Show TH BLOOD SHIRT I i Waved in the House For All it is Worth THE BIG UPROAR ON THE FLOOR Caused by Bland Twlttins JlcComasCoii Kressnmn Henderson of Iowa is the Blacks Godfrey Bouillon WASHINGTON Juno 2 After minor business tho House went into committee of tho whole on the federal election bill Me Adoo of New Jersey spoke in opposition to the measure and McComas of Mary land and Roweil of Illinois spoke in favor of the bill Band of Missouri twitted McComas for having taken away from the black man in the District of Columbia tne power of local government and never giving i to him again This resulted in an uproar on the floor Bland and McComas shouting at tho top of their voices ainid the applause of their colleagues and the galleries McComas declared that when Blaud affected af-fected an interest in the eight or ten thousand thous-and black voters of the district while during his long service here he had never raised his voice in behalf of the eight or ten millions of poor and oppressed black men in the country he felt like calling him a hypocrite Bland vehemently declared that Mc Comas arid his colleagues were hypocrites I in pretending for party purposes an unfelt un-felt interest in the negroes At this point the uproar became so great that nothing could bu heard save the commingled com-mingled shouts of the debaters and the rapping of the speakers gavel McComas managed to shout that the black man in this district was treated like the whites and ho appealed to the people ol the south to treat blacks and whites alike When quiet was finally restored Cummings Cum-mings ol New York spoke against tile bill The bill was a sectional one tho Republican Re-publican party proposed to make the negro a chattel to be used a < a convenience when I ever necessary Henderson of Iowa read from a speech of Hemphill a passage declaring the whites must either rule or leave the south and that they would not leave it He wanted no further proof than that declaration that the blacks of South Carolina would not be allowed to exercise the rights guaranteed by the constitution Ho felt warranted in saying it was as dangerous as armed rebellion rebel-lion and he meant it He then read from an interview in which Representative I Mills was quoted as saying the passage of the bill meant an increased number of deaths among federal election officers in the south Ho did not know i this were true but i so it was another defiance Ho served notice that UiS country would no longer submit to the mlo of the minority The House had been told that what was needed was not a new south but a new north They would get it The north had peacefully aud peacefuly patiently pa-tiently submitted and they would getit north had peacefullyand patiently pa-tiently submitted t this injustice e They had seen the control of the government by red hands wrested from its proper channels chan-nels and a new north was at hand which would enforce the law and the rights of every citizen Let the south try a little justice The key to the situation was in the observation of the law and where that could not be secured the law must be made to secure it He spoke briefly of tho recent re-cent exhibition of the stars and bars and confederate gray at Richmond He would not have them forget the tender relations of the war but he entered a protest against being told a new north was needed when the lag of the dangerous south was fliunting in the face of the republic The conference report on the post office appropriation bill was adopted Ewart of Ncrth Carolina Republican opposed the passa of tho election law As to negroes political rights speaking for his own state he unhesitatingly asserted that no Republican in the epublcan state black or white was prevented from casting his vote He was sick and tired of the sentimental anl 50ntmental talk of the negro problem it was a delusion t suppose the negro was voting tho Republican Re-publican ticket sold b Many of them were I voting the Democratic ticket and it wa J I getting more and more difficult getug unl dlfeult every year for tbe Republican party to control the ne ro Ho had no hesitation in saying that I nut threetenths of the negroes of the south would vote for the Republican part i if an election were held tomorrow I The disagreeing conference report on the legislative executive and judicial appropri ation bill was adopted and the House took 1 recess At tho evening session there was a very sliui attendance Several addresses were made for all against the election bill and I at 1130 the House adjourned |