The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-04-01

! berger, repuDacans, Young VIII Che ueiio-
/ Gratis
aThat the provisions of the Revised Statutes,
declaring that persons honorably discharged
from the military naval service by reason OF
disability resulting from wounds or sickness
incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred
! for appointment to civil Offices provided they
are found to possess the business capacity nee
/ essarv for the proper discharge of the duties OF
such office ought to be faithfully and fully put
/ in execution, and that to remove or propose to
| remove, any such soldier whose faithfulness,
| competency and character are above reproach,
I and to give place to another who has net rem
dered such service, is q violation of the spirit
people and government of the United States
EoWe to the defenders Of constitutional liberty
This resolution was adopted by vote of S. TO
| /, Mr.. Morgan casting the negative vote.
| Another resolution, offered by Mr. Morgan,
declaring that the Attorney General had not
ed himself lab lie to Impeachment, was
rejected by party vote
AN INcIsTvE SPEECH BY MR.. INGALLS,.
| Mr.. ingalls, said he would take up the ques-
! ton where the opposition left it. He conceded
| all that the Democratic Senators demanded as
to the constitutional power of the Executive
as to appointments to office. The Judiciary
Committees report did not impair or infringe
on the admitted high prerogatives of the Pres
denied that the Senate had asked for the Pres
| ident's reasons for suspending anybody from
Office In his message, voluntarily sent to the
Senate, however, the President started out
with an unfounded imputation upon the posi-
ton of the majority In the Senate. He said
the Executive for his reasons for suspensions.
Mr.. Ingalls, denied this, and challenged any
| out one word or fact on which the Presidents
statement could be justly founded Unless
some Senator should now, while the debate
was going on, say something in support of that
statement which Mr.. Ingalls, denied. lie would
assume that his denial could not be met. 1t
ssed o Mr. tRs aso
and would be glad to hear any Senator say
| when, how whore the Senate had asked for
any private papers, That issue had been
brought i'll here by the Administration. ted
| der conscience needed no accuser There were
those who feared an officer in every bush. 1t
was the interior conscience of the Administra
ton out OF which was evolved this phantasy-
| that the senate had been inactive in confirm
| ing appel ,tments MI. ingalls, denied this
! firmed 1888 nominations. 1t had again been
charged that the Senate was trying to keep Re
no Republican could hold public Office under a
Democratic Administration without either sac
rlficing his convictions or FORGETTING his self
tration was inaugurated, those who held office
| in this State Kansas began with one consent
| to make excuses for retiring to private life.
| They did not stand on the order of their going
they trampled on each other in tumultuous
| and indecent haste to get out of office. Laugh
| teri. There was no craving there for mercy, no
| mercenary straggler went for shelter to the
sutler crawled behind the fragile breastworks
| of Civil Service reform. [Laughterl. II at the
end of one year few Republicans remained in
| bic to agree among themselves, had been
unable to discover among their own number
| competent or qualified successors for tn EN-.
| After the election the Democrats expected to
get in and the Republicans to get out. But
new Genesis had come about of late years-a
class of political philosophers who believed that
non -parsazanship was panacea fol all the
evils that l afflicted the RepnblicM;men who de-
! as they called it. This new party had been re-
cruited from the Republican party; if there
was any genuine Civil Service Reformer who
| had deserted the ranks of the Democracy, his
| tory did not record his name. laughter The
neuter gender, Mr.. ingalls, said, was not popu-
lar, either in nature OF in science. male and
| female created he them" But there was a
| third sex-if that could sex be called which
| caprice OF nature; at others from accident or
maIeEoient design-possessng the vices OF both
and the virtues of neither laughter, unable
| either to beget or bear-possessing neither
fecundity nor virlIty-endowed with the con-
| tempt of men and the deris1on OF women
doomed to sterility, isolation and extinction.
tons, they sing falsetto lgreat laughter and
| they are usually selected as the guardians of
the seraglios of Oriental despots. Renewed
| laughter. TO come from figure to fact, this
| third party has distinguished itself by singing,
in falsetto phrases, of Civil Service reform, and
| science of the National Government. am not
here to impugn the good faith, patriotism. or
of the United States. The President is the
sphinx Of American politics. Iii said that he
is q fatalist and that he regards himself as the
| implicit reliance upon the guiding influence
| of his star. Certainly, whether Grover Cleve-
| very extraordinary man. His career forbids
any other conclusion. The Democratic party
| held at Chicago, in many great and illustrious
names, men VINO had led the forlorn hope in its
achievements and history not only that organ.
ization but the country had the profo9ndest ad-
and Bayard. and Hendricks, and Tilden, and
others perhaps not less worthy, but less illus
dfiqus. upon whom the mantle OF that great
Grover who at he natnre s
ored profession that he might become sheriff
! of an interior county, was selected for that
ago, he entered the Senate Chambes and snbse-
quently took the oath of office on this platform,
| part of which had ever seen him, and the
greater part OF which two years before did not
Know Know him even by name, and who was even n, at
the leaders OF his own party in the Senate. The
| rise of Napoleon was sudden, startling, daz-
cling. Many other soldiers of fortune sprang
| from obScurity to fame, but no illustration of
an elevation from obscurity so profound to a
height so brilliant and dazzling is recorded in
history as the selection of Grover Cleveland to
be the Chief Magistrate of 60,00O,00O of people.
If. when he was inaugurated he had determined
that the functions Of Government should be
exercised by men of his own party, the Nation
ed the Justification that the majority of the
Senate can use in demanding that no action
shall be taken in connection with these pro-
satisfactory assurances that injustice has no
been DONE If were understood that these re-
would be content; the Republican majority in
the Senate would be content. But what Is the
attitude? Ever since his Inauguration and be-
fore his Inauguration, by many utteranceS,
| official and private, never challenged, Mr..
Cleveland has declared that he would not so
| administer this Government. In his letter of
acceptance he denounced the doctrine of polit-
and through ali his oca uSteranees e down to
this present time that same doctrine had been
repeated. Some Republicans have been sus-
pended and others retained. What is the ire
sistible inferenoe-the logic of the situation in
view of the Presidents utterances except that
every suspended man is suspended for cause
and not for political reasons ?''
Mr.. ingalls, alluded to the celebrated circu-
he characterized as ''the most thoroughly de- |
graded defiled, execrable and detestable pub
lie utterance'' ever made by any official 1t was
an invitation, he said, to every lIbeIier, every
anonomous sanderer, and scurriouS defamer
to pour sewerage into the Postofice Department.
The Postmast err Generals reply TO aresolution
of the Senate, introduced by him (Mr. Ingalls)
showed that S,635 fourth-class postmasters had
tratlon pledged to remove men only for cause,
This was twenty-eight removals for every day
days work, it was four removals an hour-one
for every fifteen minutes, every working day
non partisan civil Service Eeform. was
Mr.. Cockrell-Tnere were about 80 900 fourth
class postmasters in the country and of these |
only about 1000 have been removed.
Mr.. !ngalls-Wel, the Administration did the
best 1t could; angels could do no more. |
[Laughter.] But let the Senator from Missouri |
(Mr. Cockrel) curb h is Impotence and impet- |
uosity. The Postmaster General will "get |
there" in time. One for every fifteen minutes |
is not so bad How many do you expect? How |
many in the other departments, including the |
illuminated Department of Justice" laugh |
teri is unknown; therefore the friends of the |
Administration should be consoled.
Mr.. ingalls, read from The Boston Herald an |
interview with the President, which repre- |
sented him as saying among other thirgs that |
the Senate had not called on him for papers. |
THAT complaint, y Mr.. ingalls, commented, 'sno |
longer exists" LUproarous laughterl Con- |
tinung he said it would seem that the cry of |
Put the rascals OUT had been changed to 'tPut |
the rascals in" He had heard a good deal |
ABOUT corruption and profiigacy of Republicans
in office The Speaker then read and COM
mented on a list of names of persons appointed
by the present Administration who according |
to the published statements were convicted |
felonss having served various terms in the |
pententiaries of the different States. The |
statements. he said, were all from Democratic |
newspapers. One of the appointees had been |
in the penitent iaries of three States. 'sHe was
a variegated and diversified patriot; mo pent |
up Utica contracts his powers.' Another was |
janitor of the Cincinnati Post Office build |
ing.
Mr.. Payne-The postmaster at Cincinnati is |
Republican and has not been removed Laugh |
teri
Mr.. Ingalls, am talking of the janitor.
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