The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-04-03
THE DEBATE ENDED.
The EDMUNDS RESOLUTIONS PASSED
IN THE SENATE


Six-Mr. Ingalls, Scathing Arrangement
| of the Administrations.
On Friday of last week public inter-
est eliminated in the prerogative de-
bate in the United States Senate, when
Mr. ingalls, delivered the following
speech, which is conceded to be the
strongest one of the debate. The Sen
ator from Kansas is one of the most
attractive speaker in that body. His
keen sarcasm and ready wit go long
way toward breaking the monotony of
any discussion. On this occasion he
could have filled a house with double
the seating capacity of the Senate
chamber. Although he began an hour
and a half earlier than the time when
the debate on this subject usually be-
gins, he found every seat occupied.
Every Senator was in his seat, and
remained there, fascinated with the in
cislve eloQuence of the Western orator.
The Republicans smiled delightedly as
ingalls, hourished his Senatorial scimi-
ter, and the Democrats often squirmed
and sometimes interrupted, but when
they did, they invariably wished they
! hadn't, for they sat down discounted.
l. was impossible not to listen and i'm
possible to curb the laughter which
every now and then rippled over the
galleries. Even staid and sober Sena-
tors on both sides occasionally leaned
back and laughed aloud
Mr.. ingalls, said he would not take
up the question where the opposition
left it. He conceded all that the
Democratic Senators demanded as to
the Constitutional power Of the Execu-
tive as to appointments to office. The
Judiciary Committees report did not
impair or infringe on the admitted high
prerogative of the President. He dis
tlnctly and absolutely denied that the
Senate had asked for the Presidents
reasons for suspending anybody from
office. In his message, voluntarily sent
to the Senate, however, the President
started out with an unfounded imputa-
ton uDon the position of the majority
IN the Senate. He said that Senators
and committees had importuned the
Executive for his reasons for suspen-
Sons. MIR. ingalls, denied this, and
challenged anybody on behalf o. the
Administration to point out one word
or fact on which the President S state
ment could be justly founded. Unless
some Senator should now,while the de-
bate was going on, say something in
support of that statement which Mr..
ingalls, denied, he would assume that
his denial could not be met. 1t had
also been said that private" papers
had been asked for. Mr.. ingalls, de-
MED this also, and would be glad to
hear any Senator say when, how or
where the Senate had asked tor airy
private papers. That issue had been
brought in here by the Administration.
\ tender conscience needed no &C
cuser. It was the interior conscience
Of the Administration out of which was
evolved this phantasy-.his farcial ale
CATION. 1t had been also said that the
Senate had been inactive in confirming
appointments. Mr. ingalls, denied this
also. The Senate since January 5 had |
confirmed 4O5 nominations. 1t had
again been charged that the Senate was
trying to keep Republicans in office. |
He believed that no Republican could |
hold public office under Democratic |
Administration without either sacrihc-
ing his convictions or FORGETTING his self
respect. Accordingly, when the new
Administration was inaugurated those
who held Office in his State (kansas)
began with one consent to make ex-
cu5es for retiring to private life. They |
did not stand on the order of their 60
ing they trampled on each other in
tumultuous and indecent haste to get |
out of office. Laughter. There was
no craving there tor mercy, no merce-
straggler went for shelter to the bomb
proof of the Tenure of Office act, and |
no sutler crawled behind the fragile |
breast-works of Civil Service reform.
Laughter If at the end of one year
few Republicans renamed in office it
was because the victors had been ur-
able to discover among their own num-
Der competent or qualified successors
for them. After the election the Dem |
ocrats expected to get in and the Re-
pubGcans to get out. But a new Cen
esis had come about of late years-a
class Of political philosophers who be-
lieved that non-partisanship was a pan
acea for all the evils that afflicted the |
Republic-men who decried the opera
ton Of the American" system, as they
called it. This lew party had been re-
crulted from the Republican party; if |
there was any genuine Civil Service re-
former who he'd deserted the ranks of |
the Democracy, history did not record |
bis name. Laughter. The neuter
gender, Mr. ingalls, said, was not pop
ular either in nature or in science. "Male |
and female created He them" But
there was third sex-if that could |
"sex" be called which sex had none
resulting sometimes from cruel caprice
of nature at others from accident or
malevolent design possessing the vices
of both and the virtues of neither
laughter unable to beget or bear
possessing neither tecundlty nor vlrility
endowed with the contempt of men
and the derision of women-doomed