Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-14

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the Clerks desk), consecrated to the dis
charge of great public duties, and dedicated
to the service of all parties, but for the par
tisan use of none. They would not permit
it to be used for political warfare and the
spoiIs of petty partisan triumphs. The Re-
publicaRs might call it improper, seditious,
revolutionary, reasonable, but the Demo
Gratis would prevent the great wrong and ap
peal to the American people to decide the
right.
Pendleton asked Allison and Dawes wheth-
er, if Malone had not voted with the Repub-
licans, the Republican caucus would have
nominated Riddleberger?
Neither answering, he said "Silent one,
silent all"
DAWES REPLIES.
Dawes said it was unfair to impute silence
to the Republican side, because they did not
break into and spoil speech and use figures
which they had prepared at home and COM
mitted to memory. This was fight in which
there could be no compromise without OBJ
struction, and he who would yield hair of
the omnipotent will of the majority, as it
spoke through the Constitution and laws, was
traitor to his country. Applause in the
galleries.
Harris-Does not the Senator know, when
he speaks about majorities, that without the
aid of this side of the chamber the thirty
eight Senators on that side are utterly pow
erless, under the Constitution, to perform
any act which would be binding on any indi-
vidual in the land? You have no quorum.
Dawes-Does the Senator mean that he
will again secede, as he did twenty years
ago? Does he mean that he will not perform
his constitutional functions, and that there
stands with him the whole of that party
which the Senator from Ohio tried to lift up
to the sky this morning? They will aban-
don their seats-they will refuse to perform
their functions-they will declare that this
Senate shall not proceed with its delibera-
lions. Does he announce that we cannot
accomplish anything without his aid? He
announces only in new form what | heard
twenty years ago, when man got up here
and announced that he held an allegiance
higher than that to the Constitution, which
he had sworn to support, and he would turn
his back on his oath and his flag and go forth
to make war upon it. This is war in an
other FORM This is as fatal, if it succeeds
as was the undertaking of Jefferson Davis
when he announced the same doctrine in an
other form from where the Senator now
stands. Has it come to this again? Has it
been resurrected after twenty years, after
war, disaster and surrender on the field
Has it come up here in this mild and insid-
ious form, that the majority is helpless un-
less the minority proves true to its oath and
its duty? If so this days debate is more i'm
portant than any days debate which has been
had in this chamber since the foundation of
the Government.
AN INTERRUPTION.
Harris, who had been some time endeavor-
ing to interrupt Dawes, here managed to
obtain the floor. Now" he said. "thst
the frenzy of the Senator has slightly abated,
and as he desires to know what was meant by
the interrogatory, beg to assure the Senator
that SO far as my constitutional duties are
concerned they will be performed as earnest
ly and as constantly, and l trust with more
frankness and manliness than the Senator
has performed his on this occasion. [ meant
simply this-that your boosted constitutional
majority is no majority"
After some further remarks by Harris and
Dawes, Saunders explained the pairing of
Malone with Williams, and Beck said when
Malone avowed himself Republican the
Democrats would be ready to pair with him,
and not until then.
HILL AND MALONE.
Hill of Georgia referred to remarks made
that the Democrats tried to capture Mahone's
vote, and entered an emphatic denial of the
charge.
Malone rose to reply. He called the Sem
ate TO witness that he had not in this discus
sion transgressed the bounds of propriety /;
that he had been courteous and respectful.
.
| Audible comments on the Democratic side
on the use of the word Democracy."l He
did not choose to debate that question. 1t
was not debatable. The whole question was
one between himself and those who sent him
to the Senate. He could not become part.
san of either party. What debt did he owe
to either? He certainly owed nothing TO the
National Democracy, as represented by Bar
nun and his committee. He now came to
the question of privilege on which he had in
tended to seek the floor to-day. He had not
been in the Senate chamber last Thursday
when the discussion took place between Sem
ators Rollins and Hill. and he had only no.
ticed it in the Record
He had an extract from the discussion read
at the Clerks desk.
At the point where, in response to sug-
gestion by Rollins that the Democrats had
been seeking to make arrangements to secure
Mahones vote, Hill replied, 'But we would
not have bought it"
snow, Mr.. President Continued Malone,
waving his arms to give greater force to what
he was saying), that language admits of one
or more interpretations, and l come to ask
the Senator from Georgia, as his language in
one aspect implies that my vote had been or
could be bought, whether he intended to con.
vey any such idea?"
Hill lin his seatl-Go on, and 1 will an.
swer.
Mahone-I am ready for you to answer
now.
Hill prefer to wait till you get through.
Malone with emphasize have nothing
more to say, but to ask simple question.
Hill taking the floor in his own right
Now, shall make to that Senator the answer
which feel that he or any other Senator
ought make to me under like circumstances,
and tell exactly the truth. inferred by
remark made by the Senator from New
(Rollinsl that be was charging
that we had sought to make an arrange.
nent-that was his language-by which we
would control the vote of the Senator from
to get the organization of the
Senate, and in response to that 1 said we
would not have bought it. l meant simply
10 negative what l understood to be q
charge of the Senator from New Hamp-