The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-07
LAST OF JOHN !. DAVENPORT.
TEE FEDERAL ELECTIONS REPEAL
BILL TO he PASSED Tc-D4E

TEE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. hEPEAL
BILL TO BE PASSED Tc-DAE
Senator HsuIsy spsshs sI-piy - SHOW
ste Cnastltssst- How Tie Ftands. bat
Gives Up Coste-tinE the Repeal ne Hope
is-.-Nr. Dsst-i ard Mr. Frye Dispute.
wAsHtvaroS. Feb G-Immedlateiy on the
conclusion OF the routine morning business
the Senate resum ed consideration OF the House
bill to repeal the Federal election laws and
Mr.. Hawey Rep. Conn made an argument
against Il. Everybody he said. knew the fate
Of the bill The moment that the Democratic
party secured national control IL had been owl
dent that the repeal OF the Federal election
laws would We ono OF tho first tasks to
which II would set itself Except the
emergency bill relating 20 the repeal Of
the sherman silver purchasing act this
bill was the first distinctively party measure
Of the Democratic party There were. he
said. on the statute books certain statutes In
tended not to make voters. but to secure TO
voters the rights guaranteed to them By the
United States Government II was now pro-
posed to repeal all OF them with the sole ex-
ception OF the one providing for the election Of
United states Senators. The question was.
not what was the error In this. that. or the
other provision Of the laws; but the deelara-
ton was that no; one Of them was At to remain
on the statute book.
This made distinct era Ia the political his
tory Of the country. II made q distinct era in
the history OF the ballot. The laws now to be
repealed were not. Mr.. Hawley said made
merely for the Southern states The Federal
election laws we're Just as m UGH needed In GER
tain sections OF the North as they had ever
been needed in the South. There had been as
audscious crimes against the suffrage COM
mitted within the last few years In the North
as in the South. This very last fall there had
been in New YORK the most extraordinary out
RACES. which awoke the attention and COM
PEELED the Indignation OF good citizens OF all
parties And he said to the credit ri them etro-
-politan press that. so far as he knew. there
was not an exception among the newspapers
In the condemnation OF those wrongs And
yet how trifing had been the Gravssend mat
ter In COMPARISON with the action which prac-
iically disiranchised every black man in the
Southern States. II not disiranchisement in
name. It was notification; and. to Judge BY
the pending bill notification OF the franchise
was The intention OF the Democratic party.
He recalled the declaration OF a Southern man
In the ante-bellum era. that the best condition
OF a country was where capital owned labor.
And that idea he said was at the bottom OF
the Wilson Tariff bill II was that the best
condition Of the country was one where labor
was cheap and abundant. The pending bill
was one OF the turning points.
When nobody IN the Senate listened to an
argument on either side the question was
foredoomed. And he only spoke now. not with
a view OF iniuen eng or interesting any human
being. but because he thought he saw come
because. II any constituent OF his wanted to
know where he stood or II any one hereafter
men he wanted him to find rot only their vote
but their protest against the passage OF tho
Mr.. Perkins Rep. Call made an argument
some reason 70 be given why the Federal elec;
citizen OF the right Of fairly casting his vote
had been waiting to hear that they were un:
American, and that they. were calculated
su'T Eat the rhi Of tag os1 G Mo
reasons had been given that had impressed
given m bg the Senator from limos Mr. Psm e
that the laws had not been enforced and the |
other, was that they had been raised by the !
inG itself in once. Certainly the last proro- |
sltion fell. without an answer. He gave notice |
OPERATION Of T the Election laws to eties of
:tnooo Inhabitants and over instead of TO cit
Ms, DANIEL Dem. Va referring to Mr..
Perkins, remark that be had heard no reason
ask ed him where he had been living during
the last two years. Had he been out o. the
peTs or read in c@nr Gs se desas. that
those laws were to he renealed by the Kings
nsShaS BY
stractionS those cSnd dates had gone before
the great jury 81 the national commonwealth
nag Rep 0iaf!s IT, fTS sT
which called Tor repeal Of, the Federal e ection
laws. Mr.; Daniel said that he did not carry
sad that he had failed to End any such seq
-
Iowa mad not taed t" hear hear the diseSssion 1 q
the question in the Presidential campaign and
had not failed to hear the result OF the election.
avoved and open issue. II he had done So no
would regard Mr Allisons case as ineurable
edy. Mr.. Daniel favored the repeal OF the
Federal Election laws. because th.y were use
to sectional friction, sectional Irritation. and
sectional antagonism; These laws had been
and as that aHtagonism had now ceased. a:
parties everywhere attempted to melloTate IL,
THIS relic ~ the old antagonism should be laid
and harmony compromise. comfy. ana fra
Mr. FRYE Rep, Me. opposed the hill and
quoted from Richmond Va papers the head
ines 10 reports OF election frauds in a recent
psniei whether h the Federal Election laws had
ANYTHING TO do with those frauds. They had. |
that the Federal Election laws ought to Re re-
peaiei because the states the whole Of theml
s WAS 30 afsd by % ssT.
had been. election frauds in Maine;
and he denied that there had been.
Dem Hcrattn Governor to steal a Legislature.
lie had taken the floor not 10 make any attack
on the state OF Virginia. but to defend the
character OF John davenport, who had been
the subject OF charges and chlumnies in the
two Houses for the last sixteen or eighteen
Years: He knew Mr.. davenport well. and had
a profound respect for him. His courage was
admirable He was utterly fearless He had |
shown a fidelity in ofiee such as hal been
seldom seen 10 any man, He had been true
and honest Mr.. Davenport was to disappear
rom office. and to disappear at the same time
rom Democratic abuse Mr.. Davenport had
been male scapegoat Just as Mr. Stevens
had recently heen made the scApsgoAt for
CleyelAnd's blunders as 10 Hawaii
hr, FRYE Yielded a. this time. = !. In order to
allow proposition TO be made for an extern |
son OF the time for debate The proposition
was agreed TO that the general debate on the
lill shall close at 3 L. VI. Tomorrow. and that |
he vote or the passage shall be taken before
adjournment.
Mr. FTya rAaI = lsttnr ,-ri,ta, - ua.w |