Daily globe., 1881-04-14
The Senate.

NASHlN GIoN, apfll 4S.-lne Ice fTeslueHl
laid before the Senate the unfinished business,
being the resolution for the election of off,
GERS of the Senate.
Senator Pendleton said the course the Re
publicans had followed was without prece
dent. The Senator from Massachusetts, (Hoar'
had charged the action of the De mocrats with
being revolutionary, but had subsequently
when pressed by the Senator from Georgia,
Brown retracted that charge.
Senator Hoar said that he had not made that
charge, but the action of the Democratic side
warranted him now IN lmputing it, and he did
impute It.
Senator Fendleton replied that the gentleman
now made the charge withoutany qualification,
land he would leave it to the gentleman from
Georgia Brown to again make him retract it,
His colleage (Shermanl had stated that the
struggle now going on here was a struggle for
political power in Virginia; that 1t involved
the destruction of the Democratic party in
that State, and the installation of
the Republican party there. The instru-
|ment to be used to bring about this
was giving to Riddleberger brigade Of en-
ployes in this Senate, paid at the public ex-
pense to perambulate that State, to watch and
win local election. This was the struggle
to which Democratic Senators were invited.
The gauge of battle had been thrown down
land he ventured in the presense Of his Demo-
cratic brethren, to take it up.
The Democrats would invite the Republican
side ever and continually to go into the dis.
charge of public business, and they would sub
INIT to It's guidance in the transaction Of that
business. They would industriously and
faithfully consider the nominations, and when
the public business was all discharged,
they would unite in adjournipg the Senate,
but they would not unite in desecratlng
that altar (pointiug to the clerks desk) conse
created to the discharge Of great public du-
ties; dedicated to the service of all parties, but
for the partisan use of none, and permit it to
ba made an instrument of political warfare
ard spoils and Of petty party triumphs. They
would prevent this wrong; the Republicans
might call it improper, they might call it ir-
regular, they might call it revolutionary, they
might call it reasonable, but the Democrats
would prevent what they thought to be
great wrong and they would appeal to the
american people to decide the right
He would ask the Senator from Iowa (Alli-
sony whether If Malone had not voted with the
Republicans the Republican caucus would
have nominated Rddleberger: No answer.
Then he would address his question to the
|senator from Massachusetts, Dawes After
h pause: "Silent one, silent all" daughter. s"
Senator Dawes-It is not fair for the Senator
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not break into his speech. If he prepared that
experiment at home it is proper he should in
sert it in his speech, but he has no right to as
sumo that there Is no answer to the speech,
because he can't be interrupted just at this
moment to spoil figure which he prepared at
home and committed to memory. laugh
ter.)
Senator PendletonIt is very apparent the
Senator dislikes to interrupt one and therefore
|he refuses a simple answer to my question
The Ohio idea, Senator Pendleton con-
|tinued, had been alluded IN the debate. What
was the "Ohio idea:" 1t was that all men
were equal, that no combination of capital or
cannon should make vetoes aHd defeat the re-
funding acts; that the interests of the people
should stand higher than the interest of a
corporation; that everywhere in the State or
nation, the active principles and the great and
lofty aspirations of the poor and humble should
have au equal chance in the race of life. it was
well abreast with acivilzation whose constant
advance was such that the unseen of yesterday
becomes the goal Of to-day Eand the starting
point of to morrow. The people of Ohio be-
leves the accounts of Southern outrages were
coming out manufactured or exaggerated. The
people of the Northwest would note the sto-
ries told which had no name and no locality
by which to track them. They would note
another thing and that, was that Republican
Senators had all repeated it wasn't the South
they hated and were combating, bnt it was
against the Bourbon Democratic party they
would be found forever making war. 1t was
the Democratic party and not the outragcs
at the South against which they made war. 1t
wasn't the confederate brigadiers. 1t was not
outrages on the negro in the South, but it was
hatred for the Democrat party which inspired
the fervor of Republican philanthrophy.
The solution Of the Southern question rested
in harmony and good will between the races
and against that solution the Republican party
had always and steadily set its face What
was the Bourbon Democrat party. 1t was the
party of Jefferson, of Madison, of Monroe
and of Polk. The party that had given Texas
New Mexico and California 10 the Union. Ii
was the party which had long ago made the
constitution, and fol sixty years had so ad
ministered it that in the government
there had been no law higher
than the constitution. 1t was the
party which in the cycle of its years had
drawn to it,elf every able and patriotic states
man who wasn't willing to walk in the wicked
ways of sectionallsm. 1t was the party which
in storm and tempest and winters of the past
had stood like an ocean lighthouse unmovet
and unmovable while all other parties, includ
ing the boasted Republican party, had surgeG
and swayed with an uneven and constant mo-
ton like the waves that obeyed the fltful bid
ding of tickle moon spray, might have GOV
cred lis side waters, might have washed TIT
summit, but every recession of the storm hat
shown its light was unquenched ant
its lustre undimmed. The Republi
cans had asked that party t
help them in using the offices OF the Senate t(
debauch the people of Virginia. We will no
do it.
In conclusion, he said, you forget what tn
Senate is. You forget what we are. One
half of this Senate are the peers of you all
representations of States which, with sligh
limitations, sre all sovereigns. You forge
the character OF the work in which you invit'
our cooperation. I tell you now, tell yol
mere, You will not have that cooperation fo
that purpose at any time.
Senator Dawes then took the floor and re
viewed the grounds on which, he said, III
Democrats had attempted TO justify their posi-
ton, and, in the course of his speech, charges
the Democrats with having attempted to max
the Senator from Virginia (Mahone) cooper
ate with them. Didn't the Senator from Obi,
(Pendetonl know of the failure of the al
tempts to get the vote Of that Senator In orde
TO elect rs sergeant-at- arms man who stil
afiliates with him9 Had the Senator JUS
heard of officers rendered the Senator fror
Virginia if he would but take his stand wit
those who had tried 10 annihiate him and HI
powers?
Senator Beck-That is not true.
Senator Pendleton BE little more eXplici
The Senator is talking about something
don't comprehend. l understand him to 50
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