Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-05
IXIyN ooNeREss EXTRA SESSION.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 4.

Tho Senate resumed the resOlution AoA
election of Senate officers, motion Dy mi.
| Pendleton to go into executive session "A's
been lost. yeas &c, nays -.
extract from the virginian, . newspaper
edited bv Riddleberger, to prove the aemoc-
| racy of that gentleman. and of his colleague
fN,bonel. and from the ''Riddleberger Dill
| to 81 ow that the republicans were nov iouno
supporting a man for office VINO nau an
nounced in the bill that the adoption OF the
18th, 18th and 18th amendments, anu as a.
canal in its terrible effects to the war usen.
He went on with some minutes on the ques-
ton of the debt of Virginia, contending tha'
anv failure TO pay the debt was not aItriou'a-
| BILE TO any desire to repudiste but to the con
dition of affairs which had prevailed IN that
| State after the war.
| Mr.. Dawes enouired whether the senator
agreed with his colleague in holding that
West Virginia ought to pay part OF thar
debt. :,
Mr.. Johnston replied that he agreed with
the supreme court of the United States IN
holding that West Virginia should be respon-
| sihle for one-third, leaving the question OF
debt. He enquired of Mr.. Dawes where and
when in Virginia anybody had to wade
through blood to the ballot box, as has been
stated by that Senator.
Mr.. Dawes replied that the Mississippi
plan was a general term; that there were
different phases OF injustice in different
Southern States In one State it took the
phase of blood; in another Of tissue ballots
in another of forging returns; in virginia II
was called opposition to vagabond suffrage,
The senators would have to explain that
phase of the general plan. Had the Senators
forgotten that the army was called out at Pitts
burg TO put down violence there! Did SEN
ators pretend to say nobody had got hurt at
Pittsburg in the vain attempt to assert MS
right SIS voter:
Johnston stated that the charge that there
was any smothhering of the republican vote
in Virginia, was absolutely false.
Mr.. Johnston said if any tissue ballots had
been used in Virginia that they had been
used in his colleagues district. Where did
YOU get those tissue ballots, he enqulred OF
Mr. Dawes, who stated he had some IN MS
possession.
Mr.. Dawes-The district of Norfolk was
one.
Mr.. Johnston-Was not Petersburg one?
Mr.. Overwhelming resorted to other
methods of violence.
Mr.. Johnston - That is the place my
colleague lives in.
Mr.. Dawes-It is, and he has seen the
theory of it.
Mr.. Johnston continued his speech, con-
, fnipg his remarks to local questions and
+ commenting upon and vindicating the meas
ures adopted in Virginia by democrats.
From the speeches of the readJusters and
from articles in their journals he gathered
this to be the platform of that party: LIST,
deluge of. greenbacks; Fad, to place a
clause in the Constitution that no contract
between individuals shall be enforced; 3rd,
L.. I.,y ,ra Itl ~ rapn1iatp
At the conclusion of Mr.. Johnston's speech
/ Mr. Salisbury appealed no longer to a sense
: of duty or to patriotic feeling of the other
side, but to his party to govern its weapons
of rebellion against its own administration.
: If any man needed pity and commiseratiOn,
it was the President of the United States,
who had been treated with such marked dis
respect by his own friends. He drew pic
ture of the President sitting in the White
House. indulging in a sOliloquOy. Even his
predecessor. whom nobody believed to have
: been elected, and whose administration had
been finally broken down in thislchamber, had
commanded some respect at the beginning OF
his term. Perhaps the President was saving
, there were some in this chamber from whom
t he had not expected any better treatment. be-
cause he had antagonized them, and their
third term men in the Chicago Convention /;
but then there was the Senator from Ohio
, whom he had nominated for the Presidency.
, Why did he sit in silence and repose to con-
, slider the nominations for President? He
might be saying "This is the senator from
Massachusetts (Hoar,) he sat with me on the
Electoral Commission. and is privy to all
; secrets. am party to and did not expect
this from him. Then there is the Vice Pres
ident, whose name inscribed 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 message" He
Salisbury appealed to the republicans to
march up to duty and help to save the Presi-
: dent of their choice.
Mr.. Dawes called attention to the fact that
the last effort which had been made to &c
, into executive session had been rebuked by
an emphatic majority of the Senate. 1t had
not been defeated by tie vote but by num-
Der of votes. and it was the Senate which the
Senator from Delaware was quarrelling with,
not the republican side.
Mr.. Jones of Florida, denied the statement
: made Friday last that political outrages were
perpetrated in Florida.
Mr.. Harris moved to Law the resolution on
the table Rejected-23 to %.
! Then roll call followed roll call in quick
succession upon dilatory notices.
Mr.. Dawes inquiries as to when democrats
! would permit the vote to be taken on the
resolution being always met by the response
ION the first Monday in December
Firally, Mr.. Dawes remarking it had be
come evident that the majority of the Senate
was opposed to postponing the consideration
of this resolution, and expressing the hope
that the minority would come tomorrow pre-
pared to stay until the will of the majority
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