Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-27


pei him to recognize the colored people In ap- |
pointments made by him; asking the Demo-
cratic party to compel a Republican executive
to appoint colored cadets. Why, MIR. Presi- |
dent, is it possible members of Congress have
right to appoint cadets? Nearly one-half
the members of the House are Repub-
icans. They have the right to
appoint colored cadets The Senator might as
well put provIso in this bill compelling them
to do 30. l can hardly believe him serious in
so rejecting upon his party and their record.
1t is an admission to the country that they
have not reco gnized the colored element. But
he ought not to come to the Democratic party
for compulsory measures to make the Republi-
cans do what they otherwise ought To do.
The morning hour having expired, the Senate
| resumed consideration of the resolutions de-
claring Spofford entitled to the seat now occu-
pied by Kellogg. Senator Jonas supported the
resolutions. He denied Kelloggs recent asser-
ton that the majority of the Nichols legisla-
ture was obtained by admitting three men not
elected. In further remarks he said that if
| the Packard legislature was entitled to recog
milton. then he (Jonas) was not entitled
to his seat proposition that
| no one would care to advance. He would not
| refer to the testimony taken before the COM
| mittee further than to say that it showed the
disreputable character of the men associated
with and supporting Kellogg, it being now
| admitted that the so-called Packard Legislature
| never existed Legislature. 1t made no
difference how they elected Kellogg. He might
| as we'll have been sent here by a mob of
negroes on the levees.
Senator Jonas, N further remarks, denied
| the charge that bargain was made at the time
Kellogg was seated, by which the Senator from
South Carolina (Butler) was also admitted. He
accused Senator Kellogg of being responsible
for the political troubles that paralyZed the in
dustries of Louisiana for years and prevented
| che restoration OF good will between the peo-
| ple and closed with the assertion that content
ment and prosperity was returning to the State
| under the newly recovered self government of
| the people,
] Senator Blaine followed, speaking at length
| in opposition to the resolution, which he de-
1 clared embraced one of the most astounding
propositions ever submitted for the
| consideration of the Senate, astound-
| ing in violating all precedents and
principles of the organization from the first
Senate under George Washington to the pres
| ent time. He then referred to the fact that
the States lately in rebellion were represented
| in the Senate by Democrats except in the case
of Bruce and Kellogg, for whom successors of
the Democratic political faith had been chosen,
| and yet such was their greed for power, such
| their determination to WELD the political des-
| TIMES of the country that they cannot permit
an honorable understanding made on the floor
| of the Senate to be carried out on this point.
Senator Blaine dwelt at length asserting that
| it was well known to the Senators that Butler
| could not have secured his seat except that
Kellogg was seated and that Kellogg's right to
his seat was Tar better sustained than that of
| the Senator from South Carolina.
Senator Butler, 3. O., regretted he was not
present when the Senator (Blaine) began his
| remarks. he repudiated the assertion of that
Senator that he owed his seat to any bargain or
| understanding connected wieh the seating of
Kellogg, or of any kind.
d. L., r
that at the time of the alleged agreement al
| luded to by the Senator from Maine, the Re-
publicans were in a majority in the Senate, and
went on to say:
rise to say for myself, and so far as / am
acquainted with the Senators on this side of
| the chamber, that no agreement was made to
| that effect. Will the Senator say that he ever
heard of such an agreement on his side. Who
! were the parties to this agreement? What was
the contract? Was it that in consideration
| that the Senator from South Carolina should be
! seated that Democratic Senators should forever
be silent in regard to the seat of Kellogg? Was
that your understanding of it and did
bind yourselves to it and are
we bound by it. For myself. say no
such agreement was ever made. l do not
believe that upon either side of this cham
Der, Republicans or Democrats, there can be
found men SO lost to honor, 80 lost to a sense
1
country, as to have made ssuch an agreement.
Senator Bayard-The charge made by the
| honorable Senator from Maine was so surpris-
ing and unexpected to me that it is possible
there may have been a qualification that did
not reach my ear. I'm disposed to ask, in con-
| sideration of the gravity of the charge as af
| fecting each member of the Senate, and
peculiarly levelled at this side of the chamber,
| that reporters may read the remarks of the
| Senator from Maine, In which he said there
| was an agreement, think he said an honorable
agreement, touching the seats of Senators in
| 1877.
The official stenographer read from his notes
the language referred to.
Senator Bayard-Mr. President, it is certain
ly very remarkable fact that SO grave, and l
may say so gross charge should have been
made in this body by gentleman who was
| member of the Senate at the time the trans
| action referred to must have taken place, and
| who processes no further authority than the
anony nous columns of newspaper not named.
| do not think there is enough in such state
mert to put the members of the Senate upon
their responsibility, and yet at the
same time, 1 do not propose, for
one, that such statement made in this chamber
by a member of this body, shall go by without
| proper answers from me, and now say that
| there was to my knowledge no arrangement,
| no bargain, no understanding, upon the part
| of sny member of the minority of the Senate
that the Senator, who now occupies the seat
from Louisiana, and who was admitted No
Ienber 30th, 1877, ever came to his
place by any consent direct or indirect or
without most vigorous protest, the most earn
est protest, of every member of the then minor
ity of this chamber. do deny and defy
scornfully the suggestion that a seat in this
chamber was ever made by the Democratic
party, or by any member of the Democratic
party, the subject of bargain or any arrange
ment, or an understanding. Talk of its being
| an honorable understanding. How can
| there be an honorable understanding
that puts in the scales the rights of one State
/ against the rights of another State when we
| are deciding upon their rights separately? The
thing cannot be and rather than have been
party to it would have left this chamber and
| never have returned to it. There was no such
understanding. There was no such agreement.
There is not a respectable authority for it
known to me and none as yet been quoted.
Continuing, Senator Bayard said there is in
| the question before us enough to challenge
| our deepest sense of duty and he proposed to
address himself to it at the proper time,
| but he did not propose that such charges pass
| by in which he was personally embraced with
out his earnest and indignant denial ZAP
plause in the galleries.
Senator Blaine, in explanation, said he was
absent from the Senate at the time the decis-
ion was reached in the Kellogg case, and read