The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-01
Forty seventh COngrcss-SpeciaI SEES.
st0n Of thc Senate.
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WAsHINGTON, March 81, 1881.
Mr.. pave, GATED up the peadIng bust
ness. being tue resolution for the election Of
officers II the senate.
Mr.. Cameron, Of Pennsylvania, said that
the issue waSioo pl1iu 10 be misunderstood.
The Republican de- SAID tbai the majority
had the rleht 10 decide WHO should be OH.
GERS Of the Senate. lis opponents said that
the minority had that right. He had SAID
few days aga thai 10 seemed to be question
OF endurance. The general doctrine that
the majOiity was entitled 10 rule was not
called IN question. The minority simply
said that II would resist the clcc ion Of Of
6cer> by dlltoIy motions ana prolonged
speeches. His answer was mat the Rcpub.
lictu> could not abandon the right Of the
majority 10 rule. because the minority had
made il question Of endurance. The ma
j lily could endure - long rs the minority.
Ihr contest was not merely To secure the
Otiic,>. Tlcfc vas something ABOVE ali
thai->omeluipg the importance of which
had not received attention: il was the
coming pollich cOut,S in Virginia. The
Senator from Virginia (Mahone) had terri
fed the old Democratic regime OF bis
STATE. The Democrats Of tue south bad
appealed 10 the southern Democrats
10 cover the Senator from Virginia with
oppr0bium, - that his followers as home
would not dare TO support him.
H. hid made political slavery impossible
in Virginia. He had ctamplo0Cd the cause
Of free elections, and BE- had the sympathy
Of the Republican party in thar good work.
All Virginia wOuld see that the North fla-
itrnIZed with all eX-COniCdelateS who were
known by their sets a. well a> by tbeir
words to be IN favor OF an honest ballot and
|. On
it vote for Riddlebergcr rs an earnest that
it was not sectional Whoever was right
was its friend. This. and this only. was the
bargain that it had to offer its southern
friends who would come out and grow with
national growth. Ii Virginia took her
stand on the platform Of honest ballot tue
solid South was tning Of the past.
Mr.. MaXCy criticised the action OF the
X publican caucus in not bringing forward
for Sergeant-at- Arms the gentleman (Frencb)
who had previously tilled that office. The
Senator from Massachusetts Dawes had
expressed bis submission to the will OF
the majority, and yet he had taken part
IN setting aside 5000 Democratic maiori.
" IN Louisiana in 1876. He might answer
| that that majority had been procured by
fraud. He (MaXey) believed that the
people thought that the majority III the
Senate to-day he'd been procured by
crooked means. Whether that majority
had been procured fairly or non-fairly he
knew not, but the American people did be-
| lievc that It had been obtained by methods
strange and unusual, and he demanded that
they should be Investigated. The Dem
ocratc party stood hege for the purpose OF
securing 10 the American people The boon
OF free balOt-a priceless ballOt-and hon
est count, and to demand that If there was
suspicion It should be removed.
Mr.. Jones, of FlOrldl. denied in short
speech the statement made by MI Malone
that Florida had repudiated it. honest debt;
after which discussion arose between
MesSrs. Kellogg and Jonas concerning the
deb; of Louisiana. 3lr. Kellogg, IN the
course Of his remarks referring 10 the Lou
iSiana Lottery Company, said that the COM
pany was creature Of the Democratic
party. and but for money furnished by the
| lottery company the Packard government
would be standing to day
At the close Of Mr.. Kellogg's remarks
Mr.. Jonas corrected one or two mis-
takes which be said his colleague had fallen
| into, but declined 10 answer " his trade"
| Mr.. Brown then moved 10 20 into eXecu-
tive session. which motion was lost.
! Mr.. Beck Offered motion that when the
senate adjourn TO-DAY II be 10 meet on the
first Monday in December. This motion
wa, also rejected; but finally. at +. NJ
the Senate, on motion Of Mr.. Dawes, ga
iourncd until tomorrow.