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Show ii cOSgbev-s. Scnalor Spusatr llrrends Ihe tle tlon Rill. Wasiiicto.v, Dec 20. Tho morning hour havlug expired, the presiding officer laid before the Senate Sen-ate the election bill. Paddock gaTe notice that After consideration of the liendlug bill be would axk the Senate to take up the jure food bill. Edmunds demanded the regular order and the floor was taken by Kjoontr, who defended John 1. Davenport from tho attacks made upon him and contended that tbe federal election law, instead of be-lui be-lui otTensive to tho uemocrats of the North, had been put Into opera-atlon opera-atlon at their rcimesL rjjwoner spoke m advocacy of tbe electron bill. A stranger in tbe lrillery, he said, listening to the debate, de-bate, without knowledge ef tbe country, would' U impressed with the idea that all the love of liberty and ilev Lion to the Constitution aad freedom from partizansblf) were to be found on the democratic side of tho chamber. He hoped tbe gentlemen en thu other side would not assume that the republican Senator Sen-ator weru not equally with them lovers of liberty. 1 1 had been said on the other side that tbe Mil was aimed at the South. It was In part. It was aimed at every tort of tbe United State- where, by fraud or force, men who bad a right to vote for member!) of Congress were cheated out of that right. The South, he thought, was vherb the bill was sieclally needed. It had been paid the other day that the negro should never have bad tbe right to vote, but ltwasto bte now to argue that question. The right bid been given him, whether In wisdom or unwisdom, and could not be taken from him. Jteferrinc to Stewart's speech yes-terday,aud yes-terday,aud bis remark that the elections elec-tions law cuulJ not be enforced in the South because public opinion would not support it, Spooner said: "Have we fallen to a condition in our country that calls for the preservation pre-servation by law of the purity of the ballot of tbe North, but that we must stop at Mason and Dixon's line becauu public opinion in the South is in favor of dishonest and fraudulent and violent suppression or tbe suffrage? I can notbelluve It." Spoonerspoke over five hours,aud his speech was listened to with marked attention on both sides oi the chamber. Ingalls said It was the conviction of Urn great mass of tbe ipcoplein tue North that the constitutional convention of Mississippi assembled for tho avowed purpose of disfranchising disfran-chising a majority of its citizens who w ere also citizens of the United' States. It had lieen assembled tor the express jiurpose of nullifying, defeating and overthrowimr an amendment to the constitution of the United States, by agreeing to which lho State of Mississippi secured se-cured readmission into the Union. The Southern reople had retained representation in the House of Itep-resentatlvesand Itep-resentatlvesand in the electoral college col-lege while they suppressed the colored voto. They bad retained a representation which baa given them for fourteen years supremacy in tbe House, aud once placed in the Presidential chair a man who never had been elected to that office In any cst sense. Contrary to the uuil course pursced in free countries, coun-tries, the results of the 3Iifslssippi convention would not bcr submitted to the people to be voted upon. It had been arranged to hava it declared de-clared the organic law of the State without any action on the part of the voters- Edmunds added that this convention conven-tion came Into existence by methods entirely outsl Je of the constitution of the State, which provided particularly par-ticularly for its own amendment. The conference report on the bill for a public building at Kansas City was agreed to, and the Benate adjourned. ad-journed. tub BOCSE. c VA6HPfGT0X, Dec. 20. In the House Milliken of Maine presented a number of conference reports on tho public building bill. On motion cf Clunle (Cala.), tbe Senate bill wa passed far the relief ofS.H. Brooks, Aswistant Teasurer of San Fraachco, and the sureties on his oflctal bond. |