Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-07
THE DEAD LOCK.
A Northern Democratic View OF
the Awful Situation
Special cor. Pittsburgh Post.l

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MALONE A BAD INVESTMENT.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Mid
get" Malone is turning out a bad in
vestment for the radical party. The
senate has now been in session a month,
during which time two or three hun.
dred important nominations have been
submitted by the president, and yet
nothing has been done. So far as the
business for which the senate W rs con-
goked is concerned, that usually sol
umn, but now thoroughly excited body
might as well have been in Egypt.
The whole time has been devoted to
the vain effort to put Riddleberger in
a fat place. Riddleberger and Ma
hone have been the senate, aud their
interests have been held paramount to
the consideration of treaties, or the
confirmation efjudges, SO hal wheels
o. ustice might not be totally blocked
Ii is a sorry exhibition to see the party
o f"moral ideas" the "loil" party, the
party that has assumed to be the spe.
cial custodian of the public faith and
credit, devOting his whole time and
its best energies to the cause of Rid
dleberger, the rebel, the repudiator
and renegade democrat But Malone
must be paid. Edmunds and Conk-
ling and Logan and Cameron have
parceled out the important commit
tees of the senate among themselves,
and had the distribution sanctioned by
the senate through Mahone's rake, and
now the little "readjuster" claims his
pound OF flesh In the shape OF Riddle
berger, and the whole machinery of.
the government must be brought to a
standstill, ii necessary, until the bar
gain is consummated. If
GARFIELD HAD A GRAIN OF SAND
in his cra@ he will stop this nonsense
forthwith. He knows, for it is patent
to everybody, that Conkling is doing
everything in his power to protract
the struggle and c%ontinae the dead
lock, not only to delay the confrma-
ton Of Robertson but to gain time in
which to accomplish his defeat.
Roscoe is the most industrious man in
the senate, and is constantly pouring
his grievances into the ear of some
fellow senator and trying to induce
him to espouse his cause. This Rid
~dleberger business is exactly to his
hand, and he is using it as a club to
beat out the brains OF the ~administra-
ton, while poor Garfield stands of
and says never a word, either because
he is a party to the dicker or because
he lacks sufficient nerve to take the
bull by the horns. Besides the delay
Of the public business and the oppor-
tunity it gives Conkling to prepare for
a successful campaign against the ad
ministration, the radical party is suf-
in another way from Malone.
From time immemorial it has been
THE HABIT OF PHARIsAIcAL RAD
ICAIs
like HOar. of Massachusetts,, to lift up
their hands in holy horror at the con-
temptation OF what they style ''plan-
tation manners" on the floor of con
gress. In this line the exhibition of
Malone in the senate yesterday was
about as indecent as anything that
ever occurred in that chamber, and
his reference to the code in his re
marks to Voorhees, was manifest. Such
radical saints as Hoar and Dawes are
making rapid progress, when they not
only clasp to their bosoms in friendly
embrace an u%nrepentant rebel and a
repudiator Of just debts, but a man
WHO on the floor Of the senate vir.
tually invites a fellow senator to meet
him with
pISTOLR AMI r0EEEE