Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-21
The Senate Debaters.
3. COKE REPLIES TO Mr.. FRYE.

The Senate Debatcfss
MR. COKE REPLIES TO Mr. FRYE.
The Vice President laid before the Senate the
unfinished business. being the resolution for
the election Of Senate officers
By unanimous consent on motion OF Mr.. Ell
| munds the papers on the files OF the Senate re-
lat1ng to the subject Of bankruptcy were re-
ferred to the committee on the judiciary.
Mr.. Coke took the floor In reply to portions
| OF Mr.. Frye's speech, which he declared to be
remarkable for the recklessness of It's state.
nents and the falsity OF its charges. IJ ar.
| Taigns the people OF whole section and makes
| charges which, If true, prove that those people
are not ht associates for any civilized people
| He did not envy the man who could find it in
| his heart thus to speak of any portion OF the
| people over which the flag OF his country
| foated He did not believe the people OF Maine
endorsed the denunciations OF the Senator.
had more pride OF country than to endorse it
| The man who fomented strife and stirred up
| sectional feeling and inculcated animosity
| could not be statesman, nor could he be a
patriot. He then proceeded to reply to the
charges made by Mr.. Frye OF fraud upon the
ballot In Texas, denying explicitly their truth,
County in that sta State Whence had 6esn rs
| sorted to to keep republicans from the polls.
This wholesale charge against the people Of
single af1idavlt, by single statement. except
tie statement of the Senator from Maine, was
false: he meant it in no offensive sense to the
charge as false from beginning to end.
The sun OF heaven did not shine upon land
where In thought In ucterance, and in action
the people OF ali classes, conditions and colors
were freer than they were In Texas, and every
allegation to the contrary he stood here to de-
dounce as false and slanderous. The Senator
from Maine had taunted the south with It's
poverty. That poverty had been brought
acout Oy the war and by the Infamous carpet
bag governments which had been placed over
the southern states under the reconstruction
acts. The people Of the south were now striv-
ing IN every state to make an honorable pay
They were taxing themselves to the utmost
capacity for the establishment of free
school schools believing that universal edu-
ehSren gG nsa had the ssms pes aa
raised for school purposes as the white chill
dren had all over the south. The people OF the
South nUp would redeem the south they would
people, where her glorious climate and her
fertile soil deserved that she should be placed
Al the bringing OF the bones OF dead issues
into this chamber would not prevent the south
from becoming the equal In intelligence, in
cultivation, in labor and in aspiration of the
north, the east or the west. The people of the
south were OF the same rac9 as the people OF
the north race which had never been domi-
mated by an inferior race and never would be-
That.racetmeant to govern in the south, and
40 or Al, 600 entering wedges such as was sup
posed to have been inserted In Virginia would
not deViate 1t from It's course or change the
results.
A motion to 60 into executive session having
been lost-yeas 20, nays 21,-
Mr. Harris moved that when the Senate ad-
journ today 1t be to meet tomorrow at 9
O'Clock.
Mr.. Conkling suggested that If the hour were
charged to 12 O'Clock there would be no oppo.
sition to the motion, and for once there would
be unan1mity in the Senate.
Sitting Bull Certainly Coming In.
MAJOR BRoTHEKT0N SAYS THERB IS NO MISTAKE
THIS TIME.
Major Brotherton sent a dispatch from Fort
Buford, d. T., April 18th, to Gen. A. e. Terry.
commanding department OF Dakota, as fol-
lows:-''I have the honor to inform you that at
the request OF Sitting Bull, Capt. Mcdonald, OF
the northwestern police, accompanied by three
Indians selected by Sitting Bull, have been
sent In bY Major CfoZier, and arrived here TO-
day. Major CroZler says Sitting Bull win In
all probability surrender On the return OF this
party. Sitting Bull, he says, wishes the young
men to see for themselves how those who have
surrendered have been treated. Sitting Bull
has been informed. and 1t has made great
impression on him, that some of those who sur
rendered were in irons, aud That he Will be
treated In a similar manner II he surrenders
A party OF ten lodges were to leave Woody
mountain on the 9th April for this post to sur.
render, Sitting Bull says: Tell the Amert-
cars not to be afraid that Will eat the pro-
visions they sent NE ana then not come: they
VIII see me. | have given my word and my
body to the Queen, and will do what am
told. am in earnest: | am e)ming in He
also wished Major CrOzier to ask that his friends
which think is important. The Indians VINO
came In In the last party are all young war
nors, who have often stated In councils that
they would rather have their bones whiten on
the prairies tnan surrender without Sitting
Bull. 1t would seem from this that hts last
friends are leaving him. and think am now
that 1 have been made the subject of, in be-
lieving in the success of the policy. Captain
Mcdonald starts back to day; win be at Woody
mountains in about week. when Major CroZier
will send me word. giving 1ull details when /
shall have to meet the Indians, &C."
PERSONAL Whitelaw Reid denies that he is
to retire from the editorship of the New York
Tribune, except for the six months time he will
be In Europe on his wedding trip. During that
time Col. John Hay, late Assistant Secretary of
State. will have charge OF the paper.-Sena-
absence OF some days from the ecity.-Evange-
list Moody has gone to bis home at Northfeld,
Mass, for little rese--Lord Beacons1eld
He never associated with any of his kindred
but when he was In power he appointed each
brother to good life omce.-Kepresenta
Gibson and family, and Gen. Badeau, U. S.
Consul General at London, sailed from New
York fer Europe yesterday. Lane,
OF oregon, died at his nome at RoSeburg, In
that state, on the evening Of Tuesday. the 10Th
inst-Goyernor Fremont, Of Arizona, expects
to be appointed minister to MeXico.-Hon.
Geo. W. Manypenny, of Ohio, and Hon. j.
Tome. OF Maryland, are at Wizards Mr..
Edwin Fleming, Washington correspondent of
the New YORK Journal OF Commerce, was mar
rled yesterday at kalamazoo to Miss Hattie L.
Stone, OF that place.-Representat elect
Kasson late u; S. Minister to Austria, and
Minister to the United States, arrived in New
York from Europe yesterday. y.-Ex- President
Diaz. OF Mexico, is travelling in Texas.-Hon.
Rowland 3: Trowbridge. ex Commissioner of
Indian Affairs died at his residence, near De-
trolt, last evening.-Ths Rev. DR.. Swing went
to theater for the first time. few days ago
and didn't like it-Mr. Thomas Hughes and
Mr. Richard Whiteing, the well known CORE
spondent, arrived In New York from Europe
yesterday.-T. B. Aldrch, the new editor OF
the Atlantic, parts his hair in the middle, wakes
his mustache down to sharp point and wears
colored shirts.-It is definitely settled that
General s; D. sturges is to be Governor
OF the Soldiers Home. and he Will as
sumo command on the 1st OF July. He
is now In the city.-Representauves Ham
T. 6: Pitcher and Public Printer Defrees were
registered In New York last evening. g.-Presi-
dents Porter, of Yale, ana McCosh, OF Prince
ton, are to give lectures at the Concord School
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