The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-21
Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
XLVI CONGRESS. .
HOUSE.

blackburn in the chair, on the legislative
appropriation bill.
Mr.. Price, who was entitled to the floor.
yielded to Mr.. Frye, who said in connec-
ton with the misunderstanding which had
taken place yesterday between Messrs
Blackburn and Mckinley in regard 10 The
proper construction of Blaekburn's speech,
he desired to read to the house the con-
struction put on that speech in Mississipni
by the now famous paper, the Okolona
Stats, which he received through the mail.
He thereupon read with great emphasis
the following article from that paper of the
10th Of April, pretacing it with the state
ment that the article was complimentary
to the gentleman from Kentucky, and
therefore, that gentleman would take no
0ttense at what was read. What was it
that brave Joe Blackburn said in the
House, Messrs. Soft Shell? Oh, yes, we
remember now, he remarked, that our
party would strike the last vestige Of war
measures from the statute books; the
States never said more and never said less
than that. You repudiate the States, will
you repudiate Black burn? You are still
silent. Well, gentlemen, we will give you
Just one more chance; answer or forever
after hold your peace. AS far as the
States is concerned will you repudiate
Black kburn? Down with the devil born
amendments! Down with centralism and
its hints of crown and sceptre! Down
with the pictures of Lincoln and the scoun.
drels who surrounded him In the battle
days Of lS61-'65i Down with every anti
Democratic idea and idol! Let these be
the watchwords for 1891"
Mr.. Blackburn having come down from
| the chair during the reading of the article.
in an exciting manner said: Mr.. Chair
man, if this be not the first time l haye
been forced to complain Of unfairness at
the hands of my friends on the other side.
1t is certainly the first time | have ever
| been compelled to make such a complaint
against the gentleman from Maine.
| have but this to say, | regret that every
recurring day brings up some personal
| assault which seems to me, fair dealing,
| honesty OF construction and ordinary man
hood, would repudiate. With each re-
curing day | find myself forced to repel
mlsconstruction given by either some
memt srs Of the House to language uttered
| by me in the shape of garbled quotations
or else an unwarranted. unnatural, ,construc-
| ton put upon somebody e!se's language
by members of that side Of the House. So
far as the newspaper article, which the
gentleman from Maine has read to the
House, is concerned, | care nothing foz
Iit-for that paper, A contribution from
lOhio to Mississippi simply repeats the un
fair, ungenerous and untruthtul effort that
was made here yesterday to misrepresen
me. l care nothing for the utterauces OF
that paper, but when the gentleman from
Maine seeks to add his high authority tC
the injustice done me by the editor of tha
linconsequential sheet, it then becomes
| more serious matter Then | group tht
paper and gentleman from Maine togethe
: and say TO this committee aud the couutr,
thatit occurs to me they are we'll mated
= The one is as unfair as the other is iIibera
and crazy. Applause aud laughter o.
: the Democratic side.
, Mr., Frye-The one was a colonel in th
? Confederate service and not carpet bag
5 ger from Ohio; the one was the peer Q
j the gentleman from Kentucky in tha
} service in the South; of the other | hav
r nothing to say, Applause on the Reput
S jcan side
Mr. Blackburn, who had by this tim;
: moved into the area in front of the Spes
t ker's chair, and who stood there surround
d ed by many Democratic members, sale
S But have this to say of the other, b
y seems to be more perfectly familiar wit
I the history, antecedents and merits c
: THAT adventurer than | care to b.
e Whether he served in that army or th
:. lother is matter Of no concern to me.
J lsimply desire to repeat that in the artic
+ which the gentleman has read as compl
Imentary to me, as he chooses to term it,
e order to twist it to partisan purpose l
G prepetrated an act of gross injustice
Is which the gentleman from Maine. to II
:. utter amazement, has sought to lend b
?, high authority.
IT Mr. Frye-I did this and nothing NOR
D. heard the speech of the gentleman fro
i Kentucky, when it was made on til
If floor, as taken down by the Associate
in Press reporter and sent all over this coul
le try, aud say | had not sclntila
doubt that the construction which th
I'd paper has put on that gentleman's la
D. guage, would be put on ii in the South
a that gentleman made the declaration
lg the floor of the House which the Associ;
+, ed Press at the time could deca
e. it to be. What it did declare it to
ye and which the Okol0na Stats fr(
ly the dispatch in the Associated Pr
D. could declare in its 10y to be what
be heart then desired it to be, then it is no
as that is to be called to account for al
d, thing | have repeated to this House.
lis say it is my right, and it is not illiberal
% unjust to the gentleman from Kentue
for me to state to the House, not my o
ce words but the words of this pal
nd published in Mississippi, indors
,st as it is BY scores and scores
Mt papers in the South. l believe I
ry tended no injustice to the gentleman fri
&c Kentucky. I say in my heart and fir
Sd the utterances which have seen in the
X lpers South, helieye if the gentleman fr
Is, Kentucky had uttered on this floor the V,
ne words spoken by that paper-no more,
'er less-he would have commended hlmt
ok to nine out of every ten of the Democr
south of Mason and Dixon's line"
MIR. Davidson-"Y ou do injustice to
of u.s."
els Mr.. Blackburn-'I wish the gentlen
of from Maine to understand the issue (
tinctly. stand by the record made
rm this House; and [ wish himself and
ID colleagues would act as fairly. The wo
US which uttered here were stronger,
ice the very line / made my remarks in
sry yesterday and to-day than they stand
ported on record. After further dlscI