The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08

CeSSIOH- UlO II rum my H6aIl. anu
with no possible Gisrespect to the sena
tor from Virginia. / did il because l
thought il was right, but If the senator
from Virginia thinks he can coerce me
into q single concession beyond that he
is entirely mistaken. am just on this
floor and intend 10 be Just. sent to
the desk to have read an editorial from
one of the leading Republican newspa-
pers of the United States. Am / to be
called in question this side of the cham
Der: Not for my life would do an act
dictated to me in the spirit in which the
gentleman from Virginia Iose''
MIR. Malone rose 10 respond but gave
way to Mr. Mitchell, Of Pennsylvania,
who said the paper in question, the
Evening Telegraph, if il was Repubii-
can paper, was a Republican paper with
Democratic tendencies, and its tenden-
! cies were more frequently Democratic
than Republican. He understood its ed
itors were Republicans, but the state
ment of the senator from Indiana that
that paper was recognized as leading
Republican paper of Pennsylvania was
not correct.
Mr. Malone said: Mr. President, this
| is very simple question. / stated the
case to this senate and stated it, / think,
clearly. I stated that the senator from
Indiana had read to this house an arti-
Gle from newspaper, in which different
references TO myself were made, the SEN
| ator having stated that was part of his
speech. Now, what have arisen for,
notwithstanding what the senator has
said to my friend from Massachusetts, is
to ask the snator from Indiana whether
or not these personal references to my
self were of his own accord, and that
| speaking imperatively) is the question
that / ask the senator. The senator has
said he did not want to be dictated to,
and that in the course of this debate the
| privilege will be exercised of having
newspaper articles read at the desk. 1
make no objections, none whatever and
| it is not of that / complain, but when
the senator says that article is his speech,
he stands in the attitude of the man who
wrote il. The senator takes the liberty
of referring me TO the newspaper man
| for settlement. l shall select my own
course in the matter
Mr.. Voorhees, (defiantly(-Select me
| whenever you please.
Malone (resoluteiy)-Is select you now.
Voorhees, (contemptuously)- We'll, Sc
lect me now.
Malone (persisting in his point Il
say whether or OF.
Before he had time to finish the SEN
tence Mr.. Voorhees, anticipated it, and
| throwing off the self restraint which he
had observed to that time, said, passion
| ately: Then l indorse every single word
which was said in that article.
Malone (breaking inl-Then l say
the references which you make to me
are such as no honorable or brave man
would make, and denounce you as such
here. (The reporter gives the sentence
as uttered)
Voorhees-That is bare question of
here and hereafter.
Mahone-The hereafter will come as
| soon as you want II to.
Mr.. Voorhees, will know exactly
how to meet it. endorse every word
said in that article; indOrse the word
"renegage Democrat" indorse every
| thing else in it that may be construed TO
! reflect on the course of the senator from
| Virginia, and without his taking time 10
| put words upon me, he can seek Lis re.
dress. There is no use in making any
mistake about this matter at all
heard the senator from Virginia stand
here and shout out: ''That that had to
STOP" Suppose it don't; suppose il
don't; kow itwont with me by your
dictation. That is cheap, very cheap
| (alluding to Mahone's expression).
| Mahone-It is very cheap, Mr.. Presi
dent, 10 deal IN such bravado as the gen
man from Indiana does, but when the
gentleman says he Endorses the senti
ment of that newspaper article l under
take to characterize it as such that nc
brave or honorable man would make il
this chamber. The reporter gives this
sentence also as delivered. Now let hin
take that with him and wear il.
Some Democratic senators here sug
1 I'd 60 80
but not needing the advice Mr. Voor
hees retorted in q somewhat oracula
manner, the question about taking anC
wearing a thing depends good dua
upon here and hereafter.
This ended the controversy in the sen
ate chamber, and on motion of MI
Dawes the senate adjourned until Mon
day.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-SENATE-Th,
senate resumed consideration of TIT
pending business, the resolution for thu
election of senate officers.
A motion by Senator Pendleton to g
into executive session was defeated
yeas 25, nays 90.
Senator Johnston quoted extracts iron
the Virginia, q newspaper edited b,
Riddleberger, to prove the Democrat,
of that gentleman and his colleague Ma
hone, and from the "Riddleberger'' bill
to show that the Republicans were nov
found supporting man for Office VIII
had announced in that bill that tn
adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
, and Fifteenth amendments was equal il
its terrible effects to the war itself HI
went with some minuteness into a state
, ment of the debt of the state of Virginia
contending that any failure to pay III
interest on that debt was not attributes
] n 6aSire2 tn tafn lint to
fortunate condition of affairs which pre-
vailed Immediately after the war.
Senator Dawes inquired whether tn
.. senator agreed with his colleague il
holding that West Virginia ought to pa,
. a part of that debt.
Senator Johnston replied that h.
. agreed with his colleage, and with tn
; supreme court of the United states, il
holding that West Virginia should b
responsible for one-third. Leaving tn,
question of debt, he inquired of senate
. Dawes where and when in Virginia any
body had to wade through blood to ge
to the ballot-box, as had been stated b.
that senator.
Senator Dawes replied that "Missis
, sippi plan" was general term. Specifi,
names were attached to different phase
in different southern states. In one stat
it took the phase of blood; in anothe
) tissue ballots in another forging returns
In Virginia it was called opposition t.
vagabond suffrage. The senator would
have to explain that phase of the genera
plot. Had the senator forgotten that thu
army had been called out at PETERSBURG
to put down violence there. Did thu
senator pretend to say that nobody go
hurt in Petersburg in a vain attempt tt
assert his right as voter?
Senator Johnston stated that the charg,
that there was any smothering of the Re
publican vote in Virginia was absolute
ly false. If any tissue ballots had beer
used in Virginia they had been used il
his colleagues district.
Where did you get those tissue ballots
he inquired of Senator Dawes, who re
piled that they had come into his pos
session.
Senator Dawes-The district of Nor
folk was one.
Senator Johnston-Was not Peters
burg one?
Senator Dawes-Petersburg resortec
tie other methods of violence
Senator Johnston-That is the place
my colleague lives in.
Senator Dawes 1t is, and he has seer
the error of it.
Senator Johnson continued his speech
combining his remarks to local questions
and commenting upon the yindIcatlne
measures adopted in Virginia by thI
Funder Democrats.
At the conclusion of Senator John
stOn's speech, Senator Salisbury ap
pealed to the Republicans to ground
their weapons of rebellion against it.
own administration. If any man need
ed pity and consideration it was the
president of the United States, who haG
been treated with such marked disre
spect by his own friends. Perhaps thu
president now in the white house, wa:
} saying that there was some in this cham
b6r from whom he had not expected AM
better treatment, because he had antag
oniZed them and their third term man il
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