The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-01

road timbers are being carried off.
The Endless Debate.
Washington, March 31.-Dawes
called up the pending business.
Cameron said the present issue was
too plain to be misunderstood. The
republicans had the majority and tho
right to decide who should be the Of
ficers of the senate. The democrats
said the minority had it. The republi-
cans could not abandon their right
though the democrats made it ques-
tion of endurance. The majority could
endure it as long rs the minority. The
contest was something more than for
officers. 1t was the coming political
contest in Virginia. Malone had ter
riiied the old democrats of the south
who had appealed to the democrats to
cover Malone with abrobations so that
his followers at home would not dare to
support him. He had made political
slavery in Virginia impossible. He had
the sympathy of the republican party in
championing free elections. Virginia
would see the north fraternized with
the ex- -confederates who by.act as we'll
as words favored an honest ballot and
a fair count. They voted for Riddel-
berger so earnest that it was not sec
tional. This was only bargain it had
to offer southern friends. If Virginia
took her stand on the platform of
honest ballot the solid south vas
thing Of the past.
Maxey said though Dawes insisted
on the will of the minority, he had
taken part in setting aside 800 demo-
cratic majority in Louisiana in 1876.
Dawes might claim the majority was
procured by fraud. The people thought
the majority of this senate was SO, but
he demanded an investigation into the
strange methods by which the majority
was obtained. The democratic party
stood here to secure the American peo-
Pile boon of free ballot and honest
count and demanded that if there was
any suspicion it be removed.
Dawes said the difference between
what he called a vote and what Maxey
called a vote was that he counted
nothing vote that had not free bal
lot behind it. Thousands of such bal
lots as he held III his hand, about two
inches square, had been found in the
ballot boxes with nothing behind but
the villainous hands that put them in.
1t was because attempts had been made
to substitute these for free mems votes
in the ballot boxes in some states, and
to put blunderbusses in the place Of
free mems flags in other states, that he
had done what he could to stand by
what he supposed every free man in
the land understood to be the meaning
ofa ballot. 1t was when it was under
taken to mark the free man with pieces
of paper to compel him to wade through
blood to the ballot boxes and when he
was found as silent on election day as
those who lay in the bloody graves that
they filed i'll 1876, that he (Dawes) felt
called upon to remind the senator that
there was difference between a piece
of paper and the vote of free man that
executed the will of God in executing
the will Of the free man.
Maxey inquired how it was that those
ballots which executed the will of God
had been sufficient to elect Hayes and
not sufficient to elect Packard, though
Packard had received more Of them.
It was difficult for any one when he at
tempted to uphold such high crimes as
the disfranchisement of two states to
be consistent.
Dawes agreed that Packard had been
elected but the Louisiana lottery COM
pany had succeeded in establishing
the Nichols government.
A discussion arose between kellogg
and Jones respecting the debt of Louisi-
anna and most of the senators there
upon retired.
Beck referred to the republican side
not as majority but as an equal divi-
sion and then moved to appoint "a COM
mittee to wait upon the president and
advise him that his nominations did
not commend themselves to his party
and the senate was ready to adjourn.
Rejected-26 to 81.
Harris said there were 70 import
ant nominations awaiting, action, some
OF which were very old and not yet re-
ferred.
Harris was ruled out Of order.
| Adjourned.
The preside mt has recognized .Joae