The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-06
TIE FIRST STAGE PASSED.
Conclusion of the Debate ON Senator
Harrison's Bill Admitting Dakota.
A Vote Taken and the Measure Adopted by
81 Against Ex-senator Voorhees, Casts
His Ballot with the Republicans.

on Mr.. Harrson's motion. the morning business
was laid aside and the Dakota bill taken up, on
which Mr.. Butler took the floor. Mr.. Butler said
that the Senator from Indiana Mr.. Harrisonl
had either eyaded or forgotten many OF the facts
bearing on the Dakota question. He Mr.. But-
lerl 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 a former Congress
to sustain his position.
Dir. McMilen believed Mr.. Hale had then stood
alone
Mr.. Butler did not care how that was. The
Senators from Indiana and Illinois. he said, had
referred to the vote polled in South Carolina and
other Southern States. and compared these votes
with the vote of Dakota. Mr. Butler had to
assume that that was done for the purpose of
giving a sectional turn to the debate and array
ing popular prejudice against the Southern PEG
Die. lFfae Southern States. Mr.. Butler continued,
Lad 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 Car
DINA land no doubt she had made mistakes in
the past and would make mistakes N the futurel,
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 happened till then that her officials had
been compelled to fly from her borders to escape
States prison. and while the degrading. disgrace
full and humiiating spo.iation had been going on,
not one word of protest had come from the honor
able Senators on the other side VINO now arralgned
South Carolina.
Mr. Logan said his attention had been directed
to the vote of South Carolina because the Sena-
tors from South Carolina Mr. Butlerl, aud
Missouri, [Mr. VesrI, had complained that Dako-
Ia in 1884, had polled IS, 900 votes while on the
adoption of the proposed constitution only 81. 600
votes had been polled. He Mr.. Loganl. had
then called attention to the Senator's own State
iSouth Cardinal; that Dakota with only quar-
ter of million of population had polled $1,000
votes. while South Carolina. with q population
Of million had only polled 81, 900 votes. and he
Mr. Loganl had inquired whether. if explana-
ton were required for Dakota, explanation was
not also required for South Carolina.
Mr. Butler replied that the explanation was
that at the last election i'll South Carolina, the
friends and allies of the Senator from Illinois
lMr. Loganl were industriously neglected; they
had not been instructed, or even approached by
that Senator. He Mr.. Butlerl believed all peo-
pie in South Carolina, 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 government of
South Carolina.
Mr. Butler then inquired If the Senator from
Illinois would in turn, vouchsafe an explana-
ton of some States that he Mr. Butlerl would
mention He inquired how it was that only 62
per cent of the voters of Ilirois had gone to the
polls at the last election, even with the ''favorite
son of Illinois" and the "Plumed Knight" both
on the ticket.
Mr.. Logan said that the point first made
By the Senator from South Carolina had been
that an explanation was required why the vote
had fallen off in Dakota He MIR. Loganl had ex-
planned that fact by showing that Democratic
committee of the Territory had Notified the
Democrats not to participate in the vote.
Mr. Butler said this did not explain the falling
off IN Illinois. He also asked why the 'old reIi-
ablen solid Republican State Of Vermont. under
tie distinguished leadership of the Senator
from that State Mr.. Edmundsl who was wild
with enthusiasm for the success OF the
Republican ticket tgreat laughterl, had polled
81 per cent. of it's vote and then that Senator's
own town had for the first time in its history,
gone Democratic. Also why had Rhode Island,
equally enthusiastic for the Republican party,
polled only 42 per cent of her vote for that
ticket aud further, why, in Maine. the home Of
the "Plumed Knight" but GA per cent was east
for that popular ticketi
Mr.. Loean-Will the Senator allow me to ask
him question:
Mr. Butler-I shall be through in a moment.
Perhaps these things can be explained.
Mr. Logan was going to do It,
Mr. Butler-I shall be glad to hear the expla-
nation in a moment 1t was amusing. Mr.. But
Ter said for Senators who had not, and in tie
nature of things could not. have presidential
aspirations. to watch the contest going on be-
tween some of the Senators the other side.
He had ne doubt Dakota's vote would be a de-
si.able plum for the ambitious statesmen who
were infected with the presidential fever. He
referred to our genial friend from Iowa
MIR. Allisonl, who, he said. had ''oply to cross
over and shake the bush,' and who would bear
Dakota
tlemen who opposed admission, Mr.. Butler said
that while some other gentlemen had been loil-
ing in their tents. he had been marching to the
tune of his country. In the course of his re-
marks, Mr.. Butler alluded to the pensions paid
to Union soldiers, and said he Mr. Butlerl had
voted to pay millions upon millions OF such pen
sions to the comrades of the Senator from Iili-
nois while his IMr. Butler'sl comrades neither
expected nor received q cent. but paid their
share of the taxes. He did not complain of this.
The comrades of that Senator had been victors;
Mr.. Buffers comrades had been vanquished,
and were entitled to no pension. The comrades
OF the Senator from Illinois were entitled to the
thanks and honors of the government, but PEG
pie had no right to be eternaily Haunting their
performances in the face of the country in order
to excite prejudice against others.
Mr. Logan said he had not attacked the State
or South Carolina. He had thought he was
compiimentng that State when he said that
South Carolina had always been in the forefront
of Democratic leadership. Regarding the vote
of Illinois. quoted by Mr.. Butler. Mr. Logan
asked Mr. Butler where he got his figures.
Mr.. Butler replied, I'm the American Al
mAnae.'
Mr.. Logan said almanacs sometimes made
mistakes. He cited the figures of the votes cast
in Illinois for several years past. showing con.
stautly increasing vote in that State the figures
for 1876 being 554 066. and for 1884 as much as
672669 At every presidential election. he said
since such elections had been known in this
country. the vote of Illinois had increased over
that of the prior election. How was it with
South Carolina, with population of million of
peoplei That State. in 1880, polled 10. 956
perhaps an increase. in 1884, the vote polled was
only 92.e62 votes. If. therefore, the vote of
illinois had increased by $4,000 and the vote Of
South Carolina had decreased by $4,000. his
MIR. Logan's idea was that an explanation was
as much due from South Carolina ss from n.'
kota 1t had been said that the electors of
Sonth Carolina had not been of n chara.ta. -