People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-10-16
THEY WORRIED MR.. KYLE.
Murrry and BOutelIe Asked the MisSis-
sippian Embarrassing Questions.

sippian Embarrassing Questions.
Washington Post.
Mr.. Kyle, of Mississippi, who de-
Tended the election system of his
State against the attack upon it by
the minority of the Elections Com
mittee, in the course of the Tucker
bill debate yesterday became very
much ratified, as the baseball cranks
say. Representative George Wash
ington Murray, the eolored Republi-
can of South Carolina, aided and
abetted by Mr.. Boutelle, was the
cause of Mr.. Kyle's discontinue.
Questions were asked the member
from Mississippi which he did not
see his way clear to answer consis-
tently, a state of affairs which the
Republicans and the galleries soon
detected, demonstrating their amuse-
ment by applause and loud laughter.
Mr.. Kyle finally declined to make
any attempts at reply, resuming the
thread of his speech as soon as his
opponents would permit.
Mr.. Northway, of Ohio, who is a
new member from the Nineteenth
district, made good impression in
his first speech. He supported the
constitutionality Of the laws, accused
the Democratic party of inconsistent
cy, Analysing its dissensions on the
silver question, and closed with a
peroration which won for him much
applause.
Mr.. Kyle, who followed him, orti-
icised the minority report from the
Committee on Election of President
and Vice President, and he denounc-l
ed the statement made in that report
that Mississippi had the most perfect
ly operating system for fraud yet de-
vised in the South. incidentally he
criticised the systems of those States
from which the minority members of
the committee came.
Mr.. hurry interrupted Mr.. Kyle
in the course of his argument with
the question as to whether in gov
eminent like ours suffrage should be
one of manhood, inasmuch as that
suffrage was the only defense Of the
poor man.
Mr.. Kyle was about to pass the
question over, when Mr.. Boutelle in
his vigorous manner called for an
answer.
Mr.. Kyle (not exactly understand
ing the question and believing that
Mr.. Boptel}e did not either) asked
the gentleman from Maine to repeat
it, remarking that another Daniel
had come to Judgment.
Mr.. Boutelle declined to do so,
saying that it was question pro-
pounded by the gentleman from
South Carolina. At his request Mr..
Murray repeated the query. In reply
Mr.. Kyle said that suffrage was
whatever the State made it.
"That does not answer it," ex-
claimed Mr.. Boutelle. "No Daniel
ever came to judgment IN that way.
We will have to rename you if you
cannot answer it better than that"
81 will answer any question that
the gentleman from Maine wishes to
ask" replied Mr.. Kyle, "but do
not yield now. I think you had
better take your seat"
1t is better for you, | Think"
was Mr.. Boutelle's retort.
81 think it is better for you, too,"
was Mr.. Kyle's rejoinder.
81 did not understand the answer
to my question:" interjected Mr..
Murray, rising again.
Mr.. Kyle replied that (not COM
pretending exactly what the ques-
ton meant) he would answer "no."
He said that he was in accord with
the constitution of Mississippi, to
which he had taken his oath.
Mr.. Boutelle - What about the
oath you took to the United States?"
laughter.
Mr.. Kyle - The same way.
[ Laughter.
Mr.. Powers, Republican, Of Cali
tornia, saroasticalIy denominated the
election laws as " frightful spectre"
and then went into a dissertation
upon the rights of settlers on South.
ern Pacific Railroad lands