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Show THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION" BILL. Fra measures ever Introduced have excited a feeling to strained ani intense as that which has been awakened I y the till providing for Federal control of Congressional elections. Tlie bill Is so framed as to give Frderal appointees a super vlsory control of elections fcr mem bers of Congress, ths certificate or tho board cosituted under the proposed te to be taken as pnma faint evidence or title to a seat in the National Legislature It is a Republican measure, being in line with the platform declaration of the party in ls57 in relation to the protection pro-tection of the right cf the coloruj peoj le to the exercise of the fran Mil-ein the Sojth As a matter of courte should the measure become law the Democratic solidity of that section of the country would be broken and the restige of the iarty practically annihilated The question with which tlusro-posedlaA tlusro-posedlaA is associated b a serious one It Is ptrtini nt to aik whether It would improve the situation or raaie it tenfold wcrec than it is, even granting that the law giving the suffrage to the colored people is now rendered nugatory ly tncktry and intimidation" W ill it precipl Lite the race war w'tleh sta ciuen hat been for 3 tars predicJng, as men ly a matter of time" lvcn sunie Itejiubllcans from the boutli take the (,looni view regarding the p-oliable effects of tho measure, shoul i it become law Mr Coleman, Cole-man, member of Congress from lieuisiana, and a Iteubl!can is among tlie number, as Indicated 1 his remarks in the House yesterday during the debate He sal J ' lie did not wih to precipitatoanv trouble, and he was as certain that troub e and bloodshed would follow tho enactment of this legislation, and that the law would fail in its purjiose, as ho was uro that he would otu against it in the House. He wanted to ee the solidity of the "south broken and there were signs of disintegration m the Democratic party of the "south Tasa a Federal election law and the men now read v to separate from the Democratic party would po back into what the were told was tbo white man's party rather than risk negro sup-emacv In numbers of sections of the South ttie colored peculation areiu the majority It seems therefore that an alternative is involved of a very serious character shall the legal rights of tbo colored electors be denied ind a blood conflict of the two rats be postponed, or shall this propo-ed measure be passed and enforced an I tho horn! le struggle I be I reci itatcd Tlie u IiiU race Is the superior and I for it to be dominated I y the inferior is an unnatural position nnd ficre-fo'e ficre-fo'e i 9 iK-aceable existence is a pnilosoi hie. impossibility The voice of natural Jaw would inevit abl seek to aert itself an J rectify the situation hence the di'emma tho question involves nd jit thu lav, as-erts that the back man shall be protec ed in the cxer else of the sutlrago it confers Thus human enactments have in their operations come to a point where thi are confruu'esl ly a natural an J necessarily insurmcutitableobstacK W hen Mr Coleman as-erts that the white men w .1 not submit to the rule of their cnl red brethren he is notoulvsupported lytliedetermiua tion of the Caucasian population of tlie boutli but by a natural law that is absolute and unyielding |