Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-08
xIvII C0NeREss EXTRA SESSION.


SENATE.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
a message from the President, transmitting,
in response to the resolution of the Senate
of the 18th inst, report of the Secretary OF
State with accompanying papers in relation
TO the capitulation of the Ottoman EMPIRE
which was ordered printed.
The resolution for election of Senate ON
GERS was taken up. and a motion TO go INTO
executive session made by Mr.. Pendleton
was voted down; yeas %, nays So
Mr.. Vance discussed the subject OF the
State debt of North Carolina, denying that
the debt had ever been repudiated-
Mr.. Vance denounced Riddleberger as an
unrepentant rebel. an unrepentant democrat
and an unrepentant readJusier. and SAID thai
Riddleberger had been taken up IN his SINS
unrepentant and unforgiven, and had been
transmitted into the heaven of repablicanisn
without having tasted of death. (Laughter).
A discussion arose between the North Car
DINA senators and Kellogg, in reference to
the North Carolina debt. Senator Ransom
denied that that State had repudiaied any
part of its first debts, and insisted that the
fact that per cent. bonds of the State were
now selling at So proved that her credit was
untouched by these ISLANDERS.
Mr. Rollins said The gentlemen on the
other side were shocked at the idea that the
republicans should dare give vote for re
adjuster in Virginia, who was with them or
questions of free votes and an honest count
Mr. Vance-What difference is there be-
tween counting men out of their votes and
out of their money.
Mr. Rollins-You have tried both and
ought to be able TO answer that question
Yourself (Laughter).
Mr.. Vance, have not tried both. have
not tried either. My State has not triet
either. The assertion was witty but it lacked
truth.
Mr. Dawes inquired if the fact that the
government deprived the senator and his co
adjutors of the power of making slaves work
for nothing was any reason why North Caro-
lima should pay only 80 cents on dollar on
her Indebtedness.
Mr.. Vance replied by inquiring if the an
cestors of the senator from Massachusett.
Dawes, had not brought slaves into thi.
country in ships paid for by the people o
that State.
Mr. Dawes-Is that any reason why yor
should cheat your honest creditors.
Mr.. Rollins, resuming the floor, said: The
Senators on the other side would have been
very willing to receive Mahones vote.
Mr.. Hill of Ga.-But we would not have
bought it.
Mr.. Rollins-You waited Oh him and triet
to make treaty but could not do it.
Mr.. salisbury said lie had no doubt tina
there were good people in New England, bu
when Senators from that section assumed
the prerOgative of lecturing other people il
regard to morality and political sins the,
ought to look at their own record.
He had this morning picked up littl,
volume Of poems by Whittier which relate,
early traditions of the people of Massachu
sets, and detailed how they prosecuted pool
Quakers from that day to the present Their,
had been prosecuting spirit made by New
Englanders to their brethren in other parts o
the country. He presumed that the New
England senators. if disposed to look arount
their own dOOrsills, could find objects ta
demanded their attention. But their charity
WIS of that broad kind that looked away from
home to see what it could do for people of othel
sections. In the past year there had beer
six hundred divorces granted in New England
two hundred being in Massachusetts. Be
fore the senators from Massachusetts, tool
hold Of the readjustment of State debts the,
had better readiust their marriage relation ir
their own State. If he lived in New England
he should be afraid to enter into that relation
The senator from Massachusetts (Hoar) hat
several times quoted, beware of the leaver
of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy" II,
Salisbury would like to inquire whether
the Pharisee was not that man who preferred
fidelity to the public trust and was seeking
an alliance to encourage reputation in tn,
Southern States. When he heard man cry
ing out for free vote and fair count, wht
had sat upon the electoral commission ant
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be apt to quote the passage of scripture, '.Be
ware of the Pharise, which is hypocrisy -
(lauyhter).
MIR. Call challenged any republican senator
to produce any evidence to prove that ther,
had been either intolerance, ostracism o.
violence of any kind on account of politica
opinions in a Southern State. Mr.. Call wen
into an exhaustive history of the carpet bag
governments. He was frequently interrupte,
by MIR. Blair, who assisted that carpet bae
government had assisted materially tn,
prosperity of the South.
Mr.. Call denied that the right of suffrag,
was restricted in the South, and criticised
the laws which in Massachusetts did restric
that right. He also charged that many vot
ers in that State had been deprived of fire.,
ballot by influence of money, and by infu
ence of corporations.
This brought Messrs. Dawes and Hoar tc
their feet in an emphatic denial of the exist
ence of any such states of facts. and Ions
discussion ensued, the Massachusetts, sena
ators holding that no man in the State wa
deprived of his right of suffrage but by hi
own choice, and Mr.. Call contending tina
elections in the Southern States were faireI
and freer than those in Massachusetts,.
At the end of this discussion, the Senate
at 3.35 adjourned until Monday; yeas %
nays l6, the negative vote being cast By
the democrats