Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-22
BRADY.S CROOKED COURSE
FORTHCOMING REVELATIONS ON
THE STAR ROUTE SCANDAL.
me DAILY Battle In the senate
Dawes Victim in. Bad Light-A
vigorous Defense of the South
from Mr.. COke-Wade Hampton
on south Carolina Politics.

olscharGe OF his duties the air has been
thlck with rumors, which could not. how
ever, be verified, to the effect that General
brady's removal was foregone conclusion.
and all the stories which were circulated
lmpugning his honesty at the time the Star
Rou.e service was investigated by the
Blackburn committee have been revived
IL would now appear that there has been
much more behind the rumors than was
acknowledged at the Post Office De-
partment or than was suspected bv
those interested on the other side
and 1t is thought that DEVELOPMENTS
IN tne near future will lead up to other Inn
poftant changes in the personnel of the
Office OF the Second Assistant Postmaster
6eneral, such changes, it is understood.
having become imperative by reason of
derelictfon and unfaithfulness on the part
OF the present incumbents in the discharge
OF their official trusts.
Special information bearing on the Star
Route scandal is carefully withheld by the
post office officials, but it is admitted that
the records show that on the 1st of January
1880, the pay for carrying the mails on less
than one hundred cut of more
than nine thousand Star Routes
had been increased from about 500 600
at the time of letting, to 81, 800 900, by orders
for additional trips and for shortened time.
A considerable part of this increased SER
vice, according to the evidence accumuIat-
ed, was either not performed at all or very
imperfectly performed, Irregularities be-
Ing carefully planned, 1t is supposed,
for the purpose OF transferring money from
the Treasury 10 the pockets of favored con-
tractors and their confederates. The irregu-
larities seem to have been confined chiefly
to the routes west of the Mississippi river,
and to those in the territories. After ten
n nrfp Nc al
Brady left for New York.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
the unfinished business, being the resolu-
t!on for the election of Senate officers
by unanimous consent, on motion of Mr.
Edmunds, papers on the files of the Senate
relating to the subject of bankruptcy were
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr.. Coke took the floor in reply to a por-
ton of Mr.. Frye's speech, which he declared
TO be remarkable for the recklessnss of its
statements and the falsity OF its charges. 1t
arraigned the people of whole section,
and made charges, which, If true, proved
that those people were not fit associates for
any civilized people. He did not envy any
man who could find it in his heart thus to
speak OF any portion of the people over
whom the flag of his country. hoated He
did not believe the people of Maine indorsed
the denunciations of the Senator.
He believed that they were more
patriotic, and 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 a statesman nor could he be patriot.
He then proceeded to reply to the charges
made by Mr.. Frye of fraud upon the ballot
in Texas, denying explicitly their truth,
and referred to the charge that
State violence had been resorted
to to keep Republicans from the polls.
This wholesale charge against the people of
that county, unveritied by a single record,
by single affidavit, by single statement,
except the statement of the Senator from
Maine, was false. He meant it in no offeu-
sive sense to the Senator, who,
of course, made his statement
on information, but he branded
the charge as false from the beginning to
the end. The sun of heaven did not shine
upon a land where, in thought, in utterance
and in action, people of all classes, condi-
tions and colors were more free than in
Texas, and every allegation to the contrary
he stood here to denounce as false and
slanderous.
The Senator from Maine had taunted the
South with its poverty. That poverty had
been brought about by the war and
by the infamous carpet baggers who
had been placed over the Southern States
under the reconstruction acts. The people
of the South were now striving in every
State to make an honorable payment of an
honors BILE adjustment of their debts. They
were taxing themselves to the utmost ca
pacity for the establishment of free schools,
believing that universal education must go
with universal suffrage.
Colored children had the same amount
per capita raised for school purposes as the
white children had all over the South. The
people of the South would redeem the
South. They would place her where the
blood and lineage of her people, where
her glorious climate and her fertile
soil deserved that she should be
placed. All the bringing of the bones of dead
Issues into this chamber would not prevent
the South from becoming the equal In in
telligence, In cultivation, in labor and In
aspiration of the North, the East, or the
West. The people OF the South were OF the
same race as the people Of the North,
a race which had never been 'doni-
mated by an inferior race, and never would
be. That race meant TO govern in the South,
and forty or forty thousand entering wedges
such as was supposed to have been inserted In
Virginia would not deviate 1t from its course
or change the results. He dwelt at some
length on the improving prosperity Of his
State, instancing in proof of 1t the fact that
In 1866 there were but three hun
dred miles of railroad in that State,
while to day there were thirty-six hun
dred miles of road in active operation,
and nineteen roads In course OF construc-
ton. He asserted that the State had in all
other respects increased in material pros
perity, and declared that those salient facts
gave the lie direct to every statement in the
speech of the Senator from Maine.
Reverting to the question before the Sen
20 ba oasorfad that fha ffuhf moa do hIy
the Republican party, not for a free vote
and fair count, but to obtain political
power. As long as by objurgation, by de-
nunciation, by slander and by abuse the
Republican party kept the South under the
impression that carpet-bag governments
would be again placed over it, it would be
solid and could not be broken. 1t could be
broken only by kindness and craftsmanship.
A motion to adjourn having been made and
voted down, Mr.. Call took the floor in denial
of the charges made by Mr.. Frye yesterday
against the freedom of the ballot In Florida.
The charge, which the Senator had empha-
sized, that in the contested election case of
Bisbee versus Hull, witnesses were kept
from testifying by murder, rested on
the fact that a peaceful Democrat
had been killed in a crowd of colored per-
sons. He CMr. CalD had never seen or
heard of a single instance of outrage
for political consideration on black or white
in Florida, and he challenged anybody to |
bring any reasonable evidence of such out
RACES.
Commenting on Mr.. Frye's remark on the |
small amount of money appropriated for
the maintenance of free schools in Florida,
he asserted that in proportion to her wealth |
that State gave as much to the school fund |
as Rhode Island or Massachus etts. He (Mr. |
CALI had never made use of any such ex
preston as "starving serfs," as applied to |
the working men of Massachusetts,, which |
the Senator from Maine had attributed |
to him. He could not see where |
the Senator had obtained that expression. |
In concluding his speech he made some ref |
erence to suffrage in Massachusetts,, and the |
usual uninteresting colloquy ensued be- |
tween himself and Mr.. Dawes upon that
subject.
Mr. Dawes continued in humorous way |
to ridicule the idea of an honest vote In the |
South, taking for his text an article clipped |
from the Charleston Is. c. Nea0s and Courier
of the 18th of March, IN which the follow
ing sentence occurs "In their the Demo |
cratsl eyes cheating as a means of secur-
ing honest government is a widely diff |
ferent thing from cheating for the |
benefit of local workers and machine made |
office seekers" This, he said, was sign /
of the warfare which was going on In |
the South-s warfare so important that any