Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-04-09


ruE VIRGINIA. REHEGAD1.
| We give belsw the account 81 tl.e
| exciting debate, that occurred in the
| United States Senate, Oh April list,
between the patriotic aud chivalrcus
Denocratic Senator from Indiana,
NJ. Voorhees,. on the one side, and
the Virginia turn coat, Malone, on
the other.
The words with which the tall
sycamore Of the Wabash, stung the
renegade into a rage, will find an
echo in the breast Of every man who
despises duplicity mud admires 10y
| atty aud strict adherence to those
recognized practices, which guide
honorable men in every country.
Mr. Voorhees, then took tho tlosr
and sent TO the clerks desk and had
| read an extract from the Evening
Telegraph, a Philadelphia Republi-
| can paper, which alluded to Malone
las u renegade Democrat, and charg-
Ing that his acting with the Republi-
cans was in consequences Of a dis
graceful bargain.
Mr.. lIoar objected toits being read,
and Mr.. Voorhees, stated that he
! would indorsc it and make it his
speech.
Mr.. Hoar then raised q point Of Or
der against the reading of the article
! which was overruled by the president
pro tenn (Mr. Ingalls,. Subsequently
| Mr.. Voorhees,, at Mr.. Hoar's private
suggestion, disclaimed any indorse-
mont OF any expressionsin the article
| which might be construed in the way
Of making personal quarrel with
either Of the gentlemen alluded to in
it (Mahone and the vice president).
At this point of the proceedings,
| wien the discussion had lost all it's
NE and fire, when the audience in
tho galleries had become less numer-
Gus, when all were looking forward
| to an immediate adjournment, the
most exciting scene Of the day took
place. Mr.. Malone, of Virginia, ris-
ing Unexpectedly, said !; | rise to as
certain whether ] correctly under
stood the senator from Illinois (mean-
ing Indiana and Voorhees, rs saying
that the article which he had read
from the philadelphia papers was his
speech. In that article ! am referred
TO as a renegade Democrat, further Oh
az q repudiationist, and further on as
having entered into u bargain with
the Republican senators in regard to
the organization of the Senate. I'll
have recited correctly what is stated
In the article, ask the senator wheth-
or this is his speech (applause), and |
pause for reply.
Mr.. voorhees,, of Indiana, who had
in the meantime moved to the Re
publican side of the chamber and ia
ken chair at a very short distance
from Malone, replied. In courte-
Gus but resolute tone, he said: sent
to the clerks desk an article from
leading Republican newspaper, edi-
ted by allies OF the senator from Vir-
GINA. Soon afterwards the senator
from Massachusetts tHoar) came to
me, in those kindly relations which
we have ever borne to each other, and
asked me to soften that article by
disclaiming it as my speech. did
so in response to that suggestion. If
~" senator from Virginia expects
anything further than that from me
he is mistaken. He is entirely mis-
taken; he will have to deal with the
Republican editor Of that paper, and
when he settles with him, ifhe has
any thing further to settle with me,
he will find me here, and will not
only find me here, but find me willing
to respond. ] do not mean that in
any offensive sense, whatever, but
in a sense OF absolute justice. If the
senator frcm Virginia so early in this
contest as now, is complaining of the
terms III which his Republican allies
and Republican newspapers speak of
him, and is complaint G of the DEM
oeratic senators who simply ask that
the terms of which he is spoken of by
his Republican friends may be known,
ne has more difficult road to travel
than he has conceived of. He need
not think fol- one moment that he can
coerce or dictate the course of debate
on this floor. Imade q large conces
sion. did it from my heart. and
with no possible disrespect to the
senator from Virginia mot the slight
est. | did it because | thought it
right, when the distinguished and
cultured senator from Massachusetts
called attention to it: but if the SEN
ator from Virginia thinks he can
stretch by one hairs breadth some
thing between the gentleman from
Massachusetts and myself and coerce
H.. u.