The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-06-22
Communicated.
SEATOR INGALLS, AND THE ATTOR
NEYS' FEES.

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| Communicated.
SEATOR INGALLS, AND THE ATTOR
NEYS' FEES.
A certain notorious Democratic shee,
published in western Missouri has fOl
years rendered itself an unmitigated nu'
isance by its uncalled for and imperti
nent needing in Kansas politics. 1t has
slsndered and vilifed, indiscriminately
and without measure, every prominent
Republican in the State, but most vii.
lainously, those most prominent as repre-.
sentative men of the party and the State.
But of all others Senator Ingalls, has
been the special object of its develish
malignity. No lie is too monstrOus, no
calumny too base, no insinuation too low
lived and vile to appear in its columns
if thereby it may hope to injure his rep
utstion, impair his usefulness, or damage
his prospects for the future.
Its latest onslaught is in she shape of
letter from some egotistical pettifogger
at Washington. in which an attempt is
made, by the most barefaced Justification
Of facts and records, to show that our
distinguished Senator was opposed to the
bill for the payment of the settlers at
torney fees in the Usage land cases, and
also that he was guilty of fraud in cons
nection with the record of the Senate
Committee in relation to the same bill,
both of which are utterly false, and rest
upon the fimsiest foundation of silly
sophis.ry that was ever invented to bolster
up a wantOn lie. Some time ago this same
correspondent asserted that through the
instigation of Senator ingalls,, the bill
had been returned to the Senate without
recommendation. Finding this too bald
fasehood to be insisted upon, he now
falls back on the record of proceedings
in committee which show that favora-
Bile report was ordered, with the provis-
ion that each member should be left free
to act as he saw fit on the final DISPOSE
ton of the bill, and affects to find in this
conclusive evidence of our Senator's OPP
position to the measure, and by sundry
mods, winks and inuendoes labors to Gre
ate the impression that the proviso was
inserted by the balance of the committee
to please Senator Ingalls, and afford him
an opportunity to vote against the bill
on its final passage. This is too absurd
for anything. and is, moreover, precisely
contrary to the facts. The bill was
taken up in committee on motion of
Senator ingalls,, but notwithstanding the
justice of the measure in itself, it was
something unusual and was regarded
with suspicion by the members of the
committee outside of Kansas, and it
required all the tact of our accomplished
Senator to secure favorable report, even
with the proviso above mentioned
two members still voting against it. To
Senator Ingalls, alone is due the credit
of securing a favorable report without
which it is next to impossible to pass
any bill in the Senate and to him more
than any one else are the settlers indebt-
ed for the great and just relief proposed
by this bill.
The second charge, that the Senator
was guilty of classifying the records of the
committee on Indian affairs is, if. posi-
BILE, more shallow and ridiculous than
the first. This correspondent produces
what he claims to be sn extract fiOm the
minutes of the committee, and in jux.
Imposition thereto certificate published
some time ago by Senator Ingalls, in a
southern Kansas paper. They are as
follows:
fist. Extrat from Minutes.l
On motion of Mr.. Ingalls, s. B. 5S2
Docket 65) was taken up.
On motion it was decided that ia
vorable report should be made Ito the
Senate, with the provision that each
member of the committee should be left
liberty of action upon the same when
called up for final adoption in the Senate.
Messrss. Saunders and Cope voting no.
Signed,
N. E. DAWSON. Clerk.
(9d Extract published by Mr. ingalls,.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
April 10th, 1873. !
Senate bill 582. An act providing for
the payment of cousel fees in the Usage
Coded Land suits.
Ordered that this bill be reported
back to the Senate with the recommen-
dation that it do pass. Signed,
w. B. ALLISON, Charm.
Attest. N. E. DAWSON, Clerk.
In the verbal discrepancy between
these two statements this small sized
pettifogger imagines he has discovered
q large sized mouse" and parades it
with infinite swagger and bluster as con-
elusive evidence that Senator ingalls,
grossly and deliberately misstated the
action of the committee and bullied or
cajoled, not only the clerk, but the
chairman, Senator Allison, of Iowa, into
signing his fraudulent certificate. And
yet glance at the extract from the
clerks book and the certificate given
above. will show the veriest simpleton
that theysmean precisely the same thing.
They recite the same identical, fact.
They both tell unmistakably what the
action of the committee was, but one is
the language of the clerk in recording
the action Of the committee, the other is
the language of the chairman in report
ing that action to the Senate, and is the
very language in which such reports are
always made. The attempt to make it
appear that there Is any real discrepancy
or any fraud on the part of Senator In
gals in this matter il a. dishonest rs it
is foolish and futile; and if this Wash.
ington scribbler thinks there is single
settler on the Usage lands, or q man,
woman or child in all Kansas, who is so