Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-01
THE REPUBLICANS STILL STUBBORN
Senate.

minority simply said it would resist the
election OF officers by dilatory motions
and prolonged speeches. His answer
was that the Republicans could not
abandon the right OF the majority to
rule because the majority made 1t
question of endurance.
The Majority Could Endure
as long as the minority. and the contest
was not merely to secure officers There
was something important above that,
something of importance which had not
received attention. 1t was the coming
political contest in Virginia. The Sena.
tor from Virginia had terrified the old
Democrats of the South who had appeal
ed to the Southern Democratic Sena-
tors to cover the Senator FROM Virginia
with approbrium SO that his followers
at home
Would not Dare to Support Him.
He had made political slavery impossi-
bic in Virginia, he had championed the
cause of free elections and he had sym
pathy for the Republican party. In
that good work all Virginia would see
that the North fraterniz3d with all e1'
Coniederates who were known by their
acts, as we'll as their words, to be in favor
of a free ballot and fair count. The Re.
publican party gave its vote Tor Riddle
berger as an earnest that it was not sec
tional. Whoever was right was its
friend. This, and this only, was the
bargain that it had offered its southern
friends. Ii Virginia tok her stand on
the platform OF an honest ballot, the
Solid South vas thing OF the past.
Mr.. MaIey Said
that the Senator from Massachusetts,
CDawesl had expressed his submission
To the will OF the majority, and yet he
had taken part iu setting aside the s 600
Democratic majority in Louisiana in rs
He might answer that the majority
had been procured by fraud. He
(Maxev) believed the people thought
the majority in the Senate to-day had
been procured by crooked means.
Whether that majority had been pro
cured fairly or unfairly, he knew not,
but the American people did believe 1t
had been obtained by methods strange
-aua- -anasual, and aernended troy DC IN
yestigated. The Democratic party stood
here for the purpose Of securing to the
American people the boon Oi a free bal
lot, priceless ballot and honest count,
and TO demand: il there was suspicion,
that it should be removed.
Mr.. Dawes Replied
in reference to the claim by Maxey that
the Democrats had carried Louisiana in
1876 by eight thousand majority. he
said there was difference between what
he called vote and what the gentleman
called a vote. The gentleman called a
piece of paper q vote he (Dawes) count
ed nothing a vote that had not free
ballot behind it; that thousands OF bal
lots such as he had in his hand,
about two inches square, have been
found in the ballot boxes with nothing
behind them but villainous hands that
put them in it was because there had
been attempts to substitute pieces OF
paper for freemens votes Ill the ballot
boxes in some States and to put
Blunderbusses in Place Of the Freemens
Flags
in other States; that he had done what
he could to stand by what he supposed
everv freeman in the land understood
10 be the meaning OF ballot. 1t was
when il was undertaken 10 mock the
freeman with pieces OF paper; it was
when it was undertaken TO compel him
to wade through blood TO the ballot box,
when he was as silent on election day
as those who lay in bloody graves filled
in 1876; that he (Dawes) felt called
upon to remind the Senator that there
was a difference between piece OF pa.
per and a vote.
Mr.. MaIey Enquired
how it was that those ba OTIS, which
were executed by the will OF God,
had been sufficient TO elect
Hayes and not sufficient to
elect Packard, though Packard had re-
ceived the most OF them. 1t was diff.
cult for any one, when he attempted to
uphold such high crime as the dis
reimbursement OF two States, 10 be con-
sis,ent.
Mr.. Dawes Agreed with Mr.. Ms1ey
that Packard had been elec ed, but as
serted that the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany had succeeded in a)li; hing the
NICHOLS RONcIuultuk.
Mr. Jones, of Florida, denied, in a
short speech, the statement made by
Mr.. Malone that Florida had repudiated
her honest debt, after which discus
sion arose between Messrs. Kellogg
and Jones regarding the debt OF Louisi-
ana.
Mr.. Browne stating the great import
ance of confirming or at least acting on
the Presidential nominations, moved to
90 into executive session. Lost. Yeas
23, nays p.
Mr. Beck Said
he thought it was Benton who said the
finest figures OF speech in the English
language was ding dong" He agreed
with him, and again desired TO tell the
Senate that the President had called 1t
together to transact executive business,
whereas the Republican-he would not
saw "maiority," for 1t had no majority
the Republican equal division had de-
termined TO paw no sort OF attention to
the communications which the Presi-
dent had sent. He proposed to move
for the appointment OF COM
mittee 10 wait on the fresl'
dent and advise him that as his
nominations did not commend them
selves to his party; the Senate was
ready to adjourn, and with that view he
would now move that when the Senate
adjourns to-day it be 70 meet on the
first Monday in December. Rejected
yeas, 81; nays, 70.
Mr. Harris Bald
there were several important nomina,
tions from the President which had
been for more than a week in the
hands Of committees OF this body. On
the table OF the Senate there were
| fftv.f;ve important nominations which