, 1886-07-22
IN THE SENATE.
Consideration of the Commit
tees Report
On the Matter of the Election
Of Senator Payne.
General Logan Makes a Few
Plain Remarks.
Senate PROCEEDINGS.

VI DeuatOT Iayut, anu was duureSSeu by
Mr.. Pugh, in advocacy of the position
taken by himself, Mr.. Salisbury, Mr..
Vance and MIR. Eustis, to the effect that
there had been no express belief or sus-
picion On the part OF any member Of the
committee to the effect that Mr.. Payne
was connected in the remotest degree, by
act or knowledge, with anything wrong or
immoral in his election, and that no
further investigation Of the charges should
be made.
Mr.. Hoar addressed the senate in sup
port OF the views Of himself and MIR.
Frye. recommending an investigation OF
the charges. Such Investigation, he
argued, was due to Senator Payne, be-
cause it could only make it appear that
the suspicion which all the senators were
so eager to remove did not rest upon him
personally, and ought not to rest on the
friends nearest him, or upon the state
that had so honored him. The question
before the senate was not how the case
should be decided, but only whether an
inquiry should be instituted.
Mr.. Logan took the floor to reply to the
argument OF Mr.. Hoar and to sustain the
views expressed in the report signed by
himself and Messrs. Teller and Evarts.
He vas as ready now as any senator and
ever had been, to expel a member ii he
felt justified in 50 voting, but II, as in this
case, the senate was appealed to on gar
bled statements, on extracts or perversions
OF testimony y to do injustice TO Il man or to
his reputation, be CHR. Logan was not
the man to do it. There were many o
siderations in this matter. While he might
be appealed to on one side for the benefit
Of his party associates to do an act which,
in his judgment, was not warranted by
the law or the facts, he was appealed to
on the other hand by the knowledge
which he had Of honored age, Of honesty
of purpose and Of lair character.
| have been threatened and warned, but
l would rather be right than have all the
offices or compliments that could be be-
slowed upon me. Applause. There is
not an Office in the country that would
make me do wrong to any man in the SEN
ate for political purposes. | am the wrong
man to De used for any such purpose.
What is there in this case that should
cause such excitement and cause such
charges to be made against senator's? |
have never been very much alarmed by
attacks made upon me. | have had
quilC q nuulDtl VI cutu dtidthc uldQC up
on me, and care very little for them; but
in order to show the intense feeling
against certain individuals. | propose to
read what has been sail about Republican
senators by persons who claim to be of
that party. This does not seem
to be an Investigations Of tho
is an attack upon Republican senators
The first thing that was said after the
was arrived at by the committee !
was a telegram to various newspapers all
over the country that Logan had requested
the committee to keep the vote secret
That went to a certain character of papers
in this country. Why was that said
about me? There is not a man on the
of Gods earth who ever heard me
secrecy in relation to any act Of n
public character that | ever performed.
The members of the committee know
that that was a lie, and the chairman of
the committee telegraphed through the
Associated Press that there was no foun-
dalton at all for the statement. | would
like to know Why that statement was
made? Why should | be singled out
over other senators and have suspicion
cast upon me2 1t was done Just as many
things have been done since then. 1t
seems to be thought that now
is the time to kill off Republicans.
God knows that | Am too small a person
for them to commence shooting at first.
Why should | be killed off: | am not in
the way Of anybody. | am not a candi-
date in Ohio for any office, and | do not
want to be a candidate for any office.
Why it is that they so persistently attack
one day. Logan-the next day, Evarts:
and the next day. after killing off these
two men, they say now is the time for our
hero. 1t seems. sir, that this part of the
play, the last part of the play, is for the
purpose of destroying, if possible, the
Republicans in this senate chamber, in
stead of ousting the senator from Ohio.
Well. that Is all right. | am ready to be
destroyed. | am no help to anybody. Ii
will not hurt anybody TO kill me off-not
the slightest. | have been killed off half
a dozen times and they may kill me again.
1t will not hurt me, and If it be pleasure
to other people, let them have their fun.
| am not a candidate in Ohio for any office,
and | do not wan to be n candidate for
any office. Referring to the attacks made
upon him by the Cincinnati Gazette,
Mr.. Logan said The Cincinnati Ga=-
lie Is a very influential paper; a very pow
erlul paper. Nobody disputes that. 1t
Is owned and edited and has been for a
long time by a man named Halstead. In
the days of Abraham Lincoln, Halstcad
thought Lincoln's head ought to be
chucked against a wall and his brains
knocked out-or something like that
That was complimentary to Lincoln. In
1868 Halstead thought that Grant was a
drunken old loafer and ought to be kicked
out of society; That was complimentary
to Grant. | came 10 the senate here al
most accidentally, and the first thing |
knew when | got here, | picked up the
Cincinnati Gazette one day, and found five
columns ofthat paper charging my friend
from Ohio, who presides 80 honorably
and fairly over this body, with all sorts of
things. The next thing | found in the
Cincinnati Gazette was that Jamas q.
Blaine was a scoundrel, thief and villain who
should be executed at the nearest lamp
post. / did not believe it about Blaine;
| did not believe it about Grant, and |
did not believe it about Lincoln. | did
not think that | was a big enough fellow
ever to be attacked by the Cincinnati
Gazette, and | never dreamed Of such a
thing. But the other day | picked it up
and to my utter astonishment found my
name mentioned in it in a complimentary
way in connection with the names OF two
other senators who are greater men than
myself. Logan here quoted from the
the Cincinnati Gazette an article
against himself and Senator Ev-
arts and Teller, and speaking Of
Evarts as a representative ofcoal oil in the