were very defective, and that if the
truth were known Arkansas had popu-
lation enoughto to entltle her to seven
Representatives.
Morgan spoke of the necessity Of
specific declaration N the bill that the
number OF Presidential electors in 1892
shall correspond with the number OF
Representatives fixed in the bill. The
country had had enough Of trials and
troubles and difficulties in connection
with Presidential elections to admonlsh
Congress to exercise the most extreme
care in the matter and to make the law |
perfectly clear and definite.
The bill was then passed exactly as it
came from the House-yeas 81, nays "a
a strict party vote.
There was quite row IN the House |
to-day. Matters ran very smoothly Tor
awhile, until the murder Of Matthews,
the postmaster at Carrolton, Miss, was
brought up by Kelly in speech in which
he certified some formal remarks made
by Lewis, OF Mississippi. He denied
(as stated by Lewis) that the murder OF
Matthews was attributable to other than
political causes. He had the authority
to saw that Matthews had been killed be-
cause he was a Republican. The gen
tleman fro.l Mississippi promised his
remarks with a quotation to the effect
that nothing but good should be said OF
the dead and had heaped ISLANDERS upon
the dead man which he would not have
heaped had the man been living. He
(Kelly) denied the statements made by
The gentleman in regard to the character
of Matthews.
Flo xer SAID that he had heard the
gentleman from Kansas make speeches
pitching into the distinguished gentle
man from Arkansas (Breckinudge.(
That gentleman had been returned to
Congress while the constituents of the
gentleman from Kansas had turned him
down. The more Of such speeches the
gentleman from Kansas made. the better
1t would be for the Democratic party.
Lewis, in reply, SAID that while the
people of the whole country were enjoy
ing the privileges of constitutional
liberty, the stentorian and stricken voice
of the gentleman from Kansas was
heard, crying, Murder! murdern'
s:Call the police !" calculated Spinola,
in a voice Of Modoc terror, and the con-
trast between the earnestvoice Of Lewis
and the timorous voice of Spinola was
so apparent that for some moments !;
Lewis was unable to proceed on account
of the laughter.
Lewis, continuing, said that in the
self-confdence and swift witness in
every killing that had occurred in Mlssis-
sippi and Arkansas the gentleman from
Kansas had sought to create the impress
sion that the people ofthese States were '
in rebellion against the Constitution and t
lnr,,n &c tho I-nite6 Stafes /