Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-12
THE SENATORS, WORN OUT WITH
THEIR HARD lAB0RS,
Have Become Rested and Are Again in the
BattIe-SenatOr Camden Explains the
Debt QuestiOn-0ther Members
Tell What They Know
MALONE RECEIVES HIS REGULAR Al
IOWANCE OF KICKS.
SENATE.
The Tiresome Old Speech Mill Again
Started.

Iresldeul Idlu DSiOIC INV SNN 49,
finished business, being a resolution Tor
the election OF Senate officers.
A motion by Mr.. Davis, OF West Vir-
pinia, to 90 into executive session, was
lost. Yeas, 10; nays, 20.
After few remarks were exchanged
by Davis, OF West Virginia, and Dawes,
tending TO show that each side was de-
termined in its course OF action, Mr..
Cali took the floor in continuance OF ms
speech OF Thursday last.
His speech was defense OF the South
against all recent attacks on it and the
arraiepment of Massachusetts for dis
iranchising voters.
After brief speech by Mr.. Dawes in
defense OF Massachusetts,,
Mr.. Camden Explained the Debt CUES
tion
OF West Virginia. 1t had been charged
by the Senator from Virginia Mshonel
that West Virginia had shown no dispo-
sition to make any provision for the set-
tlement OF the debt question between
tho two States. To contradict the
charge Mr.. Camden quoted from va
rious acts OF the Legislature oil
West Virginia for the appointment
of commissioners to adjust the debt.
The last Of these acts was passedln loIl,
but before waiting for the action OF the
i 4. IJln
Virginia had passed funding bill, 10y
which two-thirds Of her debt had been
funded and Ger ,iticates for the remain
ing third issued. These latter had been
issued without the knowlege oi West
Virginia, but had improperly come to
be known as West Virginia. The COM
missioners made a report showing that
West Virginia would not be liable Tor
one-third OF the debt on q basis OF terri.
tory, population OF revenue. The COM
missioners had decided that West Nir-
ginia's proportion OF the debt was S9l3.-
$50. This report had been forwarded to
the authorities of Virginia, and there
the matter had rested to the present
time.
Mr. Cameron, OF Pennsylvania, said
that few days ago the Senator from
Kentucky Beck
Taunted Him With the Fact
that the Legislature OfPennsylvania had
refused to sustain the course which It's
Senators had followed in this chamber.
The Senator had said to him Cameron
that he would probably make the Legis-
lsture endorse his action. There was
no man living who had the power to
make the Legislature Of Pennsylvania !
do ANYTHING against its free will. He |
would not arrogate to himself the power
10 make il do anything it did not believe !
TO be right and proper. The man who |
undertook that would find himself in the |
position OF the shearer who came back |
shorn. He was personally acquainted
with nearly all the members OF the
Legislature, and better, nobier and
more patriotic body OF men did not
exist. That the Legislature had passed
n resolution endorsing the Republican
Senators on this floor, and he had no
doubt all the patriotic legislatures would
follow the example.
Mr.. Beck agreed that the Pennsyl-
yania Legislature would only do what
was right, but suggested that 1t
always happened to think right
that which the Senator (Cameronl
thought right: that the Senator bad
shown that nc had the power to do by
telegram what he Beck thought would
take personal visit to accomplish.
Mr.. Nest thought the object OF the
present position of the Republicans on
this floor was this, that the Republican
party, with its vast patronage, It's great
influence. its patronage in the Senate,
wholld throw itself into the coming con-
test in Virginia and
Crush Out the Real and True Democracy,
that glorious old Commonwealth and
the Democrats were called upon In the
name of the Constitution 10 sit supinely
here and see this outrage perpetrated.
IL the Democrats should SIT
here supinely and submit TO anything
like this they would deserve TO be
branded az dishonest men. lie would
tell the gentlemen on the other side, in
no spirit of bravado, that rather than
submit to this interference OF the Ma
tional Republican party in that contest,
and rather than see the Democratic |
party OF Virginia stricken down after
that fashion, the De.locratic Senators
yould stand here, God willing, until the |
SHOWS of December covered the hills in
winding sheets. Coalition existed here.
Coalition OF parties, based upon mutual.
ity OF opinion, was Legitimate, but coaii-
ton without that mutually was con-
trary to public morality, and should be
denounced. Where coalition was made
simply for powe and for offices, without
community OF opinion 1t
verged upon Corruption.
IL il was not actually, it was not mu-
tualIty Of principle between the Repub'
lican party and the Senator from Nir-
ginia. He called attention TO the fact
that in October last the then Secretary
of the Treasury would have removed
the tobacco inspector OF Virginia If he
had belonged to the reputation party;
but 10 ,iav \ change had come over the
Senator from Ohio sherman; voice
from heaven, or some other direction,
had reached the Senator, aud now, in
stead Of removing an official because he
was Readinster. he wanted 10 put Rid
dlrberger, the author OF the repudiatirg
scheme into q Senate Otfic'. The Sena-
Tor hsi in his speech stated that no Re
publican state had ever repudiated IT'S
debt. He wished to CAL attention to
the great repudiatiou of the Northwest,
and particularly Minnesota.
Alter 4 short controversy as to the
debt Of Minnesota, between Messrs
Mcmillan and Vest, Mr.. Vest continued
his speech.
II there had been an issue plainly
made at the last campaign it had been
the Solid South. There had not been a
campaign speech made which had not IN
il the sentence "Vote for Hancock, and
you perpetua,e the Solid South, Rife
Clubs and Ku-klux Klau. Vote for
Garfield, and You vote for a
free ballot and an honest count.
That issue had been placed be-
fore the Senator from Virginia
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