Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-02
LAMAR LAMS EN-.
SPEECH or The MISSISSIPPI SEN
AI0R.
Voorhees, Gives Malone a Terrible Blow
and the lrs Of the Vrg'nian Rises 10
aHigh Pitch-An Exciting Stene
IN the Senate.
ANOTHER DAY DEVOTED TO SPEECH
MAKING.
SENATE.
Another Day Devoted to the Expensive
Luxury of Chin Music.

WASHiNGTON, ApfH luz i'
ton for the election OF Senate oihcefs
was laid before the Senate as unfinished
| business.
A motion to 90 into executive session,
made by Mr.. Pendleton, vas defeated;
yeas -, nays 26.
Mr.. Lamar said the
Present Attitude of the Senate Was an
Extraordinary One.
and one without precedent in the his
tory of the country. The announce
ment has been made that the business
which the Senate had been called to
transact should not be transacted
until the present officers were
| deposed and others elected. IL
the report were true the thlrty'eisnt
| Republican Senators intended 10 keep
| the body in the present position I'LL t!le
object was accomplished alIuding u the
remark of Hoar's that the announce
ment of the Democratic side would meet
| endurance with endurance, contained
| the very essence Oi treason AMI the
| resolution he said ii that were true. II
| yould deyolve terrible responsibility
| on the Democratic side, but WAS 1t tue,
| he could gee that if the Senate was DIS
oryanizpd or unOrganized, il there were
yacancies, that q factions opposluon
| 10 fi,Iiny those vacancies protracted 10
| the end of the session would be unpa-
triotic and reprehensible, bat such Was
not the case.
| minority Intended to Protect Itself
from the oppression OF the majority. II
there was any reason isr departure on
the part of the Republican side from
| the usagps OF this body those thirty
eight Senator's stood justified, but they
must give their reason and address
| themselves TO public opinion. 1t could
not be as a reward for political ser
vices that the, Extraordinary position and
| delay has been superlnduced. What
was the animating, overwhelming, dom.
inant reason OF the public pDhcy? IL
could not be from any great zeal
| OF LOYALTY TO the Union: lnas.
much as the Senator who had
| brought one Of the candidates had
avowel he had been
True to the Confederate Cause
and that he had no apology to offer ior
| it here or elsewhere. What vas the
reason he asked them? Tell 1t! lie
detied them to announce it, He tsunt-
ed them to an avowal OF 1t. :
| At this point Il message was received
| from the President, and Mr.. Lamar
Welded to the motion to go into execu-
| tive session, which motion was then re-
jected.
Mr.. Dawes hoped Mr.. Lamar would
now impress upon his side the import
ance OF considering the pending rcsolu.
ton.
Mr.. Lamar rejoined by inquiring
whetf c. the Senator from Massachusetts
| thought the removal OF the Senate OH
GERS WAS a. important "a filling the va
carcv IN the Supreme Court, when was
not noS in session by reason OF the va
cancy.
Kesuming the thread OF his speech he
described the divisions in the Demo
cratic party in Virginia. The Repubil-
can side OF the chamber had proclaim
ed its readiness to combine with what
the country calls
the Repudiating Wing
of the Democratic party in Virginia;
that it had proclaimed that when any
section OF the p,rty should bolt from
the Democratic party under the banner
OF Reputation, the Republican party, not
on account Of repudiation but for spite
was willing to- embrace that
repudiating section; that repudla'
ton was no hindrance in
the way Of the Republican Senators
stretching out their hands across the
bloody chasm to unrepentent rebels,
clothing them with honor and greeting
them with applause lie did not believe
the Northern people would stand this
thing. They would not tolerate this
alliance with the repudiating sentiment
of the Southern Stltes TT e sentiment CT
National pride or National honor, would
Dash It Into q Thousand Pieces,
even Il it has to rend the mighty struc-
ture of the Republican party. The
National honor could not take into It's
embrace the leprons body Of State
reoudiation without becoming infected
with its person, and this alliance would
not succeed in the South. The majority
of the Democratic party had spewed the
repudisting element cut OF us mouth,
and thu Republicans had rejected
| the cffsl, which the Republican SSna-
tors eagerly snatched AZ. This was the
only attempt to substitute in the South
for CARPET bagism, backed by the feGer
al force, the reputation element 10y
the federal patronage. The first bad
| failed and cast reproaah on the Rspub'
| Gcan parlv. The last would meet with
a similar fate.
The Senator from Pennsylvania Cam
eronl announced that this was al eii)rt
| 10 break up the Solid South. what
harm had the Solid South done TO the
prosperity and honor and glory OF this
this country? 1t was but short time
ago she had become solid, and il her
story were taken from that time, It
would be found that she had been
Keeping Step With Prosperity
in o,her sections. He would not claim
the prosperity OF the country was at
| tribnted TO the solid South, but he would
saw che had been no hindrance TO pro-
gress, and she did not justify the great
Republican party of the Senate IN step.
| ming down from its high pedestal OF Ma
| ,ional honor to take into its embrace
this cast OF the element OF Southern
| Democracy. He alluded TO the corrup'
ton which had disgraced the country
during the period of reconstruction, and
asserted that since the advent OF the
Solid South into its legislation no such
scandals had occurred. He had himself
| heard noted lobbyists say "since those
Internal Democrats from the South
have got here, the lobby business is
dried up" There was no Solid South
as factor in legislation, but there was
one point on which it was solid, ana
would remain so. II was solid for the
defense and protection OF its own CIVIL
ization, its own society, its own religion.
He would consent that any senator on
| the other side with two exceptions
which he would not nsme) should write
a history of the csrpet-bag government
in the South, the character OF its otil-
Gals and the operation Of its laws. He
would agree to submit that history TO
any audience in the world to determine
whether that section ought not to throw