Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-05-30

. motion to consider the Tebbs bill ther
: were % yeas and % nays, and that Ma
} hone v0ted nag.
{ Senator Malone further writes t
without, q word of debate the vot,
was TAKEN I voted for the resolution
of referen1A' IN
j This is both a falsehood direct and ,
falsehood By implication. Senators Gar
land, Sherman, and Edmunds had de.
bated the propriety of considering th,
DILL before the vote was taken, and tn,
vote was not to refer but to consider
Every Democrat and four Republican,
voted to consider it, and Malone ant
twenty.one Republicans voted not t.
consider it. s--r
senator Malone writes further:-
..The reference was strictly the legis-
lattve thing to do; it was the thing t.
90 TO arrest farther ill-tempered lint
or discussion which had been unhappi
ly proved"
This is q deliberate deceit. There had
been no discussion and no display of ILL
temper. The votes Of Cameron Of Wis
consin, ingalls,, Plumb, and Sewell-all
republicans and all in favor of the mo-
ton to c0nsider-prove this and dis
prove the assertion of Malone 80 that
when he says he voted to refer the bill
to put astop to an ilI-tempered discus.
sion he makes two false statements, as
we have shown.
Further on in his letter to Norman
he says:-
"You will observe that the original
proposition was to relieve DIR. A. Sid,
ney Tebbs of the disability imposed by
certain statute of the United States. I
am quite sure there would not have been
word of objection to this distinct prop
osition.n
The bill came back from the Military
Committee favorably reported. with an
amendment to make the principle gen
eral by repeating section 1918 instead of
making the Tebbs case an exception to
it. The simple thing to do was to vote
theLamendment down if it caused de-
bate. and then the original bill would
have remained. But Senator Malone
did not pretend by his vote to bring
about such action. He simply voted not
to consider tho motion 0t 0A-either the
bill or the amendment.
The motion to consider the Tebbs bill
having been carried In spite of Senator
Malone, q discussion ensued in which
Senator Edmunds made, as he always
does when he finds an opportunity.
bitter speech. Senators Maxey, Garland,
Hampton, and Vest replied good-na.
turedly and fairly. There was no very
bad temper shown, the main display Of
it being by Senator Edmunds for Ver-
mont consumption.
Having brought the history of the
measure down to this point, we quote
another paragraph from Mahone's letter
to Norman:
"It was here and in this condition
found the subject and voted for the ref
erence to the Judiciary Committee,
whose province it rightfully is to FORM
ulate any act repeating statute, and the
more so when the proposition was now
1ncumbered with proposed amendments
in some respects incongruous, and in
some respects if not absurd, falling fas
it occurred to meI below the dignity of
the subject"
There was an amendment offered 'in-
congruous" or otherwise, and Senator
Malone knows it. The debate lasted
an hour after he voted on the ques-
tiOn of consideration and at the close of
the whole matter went over to May 2,
on which day it came up again.
Senator Malone was not present, or,
if present, did not vote, but his vote was
made to count by Senator Rollins, who
transferred his own pair with Senator
Jones Of Florida, to Malone, and used
him IS the Republicans always have
used him, to kill Democratic vOte.-
The motion to refer was not carried, as
only 23 voted for it to 25 against it; but
who explained why he at first favored
tho hill ond Univ ho thop 70 ho
reference, and explanation of former re
marks by Senators Hampton and Call
the matter went over again under the
rules to May 4th.
On that day aUithoUt discussion, Mr..
Edmunds renewed the motion to refer
which had been voted down two days
before and vote was taken.
Senator Malone voted aye to refer.
His vote was the decisive vote as the
result stood 20 yeas to % nays. If he
had voted with all the Democrats the
reference would not have been made,
the amendment could have been defeat
ed and the Tebbs bill passed.
AS he voted with all the Republicans
he killed the bill as effectually as though
he had voted against it on the main
proposition. Senator Malone, in his
letter to Norman, says he was mot in
the Senate at any time until the morn
ing when the resolution came up to re-.
fer the bill"
In this he is guilty, as we have shown,
of three falsehOods.
He was present on the 26th of April
and voted not to give the bill hearing.
His vote was used by Senator Rollins on
May End when he was not present. On
the 4th of May, after the Edmunds mo-
ton to refer had been defeated, Senator
Malone made his appearance and by his
presence encouraged Senator Edmunds
to renew the motion to refer, and voted
for such reference.