The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-30
THE CONTEST IN THE SENATE.
THE DEBATE IN THE KELLOGG CASE
GOES BITTERLY ON.
hut no Conclusion is Reached and There
is Little Prospect Of nm Early vote.

Nut no Conclusion is Reached and There
is Little Prospect Of mn Early Vote.
WASHINGTON Nov. 20 The Senate met at -
M and prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Gapzen.
The Chair announced the regular order as be-
ing the resolution from the ComInittee on Priv
ileges and Elections, declaring VIM. ?. Kellogg
entitled to seat as Senator from Louisiana on
sa b b. sasssSsry 20
Mr., Dorsey inquired If it was in order to al
low these questions to be considered day after
The Chair decided the resolution to be a ques-
tion of privilege and in order.
Mr.; sargent asked unanimous consent It to to re-, ,s
passage. He said it would not occupy over hl-
Mess Messrs w Whyte tea and withers objected,
Ths ameniment offered by Mr.. salisbury
was D reai. AID Mr.. Hill claimed the floor to con
Mr.. Hill reiterated the charge of fraud and
corruption against Kellogg, and averred that
Spofford would prove sl these charg.s II al. al.
the purpose Of the committee was to get at the
facts and legal evidence in the cass, A sub
committee was appointed 10 make up the issue,
tsthey reported that Kellogg and spotford had
agreed on all the facts IN the ease, spofford
claimed that |, did not cover the whole case, and
declared that there were FIVE points that had re.
Gently come, TO his knowledge showing fraud
committees refused to allow him to prove this.
Will the Senate lie d wn II tuis mire = and MN
of corruption, and seat this man HE spoke
4 half an hour In II similar strain.
Mr. Wadleigh said the Senator from Georgia.
in his zeal, had gone far .beyoud tue record He
Charges against kellogg. Ii there v any body
in the country who knew what the G arges
against Keilogg,weis. and who, knew Just what
could be proved against him, that person was
Spofford, for he had been counsel in the cases
against kellogg in Louisiana, g knew he helm in
sharae On s s he was asked to
pare his case before the committee and every
fact he knew to-day he knew then. Ii there IS a
single fact In existence to-day. 1t was in exist,
.snce on the 21st OF tho month and SpoTurd
knew every particle OF i. Now he asks the
isiana Tor witnesses to prove the tac $ which
q he could have laid before the committee on
the ast inst just as wei as no now put al tbs s
another case in ahead OF this; that is all 1t
means,
discovered concerning the transactions of the
secret session of th4 turning Board by which
twas sought to change the p litical complexion
Of the Legislature 50 as to elect Kellogg to the
Senate. These facts can be brought. and they
will affect persons whose lanes have not yet
fhiis to be brought out viii he Senate grant It
It is. not to gain time. as has been alleged, but
to bring out W facts.
portunity had b EN- afforded to spofford to
mittee to halt. in the investigation. TO stop the
wheels of the investg ton. occurred before OF
after the terrible arraignment Of The committee
on the floor of the Senate by Senators on the
other side, 10 the eff lct that the committee had
been negligent IN II duty and had delayed this
OF reorganization on this noor.i
MI. Hill would like 10 answer.
Mr.. Conkling-l am talking to the Senator
from New III tmpshire.
Mafe Wadleigh-It was after the speeches on
this floor 1issaigning the committee.
arraigned by Democratic Senators for its de.
lay and negligence in this same case, and aver
that a Democratic Senator said it ought not to
have gone to the committee at all. and that it
should have been reported by the committee
long ago. Another Senator claimed that no in
WAS ee little a. IT, M that a hs sf facts
were recorded by both parties that the case was
ut as clear as though Mr.. Ke logg was dead,
EA ~ was closed up SO far as Kellogg
n Il JA.cerned. and now we are urged to
es Go@m1tae snd make it more np wa mf bearG TO
Nao.t a statement of what the country
(# ITBi ,,ow. If | had the commanding Of
n, berg, ountry should know would call the
|ses Cras the country to that same sena or,
Adsn, up the Senate at night, not long since
sora!rsgd g That there " was 81 not single reason
Ia a. and asks for more delay to make UP
de; for oeay. for prevention. for manGu-
E r,; insisting. that the committee shall
h se itself into a police force, to go to the
H. Rand hunt up evidence touching the charac-
J kssr of one of the claimants: and tnat tn 8 same
senator who, on recent occasion. told the
Senate of the trivi i incon euuentiality of the
matter, and that it could bs decited
mistaken some ind gnation was expressed that
the character OF z ntleman from South Caro-
lina who came here with his hands and face
dripping with the blood of murder, should be
inquired into. He did not propose to get into
this case but his credulity refused to honor the
draft when he heard this delay arg ed for
when we have been told all along that the case
was so trivial that no investigation was nects-
sary. Complaint was not made about kellogg's
case until another case had been wrested from
the committee Complaint was made that the
other case had not been taken up, and now the
Democratic side complain that Kellogg's case
to the Gulf for evidence. q
Mr. Mcdonald still insisted that new evidence
out In any of the investigations, and that the
committee had refused to hear it and they asked
the recommittal to the committee to hear it now. |
MeDonad MeMen and pesMdfa Wadegh s reaard
70 the evidence before the different investiga- |
ting committees and the character of some of
been before presented at derent erS tmes mnicn
i, MT Gordon said he wished to immortalize |
his consistency. The Senator had had sought uu ft to
make demon of a man upon evidence that had
ben been entirety disproyed He had sought to
ma and upon a gentleman who was not on this
floor to defend himself. ' - ''i''
Mt. Conkling said he should be sorry to in
Leriere with the speech of the Senator which
promised to be good one, but he did not mean.
nor ng did ne say anything that had been alleged
w holu UP IN contrast the de-
lay asked for now in one case to 60 into tha
facts touching the character o. one man and
He did not object, however. to having the Sena.
tor from Georgia proceed in that theory. It was
SAID that rhetoric should not be confined too
closely by arithmetic and other things WV
Mr.. Gordon: THAT saying has been ine1r
ex,egmrlified in the Senator's own remarks.
Mr.. Butler and denounced Doc Adams who |
Gonkllng had characterized as born leader Of
men; Gordon claimed that the best blood of
the revolutionary soldiers mingled in the veins
of Butler - 'lto 'oins
Mr.. Edmunds read some portions of the testi-
mony taken in the Kuklux investiga, ions in 1871
IN which Mr. Butler defined his position on the
questions then exciting the country in which
iEdmunds claimed that Butler was not placed in
The attitude of good and loyal citizen. 49,
Mr. Hill recurred to the Kellogg-Spofford