The advocate., 1891-01-07
he putg % them hIa nIaIn lnauIrIea.


Massachusetts proposes now 20 snap ms
fingers In their face and in che face OF their
o1preaaod, emphatic, reasoning considora-
ti0n, which has shaken this whole oont-
nont and has summoned around the Opp0-
m6ntH OF this bill as grand an army OF Amer
lean fro5mon as ever followed their cham
piOns 20 the polls, lot him continue 30 snap
th0m, but let him not insult our reason or
our common sense by asking such questions
az, 'shRll We keep faith with the peoplei'.
In respect 30 the financial system OF this
country, has this Senator shown any diepo-
aitiOn TO keep faith with tho peOple2 Has
he not Joined hands on every occasion with
those who wish On rear tho single gold stan
dard instead Of the double standard OF
money! Are not the miners Of the west to-
day, even az / speak, disturbed In their busi-
ness and looking about not knowing what
90 do because tho voice OF this country can
not and uttoranco Ia Congress, because pop
ular will is stiaed.
Senator Daniel furnished the list Of
election precincts In the country as up
wards Of $4,000 and this "L,odge bill"
would provide employment under IL Of
some 10000 men. Stating that our
federal constitution is symmetrical In
strument, he remarked;
do dot think that supervisors OF election
fresh from tho purlieus OF great cities, where
they have waded knee deep in corruption,
we're the consulting attorneys of los trainers.
The language which we speak is the. only
language that has In 10 the word "self-gov-
emment." When this bill shall become a
law OF the United States, your dictionaries
should be amended and government
should be erased from the vocabulary OF
country which no longer has an institution
Of liberty TO which 1t may apply.
In the Congregational Record Of De-
Cember 10, there appears as an appendix,
the resolution Of the farmers alliance,
adopted In national convention, Ocala,
Florida, December, 1890, In which de-
liveFenCe on this national election bill,
they patrIotlcally assert themselves by
saying, ut Is partisan in spirit and will
be partisan In It's application, thus re-
vitali2Ing the CORY ghost Of sectional en-
arrangement"
Among the varied House proceedings |
was communication from the national
board Of trade, presented by the republl |
can Representative from New Orleans,
Louisiana-Hon. II. Dudley Coleman
asking that Congress shall favorably CON
slider the bill that appropriates $O,OO0,
600 for building the levees along the
Mississippi river.
December 1.-THE House was engaged
in miscellaneous legislation, and In the
discussion on "Swamp and Overflow
Lands" Mr.. Blanchard, Of Louisiana,
stated the following:
Away down in the southern part of Lousi-
ana, bordering on the Gulf, there are vast
tracts OF marsh lands, which, under the
swamp land act Of lH9, accrued TO the state.
A syndicate OF western capitalists, led by
j. B. Watkins, of Lawrence, KS, has 40
quired from state of Louisiana more than
a million of acres of the marsh lands and
they are being reclaimed and rendered flt
for cultivation and brought under the do
miniOn Of the plow. These lands we're ac-
quired from the state at the nominal price
OF l21S cents an acre.
It might be remembered that Mr.
Watkins Is an ingalls, henchman.
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, in a
speech on the pending elections bill,
spoke out thus plainly:
The republican majority Of the Senate of
Che United States stand and defy thepeople, 1
and when crushing majOnties like those
that came out OF the ballot box on NOvem-
Der 4, 1880, there being in that election no
pressiOn-when such maiorities come out OF I,
a ballot box a republican Senate sets itself l
10 work TO pass a bill that will enable cer- q
tain newly constructed functionaries 6f the :