Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-04

AS the morning nonr, from AZ
to /, advanced. the floor. cloak
rooms and Hobbies were crammed
VicecPresident Wil4on occupied the
chair 10 person, and every senator al
home Except Thurman, who was
sick) was 10 his seat. Among the
notables admitted to the sofas in the
rear of the seats were Secretaries
Btlknap and Bristow, "Hangman'
Foote, and a large number of mem
bers of the lower house. Many times
it was said that the senate had wit
messed no such scene since the days
of 1851.
THE MESSAGE READ.
Az o'clock the Presidents mes
sage was announced. 1t did not
come in the usual form-announce-
ment at the door by Gen Babcock
but was handed to the clerk quiet
ly, and was fairly begun before the
spectators, who had grown inatten-
tive at the dreary routine of the
morning hour, were aware of what
was going on. The old clerk was
not permitted to read it, stranger
with strong voice being specially
impressed for the occasion. As the
words f IL in moderate succession
from the readers lipe, they were
eagerly caught up by the listeners,
whose approval of the firm course
pursued by our sol Iier president was
often manifestedin significant shak es
OF The head. or appreeiative grim
aces--no applause being permitted
sentence after sentence, indicative
of an Gncompromising determines
tion to sustain the position taken
caused strange sensations, and reca l.
ed the days of the martyred Lin.
coin.
SENATOR LoGAN's SPEECH.
Finsliy the end came, and then an
audible sigh of relief, as it came to
be felt that at least one man in the
government was ready to stand by
his guns. Then, after a mOmentary
lulI, Senator Logan, of Illinois, was
on his feet, and the battle was again
in progress. The moment was an
one, of which Mr.. Logan
made the most. For several days
the dem 0crat-rebel clement had been
in the ascendancv. At the first an
of Sheridan's act, Sem
ator Thurman had seized the floor
for his insOlent resolution. demand
ing information from the executive,
and for two weeks the contest had
ragged with unabating fierceness. The
a dUantago gained ny Thurman had
been followed by ex-rebel Gordon.
and such old time eopperheads as
Bogv and Bayard They bad hnrl9d
and brutal epithets at the
White House, and in the absence of
official information, we're enabled to
drive the republicans almost 10 the
wall. As completion of their work,
renegade Schurz bad spoken on
Tuesday. using the greatest force OF
his forid rhetoric in denouncing the
party which gave him his seat.
True. Judge Howe, of Wisconsin,
and Senator Morton of Indiana, bad
taken up the cudgelin "Little Phil 81
behalf, but neither seemed in his
best vein, as neither one could d.
, inc the probable course of the pres
ident. A doubly difficult task was
therefore imposed upon Senator
l. )gan; be had to organize
VICTORY OUT OF DEFEAT.
How well be did it, will every honest
man who heard him, testify. Not.
withdrawing the fact that two years
90 he reported that X lIogg was
not elected governor of Louisiana.
which placed him 10 not altogether
/ leasant position, be went at the
matter 10 hand with hammer and
tongs and pounded out the most eft
fective argument heard in the senate
for many years. Instead of cring
ing 10 the presence of the clustering
southerners as some of bis party had
shown disposition TO do, be at once
assumed the aggressive. and before
he had halt finished the afternoon
the rebel yel was silenced and The
successor OF Davis and Tnombs and
Wigf IL were docile beyond belief. 1t
w0ul / be unfair To attempt any sum
mary Of the speech, but few of the
happy extempore hits which Will OF
course be missed by the telegraph,
should be preserved.
Ex rebel Gen. ] I'm B. Gordon
had grown wonderfully garrulous.
and strutted up and dowL the cham
Der 10 q truly snti-war fashion. liz
needed q rebnke and Senator Logan
was the lucky man who was quite
ready 10 give it.
The gentleman mistakes my pos
ition," haughtiiy urged the Georgian
at is his duty as q Senator and a
man to re,ractn
81 am not in the habit of :etract-
ing" responded the llinoisau, with
equal hauteur.
Bot the honorable Senator does
ne iriustice," retorted Mr. Gordon.
We'll now" said Mr.. Logan, in
his peculiarly independent way, "see
here. The gentleman says l am
doing him an injustice. H. says oil
is peace in Georgia. There are no
Kuklux, nor no White Leaguers
there. There is a democratic state
government, and all is peace. Let
US see. / hold in my hand volume
of Kuklux reports, signed By Mr.
Bayard, the democratic Senator
from Delaware. In 1t / find thai
one John B. Gordon, of Atlanta, be-
ing sworn, said that be knew of such
an organization for defensive pur
poses as the Kuklux bad been sol C.
tied to act as its chief in Georgia
and had replied that he was all ready
to be called on for any thing in that
line. 1 don't know that this refers
to the Senator on this floor but 81
the name is the same, the il ferenc'