The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-03-27
OFFENSIVE PARTISANS.
Rrutal Attack on the Presi'
dent By Senator Ingalls,.
TINS II Il M l. Y ia LIZ
On the Floor of the Senate-Vulgar-
garity and Vituperation-Nctes
From Congress.

W,suINGroN, March 26.--The Chair la
lefore the Senate the Presidents messae
transmitting the report OF the Civil Servi
Commission. Referred.
Among the bills introduced was one
Mr.. Hoar providing for inquests und
National authority. Mr.. Hoar said tt
bill was suggest ed by the reports OF recel
occurrences at Carrolton, Mississippi. II
Senate had had no. information in regal
to these occurrences, but The newspapers
both National parties seemed to agr
about them. According to these reports
vauton and unpro 'oked crime had bee
committed, resulting in the death of II lar
number of citizens in which all the victim
were of one race and. he presumed, OF OF
,olital party, and all the rnurderers
another. Such occurrences, unfortunately
had been of frequent occurrence, but whe
inyestigat ted they were apt TO take pol
tical turn. Persons defending or apologi
ne for them said they had no politics
sipnitication, still the fact remained that
was the opponents OF the Democrat tic part
/ that were killed, and the adherents OF tha
! party were the v!ctOrs.
The President pro TEN laid before tn
/ Senate the Edmunds resolut ions.
TRADE OF ABUSE.
Mr.. INGALLS, denied that the Senate hat
asked for the Presidents reasons Tor sus
pending any one. or thatany private raper
| had been asked for. The Senate had slnc
January 25, 1886. confirmed 493 nomlna
Itions. 1t had again been charged that th'
$Senate WAS irving to keep Republican,
5in office. The Republicans OF Kansas, Mr.
Ingalls said, were neither AFRAID mol
ashamed to be classed rs Republicans
They were proud OF the achievements o
Their party. They believed that in al
preat measures OF the last quarter OF q
century they were right and their oppo
nents wrong, and they we're able to give a
reason for the faith that was in them. The
Repuhlicans OF Kansas also believed and
Ar, ingalls, believed that no Republican
oull hold public office under a Democratic
administration without either sacrificing
is convictions or forfeiting his sclf-respect.
ccorlingy, when the new ndminis' ra ton
has inaugurated, these who held office in
hat State began to make excuses for re.
firing to private life. He was not one al
hose who believed in non-par tisanshjp in
arties. After the election the Dem ocrats
Expected to get in and the Republicans to
et out. but
NEW GENESIS HAD
oma about Of late ye rs. n class of pOlit-
cal philosophers had sprung up. Men who
believed that non partishnsh was an
acea for all the evils that afflicted the Re
public, IN. n who decried the operation OF
HE American system. AZ they called It,.
This new party had been recruited from
the Republican party. II there was any
Genuine civil service reformcr who had tic
e"rted the ranks Of the Democracy, history
hid not not record his name. Laughter,]
|The neut gender Mr.. Ingalls, said, was
hot popular either in nature or in science.
FMale and female created He them," but
4here WAS a third sex, il that could be
called sex" which had non results. Some
times from cruel capr,ct Of nature, and hc
others from accident or malevolent design,
possessing the vices OF both and virtues OF
neither. Laughter Unable either to be-
ket or to bear, possessing neither fecundlty
Dor viriity, endowed with the contempt OF
nen and the der ision of women, doomed
10 sterility, isolation and extinction.
Laughter.] But, said Mr.. Ingalls,, they
AVE two functions,
THEY SING FALsETTO
great laughter). and they arc usually sc.
ected as guardians OF the seraglios OF
oriental despots renewed laughter]. !
ome from the figure to fact, he continued.
This third party had distinguished itself
singing in ialsctto, phrases OF civil ser
Ice reform, and had been selected as the
hardian Of the National Government. He
as not here to lmpugn the good faith
atriotism or many extraordinary quali-
es OF the President Of the United States.
he President was the s"hinx OF American
Politics. 1t was said that he was a fatal
PIT, and that he regarded himself rs the
|hleld OF destiny, that he placed devout
end implicit reliance upon the quitting in
luence OF his star. Certainly, whether
Srover Cleveland was a very great or a
Hnv small man he was a very extraOr-
binary man. His career forabade
hny other conclusion. The Democratic
barty was not wanting, when the convcn-
fion was held in Chicago in many great and
plustrious names, men who had led the
|orlorn hope in it's darkest days, men for
whose character and history not only that
organization, but the country, held the
profoundest admiration and respect. There
Eas Thurman and Bayard and Hendricks
knd Tilden and others perhaps not less
forthy but less illustrious, upon whom the
mantle of
THAT GREAT DISTINCTION
hight properly have fallen, but Grover
kIeveland Il man who at the mature age OF
Is abandoned liberal and honored pro-
ession that he might berome the Sheriff OF
hn interior county was selected for that
position, and when little more than a
year ago he entered the Sena chamber,
Pnd subsequently took the oath OF office
pm this platform lie encountered an audi
Fnce not one-twentieth part of which had
ver seen him, and the crater part OF
Nhom, two years before did not known hi m
Pven by name, and who WAS at that
'oment practically unacquainted with the
enders OF his own party in the Senate. The
lse OF Napoleon was sudden. dazzling and
tartllng, many other soldiers o. fortune had
2prnng from obscurity to fame, but no
illustration OF an elevation from an OBJ
curity 80 profound to height
so BRILLIANT AND DAZZLING
nas recorded in history as the selection
pi Grover Cleveland to be the Chief Magis-
rate OF $4,000, 900 people. If, when he
Eas inaugurated, he had determined that
Phe functions Of Government should be ex-
rcls ID by men OF his own party, the Ma
Elon would have been content. HereOn
vas founded the justification that the ma
"r'ty "f the Senate could use for demand
ns that no action should be taken in con-
lection with these proposed removals from
onlce until there had been satisfactory
assurance that injustices had not been
hone. II it were understood that these re-
lhoVals were made for political reason the
country would he content, and the Rspub-
lean ma jority IN the Senate would be con-
teht. The President had declared that
mere should he no changes il Offices where
ne lncumbents were competent, for politi-
cal reasons, but they should be permitted
% serve their term. Like those that were
Finding at the mil, ,one had been taken and
Ahother left some Republicans had been
uspended and others retained. what was
THE IRRESISTIBLE INFERENCE,
u the logic OF the situation, in view of the
reSidents attorneys except that every
suspended man was suspended for cause
NOT FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
Mr.. Ingalls, alluded to the celebrated
circular issued by the Postmaster General
winch he challenged as the "most thor.
cushly degraded, defiled, execrable and de.
testable public utterance" ever made by
E'hy Official. 1t was an invitation, he said,
o every liheller. every anonymous
slanderer and scurrlous defame to pour a
Tt TyHerage INTO the Postoffice department
nat o.