The daily gazette., 1876-04-01
From the New York Sun's Report.
A Heated Political Debate in the
Senate Chamber.

oendto CnamDer.
BOUTWELL, CHARGING BAYARD WITH
DIsLoYALTY, AND BAYARD REToRT-
ING THAT HE DOES 1T WITH
LIE IN HIs THROAT.
WASHINGTON, March 30.-In the
Senate to day, Mr.. Sherman (Rep.,
Ohio) called up the bill to amend the
laws relating to the legal tender of
silver coin, and
Pending discussion the morning
hour expired and Mr.. Morton deman-
ded the regular order, the Mississippi
resolution.
Mr.. Bayard (Dem., Del.) thought 1t
remarkable that the resolution asked
for a committee of five Senators only.
Why commit this subject to Senators
only? Why not include members of
the other House! If any law was to
be enacted on this subject, it would
require the aid of the other House.
Then why not include them on this
occasion, Was it because it was COM
posed of members of different party :?
The information sought for should be
obtained by joint committee of the
two Houses. There seems to be no
occasion for this investigation. No
one here is contesting a senatorial seat
Why not wait until he comes hero, and
then, if question arises, let it be in
vestigated? The troubles which have
occurred in any of the Southern States
spring from the detectives who went
down there by direction of the Depart
ment of Justice. He had not forgotten
that tens of millions of dollars had
been expended by this same Depart
ment of Justice to carry out it's nefari-
GUS design of manufacturing evidence
of this kind.
Mr.. Boutwell, Rep., Mass.) called
the attention of the Senator to his
remark of ten millions Of dollars
and thought the facts would not
bear out the assertion, and what
money was spent then was made me-
cessary by the acts of the party to
which the Senator belonged, by their
deeds of violence, their intimidation
of colored people, and other such acts
of violence,
Mr.. Bayard said the Senator had
taken advantage of his courtesy in
yielding for question to interject a
political TRADE of bitter kind, and if
he had derived any comfort from it,
he was welcome to it. He continued
his opposition to the resolution, for
| which he said there was no necessity.
He said under the Department of JUS
tice fines had been wrongfully wrung
from the people down there, and he
e-pected they would be brought to
Congress for payment. He urged that
we abstain from the policy of inter-
ference, which has been so damag-
ing, and let us have peace in all the
States.
Mr.. Boutwell, said when he offended
any one he generally wanted to explain
or apologize, He thought the Senator
from Delaware, in quite an uncivil
and angry manner, had charged him
with injecting political TRADE into
his speech. That was the manner of
men who had been brought up under
the code of slavery. He (Mr. Bout
teacher, and he did not propose to be
taught in manners by the Senator from
Delaware. 1t was the natural out
growth of the system of slavery, and
men who were raised under such inf1u-
enees could not be expected to maln-
tain proper consideration for the
rights of others. He further denounced
the slavery regime, and said that after
remaining in the Union for nearly a
century with their unjust demands,
then they withdrew from the Union
to further establish their infamous
principles, and the Senator from Della
ware was among the first 10 come to
their defence in the Senate. He did
not propose to take LESSONS from such
men as that.
Mr.. Bayard replied that it did not
lie in the heart of any man to say that
he had done anything that was not
faithful and loyal to the Union. He
belonged to family, every drop of
blood in whose veins came from loyal
people, and any one who charged diff
ferently, states in his throat lie. The
Senator from Massachusetts had, as he
thought, in a very angry manner, in
terjected a political TRADE into his
speech. He said it, and he did not
care to modify the language in the
least,
MIR. Morton (Rep., Ind.) said the
Senator from Delaware had made a |
personal speech to day. He (Mr. |
Morton) did not usually reply to such,
but he was not sure but that he could |
stand a hand in that kind of contest,
The Senator from Delaware asked, |