The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-14
LATEST TELEGRAMS
FoRTY-SEVENFH CONGRESS.
EXTRA SESSION.
SENATE.

Washington, 13.-Pendleton sale
the republican course was unprece
dented. Hoar had charged, but sub
| sequently retracted the charge, thai
| democrats were revolutionary.
: Hoar said he had not made, but
did now make that charge. n
Pendleton said that he would
leave Mr.. Brown, of Georgia, tC
make him retract the charge
as he had done before. Sherman
mad said this was scheme to de
stroy the democracy in Virginia
through the installation of Riddle
berger, and brigade of paid en-
ployees of the Senate as instruments
| 20 perambulate the state and win
local elections. He took up this
game of battle in behalf of demo
Icracy. They would discharge public
business, under the lead of republi-
leans; would consider nominations
and then adjourn, but would not
unite in Decorating that altar
l(pointing to the clerks desk) conse-
Grated to the discharge Of great pub
lie duties; dedicated to the service
of all parties, but for the partisan
use of none; nor permit it to be
used for political warfare, and the
Spoils of petty partisan triumph.
Republicans might call it improper,
revolutionary, reasonable, but dem
ocrats would prevent a great wrong
and appeal to the American
people to decide the right.
He asked Allison and Dawes
whether, if Malone had not voted
with the republicans, the republi-
can caucus would have nominated
Riddleberger. Neither answering,
he said, silent one, silent all"
Dawes said it was unfair to i'm
pute silence to the republican side
because they did not break into and
spoil speech and figure which had
Oeen prepared at home and commit
ted to memory.
This tilt was highly enjoyed. This
was a fight in which there could be
no compromise without obstruction,
and he who would yield a hair of the
Omnipresent will of the majority as
it spoke through the Constitution
and laws of the land, was a traitor
to his country. applause in gal
leries.)
Harris-Does not the senator
know, when he speaks about ma
jiOrities, that without aid in this
city and chamber the thirty-eight
senators ON that side are utterly
powerless. under the Constitution,
to perform any act which would be
binding on any individual in the
landI You have no quorum.
Dawes-Does the senator mean
he will not perform his constitu-
tiOnal functions here, and that there
stands with him the whole of that
party which the senator from Ohio
tried to lift up to the sky, this morn
ing? That they will abandon their
seats; they will refuse to perform
their functions they Will declare this
Senate shall not proceed with DELHI
Grafton? Does he announce we
cannot accomplish anything with
out his aid? He announces, only
in new form, what heard twenty
years ago, when man got up here
and announced that he held allegi-
ance higher than that to the ConSti-
tuition which he had sworn to sup
port, and he would turn his back on
his oath and his flag, and go forth
to make war upon it. This is war
in another form; this is as fatal if
it succeeds, to the existence of the
government of majority, as was the
undertaking of Jefferson Davis
when he announced the same doc
Jrine in another form from where
the senator now stands. Has
it to come to this again p
Has it been reSurrected after
twenty years of war, disaster,
and the surrender on the field? Has
it come up here in this mild and in
form, that the majority is
helpless unless the minority prove
true to its oath and its duty? If so, |
this days debate is more important
than any days debate which has
been had in this chamber since the
of the government.
Harris, who had been for some
lime endeaYOring to interruptl
Dawes, here managed to obtain the
1oor. 'NoW," he said, "that the
frenzy of the senator has slightIyi
ibated, and as he desires to know
what was meant by the interroga-
DRY, l beg 10 assure that senator
hat so far as my constitutional
iutleS are concerned they will bel,
reformed as earnestly and as con-
and l trust, with more !
rankneSs and manllneSs, than the II
enatOr has performed his on this
ccasion. i meant simply this, that |
our boosted constitution majority is
70 majority" After some further
by Harris and Dawes, Saun-
ers explained the pairing of Mails
lone with Williams, and Beck said. |
when MahOne avcwed himself a re- II
publican, the democrats would be l
eady 10 pair with him and not un-l c
il then. i
Hill of Georgia. referred to the 1
made by Dawes relative to /
ne attempt made by the democrats L
} capture Mahone's vote, and en- a
sred an emphatic denial of the b
barge. Malone rose to reply. He u
illed the Senate to witness that he o
adj not, in this discussion. trans n
'essed the bounds of pTopriety. thati S,
had been courteous and respect 81
Il. He was the custodian of his o.
Yn democracy. audible comments fl
/ the democratic side on the use of &C
e word "dem0cracy.') He did not W
oose to debate; that question was 81
Ut debatable. The whole question w
rs one between himself and those di
no sent him to the Senate tn
3 could not become a partisan of tn
her party. What debt did he tn
e to either? He certainly owed wi
thing to the national democracy IN
represented by Barnum and his Tn
nmittee. He 4sVn lame 10 the VIC
5SIIOn of the privilege on which of
had intended to seek the floor to- WI
z. He had not been in the Senate cal
amber last Thursday, when a CHI
cuSsion took place between Sem lnN
rs Rollins and Hill, and he had no
y noticed it in the Record. He ha7
an extract from the discussion pos
L at the clerks desk. At the I
Mt where, in response to a Sup- Ter,
ton by Rollins that the demo- the
S had been seeking to make ar haC
gementS to secure Mahone's era
?, Hill replied: But we would per
have bought it." Now, Mr. any
Sident, continued Mahone,Waying s
arm to give greater force to what go
vas saying. that language admits 70 >
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