The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
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WASHINGTON March 30.-SEN-
ATE-When the Senate met this
evening a handsome bouquet of
flowers adorned Senator Kellogg's
desk, while a magnificent floral ship
sailing upon sea of yiolets and
roses, n gift of the ladies of Alexan-
dria, Va, to Senator Hill, of Geor-
gia, ornamented that gents desk,
and was greatly admired.
On motion OF Cameron of Wis
consin, resolution was adopted au-
thoriZing the Secretary of the Senate
to pay from the contingent fund the
necessary funeral expenses of the
late Senator Carpenter.
Pending business being the reso-
luton for the election of officers of
the Senate it was taken up.
A motion to go into executive
session was rejected by a vote of 25
yeas to 25 nays.
Harris stated it was evident the
Republicans did not intend to trans
act the business which theSenate had
been called here TO transact, and NOV
ed that when theSenate adjourned to-
day. it be 10 meet on the first Monday
| in December. Lost by vote of %
yeas to % nays.
Various other motions made were
voted down.
| Pendleton called attention TO the
| inaugural address of the President,
| in which he would ask in due time
of Congress TO fix the tenure of minor
officers of the government. In order
that the Senate might no longer pre-
sent the spectacle of wrangliDg over
petty offices he would go into exec
utive session.
Dawes agreed that the tenure of
office should be fixed by law, but he
cid not see how any act could be
passed at this specia! session.
| Hill of Georgia read the letter is
sued from theReadjuster's headquar-
tiers in October, 1880, by VIM. Ma
hone, in which he alluded TO the Re
publican party as the gripsack par
ty. Did the Senator know what
was meant by the gripsack party?
Dawes replied that lie did not, but
thought the Senator from Georgia
ought to know not only that, but
every phrase of every political par
ty that has ever come up, for certain
ly if anybody had tried them.all, the
Senator from Georgia had. He then
proceeded to make quite q lengthy
speech, in which he said unless the
untrammeled, unterrified and dis
mayed voice of every voter in the
land could tell upon the policy and
laws which he was called upon to
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try would be failure, and it was
therefore a conflict of life and death
of this nation, that the Republican
party was now engaged in on this
floor.
Hill, in replying, said there was
not a word in the Senator's
speech in which he did not
fully concur. He had been wait
ing patiently for appearance of the
speech of the gent from Virginia
(Mahone), in order to make some re-
ply to it. He did not wish TO mis-
represent that gentleman, but if he
had understood his speech, he
made use of the grossest misrepre-
sentation on the Southern states
that had ever been uttered. He,
however, did not intend TO say any
thing ON that subject till the speech
appeared in the Record. There was
one point to which he wished to call
the attention of the Senate, and to
do it in no cquivocal language. He
had noticed that in nearly all the
Republican papers, and in different
speeches made on this floor at
tempts TO justify the coalition With
the Senator from Virginia and his
party by the charge that they led off
in favor OF dual rights, free ballot
and Il fair cOunt in the Southern
states. No man had the face to say
the Southern people were opposed
to free ballot and fair count.
lDerisive laughter on the Republican
side. They sought to imply that
whether the state or he stood here
to say that it was gratuitously false
and untrue.and the charges that the
Democratic party in the South de-
sired, by force. by fraud, by iniini-
dation or by any other means, 10 Oh
struct the amendments to the CoH-
stituIion and 10 prevent the enforce
ment of the laws which guaranteed
equal rights to all men, without re-
: gard to race, color or previous con-
, dition, was utterly untrue. He read
extracts from speech delivered by
his colleague, Brown, at Atlanta,
Just previous to his election to the
Senate, in which lie advocated free
ballot and an honest count for all
men. In the face of that he was as
tonished that the gentleman should
assume that somebody must move
in favor of q free ballot in the South.
The position of the Senator from
II Virginia (Mahone) was distinctly
the position of his colleague and
distinctly that of the Democratic
', party in Georgia, which affirmed the
approval of those sentiments by
/ electing his colleague by two-thirds
! vote. He maintained that the mass
of people in all sections were honest
and were equally interested in good
, government. he did not desire to do
: injustice to any portion of the coun-
, try, or to color or race ia the coun-
, try. This movement to get up a
, party by the coalition between the
Republicans and Rcadjusters of Vir-
ginia is based OIL the idea that the
, Democracy of the South was unwil-
ling TO do justice to the negro, it was
based on II false idea, it was based
on O preiext. which was not pre-
text. The people of the South were
: Just as honest as of the North. who
! Eowned property, who were inter
ested in peace and good society,
were the men who composed chief
iy the Democratic party-who
: should .be in favor Of fraud and vio-
f lence? If was ain incontrovertable
fact in tho sc States, in which the
Democratic party had first obtained
possession, we're now most prosper
Gus and most peaceable. Greater
. wrong could not be inflicted on the
colored people than to organize
: a movement based on the idea OF
f doing something for the colored
race, Independent of the white
race, race distinction must
t be kept down. Did this move
ment mean an attempt to place the
; Southern government under coali-
ton of the colored people with the
worst class of white people was to
be revived, was that ordeal to be re-
peated, if so, he had confidence that
the Northern people would repudi-
ate it.
Cameron of Wisconsin semitic the
clerks desk and had the letter sent
to Chittenden by Hill shortly after
the election and inquired whether
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