The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-29
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL THURSDAY APRIL 20 1875

stitution. A tariff for revenue only. And
sound currency based on specie pay
ment." do you think the finance problem
Of specie resumption, or its autithesis, the
'plan,' will be subject for active contro-
versY and form feature of the next years
| presidential campaign" 1 interrogatively
suggested. "No," answered the senator.
mot to any great extent. The restoration
| business will gradually, but surely, bring
our paper currency and circulation
to par with gold, or nearly so, aud
then there is no more of the Plan left.
Then presume you regard our financial
condition as pacific and hopeful, and the
public .feverishness abating? Yes. Our
1nances will improve with the revival of
business. IL was the loss of credit and con-
ndence acting upon the debtor class that
caused the disorder in finances" "As TO
this subject OF currency volume. senator,
suppOsiug our currency at par with gold
the national bank system abolished, and
green backs substituted, would what is
known as the interconvertible bond plan
possess merit in regulating the volume of
circulating medium" ''No, sir. What the
country wants is steady currency, not
huctuating oneo ssSenstor now that the
civil rights law is on the statute book, is it
not the general impression that war legisla-
ton for the negro is completely" Inquired.
Judge Mcdonald responded: 1.-THE negro
problem seems
AS FAR FROM SETTLEMENT AS EVER.
The negro will derive no substantial benefit
from the civil rights law. And the republic
can party will have to make other conces-
sions or lose their votes" I suggested
whether the white people of the south do
not act universally, as body, in permitting
so much lswiessness in their midst. The
senator replied: 81 do not think the white
people of the south, as a body are respon-
sible for the lawlessness you refer to-" ut
seems o me, senator, that the necessity
for ar ndorsement by the sristocrStic Qf /
ma b permitted the term) branch OF con-
81. :, or Grants louisiana policy or deeds,
suggested Enthusiastically a painful kDowl-
edge OF popular weakness of Grant and his
aiminist ration observed. "That was I'M
doubleday the cause of pressing the question
upon the Senate at the late executive ses-
sion" said Mcdonald. He continued: "Is
was well known that the Senate in execu-
ises." "Permit me TO ssk your 0piD-
ion of the late Indiena legis-
ture and it's work? OF course
you think it did one sensible thing at all
eventst" Il referred to its choice OF a SEN
stor.) The senator blushingly assented to
the last suggestion, and replied: 81 think
the last legislature more than an average in
intelligence and honesty of purpose, and
their work as whole quite satisfactory,
Notwithstanding the malicious shafts of rid |!
icule and libel heaped upon it," "Then you |
regard Governor Hendricks estimate of its
work, as elaborated in his recently pub |
lished letter, fair and impartial, and a sting |
ing rebuke TO the malicious intermedding |
of interruptions newspapers and defeated /
'Yes, sir. The letter of the gov
ernor is a fair and just review oftheir labors,
and Overwhelms their accusers. whether
republican or prolessed d democratic"