Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-05
FIFTY THIRD CONGRESS.
SENATE.

was made in the Chaplain's opening
prayer this morning
Mr.. Hale offered resolutions instruct
ing the committee on finance to give
opportunity 10 all parties who believe
their interests affected to be heard be-
fore the committee reports its action to
the Senate on the tariff bill. He said
that lie did not desire immediate action
on the resolution, and did not know
that there was any necessity for it, be-
cause he would not assume that the
committee on finance would decline to
give such hearings. He asked that the
resolution should lie on the table, and
asid he would call it up soon for the
p lrpose of making some remarks upon
it. 1t was so ordered.
Mr.. Berry moved to refer to the judi
ciary committee the anti-option bill now
on the table. He had voted for and
supported the George amendment to
the Hatch bill at the last Congress, and
that amendment having been rejected,
he had voted against the Hatch bill.
He believed that the dealing in futures
ought to be prohibited. He believed
that it tended to reduce the price of
cotton and wheat. He had voted
against the Hatch bill because it would
not bring dollar of revenue into the
Treasury. While pretending to be
tax-measure, it was so in no sense. He
would now vote for the bill introduced
by Mr.. George, if reported back from
the judiciary committee.
Mr.. Washburne said let the bill re-
main on the table for the present He
should vote for it, if it was the best bill
that could be reported, because his be-
liefwas stronger to-day than ever as to
the necessity ola measure of that kind
Therefore he was ready to 90 to the ut
most limit in supporting any bill that
was likely to remedy those great evils.
But he believed now, as he had believed
last Congress, that it had to be dealt
with under the taxing power of the
government.
After some further colloquy Mr.
Berry's motion was Enacted on and the
bill still remains on the table.
The House bill TO repeal the Federal
election laws was then Cat p. M tax
en- up and Mr.. Chandler addressed the
Senate in opposition to it. 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
a colloquy with Mr.. Palmer who said
that he favored the repeal Of
the federal election laws because they
had proved to be utterly useless for the
accomplishment of the purpose for
which they had been designed. Tie
Senator fom Illinois, said Mr.. Chand-
Ter, sin his new political associations,
abAndons the 18th amendment of the
Constitution, and leaves the colored
people in the southern States without
the ballot with which to protect them
selves"
HOUSE.
The House met this morning at II
o'clock, and in the absence of the chap
lain, prayer was offered by Mr.. Everett.
Mr.. Morse presented a memorial
from the Massachusetts, Legislature
protesting against the passage of GER
tain schedules in the Wilson tariff bill
as destructive and fatal to industries of
Massachusetts.
The House then took up the con-
sidcration of the Hawaiian resolution
and Mr.. Johnson was recognized.
Mr.. Johnson yielded two minutes
to Mr.. Morse who said: "Mr.
Speaker, there is one remark that did
not have time to make, which desire
to add to my speech Of Saturday even
ing. For the last 25 years, since the
days of reconstruction began, after the
close of the war, the shibboleth in the
South, the political war cry that has
downed all opposition, that has
downed the republicans, and the poIu
lists and all other parties, and that has
made the South invariably come up Of
late years with solid democratic
delegation in Congress, has been
the cry of white mans govern
ment.' On the one side in this
controversy is dissolute color
ed female. She has none OF the glamour
which attaches to royalty by birth.
Her father was colored barber. On
the other side are not only white men
and women, but nearly all OR
quite all the yirtuous and intel
lgent white people of the islands;
and yet, strange to tell, at the COM
mand of their master, the great Grover
Cleveland, his supporters, the cuckoos
in the House and in the Senate, staunch
southern democrats, the loudest shout
ers for white mans government,
disregard all their ancestors traditions
about white supremacy and the white