The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-25

executive session.
The Democrats called for the ayes and noes.
AL the Republicans Except Edmunds, who was
absent for the moment. and paired with Gar
land) voted aye, and all the Democrats except
Garland voted no. The vote stood: Ayes, 80 !;
noes, 81.
When Malone voted "aye" there was
round of applause, and when the vote was
announced there was q murmur of satisfac-
ton, even from those who sympathized with
the Republicans, but were patiently awaiting
scene.
When the resolution in regard to the COM
mittees came to be voted on, Senator Conk-
ling arose to reply to Mr.. Pendleton, beginning
with, " He accuses who excuses" and denying
that imputations had been cast upon the Sem
ator from Ohio or on other Democratic
members. Mr.. Conkling's speech, while
it was more finished than PendIeton's,
was full OF strong points, impressively and
slillfully made. He more than intimated that
Mr.. Pendleton should take advantage of the
first opportunity to withdraw his remark in re-
gard to bargains and conferences at the White
House.
In conclusion, he said that the proposition
as to the pairs had come from Democratic
Senator, and in reply to Bayard, who had re-
ferred to the plan Of waiting for men who
were not Senators, and might never be- as a
queer performance, said that, while individuals
might die, States could never die. and con-
stru lively all the seats were filled. The seats
now vacant were sure to be filled by Republi-
cans and nothing could be moro wanting in
utility or more scant in propriety than after
wa. ting so long to now organize the Senate
without recognizing that fact.
Ben Hill, in his reply to Oonkling, treated
that gentleman with the greatest courtesy, the
end and aim of his speech being to smoke out
Malone. He denied that the Republicans had
constitutional majority, or that they would
have when the vacant seats had occupants, and
claimed that there was no reason for delay. If
there was Republican majority how had it
been obtained? by whom and when? Had
somebody sent here as a Democrat been seen,
or been taken possession of and carried away
Asserting that thirty-eight Senators had been
elected as Democrats, and one rs an independ-
ent, who would act with the Democrats, Mr..
Hill said again and again that the Repub-
lican claim to a majority was based on the
assumption that some Democratic Senator,
or some Senator elected as Democrat would
be false to his trust and treacherous enough
to vote with the Republicans. He rung all
possible changes on this accusation, and init
mated that there could be no doubt as to the
honesty and good faith OF the new Senators
from Georgia and Tennessee. SAID he, with
extravagant and exaggerated emphasis:
"Who is the one? Who can he be? Can
the Republicans receive him with affection or
with respect? Such o man is not worthy to be
q Democrat! Is he worthy to be Republican?
Any Republican on the floor would receive the
intlmation that he would vote with the Demo-
Gratis as an insult. Why should not such an in
situation be insulting to Democrat?"
During the latter part of Hills speech,
which was as rasping and exasperating in it's
innuendo and offensive in its assertions as it
could be made, Mr.. Malone left his seat and
was in consultation with Don Cameron and
other Republicans in the hall. At the conclu-
sion of the speech Senator Logan arose to re-
ply, when all eyes were turned to little, slen-
der man, with iron-gray hair and whiskers,
who had slipped quietly down from tho back
row of seats to the space in front and to the
left of the Clerks desk.
This was Malone, Of Virginia, quaint in
Dress composed in manner, and intent ON the
work before him. There was on the instant
intense excitement, all the visitors on the
floor rising to their feet with jump and
crowding down on the outer row of the
Senators chairs. In the galleries fresh crowd
poured in at the door, the newcomers
bending forward over those half rising
in their SEATS Even at that mo-
ment people noticed that Malone were
pantaloons cut in the old-fashioned way with
flaps in front, and that his cuffs and necktie
had an ancient fare and flabbiness. His deep
set eyes showed no embarrassment, and the
cut of his hair and the contour of his long
beard in some way suggested the figure and
pose of the head of John B. Cough. This sug-
geStion became more tangible as he began his
speech with redundancy of gesture and aero
batic vehemence Of movement.
Senator Logan having yielded, Mr.. Malone
began quietly with comment on the eager.
ness OF the Senator from Georgia to disclose
Ills position. He thought the gent!cms Il
might have been more direct, and asked him
the simple question. Then spriDging for
ward, half across the space, he addressed
Hill personally, with great vehemence of
of the custodian of the Democratic party, and
assuming that no one could speak without
his consent. Then he proceeded to say, with
q gymnastic twist and crouch of his body,
that he owed nothing TO the Senator from
Georgia or his party. He was in the Senate as
a Virginian, with as proud name as Mr.. Hill
himself. He was not there to represent the
Democracy, they had done so much injury to
his section, but he held that he was a better
Democrat than the gentleman from Georgia
himself. He served notice on Hill that he WAS
the custodian of his own Democracy, and that
he did not intend that any man should crltIclse
his conduct by innuendo.
He reviewed the Democratic record. referred
with singing keenness to the pretensions Of
those who cried fair count and used tissue bal
lots, and said plainly that he had been assailed
simply because he had refused to act with those
who had made war upon him and the people he
represented. Mr.. Hill had sought to discover
the Democrat who has dared to differ with the
caucus. He wanted that gentleman to know
henceforth and forever that "Here is n man"
1t Is impossible to convey fair idea of Mr..
Mahone's manner. without suggesting the inco-
herence and tumbling rhetoric Of fervid hit
and miss talker. But there was nothing of
this. He drove along in his vehement way with
a tight rein, holding himself well in hand even
when most violent, and being smoothly deliber-
ate when he was expected to be most tempest
uous. His words were well chosen and sent
home with incisive direciness. His bearing was
homogeneous, contrasted with that of the
old Senator'S, and yet there was an at-holne
manner in his seh-contained demeanor and q
sort of jauntiness about the figure, that was
trinity cut without being neat. At first there
was uneasiness, an anxiety ON the part of Re-
publicans, many fearing that he would not be
able to cope with Hill. This anxiety disap-
peared before he had uttered three sentences,
and he was universally recognized as q man
who could take care of himself.
Every scene turning on the surprises Of the
Speech and there were many Of them, was of
a highly sensational character, but all were
eclipsed by the one that occurred when Malone,
apologizing for his intrusion, took his seat
There was such whirl of applause that no at
tempt was made to check it, and the Repub-
lcan Senators crowded about the Vlrginian to
shake hands
Hill, in his reply, affected lofty unconcern,
and, while declaring that he had not alluded to
the Senator from Virginia, aimed to deal Sc
verer blows. Circling round in an evasive,
tantalizing way, he managed to repeat in SUBJ
stance what he had said in his first speech, and
then shouted
"Was he elected as Democrat? Will the
gentlemen answer that 2"
Malone was on his feet in an instant, and
shouted back:
"Aye, and quickly, sir; was elected as a
Readjuster."
Several other questions were answered in
declamatory way, Malone at one time losing
bis head 30 far as to say:
"The statement Of the gentleman is unwar-
ranted and untrue"
But at the end of the passage alarms Hill
had made no point, and Malone had succeeded
in making clear his attitude.
Senator Logan began, in the midst Of the
confusion, speech of reproof, with Hill as the
subject. in the course of which he called the
gentleman's attention to the fact that he (HiII)
had himself changed opinion in that, elected
to convention at the beginning of
the war as Union man, he had voted for Sc
cession.
Senator Hoar then took up the cudgel and
metaphorically belabored poor Hill, who by
this time was in dreadfully tight place. Dared
to do his worst by Malone, whom he had driven
to desperation twitted of his political treach-
cry by Logan relentlessly chaffed by Conklinp