The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-27
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.

ton act, which provides:
That ouand afte- July /, 1878. United States
legal tender notes shall be receivable for all
any national banking association hereafter
organized, or any national banking asSocia-
ton now in existence which may desire 10
increase its circulation shall deliver TO the
secretary of the treasury for cancellation any
of the bonds of the United states, payable
est and shall receive in exchange therefor
legal tender notes OF the United states 10 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 under tine existing oS legal ave tender notes
issued for this purpose and otherwise
outs'andipg shall never exceed $50 OCOOOO. No
tax upon circulation shall be imposed upon
legal tender notes issues under the provision
hereof and no reserve shall be required 10 DE
kept for their redemption by any such ma
tionaI banking association. All laws or parts
of laws inconsistent with the provisions here
Of be and they are hereby repealed
Referred
At the expiration of the morning hour
Mr.. Howe called up his resolution asking
the president for information in regard TO
the alleged defalcation OF Judge Whitaker
of Louisiana, and made his promised speech.
Mr. Howe said: "During the past year We
have seen here and everywhere throughout
cal ineuisifors busy with the work of assort-
ing the republican party, gathering into the
hallOwed gamers all those who now aNoW
icy, and pouring unquenchable fire upon all
the rest. Poles have been set up at all the
cross roads: flags inscribed with the preSi-
dents policy have been suspended from them,
and Seff-appointed inquisitOrs have lurked In
convenient jungle TO detect who did and who
did not uncover their heads under the flag. III
has happened to me to be advertised quite be-
yOnd the pale of my own modesty as seeking
as an opponent of the presidents policy. To
the doctors of the inquisition it seems no lon
ger question of moment whether one be
republican or adeinocrat; Inc aDSfDing ques-
* nrAoc he no
or does he not? Sir, have no wish TO conceal
any opinion of my mine in which The public
was interestep to know, nevertheless nave not
hitherto answered this accusation. did not
like TO plead guilty, for L hoped l was inno-
cent, and did not like to plead not guilty, for
honest effort 10 elect Mr.. Hayes. 1t must OF
necessity pain me TO be found not in accord
with his views, and it must pain me still more
to find he was not in accord with mine. My
uncertainty arose, not from the fact that L
was doubtful of my own policy, but because
NY own policy is a very simple one, and
may be briefly stated. Towards the states of
the south my policy has been identical with
the policy have held toward the states of the
north. l demand only that every legally
qualified elector in every state, south or north,
democratic or republican, black, or white,
shall be permitted, undiSturbed by force and
unawed by fear, to vote at all elections and at
the place prescribed by law, and nowhere else,
just once and no more than once, and that
every vote so east shall be honestly counted,
and that every person chosen by such votes to
southern policy, and the whole of 1.-THE head
and front of my offending against the south
hath this extent and no more. Concerning
civil service, my policy is not bit more COM
plicated. l would have that service admins
tered by the best men attainable, and believe
republican president should, as the Cincin-
matt convention declared, select republicans
for all the places where the harmony and vigOr
of the administration require its policy to be
represented. i believe, as the president de-
clared in his inaugural address, that, once
commissioned, the officer should be secure in
nj afl OF.
mains untarnlShed and the performance of
his duty satisfactory. Some things have hap
pened since the presidents Inauguration not
at all in harmony with the policies l nave
indicated. He has selected Tor his cabinet
democrat. Still the individual was so well
known 10 me- and believed so implicitly IN
the moderation of l11s opinion, in the business
of his sentiments and the integrity of his char
aeter that could not have advised ms selec-
ti0n | could not and did not complain of 1t.
He had selected one other, who, although not
equally at home with all parties and in all
places. BY turns he had been everywhere. and
mao ep9nsed ana deserted every party par c lie
speech could be fitted To viciSSitudes of
parties as readily as q double faced satin can
oritiques upon his political associates always
give MIN popularity with his political OppOn-
entS, and he reSembled the prophets in never
being without honor except where he hap
pened to reside. Inconstant in everything
else, he has been constant to his trade, that oil
OF ege, ana he has pursued il since, without
variableness or a shadow of turning. His first
ment under which he was born; that failed
and and he fed: He was for short
without clients. He was minister at Madrid,
but did not reconstruct the diplomacy Of the
world. He was major general, but perverse
newspaper correspondent and was unsuc-
cesSful. He was transpl nted into Missouri
and the genuine republicans of that state bore
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prove fatal TO him, but his party died-died,
not in spite of him, but because Of him and
under blows which he inflicted. Having out
ragged one party, and not yet received absolu-
ton from the other. he denounced both rs
machines. Having failed as dealer in legiti-
mate politics, he turned ms attention 20
the costraband article. In 1872 he helped 10
lead Horace Greeley and b Graft Brown to
racy OF that year that they should
call nothing common or uncle1n
six years ne traduced the republican party
probably throughout more states, with more
rhetoric and IN more language than any man
from the 4th OF July. 1853, TO the 4th of March
1SII, led the republican party, who always led
ms party 10 victory, and always lifted his
recently the eastern continent stood up and
uncovered, he threw more mud than any
dredge not worked by steam ever threw in the
same time" After reviewing still further
Secretary Schurz's career he took up the
PACKARD case and the Louisiana election and
said when the president was lnaugurated :
y. Packard was governor of louisiana; within
sixty days after Inat Inauguration he ceased Il
be governor. When he disappeared the viii
Of Louisiana was subverted and trampleC
upon. Such an event is always a matter o.
sincere regret TO all who respect republican
Institutions. But very few such events would
be required to render republican institution
that by word and that kissing on this cont
nent which for centuries they have been Oh
the other. He then reviewed at Length
the Louisiana com mission in a sarcastic tone
and said: eff it was their mission to dispose
OF an actual governor, they did not consume
time enough. Under the constitution OF
Louisiana four years are required for thai
purpose. could not therefore see In all tina
transpired in Louisiana the development o
a new policy for the republican party or aban
donment OF an old policy. / saw only ac
quiescence in what seemed to be disagreed
BILE necessity, but was not prepared TO see
the act advertised as one of The PRESIDENT
choice, which every republican as well AZ
every democrat was bound to approve
II was therefore matter of surprise anC
profound regret also that / heard the presi
dent declare, In his late annual message. tn,
discoptinuance OF the use Of the army for thu
purpose OF unfolding local governments in tive
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