The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-31
CONGRESSIONAL.
xLIst OONoBRss-sECOsB SESSION.
....yAsH1Nerox, Jan. 80

HOUSE. NVAsHTNGToN, Jan. %.
The House met for general debate, with
Churchill in the Chair Very 4eW MEM
bers were present.
ply to Daw es's attack on the adminlstra-
tfon, in eulOgy of President Grant and IN
favor OF the free delivery of newspapers
through the mails, in the counties where
they are published.
Williams, of Indiana, made a speech
against railroad nOnepol1es, and IN favor
Of Government interference with railroads
10 prevent extOItion in the rates OF trans
EOrtat1Cn.
williamson made q speech on the same
subject, asserting that the agricultural in
tereStS did not suffer near 50 much nom
bIS tai14 anu taA@t1on ~ ~ utt 4Loili ~ IL
eEtOrtfOn of transportation eXacted by
railroad InOnODOlies.
GOlladay made p speech in favor OF the
adoctrine set forth in Mr.. Mungen's speech
before ne recess on the repudfat1on OF the
national debt. Referring to Mr.. voorhees,
speech of Yesterday he said he was not
only edited, but highly entertained at the
remarks OF his distinguished DemocFalIc
friend. He was capt1vated with his logic,
and struck breathIess, as it were, with the
gorgeous spIendor of bis imagination, de-
picttng the horrors and wrongs and 1nJu-
ries inf eted on the people by bondholders
His logic, however, was not convincing.
There as an Inconsistency in much that
he said, which, If 1t could be reconciled
with what he mad said elsewhere, would
wipe out the erect OF two-thirds of his
speech, and made q speech directly in the
interest o. the repudiatIon theory which
speech owed anything, it proved that
the contract did not bind the people, be-
cause they had not received any moral or
he adopted his friends argument in
support of his own theory. He declared
that he was not q repudiator, and yet the
whole face OF bis figures and argument
was to show The immortality and injustice
of the bonded debt. No man could read
part of II in which he declared himself
not repudiator, and dream that he had
not swapped places with himself.
VOorhess-Can the gentleman not ap-
preciate the difference?
GolIaday declined to yield. .a
Voorhet s-Perhaps the gentleman does
not appreciate the difference cetween pay
ing what we Owe ana paytns what We DO
Goliaday-Th gentleman made an argu-
menJ in faYor Of repudtation, much better
and stronger than can hope to make.
adopt 1t; It was as good speech for repu-
d1alion as can desire-
Eldridze interrupted and GOlladay
declined 10 yield the floor.
EIdr1dge-I must say that / consider the
gentleman'S course rather cOWardiy.
Voorhees-SO do 1.
Golladay-The gentleman has the right to
form his own estimate of what constitutes
eOwaTdice, aCd If he SO desires, there are
other theatres in which he may snow his
bravery, and other means by which he
may testify than by making statement.
Eldridge-I Cnly referred 10 cOwardice in
debate.
GolIadsy-I re. urn the woIds ofthe gen.
tleman in the spirit in which they are
offered. L presume he does not mean to
tmpute coWaTdice 10 me. If he and the
such an tmputation, defy them morally,
socially, politically, and Intellectually.
Eldridge-YOu don't show it.
Golladay proceeded with his speech, and
claimed that Butlers OF Msssach usetts,
was himself practical repudiator, as au-
nOunced Ia Il speech of his in j uly 1868, in
which he took the ground of equal taxa
tiOn or reputation.
Bird followed IN a speech against repudi-
alien.
gen and GoIIaday.
Eldridge took the floor and denied the
right OF the gentlemen from Kentucky to
charge him or his associates WITH standing
on his platform without having the cour-
age or manhood to assert it. He had new
er hesitated to dec are he position which
he maintained on these financial ques-
tlOns.
Dawes desired 10 hear what that position
was
EIdridge informed him that IL he would
be patient no would hear it.
Referring TO his remarks, Goiladay said
that the remark did not call in question
the physical courage OF the gentlemen or
his moral courage in debate. The Demo-
cratic party had expI eSsed its views In no
uncertain words, on the question of cur
rency and finance. The endorsement on a
hve-dollar bill was that 1t was legal tender
for all debts, public and private, except Clu-
ties on Imports and the interest on the
public debt, ami was receivable on all
bonds and loans made TO the United
states. Was there any uncertain sound in
that? Was there any want of courage in
q? The venerable leader OF the House.
who had gone TO his rest-Mr. Stevens, of
Pennsylvania-had declared In this House,
| that ii was a public crime to attempt to
pay debt in any other way.
/ Voorhees, remarked that he had heard
/ Mr.. Stevens declare, on the floor of the
House, that ne would rather vote for
| Frank Blair than for any man who con-
| strued that law to mean that 5-20S We're
| payable in gold. SO, instead of making
/ war upon the Democratic side of the
| House, the other side ought to make war
| on Stevens. AS preachers sometimes said
about their doctrines, that they did not
| like 10 MAKE war on Paul and not on Pc
ter. MT. Stevens was their lesder, and
| they should answer him; they should an
| sWer Senator Morton. OF indiana; they
| should answer Senator Sherman, of Ohio
Eidridge-And when they get through
| with answering these, let them answer
Benz jamin F. Butter.
VOorhees-I beg that gentleman's par
don for not naming him. lLaughter.I
| Davis-On that subject does the opposi-
tion adopt Mr.. Butler as their leader?
Eldridge-NOt just that, but we never go
| against 3 correct principle because a bad
| man, or even the leader of the House, goes
| for It. lLaughter.l
The discussion was carried on for soma
/ time longer by Eldridge, Niblack, Steven
| son and Golladay.
! Cleveland addressed the House against
! repu diation and against all attempts to
pay the debt quickly; in favor of the eX-
panslon OF the currency and a general re-
| ductlon of expenditures and taxation.
At 4:35 p. NJ, the House adjourned.