The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-30
WORDY WAR
Continued in the senate.i
Hampton and Johnston Reply TO Sen
ator Malone.
The waters OF Nebraska.
Trouble In the Cabinet.
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SENATE.
Johnston and Hampton's Reply 10
Washington, March 29.-Johnston
said he would not answer Mahone's S
speech until it appeared in the Record.
Hampton denied that the South Car
olina democrats had repudiated the
state debt. If there had been any re-
pudiation it was by Mahone's friends,
the republicans. when they controlled
the state. The democrats opposed the
proposition to change the officers of the
senate. because it would break the old
precedents; because the senate was
here for executive business, and chiefly
because grave suspicious had taken hold
of the public mind that there had been
a corrupt bargain. Malone had de-
MED that there had been any impure
consideration. He congratulated Ma
hone, and would say that he would
strengthen his position before the
country by showing what consideration
had moved him. 1t was due to this
body that the suspicion should be proved
groundless il it were SO. Let the re.
publicans organize a committee to as
oarfoir fho frutb rr 70 lc;fu IF fha ~, =
mors that vote has been controlled by
the promise Of place or patronage.
If the damning charges were untrue,
stamp out the calumny forever. If
true, the constitution gave ample re-
dress. He referred to similar charges
against Clay and Adams, which de-
feated Adams for the presidency and
blighted Clay's political aspirations.
Clay had risked his life to vindicate his
honor, and Randolph, who brought the
charges, had afterward made the
amend honorable.
In order that the senate might be
freed from suspicion, he did not want
the Dawes resolution acted on imme-
diately. He referred to the magnanim-
ity Of the democrats in allowing Kel-
logg to retain his seat. 1t now ap-
peared that Kellogg and Malone were
not only the leaders. but the masters
of the republican party; had clasped
hands across the bloody chasm and
were clamoring for the old flag and ap-
preparation. He sympathized with the
good, old state of Virginia, and could
not doubt that her true voice would
soon be heard, Enthusiastically declaring
for the maintenance of the public faith
and political integrity.
He said the air was full of rumors Of
bargain. and he argued to show that
there were singular condolences con-
firming the fact that there was bar
gain. 1t was peculiar that Malone,
who, up to late period had always
been democrat, should vote with the
republicans on the organization of every
committee, and that in very short
time afterwards the republicans should
meet In caucus and nominate his init.
mate frIends-Gorham, who had bolted
the party and had been rid out of it,
and Riddleberger, who had always been
a democrat. 1t might have been nc
bargain; it might not have been ever
an understanding, but he would call il
a peculiar coincidence.
He compared the republicans in turr
to the coon which found q skunk uI
his tree, to the man who could not le,
go of the bear without help. and to ths
man who won an elephant at a rattle
They did not know what to do witt
Malone.
Beck ridiculed the republicans for
thier course. He objected to the nominee
for chief clerk, Charles johnson, Of
Minnesota, who had issued a lying cir
cular during the campaign, asking fol
money and claiming that the democrats
had sinister designs on the presidency
He quoted testimony to show thai
johnson was very bad man.
Mcmillan denied these allegation
as having been disproved.
Kellogg made a long speech, showing
that the democrats had repudiated tn,
state debt Of Louisiana; that he repre-
sented majority Of that state, and tha
the majority, born in circulation an,
baptized in blood, had been overthrow,