The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-26

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matl0 service for the fiscal year ends
ing June 80, 1879. Placed on the Gals
endar.
The committees are idle this morn
ing
The senate galleries are crowded to
hear Howe,
Night Associated Press Roportl
The senate rejected, after long de-
bate, ex' Governor Parsons M district
attorney for Alabama, by good ma.
jority,
Senate-Mr. Howe, Of Wisconsin,
called up the resolution submitted by
him last week, calling upon the presi'
deut for information M TO the charges
against Judge Whitaker, OF Louisiana,
of being defaulter TO the United
States, and said:
"During the past year we have seen
here and everywhere throughout the
country, small, but active squads Of
political inqulsit0rs, busy with the
work OF asserting the republican party,
gathering In TO hallowed gamers all
those who avow themselves supporters
OF the presidents policy, and pouring
unquenchable fires upon all the rest.
Poles have been set up ut all the cross
roads; flags, inscribed with the presi-
dents policy, have been suspended
from them, and the seltappointvd In
quisitors have lurked In convenient
jungles to detect who did and who did
not uncover under the flag" He had
withheld no honest effort to elect Hnye s,
and II panied him To be found not In
accord with his views. He iMr. Howe)
believed that u republican president
should, as the Cincinnati convention
declared, select republicans for all
those places where the harmony and
vigor of the administration require
It's policy to be represented. He then
commented on the civil service policy
Of the president, and said he had se.
lected for his cabinet one man who
was not Il republican, but u democrat
Still the individual was 30 well known
10 him (Mr. Howe) and he believed 80
implicitly in the moderation OF his
opinions, the business OF hi' senti~
ments, and the integrity OF his char
acter, that II he could not advised his
selection, he could and did not COM
plain OF Il. He then referred to the
appointment of Mr.. Schurz to be sec
rotary OF the Interior, and said although
not democrat, yet he was not
republican. He was equally at home
with all parties and in oil places by
turns. He had been everywhere, and
espoused and deserted every party. He
spoke like an oracle, and his facile
speech could be fitted to the vicissi-
tudes Of parties rs readily as doubles
faced satin can be turned to hide the
accidents OF society. His critiques
upon his political associates always
gave him popularity with his political
opponents. Inconstant in everything
else, he has always been constant to
his trade, that of politics. His first en-
terprise was to revoIutionize the gov
eminent under which he was born.
That failed, and he fled. He COM
mented severely OH the lie and
history of Schurz, saying that
he threw more mud at General
Grant than any dredge, and ar.
gued that the president had made bad
choice In his appointments. He next
referred to Louisiana affairs, and said,
"When the president was inaugurated,
Stephen b. Packard was governor of
Louisiana. Within sixty days after
that Inauguration, he ceased to be gov
ernor. When he disappeared the Will
of Louisiana " az subverted and tramp
led upon. II Mr.. Packard was not
elected governor OF Louisiana, moth.
ing can be more certain than that Mr..
Hayes was not elected president OF the
United States. Without the electoral
vote OF Louisiana, the whole world
knew that Mr.. Hayes had not the
votes in the electoral college necessary
to constitute an election, and II Louis
lana did not vote tor Packard, the
whole world knows that Louisiana did
not vote for Hayes. Packard received
nearly two thousand votes more than
some of the Hayes electors. Under
the constitution the president had but
one plain duty to discharge; that was, to
ascertain whether the constituted tri-
bunals OF Louisiana hsd declared
Packard to be governor; then to defend
his authority to the extent OF his abIl-
ity, when legally required so to do. II
they had not 30 declared, then It was
equally his duty, not merely to have
withheld all support Of Packafd's pre-.