, 1879-04-20

1T0I1 LnaL D4HET Oh llE lULu VI PACtoNAe-7
il With the statcment that the article was com
plimentary to the gentleman from kentucky.
and, therefore, that gentleman would take no
offcnse at it:
What was It thar the brave Joe Blackburn eaid IN
member NOW. He remarked that our party wonta
strike the last vestige Of WET measures from tnd
statute books The States neTer said more anu 3ha
Sfates, " Wi,i ~ yon Tepudiate Blackburn lou are
silent YIN you s1, Tsp,pdiate we ili
after hold your peace as far Us the States Is coz,
cerned viii son repudiate BLACKBURN: uo"n ~.
with the deE born "a pow 1esn9re WIN down
with the pictures OF Lincoln and tue scoanols a1
who surrounded him IN the battle DAYS Of 6lG9' ,a
Down with every anti-De1nocIaue aoea "na 'oo4'
These be the watchwords Tor 'sos
Mr.. Blackburn, having come down from the
chair during the reading OF the artlce' IN an e1-
cited manner sad:
Mr. Chairman. If this be not the nrst time l
have been compelled to complain OF unfatrness
at The hands OF nv frinds on the other side, 1t
IL certainly tic first time have ever been COM
ne,led 70 make such complaint against the gen.
t1cman from, Maine. I hare bat this to say:
regret that every 1eenflng aas o1s up sule
H.. honesty Of construction, and ordinary man
% hood would repudiate. With each recur--.
riuc dav find myself forced, to repcl
given ey some ste1ed pT
q
me, in the shape of garbled quotations
or else unwarrantcd, unfair, unnatural con-
struc.!on put upon somebody else's LANGUAGE
by members Of that side Of the House So lar
as the newspaper article which the gentleman
from Maine has reod tothe house Is concerned,
CARE NOTHING FOE IT,
for that paper, contribution from Ohio to
mississippi, simply repeats the unfair, ungencr-
ous and uutruthtu} effort that was made here
yesterday u misrepresent me- care nothing
for the utteranccs Of that paper out "heh
a6d bis high authority to the in
Justice done me BY the editor Of that
lncouscouential sheet, 1t then becomes more
serious matter: Then I group the paper anu The
gentleman from Maine together ana say 70
70 me they are well mated. The one is as un-
lair as the other is illiberal and crazy. Ap-
pIause and laughter on the Democratic side.
Nj. Frye-The one was Colonel IN the Con-
teCerarc service md mol carpet-oassge1 uoW
Ohio. The one was
In that service in the South. Of the other
have nothing to say. Applause On tho kepuo-
Sir. Blackburn Cwho had by this time moved
into the area in front OF the Speakers CHAR,
and who stood there surrounded BY mauv
ne1nocratic members}-But 1 have this to say
81 the ot.er: he seems to be more perfectly
familiar with the history, an:ecedents, and
merits OF that adycnturer than l care 70 be.
Whether he served in that army or the other IS
q matter Of no couce7r TO Inc. / simply desire
to repeat that, in the article which the gentle
man has read complimentary to me, as he
chooses to term it, in order to twist 1t to TINS
partisan purpose, he poTpetrated an act OF gross
Injustice, to which tho gentleman from Maine,
to nv utter amazement, has sought to lend his
Mr. FTe-I did this and nothing more: I
heard the speech OF the gentleman from Ken
tucky when it was made on THIS uoor as 1aRen
down by the Associated Press reporter, and sent
ell over this country, anti say had not scin-
tilla OF doubt that the construction which this
paper has put on that gentlemaq's language
would be put on it in the South. II thai gen
tleman made the declaration on the hoor OF the
House which the Associated Press at the time
could declare to be what it did declare It to be,
aud vh1ch the Okolona States from its dispatch
in the Associated Press could declare in its JOY
to be what its heart desired it to be, then 1t Is
Tor ANYTHING bare repeated to this house.
eay it is INV right and it is not illiberal or un-
Just to the gentleman from Kentucky for me to
state to the House, not my own words, put the
words OF this paper published IN Mlss1sslppl' n
dorsed IS it is by scores and scores OF papers in
the South. believe
INTENDED NO INJUSTICE
to the gentleman from Kentucky. say in my
heart, and from, the uttcranccs which have
feca in the papers South, believe II the gen
1lcman from Kentucky had uttered on this floor
tht vrry words suokcu by that paper, no more,
no less, he would hnye commended himself to
zine out uf every ten OF the Democrats south
OF Mason and Dixon's line.
tir. Dayidson-You do injustice to all OF US
MIR. Blackburn wish the gentleman from
Maine to understand the issue distinctly. |
stand by the record made in This Honse, and
wish himself and his colleagues would act as
fairly. The words which uttered here we're
stronger, in the very line made my remarks in
aud Inv fhon ia a.
ported on the record, aud l say there was no
dispatch bY the Associated Press which war
ra1ted the garbling tn which my utteranccs
hare been subjected by the gentleman Oh the
other side, and BIZ that emissary who was sent
among my people
WHAT NDUCEMEETS
were offered to that e1nissary to make his
home among O people whom he persistentiy
seeks to ulisrcpresent, am not prepared to say.
Possibly the gentleman from Maine can tell YOU
Whether forced contributions lcvied upon De
partmental clerks and Government employees
constitute the motive which led him to the
work which seems to answer SO good PURPOSE.
I do not know. lApplausc aud c!appng OF
hands on the Democratic sfde.} do not take
issue with the gentleman from Maine when he
faTs that that man is my peer, or Was once.
That may or may not be.
Hr Frye unterruptingly- peer in the
army? -.
.ir. Blackburn-But I onlr mean to say this,
representation made he has not shown himself
The superior OF the gcntleman froh Maine to-
day. fApplause on the Democratic sidel :.
MIR. M'K1NLET
here came into the controversy, and asked Mr:
Blackburn whether the speech Of the latter had
appeared in the ftecor1 as it had been delivered.
Mr.. Blackburn replied it had. with no sub
stantial alteration He repeated lew words
TINT l1ad been added, and which, he said, rather
weakened than strengthened the words actual