The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-24
YA.,zWEDNEsDAY. JANUARY "a 1900.


races. This sissfa. Law OF nature. They
must work out their destinies on parallel
lines which cannot come together. The.
5Anslo-Saxon blood and brain will always
be the superior and cannot be subordinated
by the negro.
snegro's condition better every day We
do not deny his political rights because he
Is negro We regulate the suffrage be-
cause he is ignorant, and at present the
majority Of the negro race has no electoral
capacity.
s. ...rhe question raised is a judicial one
Congress has the power, but it has not
the right TO declare any law or constitu-
stional provision of q State unconstitu-s
ztional. 81
AIr, Tillman, OF South Carolina, called
Up bill to revive and amend an act 70
provide for the collection of abandoned
property and the prevention Of frauds in
insurrectionarys districts within the United
States.
On Mr. Tillman's request Mr-#Davls ex-5
planned that the claims were not only just,
but it was the boundenS duty of Congress
to provide for their payment. They cov-s
cred captured and abandoned cotton.
Mr. Hale: WHY that will amount to
$90. COO .D50 or 500 0cQ. eco.
s To this Mr. Davis zdissented. saying that
under court decisions the claims FOR cap
t,,red and abandoned cotton would aggre-.
gate about ss.OOocaO. This money was IN
1ha Treasury and had been held by the
United States forstwnty years for those
TO whom the courts had adjudged it to be-
long.
ct is not said he. "a sluice way for
the nayment of ali the claims which have
been referred 10 by Mr.. III lie. -
q The bill was objected to and hWent
over.
The Senate after short executive ses-
sion adjourned.
In, the House.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2s.-Tne opening
debate in the Roberts case brought enor-
nous crowds to the House to-day. Fully
three-fourths of the spectators were wo-z
men. Mr.. Roberts was seated on the
extreme right of the hall. and every neck
was craneG to view him. Nearly every
member was in his Seat when Mr. Tayler,
Of Ohio. chairman of the special COM
mittee which investigated the case. arose
from behind a desk stacked high with
legal authorities and manuscripts, and
called up the case.
He asked that the agreement made be-
-
committee for vote on the case at 80
p NJ, on Thursday, be ratified by the
House.
Mr.. Lacey, of Iowa. objected, unless it
be understood that substitute resolu-
ton, which he desired to offer. should
be considered pending. To this Mr. Tayler
objected. He also objected to having Mr..
sLacey's proposition read, although ap-
pealed to by Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, and
Mr.. Richardson. of Tennessee.
This proposition, as it subsequently, de-
veloped, was for the expulsion of MI !.
Roberts without swearing him. The ma
jority resolutions, to exclude him. and the
minority resolutions to permit him to be
sworn in. and then expelled, were laid
before the House, and, without any
agreement as to a vote, Mr.. Tsyler, of
Ohio, opened in: support of the majority
resolutions.
Mr.. Tayler declared that the case pre-
sents in bold relief question of gov
ernmental life. the basis of which is law
He said that though opinions might differ
as to unwisdoIn Of certain laws, the
people cannot stand sfors defiance of law,
as Erespecters5 of such laws as have pro-
ceeded from the people at their initiative
and sustained by the deliberate approval
of substantially all the people.
THE C.LARRLAGE RELATION.
OF the more than Is, COX, 900 of A1neri-
can citizens all but the unerest handful
believe, and believe with a mighty ferver,
in the kind Of Commonwealth which JUS
tice Matthews declares is founded on the
marriage relation existing for life be-
tween one man and one woman.
81 If fhe member-elect from Utah is eligf-
BILE to be representative in Congress,
then, for the purpose. of his case, we
must read into the Constitution a pro-
viso that would read: .Provided. that
no person shall be ineligible to seat as
such representative who. in form and sub
stance. in word and act, in life and prac-
tice, defies the Constitution and the laws
and denies their validity and supremacy"
Thus stands the case then: If the mi
nority he right the trainers of the Con-
stitution, If they had foreseen the Ro-
iberts incident, with its defiance Of the
Constitution and the law. and its denial
of their validity and supremacy as to
him, would have said: Brigham II. Ro-
berts is eligible, and must be seated Il
elected.
.But we are told That il is power
that may be abused. What power does
the House possess atnat It has not some
time abused, and shall they therefore be
shorn of powers?
'If we do not exclude this man we
strike down one Of the most vital tsl
necessary powers thaS belong to a great
legislative body. Let not such Il I,lins
be done. # it is not we may lcS. IRE
that never again smile the spirit of c.yili-
zation dominates this republic will any
defiant violators CT law Under co:or Of
religious or any other claim. whether
polygamist or murder, knock for admis-
Continued on Seventh PaeeO