, 1886-03-27
The Edmunds' Resolution Dis
cussed at Length.
Senator ingalls, Defends His
Party.
Secretary Manning Will Retire
From Office.
The Brilliant Senator From Kansas

He denied that the senate had asked fo,
the lido reasons for spsnend;nO
anyone. or that nrivate papers had been
asked for The senate. since Jan. 25.
1885. had confirmed 4e3 Nominations. II
had again been charged that the senate
was irving to keen Republicans in Office.
The Republicans of Kansas. Mr.. ingalls,
said were neither afraid nor ashamed IN
be clsssed as Republicans They were
proud of tbe achievements Of their marty
They believed that in all the great meas
ures of the last quarter of a century they
were right and their ornaments wrong
and were able to give reason for the faith
that was in them. The Republicans of
Kansas also believed. and Mr.. ingalls, be-
lieyed. that no Renublican could hold
public office under a Democratic admin
listration witbout either sacrificing his
convictions or forfeiting his self
respect. Accordingly. when the new
Administrator was ~inaugurated those
who held Office in that state began to
make excuses for retiring to private life.
He was not ons of those who believed in
non-partisanship in politics. After the
election the Democrats expected to get in
and Republicans to get out. But a new
Genesis had come about of late years, a
class OF political philosophers WHO be-
lieved that non-partisanship was a panacea
for all the evils that afflicted the republic
men who decreed the operation of the
American system" as they called it.
This new party had been recruited from
the Republican party; if there was any
genuine civil service reformer who had
deserted the ranks of Democracy, history
did not record his name. Laughter. |
The neuter gender, Mr.. Ingalls, said, was
not popular eitherin nature or in science.
Male and female created He Them"
But there was a third sex-if that could
sex" be called, which sex had none, re-
sulting sometimes from cruel caprice of
nature and at Others from accidents or
malevolent design, possessing the vices of
both and virtues of neither, ~rlaughterl;
unable either to beget or bear-possessing
neither tecunditv or v%erility. endowed
with the CONTEMPT of men and the d%erision
of women-doomed to s%teriIity. isolation
and extinction. Laughter. But, SAID
Mr.. ingalls,, they have two functions,
they sing faIsetto great lauphter1. and
they are usually selected as guardians of
the s-eraRiios of Oriental despots. IRE
newed laughterl. To come from figure
to fact, he continued, this third party had
distinguished itself BY singing in falsetto
phrases civil service reform, and had been
selected as the guardian Of the conscience
of the national government.
Mr.. Edmunds, in closing the debate,
reviewed the whole question carefully and
commended that the two houses of congress
had a right to see the papers affecting the
business of the government. If, said Mr..
Edmunds, you took out of this very pres
ence at this monen the influence of the
executive patronage to be given to sena-
tors and their friends, there weuld not be
FIVE votes in this chamber against any one
or all resolutions proposed by judiciary
committee.
The question was then on Mr.. Van
Wyck's amendment, providing that in all
such cases of removals the matter Of con
erma,;ons shall no considered in oman ses-
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