The daily gazette., 1881-03-29
SECOND EDITION
Mr.. Malone Replies.
THE READJUsTER'S POSI-
TION DEFINED.

A FOUR HOURS SPEECH TO CRoWDs
ED GALLERIES, PRINCIPALLY
UPON THE DEBT QUESTION IN
VIRGINIA.
WASHINGTON, March %.
This was another Malone day in
the Senate of the United States
The Malone party Is very small
party, but il occupies a good deal of
space and makes good deal of
noise. The Malone party had
hearing to-day. 1t was ON end
about four hours. 1t was heard by
an immense audience, which was
breathless expectation before the
Malone speech began, attentive for
the first hour, somnolent during the
fourth hour and disappointed and
used up at the close. The crowd
was on hand as early as 10 O'Clock
this morning and by ii packed
every gallery and monopolized every
inch of standing room beyond the
outer circle of seats. An hour later
and the floor of the Senate present.
ed All equally dense array of hu-
manlty. The corridors were throng-
ed with the grumbling ones who
couldn't get in, and when all was
over the really disappointed ones
were those who did get In. The
doors on the gallery floor were
highly interesting points, forty to
fifty men and women being blocked
iu an uncomfortable wad before
each. All this because Malone the
Virginia Readjuster, had been ad-
yertlsed to make great speech. 1t
was great speech.
FOUR HoURs' sPEECa.
1t took four hours, two glasses of LEM
cnade with telegraph pole in each and
w o lemons To deliver it. 1t was read
from printed slips, in cracked voice
that oscillated between yel! and a
whisper. It was all about the Virginia
nIuddIe, the State, readjuslment and
Southern chivalry. A side issue now
and then on the record of Senator
Brown, Senator Johnston and other
Democrats who had assailed the speaker
furnished the only spice. Such allu
sIons were decided bits and told upon
the immense audience, who responded |
withstanding the dryness aud horrible |
length of the main portion of his speech. |
Malone is too central All object of pub
lie interest not to attract attention. If
there were no political complications to
Tend fictitious Importance TO him, Ma
hone would even yet deserve and rscsiye
more than a passing notice. The little
dried up and cIouching figure, half
squatting at every emphasis; the long,
skinny fingers, extended and cuIled like
talohs ana hooking at empty air, and
that alternating yell and whisper, which
| would drive a camp meeting out OF the
woods, would command attention. Add
to these psculiarities large and frowsy
head, long and muddy beard, and
collar and Gifts doubling back upon his
broadcloath in sort of split between
ruffies and modern linen, and you have
his photograph as he appeared to-day.
THE Effect OF 1T ALL.
These ere The g,essions that Ma
hone made. lie bulk of the speech was
upon the Virginia debt question, with
which the Senate OF the United States
has absut as much to do as bas the Legis-
la.ure of Pennsylvania. During the first
Two hours of its delivery MIR. Conkling
sat facing the speaker and smiling his
approval intervals. Then he turned to
his desk, as if tired oft all. Logan, Ferry
aud Ben Harrison sat near and prompted
Malone occasionally or cheered him on
while Brown, Hill and Pendleton, across
the aisle, paid undivided attention. No
one interrupted. The general impression
appears to be that Malone has not help
ed the Republican party on himself very
much. When he had concluded the |
Senate adjourned.
There is running fire of comment on 1
the Malone speech about the hotel lob
bles. 1t is generally regarded by the /
fair-minded of both pdtles as merely a
continuation OF the Virginia fight and OF |
ne real bearing on national politics. |
Prominent Democrats, however evident |
" believe it will tend to further place |
the Republican party in an embarrassing |
position, while Republican politicians
are satisfied to have Malone say what he
pl, ases so long as he avows himself a
Democrat. He can do the latter q good
deal of harm and is quite willing to do
it, Senator Johnston considers Mahons's
effort weak one but Johnston is an in
teresLed party. He says he will reply to
Malone Tomorrow or next day.
From the N. Y. Hearlo.
QUEER LOOK IN REPUBLICAN FACES.
Malone has one excellent trait, he
does not mince matters. The republican
Senators, who have SO long sneered at
"rebel brigadiers," had queer look In
their faces when Malone to-day, prais-
ing his friend Riddleberger, mentioned
among his other merits that he had
"served bravely as captain of cavalry
in the Confederate aTmles.n HIS collea-
que, Senator Johnston, he added, had no
such record; and as to Senator Brown, of
Georgia, he remarked pungsntly that he
had never kno gn man who had his
skill in readjusIing himself TO all condi
tions and all folLunes. He said:-
The desire of our people for cordial re-
laiioEs with all sections of a common
country and the people of all the States
of tie Union, their devotion to popular
education, their efforts for the free en-
joyment of a priceless suffrage, OF an
honest count; tneir determination to
make Virginia in the public belief a
desirable home for all men, wherever
their birthplace, whatever their opinions,
and to open her fields aud her mines to
enterprise and capital and SO to stay the
retroerade movement of years as to bring
her back frsm the fifteenth in grade to
her origina. position in the sisterhood oil
States, forbid that my action here should