Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-17

. Ties IN tne interest OF the French, anC
expressed the belief that he could se
cure them for Prussia by paving fif
teen per cent. more than the French
agents, Bismarck declined to author
iZe him to negotiate for them. SAVING
the Germans could get them chespeI
by taking them from the French on
the banks Of the Loire. TLaughter.
Senator SchHrz asked Senator Nor
ton to state his authority for this.
Senator Morton replied that after ali
the vague suspicious and runors and
references to the French newspapers
In which the movers of this resolution
had INDUCED, they need not now be
30 particular in demanding the author
titles.
Senator SchuTz-Will the Senator
De kind enough to indicate auv in,.
portant statement In my speech that
Is not based upon documentary evil
dence?
Senator Morton-I can't undertake
to rehash the senator's speech. The
senate has heard it and win see it in
the Globe.
Senator Morton again said that the
object Of the resolution was to alien
late the German vote and ne did not
Deheve that it would succeed.
Inc Germans were an educated peo-
pie, and were well informed in the
polucs OF the country. They were
IN the habit Of thinking for them
selves, and they did not belong to
anybody, nor could they be carried in
anybody's breeches' pocket, however
eapaeious they might be. They were
Republicans from principle. The Re-
publican party accorded with their
own liberal and progressive ideas.
and they were well aware of the no.
t0rlous fact that the sympathies of the
Republican party and of its leading
journals were with Germany in the
late war, while those of the Democ.
racy were with France, and that when
the Germans in Paris had need of a
protector, they chose the minister of
the United States, General Washburne.
senator Wilson read q letter from
Treasurer Spinner, saying that when
ne was IN Europe last summer the
story about taking arms from the
Ereneh on the Loire was current in the |
German journals, and added that |
Lnl5 discrepancy between the accOunts
OF the treasury and war Departments
was found to be less than six thou.
sand dollars.
Senator Wilson made a statement
OF the former large discrepancjes be-
tween the accounts OF the deDart.
ments, and said that such dissreDan-
cles dld not necessarily imply fraud.
SenSIof MortOni in conclusion, said
tnat the results Of this administration
were SO magnificent that nothing was
lelg 20 lts enemies but to raise a prO-
10 ged howl Of corruption" Before
the meeting Of congress he had heard
u TINS mine that was to blow GEN
9IaL GrrsS-iiib out Of the presidential field
Out gov the mine had been exploded. |
and instead Of the President il was the
engineer that was blown up. He
the liberal Republicans {
against the delusiOn of the idea that
'ney could organize a party
which take in the Democracy. ,
The contest was 10 be between the :
1ominee Of the Philadelphia couyen- :
lon and the nominee of the Demo.
rate convention, and If any man ,
laOed General Grant so much as to !
Vlsn him defeated in that contest he '
'Oulo contribute to that resolution in :
Wo Ways-by going over to the DEM
ocras OF by going to Cincinnati 10
ne Liberal convention and putting in
third party. Those Democrats 4
we're playing the possum" and pre-
'arlnss 70 profit by the quaFrels be-
Ween the Republicans. 1t was q
hreWd game but would not succeed.
The platform Of the Liberal Repub-
leans was substantially Democratic
'latform on which even the ku-klux
1 the South could stand. If it should
riumph in the next election, five
million OF cOlOFed citizens at the South
ould not receive protection against !
ne ku-klux persecutiOn-the records
{ whose deeds will soon be laid be-
1re the country, in the report OF the
1Vestlgating committee which reads
,ke 80 many pages torn from the +,
hr0nicles Of hell. - -
Senator COnkling moved to amend a
he resolution so as to direct the COM =
1ittee to enquire whether any Amer n
an senator or other American citi- r,
On has been in collusiOn with the Il
overnment Of France or any ennis R
ary thereof In reference to said mat ,
u. After few remarks from Sena- a
u Upton to the effect that the friends 2
the administration were disposed =
cry down and impugn the motives | 3
every man who did not subscribe q
the infallibility of the President. q
le senate adjourned without coming il
8 vote, b