The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-06
MEMBERS TIRED OF TALK.
Empty Benches The Rule in the Lower
House.


Bill Was Taken Up Cardinals Col
ored Member Makes a Characteristic
Speech Against the Bill Russell Of
Georgia Follows in Support Of the
Measure.
WASH ngton. Oct. 5.-Interest in the de-
bate on the federal election bill does not
increase. and empty benches on both sides
of the chamber are the rule and not the
! exception. At no time were there more
than 100 members present. The speeches
were made by Messrs. Murray rep,
of South Carolina and Haines, rep, of
Nebra ska in the negative. and by Mr..
/ Russell, dem, of Georgia and Mr.. Money,
dem, of Mississippi in the affirmative.
The fact having become known that the
democrats were holding caucus to dis
cuss the propriety passing the bill before
the Senate had agreed to the Wilson
/ Voorhees, bill may have had something to
/ do with the listlessness manifested.
The speaker laid before the House a
communication from the Secretary Of the
! Treasury in response to a resolution call
ing for information as to why the Sher-
man act was not enforced during July
Mr. Storer, rep, of Ohio, from the com
mittee on commerce, reported bill to
amend the Interstate commerce law. II
was placed on the calendar.
PROOF OF LOYALTY.
In the second morning hour, Mr. Oates
| from the committee on the judiciary,
called up a bill repeating so much of the
| revised statutes as require proof of loyalty
during the late war as a prerequisite to
a al,
roll of any person who, otherwise, would
be entitled, and dispensing with the proof
of loyalty in any application for bounty.
/ Mr.. Burrows gave warning that the
! bill could not be passed in the morning
hour, and Mr. Oates withdrew it.
On motion of Mr.. Oates, the bill was
passed disqualifying judges, justices or
! commissioners of the United States from
sitting as courts in the hearing of cases
in which they are interested.
On motion of Mr.. Oates, the bill was
passed placing the Secretary of Agricul-
ture in the line of presidential success
| sion
Mr. Oates also called up the bill au-
thorizing the receiver of the Jesus Christ
Church Of Latter Day Saints to restore
to that church certain personal property
| belonging to it, to be used for charitable
purposes. The bill was passed.
THE COLoRED MEMBER SPEAKS
The House then resumed the considera-
tion of the federal election repeal bill and
Representative Murray of South Caro-
| lima concluded his speech in favor of the
retention of the laws upon the statute
| books. He criticised the election meth
DDS of the state of South Carolina, and de-
clared that the presence of official super
| visors at the polls was necessary to secure
free elections. Their presence prevented
evasion and violation of the law This
was the most odious and diabolical bill
| that had been reported to the House for
thirty years. 1t has been conceived in
| sin and brought forth in iniqui-
ty. He appealed to his repub-
liCan friends not to vote
for it. He appealed to his friends from
the north not to vote for this legitimate,
but unholy offspring of state sovereignty.
4 He appealed to them not to unite the
hands of the ballOt-boX suffer and of the
scalawag. He appealed to republicans
from everywhere to resist this nefarious
measure with all their power, and
though for the time being the republican
banner may be trailing in the dust the
nation would triumphantly raise it again
and march it to its haven of prosperity
citizenship and victory. Applause He
hoped that the laws would not be re-
pealed.
NEGRO DOMINATION.
He ridiculed the charge of negro
domination No class Of people was
misrepresented, slandered and traduced
as were the black people of the south.
The search would be vain that would
seek to find people more submissive to
law and more charitable than they. The
long-suffering blackman had never
sought to domineer He asked the men
of his race to take the vote on this
measure and scan it carefully
and regard every man who
voted for it as his enemy. But he
did not despair. The vengeance of God
would sooner or later overtake the man
who passed this bill But he believed
that there were men in the House and Sen
ate who would prevent its passage, and he
believed that the able gentleman in the
white house was too humane to strike
down the laws which alone protected the
liberties of the poor people. Applause,
RUSSELL ARGUES FOR REPEAL.
Mr.. Russell, dem, of Georgia, was the
next speaker, and his argument was in
favoA of repeal He would wipe from the
statute books all these election laws 1t
was said that they were a back number
They were nOt.iIheY were living issue Just
as much as they has been the day they
were passed and struck down the liber-
ties of the people. The Democratic
party was bound to succeed in this strug-
gle. The laws were infamous and must be
repealed. Referring TO Representative
Murray's speech, he said that it was
proper and fitting that the requiem gun
of the Republican party should be fired
by son of Ham.
MONEY DEFENDS MISSISSIPPI.
Mr.. Money of Mississippi resented the
reflection made upon his state in the
minority report, denOminating those re-
reflections as infamous and iniquitous
There was no ground for the accusations
made against her, and he declared that
her elections were fairly conducted. MIR,
Money then went on TO review the cOnsti-
tutionS of the various staJes as
they existed after the war,
to show that no state could
throw the first stone at Mississippi As
each state was mentioned, a champion
arose and there was a good deal of mer-
riment Mr. Money bore himself admir-
ably, and was ready for all questions and
the greatest good humor prevailed. He
declared that the Democratic party had
pledged itself to the repeal of the federal
election laws
Mr. Picker, rep, of South Dakota. in
terrupted Mr.. Money to suggest that
President Cleveland had called congress
in extraordinary session for a certain pur-
pose.
Mr.. Money replied that though that
| might be correct when CONGRESS- cot bpra