Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-06-28

sire to DO him kindness.
The speaker announced the question to be
on the motion 10 table the motion to recon-
slider the vote by which the House yesterday
defeated the Backbone forfeiture The mo-
tion was agreed to. and the House proceeded
TO the consideration of private business.
After the passage of several private bills.
Mr.. Valentine OF Nebraska. rising to a ques-
ton of privilege, said that some days ago the
gentleman from New Jersey fMcAdoo) had
obtained leave to print some remarks in the
Record. The geutleman's speech appeared
in the Record today and IT was found that he
had taken occasion to print As part of his
remarks despatch sent from here to a New
York newspaper on Jan. 9th. 1t contained
the names of some of our native land monop.
olists. In the list of names ~ printed in the
Record appeared the name of Senator John
A. Logan as owning $4,000 acres of land.
Logan had called his (Valentiue's) attention
to this and had desired him 10 say that the
statement was absolutely false. The only
land he owned was a little homestead in
Illinois.
Mr.. Cox of New York. in order to show, as
he expressed it, how the gentleman on the
other side attempted to strain at the gnat and
swallowed the menagerie camels. He
quoted from the speech printed BY Mr. Brewer
of New Jersey on the tariff, in which that
gentleman made very lengthy extract from
Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress" the
speech in fact consisting almost wholly of the
extract
Mr. O'Neil of Missouri suggested that the
title Of the book be amended BY adding the
words "and taitooed at last"
Mr.. Cox said he had trusted that Congress
would have adjourned without a partisan
presidential discussion having arisen. The
gentlemen on the other side were forcing a
political debate.
Mr.. Cannon offered a resolution that the
Record of June % be so amended as to show
that the speech purpOrting to have been de-
livered by Mr. McAdoo, in which reference
is made to Logan, was not actually delivered
but printed in the Record of June -. The
Record he said should not be allowed to be-
come a receptacle of the malace of individual
members upon those matters which they had
not courage to stand on the floor and avow.
Mr.. McAdoo desired to say that he did not
retract one word of the speech. He did not
consider for one moment that he had violated
any rule ofcourtesy, equity or manliness in
its publication. The article had been pub
lished last January and had been copied from
Maine to California, and there bad not been
line of contradiction from the supersensi-
tive senator or his friends in regard to his
name in that list. The gentleman from
Illinois had said he had not courage to de-
liver the speech in the State from which he
come, and in the district he represented. His
vilest enemy had never yet whispered that he
was lacking in courage or manhood. He had
never said behind the back of any man
that which he would not say to his
face. Applsuse on the democratic side.
The gentleman from Illinois said he had
brought the matter before the House because
the Record had been violated. The gentle
man knew better than that. 1t was simply
because the gentleman found the name of
John A. Logan on the list. If the senator
from Illinois has COTTON the land honestly he
has nothing to say, but he did depreciate and
condemn the principles that allowed any
man, whether humble citizen or a great
senator, to acquire large tracts of public
land. Mr.. McAdoo continuing said If he had
done as some gentlemen did, instead Of print
ing such q fair thing as q newspaper
article, and giving the newspaper and the
date of publication he might hsve asked the
deluded soldiers what they thought of the
great Senator who in his greed to absorb the
territory which belonged to the settler in the
land which was made for indepent free hold
ers and small farmere, went under cover of
his brother in-law to New Mexico and tried
to preempt the most valuable land, and who
was only stopped by the public surveyor. who
professed great friendship for, and rumor
even had it that he had Indian blood in his
veins. He was trying to steal from his own
kin hundreds and thousands of acres, and
was taking them from unfortunate savages
who were unable to protect themselves until
the honest secretary Of the interior had di-
rected the surveyor to take back the lands.
He (McAdoo) might have said this, but he
thanked heaven that his association with the
party Of honest men prevented his hurling
such innuendo against any man. He left this
subject with the House.
Mr.. Hopkins Of Pennsylvania. had read an
amendment, in which he proposed
to have the Record of June 2lst SO
amended as to show that the speech purport-
ing to have been delivered by Mr.. Cutcheon
of Michigan, on the Contract Labor bill,
had not actually been delivered. In that
speech Mr.. Cutcheon had made an assault on
the democratic party, and an unfair and un-
just assault against the author of the bill.
Mr.. Healy of California, gave notice of an
amendment directing the official reporters to
publish in the Record the remarks of Mr..
Cutcheon rejecting on Gen. U. S. Grant,
made upon the Fitz John Porter bill and sup
pressed from the Record. Laughter and ap-
plause on the democratic side.
Mr.. Cannon was on lis feet to reply to Mr..
McAdoo when the hour of five arrived, and
the speaker, amid much merriment, declared
the House in recess until o'clock.
The evening session vas consumed in the
discussion of bills granting pension of $50
a month to widows of Commander Gushing
and Lieut.. DeLong, but no action was taken.