The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-30
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FoRTY-SEVENrH CONGRESS.
EXTRA SESSION.
SENATE

| debt. If there had been any repu-
diation it was by Mahone's friends,
the republicans, when they COM
! trOlleG the state. Democrats CD
| posed the proposition to change the
officers Of the Senate because it
would break old presidents, be-
cause the Senate was here for exec
Utive business, and chiefly because
grave suspicious had taken hold of
the public mind that there had been
q corrupt bargain. Malone had de-
MED that there had been any impure
consideration. He congratulated
Malone, and would say he would
strengthen his position, before the
country by showing what consider
alton had moved him. 1t was due
to this body that the suspicious
should be proved groundless, if it
were so. Let republicans organize
a commission to ascertain the truth
or falsity of the rumors, that a vote
had been controlled by the promise
of place or patronage. If the dam
ming charge were untrue stamp out
the calumny for ever; if true, the
constitution gave ample redress. He
referred to similar charges against
Clay and Adams, which defeated
Adams for the presidency and
blighted Clay's political aspirations.
Clay had risked his life to Vindicate
ms honor, and Randolph, who
brought the charges, had afterwards
made the amende honorable. In
order that the Senate might be freed
from suspicion, he did not want
Dawes resolution acted Oh immedi-
ately. He referred to the magnan-
unity of the democrats in allowing
Kellogg to retain his seat. 1t now
appeared that Kellogg and Malone
were not only leaders but masters
of the republican party. They had
clasped hands across the bloody
chaSm and were clamering for the
old flag and appropriations. He
sympathized with the good old state
of Virginia, and could not doubt her
true voice would soon be heard I'M
mistakably declaring for the MAIN
tenance of pnblic faith and political
integrity.
4 motion for executive session
was loSt-yeas p, nays %.
DlOhllg lLlttO .
speech had not been printed in the
Record, proceeded to reply to some
portions of it. One points dwelt on
by the gentlemen with the greatest
satisfaction was that which dis
cussed his (Brown's) record. The
gentleman had seen proper to bring
that record before the country and
had grossly misrepresented it.
He admitted that the position he
now occupied upon certain questions
was not the position he had Occu-
pied at the beginning of the war
known as the war of the rebellion.
He had gone into that contest TO
maintain slavery and states rights.
He had sincerely believed he was
right in both. The war, however,
had settled both questions; slavery
had been abolished, and he was con-
tent. To this extent he might be
said to be inconsistent, but he denied
several other of Mahone's charges as
to his record. He said the air was
full of rumOrs of a bargain, and he
argued to show there were singular
condolences confirming the fact
that there was bargain. It was
peculiar that Malone who, UP to a
late, period, had always been Il dem |
Ocrat, should vote with the republic |
cans on the organization of every |
and that in a very short |
time afterwards the republicans |
should meet IN caucus and NOM
mate his intimate friends Cor
ham, who had bolted the party
and hn1 lnnr, r-nn1 of
it, and Riddleberger, who had al
ways been democrat. It might
have been no bargain; it might not
even have been an understanding, +
but he would call it peculiar coin
cidence. He compared the repub-
licans, in turn, to the coon which
found a skunk up his tree. to the
man who could not let go the bear
without help, and to the man who
won an elephant at a rattle. They
did not know what to do with
Malone.
Beck ridiculed the republicans for
their course. He objected to the
for chief clerk, Chas. john
son, of Minnesota, who had issued a
lying circular during the campaign.
asking for money, and claiming the
democrats had sinister designs on
the presidency. He quoted testi-
mony to show that Johnson was a
q very bad man.
Mcmillan denied these allegations,
as having been disproYed. |.
kellogg made strong speech,
showing that the democrats had re-
pudiated the state debt in Louisiana;
that he represented a majority of
chat state, and that majority, born |
in tribulation and baptised in blood, |
had been oVerthrown by violence,
open fraud, corruption and bribery.
The business men of Louisiana be-
ieved the republicans had a fair !
and honest majority there. His
administration had been vastly
superior to the present one, and i
never had there been a time when !
lot and corruption and misrule had |
'eigned as it did in that state to-day.
Jones said that at last his col i
eague lad seized an opportunity to c
Iring forth all the bile, all the f
the viJuperation which he a
lad long held in his soul against /
he people whom he claimed
, represent. He referred to .
he period during which Senator q
Kellogg had claimed to be governor e
f Louisiana as a period covered :
Nth infamy. Kellogg had been ;,
lected by a mere mob which had u
OF the slightest right to elect a -
enatOr. He was here, and now, when y
e found himself here, in safety, he a
rose for the first time and waved I,
ne bloody shirt The elections in u
louisiana had been as fair and free g
8 any held in any state in the u
rnion, and he advised the repub- o
cans that they could no longer L
llculate on a color line, declaring u
lat many colored men in Louisiana
ott d willingly and gladly for de- .
lOcratic candidates. 1t would be );
range news to the people of Y
louisiana to hear that his colleague pl
vowed himself the friend of free il
allot. connected, as his colleague OF
ld been, with every fraud on the W
allot box connected, as he had been, 81
18th every attempt to destroy the bl
ghts of the colored and white men.
is remarks would produce the
lighter of contempt and scorn d
roughout the state which he
aimed to represent. AS to the
lot question, he asserted that the
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