The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-02
Basier and Logan Engage In a Dis
eussfon.
Voorhees, and Malone Have n Lively
Personal Tilt.

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Washington, April IA resolution
for the election of senate officers was
laid before the senate as unfinished
business, and motion to go into ex-
ecutiye session was made by Pendleton,
which was rejected.
Lamar said the present condition of
the senate and republican demands,
was unprecedented. He said il Hoar's
charge that the democratic side was
reasonable was true, it was terrible
responsibility on the democrats; but he
denied that there was any factious op-
position. The minority were protect
ing themselves from oppression and
from the disregard Of precedent. He
wondered what the great object of the
republicans could be. He defled them
to announce it.
Dawes hoped that Lamar would i'm
press on his side the necessity of con-
sidering the present resolution.
Lamar asked IL the removal of the
senate officers was as important as
dlling the vacancy on the supreme
bench, which was not sitting on account
of that vacancy.
Lamar ridicuied the republicans for
combining with the repudiators in Or
der, as Cameron said, to disrupt the
democratic party. He predicted the
worst kind Of failure in the attempt.
They were taking up the offal which the
democrats spurned. He drew pleas
ing picture of the solid south. 1t was
solid for prosperity; it had hindered no
ones progress; had avoided scandals of
legislation; prevented lobbying; was
solid for the defense and protection of
its own civilization, society and reli-
gion. He was willing that any repub-
lican senator, save two, should write
history Of the carpet bag government,
and would agree to submit thot history
to any audience in the world to deter
mine whether the south ought not to
throw Off that government and keep
united and solid. The colored people
Of the south were contented, prosperous
and happy. He concluded by saying
+. that 1t had once been his conception
to have two grand republics on this
continent, but that was gone. 1t had
passed forever out of sight. Another
one had come into its place; it stood
before him. How simply in majesty.
1t was that Of grand, mighty, indivis-
ible, one republic on this continent; too
mighty to be unjust; too good to be OPP
pressive; throwing its loving arms
around all sections, omnipotent for
protection. fearless for oppression,
cursing none, blessing all.
Hoar ridiculed the idea Of Lamar
criticising the republican party for al
lying itself with the reputation ele-
ment Of the south, asserting that the
term ''repudiation" originated in Mis-
sissippl. With whom was the repub-
lican party to ally itselfp 1t could not
have the north, that would be unpa-
triotic in the eyes of the senator. 1t
could not ally itself with the negroes Of
the south, or with the carpet baggers;
and 1t could not ally itself with anybody
who was willing to pay any part Of the
southern debt, if he did not pay the
whole, but must turn to that honest
and consistent portion of the southern
democracy which, in Virginia, proposed
to pay the debt and refused to raise a
tax for its payment, and which, in Mis-.
sissippi, owed debt of S23, ,O0O, 900.
and declared but S329, 900 was to be
paid. He denied that he had any Bit
terness against the south. 1t was the
hearty wish of the people of Massa-
chusetts to have a rich, prosperous and
contented south. He denied that the
republicans of the north would oppose
any scheme Of taxation for the practical
benefit of the south. The people of the
north hated not the south, but its tyr
! amy, assassination, fraud, hate and
cheating. 1t would wage eternal war
rare against those. When Lamar could
speak OF the whole country as my peo-
pie, instead Of speaking so of his own
state; when he could say like Ma hone.
that he lived in nation and no longer
in an aggregation Of petty provinces.
when he could speak Of America az his
country, with regard to section and oc-
cupation, then new era would have
come, but until then the old warfare
would 60 on.
Lamar said from sheer exhaustion he
was unable to reply to these singular
remarks; he said he would reply in the
future IL necessary.
Dawes said that people from the
north had located in Mississippi and
sought to know the southern people,
but they found no repentance. He
said that a few days ago there had
passed through the city, on the way
north, where he could enjoy his own
convictions, venerable, gray haired