Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-04
THE SOUTHERN TIGER.
A General Breaking Loose of the Historic
Animal In Response to BraRg's Strict.
ures-Lively Debate In the House
OF Representatives..

of Representatives.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The speaker an
nounced that the regular order of business
bill to be the bill for the relief of Maggie
Baron.
MI. Chalmers said he cared nothing for
the payment of local southern claims, be
cause loyalty to the union during the war
meant disloyalty to everything he held dear.
That many men in the south had been loyal
to the union was nevertheless true, and he
did not envy the cheap political capital the
union soldiers could make by telling Of
such men. He had no more confidence in
their honesty than a mouse had in a stuffed
cat skin. The gentleman from Wisconsin,
Bragg taking advantage Of the we'll known
opposition everywhere, sought to blend war
claims with claims for southern improve
ments and endeavored to throw the odor of
his dead cat over them. The readiness to
suspec. corruption in others sometimes indi-
Gates an innate tendency to corruption in
ones self. and he should therefore not charge
corruption on anyone. The issues of the
wal were certainly dead with him. He had
but one political faith to preserve inviolate
local self government; but one political
hope; to build up the waste places in the
south destroyed by war. When the
west had been in its infancy it had
been fostered by the south. Missis.
eippi democrats had stood side by side
with those from Michigan in the
work of western Improvements. He had
warned the northern democrats last session
that a refusal to recognize the just demands
of the south might result in the defeat of
southern democrats and the return of repre-
sentatiyes who would form alliance with
other parties. The rapid growth of indie
pendent candidates in the south had already
sustained his declaration. He hoped the
solid south would still be solid for the dem
ocratic party. But for that part of it that
had the courage and manliness to treat the
people Of the south as equals and not as inte-
riors in the union. The gentleman from
Wisconsin had found a bloodier shirt than
had ever waved from the battlements of the
republican party, and lie was stretching his
legs in a frantic effort to climb up to the
republican platform and rob it of its last
banner. He had reminded the south of the
war debt and of the blood of the union sol.
diers, for which the south were responsible.
He (Chalmers), would remind the gentle
man that the war debt was not yet paid and
the cotton and tobacco states were paving
far more of that debt than Wisconsin. He
Chalmers would reply to the gentleman's
dismissal Of certain supposed classes Of south.
ern democrats that if there were any sore
heads or disappointed republicans in the
north who could not get into congress with
out putting on the lion skins of democracy,
they should be very careful not to open
their mouths too wide when they get there.
Laughter.
Mr.. Hooker said every claim against the
government should be go absolutely and
completely divorced from political senti-
ment that no member on either side would
regard it as a political question on which
the parties could be divided. Such ques-
tons should be passed upon according to
justice and right and not according to par
tisanship. Mr.. Garfield had we'll predicted,
not long since, that any man who attempted
to appeal again to sectional jeslously and
sectional animosities on the floor Of the
house would appeal in vain. He hoped
such appeal would be as powerless to effect
its object coming from one side Of the cham.
Der - coming from the other. He (Hooker)
could not forget that when the war closed
and there were various measures of legisla.
ton proposed, intended to lay the iron heel