The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-24
Buffers Betrayal and Overthrow
what He Thought and How He
Talk ed after the Caucus.

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Talked after the Caucus. 49,.
Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Evening
POST
WASHINGTON, March 11.-Buter deter
mined to carry his kukluX bill, or some
thing of the sort. 1t was long fight. At
last, on Tuesday evening, he got the party
in caucus over his bill. There were at least
ninety men in it, though Dawes, Bufinton,
and three others left before the vote
was taken. The vote rs announced-S2
to 2-showed there were forty-one Re-
publlcanS absent, large majority Of
whom Butler counted on a. sure to 60 with
The decision. Complaint is made that a
caucus to decide legislation was unusual.
The answer is, that the caucus only deter
mined to hace legislation, and accept the
Butler bill as the best thing to open on.
But under such circumstances it does seem
that conference was not only justlfiabe,
but binding. Speaker Blaine, il was whis-
pered, had declared he should not hold him
self bound, and, as the sequel showed, he
was not to that or to the best interests Of
the party which bound him.
BUTLER essays UP" AND BUTLER SAYS
DOWN"
| was in the Washington office OF lead
ing paper, late in the evening, when But
Ter came in from the caucus. 1t was nov
city for of all public men here he appears
to be the most recklessly Indifferent Of
newspaper mems good or evil opinion. 1t
is one Of the ways in which he wastes his
strength-this of jeering or flouting at men
representative OF class, often quite unne-
cessarily. Here he was, however, full Of
fight. animated in the highest degree,
excited rs / think / never saw him
before, and, to our great delight,
chatty and "newsy" to the fullest ex-
tent. He gave an animated description of
the caucus, the vote, and the preceding
debate. He bristled with epigrammatic
sentences, and exhibited i'll his manner a
consciousness OF victory almost in his
grasp. He appeared to have no doubt that
the absentees would be all right. On a
reference to MIR. Dawes being made ne re-
marked, meaningly: +" Dawes Will 80 before
the people of Massachusetts,, and can't face
failure to do something for the south" In
reply to suggestion that Garfield might
not approve, the General replied: Well.
I'll 20 TO the Western Reserve myself, and
see what his people think of it.' Again
some one said that the machinery he con-
templated was complicated, and the peo-
ple would object to the new armies IL
created. "Not bit of it," was his conf
dent answer: "they know it can't hurt any
one but the offenders themselves. The only
men to denounce it will be the kukluX and
those who pander for their votes" ObJec-
ton was made that it gave the President
great deal of power. Butler said it only
did 50 where he needed tin the South:
eyes" was the remark of one standing by,
"United States commissioners IN every
county may help to renOminate q Pres-
ident.'' s.Better that they Should" sald
Butler, ethan the kukluX be allowed 10
put their 1nan in" That night the soldier
of New o. leans was exuberantly conhdent
of success. -%. -
There is no need OF repeating how ne
fell, nor the scenes that attended IL. Sutnce
1T to make clear the manner III Wnlch,Lhe
Democrats controlled, and Messrs. Blaine,
Peters, Dawes, and others helped TO make
it complete. There being no committees
to report, the call OF States is in order every
day. When the call begun yesterday morn
Inc the Democrats ut once commenced 10
filibuster 10 order, MS they declared, to stop
a course of action which virtually gave to
New England the power to introduce and
pass at once any act the majority mightl
choose to sustain. They filibnstered on
this for two hours and more. IL mght
have beer stopped by the majority passing
vote to adjourn to q special hour ana
day after which only delaying motions to
reconsider, md one TO ADJOURN Qirect' Woula
have been Introduced. Finally, MIR. Lynch
got the biIltn, but Cox objected that nc no.
tice had been given, and II could not Inen
lie considered as pending. he was sus-
tained. just Mt this juneture Peters intro
duced the resolution for o committee or in-
yestigation. Butler was sight worth see