The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-02-07


ners in the sub structure contract,
and the Indianapolis iron works hold,
and possibly the contingent fees oil
attorneys, and the costs of court.
The Sherman Resolution Farce.
1t was understood in Washington
that Senator Lamar would reply to
the Republican speeches when the
Sherman resolutions were called up
on Tuesday morning, the 29th inst,
and the result was that the galleries
of the Senate were crowded as they
always are when speech is expected
from this great orator and statesman;
but at a conference held on Monday
morning it had been determined by
the Democratic Senators that unless
such speeches were made by the ops
position as imperatively demanded
response they would desist from
speaking and thereby take the wind
entirely out of Sherman's scheme to
precipitate sectional debate.
After the resolutions were read,
Mr.. Sherman delivered a written
speech that consumed some ten or
fifteen minutes, and then gave way
to little Billy Malone, who, in That
squeaking tone so familiar to those
who have heard him, proceeded to
read from printed slips q long, in
sipid harangue, characterized by
whining professions Of boot-lidsing
loyalty and pigmy efforts in the line
of denunciation Of his Virgins op-
ponents. 1t was a rare admisture
of scurility and servility, such an
effort as would have put every an
who had drop of the blood o. the
Old Dominion in his veins, to the
blush, but for the reflection that Vir-
ginia had in her late election plugged
herself of Mahonism, and through
her Legislature by two thirds votos
repudiated his clnims to represent
her, and demanded his resignation.
Surely Virginia cannot now be held
more responsible for Maaone's con.
duct and utterances than was Mis-
sissippi in those dark days when
Ames and Pease while assuming to
bear her commission, went as scaven.
gers through the lexicon in search
Of filthy terms with which to beslime
her.
This long winded harangue had
been rehearsed by the alleged
author in the Senate chamber the
night before, after adjournment,
much to the amusement OF the Cap
ital police and Others who after mid
night carried this humble follower of
Cataline in helpless condition from
the chamber to his committee room.
After the conclusion of this read
ing, there was pause-the crowded
galleries were alive with anxious ex-
pectations; they had husbanded their
patience and set out Malone in the
expectation Of lively rejoinder and
fierce debate, but not a Democratic
Senator moved in his seat though
many were anxious for q tilt with
such adversaries as they deemed
"worthy OF their steel,' on the OPP
posite side. The audience, assembled
to hear Lamar and others, was DOOM
ed to disappointment; the appointed
time for them to raise their voices in
crushing rebuke had not yet come;
the motion to put the resolutions
upon their passage was made, the
yeas and nays were called for, the
Republicans and Malone all voted
yea the Democrats all voted"nay,"
and tho bomb that Sherman had
prepared with view to startling ex~
ecution exploded in the air far short
of its goal.
The Republicans who had planned
this abortive scheme were complete
ly taken by surprise and greatly dis
comGtted, while Logan, Ingalls,
Plumb and others who had no heart
in the "bloody shirt" fight, but who
would have been drawn into 1t if il
had commenced, and would proba,
bly, have gone as deep as any one
were heartily amused at the discom
torture of the self constituted mar
shals of the day.
The severe weather since the 25tl
of December has almost entirely pre-,