The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-29
SENATOR MALONE.
RoUsINa SPEECH OF THE READJUsTER.
Against the Attacks of His Col
ieage, Johnston, voorhees,, Hill
and Brown - The Galleries
Crowded ktc Etc

washington, March 2o.-Ihe announce
ment that Mr.. Malone would to day address
the senate in vindication of bis action and in
explanation of the principles of the readj ist-
or party in Virginia, had the effect of draw
ing TO the capitol u large audience. AS
early as 10 o'clock the doors leading to the
galleries were surrounded by impatient
crowds, and within ten minutes after they
we're opened, at 1890, every
available seat was tsken with the exception
of those reserved for members of the oiplo-
matte corps. These were, however, occupied
before the hour of assembling of the senate
On the floor in the rear Of the senator's
desks were seated large number of persons,
many of them representatives elect, while
in the various corridors, those who had had
the misfortune to arrive late, congregated
and bcwuiled their i'll luck.
The journal of Saturday having been
read, the vce.president laid before the senate
a resolution for the appointment Of senate
officers, stating that the senator from Vlr-
ginia had the floor.
Mr.. Malone promised his speech by
expressing his regret that he should be com.
PEELED again to interrupt the deliberations OF
the senate. trust, he said, that the senators
and the country will concede, that TO this
seeming foundness am provoked, and l may
fail to challenge the generous consideration
of those who would appear to have found
pleasure without justification in their varied
and ungenerous assaults. | do not doubt
that shall command the respect of the
brave and independent spirits here, as know
| shall among my own people. shsn not
complain Of that indiscretion which has char
acterized tho manner and method Of
senator's in their illusions to
me. must accept. They comport
entirely with their own sense of department
and senatorial dignity, however little they do
with my own. Virginia is accustomed to
meet occasions where the independent
spirit of the Anglo,saxon is required to as
| sert Itself. Virginia hiss ever met, with forti.
lude and becoming dignity, every DUTY
which destiny has imposed, always, however,
with much contempt for small party lines
| A prin"iple was involved 10 which her faith
and honor were committed with absolute
| confidence. In my loyalty r her, and my
devotion to every interest Of her people,
will not relax my purpose here to repel
every impeachment OF the constituents who
sent me to this chamber with clefrly defined
duties, which they and comprehend. was
elected to the United States senate to do
their will, not TO caucus to do Its bidding.
Virginia earned her title of the "Od Domin-
ion" by tho broad and independent action of
| her own people, by the loyalty of her sons,
| by the instinct OF independence, without tho
help of those who would now interfere with
her affairs. However feebly may express
that spirit against the gratui!ous care ard
concern for her at the hands of strangers
strangers to her trials, to her sacrifices and to
her will feel that the spirit of her people
inspires mo when | carefully repel for them
and for myself, tho ungenerous attempts to
instruct Virginia senator as TO his duty 10
| them and himself Senators should bo
willing to deal with his constituents. | an.
swer to miee, ot TO him that would insinu-
ate that my action in regard to the organic
| ton of committees of this body and the pro.
posed election of officers has been controlled
by impure considerations, and am 10th to
believe that any senator has so intended. In
the language of another, / say; "If thou say
est am not the peer TO any lord of Scotland
here, high and or lowland, far or near,
| Lord Angus, thou hast lied" Now permit
me TO say that the senators can no more
realize my regret than they can measure nv
amszement, that my colleague (Johnston)
| should have felt II incumbent on himself TO
join the assautiDg columns in this chamber.
lie first introduces question of my political
| consistency, or, prefers, inconsistency, and
| next he would introduce me to this honora-
BILE body, not as his colleague, but as IA
repudiator ofpublic obligations. The sense
of Justice Of my fellow.seDator renders il
Unnecessary for mo To apologize for noticing
my colleagues criticism on tho one hsnd
snd bis perversions on the other, howey
! much ho and bis cohorts may endeavor by
cheap logic Of an attorney 10 demons,r tie
what ought to bo, / am by my own c,n
| viclions and my sense Of honor wha. am
| In this particular l have largely the adv m.
tsge Of my colleague, for il tako hin, b,
| his record, dminutive Ms it is, he neither
knows what he is, nor what duty he cane
here TO perform. Lauehtcr1
Mr.. Malone then proceeded to give an
exhaustive history of the political and anan-
| oial history OF Virginia for the last decade.
lio declared that the resdjuslers had never
repeated any Of the funding contracts made
by Virginia, but asserted that the bill passed
in 1871 by tho virgnialegislature, and known
rs the Brokers bill which has been advocated
by his colleagues ,repudsted and forcibly re
pudiated one third Of the debt Of Virgins.
The readjusters held that two thirds of the
money. which Virginia had borrowed, should
be paid, the other third belonging TO Yves,
Virginia. According to every principle of
law and equity, since 1871, tho resdjus,ng
party had denied to the debtor of tho war,
the interest, and had proposed to pay tho
rest in full. It's advcrsarics had advocated
funding that war interest, and proposed 10
rcpudiate ono half of that which Virginia
was in law, and honor and bound 10 pay.
He would like the senators from West
Virginia TO tell the country
what that state had done with reference 10
the payment Of one third the debt contracted
by the commonwealth Of Virginis, whether
h.had ever proposed TO pay ono slvr eto
msntsin the honor and dignity of the old
commonwealth. He criticised tho action of
his colleague In not defending the people of
| Virginia from the accusation that they werc
dishonorable, too, In tho opir ion of tho men
who represented states which BY arbitrary
legislation had reduced their debts from two
hundred and sixly.three millions te eighty.
four millions. He sent 10 the clerks desk nid
had read q table showing tic extent 10 which
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