The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-26
XLvTH CONGRESS- Second Session.
WAsHINaTeSs March %, 1878.

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SENATE. Is * 3, z
Mr.. Howe, OF Wisconsin, called up the
Iresolution submitted by bin astweek, call
ling upon the President for Information as
1 to the charges OF Judge WHITAKER, OF Lou
! isiana, being tlefauIter to the United States,
land said: .sDrring the past year we have
seen, here and everywhere throughout the
Icountry, small but active i squads of
political inquisitors busy with the work
OF assorting the Republ party, gathering
into hallowed gamers all those who avow
themselves supporters of the Presidents
i policy, and pouring unquenchable fire upon
/ oil! the rest. Poles have been set up at all
/ the crossroads, flags inscribed with the
presidents Policy " have been suspended
from them, and the seif-appointed inquisi-
!; tors have slinked in convenient iungles to
detectwhe did and who did not uncover
under the flag. He had withheld no honest
! effort to elect Mr.. Hayes, and it panied him
! to be found not in accord with bis views.
He (Mr. Howe) believed that Republican
President should, as the Cincinnati Con-
vention declared, select Republicans for all
those places where harmony and vigor OF
administration require its policy to be rep
resented. he then commented on the civil
service policy OF the President, and said
| tic lidu SSlSCtcu SaDtUCb OHG Lluu
who was not Republican, but q Democrat.
to him (Mr. HoHe), and he believed go
implicitly in the moderation OF his opinions,
in the business OF his sentiments and the
integrity OF his character, that il he could
/ not have advised his selection he could and
did not complain OF it.
he then referred to the appointment OF
Mr. Schurz to be Secretary Of the Interior,
and said, although not Democrat, yet he
was not Republican. He was equally at
home with all parties and in all places.
BY turns he had been everywhere a2d es-
poused and deserted every party. BE spoke
like an oracle, and his facile speech could
bs fitted to the vicissitudes Of parties as
readily "a q double-faced satan can be
turned to hide the accident of socety. HIS
critiques upon his political associates al
| ways gave him popularity with his political
opponents. Inconstant in everything else,
be has been constant to bis trade-that Of
politics. His first enterprise was to revolu-
tioniZe the Government under which he
was born. That failed, and he fed. He
then commented severely on the life
and history Of Schurz, saying that be threw
more mud at General Grant than any
dredge. and argued that the President had
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next referred to Louisiana affairs, and SAID
when the President was insugurated Ste
phen 3. Packard was Governor OF Louis
lana. Within sixty days after that inaugu-
ration he ceased to be Governor. When be
disappeared the will Of Louisiana was sab
Yerted and trampIed upon. If Mr.. Packard
was not elected Governor OF Louisiana,
nothing can be more certain than
that Dir. Hayes was not elected President
Of the United States. Without the elccto-
raj vote OF Louisiana the whole world
knows that Mr.. Hayes had not the votes in
the Electoral College necessary to consti-
tute an election; and il Louisiana did not
vote for Packard, the whole world knows
that Louisiana did not vote for Hayes.
Packard received nearly 1900 votes Ioore
than some OF the Hayes electors. Under
the Constitution the President had but one
plain duty to discharge that WAS to sscer-
| tain whether the constituted tribunals
Of Louisiana had declared Packard
to be Governor. II SO, then defend his
authority to the extent Of his ability when
legally required so to do. Il they had not
SO declared, then it was equally his duty not
merely to have withheld all support OF
Packard;s rretencc, but to have given all
required support to the claim OF Parckard's
rival. 1t was his duty to have done that
not merely on The Goth O! April, but
to have done it on the eth or March,
Immediately upon his assuming the OF
flee OF President; and il he found 1t his
constitutional duty TO require Packard to
surrender his Office he should have also re-
cognized the duty OF surrenderlng his own.
/ do not mean to intimate doubt that Ere
sident Hayes was not entitled to the vote OF
Louisiana. 1t is my settled belief that LOU
isiana declared for him, but all I certainly
know Is that il Packard was not elected
Hayes was not. II the latter is not 4
usurper, Nichols ia. / can see no possible
escape from the conclusion either that the
President has usurped his own Office or that
he has aided Governor Nichols to usurp
his.
Referring to Senator Hoar. Of Massa-
chusetts, he said: He is one OF those who,
as it is understood, now pursue the unre-
concile(l Democrats Of the South with dishes
OF patronage, believing in their speedy cap
ture as fondly as the boys believe they will
catch The birds whose flight they eagerly fol-
low if hey can only sprinkle little salt on
their tails.
He commented at length upon the
Presidents appointing Democrats to Office,
and said Mr.. President, let no man Say do
injustice TO the purposes Of the President.
I am not discussing his purposes but his
acts. I understand that he ayows himself
still to be 4 Republican and the friend OF
equal citizenship. 1t is not for me to dis
pute him. but it is for me to say that he has
offended both Republieanism and equal citi-
zenship as Samuel j. Tiden never would
have offended them. Perhaps had Mr.. Til
den been made President events would have
transpired in South Carolina and Louisiana
as they have TRANSFERRED. Mr.. Hampton
would have been Governor in the former
State and Mr.. Nichols in the latter, and after
all this prolonged effort at pacilication, this
ontpouring of concession and goodwill the
angel OF peace still refuse to descend upon
us! Day after day the President sends the
dove out over the angry floods, and night
after night the bird returns weary and leaf
less. In these very days, that government
which rules in Louisiana, which was born
OF presidential grace and not OF popular
choice, has signaized its ingratituae by an
1 act not less insulting to the President than
atrocio,ls in itself. It has dared to accuse,
try, and convict member OF the State
| Board OF Returns OF the crime OF forging
the election returns OF Vernon parish for
lls76. Remember, sir, I do not complain
because Anderson was tried for political
offence. Ii he is guilty OF the offence
charged have not Il syllable. to urge in his
defence. The point | make against the
Government OF Louisiana is that it prose
cuted not in the name OF public justice but
OF partisan malice; that it prosecil-
ted a man suiltIess OF the offence
alleged against him, and known to be guilt
less. Anderson is the victim not OF mis-