The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-14

wanted to buy it and could not do it,
i denied addressing himself dI-
rectly to Mahone) that we did
buy your vote. l denied that
we wanted to buy your vote;
lIdenied we would have bought your
lYote. We would not have given
you fig for your vote, that is what
/ | intended to say. / did not charge
that the senator had sold his vote.
[ do not say now that the senator
has sold his vote. / would not
charge, unless | knew it to be fact,
that any. senator had sold his vote.
If the senator wants me TO 90 far
ther and say what l believe, that is
a different question. / wish to say
to the senator now, that if he pro-
lposes to call to account everybody
in this country who has belief on
/ that subject, he has a heavy task on
his hands. / will make no charge
against any senator, but let not any
senator invite my opinion Oh, compel
my opinion by seeking to make that
4 charge, which is not one, because
he may get that opinion, and get it
very fully.
Mahone-Ihave nothing to dowith
the senator's opinion. / have risen
to ask the senator from Georgia
a plain and direct question. He
says l will have everybody to call to
account; that is not the question.
The senator from Georgia has used
language which has been read. He
| knows whether he intended to con-
vey the impression that 1 sold my
vote, or that my vote had been
bought. He knows that, and l re-
specially ask whether he so in
tended that.
Hill mot rising)-I answered you
fully. 1t will be on record.
Mahone-As the senator fails here
to ans yer directly a direct question,
| will give him problem to solve
He shall have conundrum. / say
to him that if he did mean to
imply that my vote had been or
could be bought, he states
or undertakes to convey that
which is foul, untruthful, false
and that no man less than a
coward would make it. (The re-
porter gives the sentence as deliv-
ered). Now l say to him that he can
solve in his own mind whether he
so intended OrnOt. addressing him
self directly TO Hill in a menacing
tOne) You can solve that, sir, if you
choose. That is all | have TO say to
you now, reSuming his seat.
Hill arose to reply, but Malone,
continuing his remarks, said: you
can solve that question for yourself,
whether you intended to convey
that meaning or not" "a good deal
of applause in the galleries which
the presiding officer, kellogg, endeav-
Ored to repress, and most of which,
according to PendletOn, came from
the front seat of the private gallery
of senators.)
Hill (studiously emphasizing every
pointed eXpression)--Mr. President,
l have too much respect for the
Senate, too much respect for my
self, too much respect for the peO-
pie, to handy epithetS with the SEN
atOr from Virginia, or any other
senator here. ] have never sought
to receive, or give, or resent an in
iSult in this chamber. | would not
insult a senator in this chamber.
The senator cannot insult me. He
is pOwerless to insult anybody. (The
two last sentences were uttered
with deliberatenesS and point)
Cameron, of PENNSYLVANIA, Gin
nervous. excited manner(-What do
you mean by that?
Hill am not dealing with the
senator from Pennsylvania. The
senator from Virginia asked the
question. l answered his question.
L answered it explicitly. That an
swer is in the Record. 1t will
remain there. 1t was a truthful
answer. l answered precisely as
thought and felt at the time. used |
words. Any senator can read those |
words. If the senator (Mahone)
thinks he emphasizing the pro-
nounl can suppress the gentlemen
in discussion in this Senate, by |
to play the bully, he has
made mistake.
This ended the discussion for the
lay, which was followed with
interest by a large audience in the
galleries.
Pendleton declared the republicans
we're waring, not on outrage, fraud,
or oppression, but on
he democratic party, which was the
,arty of Jefferson, of Madison, of
donroe and of Polk, the party that
lad given Texas. New Mexico and
california to the Union. 1t was the
'arty which had long ago made the
and for sixty years had
o administered, that in the govern
nent there had been no law
igher than the Constitution.
t was the party which in the
ycle of its years, had drawn to
self every able and patriotic states
IAN who was not willing to walk {
4 the wicked ways of sectionalism.
was the party which, in storms
nd tempeStS and winters blasts. {
ad stood like an ocean lighthouse.
nmOved and immovable, while ali
Their parties, including the boosted I;
publican party, had swayed and =
waved, with uneven and incon- I
stent motion, like waves that :
9eyed the fitful bidding of the
;kle moon. Spray might have
'Yered its sides, waters might have
aShed its summit, but every recess
on Of storm had shown its light
as unclouded and its lustre I'M
mined. Republicans had asked
at this party help them, in using !
e offices of the Senate to debauch
. people of Virginia. We
II not do it. He said
conclusion: You forget what T.
Senate is. You forget that A'
arc one-naII of this SenaGe-peers
you all, representatives of State.
lich, with slight limitation, we
led sovereign. You forget the
iracter of the work in which you
lite our cooperation. l tell you
v, | tell you here, you will not ~
re the cooperation for that pur- U1
q at any time.
he colloquy between Dawes. But
Harris, Brett and others, as to
assertion by Dawes that Malone
been approached by the demo-
s, WAS spirited, and at times very a.
;onal. Both sides disclaim that va
offer had been made to Malone.
motion was made by Farley to IsI
into executive session; lost, 20 Il
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