The daily gazette., 1881-04-07
THE SITUATION IN THE SEN
ATE.

ATE.
While the Republican leaders at
Albany are endsavoring to commit
their party to The ''issue" Of filthy
streets in New York, the Republican
leaders at Washington have succeed
ed IN committing their party to the
issue Of repudiating the public debt of
| Virginia !
All the gabble of Hoar and Dawes
and Logan cannot hide from the coun.
try the fact that Malone, who has
bought with his vote the suies of Re-
publican Senators for Riddleberger,
differs from other Southern Democrats
in one thing only-that he is and that
they are not IN favor of repudiating
honest debts. That is the whole quss-
ton When sx-Secretary of the
Treasury Sherman says that he is
"glad TO cooperate" with Mahone, as
he said yesterday, and that Mahone's
voting with the Republicans in pursu-
ance OF u bargain was the "dawn of a
new day." he shames himself and
does his party great mischief. What
he says is, in effect, that rather than
not break up the solid South the Re-
publican party will hail AN ally whose
opposition to the solid South is simply
opposition to the Eighth Command
ment. Ii a Southern faction opposed
to the Seventh Commandment, or the
Sixth, should succeed in getting a rep
resentative in the Senate, and this rep
resentative happened to be the arbiter
of the Sena Q, as Malone happens to
be, and was willing to ''dicker" for
his vote, as Malone is willing. the
same twaddle which Hoar and Dawes
ard Logan and Sherman have used in
behalf of The Republican bargain with
Malone would be forthcoming in his
behalf. Could anything DO more
melancholy or more disgusting from
the representatives. Of party founded
on "great moral ideas"f
The bargain with Malone is as clear
as II II had been reduced to writing and
publ shed. Malone Is corrupt little
trading politician who desires to rise in
Virginia politics as the he'd OF the Re-
pudiation party Of his State. He agrees
TO vote with the Republican Sen ltors to
put the Senate under the control of the
Vice-Presldeni's casting vote, they
agreeing to vote with him to use part
of the patronage Of the Senate to pro-
mote the breaking of the Eighth Com
manIment in Virginia by the election
next aui umn OF Governor, Legislature,
judiciary and United States Senate op-
posed 10 the Eighth Commandment.
Malone has accordingly voted with the
Kepubicans-once; and the Republicans
have been trying ever since to give him
Rlddleberge- in order to induce him 10
vote with them again. The delivery of
RiddlebeTger proves TO be Impracticable
owing 10 the stiff and continued oppesi-
tioD of the Democrats. The Republica lis
would OF course be glad to abandon
their scandalous position and proceed to
executive session, but Malone will not
let them. For in executive session also
they will need Mahone's vote, aud they
will not get 1t until Malone has Riddle
berger to him in hand paid.
This Is The situation. A dirtier intrigue
more disgraceful to all parties concerned
In II was never seen in negro legisla-
tuie Of South Carolina during the peried
of reconstruction! Dawes and Hoar and
Logan and Sherman may try as long as
they like TO make something decent OF 1t,
but the ocean will not wash il clean. A
dirty bargain it is and will remain, and
1t is rather surprising as well as unplea-
SAINT that General Hawley should have
signal zed his entrance into the Senate,
as he did yesterday, by mixing himself
up in II and making believe TO believe
that there rs something higher and holier
about Reputation In Virginia than
about reputation In Minnesota.
Mean whiIe the course of the Dems-
Gratis under the leadership of Senators
like Mr.. Bayard aAd Mr.. Beck has been
simple and consistent. All the law, all
the justice aud all the respectability OF
the case are on their side. They insist
that the Senate has been called together
simply to act on the nominations of the
President and that they are perfectly
willing, as indeed they daily show TO act
upon that business for which the Senate
has been called together shall not be
postponed 10 the cause OF Reputation 10
Virginia OF course they are right.
There cannot be single Republican
possibly Logan-who
does not know that they are right. There
Is not, we are glad to believe, the least
chance that they will yield II the exeeu-
tive session should be prolonged until
the beginning of the legislative session.
IL is not their fault that in the interval
every Republican Senator will have an
opportunity publicly to tar himself with
th same stick wherewith Malone 10 tar.