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THE ABROGATE. 5 CONOKEMSIONAL. Monday, January 19. Senator Harris, ofTenne'eee, addressed the Senate on the matter of Its rules from time lmrae morlal, 80 to epealc, as follows: Under the constitution tho two Houses of Congrws, with the approval of the Presi dent, can not abridge tho right of free speech or of the pris. The rule throughout all ofjthiii broadband of ours in universal an to the absolutd freedom of speech and free dom of the prws; and tho Senate could not abridgo the right of free speech upon any nueHtion but for the clause of the oonstitu tion that I have read, which given to each Hotme tho right to make its own rules regu lating its proceeding. TtiA Kniififn is r continuing body, and when a new Congress meet it has Us code of rules in existence, and they are tne su preme law of the Senate in the regulation of the business of the Senate, Hubject of course to any change that the Senate may make from time to tune. Senators Cullom of Illinois, Rutler of Bouth Carolina, IJerry of Arkansas, Tur pie of Indiana, Walthall of Mississippi and Wolcott of Colorado presented nu meroua petitions romonstratlngf against the passage of the Conger lard bill and praying for the passage of the Paddock pure food bill. The House legislation wan very mea gre, and Mr. McKlnley of Ohio eald: There Id not a gentleman on tho opposi tion Bide of the lIouHe who would not de- .I...KI.. .,..U.,n,f,.l nrwl l,n U'Mll.l I. A I I HID 11 UU WOIO HUUIUUli U11V4 "U nwu.v. w if he replied at all, that the whole purpose of their llllibuwtonng tactics naa ooen to mane it impossible, if the Senate should send us the elections bill, to give us the opportunity to pass it through the House of Kepresenta tives. To which Mr. Flower of New York made the response: We accept that issue and stand on it. And then Mr. McKlnley, in his usual rockloBS wny of speaking, Bald: The opposition did not Bocuro powor in the House of Representatives without the suppression of the votes of thousands and hundreds of thousands of citizens all over this country. Senator Pasco of Florida, in a speech of considerable range, submitted a table which he presented in a speech made in the Senate on January 20, 181)0, which gave the estimate of males twenty-one years of age and over in 188M, and "the silent voto" in the tatos In the Presi dential election of 1888. From that table the following matter la presented: Siknt vite Name of State. of New York 4k,4U Pennsylvania .'Ml, 472 Ohio 3i,y) California. 2i!J,!i2l Massachusetts 211,512 Illinois in,u,A (ieorRla Wl.Ki Houtti Carolina v.w,n:i'j Nebnuka i!)ti,7us Missouri Kl.m Mississippi iiw,2'j:j Kentucky 157,2:10 Michigan 151.HH7 Ix)u1hUdi UV-t'l Texas : l:H,07 Alabama 1:) 1,1,00 Arkansas Wi,tti Indiana. i)2,!):u Wisconsin m,rHrt New .Jersey M,:m Minnesota 7H.474 Colorado 7i,7!)2 Kansas 73,;kh Virginia..... 71,807 In the above named list of twenty four states, there were 190 electoral votes for Harrison and 118 cast for Cleveland, and there were eleven of the twenty-four states above named. Speaking upon the United States elec tion bill, Mr. Pasco continued: The most serious crime against the elec tion franchise is the improper use of money. There has been practiced a system of pay Log oil workmen in what are called ''pay envelope," upon which are printed per suasive arguments to vote the Republican ticket. Notice, too, have been posted in factories and workshops to the effect that work will be suspended or wages bo reduced if the republican party is defeated. While the rending bill is full of fines and penalties against the forco and fraud which are charged to be universal at the south, there are no penalties against practices such as I have described and referred to. In behalf of the Australian method of conducting elections, the Senator re marked: Much has been accomplished by the states through the system of separating the voter from all outside influences when ho casta his vote, and mailing tho ballot absolutely uecret. If generally adopted, the briber, the intiniidator, the ticket chancer will be powerless. It in probable that the antoninh ing result of the recent election in many of the eastern states U due more to the opera tion of these laws than is generally sup posed. 'I'll IC I'KN NMVLVANI.V METHOD. Mr. T. V. Powderly, the master work man of the Knights of Labor, is thus quoted by Senator Pasco: There can be no worse Intimidation prac tical anywhere in the country than Is prac ticed in Pennsylvania, tho cradle of promo tion, and the headquarters of the great party of so-called morality. I have seen the mine bonnes stand around the polls with cigar . boxes on their arms, in which were tickets, and as an employe came along the cover was raised and a ticket handed him. The poor workman wan not told in so many words to voto the ticket, and if he failed to do ho he would lose his job in about a week's time, without being told why ho was dis charged. Mr. Pasco concluded his effort an fol lows: The memories of the war sre not longer to be employed as a political force, Reason and argument and truth shall take their place, and prejudice must be banished. Tho closing hours of this Congress should not be employed by a majority which has lost its support in an effort to defeat the popular will and turu back the soa of good feeling and returning justice. In a speech of Senator Daniel of Vir ginia on the national elections bill, he said: Free speech and froo elections are the very soul of Republican institutions. You oan not have a people's government if you sep arate the government from tho people ho that they can not lay their hands on it. Un der this bill there is no people's government in pi in or specillcation, but an arrangoment which has been perfected with the most in genuity so to segregate and mass the powers of government away from the people that they can never get their hands on them. The government, if this bill should become a law, stands behind a massive fortress and looks ever at the people They may sur round it, but they can never enter it. And upon the eve of election does not every one know that all of these oflloial agencies will bo concentrated by the political powor that manipulates them upon the weak points of its opposition? Tuesday, January 20. Mr. Anderson of Kansas, Introduced a series of resolu tions relating to the interstate commerce commission, making many Inquiries and statements among which are the follow ing: This said commission is Thereby requested to furnish to the Houho of Rep resentatives information whether tho com mission has reason to believe whether from publio opinion or othorwise, that several railroad companies operating linos west of Chicago, or of tho Missisnippi river are seeking to enter into any form of corabma nation as will enablo said combination or its agents to control in whole or in part, the charges made to the publio by any said com panies for tho transportation of interstate passengers or freight. Whether it has reason to believe that an article published in tho New York Herald January 8, 1891. is substantially correct, and that tho "new agreement set forth in said article, or any agreement of similiar tenor as to the moro important points, is sought to be made or has been maue by the presidents or other authorized olllcers of cither of tho following or other railroad companies, namely, the Missouri l'aoillo, Atchison, lopeka, v Santa be, southern I'acitlc, Northern l'aoillo, Chicago A Northwestern, Chicago, Rook Island it Pacific, Denver fc Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western, Chicago, Milwaukee A St. l aul, Wabash, Iowa Central, Illinois Cen tral, Chicago, Rurlington .t Quincy, and the Missouri, Kansas A Texas. Whether any combination of any of said companies has been forraf d or has been attempted to be formed, known as the Western Tralllo association, or otherwise possessing power to affect the charges made to the publio upon the tralllo having origin or destination in Illinois. Minnesota, Missouri, and the Pon- nsulaof Michigan or any other state or ter ritory west of tho Mississippi river except business passing between points north and south of the Ohio river, both of which are east of the Mississippi. Also tho business to and from the Repub- lie of Mexico via Rio Grande river crossings. nether the territory served by the lines, parties to this agreement shall be divided in to four or more section or divisions, observ ing as nearly as practicable, the natural di visions of the territory as repreuented by existing associations, and eaoh division may be put under the immediate supervision and direction of one of the commissioners chosen. The representatives of this pool or syn dicate formed to control the business of all the railroads west of Chicago, have for the plant f:J,00(),(aK),000 invented capi tal In these roads above designated, and the advisory board, composed of tho pres ident and one director of each road, as sembled at New York on January 8, 1301, the general declaration of principles hav ing been signed at a conference held at the residence of President Morgan, (in December 15, 1800. These fifteen rail way systems In the association have pretty nearly secured the adoption of their epeolflc treaty as a whole, whose principal olllc will probably bo at Chicago, pomilbly at New York. Jay Gould had a good deal to Bay In favor of this pet scheme for abolishing the agemcles of the company and for pool ing freight between competing points. The names of several of these railway magistrates are here presented, omitting at thlii time the roadu that they repre sent, or with which they are connected: Jay Gould, Allen Manvel, George P. Magoun, C. P. Huntington, J. C. Stubbii, Thomas F. Oakes, David 8. Wngg, Sidney Dillon, Marvin Hughltt, Albert Keep, H. It. Cable, D. Rrewstor, David 11. Moffat, Georgo Coppell, William J. Pal mer, David Dodge, Roswell Miller, Samuel Spencer, O. D. Ashley, Charles M. Hays, Rusuel Sago, C. II. Ackert, S. V. R. Crugar, Charles F. Perkins, Charles Payne, II. K. Finos, John J. McCook and J. Kennedy Tod. The Btandlng committees of each tho llouue and Sonate submitted reports on many bills. The Senate devotod considerable time to tho resolution before it rotating to limitation of debate. Wednesday, January '21. The nttempt to have "order reign In Woruaw," has not beon vory successful In the House wince the late holidays, and Mr. Mount, of Georgia, commenting thereon, mode the following remarks: Mr. Speaker, for the first time during this session of Congress wo have come baoz to the method of doing away with tho rulos of this house and adopting a special order for considering measures. I had hoped that had ended. l!y reason of the lessons of the last campaign I had hoped that it had ended in tho special orders, passed in a manner contrary to the rules on the tariff legislation, the silver legislation and the election laws. Thoso wero passed over our protest, and we were met with tho declaration from tho other side that "the country wauted busi ness and not talk," to which there came an acclaim of vehement approval cf the dis tinguished gentleman announced that as the maxim of the other side of tho, House such as the most ambitious person could have desired. Rut, Mr. Chairman, there carao later on, at the elections In November, another voico louder than tho gentleman's on the othor side of the hall, louder than was ever heard on any issue in tho country heretofore, on all of those iiuestious, adverse to the dia tribes we have listened to heretofore from our frieuds on the other side, and I had hoped that there would bo some recognition of the declaration at the polls in matters of this sort. We are told that notwithstanding this the majority havo still a few days of power, and they are going to continue in their course for what little life they have left. And so we are here again with An order changing the rules of the House in reference to appro priation bills and tho manner of considera tion, a change as sorious as any we have made in the past. Now, sir, you aro proposing that the com mitteo of tho whole may consider the Dis trict of Columbia appropriation by para graphs without reading thorn. Hero is a bill involving millions of dollars, with leg-i islation in it, and yet it is proposed that at a given time to-day this House shall nay to the committee of the whole: "You have trilled with this business long enough; we mean to take it up and consider it, right or wrong." Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, remarked! It is extraordinary for the committee on rules to undertake to cap all their unheard of proceedings by proposing to enact a rule that a bill making appropriations to the amount of $.5,000,000 shall not bo road either in the House or in the committee of the whole. That is exactly what this reso lution propose. I believe we have never gone that far beforo, but here we propose to provide that there shall bo no reading of this bill; that this money, one-half of which is to be paid by this district and one-half by the people of the United States, slull be ex: ponded without an opportunity to discuss the meanure or evon hoar it read. We have appealed to the country ctxca within" the la -I sixnonthc, and thr.ro ri a treat many members on this aidj aad a trrt at jannv on the ct'ier who rpmeiuber well tho rei.ult of Hut appeal. Thin method in part wnui adopted by the giitlinan from Ohio (Mr. McKinlfy) when ia chitr of t.Yl bill retia in'rthe tnvlff. Vt'e said then, when you throttled us nid put that nifftaure through without due dia ouHflicn Or Uw'iheratlon, that we appealed from you o tha people whose power ft wan to make and unmake Congress and the poo ple untnada one immediately. New, Mr. Hpeakor, wlir.t does nil thU mean?. We have ampls time to oormiJor the appropriation bilis duliberately, but they are to go down tho line in or jor that tltn deck may be cleared and a bill put through the other end of the cepttol and through this Hoive, providing for force at the polls, so that the pooplu can protest ajnin. That is the issue involved. Mr. McComaa, of Maryland, said: To-diiy the right of the majority to rule in either end of this capitol, according to the constitution, is denied. Let us hold up the hands of that gnllant soldier and pure President, whoso brs.vo miwiuio called back the oountry to a juntor judgment of the achievements of this ad ministration and Congress. We wu and will stand hero with a quorum of RepuMU cans to do right, to pans the elections bill, should it come back. We will go on with the people's buninrse, do it well, wisely and bravely, ami ohallenga the high ccuildcnoo the judgment of the pooplo in 180J. The Senate brought but very little to pass In Its talk on "the clcsura rule." A3 TO VOTING. The following from the National Al imc,the orjjan of the Colored Alliance, published at. Dallas, Texan, will bear porusal by the peopla of Kansas. Tho Colored Alliance numbers 'about one million members in the southern st&tes, and they are, ready at the drop of the hat to unite with a new party that shall rep resent tha Interests of the great Indus trial organizations, north and oouth: "Perhaps nothl. could b viler than tho effort of t&vi white pwple, and soma colored people, too, to make the people bellv,t!lat thQ Colored Alliance Is a Democratic prcunixitlon, pr in any way conewted with the Democratic party. "Now, the Alliance loaves every man free tp do as he p!es.aoi. If ho wants too, he may vote the Democratic ticket; if he wanta to, l' may voto a Republican llikfj or, it he prefers, he need not voto at all. "Members'of the Alliance, if they know anything, ought to know that before they took the obligation they wero distinctly told that the Alliance would in no wny Interfere with their religious or political opinions'.-' "The Alliance is a nonpartisan organi zation. If however the existing political parties will not furnish tho.fellef wo need, If they will make no effort to save ua and our families from the clutches of mortgage and starvation, we may be com pelled to organize a new political party that will take hold of the affairs of this government and do justlco to the people. "We must not forget that the Repub lican party haa given away our lands to tho railroads. They have given the rail roads land enough to make eleven etatca aa large na .South Carolina, and leave a block ai big as Georgia. They have given the railroads land enough to have furnished. a home for every homeless family In the country. Hut why should the people be Impoverished In this way cad their property given to a fawricb. raL'jroAd rasn? . , "Then, too, wo have tried the Demo- cqtlc party, and they did no better, per licps even a littte worse. It need, there fore, surprise no one If the Alliance peo ple should drop both the Republican and Democratic parties and enter into an organization without party, and for the benefit of the whola people. "After all why should we keep up the party busineesT 18 anybody benefited by political partios outslda of thoue fait who can hold cClco?