Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-06
DAKOTA'S FIRST VICTORY
THE COMMITTEE BILL PASSES
THE SENATE.

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Drawn on the Vote.
WASHINGTON, FEB. 5.-In the Senate
today. on Mr.. Harrison's motion, the
morning business was laid aside and the
Dakota bill was taken up, on "nich MI
Butler took the floor. Mr.. Butter sald
that the Senator from Indiana Mr.. Har-
rison had either evaded or forgotten many
Of the facts bearing on the Dakota ques-
ton. He Mr.. Butler) charged that the
opposition to Dakota had first come, not
from the Democratic side Of the Senate,
but from the Republican side, and quoted
some remarks of Mr.. Hale in former Con-
gress to sustain his position.
Mr.. Mcmillan believed that Mr.. Hale
had then stood alone.
Mr.. Butler did not care how that was.
The Senator'S from Indiana and Illinois,
he said, had referred 30 the vote pOlled in
South Carolina and other Southern States,
and compared these votes with the vote of
Dakota.
TIE SOUTH UNDER FIRE.
Mr.. Butler had to assume that that was
done for the purpose of giving a sectional
turn to the debate, and arraying popular
prejudice against the Southern people.
The Southern States, Mr.. Butler con-
tinued, had been under fire for a good
MANY years. They had survived heavier
artillery than that now turned against
them, and would survive this. Whatever
might be said against South Carolina,
and no doubt she had made mistakes in
the past and would make mistakes IN the
future, never until the political friends
of the Senators on the other side had
camped upon the fair bosom of that state,
had her officials been tainted with the
blemish of corruption. 1t had never hap
pened till then that her officials had been
compelled to fly from her borders to escape
States prison, and while degrading, dis
graceful and humiliating spOliatiOn had
been going on, not one word Of protest
had come from the honorable Senators on
the other side who now arraigned South
Carolina.
COMPARING THE VOTES.
Mr.. Logan said his attention had been
directed to the vote of South Carolina be-
cause the Senators from South Carolina
MIR. Butler and Missouri Mr.. Vest u had
complained that Dakota, in 1884, had
polled 80, 900 votes, while on the adoption
of tne proposed constitution only $1,000
votes had been pOlled. He MIR. Logan had
then called attention to the vote OF the
Senators from the State of South Carolina
that Dakota, with only a quarter of
million of population, had pOlled $1,000
votes, while South Carolina, with a popu-
latiOn OF a million, had only voted $1,000
votes, and he Mr.. Logan had inquired
whether, il an explanation was required
for Dakota, if an explanation was not also
required for South Carolina?
Mr.. Butler replied that the eXplana-
tion was that at the last election in South
Carolina the political frauds and allies of
the Senator from Illinois, Mr.. LOgan)
were lndustriOusly neglected. They had
hoor -ft.rrs f..A
by that Senator. he Mr.. Butler). be-
. lieved that all the people of South Caro-
linas white and colored, were satisfied
with their State government, at least we
had right TO so assume.
Mr.. Logan remarked that nothing had
been said by him about the State govern
ment OF South Carolina.
Mr. Butler then inquired of the Senator
from Illinois Mr.. Logan), would in turn
vOuchsafe an explanation of the votes of
some States that he Mr., Butler), would
mention. He inquired how it WAS that
. only sixty-two per cent. OF the voters of
Illinois had gone to the polls at the last
election, even with the favorite son of
Illinois and the ''Plumed Knight" both
on the ticket.
LoGANs LOGIC.
Mr.. Logan said the point first made by
the senator from South Carolina had been
the vote had fallen off in Dakota. He
Mr.. Logan) had explained that fact by
showing that the Democratic committee
Of the Territory had notified the Demo-
Gratis not TO participate IN the vote, but
even on the view Of the Senator from
South Carolina if the vote had fallen off
IN South Carolina, Illinois and other
States why should it not fall or In Da-
kota?
Mr. Butler said this did not explain the
falling OF in Illinois. He also asked WHY
the |" old reliable" solid Republican State
Of Vermont, under the distinguished lead
ership Of the Senator from that State, Mr..
Edmunds, who was wild with enthusiasm
Tor the success of the Republics ticket
lgreat laughterl had polled only 81 per
uent. OF its vote, and even then, that Sem
ators own town had, for the first time in
It's history, gone Democratic. Also, why
had Rhode leland, equally enthusiastic
for the Republican party, polled only AZ
per cent. OF her vote for that toketp And
further, why in Maine, the home OF the
"Plumed Knight" but 80 per cent. Of the
vote was cast for that popular ticket?
Mr. Logan--Will the Senator allow me
q, ask him question:
Mr.. Butler---I shall be through ia mo-
ment. Perhaps these things can be ex-
planned.
LOGAN WILL EXPLAIN.
Mr. Logan was going to do 10.
Mr.. Buter--I shall be glad 10 hear the
explanation In moment.
IL was amusing, Mr.. Butler said, for
Nenators who had not, and in the nature
pi things could not, have Presidential as
pirations, TO watch the contests going on
pstween some Senator'S on the other side,
ne had no doubt Dakota's vote would be
luscious plum for ambitious statesmen
VIC were infected with the Presidential
over. He referred to sour genial friend
Hom Iowa." Mr.. Allison), who. he said,
nad "only got 10 cross over and shake the
npsn," and who would bear watching.
heterring 10 one Of the Dakota gentlemen
who opposed admission. Mr. Butler said
MAJ While some other men were lolling
- their tents he had been marching TO
70 the tune Of his country.
BUTLER AND THE PENSIONS.
m the course OF his remarks Mr.. Butler
Alluded to the pensions paid 10 Union
spiders, and said that he { Alr. Butler)
nae voted 10 pay millions upon millions
q such pensions to the comrades Of the
senator from Illinois, while his Mr.. But.
frs) comrades neither expected nor ro-
reiveo cent, but paid their share OF the
axes. DE did not complain OF this. The
\ comrades OF that Senator had been the
fictors. Mr.. Buffers comrades had been
fFanquished. and were entitled 10 no pen-