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to he paid in the face Of the Fourteenth Amendments,
which prohibit. state from making pd any
spSSess Pay%ent, o. pensions STSbied
The Fourteenth Amendment. The payment Of mo me
relnstltuton OF slavery il positively prohibited by the
Constitution Of the United states and yet leading
hi party, and the particular mouhpiece Of the Adj
mnslration holds up those prepOterous statements to
Now find great dlcrlfy n understanding this Kdmln
pd G me President IN his annual message recon-
diana hr Mortonl one OF mischief supporters, denounc
and the Senator from Wisconsin Nir Carpentcr pours
out upon 1t the walls of his wrath and his rid.-
NV were an suspicious "" %an would =" say
that this s the old trick OF throwing TO the whale
would suspect that hen the President says LET ~
have Civil Service reform, there Isl mental reservation
that shall be killed Congress- and that when he says
that the Radicals In the Senate shall kill amnesty
not charge any such hypocrisy apon the President bat it
cOmnendatlon made by the President Ignored by his
argued the question of States rights under the Consu
ton. .a.. -, a.. -, ,r,
just made an old speech about the dangers OF cenaza
tOn which also had been often heard In the swamps or
Indiana. II the same old Democratic State HghiS
speech The Senator had just said he could not under
stand this Administration. That was true The Whole
Democratic party were unable TO understand this Admin
istraton aughterl the times in which they lived They
were ike man riding IN car backward, VINO never
10 the dangers that would result from their coming
power he would ask whether the Democrats were not
they were he sent Mr.. Bair's Broadhead letter. TO
the desk 10 be read said 1t because OF the en
ments expressed that letter that Mr. Blair was gy'D
the second place the Democratic Presidential ticket
Mr. BLAIR Dem. MO)-If you had not backed out of
your speech in 1865 favor OF President johnson, you
might have got my place. (Iaughter.l
Nj MORTON thought M. Blair must be ignorant Of
what he had really said i'll that speech He had eX'
pressly declared that he in favor Of universal sur
rage, had favored period OF probation for the col
Ored people OF 10 or II years. The southern WhJes no"
ever, following the lead OF the Democrats, had made II
necessary tO enfranchse the coored element at once III
order 10 get loyal bass which 10 reconstruct mo
state Governments. Ihe senator from missouri tSI
Bai) had once been member VI the Republican party
| and had left 10.
| Mr.. BLAIR-I left it because OF its usurpatiOns
Oned IL when the whole party could have sat down al
dinner table, and left it when IL in power all over
this country to join party that out OF power As t.
the Senator's speech, remember that when ne delivered
sons Cabinet And II the people OF the South were mis-
led by any person 1t was by the Senator himself III that
speech
Mr. MORTON-The Senator attributes more i'm ortance
TO that speech than did. As to my being thought
ht person for Mr.. JOhnsOn's Cabinet, know nothing
about it. But can say this much that there never was
an office In the git OF Mr. johnson that would have
accepted say TINS without disrespect TO him. have
heard IL said that sought place In his Cabinet That
Is false. There never was an hour IN when would nave
resigned the GOveOrship OF Indiana for any place
cep seat in the United states senate Mr.. Morton SAN
further that amnesty the most important question
before Congress-fGr important than Civil service
| reform the Tarf revision.
Mr.. SCOTT REP, PENN followed with an argument IN
favor Of the Amnesty bill 1t from the House. but
said prepared to vote for universal amnesty
Mr.. RORERISON rep, ;. ca gave notice That lac
would endeavOr press the bill to a vote tomorrow.
Mr.. WINDOW rep, MINI presented "A petition signed
Gen Sheridan and other officers esentiDg 00Od
soldiers in the Of the Cumberland, praying THAI
time they served IN the army may be allowed IN tho
i've years required by the Homestead law, after two
years actual residence.
The Senate then went into Executive session. and
after adjourned.