Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-31
SHIRTS.
THAT DllAPlDATEO OLD RAG, THE
Bl000Y SHIRT,
Is Again Unearthed, Unfurled and Wildly
Waved in the Senate-Ben Hill Sits
Down on the Republicans in
Very Decided Manner
Speech 0ay in the Senate.
REPUBLICAN FOLLY CAUSES ANOIH-
ER DAY TO Be LOST.
SEN ATE.

The Deadi ok Stin Unbroken and Much
Wind is Let Loose
WASHINGTON, March %. In the Sen
ate on motion OF Mr.. Cameron, OF Wis
consin, q resolution was adopted author
ing the Secretary OF the Senate to pay
the necessary funeral expenses OF the
late Senator Carpenter
The pending business being the resoiu-
ton for the election of officers OF the
Senate was then taken up, a motion to
20 into executive session, was rejected
yeas. 25; NAYS. 25.
Mr.. Harris stating it was evident that
the Republicans did not intend to trans.
act business. which the Senate had been
called here TO transact, moved that when
the Senate adjourn to-day it be to meet
the first Monday in December. Ii was
lo3t-yeas, %; nays, 2S.
Various other motions were made and
voted down, when Mr.. Pendleton called
attention to the inaugural address OF
the President, in which he said he
would ask Congress in due time to fix
the tenure OF minor officers of the Gov
ernment, in order that the Senate might
no longer present q spectacle OF wrang-
ling over petty Offices. He would move
to 90 into executive session.
Mr.. Dawes agreed that the tenure OF
office should be fixed by law, but he
did not see how an act could be passed
this special session.
Mr.. Hill read letter issued from the
Readjuster headquarters in October,
1850, by William Malone, in which he
alluded to the Republican party as the
'Gripsack Party" Did the Senator
know what was meant by gripsack par
ties.
Mr.. Dswes-Is it any objection to Rid
dleberger in the mind OF the Senator
that he voted for Hancock?
Mr.. Hill-None in the world.
Mr.. Dawes-Why is the Senator
troubled?
Mr.. Hill am not troubled. i only
ask, what is grip sack party?
Mr.. Dawes-l don't know. They have
down South all sorts of parties. | don't
know what they represent. The Senator
from Georgia ought to know; be ought
to know every phase Of every party that
has ever come up, for certainly if any,
body has tried them all it must be the
Senator from Georgia. Laughter l
don't know any party that the Senator
hasn't given his adhesion TO. L
remember letter written by him
after Garfield's election advising
everybody TO join Garfield's party, and
invoking the public TO come up and
Join the party which had succeeded.
Laughter. That seems to be the first
notion in the mind OF the Senator in all
his political sailing about the country
in his ship OF State. Laughter. To
find out what party has succeeded and
then to announce his desire TO go with
that party. | think he said nobody
could tell how much he loved Garfield,
passing the love Of woman. Laughter
Mr.. Hill explained the meaning OF his
letter to Representative Chittenden OF
New York shortly after the election He
advocated the opinions there advanced
and declared TO the people OF the South
in favor OF the tree vote and honest
count. and called upon Clay and Web
s,er to look down upon the contemplate
coalition between the Republican and
Readjuster parties to get an office oil the
Senate.
Mr.. Hill continued every movement
which came from the South in favor OF
burying the issues of the war, in favor OF
for getting the p ssions OF the war, in
favor of hiding from view the wrongs
OF the war, VI met by the Republ can
party with a slap in tie face.
Mr.. Hawley-Does the gentleman
really believe that?
Mr.. Hill-Certainly. l have no doubt
Of it.
Mr.. Hawley-That is astounding.
Mr.. Hill don't believe the peo
pie of the North believe it, but 1 say
every movement that comes from the
South in favor of burying the issues of
the war, is met by a demand from the
Republican party that the people OF the
south must evidence their faith by
joining the Republican party, and you
allow no man to be patriotic at the
South unless he accompanies
his professions of patriotic senti.
ments with his hegira over to the
Republican party. He warned the Re
publican party Of this coalition, over
which il was now rejoicing, and said IT
was going 10 do more TO pet the back OF
the real liberal movement than anything
else could do. A party could not be or
ganized to control the South which in
sisted in misrepreseuting everything IN
the South. While the South had aband'
oned Bourbonism Gf by Bourbonism
was meant the right OF secession and be-
lief in slavery. she would not embrace
political blacklegism. She was not to
be fought by coalition, she could not be
purchased by patronage, she would not
be won by SANDERS, and she could not
be won by calunnies. He continued at
some length, asserting that the South
had st heart honest count and fair
vote as much as the North, that is
the people had acquiesced in and ac-
cepted the constitutional amendments,
and that the evils which had visited
that section during the period following
the war were attributable to carpet-bag
rule and the Republican party.
Mr.. Hosr then took the floor in reply
to Mr.. Hill. He denied the statements
made by that gentleman that the negro
in the South was allowed free ballot
and an honest count. The testimony of
the books aud documents in the posses
sion OF the Senate could not be pushed
away by the mere assertion OF the Sena-
tor, however confidently. Had there
ever oeen a massacre at Caddo? Had
the streets OF New Orleans ever run with
the blood OF Republican legislators?
Had there ever been a massacre at Con-
shatta? Had a man ever been MUIR
dered at Coliax? Were Twitchelrs
arms on his body now? Were the CHS.
holm murderers convicted? The Sena-
tor from Georgia rose to answer the
charges made on the Republican side OF
the chamber that there was no free bal
let in the South. Let him give his
opinion in regard to the evidence re-
ported to the Senate and TO the House
OF Representatives. The speech OF the
gentleman was. in substance, a most EN-.
phaticfonfession OF the wisdom OF the
Republican party during the last fifteen
years. Every one OF the great measures
which had separated the two parties
during that period bad been alluded to
by the gentleman, and only to confess