Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-03-18

There was an extraordinary scene in the
Senate. Monday, the occasion being an effort
of Senator Hill of Georgia to smoke out
Senator Malone. One correspondent says it
was the most remarkable scene witnessed
in the Senate Chamber since the Winter Of
1s60-61 Scenes of deeper feeling have oc-
Cured but none which possessed more dra-
matte intensity and individuality" The cor
respondent adds that Senator Hill succeeded
most effcctually in unwilling the mysterious
stranger, but it was hardly to IT, questioned
when the operation was finished that the
Georgia Senator found the contract had been
a decidedly unpleasant ore 10 himself.
The speechmaking was begun by Senators
| Bayard and Pendleton, who indicated the
Democratic course in attempting TO appoint
the committees necessary to the proper car
| rying on of the work of the extra session.
Senator Conkling in thirty minute speech
insisted that the Republicans coald organize
the Senate. Senator Hill of Georgia follow
ed with fiery speech, in which, plainly re-
fering to Mr. Malone, he scathingly dcnouuc-
ed any Democrat who would prove false to
his constituents by voting with the Rcpubll-
| cans. insisting that Mr.. Conkling was mis-
taken in saying there was such an unworthy
person in that Chamber. Senator Malone
then took the floor. When he Begin ne
addressed the Senate, but afterwards turned
i Ht
him as 'the Senator from Georgia, bnt
generally facing him and pointing at him
with blunt you He said;
The gentleman from Georgia has not
only constituted himself the custodian of the
Democratic party of the Nation, but of the
position have the privilege of occupying
here. That privilege i owe not to him or
his. / am here as Nirginian, representing
nv people, not the Democracy the gentleman
| from Georgia represents. ! am here 10 help
bring peace out of dissension, and not as a
partisan, or to do the bidding of The Demo
cratic party that worked harm 10 ne and
mine intend TO be the custodian of my
own Democracy and not TO be run by your
caucus. | am in every sense a free man.
and will exercise the right as such. Let the
gentleman from Georgia understand that
once for ALL am plain dealer ! prefer
to be listener and learner. but | cannot
keep still when expressions are
made implying so much against me.
Does the gentleman say he had no intination
of nv position He forgets refused to at
tend his little love feasts time and again.
take no part in his political machinery.
was sent here without being asked whether
| was Republican or Democrat. Perhaps
the gentleman from Georgia could not have
come here at all unless he had pledged him
self TO he Democrat. Moreover | was moi
elected alone by the Legislature, but by the
people There was an issue in ,Ee canvass
and my followers came pledged 10 vote for
ME. Does the Senator from Georgia wonder
| now who il is that darcs vote as he thinks I:
who darcs be man and exercise his right /:
Let him know henceforth and forever that !
am the man."
The entire Senate, floor and galleries were
uproarious with applause and laughter. The
Vice President, with difficulty, restored or
der.
Mr.. Hill said he would not reply TO the IT
markablc exhibition Just witnessed. Nothing
but a guilty conscience had discovered the
man. The Republicans counted one. lie
called him not by name, and knew not who
was TO be false 10 his election.
Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts was the last
speaker. He expressed his emphatic indig-
nation at the degrading exhibition which the
Senator from Georgia had made. 1t was the
first time in tie politics of the country when
Senator had undertaken 10 deliver Ice
ture to his peer and 10 inform him that, if he
did certain thing, il would he degrading
and treacherous. Il was none of the bust
ness of the Senator from Georgia
how any other Senator should cast his
vote. No slave master or plantation orersccr
should crack his whip over American ScAa-
tors. The utterances of the Senator from
Georgia were an insult 10 the representatives,
Of the American people, That gentleman
had been chosen as Union man to a State
convention, and had cast Il vote which had
carried Georgia into rebellion; and from tia;
day to this be had learned nothing either Of
consistency or Constitutional duty, or of pro
prietv of personal behaviour Senator lIuar
concluded as follows
There are Democrats in the South HhH
mean TO vote down the men with whom ia, =
differ, but who do not mean TO assaSsinatt
them. There are Democrats in the Senate
who mean to live in Nation, and not in ai
aggregation OF petty provinces any longer.
There are Democrats in the South who d.
not mean TO live any longer in the graveyard,
and among the tombs, whose face IS tawuid
the morning and on whose brow llit
rising sunlight Of the future gcncrali"n,
of this country IS already beginnn. Il
be visible. OF such Democrats, the avail
courier Of this column has already reached
the Senate chamber, after long waiting and
yearnlng The Republicans of the Mont!
desire to stretch forth II friendly hand Th,.i
desire is inspired by no miserable ambition
for Office or for political victory, but hy q
spirit Of patriotism which loves the South
fully as much as it loves the North. II is
the spirit of a united, not Of a divided.
country. 1t is in the spirit of the future and
not the past it is in the spirit of union,
and not of sectiOnalsm that We are holding
out our hand to those brave and noble Demo
Gratis of Virginia, whose representative took
his seat to-day on this floor