Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-21
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The Senate made another effort to pre-
serve its well-earned reputation yesterday.
A bitter war of words, embellished with
falseho0d," prevaricator," SANDER"
"repudiat0r," ETC.. went great ways
toward success. Mr.. Frye this time is
chargeable with stirring up the bad blood.
The young senator from Maine INDUCED
in an exhaustive speech of that loose sort
which is wont to distinguish the debates
in the House. 1t was chiefly founded upon
bygone times and upon bygone issues, and
as whole was bitter arraignment of the
South in the Senate and out. He compared
the white wOrkingmen of the North with
the condition of negro labor South, and
made some broad iuslnuatiOns against the
senators who represented such oonstituen-
cies. He denied the Democratic assertion
that no Outrages were now committed in
the South, and went on to show by facts
and figures that outrages were still preva-
lent.
Mr.. Frye has an excellent pair of lungs,
which appear to disagreeable advantage in
the small chamber, and is a fluent, inter-
esting talker always. His remarks had q
decidedly rOusing effect upon the Demo-
cratic side, for half dozen senator's COM
peted for the floor in reply. Senator
Brown obtained it and carried out the
comparison of the Southern states with
Massachusetts,. instituted by Frye, to the
evident discontinue of Dawes. Mr..
Brown quoted extensively from Massa-
chusetts text books to show the relation
of the whole number of voters to the num-
Der of votes pol'ed. the number disfran-
chised and the children uneducated. Sena-
tor Butler followed Brown, also in answer
to Frye, and his impassioned voice had
scarcely reached it's first flight of rhetoric
before he had precipitated a row. He de-
clar,d that Frye was seeking to obscure
the real issue before the Senate by abus-
ing and misrepresenting the South. The
real issue was whether corrupt bargain
had been made.
Right here Senator Burnside jumped up
and excite;lly declared that Mr.. Butler had
stated a Ealsehood The senator from
Rhode Island was very emphatic. He re-
peated several times that this charge Of
bargain was false and any senator on the
other side who made it uttered q wilful
falsehood. Mr.. Burnside wrathfully
clinched this at every point with blow
upon his desk which made things
rattle generally and caused the nervous
listeners to start. The outbreak was SO
unexpected and violent that the astOnished
senator from South Carolina appeared
nOnplussed. He turned red in the face
and stammered something, stopped and
turned helplessly toward the president.
There was no stopping Mr.. Burnside. He
had no sooner taken his seat before he
jumped up again and fel! to pounding his
desk and reiterating that it was a false
hood and the senator from South Carolina
was stating a falsehood.- Every time Mr..
Butler attempted to proceed up went
Burnside again, saving the air like a fish
woman.
Great confusion reigned in the galleries,
and applause and Kisses told how much
interested the spectators were. When the
old man quoted down little Mr.. Butler
began the usual retort in kind, but hap
PLY checked himself in the midst of it,
saying: But no, l will not, here on the
floor of the Senate" This brought Burn
side up again, and this time he told Butler
to 60 ahead and say what he pleased. In
fact, the senator from Rhode Island ap-
peared to be spelling for a row and he
the senator from South Carolina
and insisted on his treading on it.
This Butler declined to do, aud remarked
that the senator from Rhode Island was
his friend and was excited. Up went
Burnside once more to prove how calm he
was. but while he was illustrating it he
lost his balance and pounded his desk as
fiercly as before. This exhibition of calm
ness set both the gallery and the Senate
in a roar Of laughter at Burnside's expense.
1t was some time before the confusion
subsided, when Butler proceeded with
his speech, avoiding the matter of the
quarrel for the time being and repeating
his charge Of bargain only at the close.
He declared then that he would prove it
by irrefragable evidence or resign his scat
in the Senate. This proof, he stated, he
would present at an early day.