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port had been forwarded to the authorities OF
Virginia and there 1t had rested to the present

port had been forwarded to the authorizes
Virginia and there 1t had rested to the presen
| time.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, said
few days ago the Senator from Kentucky
! Beck, taunted him with the fact the leglsla
| ture of Pennsylvania had refused to sustain
| the course which its Senators had followed Il
this chamber. The Senator had said he
| Cameron, would probably make the legisla
| ture endorse his actions. There was no mai
| living who had the power of making the legis
| lature of Pennsylvania do anything against it
| free will. He wouldn't arrogate to himsel
the power to make it do anything which i
| didn't believe to be right and proper. In,
man who undertook to do that would fint
himself in a position of the shearer whc
came back shorn. He was personally &C
ouainted with nearly all members of the legis
lature, and better, nobler and more patriotic
set Of men did not exist. That legislature hae
passed q resolution endorsing the action OF the
Republican Senator's on this floor, and ne had
no doubt all patriotic legislatures would fol
low the example.
Senator Beck agreed the Pennsylvania legis-
lature would only do what it thought right,
but suggested it always happened to think
right that which Senator Cameron thought
right. That Senator had shown ne ne ,e had :, tine !,
power to do by telegram what he (Beck) had
thought it would take personal
visit to accomplish. He thought the object
of the present position of the Republicans on
this floor was this, ,ithat the Republican party
with its vast patronage, its great influence, it's
patronage In the Senate, should throw itself
into the coming contest in Virginia and crush
out the real and true Democracy of that glori.
Gus old comm onwealth, and the Democrats
were called upon in the name of the constitu'
tion to sit supinely here and see this outrage
81 ehn111d
supinely and submit to anything like this,
they would deserve to be branded as dishonored
men. He would tell the gentleman on the
other side, in no spirit of bravado, that
rather than submit to this interference
of the national Republican party In that con.
test, and rather than see the Democratic party
of Virginia stricken down after that fashion,
the Democrat Senator's would stand here, God
willing, till the SHOWS of December covered
the hills in winding sheets. A coalition ex-
listed here. A coalition of parties, based on
mutuality of opinion was legitimate, but
coalition without that mutuality was contrary
to public morality, and should be denounced.
When a coalition was made simply for power
and offices without community of opinion,
it verged upon a corrupt coalition. Where
was the mutually of principle between
the Republican party and the Senator from
Virginia. He called attention to the fact
that in October last the then secretary of the
treasury would have removed the tobacco In
spector of Virginia if he had belonged to the
repudiatlng party, but to-day a change had
come over the senator from Ohio, Sherman
A voice from heaven, or some other direction
had reached the Senator, and now instead OF
removing an official because he was a Read
juster, he wanted to put Riddelbarger, another
schemer, In Senate office. The
Senator had in his speech stated no Republi-
can State had ever repudiated its debt. He
wished to call attention to the great reputation
Of the Northwest, and particularly OF Min
nesota
A short controversy as to the debt of Min
nesota between Vest and Mcmillan followed,
when Vest continued his speech: If there
had been an issue plainly between them at the
last campaign it had been a solid South.
There had not been q campaign speech made
which hadn't in it sentence, vote for Han
cock and You will perpetuate the solid South,
rifle clubs, kuklux clan, ETC., and vote
for Garfield and you vote for
a free ballot and an hon
est count: Thlt issue has been
placed before the Senator from Virginia (Ma-
the tissue ballot party, as the Republicans
called it. He had taken the Democratic party
then. What had come over it since November
last that he couldn't takes it now Demo
cratic Senator's had been told they had
grovelled at the Senator from Virginia. 1t was
not true. He had denied emphatically and
plainly that the Senator from Virginia had
said in his opening address that he had been
invited to their little tea-party. If he had
been so invited it had been unoficially.
At the conclusion of Vests speech motion
TO go into executive session was lost, yeas 49,
nays co. The Senate then adjourned until to-