Alabama-George E. Spencer, John T. Morgan. Kentucky-Thomas C. McCreery, James B. Beck. Maryland-George R. Dennis, William Pinckney Whyte. New Hampshire-Bainbridge Wadleigh, E. H. Rollins. New York-Roscoe Conkling, Francis Kernan, Ohio-Stanley Matthews, Allen G. Thurman. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Alabama-James T. Jones, Hilary A. Herbert, Jeremiah N. Williams, Charles M. Shelley, Robert F. Ligon, G. W. Hewitt, William H. Forney, W. W. Garth. Arkansas-Lucien C. Gause, William F. Slemons, J. E. Cravens, Thomas M. Gunter. California-Horace Davis, Horace F. Page, John K. Luttrell, R. Pache 30. Colorado-T. M. Patterson. Connecticut-George M. Landers, James Phelps, John T. Wait, Levi Warner. Delaware-James Williams. Florida-R. H. M. Davidson, Horatio Bisbee, Jr. Georgia-Julian Hartridge, William E. Smith, Philip Cook, Henry R. Harris, Milton A. Candler James H. Blount, William H. Felton, Alexander H. Stephens, H. P. Bell. Illinois-William Aldrich, C. H. Harrison, Lorenzo Brentano. William Lathrop, H. C. Burchard, T. J. Henderson, Philip C. Haye-, G. L. Fort, Thomas A. Boyd, B. F. Marsh, R. M. Knapp. Wiliam M. Springer, Thomas F. Tipton, Joseph G. Cannon, John R. Eden, W. A. J. Sparks, William R. Morrison, William Hartzell, R. W. Townshend. Indiana-B. S Fuller, Thomas R. Cobb, George A. Bicknell, Leonidas Sexton, Thomas M. Browne, M. S. Robinson, John Hanna, M. C. Hunter, M. D. White. W. H. Calkins, James L. Evans, A. H. Hamilton, John H. Baker. Iowa-J. C. Stone, Hiram Price, Theodore W. Burdick, N. C. Deering, Rush Clark, E. S. Sampson, II. J. B. Cummnings, Willian F. Sapp, Addison Oliver. Kansas-William A. Phillips, Dudley C. Haskell, Thomas sided; and in the House, the Speaker, Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania. In the Senate, on December 3d, the following resolution was offered by Senator Blaine of Maine: Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be Maine-Thomas B. Reed, William P. Frye, S. D. Lindsey, Llewellyn Powers, Eugene Hale. Maryland-Daniel M. Henry, Charles B. Roberts, William Kimmell, Thomas Swann, E. J. Henkle, William Walsh. Massachusetts-William W. Crapo, Benjamin W. Harris, Walbridge A. Field, Leopold Morse, N. P. Banks, George B. Loring, Benjamin F. Butler, William Claflin, W. W. Rice, Amasa Norcross, George D. Robinson. Michigan-A. S. Williams, Edwin Willets, J. H. McGow an, E. W. Keightley, John W. Stone, Mark S. Brewer, Omar D. Conger, Charles C. Ellsworth, Jay A. Hubbell. Minnesota-M. H. Dunnell, H. B. Strait, J. H. Stewart. Mississippi-H. L. Muldrow, Van H. Manning, H. D. Money, O. R. Singleton, Charles E. Hooker, J. R. Chalmers. Missouri-Anthony Ittner, Nathan Cole, L. 8. Metcalf, Robert A. Hatcher, R. P. Bland, Charles H. Morgan, T. T. Crittenden, B. J. Franklin, David Rea, Henry M. Pollard, J. B. Clark, Jr., John M. Glover, A. H. Buckner. Nebraska-Thomas J. Majors. Nevada-Thomas Wren. New Hampshire-Frank Jones, James F. Briggs, Henry W. Blair. New Jersey-C. H. Sinnickson, J. H. Pugh, Miles Ross, Alvah A. Clark, A. W. Cutler, Thomas B. Peddie, A. A. Hardenburgh. New York-James W. Covert, William D. Veeder, S. B. Chittenden, Archibald M. Bliss, Nicholas Muller, S. S. Cox, Anthony Eickhoff, A. G. McCook, Fernando Wood, A. 8. Hewitt, Benjamin A. Willis, Clarkson N. Potter, John H. Ketcham, George M. Beebe, S. L. Mayham, John W. Bailey, Martin I. Townsend, Andrew Williams, A. B. James, John H. Starin, Solomon Bundy, George A. Bagley, William J. Bacon, William H. Baker, Frank Hiscock, John H. Camp, E. G. Lapham, J. W. Dwight, J. Hungerford, E. Kirke Hart, Charles B. Benedict, D. N. Lockwood, G. W. Patterson. North Carolina-Jesse J. Yeates, C. H. Brogden, A. M. Waddell, J. J. Davis, A. M. Scales, W. L. Steele, William M. Robbins, Robert B. Vance. Ohio-Milton Sayler, H. B. Banning, Mills Gardner, J. A. McMahon, A. V. Rice, Jacob D. Cox, Henry L. Dickey, J. W. Keifer, John S. Jones, Charles Foster. Henry S. Neal, Thomas Ewing, M. I. Southard. E. B. Finley, N. H. Van Vorhes, Lorenzo Danford, William McKinley, Jr., James Monroe, James A. Garfield, Amos Townsend. Oregon-Richard Williams. Pennsylvania-Chapman Freeman, Charles O'Neill, Samuel J. Randall, William D. Kelley, A. C. Harmer, William Ward, Isaac N. Evans, Hiester Clymer, A. H. Smith, S. A. Bridges, F. D. Collins, II, B. Wright, James B. Reilly, J. W. Killinger, E. Overton, Jr., John I. Mitchell, J. M. Campbell, W. 8. Stenger, Levi Maish, L. A. Mackey, Jacob Turney, Russell Errett, Thomas M. Bayne, W. S. Shallenberger, Harry White, J. M. Thompson, Lewis F. Watson. Rhode Island-Benjamin T. Eames, L W. Ballou. South Carolina-J. H. Rainey, Richard H. Cain, D. Wyatt Aiken, John H. Evins, Robert Smalls. Tennessee-J. H. Randolph, J. M. Thornburgh, George G. Dibrell, H. Y. Riddle, John M. Bright, John F. House, W. C. Whitthorne, J. D. C. Atkins, W. P. Caldwell, Casey Young. Teras-John H. Reagan, D. B. Culberson, J. W. Throckmorton, Roger Q. Mills, D. W. C. Giddings, G. Schleicher. Vermont-Charles H. Joyce, D. C. Denison, George W. Hendee. Virginia-John Goode, Jr., G. C. Walker, Joseph Jorgenson, George C. Cabell, J. R. Tucker, J. T. Harris, Eppa Hunton, A. L. Pridemore. West Virginia-Benjamin Wilson, Benjamin F. Martin, John E. Kenna. Wisconsin-Charles G. Williams, L. B. Caswell, George C. Hazleton, William P. Lynde, Edward S. Bragg, Gabriel Bouck, H. L. Humphrey, Thaddeus C. Pound. TERRITORIAL DELEGATES. Arizona-H. S. Stevens. Dakota J. P. Kidder. Idaho-8. S. Fenn. Montana-M. Maginnis. New Mexico-T. Romero. Utah-G. Q. Cannon. Washington-O. Jacobs. Wyoming-W. W. Corlett. instructed to inquire and report to the Senate whether at the recent elections the constitutional rights of American citizens were violated in any of the States of the Union; whether the right of suffrage of citizens of the United States, or of any class of such citizens, was denied or abridged by the action of the election officers of any State, in refusing to receive their votes, in failing to count them, or in receiving and counting fraudulent ballots in pursuance of a conspiracy to 'make the lawful votes of such citizens of none effect; and whether such citizens were prevented fron exercising the elective franchise, or forced to use it against their wishes by violence or threats, or hostile demonstrations of armed men or other organizations, or by any other unlawful means or practices. Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be further instructed to inquire and report whether it is within the competency of Congress to provide by additional legislation for the more perfect security of the right of suffrage to citizens of the United States in all the States of the Union. Resolved, That in prosecuting these inquiries the Committee on the Judiciary shall have the right to send for persons and papers. Mr. Blaine said: "Mr. President, the pending resolution was offered by me with a twofold purpose in view: "1. To place on record, in a definite and authentic form, the frauds and outrages by which some recent elections were carried by the Democratic party in the Southern States; "2. To find if there be any method by which a repetition of these crimes against a free ballot may be prevented. "The newspaper is the channel through which the people of the United States are informed of current events, and the accounts given in the press represent the elections in some of the Southern States to have been accompanied by violence, in not a few cases reaching the destruction of life; to have been controlled by threats that awed and intimidated a large class of voters; to have been manipulated by fraud of the most shameless and shameful description. Indeed, in South Carolina there seems to have been no election at all in any proper sense of the term. There was instead a series of skirmishes over the State, in which the polling-places were regarded as forts to be captured by one party and held against the other; and, where this could not be done with convenience, frauds in the count and tissue-ballot devices were resorted to in order to effectually destroy the voice of the majority. These in brief are the accounts given in the non-partisan press of the disgraceful outrages that attended the recent elections; and, so far as I have seen, these statements are without serious contradiction. It is but just and fair to all parties, however, that an impartial investigation of the facts shall be made by a committee of the Senate, proceeding under the authority of law and representing the power of the nation. Hence my resolution. "But we do not need investigation to establish certain facts already of official record. We know that one hundred and six Representatives in Congress were recently chosen in the States formerly slave - holding, and that the Democrats elected one hundred and one or possibly one hundred and two, and the Republicans four or possibly five. We know that thirty-five of these Representatives were assigned to the Southern States by reason of the colored population, and that the entire political power thus founded on the numbers of the colored people has been seized and appropriated to the aggrandizement of its own strength by the Democratic party of the South. "The issue thus raised before the country, Mr. President, is not one of mere sentiment for the rights of the negro-though far distant be the day when the rights of any American citizen, however black or however poor, shall form the mere dust of the balance in any controversy; nor is the issue one that involves the waving of the 'bloody shirt,' to quote the elegant vernacular of Democratic.vituperation; nor still further is the issue as now presented only a question of the equality of the black voter of the South with the white voter of the South. The issue, Mr. President, has taken a far wider range, one of portentous magnitude; and that is, whether the white voter of the North shall be equal to the white voter of the South in shaping the policy and fixing the destiny of this country; or whether, to put it still more baldly, the white man who fought in the ranks of the Union army shall have as weighty and influential a vote in the government of the Republic as the white man who fought in the ranks of the rebel army. The one fought to uphold, the other to destroy, the Union of the States; and to-day he who fought to destroy is a far more important factor in the government of the nation than he who fought to uphold it. "Let me illustrate my meaning by comparing groups of States of the same representative strength North and South. Take the States of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana. They send seventeen Representatives to Congress. Their aggregate population is composed of ten hundred and thirty-five thousand whites and twelve hundred and twenty-four thousand colored; the colored being nearly two hundred thousand in excess of the whites. Of the seventeen Representatives, then, it is evident that nine were apportioned to these States by reason of their colored population, and only eight by reason of their white population; and yet in the choice of the entire seventeen Representatives the colored voters had no more voice or power than their remote kindred on the shores of Senegambia or on the Gold Coast. The ten hundred and thirty-five thousand white people had the sole and absolute choice of the entire seventeen Representatives. In contrast, take two States in the North, Iowa and Wisconsin, with seventeen Representatives. They have a white population of two million two hundred and forty-seven thousand-considerably more than double the entire white population of the three Southern States I have named. In Iowa |