Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-03-31
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPH NEWS
Proceedings of the Senate To-day.

fFOceeOiuSS Ol tUe senate kO-NaSs
WASHINGTON. D. G., March 3l.-A1r.
Dawes oAlled up the peadiue husiness-tbe res
oluoa for the election of officers of tie Senate.
Mr.. Cameron, of Pa, said that the present
ISSUE wis too plain to be misunderstood. The
republican side said that the majority had tho
right 10 decide Who should bs the officers Of
tho S.nato; i!s opponents said that the miuor-
lily had that right. He had sid feE days ago
that 1t s3tm;d to BE- question Of endurance.
The geasrai doctrine that tho majority vas en-
titled to rule was not called in question. The
minority simply said that it would resist the
ecc.loo OF otlc:rs By dilstory motions aud pro-
logged speeches. His answer was that the re-
publiaaos c5u;d not abandon tho right OF the
majority to rule because the minority made it
question Of endurance. The msjorisy could en-.
dura SIS long az the minority. The contest was
not mcrrl9 to secur3 Offices. There WAS some
thing above sill that; something the importance
Of Which bad not received attention. l. WAS
the coming political contest 10 Virginia. The
Senator IRON Virginia-Mr. mabo1e-had ter.
rt2d tho old democratic rogimo Of h 8 State.
Iha democrats ct tho South had appealed to
Soa:hrl den oaiatic Senators to cover tho Sen.
a!or from vs.. with opprobriuu, so that bis fo!.
l,Scts ct homo you'd not dare 10 support him.
Ito had MAIDS political slavery Impossible in Vir.
slDls; he tad championed tho causo of FREQ
elections and De mad tho sympathy Of the 70
puo!icso party 10 that good work. All Virginia
would SEQ that the North fratornIzed With all
-Conledcrates WHO Wero known by thor sc.s
IS well as BY their words to be 10 favor of 80
honest ballot ADD q tair count. The republican
party gaVo its vote for RiddIeberser as GO car
pest that ii Was not sectional. Whoever was
right was is friend. This and this only was
tho bareaia that it bad to Offer it's Southern
nstionsl growth. Ii Virginia took her stand
CO the platform Ct ca honest ballot, the solid
Soulh Was thing of the past.
Mr. msXay criticised tie acton Of The
republican csuoGs in rot bringing forward
for ;se7gcaDt at Arms tho gentleman
Mr.. F;eUcl-Who had previously filled that
oG:e. The Senator from Massachrs
MI. DAwes-hsd expressed bis submission
to tho will CT the msiorty, and yet he had
taken part 10 setting aside tho eight thousand
democratic msj nifty 10 Louisiana 10 1876. He
might answer Inst that m j>rity had been pro.
cured by fraud. Hc-Mr. MaxeY-believcd
hat tic people thought that the mt .rity 10 the
Sooa!o to day had ben procured by crooked
mcaus. Whether that majority bad b,cn pro.
cured fairly CT unfairly he knew not, but the
American people did b6lievc that it had been
obtaloed by methods strange and uousual and
demanded that they should be investigated.
The dtm2cratlc party siocd here for the
purpose OF securing to tie American
people tho boon of free ballot. priceless bal
lot, aad 90 honest c0uat srd 10 demand that ii
there was suspiciortit should bs removed.
hlr. Dawes replied 10 answer 10 the first per
ton Of Mr. Magey's speech that Mr.. French
Vas DOW 10 the public service, or that it would
be ar II Jary 10 that sclVIco 10 remove hin. In
reference 10 he claim made by Mr.. Maxay that
the democrats had carried Louisiana 10 1876 by
eight Thousand msjofiiy, he said The! there was
q dIHeie:ce betWeeu what bo callt vote aud
VIA. the ecn:ltma, called vote. The gentle
man chilled q piece of paper vote; be, MIR.
Dawes, couottd rGtbiug vote that had not a
freq ballot behind il. Thousands of ballots,
such ss he bold 10 his hand, abcu: tw) inches
square, had been found ia ballot baS:s with
Dothiog behind them bu: The vi!Isiutus han Is
tina. put them i. IL was because !here had
been attempts TO lu5;itute ! ices of pa psrs for
fleem2ns' votss in the ballet boxes 10 some
Ststes, and to put b!underbusscs in place Of
ircemcns' flags 10 other States, thai 30 had
dono what ho could to stand by what he
supposed every freeman 10 The land under
hIOUu 10 &C INC WSaDlpR OF ballot,
l. was, when it was undertaken to mock the
freemen With pieces of paper, it was when it
Was undertaken 10 compel him to wade through
blood to the bsllot box, and when be was found
as silent on election day as those who lay in the
bloody graves they filled 10 1876. that be (Mr.
Dages) felt called upon to remind the Senator
that there IVES dffercrc, between piece OF
paper AID tho vote Of freeman that executed
the #il! Of God 10 executing TIC will of tho free
man.
MIR. Msxoy inquired how it was that those
ballots which executed the will of God hsd been
| sufficient to elect Mr. Hayee, and not sufficient
to elect Mr. Packard, though! Mr.. Packard had
received more of them, II was difficult for sny
onr, when he sttemp tsd 10 uphold such high
china as The Acknowledgement Of two Ststes to Be
CONSTANT.
Mr.. Dawes agreed wi Il Mr.. Maxey that Pack
ard had ben elected. but asserted that tie Lou.
lsiana Lottery Company had succeeded in es.
tablishlng the Nichols government.
Mr.. Jones, of Fla denied in short speecb
the Ststement made by Mr.. Malone that FIori
do had repuds.ed its honest Debt, after which
8 discussion arose between Messrs. Kellogg End
Jonss as to the question Of the deb. Of Louisisua.