Speech #510093359

But the tact that Congress has full authority now to deal with abuses said by the Republican party to exist so flagrantly in many districts in the South does not seem to satisfy that party. It goes further in this bill. It insists that the partisan officials who hold their positions fromn partisan judges shall be clothed with the power to organize the whole system of naturalization into a compact but complicated political miachineand run itin the interestof the dominant party. that they shall have the authority to interfere with the right of suffrage as regulated and conferred by the States. and to intermeddle with and in a measure annul the regulations which have been provided by the State governments for the conducting of elections from the very beginning of the existence of the States. The bill goes further than that. and provides in section 32 for the unlimited increase of commissioners. so as to afford a convenient and speedy means for arrest and examination of persons charged with violating this law. for the appointment of a suitable and unlimited numher ot persons oe deputy marshals to arrest such violators of the law. and for the payment to such special deputies the sum of $5 for every person they may so arrest and take before a commissioner in addition to the usual fees allowed by law. It goes further than that and provides in the same section that the President may empower the officers charged with the administration of the law to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States or the militia as may be needed to aid in the enforcement and due excution of the law and to prevent the violation of its many provisions.