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was suited to tho utterance
us he said it was not an eagle that
plucEcd at his vitals the arms wcro
thrown up and the curving swoop
Of the king Of birds was described in
the gesture: and then as he Missed
out IT was Il vulturc tho right arm
out and tho index
finger pointed at Hoar. 1t WAS as
fine and effective Il piece OF oratory
as ! ever Witnessed.
Blaine then spoke Hc turned to
Lamar and began to play upon his
remark that Davis had never coun-
scilcd insuirectioh. Hc snid he was
amazed at the words of the Senator
from mississippi. / took them
down as he uttered them. I wanted
to make no mistake in quoting him.
81 took down his words" repeated
Blaine. "sSince the war he has
never counsolIetl insurrcction," and
this is the defence that is mado for
Jefferson Davis in tho American
Senate. He has not counscllcl i'll
surrection ; for this you ask that he
be placed upon the pension rolls,
because forsooth nc has not coun-
selled insurrcction since the war.
As Blaine said II took down tho
words OF the Senator from NIissis>
sipDi" he iluttGred the sheet of pa
per Which he held in his right hand.
AS ho repeated for the third time,
''bccauso he had not counscllci
insurrection," he leaned forward,
stretched out his arm. and the sheet
Of paper went huttering over into
the space in front of the clerk
desk.
And thus the speech ran on. It
was full Of telling points, and
raspcd Thurman and Lamar at every
turn, but WAS always strictly within
parliamentary decorum, and the ref
cGcnces to Lamar himself were ex~
ceeding courteous.
Garland, after Blaine had spoken
so hotly, apologized for having pro-
cip:tatcd the debate, and then went
on to say that the treatment of
Drvis had not been mugnanimous.
burnside apologjzed fer having
voted to pension tho Mexican SOL
diers. lie wandered along scatter
ing over the whole Of creation, as q
Republican Senator remarked to-
day. and finally wound up by saying
that he did not want to be considers
cd greater ass than Nod Almighty
had made him, which tinalo to his
speech provoked II burst Of laughter
on both sides Of the Senate, in which
the galleries joined.
There were one or two other un-
important speeches, and then Zach
Chandler, who had been asleep in
the cloak room, went to Che front
and made what both sides concede
was the speech Of the night. 1t
happened this way. w. e. Chandler
was in the reporters gallery an in
tcrested spectator. Hc was dis
g,lsted at what he thought was the
pusalanimity OF Republican Seua>
tors. He sont down word to Zach
Chandler that he WAS amazed that
no Rpublican Senator had the
courage to call jeff Davis traitor,
and he wanted to know whether no
had become SO much of II Hayes
man that he had forgotten to call
things by their right names. The
messenger came back with this H.
comic message from Zach to W. e.
"Wait and see" Tho speech WAS,
as the Democratic Senators said to-
day, q rasper. His words were not
measured.
There were hot words still later
in the debate between Thurman and
Blaine. Thurman was worn and
and weary. His temper, never the
best, was out of sorts, probably be-
cause Of the wear and tare Of the
long physical strain. Blaine inter
rupted him in little speech he
was making, and Thurman, in high
dudgeon, told Blaine to sit down.
Blaine sat down apparently very
mcckly, but when Thurman was
through, ho got up and sill that he
took his seat not ut the command of
tho Senator from Ohio, so rudely
given, but because ho had no right
to tho floor Hc wanted to say,
however, to the Senator from Ohio
that this was not the first time he
had acted so rudely; that had there
not been twenty years difference in
their ages ho would have held him
accountable in an entirely different
way but now he simply wanted to
say that his conduct was neither