New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-07
GARFIELD's RETORT ON KELLEY.

. vrFN SPEECH IN THE HOUSE. WHICH WAS
EAGERLY REusHED BY THE MEMBERS AND
ELECTED MUCH APPLAUSE
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Garfield made remarkably strong speech vi 'iio
nepding financial questions OF the day. ana
especiay exposing the fallaces OF the advocates Vi
paper money The speech was III some respects
,epv 70 one that had been made by Judge Kelley pu'
il was not personal i'll its character ana deat WIFI
the questions ii discussed in broad and statesman
like manner 1t had wide circulation as IL de-
served. having been printed in full IN HE Tribune
and republished in a TRIBUNE extra IaiiiphIe'
comics of il were also sent out in considerable num-
hers No speech delivered during the present Con-
gross has done to arrest the attention OF the
iunationiss and bring people to Their senses, than
this
Yesterday. after waiting moro than three months
nOo days). Judge Kelley replied to General Garfield,
u;cpc out here and there brief sentences and par
aoraphs and INDUCING in the most unsparing de-
nunciation After Judge Kelley closed, yesterday,
the House agreed that General Garfield should nave
an hour to-day in which to answer him.
When the time came to-day, and General Garfield
took the floor. Judge Kelley, who had been for two
hours in the room of the Committee on Ways and
Means. and afterwards III the House was not III his
seat and. moreover. he had withheld his speech,
every line of which written from publication
in Inc Congressional Record that General CARRIED
was obliged to refer to 1t from memory. Bat Cen
era Garfield had no difficulty in dealing with the
important points of the speech even without having
il before him.
Beginning with keen thrust at the Pennsylya-
MIA economist in return for the assertion he made
Yesterday that the OHIO Representative was con
hot ~ lc whole
House because it was universally recognized to be
richlV dcservcO General Garfield took mp in order
all of Judge Kellcy's most important points, and
criticised and answered them in such a way abso-
lmtely to leave nothing for him TO have said
il be had been present. He showed
that Judge Kelley had misTepresented his speech !;
bad carefully avoided its arguments, and dealt only
with side issues; that he had quoted only to mis-
represent General Gareld's authorities; and finally.
IN his denunciaiOns had forgotten the part he him
self took in the acts of which he spoke In such
severe terms. The latter portions OF the speech
were especially enjoyed by the House. 1t
was indeed. entertaining in connection with Judge
Kelcys characterization of the policy OF Secretary
McCulloch as wicked to read from the Journal OF
the House The vote of William ID. Kelley in 1860 in
favor of resolution approving the contraction pol
rev of Secretary McCulloch, and pledging the sup
port of the House to il.
General Garfield was excusable for stepping aside
from the general purpose of his speech, which was
10 answer Judge Kelley and to refer 10 one or two
incidents IN tne political history OF the Pennsy-
yani, Representative lie recalled his visit to one
of the iron regions i'll Ohio, IN 1879, during srlhe;
and at a time when blOOdshed seemed imminent and
making a speech 10 nfame the passions of the
workingmen,in which be warned employers that the
time was near at hand when labor would have its
hand ON the throat of capital He referred also TO
the other occasion when Mr.. Kelley went
to Ohio and attempted TO bring about the de
was committed to hard money, and said
that when the time for another election came Mr..
Kelley was reelected only at the solicitation of his
party friends in the House who did not agree with
him on the money question but who assured his
constituents that those should not be repea; ed
General GARFIELD was repeatedly applauded; ana
when he closed the members crowded abOut him IN
such numbers 10 congratulate him that 1t was fully
Eve minutes before the House could proceed with
its business.