Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-02
The Senate.

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the election of Senate Offices was laid before
the Senate as unfinished business. The motion
TO 90 into executive session, made by Senator
Pendleton, was defeated; yeas, %; nays, 26.
Senator Lamar said the present attitude of
the Senats was extraordinary, and one without
precedent In the history Of the country. The
announcement had been made that the business
which the Senate had been called to transact
should not be transacted until the present Of
ficers were disposed and others elected. If the
reports were true the thirty.eight Republican
Senator's intended to keep this body in their
present position until their object was accom- :.
pli.hed Alluding TO the remark of Hoar's that
the announcement the Democratic side
would meet endurance with endurance con-
tanned the very essence Of treason
and revolution, he said that if that
were true II would devolye the trouble and re-
sponsibility on the Democratic side; but was
it true. He could see that If tho Senate was
Gisorganized or unorganizsd, If there were
vacancies that faction opposed filling, and
that opposition was protracted to the end OF
the session, it would be unpatriotie and repre-
hensible. But such was not the case. The
minority intended to protect itself from the
oppression of the maority. II there was any
reason for this departure. on the part of the
Republican side from the usages of this body
the IS Senator's stood justified. But they must
give their reason and address themselves to
pucllc opinion. It could not be as a reward
for political services that this
extraordinary position and delay had been
superinduced. What was the animating, the
overwhelming, dominant reason OF the Repub-
lcan policyS 1t could not be from any great
zeal Of loyalty to the Union, inasmuch as the
Senator who had brought out ons of the candi-
dates had avowed he had been true to the
confederate cause, and that he had no apology
TO offer for 1t or elsewhere. What was the
reason! He asked them to tell it. He dehed
them to announce IT, He tauntsd them to an
avowal of 1t.
At this point MESSAGE was received from
the President and Lamar yielded to- a motion
TO 60 into executive session, which motion
wRs rejected.
Senator Dawes hoped Lamar would now
impress upon his side sthe Importance OF
considering the pending resolution.
Resuming the throw of his speech Senator
Lamar described the distinctions in the Demo-
cratic party in Virginia. The Republican side
of this Chamber have proclaimed its readiness
to combine with what the country calls the
repudiating wing of the Democratic party In
Virginia. 1t had proclaimed that whsn any
section Of the party, should bolt from the
Democratic party under the banner of repudi.
reputation but in spite of it, was willing TO
embrace that repudiating section. Reputation
was no hindrance in anyway. Republican
Senator's were stretching their hands across
the bloody chasm to unrepentant rebels,
clothing them with honor and greeting them
with applause. He did, believe the Northern
people would stand this thing. They wouldn't
tolerate this alliance with the repudiating senti-
ments of the Southern States. The sentiment of
national pride and of national honor would
dash it into thousand pieces, even If 1t has to
rend the mighty structure of the Republican
party. National honor could not take into its
embrace the leprous body of State reputation
without becoming infected with its poison,
and this alliance would not succeed.
In the South majority of the Democratic
party had spewed the repudiating element out
of its mouth and had rejected the otfal which
Republican Senators now eagerly snatched at.
This was only an attempt to substitute in the
South, for the carpet baggers, backed by fed.
eral force, the repudiating element backed by
federal patronage. The first had failed and
cast reproach on the Republican party. The
last would meet with a similar fate.
The Senator from Pennsylvania, Cameron,
had announced this was an effort to break up
the solid South. What harm had the solid
South done? Added to the pros
perity and honor and glory of this
country. It was but short TINA
ago she had become solid and If her history
were taken from that time it would be found
she had been keeping step with the prosperity
OF other sections. He wouldn't claim thai the
prosperity of the country was attributable to
the solid South, but he would say she had been
no hindrance to progress, and she didn't JUS
tify the great Republican party of the Senate
in stepping down from the high pedestal of
national honor to take into its embrace this
cast off element of Southern Democracy.
1om oil Ind tn he
which had disgraccd the country during
the period of reconstruction and
asserted snc, the advent of the Solid South
into legislation, NJ such scandals had occurred.
He had himself heard noted lobbyists say,
'tsince those internal Democrats from the
South have got here the lobby business is
dried up" There was no solid South as q
factor in legislation, but there was one point
on which the South was solid and would re-
main SO. II was solid for the dei.n - Al !
protection nf its t'Wn civilization AMI Is own
rel gion. He would ,'.'nSent that any senator
gu the other si;!e, with 'eU eX-
ceptions which hr would not ulmt,
shoull write the history uf the rarpci-b g.ers
in the South, characterize its officials aid the
operation OF lis llws. He would agree 10 sub
nit that history to any evidence in the world
to determine whether that section ought not
throw off that government and keep united
and solid, to prevent its recurrence. He as
serted peace, contentment and prosperity ex-
listed among the colored people of the South,
and quoted from the remarks of Bishop
Simpson to that effect.
In conclusion he said 1t had once been his
conception to have two grand republics on
this continent but that had gone. 1t had
passed forever out of sight. Another one had
come into its place. 1t stood before him now,
simple In majesty. 1t was that of grand,
weighty, indlvi.able, one Republic on this
continent, too majestic to be unjust, too good
to be oppressive, throwing its loving arms
around all sections, omnipotent for protec-
tion, powsrless for oppression, GU rising none,
blessing all
Senator Hoar ridiculed the idea of Lamar
criticizing the Republican party for allying
itself with the reputation element of the
South, asserting the term Reputation orig.
mated in Mississippi. With whom was the
Republican party to ally itself? 1t could moi
have a solid North. That would be unpatriotic
in the eyes of Senator's 1t could not ally itself
with the negroes of the South properly, OF
with carpet-baggers, and it could not ally
itself with anybody who was willing to pay
any part of the Southern debt, if he did mo-
pay the whole, bat must turn to that homes
and consistent portion of the Southern De
mocracy which, in Virginia, proposed tc
pay the debt and refused to raise o tal
for its payment, land which in Mississippi owet
debt of $22, ,000, 900 and declared but $780, ,00t