The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-29

resumed consideration of tho resolutions de
claring Spofford entitled to tho seat now occu
pied by Kellogg. Senator Jonas supported tn,
resolutions. He denied Kellogg's recent asser.
ton that the majority of the Nicholls' legisla
ture was obtained by admitting three men NO,
elected. In further remarka he said that i,
the Packard legislature was entitled to recog
milton, then be (Jonas) was not entitled
no one would care to advance. He would moi
refer to the testimony taken before tie com
mittee further than to say that it showed thu
disreputable character of the men associated
with and supporting Kellogg. 1t being nov
admitted that the so o-called Packard Legislature
never existed as legislature. 1t made NJ
difference how they elected Kellogg. He nigh,
as we'll have been sent here by mob OF
negroes on the levees.
Senator Blaine followed, speaking at length
in opposition to the resolution, which he de-
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 frs,
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 ot
the Democratic political faith had been chosen,
and yet such was their greed for power, such
tinies of the country that they cam " permit
an honorable understanding made on the foot
of the Senate to be carried out on this point.
Senator Blaine dwelt at length asserting that
it was we'll known to the Senators that Butler
could not have secured his seat except that
Kellogg was seated and that kellogg's right to
bis seat was Tar better sustained than that OF
the Senator from South Carolina.
Senator Butler, y. c., 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 tho seating of
Kellogg, or of any kind.
Senator Bailey called attention to the fact
that Mt the time of tho alleged agreement al
luded to by the Senator from Maine, the Re-
publicaus were in q majority in the Senate, and
went on to say:
rise to say for myself, and so far as l 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
we're the parties to this agreement? What vas
tho contract? Was it that in consideration
that the Senator from Sonth 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
yo" submit to it? Did you
bind yourselves to it and are
we bound by it. For myself, l say no
such agreement was ever made. l do not
ber, Republicans or Democrats, there can be
found men 30 lost to honor, 40 loat to a sense
of their duty, to the constituencies, and their
country, as to have made such an agreement
Senator Bayard-The charge made by the
honorable Senator from Maine was so surpris-
II. ing and unexpected to me that it is possible
there may have been a qualification that did
not reach my ear. 1 I'm disposed to ask, in con-
s'deration of the gravity of the charge a. 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 seatsof Senators in
1877.
The official stenographer read from his notes
the language referred to.
Senator Bayard-Mr. President, it is certain
ly q very remarkable fact that SO grave, and
may say so gross charge should have been
made in this body by gentleman who was q
membe 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 a Newspaper not named.
I do not think there is enough in such state
ment to put the members of tho Senate upon
their responsibility, and yet at the
same time, l do not propose, for
one, that such a statement made in this chamber
by member of this body, shall go by without
proper answers from me, and now say that
there waa to my knowledge no arrangement,
no bargain, no understanding, upon the part
of any member OF the minority of the Senate,
that the Senator. who now occupies the seat
from Louisiana, and who was admitted No.
vsmber 3Oth. lS77, ever came to his
H.
without most vigorous protest. the most earn
est protest. Of every member of the then MINOR
ity Of this chamber. l do deny and l defy
the suggestion that q seat in this
chamber WA 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
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 q respectable authority for it
known to me and none as yet been quoted.
Continuing, Senator Bayard taid 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. (Ap-
plause in the ealleries.)
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
from copy of the Charleston Neaus- Courier,
making the charge, for his authority, and con-
tinued: And while am not attacking any par
tlcular Senator, say now, and l repeat, that
the Senator from South Carolina never could
have been seated on that prima facia resolu-
tion unless at the same time it was under
stood, fairly and honorably, that the resolution
on its merits. seating the Senator from Louisi-
ana, should be passed.
A running debate then followed between
Blaine, Butler, Kellogg and others, pending
which tho Senate adjourned.
The House.
WAsu1NoToN April 26.-Under the call of
States the following bills were introduced and
referred: