Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-02-02
A Family Quarrel.
AMONG REPUBLIcAN SENATORS.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-This has been
s.n off day in the senate. When Sena-
tor Ingalls, presented the resolutions of
his state legislature, praying congress
to establish y soldiers home on the Ft.
Kelley military reservations, it was.ob-
served that he was undnly excited.
Logan and Conger also appeared very
much disturbed and general feeling
of irritabiGty prevailed. The cause
soon leaked out The senators had
been discussing on the tariff bill and
the most of them had got pretty angry
aud excited. The entire proceedings
were divulged before noon. Logan,
Conger and Van Wych had worked
themselves into terrible passion.
Several senators spoke in smoothing
way. They anointed Conger and Logan
and Van Wyck with the oil of promise
anc. assurance. But Conger would not
not be smoothed. He startled the
caucus by vowing that he never would
vote for that bill unless lumber was
taken off the free list and put back on
the tariff list. Party or no party, he
did not propose to sit quietly III
nis seat and see the great in-
terest of his state ruined by the
RErUBLIcAN PARTY IN CONGRESS.
That might as we'll be understood on
the spot, he said. If the republican
party wanted 10 lose Michigan they
were in fair way CT accomplishing
their purpose. He wouldn't be bound
by any caucus action, and no republ-
can could discipline him, or the repub-
hcsns of his state, for his refusal so to
be bound. This speech made the
SARCASTIC AND CRISP INGALLS,
vexed. He reminded Conger that the
tariff bill was fair subject for canoes
action. The chances were. he said,
that it was TO be the issue of 1854 Re-
publicans ought TO be willing to give
and take little. Bat, above all things,
they should be willing to agree to act
harmoniously in public at least, ard
not expose their disagreements TO the
public. Allison. who has the
WHITE HOUSE IN HIS EYE,
ana VINO Is regarded as prudent and
shrewd adviser, repeated Ingalls, views,
but with more suayity. Harmony, he
said, WAS imperative now. II the party
split just q little in this matter il would
split to pieces he feared. IL was per-
ilous business the party had undertak-
en-, and failure was inevitable unless
there was harmony. Logan. however,
made a speech in which there WAS
No PROMISE OF HARMONY.
He even went so far as to take Allison
and Ingalls, to task for presuming to
lecture their republican associates. He
reminded the senators whose Interests
were we'll protected by the proposed
bill of the fable wherein the frog is said
to have remarked to the urchins who
threw the stones: "This may b. fun for
you, but it's death to me-" He said
he should act as the interest of his
constituents compelled him to, caucus
or no caucus. By this time there was
warmth in the caucus, and to what
high degree of heat it would have
reached had not the hour for the open
ing of the senate come, can only be
surmised from the fact that Van WycS
was about to speak. Hot words are
imminent in the senate unless hot men
like Logan and Conger and Van Wyck
can be restrained, and if republican
caucus cannot restrain Logan and Con-
ger, what earthly power canH