The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-01
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FORTY-sEVENTH CONGRESS.
EXTRA SESSION.
SENATE.

Washington, 31.-DaWes called up
the pending business.
Cameron, of Pa, said the present
issue was too plain to be misunder-
stood. Republicans said the ma
jority had the right to decide who
should be officers of the Senate
democrats said the minority had it.
Republicans could not abandon
their right, though democrats made
it question of endurance. The
majority could endure as long as
the minority. The contest was
something more than to secure the
officers. 1t was the coming political
contest in Virginia. Malone had
terrified old democrats of the south
who had appealed to senators to
cover Malone with Opprobrium so
his followers at home would not
dare support him. He had made
political slavery in Virginia i'm
possible. He had the sympathy of
The republican party in champion
ing free elections. Virginia would
see the north fraternized with ex-
confederates who by act as well as
word, favored an honest ballot and
a fair count. They voted for
Riddleberger as an earnest that ii
was not sectional. This was the
only bargain it had to offer southern
friends. If Virginia took her stand
on the platform of an honest ballot
the solid south was thing of the
past.
Maxey said he thought Dawes in
sisted on the will of the minority.
He had taken part in setting aside
an 5000 democratic majority in
Louisiana in 1876. Dawes might
claim the majority was procured by
fraud. People thought the ma
jority of the Senate was so, but he
demanded an investigation into the
strange methods by which the ma
jority was obtained.
Dawes said the republican party
stood here to secure to American
people the boon of a free ballot and
an honest count, and demanded
if there was any difference
between what he called a
vote and what many called
a vote. He counted as nothing a
vote that had not a face to ballot be-
hind it. Thousands of ballots such
as he held in his hand, about two
inches square. had been found in
ballot boxes with nothing behind
them but the villianous hands that
put them in. 1t was because at
UemptS had been made to substitute
them for freemens votes in the
ballot boxes in some states, and to
put blunderbuSSes in place of
freemens' flags in other states, that
he had done what he could to stand
by what he supposed every freeman
in the country understood to be
the freedom of the ballot.
1t was when it was undertaken TO
compel a freeman 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 they filled in '76, that he
Dawes) felt called upon to remind
the Senate that there was a differ
ence between a piece of paper and
the vote of freeman that executed
the will of God in executing the will
of the freemen.
Maxey inquired how it was that
those ballots which executed
the will of God had been
sufficient to elect Hayes and INSULT
cient to elect Packard, though Pack
ard had received more of them than
Hayes. 1t was difficult for anyone
when they attempted to uphold such
high crimes as the disfranchisement
of two states to be consistent.
Dawes agreed that Packard had
been elected, but the Louisiana Lot
terry Company had succeeded in es-
tablishing Nichols government.
Beck referred to the republican
side, not as majority, but as an
equal division, and then moved to
appoint a committee to wait upon
the President and advise him that
his nominations did not commend
themselves to his party, and the Sen
ate was ready to adjourn. Rejected.
Harris said there were seventy
important nominations for action,
some very old, and not yet referred.
Harris was ruled out of order.
Adjourned.