The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08

A motion to go into executive session
resulted-yeas 25. nays %.
Senator Harris, stating that it was evil
dent the Republicans could not intend
to transact the bushes which the senate
had been called here to transact, moved
that when the senate adjourn to-day it be
to meet on the first Monday in Decem-
Der. Lost-yeas %, nays %.
Various other motions we're made and
voted down.
Senator Pendleton called attention to
the inaugural address of the President,
in which he stated that he would ask, at
the proper time, congress to fix the ten
ure of the minor offices of the govern
ment. In order that the senate might
NO longer present spectacle of wrang-
ling over petty Offices, he would move to
go Into executive session.
Senator Dawes agreed that the tenure
of Office should be fixed by law, but he
did not see how an act could be passed
at this special session.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, read letter
issued from the readjusters' headquarters
in October, and that by William Malone,
in which he alluded to the Republican
party as the grip-sack party. Did the
senator know what was meant by a grip
sack party?
Dawes-Is it any objection to Riddle
berger, in the mind of the senator, that
he voted for Hancock:
Hill-None in the world.
Dawes-Then why is the senator
troubled?
Hill am not troubled; 1 only ask;
what is a grip-sack party?
Dawes-I do not know. l know that
they have down south all kinds of par
ties. do not know what they represent;
the senator from Georgia ought to know
he ought to know every phase of every
political party that has ever come up;
for certainly, if anybody has tried them
all it must be the senator from Georgia.
daughter / do not know of any par
~ that the senator has not given his at
tention l remember letter written by
him after Garfield's election advising
everybody TO join the Garfield party, and
invoking the public to come up and join
the party which had succeeded. 1t seems
to be the first motion in the the wind of
the senator IN all his political sailing
about the country in his ship of state,
Qaughter) to find out what party has sue
ceeded, and then to announce his desire
to go with that party. Just think, he
said nobody could tell how much he
loved Garfield, passing the love of wo-
man. Iaughter).
Senator Hill explained the meaning of
his letter to Representative Chittenden,
of New York, shortly after the election,
and advocated the opinion there advanc
ed. He declared the people of the south
in favor of free vote and honest count
called upon Clay and Webster to look
down upon the contemplate coalition
between the Republicans and Readjust-
ers to get the offices of the senate.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-SENATE.
Senator Dawes called up, pending bust
ness, the resolution for the election of
officers.
Senator Cameron (Pa.) said the pres
ent issue was too plain to be misunder-
stood; the Republican side said the
majority had a right TO decide who
should be the officers of the senate; its
opponents said the minority had that
right; he had said few days ago that
it seemed TO be question of endurance;
the general doctrine that the majority
was entitled to the rule was not called
in question; the minority simply said it
would resist the election of officers by
dilatory motions and prolonged speech
es his answer was that the Republicans
could not abandon the right of the ma
jority to rule, because the majority
made it question of endurance. The
majority could endure as long as the
ml1Or1IY. ING COntCSl WIS HUI lACLCl1
to secure officers; there was something
above that-something of importance,
which had not received attention. 1t
was the political contest in Virginia.
The senator from Virginia (Mahonel
had terrified the old Democrats of the
south, who had appealed to the southern
Democratic senators to cover the senator
from Virginia with opprobrium, so
that his followers at home would not
dare to support him. He had
made political slavery impessi-
BILE in Virginia. He had cham
pioned the cause of free elections
and he had the sympathy of the Repub-
lican party in that good work. All Vir-
GINA would see that the north frater-
nized with all ex-confederates who were
known by their acts as well as their
works TO be in for fair count. The Re
publican party gave its vote for Riddle
berger as an earnest that it was not sec
tiOnal. Whoever was right was its
friend. This, and this only, was the bar
gain that it had to offer its southern
friends who would come out and grow
with the national growth. If Virginia
took her stand on the platform of an
honest ballot the solid south was q thing
of the past.
Senator Maxey said that the senator
from Massachusetts (Dawes) had ex-
pressed his submission to the will of the
majority, and yet he had taken part in
setting aside eight thousand Democratic
majority in Louisiana in 1876. He
| might answer that that majority had
| been procured by fraud; he (Maxey) be-
| lieved the people thought majority in
the senate today had been procured by
crooked means; whether that majority
had been procured faily or unfairly he
knew not, but many did believe it had
been obtained by methods strange and
unusual, and demanded that they inves-
| tigate. The Democratic party stood
here for the purpose of securing to the
American people the boon of free bal
| lot, priceless ballot, an honest count,
and to demand, if there was suspicion,
| that it should be removed.
Senator Dawes replied in reference to
! the claim of Maxey that the Democrats
had carried Louisiana in 1876 by 5000
| majority. He said there was a differ
ence between what he called "a vote and
what the gentleman called vote. The
| gentleman called piece of paper vote
| He Dawes counted nothing vote that
had not a free ballot behind. Thou
sands of such ballots as he held in his
hand (about two inches square, have
been found in the ballot-boxes with
| DuI TIC AdnO
| that put them in, and 1t was because
there had been attempts to substitute
pieces of paper for freemen's votes in
| the ballot boxes of some states, and TO
put blunderbuses in place of the free
mans flag in other states, that he hac
done what he could to stand by what hi
supposed every free man in the land I'm
derstood to be the meaning of ballot
1t was, when it was undertaken TO mocE
the free man with pieces of paper; j
was, when it was undertaken to compe
him to wade through blood to the ballo
boxes, and when he was found as silen
ON election day as those who lay in thei
bloody graves, they called upon him II
remind the senator that there was diff
ence between pieces of paper, and tn
G God. Of tree man. executing the VIII Q
Senator Maxey enquired: How was
that those ballots which executed tn
will of God had been sufficient to cleo
Mr. Hayes and not sufficient TO cleo
Packard, although Packard had receive,
more of thems It was difficult for an
one, when he attempted to uphold sue
high crime as the disfranchisement @
two states, to be consistent.
Senator Dawes agreed with Senate
Maxey that Packard had been elected
| out dSSertcu tnAI tue 1ouiSihnH AottcL
. Company had succeeded in establishiD
the Nichols government.
Senator Jones, of Florida, denied in
short speech the statement made by Ms
hone that Florida had repudiated a
honest debt, after which a discussio
. arose between senators Kellogg an
Jones regarding the debt of Louisiana
Senator Brown, stating the great in
portance of confirming, or at least actin
upon the presidential nominations
T moved TO go into executive session. Los
, yeas %, nays 25.
Senator Beck said he thought it wa
Benton who said that the finest figure {
!, speech in the English language wa
| | ssding dong" He agreed with him an
} again desired to tell the senate that To
:: president had called It together to tram
J act executive business, whereas the RI