Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-24

of the Republican party, no longer tt
be decided on their merits, bu
bat only with the view to their bear
ing on the party. Chief among thosC
who would subordinate the public
welfare to party stands the senator
from Indiana Morton1. In the dis
cussion of the resolution under con
sideration he has devoted two or thre(
hours to assaults on those who have
felt it to be their duty to favor this in
vestigation; and, not content with
that, he has taken occasion to wander
away from the subject, and talk sbou
a senatorial cabal. / do not know by
what authority any member OF thil
body assumes to be the peculiar ex
ponent of the Republican party, OF
even of the administration. intend
to say something in reply to the re
peated assaults that have beer
made by those who assume to De bet
ter Republicans than their fellow
senators. intend to show the course
of these senators, and before 1 have
done, unless / misunderstood Whai
the principles OF the Republican
party are, I think l shall be able
to show that he who stands fore
most here on all occasions tC
denounce others as assaulting the
party, has himself forgotten the prin.
ciples on which the Republican party
was founded, and Is himself at wal
with them. Senator Trumbull then
reviewed the course of the majority in
the senate on the question of remov
ing Senator Summer from the chair
manship of the committee on foreign
relations, on the resolution to investi.
gate the management of the New
York cnstomhouse, and on the pending
resolution, and insisted that on each
and all these questions the majority
had avOWedly acted, not with refer.
ence tC the right or wrong involved
but wholly with reference to the sup
posed interests of the party. The sen
atOr from Indiana MOrtenl I, speaking
of the position OF Senator Sumner, had
boldly said that the question was not
as to the propriety OF the act, but was
whether the majority intended tC
stand by the organization and usagee
Of the party. That was a standard Of
duty for senators acting under oath,
When 1t was proposed to investigate
the abuses In the New York custom.
house the senator from Indiana did
all he could to defeat it, but now he
boasts that it has indicated itsell
from the suspicion that it was white.
washing committee; that the COM
mittee had not yet made its re,
port, and he Trumbull] would not
assail 1t, but its conduct Ia making
the investigation was public and was
somewhat remarkable. The witnesses
who testified that the customhouse
officers had interfered with the legis.
lature of New York were asked
whether they were not there them.
selves for the same purpose, as if the
people had not q right to take part in
politics, and as II the committee could
call the people to account for their
political action. He had seen it stated
too that notice had been given that
witnesses brought before the commit
tee for the purpose OF exposing the
corruption and malfeasance In office
were themselves to be prosecuted
"a good way to encourage wit
nesses to testify again. On the
pending resolution, the same old
cry OF "party partyi" had been raised,
and the senators who favored the
resolution were threatened with fine
and imprisonment. He would not
comment on the motives of the sena-
tors, but the people were thoroughly
aroused against fraud and corrup-
tion everywhere, and they would un-
derstand the motives of these senators
very well. The senator from Indiana
had denounced the platform of the
Liberal Republicans as anti-republiean
and essentially Democratic, and he
would now undertake to show that
the man who held that view did not
know the meaning OF rePublicanism.
He then went over the resolutions In
the platform one by one, and insisted
that they were all In complete accord
with the principles of the Republican
party. They were the principles he
had contended for through all his
public life, and, God helping him, ne
would contend for them to the end.
Senator Morton said Senator Trum-
bull had come into the senate with
prepared a speech containg two things
Ian assault upon him by Senator Nor
ton, anda defense Of the Missouri Lib
eral Republican movement and Its
platform. It was unnecessary to show
further than he had shown already
that that was movement designed
to divide and defeat the Republican
party. He was sorry that Trumbul
had Identified himself with it, but as
he had done so, others could not do
less than recognize the fact that Sena-
tor TrumbuIl had pretended that
there was no evidence that the Gin
cinnad convention was to make q
nomination for the presidency. He
TSenator Morton1 thought there was
no doubt about that, but he would
have the secretary read from speech
ofGovernor Gratz Brown, of Missouri,
the leader of the movement, to show
that nomination was to be made by
that convention. Governor Brown In
that speech delicately intimated that
he expected the nomination himself,
hut at the same time expressed q
willingness to stand aside for 8
stronger man from another state, and
he r Morton1 believed 1t was general
lv understood that Senator Trumbul
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generally understood that the Senator
had stepped out of the Republican
party, stepping, however, within easy
returning distance, and was standing
with his back all chalked over
"Barkis Is willin'. Laughter.l
Senator Morton reiterated the state
ment that the Liberal Republican
pIatform was essentially Democratic
and that he based his criticism on th'
resoIution, which declared the ku
klux law Unconstitutional. He sale
that there was still rebellion in th'
South, and he believed more men hae
been Killed and wounded by ku klu1
during the Iast four years, than wer'
Killed In the war Of 1872. Senate
Morton then criticized Senator Trum
bu;Ps votes on the amnesty bill, anG
insisted that if he and Senator TiptoE
had voted for the bill rs amended, in
stead OF against it, 1t would hay
passed bS three-fourths vote. 6ena
tor Trumbull talked much about civl
service reform, but he had been In
formed to-day that that very senate
had made one hundred and three re
commendations to office since th
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