Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-13
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Raking Riddleberger over the
Goals of Rsd.Hot Rhetoric.

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Goals of Rsd-Eaet Rhetoric.
Especial Correspondence of the wheeling
Register.1
The topic of conversation at all
the hotels ia the terrific exooriation
administered 10 Senaior-elect Riddle.
berger by Mr.. Diggs in the senate
yesterday. On Friday Mr. Diggs, of
Campbell county, in the Virginia
senate, offered q resolution inqniring
into the eligibility of Mr.. Riddlsber-
ger, who is also commOnwealth's at
torney for Shenandoah county. Mr..
Riddleberger at nee took the floor
aud commented upon "the ignorance
OF the senator who would Introduce
such a resolution" Mr.. Diggs was
unable to get the floor to reply, but
yesterday he did SO, delivering one of
the most scathing denunciations ever
heard in the old state house. After
citing the resolutions above referred
to, he SAID:
81 do not wish to make any apology
to him or his party for Offering the
resolution which he says is in conflict
with the constitution, for the leader
of the caucus has time aud again de.
tsrmined to reverse their decision.
That would be a sufficient answer for
the stump. l desire to take higher
ground. Ii this resolution was born
of maliynity and ignorance how sur
passing must be the aggregation Of
that ignorance when the leader in the
other branch has offered q similar 6 Q
elution!
"The senator from Shenandoah
charges that this resolution is q bull
DOING experiment. If it we're so I
would make no apology to that sena-
tor or the party he represents for my
action. The senator, who has prac-
tised more bulldozing tactics on this
floor than all others combined, has no
right to object to others playing the
same game. He has consistently adopt
ed the policy Of threats aud BULLDOG
ing from the beginning even unto
now. When the senators known as
the big four asserted their indepen.
deuce here, that senator threatened
to resign his position on committees.
When the flinders ~(so-called) refused
to do what he desired, he threatened
on behalf of his party to repeal and
alter the charter of every city in this
commonwealth, and threatened the
destruction of their vested rights.
When the funders OH another ocoas-
ion acted out their convictions and
refused 10 be dominated, as chairman
OF the finance committee he threat.
ened to strike from the appropria-
ton bill every item OF allowances con-
tracted by the state government un.
der what he styled funder rule.
Though admitting then aud now the
binding obligations of those debts he
threatened to strike out the last dol.
lar of appropriation TO pay them, aud
humiliate the state he claims to have
in charge, unless senators here would
surrender to his domination. For II
l serve notice on that senator-tbe
champion bulldozer of tho senate
aye, and tell thee to thy beard. thai.
despite thy valor, thy fine new fortune.
and thy victor sword, the pigmy Of
the mountain will never lower hia
crest to the plumed knight Of the
valley.
"When the street. walking courte-
San il admitted . missionary of virtue
TO q convent Of nuns, then it is time
for the senator who lives III daily and
open violation Of the constitution of
his commonwealth to pirate of con-
stitutional law.
when the plundering Arab of the
desert, tricked out with the spoil of
his bow and spear, is installed in
Westminster hall to a%djudicale the
rights OF property. then let the SEN
ator who has swindled tho creditors
OF his native state to pension his par.
tisans, boast himself Of his resnect
for the rights Of others.
"When the unbelleving blaspbemer
Bobert lngersoll, entreats the grand
Sanhedrim of the churches miIitant
to acknO Wedge the power and reality
of the eternal and Undergraduates cod
then let the leading spirit of a mill.
.fication caucus preach submission In
the decisions of courts, and the an.
thorIty OF the promulgated law.
"When the swarthy denizen from
the iungles of India HES him awav tn
the universities Of Oxford and Cam.
bridge to deliver lectures on rolite
literature, then let the senator. W ho
refuses to yield to points Of order,
who makes sport of the hosry head.
of bis brother senator, aud who do.
nounces as a criminal from his seat
surrounded by the privileges of his
position here, before the verdict of
the jury, a gentleman whose hands
were tied aud whose mouth wac
closed, set himself up as the shining
exemplar of senatorial courtesy.
"When the mother Of states and
statesuleD beholds one of her a..
credited delegates to the national
capital %bartering her voice In those
halls for the crumbs hat fall from the
festal board, deserving his post of
duty to control the stormy council of
q midnight caucus, to save his party
from the biundering leadership of an
incompetent subaitern and 10 fasten
upon his native state a hungry tribe
of hireling .kipjacks, then let the seu-
atOr-elect from shat stricken state.
himself the hero OF two double.dailv
bloodlcss duels, proclaim himself the
first apostle to usher in the era of
small things and smaller men,"
The bureau OF statistics report of onr
commerce Tor the nine mouths sf the
current fiscal year shows that we arr,
losing. IL We have not already Loot, the
large balance Of trade in our favor that
vas maintained for several years preyi-
Gus to 1882, and are now buying more
Than we are selling. Our excess of ex.
ports over imports for the nine months
ending with March, 1881, was $3.50.
100000 tho excess for the nine months
ending with March. 1882. was only e65 :.
olO.Coo, falling off of $169, $3.50, 900 III.
ialling'oh has been greatest In the latter
part OF the period. The excess of az.
ports over imports for three months Ct
January. February and March last v.ar
WAS $7S, 12S 900, and for the CORES
ponding period OF the present year opJy
SS29,OO0. During the month of March
last year. our exports exceeded the inn
ports by $4,000 900; during the cores
ponding month Of this year, the figures
were the other way-nnr Imports ex-