Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-05
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, April 4.-The Senate resumed
consideration of the pending business, the
resolution for the election of Senate officers.
The motion by Senator Pendleton to go into
executive session was lost-yeas 25, nays 20.
Senator johnson quoted extracts from the
Virgintan, paper edited by Riddleberger, to
prove the Democracy of that gentleman and
his colleague, Malone, and the Trainer of the
Riddleberger bill. The Republicans are now
found supporting man for office who bad
announced in that bill that the adoption OF the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend.
ments were equal in their terrible effect to the
war itself.
He went with some mnuteness into the
ouestion of the debt of the State of Virginia,
contending that any failure to pay interest on
that debt was not attributable to any desire to
repudiate, but to tho unfortunate condition
of affairs which prevailed Immediately after
the war.
Senator Dawes inquired whether the Sen
ator agreed with his colleague in holding
that West Virginia ought to pay q part OF that
debt.
Senator Johnston replied that he agreed
with his colleague and with the supreme
court of tho United States, in holding that
West Virginia should be responsible for one
third. Leaving the question Of debt, he in
auired of Senator Dawes where and when in
Virginia anybody had to wade through blood
to the ballot boz, as had been stated by that
Senator.
Senator Dawes replied that the Mississippi
plan was a general term, with specific names
attached to the different phases of it in the
different Southern States. In one State 1t
took the phase of blood, in another of tissue
ballots, in another of forging returns. In
Virginia it was called opposition to vagabond
suffrage. The Senator would have to explain
that phase of the general plan Had the Sen.
ator forgotten that the army had been called
out at Petersburg to put down violence there
Did the Senator pretend to say nobody got
hurt at Petersburg in the vain attempt TO as
sert his rights as voter?
Senator Johnston stated that the charge that
there was any smothering of the Republican
vote in Virginia was absolutely false If any
tissue ballots had been used in Viz
ginia they had been used in his colleagues
district. 'Where did you get those tissue
ballots"' he inquired of Senator Dawes, who
stated he had some in his possession.
Senator DaWes-The district of Norfolk was
one?
Senator Johnston Was not Petersburg
one?
Senator Dawes-Pctersbur resorted to
other methods of violence.
Senator Johnston-That IS the place my
colleague lives in.
Senator Dawes-It is. He has seen the
error of it.
Senator Johnston continued his speech, con-
fining his remarks to local questions, and
commenting upon and vindicating the meas
ures adopted in Virginia by the funder Demo-
Gratis.
At the conclusion Of Johnston's speech
Senator Salisbury appealed to the Republi-
cans to ground the weapons of rebellion
against its own administration. If any man
needed party commiseration it was the Presi-
dent, who had been treated with such marked
disrespect by his own friends. Perhaps the
President, now in the White House, was say
ing there were some in this chamber from
whom he had not expected any better treat
ment, because he had antagonized them and
their third term man in the Chicago conven-
ton, but there was the Senator from Ohio,
whom he had nominated for the Presidency
Why did he sit in silence and refuse
TO consider the nomination? The Presi-
dent might be saying, "There is no
Senator from Massachusetts (Hoar). He sat
with ME on the electoral commission and is
privy to all the secrets | am party to, and /
didn't expect this from him. Then thee is
the Vice President, whose name has been
described with mine and whose image Is stuck
up beside my own in almost every junk shop
He ought not TO have turned his heel on me,
and yet he will not give any respect to my
messages. He (Saulsbury) appealed to Repub-
licans to march up to duty and help save the
President of their choice.
Senator Dawes called attention to the fact
that the last effort made to go into executive
session had been rebuked byNn emphatic
majority of the Senate.
Senator Jones, Florida, denied The statement
made Friday by Cogan, thatspolitical outrages
wer perpetrated in Florida. Senator Harris
moved to lay the resolution on the table.
Yeas %, nays 21. Roll call followed roll call
in quick succession upon delatory motions.
Senator Dawes inquired as to when the
Democrats would permit vote to be taken on
the resolution by being always met with
the response, the first Monday in December.
Finally Dawes, remaking it had become
evident she majority OF the Senate was opposed
to postponing consideration of this resolution
and expressing the hope the minority would
come tomorrow prepared to stay until the will
Of the majority was obeyed, moved to ad-
iourn. Agreed to and Senate adjourned.