Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-08


the river and harbor bill was resumed the
question being upon the Henrepin Canal
project.
The remainder of the afternoon was occu-
pied in discussion on an amendment carry
ing questions of practicability, constitution
atty and advisabiity.
Without action, the Senate went into an
executive session and soon after adjourned.
House OF RepresentatIyes-Ano Dis.
graceful scene.
WASHINGTON, July 7th-The House went
into Committee Of the Whole on the sundry
civil appropriation bill, the debate to close at
. o'clock.
Butterworth Of OHIO made speech in re-
ply to Bayne's criticism OF the present Ad-
IninistratiOn. The Executive, he said, needed
no champion. 1t was its own champion, its
own defense. His friend from Pennsylvania
tBayne), in the e1uberance of his desire to
criticise the Administration, had commenced
by landing, and very properly, the late Presi
dent of the United States. Standing by the
tomb Of one, "the deep damnation of whose
taking off" oppressed every one, criticised and
pursued on one hand by men praying that he
might be successful, on the other by men who
hoped he would attempt to achieve success
by dubious means, the present Executive had
walked forward to the performance of his
high Office in q manner which ought
to command the admiration of right
thinking men everywhere. Applause on
the Republican side. Neither swsyed from
that direction by those who would have him
incline to their personal opinions, nor moved
by the unfriendly criticism of those who
seemed to regard him as one who snstched
the scepter from their grasp, he had con-
Quoted himself periodically in the honest and
sincere discharge of the high duties devolving
upon him. The people would judge of the
course of the Administration as it left its i'm
press upon the country's history, rather than
by the degree in which it happened to inter
fere with the public or private ambition OF
any man or any set OF men.
Butterworth passed on to the question of
removals and appointments, and incidentally
eulogized the administration of President
Hayes. It was the freedom of that Admin
itration from corruption that had given the
House OF Representatives to the Republican
party. l. was its freedom from corruption
that had swept the Republican nominee
triumphantly on TO to the Presidential chair
in 1880 The gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Bayue) had complained OF the exercise of
the appointing power by the President in
Pennsylvania. There were in that State 1856
Presidential appointments. How many had
the President Executive made? Oae hum
dred? No. Seyenty.five2 No. Fifty
No Ten No He had made FIVE out Of
the 1S6. two of them for cause. Three Post
masters had been removed-two of them for
dishonesty. Applause on the Republican
side. I New York had been prese lted before
the country SIS containing a mass of official
heads of 276 Presidential appointments. In
that State the President made five changes,
and two Of those removals had been FOR cause.
Never 10 the history of any Administration,
from that Of George Washington to this hour,
had there besu mora considerable regard for
public service, as far as disclosed by the pub
lie record, and yet the President had been
arraigned as if he only lived for the pur.
pose OF perpetuating the designs and schemes
of some mslcontents.
Burrows of Michigan asserted that in over
one.third of the States Of the Unisn not
single removal from office had been made.
Butterworth then passed on to a considera-
ton Of the circumstances attending his cleo
ton to the Forty Sixth Congress, and created
considerable amusement by his description of
the methods which he asserted had been
practiced by the Democratic party. and of
the part played by Ephraim Holland in that
campaign.
Cox of New York interrupted to Inquire
what Butterworth thought OF the removal of
Mr. Stinch, Internal Revenue Collector in
Cincinnati, and Butterworth did not give a
direct answer; but in the course of his reply
said to Cox, "You have the district so thor
oughly rotten that it votes the Democratic
ticket by instinct
This ance-ed Cox somewhat. and he said
such a remark came with bad grace from a
gentleman who had seduced Ephraim Hol
land who, according to the gentleman, was
Democratic prostitute.
In reply Butterworth made an allusion
which is not Of nature fit for publication,
which was characterized by Cox SIS the re-
mark of blackguErd.
Subsequently al effort was made to have
the colloGuy omitted from the record, and it
was accomplished, though not until the de-
bate had gone on for some time Of such ma
ture as to lead Morey of Mississippi to sug-
gest that the Chair request the ladies to re-
tire from the galleries.
Butterworth concluded his speech with an
attack upon the Democratic party and its
professions of civil service reform. In the
Forty-fourth Congress that party had rid
den into power in the House fetlock-deep in
human blood Under that power it had
murdered more men for attempting to vote
the Republican ticket than had fallen in de-
Tense of the flag at Gettysburg. beautiful
party to talk about civil service reform
There was not spot upon the escutcheon OF
the country that had not been placed there
by Democratic fingers. There was not hole
in the country's flag that they had not shot
there. There (pointing to the Democratic
side of the ohamber) was the map of the
country. II asked that a man should put o
pencil upon the State where political riots
went unchecked, where political outrage and
wrong went unrebuked and UNPUBLISHED, there
was not man who would have the brazen
effrontery to put his pencil within the bound
aries of clear, clean, Republican State.
JApplauss on the Republican side
Bavne said he endeavored to show yester
day that the remarks made by the Presi-
dent were agains. the Constitution and laws
of the country. He (Bayne) had drawn
the line of demarkation between the late
President and the present President. That
line of demarcation was distinctly drawn.
General Garfield proposed to represent the
wishes of the people, and his action in office
and his action everywhere had been in re.
Spouse to the demand of public sentiment !;
while President Arthur instead of responding
to the demands Of the people, responded to
the demands of minority faction of the Re
nublican party Collector after Collector had |
been removed by him. Almost every one of
those removed had been against the earnest
protests of the people of those collection dig
tricts. That was the difference between the
two men. One (Gar6eld) believing it to be
his high duty to represent public sentiment
the other ARTHUR believing it to be his duty
To represent the will of faction. The issue
ought to be presented to the people.
Pending the discussion the committee rose,
and soon after the House took a recess.
The House, at the evening session, passed
forty.fve pension bills, and several bills
granting condemned cannon.
Adjourned.
The Physicians and the Guiteau Autopsy.
WASHINGTON, July 7tb.-Rev. DR.. Hicks
has had an interview with the Attorney-Gen
eral in reference to the troubles among the
physicians lover the Guiteau autopsy. DIR.
Hicks complained that the trouble was owing
to the unwarranted interference of District
Attorney Corkhill. The Attorney General
stated that Corkhill was acting on his own |
responsibility.
sorry that there seems to be any soreness, but |
every person who has had any knowledge Of
such matters must know that the cool head |
and deft hand of the examiner and operator
who conduct an autopsy should be free from