The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-28
The Senatorial Deadlock,

tinued during the past week. AS the
daily incidents arc the same, with
slight variation, short resume touch
jng upon few salient points, will be
sufficient. Among the notable cyents
was the reading Of series Of dis
patches from Louisiana by Senator
Jonas, exposing the falsity Of Senator
Dawes charges of outrages in q ccr-
tain parish Of the State. 1t will be
remembered that some weeks ago
Dawes gave hcartrcnding account of
how gray-haired old Massachusetts
gentleman, who had stakcd his all in
Mississippi, had been ruined, his fac
tories destroyed, himself compelled to
have iron shutters upon the windows
to prevent assassination, and hundreds
Of his poor operatives made homeless.
Senator George pronounced the charge
false and slandcrous, and in vain ell
deavored to get the name of the mar
tyr. Several days ago the Boston
4Tdreller published statement that
the alleged victim was Charles Heath,
OF Louisiana, not Of Mississippi, that
1T was q ginhouse instead Of n factory
that had been burned, and that one
colored man had been shot in the arm
all this being year or so ago. The
dispatches from Louisiana show that
Heath never owned q place. His
brother had farm, assessed ut four
thousand dollars and mortgaged, in
all, for about twelve thousand. That
III 1869 there had been some disturb
ances in that parish, but not since
then, that Heath's township cast a
heavy Republican majority at tho last
election, that his gin was burned
down in December, but that it was
insured for four thousand dollars and
appraised at nineteen hundred, and
lastly, that at the instieation Of the
insurance companies the grand jury of
the parish is taking testimony to bring
criminal action against Heath for
burning his own property. This
ehectually explodes Hoath's. story.
In the. next place, when Senator
Butler was speaking a. few days ago,
Senator Burnside, Of Rhode Island,
''nat1f any man charged the Repubi-
cans with bargain, he said what was
false. Senator Butler coolly replied,
"the Senator is my friend and is ex-
cited" ''Im not excited" calculated
Burnside, furiously, pounding and
humping his desk 80 vigorousl, as to
set the chamber in roar. Butler
continued his speech. The next day
Burnside stated that he had intended
to make no reflection on Senator But
Ter or any other Senator, but that he
was tired of hearing the charges.
Senator Butler accepted the omcnde
very graciously. Old Burnside is a
blutf, honest, clever old gentleman,
with an immcnse beard and not much
brains, and is quite popular with the
Southern men. 1t is reported that
after the close Of the session Senator
Butler asked an explanation Of Burn
side, with the result above stated.
Senator Joe Brown, who IS accrod-
tied by Republicans with being the
Democratic leader in the Senate, caus-
cd the clerk to read number of cx-
tracts from Republican papers, de-
bouncing the trade made with Ma
hone, and Burnside rctortcd with an
extract from the Couyiey-,J0,s,Vol
charging the Democrats with stupidi-
ty in maintaining the deadlock.
Some Republican Senator read an
extract from the NcWs oNd Cou,5cr,
published shortly after the election, in
which, according to the Senator, fraud
was confessed. Senator Ham ,ton nd
mitted that there had been some IT,
rcguIaritics, but claimed that they
were due to Radical misrule, and that
they will cease.
fryc, OF Maine, waved tho bloody
shirt frantically, and charged whole
sale deViilry upon the South, assert
ing recklessly that fraud and violence
and ignorance are rampant. Coke, of
TeXas, among others, made q capital
speech in reply, showing the falsitv of
these assertions, and summed up by
saying that the census reports from
the South stamp tho lie upon every
assertion made by the Senator from
Maine, who has been previously mislcd
by his intormants.
A leading Democrat has stated the
Democratic position in thirteen heads,
which are thus epitomized. No party
has majority when it needs the vote
OF some one Of the opposition to make
hquornm. Counting Malone, tho Re-
puolicans have only one.half tho Sem
Mc, and they are enragcd that the
Democrats will not complacently vote
upon their resolution and 80 give the
Vice-President chance to turn ont
capable Democratic otlicers. The
Vice-Prcsident has never voted on the
election Of Senate officers but once and
that was to fill vacancy. In all the
preceding extra sessions, he has ncvc,
assumed TO cast q vote rroot;,o q ,.o