The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-03-20
STAUNTON. VIRGINIA. MARCH 90. 1879.
coNKL1NG AND THURMAN.

| C0NKLING AND THURMAN.
THE NEW YORK SENATOR SLIGHTLY '.sA
KAsTICAL."
The New York Senator put in his wo
pretty heavily on Ohio's favorte son in I'll
debate on the proposition to pension the We
Grams Of the Mexican war, and although
little severe it is too good to be lost.
Conkling objected to the Mexican WI
pension amendment that 1t embraced to
much and was am biguously worded. Thu
man retorted There Is no man 10 the Sen
ate 80 great master of language as tn
Senator from New York. We all comics
that. There is no man more capable Of max
ing this amendment perfectly clear. Their
Is no man more capable by apt language t
eliminate from it all its excess. Why, It tn
Senator is in favor of pensioning anYbod.
who was in that war. does he not apply hi
acknowledged talent to reducing the amend
ment to proper proportions and making i
as perspicuous and clear as possibles
Day was breaking as Mr.. Conkling begar
this reply I: Praise undeserved is satire ir
disguise but beg to assure the honorable
Senator from Ohio thatsI take no offence al
the fun he makes of me. I am ready to say
that when the time shall come, that he who
is master of language, he who is master
of the science and dction of law and com
petent to dc that which in satire and deri-
sion he proposed to me, when the time shall
come that he prepares an amendment, free
from the objections found to this, shall be
certain to vote for it, provided two or three
other things may concur. I shall want it Of
fered at some when Senators have slept
either the night before or on some recent
night, and are by consequence clear.headed.
shall want it offered at a time when the
Constitution does not say that the hammer
must fall few hours afterward and at a
time when we may enjoy, as the Senate does
enjoy, the sonorous and non partizan dis
sertations wherewith the honorable Sena tor
from Ohio embellishes. illum mates and ex-
pands to transparency all his great concep-
tions. Then too, shall want also an OPP
portunity to take passing glance at the bal
ance sheet of the nation. It will not be
necessary in my case, as it is said, anxi GUS
and nervous political aspirants sometimes
find it necessary before voting on question
to go out and not only consult the signs in
the zodiac, bu1 see how all the tin ROSTERS
on all the barns stand so as to know exactly
which way the wind blows. [Lau ghter.l l
will not ask time to do that, because 1 have
no presidential prospects to be imperiled by
any mistake may make in voting here.
shall, however, want an opportunity to look
at the balance I shall want to see
whether at that particular time there is, or
is likely to be any money in the Treasury
with which to do such magnificent thing
as in exact, appropriate and imposing Ian
guage the honorable Senator from Ohio will
be sure to propose. If all these somewhat
varied and, as lawyer from the Senator's
State once said. "multificious'' circumstances
occur, and if there shall
be harmonious union OF all things, show
ing that the nick OF time, the longed-for
and worked for moment has come for the
honorable Senator from Ohio to make his
popularity absolutely universal by adding t.
the endless idolizing train which follows
him the serried ranks OF the soldiers of the
Mexican war. the honorable Senator may be
sure that will vote to add all that resplen-
dant length of tail to his political kite
[Laugnter.l submit to the honorable Sen
ator that nothing could be farer than this.
his best for so great and critical an endeavor.
The Senator has, during Sunday and Sunday
night delivered so many fervid and eloquent
speeches, he has so faxed his brain and i'm
agination, particularly his Imagination, and
many of his highest faculties, that do not
believe it within the limits of moral posi-
bilities that he can still have reserve force
to expand himself might more appropri-
ately say spread Observation-Disclosures
undoubtedly he would be glad to do when
he takes up the question Of the Mexican
war, looks over the whole field, calculates
all the chances, and arranges it so that all
the lights and shadows will strike, as they
should strike, in reference to 1880 and other
great and interesting epochs. [T.aughter.]
The Senator from Ohio is in a testing mood
to- night. am in grim earnest. am for
The men who carried the star-spangled ban
ner and planted it on the tower of the city
Of the Atzecs. They are the men for whom
The honorable Senator from Ohio should leg
slate. But with his anxiety he may need
90 farther. beg him to remember those
who fought on the other side. A good many
II them have crossed the border to live or
steal cattle. They may be factor in cleo
lions and results, and beg of him not to
be thoughtless Of them. He should go very
ure-footed and not march without scouts
Ia every view 1t is an important matter, and
warn the honorable Senator not to run any
risk to turn his back upon brilliant future
by doing Anything without the utmost fore
last. The soldiers ballot in this country
IS very large. 1t has great force in many
States. 1t is numerous indeed in all
The States, and there are political advan-
ages and hazards which ought, think,
70 relieve this subject from the levity
with which the honorable Senator from
Ohio seems inclined to treat it. Let me
say further to that honorable senator
that when he is as old as am, when he has
had as much experience as l have had in
those grand and placid assemblages, each
plaza de Tauro, called Democratic national
con ventions, he will be satisfied, as I am,
that not in the morning at o'clock, when
he is tired, when ne is under the reaction OF
his many speeches which have produced
much exhaustion, as all of US can testify;but
at some other time when he has himself
in hand, when he is able to sur
vey the whole table and study its angles and
pockets, to see exactly how to carom not
only on the red ball, but on the black and
on the Chinese [laughterl-the and not
till then, he should take his cue and prance
loudly to the fore as the champion political
billiard player Of all the hemispheres and all
the ages. [Laughter'] That is his mission