St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-06
NO MORE BAYONETS.
Repeal Of the Federal Election
Law Today
Blythe UNITED STATES SENATE.
With Growers Signature the
Measure Disappears.
cHARDLER'S LAST DYING MOAN.
Frye Makes a Bitter Attack on
Tammany's Methods.
Blythe UNITED STATES SENATE.
CHARDLER'S LAST DYING MOAN.
PALMER, or ILLINOIS, REPLIES.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The federal
elections repeal bill occupied the entire
session OF the senate today. Senator
Chandler concluded his speech, which
has extended through the past two or
three weeks, and was followed by Sena-
Sor Palmer. who argued that, the law
having entirely failed of its purpose.
and being generally obnoxious, should
be repealed. An animated controversy
on the franchise qualifications of the
state constitutions of Mississippi and
Massachusetts took place between
Senators Frye and Hoar on one side,
and Senators Gray and Bate on the
other, and is likely to be renewed to-
morrow, when the final vote is to be
taken on the bill.
In the opening of the senate this
morning DR.. Milburn, the blind chap
lain, in his prayer, made touching allu-
sion to the life, services and death of
George w. Childs, the Philadelphia
phllanthropiSt.
while the tolling bell tells of the
passing Of noble soul from earth, ''said
he, I've bless Thee for the country and
national life in which and through
which boy born in obscurlty and pow
erty, by industry, temperance and fru'
gality, lifted himself to affluence and
power, and shed beneicence Oh every
hand, yielding happiness by the grace
and kindliness of his nature, enrichlng
ali mems lives with wh0Gn he came III
contact. We render to Thee devout graf
itude that there is land that produces
under the blessing of Thy fatheriy love,
through Jesus Christ. such types and
elements of character. We pray that
the lesson of this mans life may be
read with kindly and reyerent hearts by
the young men of the whole nation;
and so may the mans death be- richer i'll
its effects than even the boneficenee
and sweetness of his life" In the de-
bate on the election bill lively til t
took place between the senators and
Palmer and Chandler, after which
SENATOR CHANDLER,
continuing his argument, reviewed the
ante-war history of the country, and
then alluding TO the attempts made by
luC hClIO-l0tlC polb1 III W
secure the repeal of the federal election
law, said: Where is the Democratic
party to stop, if tomorrow it repeals
the election law which was adopted to
carry into effect the fifteenth amend
ment? VIII they now repeal the fif-
teenth amendment also? If they take
away the suffrage from the black man,
will not they also little by little in this
action come to reduce the black man
substantially to condition of slav-
ery?''
Continuing. Senator Chandler eX-
pressed regret at the defections on the
Republican side of the question, refer
ring especially to Senator Stewart, who,
he said, although the author of the fif-
teenth amendment, and the leader Of
the movement to pass the statute of
May Is, 1870, the most valuable por-
tlons of which are to be repealed by the
pending bill. now gives the repeal bill
his support.
Senator Palmer (Dem., Ill.) followed
Senator Chandler, and opened with
history of the birth of the Republican
5arty and tracing its course to the war,
which had resulted in the liberation
and enfranchisement of the negroes,
said 1t was now contended by the Re-
publicans that the negroes should vote
with them and for their policies "be-
cause they liberated them"
Upon The other side of the chamber it
was contended that the colored people
in the South had not their proper rep
reSentatiOn in the governmental affairs.
Within a few days past, he said, we
have been engaged in a discussion of
the Hawaiian question. I'VE found
that the total population there num-
bred about $4,000. The whole Amer
lcln population is less than 1000, and
yet these 1000 white men own more
than IA per cent of the entire prop
erty Of
TIE KINGDOM.
The natives own but eighty-hun-
dredths of per cent of the property of
the islands. Less than 10 per cent of
tue population of that island have over
thrown the government and established
another, and are about to proclaim, or
have proclaimed, constitution with
property qualifications; and yet l heard
one of the leaders of the Republican
party in this chamber declare that these
men who have overthrown the native
government and native supremacy were
RusSells, and Sidneys, and Washing
tons. This is the view of the party
that now claims to be the champion and
the preserVer of tue rights of the COL
Ored race.
Senator Frye, OF Maine, reviewed the
history Of the presidential election of
1868, and the Tammauy frauds in New
York city.
II believe" said he, "that Tammany
is just as determined to avail itself of
every violation of law to accomplish its
purpose now as Ill that year. Then,
III less than twenty days, they natural
lied over 10000 foreigners. They
naturaliZed in Judge Barnard's court
1922 in one day. There were ten staud-
ing witnesses to $500 applicants for
naturalization. Patrick Quinn was a
standing witness to 2,100 applicants,
and he was afterwards sent to the penl-
tentlary for these offenses. In these
naturalizations witnesses having their
names as Cornelius Vanderbilt and
'Chauncey NJ. Depew'--men we'll known
to tue judges-yet there was no rebake.
In that election Tammany had eight
gangs OF repe lters, and some of them
voted as high as twenty-five tlG,es.
New York was carried by this sort of
httrt a.