Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-01
The Senate.

WAsHISeTON, Marcn 6l.-Senator UaWeS
called up the pending businsss-the resolution
for the election of officers Of the Senate.
Senator Cameron, of Pa, said the present
issue was too plain to be misunderstood. The
Republicans said the majority had right to
decide who should be the officers of the Senate.
Its opponents said the minority had thatright;
he had said few days ago that 1t seemed to be a
question Of endurance. The general doctrine
that the majority was entitled
to rule was not called In question.
The minority simply said 1t would elect
officers by dlatory means, and prolonged
speeches. His answer was that the Republi-
cans could not abandon the right of the ma
jority to rule, because the minority made 1t a
matter Of endurance; the majority could en-
dure as long as the minority. The contest
was not merely to secure officers; there was
above sthat something of importance which
received attention. 1t was the coming politi.
cal contest in Virgin la. The Senator from
Virginia Johnston) had terrified the old
Democrats of the Sou tn, he had appealed to
Southern Democrats to cover the Virginia
his follower at home would not dare sup.
port him. He lMahone( had made
political slavery impossible in vir-
ginia. He had championsd the cause of
free elections and he has sympathy with the
Republican party in that good work. All
Virginia would see that the North fraterniEed
with all ex-confsderates who were known by
their acts as well as their words to be in favor
OF m honest ballot and fair count. The Re.
publican party gave its vote for Riddlebargsr
as an earnest that it was not sectional,
whoever was right was its friend; this and this
only was the bargain 1t had to Offer the South.
ern friends who would come out and grow
with the national growth. II Virginia took
her stand on the platform Of an honest ballot
the solid South was thing Of the past.
Senator MaSey said the Senator from Massa-
chusetts Dawes had expressed his submission
to the will of TIE majority, and yet he had
taken part In setting aside the 5000 majority
in Louisiana in 1876. BE might answer that
the majority had been procured by frauds, but
he (Maxey) believed the people thought the
majority in the Senate to-day had been procured
had been procured fairly or unfairly he knew
not, but the American people did bslieye 1t had
been by methods strange and unusual, and
demanded that they be Investigated.
The Democratic party stood here for the
purpose of securing 10 the American people
the boon of a free ballot, priceless ballot and
honest count, and to demand if there was
suspicion it should be removed.
Senator Dawes replied in reference to the
claim by Senator MaxeY that the Democrats
had carried Louisiana IN 1875 by 5000 major.
ity. BE said there was a difference between
what he called a vote and what the gentleman
called a vote. The gentleman called a piece of
paper vote. He Dawes called
n0fn fr.. ballot behind It. h thousand niq bads n0'
such as he held in his hand, about four inches
square, had been found in the ballot boxes,
with nothing behind them but the villainous
hands that put them in. It was because there
had been attempts to substitute pieces OF paper
for freemen's votes in ballot boxes in some
States, and to put blunderbusses in the place
OF the frssmen's flags In other States, that he
had done what he coald to stand by what he
supposed every freeman in the land understood
to be the meaning of ballot.
Senator Maxey inquired how it was that
those ballots which executed the will of God
had been sufficient to elect Hayes and not
sufficient to elect Packard though Packard
had recorded more of them. 1t was difficult
for anyone, when he attempted to uphold such
a high crime as the disfranchisement of two
States, to be consistent.
Senator Dawes agreed with MaXey that
Packard had been elected, but asserted that
the Louisiana Lottery company had succeeded
in establishing the Nichols government.
Senator Jones, Florida, denied in a short
speech the statement made by Malone that
Florida had repudiated an honest debt, after
Jones regarding the debt of Louisiana.
Branching off to discussion of the election
of 1878 Kellogg declared the rights of 1000
people had been trampled under foot in the
parish of Caddo alone. Men had been whipped
and driven into the swamp, and result had
been reached that was an outrage on all fair
ness and in disregard of all law. He had been
credibly informed the ways and methods Of the
Democratic party in Caddo parish had wiped
out In the last eighteen months every vsstage
of school in that parish. When the Packard
government had been overthrown it left S10,-
900 to the credit Of the school fund,
and every dollar had been frittered
away. It had left over twenty schools there.
They were gone.
The Louisiana Lottery company, Kellogg
asserted, was the creation of the Democratic
party, and but for the money furnished by
that company the Packard government would
be standing to-day. That company had IF.
teen years to run. For the fifteen years earn
ings the savings Of men and women would be
invested in those little bits of paper said to
contain prizes which were to be run through
machine, the crank of which was turned by
Beauregard, and the prizes of which were dis
tributed by Justice Early. That company,
together with the repudiatlon of the Gtate
debt, was a standing monument of infamy and
sublime embodiment Of moral ideas, enlight-
ment and civilization Of the Democratic party.
Re1erflng TO the remark OF Jonas llat y.
Madison Wells had ap, raised the vagrant acts,
he, Kellogg, asserted Wells had been com
PEELED to give hi- approval! under threats of
suspension. He quoted what he termed the
hideous provisions OF those acts to show the
hard condition imposed on biackmen. He de-
clare1 that in many parishes of Louisiana
there were hundreds of colored men, who
didn't know under the terms of the proclama-
ton of emancipation, they we're no longer slaves,
but who believed they were owned by their
masters.
Senator Jonas contradicted me on two mis-
takes which he said his colleague had fallen
into. He declined to answer his TRADE and
asserted the school system in the parish of
Caddo was farce.
Senator Brown, stating the Importance of
confirming, or at least acting on the Presi-
Dental nominations, moved for an executive
session. Rejected yeas %; nays 25.
Senator Beck said he thoughtit was Benton
said, the first figure of speech in the English
language was ''ding dong" Heagreed with
him and again desired to tell the Senate the
President had called it together to transact
executive business, whereas the Re-
publicans-he would not say majority
for it had no majority-had determined to
pay no sort of attention to the communica.
tions which the President had sent in. He
proposed to move for the appointment of a
committee to wait on the President and advise
him that his nominations did not commend