, 1888-05-03

alIud ed In sarchstlc anu amusing h'nh"e,
10 Ingalls, war record and said he would
stand before the soldiers of Indiana or Kan
sas and quit the senate II he was not ap-
proved by them over ingalls,.
Ingalls, replied that as the senator from
Indiana had seen fit to inyite comparison
between their records and their relations to
the questions OF the past twenty five years,
he felt 1t his duty to put on record rom
information in his possession what the
senators recoid d and history was, he should
, refer only to public matters in public
records. and should venture the ailirma'
ton that whatever might have been MS
own Ungalls) relations in the great strug-
gle between the north ana the south, the
senator from Indiana had been fom the
outset "a determined, outspoken, positive
and malignant enemy OF the union cause
pronounce that, said VOORHEES,, rising
with auger in his eyes, to be a
DELIBERATE AND FALSE ACCUSATION.
voted for every dollar that was paid the
soldiers. for every stitch of clothes he wore
and for every pension bill that rewarded
his services. ingalls, said, the senator camo
In here to-day and thanked God. that he had
never been followed here by committee
to question his right to his seat and with
much difiusencss of illustration had en-
deavored to cast aspersions upon him 1n-
galls) and belittle him and humiliate him
In the eyes OF the American people when
he (Ingalls) had only referred to the sena-
tors public utterance, his speeches, which
he had never denied. VOORHEES, declared he
did deny it. Ingalls, replied that the sena-
tor could not deny any publication he had
read 1t was a verbatim report and was
certified to. Voorhees, asserted that not
one word or syllable said by the senator
was true or believed to be true. In lndi.
ana the accusation had been tramped un-
der foot. The senator's insinuation that he
(Vnnrhppel mpmDpr of the
litical secret society the knights OF the
Golden Circle" was so
BASE AND UNANIMOUSLY FALSE
that he did not know how to choose lam
guage to denounse it as such.
Ingalls,, continuing said the senator from
Indiana had written letter for f. A.
Shute, which that gentleman took south
with him and filed in the confederate war
department in support of his application
for an appointment as brigade general in
the confederate army. The letter was
dated December l2, 1860, and said: "On
the disturbing question OF the day his
(Shute's) sentiments are entirely with the
south and one OF his objects Is probable
home i'm that section. | take this occasiod
to say that his sentiments and mine are In
close harmony (Signed) DANIEL w.
VOORHEES, Senator VOORHEES, said that the
charge that he had called union soldiers
"hirelngs" and "Lincoln dogs" and said
that they ought to go to the blacksmith
shop and have iron collars put around
their necks with the inscription, my dog.
Abraham Lincoln" was a campaign SLAM
der, and scandal that had been spit upon.
ingalls, said that averment could be SUBJ
stantiated by as creditable witnesses as
there were in the city. VOORHEES, and
even IL The senator said II, it would be
absolutely false and palpable lie. In.
galls-the senator is disOrderly. Continu-
ing, ingalls, read from paper signed by
the citizens Of Sullivan county, who stated
they were present at meeting on April
8, 1862, when Voorhees, had made the re-
mark quoted.
EVERYBODY KNEW WHAT BUSINESS
the democratic party of Indiana had been
engaged in during the war, 10000 OF them
had been members of the Knights OF the
Golden Circle and had been conspiring
against the union. They had entered into
q combination, according to General Holt,
for the purpose of aiding soldiers to desert,
discouIaging e.Ilistments, circulating trea-
sonable publications giving intelligence to
the enemy and assassination and murder,
and 1t wos susceptible of proof that they
did conspire to murder the government.
This organization which the senator said
he never belonged to had ritual of which
112 copies were found in the senators office
at the time when Hancock was at Gettys-
gurgh. In that same Office was found
other correspondence concerning the oh.
jects and purposes of that organization,
The correspondence of G. l.. Vallandine.
ham was in that office. The senator
in his address 70 his constituents
in '6l had declared he would never
vote single dollar o single man for the
prosecution Of the war, and he had never
doneso as long as he was in congress, yet,
continued ingalls,, the senator, who,
think, deserves charity more than any man
l know of on this floor, and and who has
received it at the hands of his associates,
and who can less afford Of any man of my
acquaintance to invite scrutiny of his war
record, rises here and refers to the fact that
i served during the war as Judge advocate
with the rank of major and subsequently
of lleutenant.colonel. However obscure
they were always on the side of my coun-
try, not as his have been, always against it.
Voorhees, said If tNe gentleman from
Kansas would find one single vote that he
had cast against the payment of soldies for
their supplies or for their beunties, or
against the appropriation tor their PEN
sions he would resign his seat in the senate.
Euer,' word the senator had stated on that
subject was absolutely false by the record,
absolutely false. The senator said he
(Noorhees) was an object of his charity, In
gals was
AN OBJECT OF HIS CONTEMPT
He denied again the statements charged to
him regarding the soldiers, and said the
papers found In his office were left there to
put up a Job on him. He never had been
member of a secret political society in
his life. So far as the old stuff about his
denouncing soldiers was concerned the
soldiers would take care of that. He said
Us to the people whose names were on the
paper from Sullivan county. that they lied
and did not tell truth, nor did the senator
when he repeated what they said. The
letter with regard to Captain Shute, what
he had written was in December before war
broke out and he had sympathized with
the feeling that there ought to be COM
promise.
lngalls-Did not the soldiers of Indiana
threaten to hang the senator with q
bell rope on the train after he
made that Lincoln dog speech
Va. rl.< H. T.