The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-10
lowed to diminish under this or any other
Democratic administration.

lowed to diminish under this or any other
incoming Democratic administration.
Not Lacking in Aggressiveness.
Special to the SentSnel.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-People can't
charge the Administration with being mealy-
mouthed or time-serving. During the week
plain spoken and aggressive documents have
been put forth. The first was the Presidents
message on the right of the Senate to share
his information, on which he made changes
in the civil serve, That bold challenge has
now been followed up by Others, each as un-
compromising in its way A second message
has been received from the President, IN
which he condemns, in the most decided
and explicit terms, the Outrages committed
upon the Chinese in the far West, an urges
Congress TO reimburse the victims for their
pecuniary losses. Mr.. Cleveland evidently
has an idea that he is President
of the United States, and on that
impression he will find many people scat
tered through the country who will agree
with him. Senator Edmunds' comparison
of Mr.. Cleveland to Charles the First, the
most arbitrary of the Stuart Kings, has not
struck the country as very apt. Possibly he
need not have gone quite so far back in
English history for a parallel. A closer
analogy would be found in cotemporary
English politics were the House of Lords to
demand 9lat Mr. Gladstone should explain
to them Ais reasons for making changes In
his under officers on a change of Ministry
called for by general election.
Special to the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The scenes in the
House to-day were more exciting than at any
time during the present Congress. 1t was oyer
the debate of the Pension Appropriation
bill, which was limited to three hours.
There was but little if anything in it other
than the Haunting of the bloody shirt and
fighting the war over again. AS has been
named IN these dispatches, the sectional IS.
sues were brought into the debate by Repre-
sentative Henderson, OF Iowa, last week.
when he embraced the opportunity of max
ing regular campaign harrangue for the
benefit of the Republican party. Since that
day politics has been all there is in the dis
eussiOn, with an attempt upon the part of
the Republicans to defend and whitewash
the somewhat mysterious official actions
of ex-Commissioner of Pensions Dudley.
| Henderson has been badly bruised by the
knocks given him from the Democratic
side of the House, until now he feels he has
gotten quite the worst of the situation, and
recognizes the fact that he, too injured him.
self and seriously weakened his party. This
was evinced to-day IN his attempt to smooth
over and apologize for his previous remarks.
Cabbell, of Virginia, demonstrated the Iowa
statesman as bul.dozer, and charged him
with beng responsible for opening up all
the old sores of the war.
Among the amusing incidents of the day
was the speech of General Warner. of Ohio,
spending much of his time in reading the
letters of Colonel Dudley from his autograph
/ letter book from the Pension Office,
which like those read on Tuesday by Colonel
Matson, every page Of which breathed ven
| geanee against the Democrat party, and i'm
| piled a connection with all the schemes OF
the Republicans and as such were proven by
the letter that the Pension Office was run
for political purposes. The Dudley letters
are thousand times more damaging than
were the Mulligan letters, which overthrew
the dynasty of the illustrious Blaine. Dud-
ley should have profited by the request of
the Plumed Knight when he wanted the
letters burned. The Democrats have the
evidence against Dudley and the scenes
when the letter-book was pitched from desk
TO desk and the contents devoured by the
members, reminded one OF the actions Of
a lot of CANNES engaged in excavation"
When the letters were read by General
Warner 1t seemed as if every Republican
tried to hide himself under his desk, and
had slid their bodies as far in that direction
as possible until he left them hanging to
their chairs by the backs of their necks.
During the debate personalities were freely
INDUCED in by General Grosvenor of Ohio,
and General Warner, the former characteriz-
| ing the latter as no gentleman, and he would
accept of no courteses at his hands. Hen
derson said he was not known as a bulldozer
at home and no one had ever so charged him
until Cabbell, who Ito use Hender-
sons sons, language came from from tn the
| When this was said, which was an illusion
to the Danville riots, Cabbell grew furious
and wanted to fight Henderson on the floor
| of the House. It was some five minutes be-
fore anything could be heard, 50 great was
the confusion. There is any quantity of bad
blood at fever heat, and should the debate
continue much longer, there may be some
thing after the Sullivan style brought into
practice. Nobody has any pity for poor
| Dudley. His Republican friends say he was
blooming idiot for writing political letters
in an official letter book.