Show THE RACE QUESTION A Partisan and Heated Discussion Discus-sion in the Senate on it TILE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT I And the Reconstruction 1olIcyScntor She man Thinks a Cnredll Will be Found in a National Llection Law WASHINGTON March Eustistook the floor and referred to the statements made j by Hoar yesterday one of them being that J In the state of Louisiana and some other o states there were laws which made i a penal offense for n white man t associate on terms of equality with a negro the other to the effect that there was a law which provided that when any colored man was found for a certain time to be out of work his former masters should have the preference In his purchase He denied emphatically that there was any such law in Louisiana and spoke of the recklessness and destitution of of destiuton sense responsibility re-sponsibility with which Republican Senators Sena-tors spoke of southern affairs Hoar said he might havo erred a to the state in which such a law was passed but he quoted them substantially from the laws of Mississippi passed in 1S03 Ho thought that substantially the same law had been enacted in Louisiana The educational bill then came up and I 4 Blair made a brief address He also read extracts from of President J extrct a speech Hart Har-t rison when he was a Senator in 1SSO favor ing the bil and said the President held the same sentiments today The southern question came up again and Hoar admitted that h statements about the laws of Louisiana were incorrect t Sherman asked Eustis whether he did not know that the fifteenth amendment never would have been proposed but for the fact that there were laws in the southern south-ern states depriving the negro of the rights Df citizenship Eustis replied i was his honest convic tion that all reconstruction measures were adopted by the Republican party with the single object of Africanizing the south and maintaining political supremacy and characterized char-acterized it a the greatest crime ever committed against civilized countries Snerman then took part in the discussion 2 discus-sion which became a heated political controversy con-troversy Ho traced tho course of the reconstruction re-construction movement and said at the close of the war it had not been contemplated contem-plated to arm the negro with the suffrage but as laws were passed by some of the southern states so unjust to the colored people and t the white Republicans of the south that tho people of the north became convinced that the object in the south was to overthrow the results of tho war and deprive the freemen of a rights of citizenship citi-zenship When the tie came it was seen there was no way t protect the emancipated eman-cipated people except by arming them with tho suffrage Congress had re luctantly and slowly but deliberately udopted that remedy as tho only one fitted ror the cse He Sherman had some times thougnt it might possibly have been better not to have adopted tho fifteenth mendmentconferring suffrage the col > red men because that right had been nul ificd cud uprooted The result of the Ifteeath amendment was praclicallj o give the southern states in gve reased representation in the House of Representatives and increased power in the electoral college I then was anything wrong in the situation of southern affairs the people of the I south had brought it on themselves There was no feeling of hate in tho north against the south I equal rights t nit people in the south were secured the peo I pie of the north would bo satisfied The fifteenth amendment had not turned out as expected because no man dreamed that such measures as had been resorted t in I the south would have been resorted t to t deprive the negro of his ri ht No one I had dreamed of kuklux klans andall the I savage machinery by which their exclusion bad been perfected Butler suggested that the reconstruct Measures and the fifteenth amendment were not so much due t objectional legis ton in the south a t the conflict between be-tween Andrew Johnson andthoRepublica Republcan te Congress Sherman replied that the selection of Andrew Johnson a southern man and a Democrat for the vicepresidency was roof of the generous treatment thenort lad shown the south but Johnson had de < erted the Republican party and turnei ais back upon it when he came into power ind Congress tied his hands and prevented aim carrying ont his policy Butler Then I understand the Senate from Ohio t admit that the southern people peo-ple We11 not alone responsible but that v Andrew Johnson as President was more responsible for the enactments of the extreme i ex-treme measures against the south I Sherman look upon Andrew Johnson as a southern man and a Democrat Butler He was your Republican Prcs Dent and the people of the south had no other authority t look after they surren tiered except the executive Shcrmau The southern people had aright a-right to look t Congress a the moving power of the country Sherman went on to say t the Senator on the other side that there is a feeling in i the north that not only have the negroes o the south been deprived of ther votes but that the people of the south now enjoy a larger political power than the same number of people in the north Let the south obev the constitution amendments let it give the negro his vote ar > d permit him t vote as he nego wi I would not care if the whole of the negroes would vote the Democrat ticket but this feeling f of injustice does prevail in the south that south Jt while you arc depriving the colored people of their votes you are exercising an undue > power in tho government The north denies de-nies hatred but demands justice and now I I say that beyond and above this educational I tonc bill or any other impending meas ure is an act of Congress that will secure t ever man in the United States entitled en-titled t vote his right 1 cst his vote and have it counted cuntd Whenever Congress rises to the dignity of passing such a law that will be uniform throughout the United States affecting Massachusetts and Ohio as well as South Carolina every man will feel that it is a just and fair law and there will be no further fur-ther ground of complaint Congress cannot can-not exercise any control in the local affairs of tno southern states but what we insist upon is > that there shall be a law that will protect the right of suffrage and that that 4aw shall be executed with such power 1 that penalty no man will dare expose himself its Butler followed Sherman He spoke of the exclusion of the colored men in northern north-ern states from all political officcsand law on the contrary there is no such discrimination discrimi-nation in the south This very day and forte for-te past week tho newspapers have been teeming with accounts of white men in Oklahoma tahoma and Republicans mon them lahoma Republcns among announcing an-nouncing t the world that i the colored people dared to assert their dar t thcr right to control I con-trol the territory by superiority of numbers I num-bers they would drive them out with the I ba onct He had seen accounts of I outrages on colored people in Ohio and indiana I In-diana and yet had heard not one syllable I of protest He would tell the Senator I i I from Ohio that whenever attempted t I f carry out his theory of another crusade I I w upon the south through supervisors and I i y United States marshals for tie purpose of I 4 dominating the elections there ho would I I have fire i his rear from men in tie north who had carried their money and their in dust into thofsouth whenever he at tempted t roestaolish in the south those reconstructive governments which had left in their train the black mark of spoili tion disgrace and humiliation there would be a protest in his own state and cob that would cause him t hesitate co-b efore he carried i out He Butler would not exchange one hour of good order in the goo south for all the political power that negro suffrage had given the south He appealed t the Senators and people of tho north to believe the southern men when they said they were far more interested in an order humane and honest settlement of the question than the people of the north could possibly be Adjourned At a meeting of the Dolph investigating committee today George H Harris of the Washington Star declined to answer when asked how he obtained a report of the aP aS roceedings of the groceedings secret sessions of the I S cnate |