Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-01-31
From WaahinRton.
Correspondence Of the state Sen!inrll
WAgUlNCToy IAN o3

sion is gone, and no Speaker is Yet elected.
How long the Black Republicans have deter
mined that this struggle shall go on, and the
peoples time and money wasted in these
fmitlcss attempts, | cannot say. They have,
and have had it foI a long time, in their
owe TO have elected a member of their own
party to that position, but thus far they have
failed to avail themselves of the opportunity.
knowing that the country is justly indignant
at this unparalleled waste of time and money
on their party, they have essayed to divide
the responsibility by an attempt to saddle 4
portion of it ON the Democrats. Giddings
opened the debate on this head by charging
that in 1919, the Democrats were in favor Of
the plurality rule, aud were now steadily
voting against it. Mr.. Colfax seconded him,
and also made a lame attempt to prove the
same thing. Never were a couple of Honor
ables more completely demolished. Gov.
Cobb, Of Georgia, first gave a history OF the
matter as it occurred in 1910. The Wing
and Democratic caucuses both appointed a
committee to confer together, and report to
their respective caucuses what action they
recommend to effect an organization of the
House. They both reported in favor Of the
plurality rule. The Wing caucus endorsed
the report of their committee, but the Demo-
cratic caucus, by an overwhelming MAORI
ty, four to one, rejected Il. 1t was, however,
afterwards offered in the House, and adopted,
the Wings, almost in solid p~halanx, voting
for 1t, aided by about fourteen Democrats.
Seventy odd Democrats uOtei against II. This
was the history of the transaction.
But Mr.. Cob did not stop here. He went
on to show that Giddings had ialsliied the
record, by putting words in Mr.. Stanton's (of
Tennessee) mouth which he did not utter.
In reading from Mr.. Stanton's speech, Mr.
Giddings read him as declaring that at was
a mutual agreement between the two par
ties" whereas Mr.. Stanton never used any
such language. 1t was the language of the
reporter. Could anything be more disreputa-
bic than this?
But to add to Giddings' total discontinue,
Mr.. Letcher, of Virginia, read from a speech
of Giddings, delivered that session, wherein,
he (Gidddings) expressly charged the sue
cess of the plurality rule upon the Whigs.-
They, said he, aided 10y a few Democrats, did
it. Mr.. Letcher also read from the speech,
I 4 SthtlS utiunCAilAOu VI lilC luiC - ttfoftv
ia DiJnciDle.' and destructive of the rights Of
the minority. Yet this hoary-headed old
hypocrite had the unblushing assurance to set
himself up as a pattern Of honesty and fair
dealing, and to advocate what he had n few
years before denounced as "wrong in princi-
pie" and destructive of the rights of the mi
nority; nay more, to deliver lectures, and
read men lessons on consistency and honestly
4 I'll -. ---,a 81 hold G,ral in.
pudence 90 farther? Yet this creature IS n
Saint in the Black Republican Church.
Mr.. Colfax scarcely Jared better. He was
caught too in another ignOble attempt TO fall
sify the record. Gov. Cobb, and other Dem
ocratic speakers, had made the point that
there was a difference between that Congress,
and this one in this: in 1919, no party had a
majority, in this Congress, the Black Repub-
leans had q majority, and could have elected
the very man that a majority of them had
declared to be their first choice at the
commencement of the session, had they
been so disposed. In order to break the
force of this, Mr.. Colfax read from the
!, speech of Governor Brown, of Mississippi,
? garbled extracts to prove that the Democrats
had then a majority. Gen. Houston, of Ala
bama, exposed the trick by reading large ex-
tracts from the same SpeeCn5 In winch OOF,
( Brown expressly stated that no party had q
{ majority. Gen. Houston wanted to know
why the gentlemen hadn't read those ex-
tracts. Schuyler, fairly cornered and blush
: ing all over, replied that he hadn't time. Gen
: Houston said it was very unfortunate thai
l the gentleman had time to read garbled ex-
, tracts, giving a false c%oloring to the speech
but left out those parts which explained and
= qualified what he had read. The rebukt
I was singing, and Schuyler withered beneath
it.
= Worsted on every hand, some of the Black
! Republicans then attempted to get off by
saying that they had not an anti ebrask;
{ majority. This statement Mr.. Jones, oil
Tennessee, nailed to the counter by showing
! from repe sted votes, that they could have
D elected their Speaker at almost any STAGE o
the proceedings, had they not determined tc
: have Banks and nobody else. By-the-wav
; Mr.. Dunn ridiculed their sticking to Bank.
so pertinaciously, very stnkingly. He said
n instead of "UniOn and Liberty, one and in
separable, now and forever" with them i
was, "Banks and freedom, now and forever
I Let me say to democratic candidates fo
Congress, and indeed all Democratic candi
: dates, that they will find the Congressiona
: Globe and Appendix an invaluable documen
in the approaching election. They cost only
> six dollars. PINCKNEY.