Capt. Allen Responds

Our 'Washington dispatchea frequently teil us of the activity of Capt. Allen at Washington, and the freqnency m i 1 1 wtiich he is called upon to occupy the speaker's ehair. Sunday's Tribune had the following account of a bout he had with the southern brigadiers : During the discussion of the district appropriation bill this afternoon the Democrats charged the electivo franchise was abolished in Washington because of the negro vote. This drew froin Capt. Allen a spirited response. "The Democrats," said the captain, "pose as mourning for the poor people of the District of Columbia because they have not the right to vote. I charge them to show any bill or resolution to prove that the right was taken from them because the negro vote was a dangerous factor, nor has there been any feeling on the part of Democrats in congress, since the elective franchise has been taken from these people looking toward its restoration, and when the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. McAdoo) says that the object of the existing form of government in this district is to disfranchise the negro, he falsifies his story, because the white citizen is disfranehised as well as the negro. This disfrancliisement is not on account of the negro, but because this city is made up furthe most part of transient residente; people who come here to stay from six nionths tosix years and then o elsewhere. The wisdom of fathersj who took the franchise from the these people ■ Mr. Hemphill- Fathers? Mr. Allen - It is true this legislation was not lonc back and nerhans so far as my friend l'roni South Carolina is concerned, he was one of the "fathers." But the reason the olective franchise was taken away was not to get rid of the netrro vote. Whites and blacks wrre treated alike in glaring contrast with the conditions South, of which we complain. The gentleman trom Tennesee (Mr. Richards) says that wem it not for the negro vote at 'least four states of the north would be Democratie. I answer him by saying, that if you will allow the negro to exercise the right which he has ander the constitution, that right for which many of his race died in the late civil war, there are notless than six statea aouth of Mason and Dixon's line that would give their electoral votes to the Republican candidates for President. Mr. Btruble - eight or nine. Mr. Allen - But instead of this the negro vote is suppressed either by falsehood, fraud or crime ; so long will there be irritation ; so long will there be agitation and until this question is settled aright it will never be settled. And I assure the gentlemen on the other side that talking about the negro in the District of Columbia will not clear their sikrts of the blood guiltiness of suppress ing by violence and murder thousands of votes that are as well entitled to be cast as their own." [Applause on the Republican side.]