The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-02-24
SPICY DEBATE.

| WHcn Inc house Resolution on admitting
Virginia was returned from the Senate with
amendments, quite spicy debate, interspersed
with personalities, sprung up, a portion OF
which we take from the New York World:
Mr.. BINGHAM replied that it was not quite
so obnoxious. He hoped the House would con.
cur IN the Senate amendment. His chief pur-
pose was to state to the gentlemen on his own
side of the House
MIR. BUTLER (Mass. (Which side of the
House is that? Iaughter)
MIR. BINGHAM (indignantly)-T gentle
man is very. wise-wise beyond his years. He
cannot read me out of the party with which I
am associated. nor can he blot out my record
Vulgarity is not wit, assumption is not power.
There was no occasion for the inquiry.
"a wit 'sa feather and a fool g a rod;
An honest man s the noblest work of God"
daughter and much excitement)
MIR. BUTLER took the floor and the interest
in the discussion seemed to be on the increase
He said he would begin where the gentleman
from Ohio had left off; not with misquotation,
but simply to say that he had never threatened
to read the gentleman out of the Republican
party. Nobody could do that but himself
Whether he had done that in passing the Vir.
ment, and with the aid of his Democratic al
lies, the country would judge whether the gen.
teman was to have an ovation when he went
to Virginia, he did not know but he had seen
n hint of that kind in the papers He should
like to be present in spirit where he could look
on-not embOdied-and see Virginians toast
ing the man whom all their papers announced
as the murderer of Mrs Surratt Excite
ment) What sight "The lion and"-no; !;
not "the lamb" but another animal (Laugh.
ter.) He referred TO the euogy passed by the
gentleman from Ohio on the Virginia constitu-
tion and said that it was not the work of Vir-
ginlan statesmen, but of "carpet-baggers" and
scallawags and negroes from the fields. He
regarded the conditions in the bill as notice
to Virginia, and all the country, that if she did
not maintain, in spirit and in truth, the spirit
of the reconstruction acts, Congress held and
claimed, and, with the help of God and of the
loyal people OF the country, would exercise the
power to place her back again where she had
been He did not know what new light the
gentleman from Ohio had got which induced
him to support the Senate bill, which was sub
stantially the bill reported by the Reconstruc-
ton Committee.
COMPARING RECORDS.
derstood very we'll the allusions made by Mr..
Butler, to the acting chairman of the Recon-
structon Committee, and he had a word to
say on that subject He would not allow him.
self to be instructed in Republicanism by the
gentleman from Massachusetts. He had been
a Republican for twenty-five years, when the
gentleman from Massachusetts was chasing fu-
gitive slaves all over the State. daughter and
clo nfh \ 10 haA al L
could ut the Chicago Convention for the nom-
nation of Republican President, when the
gentleman from Massachusetts, was at the
Charleston Convention voting for jeff Davis
(Laughter) He had voted for the Republican
party in 1860, when the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts was voting for Breckenridge of Ken
tucky. He knew that the gentleman, with his
facility for getting on the other side, when his
allies deserted him, went over; and he knew
his conviction and conversion was so sudden
that it shamed that of st. Paul. daughter
The lightning that blazed around him, that TO-
cal blaze that illuminated his understanding,
shamed into darkness the light that shOne
around st. Paul. But he knew that the gen.
tleman was somewhat like Peter when he de-
serted his master. His desertion was so re-
cent that he was obliged to curse and swear to
make people believe that his deserton was gen.
uine. Laughter) So the gentleman from
was obliged to be exceedingly |
radical in order to make believe that his con-
version was genuine. Uaughter.) He un-
1erstood that the gentleman's attack was on
the gentleman from Ohio Mr.. Bingham], but
ne would probably have named him, too, only |
ne knew that he Farnsworth] had chance
to reply.
In the wales near Jordan, in the neighbor-