National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-15

| Owing to the fact that there was eVldehAS ho
quorum present. Mr.. Pendleton refralned from
making his usual motion to go into executive seS-
| sion.
After few moments however, Mr.. Davis, OF
West Virginia. said that with the consent of the
Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr. Dawes he would
submit that motion.
Mr.. Dawes replied that he would prefer to take
| a vote on the resolution: TO which Mr.. Davis re-
joined by stating that if he waited for that he
| would wait until his hair grayer than It was
| now.
Mr.. Dawes expressed his regret at hearing such
an unpatriotic remark.
The motion to go into executive session was
lost-yeas, %; nays, u.
| aoRGAN-s WEAK SPEECH.
| Mr. Morgan then took the floor and delivered an
exceedingly weak speech for three hours. de re-
ferred in closing, to the Senate sitting here ike
a great debating committee, while the states were
| acting entirely in harmony with each other. he
did not know State which had any quarrel with
another. These facts were reproach to the United
States Senate to-day, and deadly reproach to
those men who made it their business TO get up
! and undertake to create excitement against COM
munities in the South which were labOring TO do
! their duty. Thank God that the influence OF the
Senate was not yet powerful enough TO disturb the
harmony of the people of the country
Mr. BROWN EXPLAINS.
Mr. Brown took the floor. At the close of the
war he had he said, taken position for the abso-
lutte acquiescence in the reconstruction measures,
and after the adoption of the fifteenth Amend
ment he had stood in favor of free ballot and
fair count. To-day the Democrats of Georgia
stood fairly and squarely on that doctrine and
practiced it. The Fifteenth Amendment was ac
knowledged TO be binding, and it was being faith
fully carried out. There had, at the close OF the
war, been outrages. He admitted II. Now there
was as free and fair ballot in Georgia as in any
State in the Union. The laws were executed and the
Ku- Klux had been disposed Of He proceeded 70
criticize the Republican party for its injustice to-
ward the colored race. II su the negroes
were. as they claimed. Republicans, they consti-
tuted one fourth Of the Republican party. What
/ had that party done for them? The last admin!s
tratioD had given Frederick Douglass the position
of marshal Of the District Of Columbia; but he had
not been invited 10 do Sl the hOnors a. the White
House which had usually been performed by the
marshal. There were seven Cabinet Ministers,
and yet not one Of them represented the nce
which composed one-fourth Of the Republican
party. Republicans need not be astonished If
when the Democrats met in grand council
/ again they should do right TO the negro
as the Republicans had failed 70 do 50.
DEMOCRATIC oPISIOS.
That was his opinion; that was his advance
| line, and be was a Democrat right on that line.
He would not do It for party purpose; he would
advocate il because It was right Referring TO the
| remarks made by several Republican Senators that
| they desired to break up the Solid South, he as
serted that it could never be broken by any at
tempt to Republicanize it. When the North was
| no longer solid, when no more was heard about
RepL Lblicanizing the Southern States, the South
would cease TO be solid. Let issue be presented
such as the tariff or the currency and the South
would decide soon as the North would,
and without regard to color lines A word in re-
| gard to the strange state of things in Virginia.
The Republican party sought to take advantage of
the division on the debt question and carry por
tan of the Democracy of that State into the Repub
| lican camp. The Democrats proper-the intelli-
gent class of the people of that State-nad stood
| manftllly up there for maintaining the credit of
| the old State; but they would understand the Re-
publican party rendering this issue to them, that
| it was intended to take hold of the Readjuster
| element and put the negroes and Readiusters in
power They mfght find it necessary then TO
| drop their internal strife and tumble over
So 100000 of the State debt and if necessary to
the reunion of society, they might tumble over
600 more of it, or to let the whole of it go,
| rather than have ruin brought upon the State by
| putting it under the control of people the ma
| jority of whom would not be allowed to vote in
| Massachusetts,. The war had ceased. The bloody
| shirt had been buried by the Republican party
| when that party had taken the Senator from Vir
ginia confederate brigader for its leader; and
| with that act before the people they would not
enter into another crusade to establish Republican
| power in the South. The South intended to be-
come the equal of the North in wealth and intelli
gence. Then it would be respected.
Mr.. HoAR's REPLY.
| Mr. Hoar replied to Mr. Brown'sspeeeh. That gen.
tleman had said that he, upon his election to the
Senate had taken an advanced position. An ad-
vanced position on what? On the subject of obey
ing the Constitution, which every public officer in
the Southern States had taken his oath to support
| That was a commentary on the statement that
there was free vote in the South. The gentleman
| had threatened that if the Republican party per-
sisted by sympathy and encouragement, in aiding
the assertion of the right of the majority to rule in
Virginia the Democrats would be driven to ally
themselves with those persons who desired to re-
pudiate the whole of the debt of that State. He
! [Mr. Hoarl desired that the people should take
| note of that statement. Thus Democratic virtue
proposed to take this eprosy TO its embrace if the
Republican party did not cease sympathizing with
q free ballot and fair count.
| BROWN on SCRIPTURE.
/ Mr. Brown suggested that in Massachusetts the
class of people in whose control it proposed
place Virginia would notbe allowed to vote While
| the Senators from Massachusetts leetured every
body else on the subject of suffrage and the right
to vote they do not practice it in their State
The Senator from Massachusetts, Mr.. Hoarl had
been fond of quoting Beware of the leaven of the
Pharisee which is hypocrisy" Pharisee, he
| believed, was a man who preached one thing and
practiced another, and thanked God that he was
not as other men, believing he was better than
other men. He would not apply the quotation to
the Senator, but he would the quotation, "Woe
unto your Pharisees hypocrisy"
| A running and good -humored discussion en-
| sued between Messrs. Hoar and Brown, which was
kept up until Mr. Brown, misunderstanding state
ment made by Mr.. Hoar, and. misquoting it, was
excitedly interrOgated by Mr.. Hoar to whether
he implied that he (Nr. Hoar) had said what was
not true. Mr.. Brown denied any intention of mis-
stating the Senator's remark, and good humor was
restored by Mr. Becks simulated fear that the Sem
ate would lose both the Senators from Georgia.
| Mr. Hawiey replied to some remarks in Mr.
Browns speech relative to Connecticut, defending
the suffrage laws of that State and asserting that
no man there was compelled to vote except as his
conscience dictated.
The Senate then (at quarterpast sixl, after some
| opposition from the Democratic side, adjourned
until Monday.
| What Dana Thinks of Us.
| The Senate offices are but the very least
part of the stake. They are the pretext the rally
| ing point; the small change, no doubt useful in