Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-27
PACK0F PARTY WOLVES
rDNfUNps, ANTI-ADNIINIsTRA-
TION sCREED PASSED.

three OF the Republicans Pluck Up
Enough Courage to Vote In Opposition
90 RefusIngtO COnfirm-All the Demo
Gratis but Mr.. Morgan Vote for the Sol
dIer Retention Clause.
WASHINGTON, March 2G.-The Ed
munds resolutions were placed before tne
senate to-day and Mr.. ingalls, took the
floor. Mr.. ingalls, said he would take
I'D the question where the opposition lett
1t. He would begin where they closed
He conceded all that the Democratic
Senator'S demanded as the constitutional
mower of the Executive as to appoint
ments to office. The Judiciary
Committees report did not impair or in
fringe on the admitted higher prerogative
of the President. Mr. Ingalls, distinctly
and absolutely denied that the Senate
had asked for the Presidents reasons for
suspending anybody from office. In his
message, voluntarily sent to the Senate,
however, the President started out with
au unfounded imputation upon the posi-
lion of the majority in the Senate.
ndPoRTUNING DENIED.
He said that the Senators and commit
tees had impOrtuned the Executive for
his reasons for suspensions. Mr. Ingalls,
denied this and challenged anybody on
behalf of the administration to point out
one word or fact on which the Presi-
DENTS statement could be justly founded.
Unless some Senator should now, while
the debate was going on, show something
in support of that statement, which MIR.
Ingalls, denied, he would assume that his
denial could not be met. 1t had also been
oaiH that ttnriWafnB had
been asked for. Mr.. Ingalls, de-
MED this also and would be
glad to hear any Senator say when, how
or where the Senate had asked for any
private papers.
WHY DON'T THEY RESIGN?
The Republicans of Kansas also be-
lieved, and Mr. Ingalls, believed, that no
Republican could hold public office un-
der Democratic administration without
either sacrificing his convictions or for
felting his self-respect. Accordingly,
when the new administration was inaug-
urated those who held Office in that State
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 indecent haste
10 get out of Office. Laughter |
There was no craving there for mercy.
No mercenary straggler went for shelter
TO the bomb proof of the tenure of Office
act, and no sutler cTawled behind the
fragile breastwOrks of civil service re-
lorm. Laughter.
PARTIsANsHIP INDISPENSABLE.
He (Mr. Ingalls, was not one of those
Eh0 believed in nOn-partisanship in poll
tics. Political parties were indispenea-
bic to free government. He had no pa
tience with men who believed it a badge
Of virtue not to belong to a political or
ganization, or that it reflected glory on a
statesman to affect independence of his
party.
WHAT THE CHANGE IMPLIES.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Ingalls,
said when the people decided on a change
of administration that implied that there
should be a change Of the agencies
through which the administration might
be made effectual. Unless the President
Of the United States was to be a mummy
swathed in cloths that would render him
absolutely Intellectual of vital functions,
he must have powers commensurate with
his duties. After the election Democrats
expected TO get in and the Repu blicans
to get out, but new Genesis had come
about of late years-a class of political
philosophers who believed that nom
partisanship was panacea for all evils
that afflicted the repubIic-men who de.
OtACO buG lAOu VI Tue
system, as they called it. This new party
had been recruited from the Republican
party. II there was any genuine civil
service reformer who had deserted the
ranks OF the Democracy history did not
record his name. Laughter
THE THIRD SEX.
The neuter gender, Mr.. Ingalls, said, was
not popular, either in nature or in science.
male and female created ne them" But
there wasa third sex-ifthat could stsex''
be called which sex had nOne-resulting
sometimes from cruel caprice Of nature,
at others from accident or malevolent de-
sign-possessing the vices Of both and the
virtues of neither, laughter unable
either to beget or to bear-pOssessing
neither fecundity nor yirility-endowed
with the contempt of men and derision
Of women-dOomed to sterility, isolation
and extinction. Laughter. "But," said
Mr.. Ingalls,, ''they have two functions.
They sing falsetto Egreat laughterl, and
they are usually selected as the guardians
Of the seraglios of Oriental despots. Re-
newed laughter.
FALsETTo PHRASES.
"To come from figure to fact" he con-
tinued, this third party had distinguish.
ed itself by singing in falsettO phrases OF
civil service reform, and had been select
Inc national government"
III when President Cleveland was in-
eugurated he had determined that the
functions of government should be exeT-
clsed by men OF his own party. the nation
would nave been content, and hereon was
founded the justification that the majority
Oi the Senate could use in demanding
mat no action should be taken in connec-
u0h with these proposed removals from
umce until there had been satisfactory
assurances that injustice had not been
uone' II 1t were understood that these
removals were made for political reasons
lne country would be content. The Re-
publican majority in the Senate would be
e0ntent.n
REMOVALS OF FOURTH CLASS 70 OsTAIAs-
TIERS.
Mf. ingalls, referred TO the removals OF
.ourln class POstmasters and calculated
,ual lhese had been made az the rate OF
lour an hOur during the calendar year.
Af' C0ckrell inquired how many fourth
clRss fostmssters there were in the
country.
Mr.. Ingalls, did not know.
Mr. Cockrel said there were $4,000, and
oIthose only about s, 900 had been rem owed.
Well,' said Mr.. Iugalls, 'the admin
stati0n did the best II could; angels
Ooulu do no more'' [laughterl. He sug-
sested that MIR. COckrell curb his impa-
renee and impetuosity. The Postmaster
GENERAL would "get there" in time. One
wleFery 10 minutes was not so bad. "How