The morning news., 1894-02-06
A FLOOD OF TARIFF TALK.
Hale Wants the Senate Committee to
Grant Hearings.

Option Bill to the Judiciary Com
mittee But 1t Still Lies on the Table.
Chandler Makes Bloody Shirt
Speech on the Bill to Repeal the Eleo-
tion Laws.
Washington. Feb 5.--A feeling refer
ence to the death of George w. Childs
was made in the chaplaln's opening
prayer in the Senate this morning.
Mr.. Hale offered resolutions reciting
that the tariff bill has come to the Senate;
that the representatives of many great
industrial interests, and many laboring
men believe that no opportunity has been
heretofore given to be heard upon its pro-
visions; and that they now desire to pre-
sent their objections to it before any
action is taken by the Senate, and
instructing the committee on finance
to give opportunity to all parties who be-
lieve their interests affected, to be heard
before the committee reports its action to
the Senate He said that he did not de-
sire immediate action on the resolution.
and did not know that there was any
necessity for it, because he would not as
sumo that the committee on finance could
decline to give such hearings. He asked
that the resolution should lie on the table,
and said that he would call it up soon for
the purpose of making some remarks
upon 1t. 1t was so ordered.
THE ANTI-oPTION BILL.
Mr.. Berry moved to refer to the Judi
ciary committee the anti-option bill in
troduced some time ago by MIR. George,
dem, Of Mississippi, and now on the
table. He made the motion to get an op-
portunity to state his position in regard
to the subject, in order to correct some
misapprehension. He would vote for the
bill.
Mr.. Washburn moved to amend the
motion so as to refer the bill to the com
mittee on agriculture, but said that in
the absence of Mr.. George, he would not
press the amendment, but let the bill re-
main on the table for the present. He,
like Mr. Berry, should vote for 1t, if it
was the best bill that could be reported,
because his belief was stronger to-day
than ever as to the necessity of a measure
OF that kind.
MIR. Berry's motion was Enacted on and
the bill still remains on the table
THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.
The House bill to repeal the federal
election laws was then, at D. m taken
up and Mr.. Chandler addressed the Sen
ate in opposition to it, He began by say
ing that the Senate turned from the ques-
tion of money TO the superior question of
man and his liberty. He wished to speak
briefly in behalf of the colored people of
the country, who were sadly In
need of national consideration
and national protection. In the
course of his remarks Mr.. Chandler
engaged in colloquy with Mr.. Palmer,
dem, of Illinois, who said that he IA
vored the repeal of the federal election
laws because they had proved to be ut
terly useless for the accomplishment of
the purpose for which they had been de-
signed The senator from Illinois, said MIR.
Chandler, ''in his new political associa-
tiOns, abandOns the fifteenth amendment
of the constitution and leaves the colored
people in the southern states without the
ballot without which to protect them
selves"
81 would no more abandon the fifteenth
amendment" Mr.. Palmer declared en-
phatically, ethan | would abandon the
declaration of independence. / regard
them as being essential parts Of each
other"
GOING BACK TO SLAVERY.
Mr.. Chandler declared that if emanci-
patton was right it was equally right to
put on the statute book of the country
the national election laws, which it was
now attempted to repeal. Would not the
next attack, he asked, be an attack on
the fifteenth amendments and little by
little, in the process of retrogression, the
black man would be virtually reduced
again to a state of slavery. That, at
least, he said, was a fair inference The
work which would begin tomorrow in
the passage of this bill, would, If it were
not stopped before it reached its legiti-
mate result, be destructive of the free
dom and interests of the black
men throughout the entire south.
As a fair summing up
RACES upon negroes in the south, MIR
Chandler sent to the clerks desk and
had read some extracts from recent
lecture delivered in Washington by
Frederick Douglas, whom he spoke of as
1.-THE inspired apostle of the negro race"
Mr. Chandler expressed the regret with
which he had seen defections on the re-
publican side of the chamber, referring
specifically TO the case of Mr.. Stewart of
Nevada. Who. he said although tho au-
thor Of the fifteenth amendment and the
leader in the movement to pass the statute
of May Is, 1870, the most valuable por-
tions Of which were to be repealed by the
pending bill. now gave TO that bill his sup
port.
PART OF THE REPUBLICAN SCHEME.
He submitted in conclusion, that the
national election laws were part Of the
great scheme of the Republican party
and of the American people for the pro-
lection of race of 100000 of human be-
ings, constituting one-tenth of the popu-
lation. He looked with apprehension
on the course which the democratic SEN
ators proposed to pursue; he looked with
apprehension on the era which they were
now iuaugurating.
The majority report proclaimed twice
that ii was the purpose of the majority TO
wipe out the legislation which grew out
Of the war between the states. The re-
construction measures Of congress were
TO be wiped out, and the wipiug out pro-
cess began with striking down the
national election laws If 1t was the in
tention of the democratic senator's TO go
on with that process and TO undo the re-
suits of the last twenty-five years, they
had undertaken task in which he be-
lieved they would not be sustained by the
people Of the country.
PALMER SUPPORTS THE BILL.
Mr.. Palmer dem, Of Illinois, supported
the bill because he believed that the fed
cral election laws were useless, mislead-
ing and menace TO every community
where they were put INTO force. II was
contended on the other side Of the cham
Der. he said. that the colored people
in the south had not their proper repre-
sentatiOn In governmental affairs. I'VE