The people of the United States are not demanding this measure. They have had statutes that are like it in every particular. but two or three. that are unimportant to it as a system of law to preserve the purity of elections. now for nineteen or twenty years upon the statute book. In the execution of those laws. with all the rigidity of administration that it was possible to bring to bear. the AttorneyGeneral reports this in regard to election crimes: There were pendingJuly 1.1890.8..63 criminal prosecutions. namely.68forviolation of customs laws. 4.075 for violation of internalrevenue laws. 534 for violation of postoffice lsws. 336 for violation of election laws. 61 under naturalization laws. 269 underthe intercourse laws. 162under the pension laws. 7under the civilrights acts. 57 for embezzlement. and 3.114 miscellaneous prosecutions. Not 4 per cent. of the prosecutions now pending. which doubtless reach back with reference to the date of the alleged commission of offenses for four or five or six yearsnot 4 per cent. of those prosecutions are under the election laws. and yet thereis not one single crime mentioned in this bill that is not to be found particularly defined and the punishment particularly prescribed in the Revised Statutes of the United States as they exist today. After you have passed this bill and put your sickle into the harvest you will not reap any more victims with this new bill than you have done under the old. so far as the offenses are concerned for the violation of which men are to be tried in the courts.
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