Evening journal., 1891-01-16
TO BE or NOT TO BE7
The "Force" Bill Up for Final
Action.
TODAY MAY SOLVE THE QUESTION.

Senator Hoar Asks TO Have the Measure
Taken Up AZ Noon aud Considered by
the Senate untI Disposed of-The ''sn-
yer POOL Committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-After routine
business in the senate the elections bill
was considered, and Mr. Evarts addressed
the senate in its support Mr. Hoar gave
notice that at noon today he would ask the
senate to remain In session until the dis
posal OF the bill. The senate then went
into executive session and soon afterward
adjourned When the elections bill came
mp Mr.. Evarts reopened the debate. He
said the elections bill had been introduced.
referrd to the committee on privileges
and elections, and taken the course OF all
bills. II 1t went any further than was
thought by its opponents to be useful or
necessary, it should have been resisted In
the ordinary way; but no such course had
been taken. When the bill was reported
the senator from Alabama (Mr. Pugh) had
declared IL to be revolutionary and uncon-
stitutional, and that its execution would
insure the shedding OF blood and the de.
struction OF peace and good order, and that
It's passage would be resisted by every par.
llamentary method and every method al
lowed by the constitution.
One Must Go 20 the Wall.
This great measure for the regulation OF
elections Of representatives in congress had
been thus treated by the Democratic party
and the subject had been thrown headlonR
into the arena of political agitation, and
there il had been from that day to this 1t
was thought that at the last election il
might have played an important part in
securing this or that degree Of success and
predominance to the Democratic party
and of failure to the Republican party.
Instead Of a quiet discussion Of the meth
DDS and the meanings OF the clauses Of the
bill, the senate had been confronted with
opposition by all parliamentary methods.
however far they were to be carried. There
could be no middle ground between obedi.
ence and resistance TO law One or the
other would have to go to the wall.
The Alleged Non-suIrrage states.
Mr. Eyarts proceeded to discuss what he
termed the Mississippi method, which
had been planned to prevent the free exer.
else OF suffrage, and which he said had been
adopted in the gulf states, and he declared
that, in that predicainent, those states
were non-suffrage states. The laws OF
those states were silent before some power
or other that paralyzed their execution.
The freedom OF suffrage had been thwarted
and controlled by some methods which
were not according to law, either or the
states or Of the United States. Mr.. Eyarts
went on to contrast the number OF votes
for representatives in congress in New
York and the New England states with the
votes in the gulf states, where, he said,
there was nothing but dessicated suffrage,
without life or circulation.
Pasco's Proposed Amendments.
Several proposed amendments to the
elections bill were submitted in the senate
by AIR. Pasco. The amendments provide
that no petition for federal supervision
shall be Of any effect unless one Of the
petitioners is candidate for congress;
that hearings on the petitions be held, and
that no chief supervisor shall hold any
other public Office.