Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-09
SITTRBtY. March .

THE SENATE was not i'm session to-day.
HOUSE.-The House was called To order by
Mr.. Blackburn. aS Speaker pro TEN.
Mr.. Hartridge introduced bill Ia prevent
the introduction OF contag gi0uS and infectious
diseases into the United States. Referred.
Mr.. Stephens presented memorials of citi-
zens OF Georgia in favor of the Texas Pacific
railroad. Referred.
Mr.. Foster. from committee on appropria
tions, reported the deficiency appropriation
blll. and ii was referred 10 the committee Of
the whole.
reported resolution for a telephone connec-
tion between the House and Senate and be-
tween the House and the Government Print
ing Office. Adopted.
Mr. KELLEY EXPLAINS.
Mr.. Kelley rose to personal explanation
and sent up and had read two extracts from
the recent speech of Mr.. Garfield. and refer
the language in the Record as he found il ,s' WA
in substance what went to the general public
from the reporters gallery, but il was toned
down from what he found in the public papers
OF the country and the language was more
moderate. He plead guilty to a lapse of one
hundred and nine days between Mr.. Garfield'S
speech and his (keley'S) reply. But he ex-
planned that this delay was occasiOned by his
serious illness But he gave notice 10 Mr.
Carrie id that he intended 10 answer him, and
when he saw that Garfield was announced TO
go 10 New Hampshire to reply to the letters of
William +. Chandler, he begged him not TO 90
until he had heard his (Kelfey reply.
Mr.: keily then again referred to his severe
and continued illness, and said that on the
day when Garfield spoke, he knew that he
thelly) was physically Frustrated that morn
ing In the committee room of the ways and
means. With reference to Mr.. GarfieId'S
charge that he had kept his speech from the
Record. and that il was a written speech he
SAID IL the gentleman had not relied on his
own inner consciousness he could have
aScertained the fact from any of the reporters
that the speech was not written. There are
sources of Information that don't evolve from
a man $ inner consciousness.
with reference to the charge of inconSSt
ency in that, he had at one time endorsed Mr.
McCgll0ch's contraction scheme, and had IA
vOred the decentralization of the silver dollar
in 1873, he said he had entertained said views
of contraction in 1856: but i'm the recess that
followed he had learned differently by study,
and in January, 1866, he made speech re
tracing what he had said i'm 1915. He confes-
sed TO an enlightenment in the meantime and
nndlng he had been teaching error, he direct
ed his efforts to undo it. As to the demoneti-
Zation of silver, he declared he was Ignorant
of the fact that it had been done Quoting
what Mr.. Garfield had said about his making
c9mmnnlsilc speech at Youngstown, Ohio,
and with reference to letters that had been
written 10 his constituents asking his re-elpc-
tiOn, he said he denounced these statements
as the product OF distempered magination
He gave detailed account of his Youngstown
Speech and denied that it was i'm the direction
of communism, or that he attempted to array
capital against labor. He heard nothing about
IFS being cOmmunistic speech until the pa-
pers came back from Cincinnati and Cleye-
land. The whole scene, as related by MrGar
1ed, was c0ncOcted out of diStempered and
ill-goyered imagination. He denied also
that any appeals were made to his con
St1tuents in 1876 for his reelection. There
sits no man on this floor who ever TO his knowl-
edge wrote such letter. If there was such
man, he asked him to state if. If he was under
any personal obligation to himself he would
remit that obligation. One letter was written,
and he would state the circumstances. His
friend Foster and himself were friendly be-
cause they had seats together. and because
they were both interested in the election of
Hayes. [Laughter.I He laid before Mr. Fos-
ter and Mir. DanfOrd a good many letters
which b, he had received from his friends
IN Philadelphia. They seemed to be
troubled by the fact that ii was reported that
Mr.. Hayes desired his (kelley's) defeat, be-
cause OF his speeches i'm Ohio and they init
mated that if the republican candidate for the
Presidency forced a candidate for Congress i'm
the 4th district of Pennsylvania. that the dis
trict might go against him, and it was agreed
that Mr.. Foster. who represented MI. Haves
in Congress: should write a letter for double
purpose. tLaughter.l He would ask the
House 10 bear in mind that if dirty linen was
to be washed he had not brought the bundle
here.
Mr.. Crittenden.-Let the washing 90 ON