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Show THE COLORED VOTE UIciued In Ilia Senate Hoir and ISulIcr xpre Usspcct Air ac'4 Ottitr. GREETING THE LABOR CONGRESS CON-GRESS AT BRUSSELS. niau 1'rIacM tViniin; t) I'jt a VMt to the Cnittd Slates. KOCH'S LYMPH IN USE IN NCV YORK. tW UaJrrhlll l'irty fralN At 4 Speed or Orer Mxly )UU - an ibiar. "; le'etraib ta ILsXxxr.l cctu:s,i,).viu llulptt' Rrolulluil Ilrlnllnc In lTlrcll3ti lUruetJ In fit? heu n(c. WA-iHSCTO.f, Dec 12. In the Senate a number cf unimportant bills Were reported from committees aud placed cu the calendar, aftir nhlck Plumb's vso!tltlod, fixing ht Ktiir fjr iHily mtctlnz, was taken lli. t It Vls cfred to Ml',rf being ftrdeudid by triklng cut Hie claiife .or evening te-sions and making it bike effect after tomorrovr. Thy resolution otTeml jestehldy by Dolph, iristmctlns tile committee commit-tee C!l prlvilies and elections to Inralro and report whether the ntit lo yote at aay v'.'ection for presideiitlal clcitory, member of Conaror", Ies!'!turei or Htatri ofliect: IS ueiiled to any American citl7.cn of any State, or Is abridged, except for partfeijation in rebellion or other crime, was taken up. DoIpIis.il J he lartlcularly wauU.il tne committee' to give atteuiiou to whether some States had not provided pro-vided iu their contitutious or laws such voting (pialillcatlons as were not permitted by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution without an abridgement of eon-gre eon-gre Ioual representation. Ht-f.iiJ the constitution recently adopted in aud the representation of that State should be abridged. Heteutl to theclerk'sdcskand had read the recent inaugural message of Guv. ernor Tlllmati, of South Carolina, which lie said was an ofllclal dec-lara'ion dec-lara'ion that the miss of colored I men of the South were not lit to j exercise the elective franchise; that I tlie white people of the south w ere In control of :lieStatr governments j and proposed to malutam control at. all hazirds. Thtie propu.tiocs J (bowed clearly, Dolph said, that the' colored '01 of tlie KoUUi could I not bs permitted to vote ao long a j I hey voted the lepubllcnnticket, cr ivhere their voting wouIJecunirv-1 i ublicau ivinlrol. a" I Yost moved an amendment, Instructing In-structing the committee to inquire further whether by any Statu legislation legis-lation any citizen of tke United stale was denied the light to work on public improvements by reason of their color. He read a claue from a recent statute of the Oregon republican legislature, authorizing the building or a bridge and providing provid-ing that nana but white Intmrers should l employed on tlie ctk. It might Iso. Vert Mid, that the provision was iutcmled to excludu Uhiuesu labor, but tho lacguago of the statute excluded the Mongolian, Indian and negro. The democratic States had never denied the negro tliurlcJittu earn his bread by his, honest lalwr. Dolph replied ami in the further dicuIou, in Illusion tt Tillmsn's menage, brought out tho declaration declara-tion from Butler that he was er-fectly er-fectly willing to stand by tiia. mt-sae. Djlpk i.l he wa. informed tb.Vthe Senilor (Butler), !ilms-lf j had threatened calorcil men in his employ tiut he would dicharge lliem if tticv V)UsI the Itcisibllcan ! tickn. Butler replied that whoever made thalEtatcnient wasgullty of n de-litiente de-litiente and u Illful faIehood. Hoar arose and said hehadniado the statement, having read within twenty-lour hour, in a public document, docu-ment, the testimony of the eenator i'nm South Carolina before n com-mitttv, com-mitttv, in which ho said lie had told tho colored people on his plantation plan-tation Hint he fhould ilinchargc them If they voted the iembllca:) ticket. Butler Then the remark 1 luadu applies, of cour.-e, to the senator from Mr.s'acliu'itU. 1 loar replied that hu w as not lo ho dtteriei from raying what he Iiad to fay by Butler. The resolution then w el) t over u n-til n-til tomorrow. The election bill was theh Liken uis aud Blbdgcttand iValthallspoke iu opposition to it. Hoar then refined re-fined totheincldeutoftlienicruiug, again,and read the tc-t!uion iiiuues-tion,u iiiuues-tion,u hich w a from the minority n po.t made to the Hon..- In ISTd. I n it j liutlcris represented a-i My lug that he gave tickets to colored men and told them liiat they had a right to j vole the Republican ticket if they pleaed; that they were freu nieu, hut if they exercised that right and imposed taxes upon him that would destroy his projiertyand propecls ho (iiou'd tlirbw himself lack oc the en run rights be had and see that they left his plantation. He intended to inform himjelf how they voted. The question was asked: "Would you turn Uiemotrif they vote I the republican ticket?" Butler "Not for votiug a republican ticket If they had an honest ticket, but fur vniine for those thieves and robbers." rob-bers." Butler Mid this testimony was garbled. He had never teen the report before, but said now that he had never at any time attempted Lo Influenrenslngle negro on his plantation plan-tation iu the exercise of the franchise. fran-chise. Messrs. Hoar and Butler then expressed ex-pressed great rtsjeci for each uther and tliemitterwssdmpped." Jone (Arkanas) took the Cocr on the election bill and the Senate adjourned. ad-journed. IlbCSsK. Washington, Dec, 12. After the reading of thejournal the bouse w-entintocooimitteoof the whole on the private calendar. AH the afternoon af-ternoon was cnanimed In the dl-eusslon dl-eusslon of a few private bills, which were finally pasted and the House adjourned. |
