Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-30
HOUSE.

Churchill IN the chair, and very few mem
bers present.
Mr. Conger submitted some remarks il
reply to Dawes attack on the administra
ton, in eulogy of President Grant, and il
favor of a free delivery of newspaper
through the mails in the counties where they
are published.
Railroad MonopoIies.
Mr.. Williams, of Indiana, made speech
against railroad monopolies, and in favor o.
Government interference with railroads Il
prevent in rates Of transportation. Mr.
Wilkinson made speech on the same sub
ject, asserting that agricultural interest;
did not suffer near so much from tariff and
taxation as it did from the extortion Of
transportation exacted by railroad monop-
olies.
Mr.. Golladay made speech in favor Of
the doctrine set forth in Munyon's speech
before the recess, Reputation of the national
debt. Referring to Voorhees, speech OF
| yesterday, he said he was not only edited,
but highly entertained at the remarks of
his distinguished Democratic friend, he
was captiyated with his logic and struck
hreathless as it were, with the gorgeous
| splendor of his imagination, depicting the
horrors and wrongs and injuries inflicted
on the people by bondholders.
However convincing his logic, there
was an inconsistency in much he said,
which, if it could be reconciled with what
he had said elsewhere, would wipe out the
| effect of two-thirds of the speech, and
make the speech directly in the interest of
the reputation theory, which he Cola
| day. advocated to-day.
If that speech proved anything, it proved
that the contract didn't bind the people,
because they had not received any moral
or legal consideration. He adopted his
friends argument in support of his own
theory. His friend declared that he was
not a repudiator, and the whole face of his
figures and argument was to show the i'm
morality and injustice of the bonded debt.
No man could read the gentleman's
speech outside of that part of it in which
he declared he hat not snapped places
with himself.
4 Triangular Duel. .-..
Mr. Northeastern the gentleman not
appreciate difference?
Mr.. Golladay declined to yield.
Mr.. Voorhees-Perhaps the gentleman
does not appreciate the difference between
paying what We owe and paying what we
do not owe.
Mr.. Golladay-The gentleman made an
argument in favor Of reputation much
better and stronger than can hope to
make. snapped, and it was as good a
speech for reputation as 1 can desire.
If the gentleman from Indiana submitted
entirely to the naked question of contract,
it was plain case that the bondholders
held his bonds according to the legal con-
tract.
If he took the other portion of the argu-
ment that there was no consideration-that
there was usury and extortion,-the gen.
tleman was squarely upon his (Golladay's)
platform. That gentleman and the Demo-
cratic party were upon his platform, al
though they had not the courage to say
SO in face Of the country.
Mr.. Eldridge-The gentleman having
made such a charge, will now allow me a
word.
Mr.. Golladay declined to yield.
Mr. Eldrdge-I must say that 1 consider
the gentleman's course rather cowardly.
Mr.. Voorhees-So do l.
Mr.. Golladay-The gentleman has right
TO form his own estimate of what consti-
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are other theaters in which ne may show
his bravery, and other means by which he
may testify, than by making the state
nent.
Mr.. Eldridge--I only referred to cow
ardice in debate.
Mr. Golladay-I return the words of the
gentleman in the spirit in which they are
offered. presume he does not mean to
impute cowardice to me. If he and the
gentleman from Indiana mean to make
such an imputstion, defy them morally,
socially, politically and Intellectually.
Eldridge-You don't show it.
Mr. Golladay proceeded with his speech,
and claimed that Butler, of Massachusetts,
was himself practical repudiator, as an
nounced in his speech in July, 1868, in
which he took the ground Of equal taxation
ortrepudiation.
Mr.. Bird followed in a speech against
reputation, dissenting from the views of
Messrs, Mungen and Golladay.
Mr.. Eldridge took the floor, and said he
denied the right of the gentleman from
Kentucky to charge him or his associates
with standing on his platform without the
courage or manhood to assert it. He had
never hesitated to declare the position
which he maintained on these financial
questions
Mr.. Davis desired to hear the gentleman
state what that position WAS.
Mr.. Eldridge informed him that, if he
would be patient, he would hear it. Re
ferring to his remarks to Mr. Gallsday, he
said that his remark did not call in ques-
ton the physical courage Of the gentle
man, or his moral courage in debate.
The Democratic party had expressed its
views in no uncertain words on questions
of currency and finance. The endorsement
on fve-dollar bill thatitwas legal tender
for all debts public and private, except
duties on imports and interest on the
public debt, and 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 it? The
venerable leader of the House who had
gone to his final rest, Mr.. Stevens, had de-
clared in this House that it was public
crime to attempt to pay the debt in any
other way.
What Ehad Stevens Said
Mr. Voorhees, remarked that he had
heard Mr. Stevens declare on the floor of
the House that he would rather vote for
Frank Blair than vote for any man who
construed that law to mean that 5:2O'5
were payable in gold.
So. instead of making war on the Demo-
cratic side of the House, the other side
ought to make war on Stevens, as preach
ers sometimes said about the doctrine they
did not like, ''to make war upon Paul and
not upon u.s. Mr.. Stevens was their leader
and they should answer him. They should
answer Senator Morton, of Indiana; they
should answer Senator Sherman, of Ohio.
Mr. Eldridge-And when they get
through with answering these, let them
answer Ben. F. Butler
Mr.. Voorhees, beg that gentleman
pardon for not naming him. Laughter.
Mr. Davis-On that subject does the
opposition adopt NJ. Butler as their
leader?
Mr.. Eldridge-Not Just that but We
never 60 against a correct principle be-
cause bad man or even the leader of the
House goes for it. Laughter.
The discussion was carried on for some
time longer by Messrs Eldridge, Niblack,
Stevenson and Golladay.
Mr.. Cleveland addressed the House
against reputation and against all attempts
to pay the debt quickly. He was in favor
of the expansion Of the currency and a
general reduction Of expenditures and tax
alton.
At 4:35 P. IL the House adjourned.
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