New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-13
SENATOR HILL AS A RoMANCER.
HIS APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE FRAUD CRY-TPE
THRILLING DEVELOPMENTS WHICH FAILED TO
APPEAR.

HIS APPEAL ON BEHALF OB THE FRAUD CR1-IHE
THRILLING DEVELOPMENTS WHICH FAILED TO
APPEAR.
IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRmUNEl
WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator Hill closed the
first instalment Of his speech yesterday, as the
romance writers Of the weekly press close the
chapters Of their serials, by limiting at thrilling
developments which are to follow 'n our next"
He promised that out OF Senator Kellogg's own
mouth should come proof iudubitable of his own
guilt. AS a consequence, the galleries of the Sem
ate were half filled to-day by people drawn thther
by motives akin to those which actuate the spec
tatOrs at prize-fRht a hanging
The number of Senators who listened TO the hon.
orable Senator from Georgia varied from half
dozen to twenty. In fact he wasted his elOquence
upon practically empty seats.
Senator salisbury, chairman of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, who fears lest his
failure of the Senate to eject Senator Kellogg was.
apparently, the only Senator who felt an absorbing
interest In the matter under discussion.
The speech was as thln as the audience. The
promised development, which was to bring such
certain conviction, proved to be the reading of the
same series of captured kilograms which formed
the basis of Senator Yancc's wittcisms last week.
Senator Hlll's chief points first, that Governor
Kellogg bribed the Packard Legislature to vote
for him as United States Senator; second that there
was not quorum of the Packard Legislature;
third that it was not the Legislature Of Louisiana,
anyhow.
On the doctrine of res adjudicata, Senator Hills
argument amounts to this The Constitution de-
cares that each State shall be represented in tue
Senate by two Senators chosen by her LEGISLATURE;
now if the Packard Legislature was not
the legal Legislature Of Louisiana. Kellogg ls
not therefore qualified according to the Con-
stituton TO hold seat In the National Senate. IF
the Senate decides that the Emperor Of Brazil is
titled TO q scat in this Chamber" said Mr.. Hill,
does that make him resident Of the United States
for the preceding nine years !"
Senator Hill, in his exOrdinm, made stirring ap
peal to the Democrats not t0 vote against him. lie
said
II YOU do So you give up the issue OF fraud in LOusi
ana you that the eight members II the Electoral
Commission right and the seven we're wrong; you
drcid, that Democratic party for three yeais has
been sandcrng the Returning Board Of Louisiana y0n
uako i 4 turning Board respe sbe, and you bring
yuurselyr, into shame. There Ia no escape from IL
whatever IL may succeed cannot tell but not
bccRu-r IA right not because II IL law; not because
CunstitutOu but for some unknown reason thAt
dare not bc hYOWCd.
In conclusion Senator Hill described the sad con-
dition Of affairs in tho South when tho war closed
"a race of slaves were suddenly made free and
armed with the ballot, while thousands of the best
and most enlightened citizens were disfranchlsed
Ilord q Of Northern carpct-baggcrs then came upon
them and to tins class alone were the troubles OF
the south since the close Of the war entirely due"
II" hoped the people wnuld rise up and sweep the
last vcstIge Of power from that party which had
pcrpciuatcd ils lfo by fraud and bribery.
"AmeIi," said senator EdmundS, without taking
his eyes Oft tho manuscript ho had been studying
for an hour.