The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-08
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Washington, 7.-ButterWorth OF
Ohio, made speech in reply tC
Bayne's criticism on the present adj
ministration. The executive. he
said, needed no champion. 1t was
its own champion, and its defense
was his friend from Pennsylvania
| (Bayne). In the exuberance of his
soul to criticiSe the administration
had commenced by lauding (anC
very properly the late President OF
the United States, standing by
the tomb Of one, "the deer
damnation of whose taking off
oppressed every one. Criticised
and pursued on one hand by men
praying he might be unsuccessful,
and on the other by men who hoped
be would attempt to achieve sue
cess by dubious means. The pre-
sent executive had walked forward
to the performance of his high Office
IN manner which ought to COM
mand and did command the admi-
ration of right thinking men every
where. applause On the republi-
can side). Neither SWayed from
that direction by those who would
have him incline to their personal
opinions, nor moved by the I'M
friendly criticism Of those who
seemed to regard him as untrue, and
as one who had snatched the Aceptre
from their grasp had conducted
himself I atriOtically in the honest
and sincere discharge Of the high
duties deyolying upon him. The
people would judge the course of
the administration as it lett its i'm
press upon the c0untry's history,
rather than by the degree in which
it happened to interfere with public
or private ambition Of any man or
any set OF men. ButterWorth passed
on to the Question of presidential re-
movals and appointments and incl
dentally eul0glzed the administra-
ton If President Hayes. 1t was the
freedom of that administration from
corruption that had given the House
of Representatives to the republican
party; it was its freedom from cor
ruption that had swept the republi-
can nominee triumphantly on to the
presidential chair, in 1880. The gen.
tIeman from Pennsylvania (Bayne)
had complained of the exercise of
the appointing power OF the Presi-
dent in Pennsylvania. There were
in that state 1S6 presidential ap-
pointments. How many had the
present executive made; 100? no ;
IS? no; so? no; 10? no; he had
made out of 1876, two Of them for
cause. Three pOstmasterS had been
removed, two of them for dishOn-
esty applause on the repu blicAn
side. New York had Eeen pre-
scented before the country as con-
tanning a mass of official heads. OF
the PIG presidential appointments in
that state, the President had made
five changes and two of those re-
movals had been for cause. Never
in the history Of any admins
tratioD, from that of George
Washington to this hour, had there
been more considerate regard for
public service, as far as disclosed by
public record and yet the President
had been as if he only lived for the
purpose of perpetuating the designs
and schemes of some indictments.
Butterwcrth then passed on to the
consideration of the circumstances
attending his election to the Forty
sixth Congress, and created consid-
cradle amusement by his description
of the methods which he asserted
had been practiced by the demo
cratic party, and of the part played
by Ephraim Holland in that cam
paign.
Cox, of New York, interrupted to
inquire what ButterwOrth thought
Of the removal of Mr.. Siinch, In
ternal revenue collector in Cincin-
natl, and Butterworth did not give
direct answer, but in course OF his
reply said to Cox: You have a dis
trict SO thoroughly rotten that it
votes the democratic ticket by in
stinct.
This angered Cox somewhat, and
he said such q remark came with
bad grace from a gentleman who had
seduced Ephraim Holland, who, &C.
cO1ding to the gentleman, was
democratic prostitute.
In the reply ButterWOrth made 81
alluSion which is not Of nature hi
for publication, which was charae.
terizea by Cox as the remark of q
BLACKBOARD.
Subsequently an effort was made
to have the collOquy omitted from
the Record, and it was accomplished
though not until a debate had gone
on for some time OF such character
as to lead Money, Of Mississippi. tt
suggest that the Chairrequest ladie;
to retire from the galleries.
Butterworth concluded his speech
with an attack upon the democratic
party and It's professions OF civil
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