Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-26
HAYES SPITTED.
By Senator Howe, Wis.
Sharp Review Of Policy
AndAfai Louisiana
If Nichols is Governor.
Hayes is Not President.
Senate,

Hayes Is Not President.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Window
from the eommitte on appropriations, reported
with amendments the House bill making mp
preparations for the consular and diplomatic.
services for the fiscal year ending June so
1879. Placed on the calendar
The conlmitte on public buildings and
grounds reported favorabiy n bill to provide
building for post Office, United States courts.
etc, at Topeka, Kansas, and with an amend
ment the Senate bill to provide for public
building al Kansas City, Missouri Both placed
on the calendar.
Senator Wallace submitted an amendment 10
the House bill to repeal the resumption act.
which provides that and after July 1, 1878,
United States legal tender notes shall be receiv-
able for all debts and dues both public and
private. That any national banking associa-
ton, after being authorized, or any national
banking association now in existence which
may desire to increase its circulation, shall de
liver to the secretary of the treasury for can
collation. any of the bonds of the United States
payable within ten years and bearing ak per
cent. interest, and shall receive in exchange
therefor legal tender notes of the United States
to the amount of the nominal value of such
bonds, which said bonds shall be treated as part
of the sinking fund, and recorded and DESTROYED
under existing laws, but the whole amount of
legal tender notes issued for this purpose and
otherwise outstanding, shall never exceed
1852, OO0, OOO No tax upon circulation shall be
imposed upon legal tender notes issued under
the provisions hereof, and no reserve shall be
required to be kept for their redemption by
any such national banking association All
Laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the
provisions hereof shall be, and they are hereby
repe aled. Referred.
Senator Rollins called up the House bin to
amend the act for the support Of the govern
ment of the District of Columbia fJr the pres
ent fiscal year i'll regard to assessments of prop
erty and taking q census of the district at the
same time. Passed.
Senator Window called up the House bill to
provide for a deficiency in the miscellaneous
fund of the House of Representatives, The
amendments reported by the committee appro-
priating $4,000 for contingent expenses Of the
Senate and 81 500 for folding documents, were
agreed to and the bill passed as amended.
Senator Booth introduced bill to protect
waters of all lakes, rivers and streams on pub
lie lands from sale, and to dedicate the same to
the common use of the inhabitants. Referred
Mr.. Davis, ILL.,, said a few days ago he intro
duced bill to confirm to the city of Chicago
the title to certain grounds, which was referred
to the committee on judiciary. 1t should have
been referred to the committee on private land
claims, and he moved it be referred to that
committee. So ordered.
At the expiration of tho morning honr, Sen
ator Howe called up his resolution asking the
President for information in regard tn the al
legged defalcation of Judge Whitaker of
Senator Howe said during the past year we have
seen here and everywhere throughout the country,
small but active squads OF political nquisttors busy
gathering into the hallowed gamers all those who
ayow themselves supporters OF the President policy
and pouring unauenchabc fire upon all the rest.
Poles have been set up ut all roads, flags III
scribed with the Presidents policy have been sus-
pended from them, and aolf appointed inGuistors
have lurked III convenient inngles to detect who did
and who did not uncover under the flag.
u has has happened to me to be advertised quite
beyond the pale Of my own modegty seeking, as an
opponent of the Presidents policy. TO tho doctore
moment whether one DO a Republican or a Democrat.
The absorbing question il, does he support the
Presidents policy, or does he not:
Sir, have no wish to conceal any opinion of mine
which the public was Interested to know. Never
theless, have not hitherto answered to this accuea
ton. ] did not want to plead not guilty, for
feared might be guilty. ! had withheld honest
effort to elect Mr.. Hayes. IT must of necessity pain
me to be found not iii accord with his views and
must pain me still more 10 find his no. in accord
with mine.
My uncertainty arose not from the fact that was
doubtful of my own policy, but because not
sure understood his. My own policy is q very SIM
pie one, and may be briefly stated. Toward the
States Of tho South my policy has been identical
with the policy have held towards the States of the
North. demand only that every legally qualified
clector, III every State, South North, Democrat Or
Republican, black white, shall be permitted, ,,l-
disturbed by force and u1awed by fear to vote al all
elections aid!at all places prescribed 10y law and
where else, Just once and no more than once; that
every vote cast shall be honestly counted, and that
every person chosen by such votes TO any office shall
be freely indicted into it, That liz my Southern pol.
icy, and the whole Of it. The very head aud front
of my offending against the South hath this extent
and no more.
Concerning the civil service, my policy Is not Bit
more complicated. ] would have that serYice id
ministered by the best attainRble and believe
Republican President should, as Cincinnati de
sired, select Republicans for all places where the
harmony and vigor of the standardization require It's
policy to be represented. believe, the President
declared in his inaugural address, that commits
stoned, the officer should be secure III his tenure
long as his personal character remajus untafnished
and the performance Of his duty satisfactory
Some things had happened since tic President 3
Inauguration not at all in harmony with the policies
have Indicated. He has selected for his cabinet q
man who was not y Republican, but Democrat.
Still the individual was SO well known 10 me, and
believed implicitly in the moderation of his opin~
ion and the iustncss of his continents, and the iI-
tcgrty of his character that if could not nave adj
vised his selection, could and did not complain
of it. lie had selected other who, although not
Democrat, was yet not q Republican; who was
in ali places. By turns he had been
everywhere, and had cspoused aud deserted every
party. He spoke like oracle and his faclc speech
could be fitted to the vicissitlldes, Of parties as
readily double faced satin can be turned to hide
the accidents of society. His critques upon his POI
tical associates gave him popularity with his polti-
cal opponents, and he resembied the prophets III
never being without honor except where be happened
to reside. Inconstant in everything else, le has
been constant to his trade-that Of politics. He en-
tered on that before he of ago and he has pur-
ai1 with nj
turning. His first enterprise TO revoludonize
the government under which he was born.
That failed and he fed. He was for short time a
LAWYER in Wisconsin, but without clients. He was
minister at Madrid, aud did not reconstruct the
diplomacy of the world. He was major general,
but perverss history refused to record his Victories
He was newspaper correspondent and was unsuc-
cessful. He was transpianted into Missouri, and the
generous Republicans OF that State bore him into
this Senate. That elevation did not prove fatal TO
him, but his party died-died not in spite of him, but
because of him and under the blows which he up
lifted. Having outraged one party and mot received
absOlntiOn from tho other, he denounced both as
machines Having failed dealer in legitimate poll
tics he turned his attention to the contraband article
In 1872 he helped to lead Horace Greeley and b.
Gratz Brown to the Baltimore market and taught the
Democracy OF that year they should call nothing
common or unclean if it promised to beat Grant.
For six years he uaduced the Republican party
probably through more States with more rhetoric and
In more languages than any Dian living. Upon that
nustrious captain, who from the 4th of July, 1863
to the 4th Of March, 1877, led the Republican party
who always led his party to victory and always lifted
his country 10 renown; at whose approach but re-
Gently the eastern continents stood up and uncoy
cred. He threw more mud than any dredge not
worked by steam ever threw in the same time
After reviewing sill further Secretary Schurz's
career, he took up the Packard case and the Louis
lana election, and said: When the President wal
inangurated Stephen P. Packard WAS Governor OF
Louisiana. Wtha sixty days after that Inauguration
he ceased to be Governor. When he disappeared