Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-12

consider the bill increasing the police
force of the District He referred to the
fact that the surplus was still accumulat-
ing; the fiscal year was nearing its close
and the appropriation bill still undis-
posed of, AID finally came to the gist OF
his remarks with the citation Of the
General Pensions bill, which had been
reported on by the committee and intro
duced in the House. They had an
nounced themselves in favor of liberal
lpensions, but unfortunately in the recent
utterances of the Democratic party at st.
Louis there is the suggestion that the
Democratic party was in the future OPP
posed to carry its process Of pensioning
the Union soldiers Of the country.
Cannon, who is one OF the minority
members Of the Committee on rules, said
that as soon as he knew there had been
no meeting OF the committee for some
weeks, other minority members and
Reed and himself had asked that meet
ing be called in order that they might
properly voice the sentiment of the Re-
publican members of the House, but
they had heard nothing in regard to it.
Grosvenor then said the petition had
been presented to the Committee on
Rules, signed by all the Republicans
present in the House, asking for the as
signment of time to the Committee on
Invalid Pensions, and respectfully call
| ing attention to the demand there was in
the country for pension legislation. The
petition had been presented about a
month ago. Most of the time the Com
mittee on Rules had not any time for
consideration Of Pension bills, while it
had given days to carry the work OF
every other committee through. He
wanted the soldiers OF the country to un-
derstand that the minority was utterly
powerless to call up the Pension bill, ex-
cept with the consent and through the
will Of the majority.
Woodburn, of Nevada, made bitter
personal attack upon Cox, of New York,
taking for his text extracts from Cox's
| tariff speech, in which he characterized
Nevada as "a rotten borough and ridi-
culed its representative. in the House.
The gentleman, he said, called Nevada a
rotten borough, but he defed the gentle
man TO name any instance of the pur
chase OF the Legislature of that State.
He defied the gentleman to name the
time in her history when there had not
been an honest vote, honestly counted.
Nevada never had to boast of Connolly,
q Sweeney, Cardoza, Field or an In
gersoll, and it was to her credit that she
had never produced Cox. Laughter. ]
She needed no Canada on her border to
shelter her thieves and political scoun-
drels. Unlike the State of New York,
the capacity of her ballot boxes was linn
tied by the quantity OF votes cast, and il
the Blair bill became law his constitu-
ents would not get ten cents
where the gentleman's constituents
would get ten dollars. Ii all the
corruption fund that would be
expended to carry the Empire State for
Cleveland were put into Virginia City, it
would not cause a perceptible influence
in any one of the four wards. He had
always heard that the gentleman was
the wit and humorist Of the House, but
he was never convinced OF it until the
gentleman delivered his speech on tar
if. He remembered that when Ben
Butler "shoo-flied" the gentleman into
silence, the people believed he would
forever cease to be the funny man in
Congress, but the gentleman has evil
IDENTIFY become jealous OF Allen, of Mis-
sissippi, and in q desperate effort to re-
gain bis shattered reputation, he had Sc
lccted his (Woodburn's) name for hu-
morous analysis. II his name were the
same as that OF the gentleman from New
York, he would have the good sense
never to permit it to be the subject OF
criticism on the floor of the House. He
had read modern and ancient and sacred
and profane history, and he had failed
to find that the name OF Cox was ever
associated with decent or conspicuous
achievement. The Almighty had never
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the name of Cox.
He then quoted Cox's remarks, eulog-
istic OF the Celts and derogatory to the
vellous change which had come over the
sentiment Of the gentleman since he
wrote "The Buckeye Abroad" From
this book he quoted to show that in 1854
Mr.. Cox had held views derogatory to
the Celts, and he declared that the Buck
eye in Ohio was totally different from
the Buckeye when he placed his carpet
bag in Tammany Hall. The gentleman
was Doctor Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
Woodburn then went into an analysis
OF Mr.. Cox's middle name Of Sullivan,
and denied the gentleman's claim that
he was the descendant OF General Sulli-
van OF Revolutionary fame. In conclu-
sion he replied to the charge in regard to
A. s. Hewitt having apologized to the
British Minister because the House
passed resolution OF inquiry as to the
trial OF American citizens by British
court; but here his time having expired,
be stated he would take the floor to-mor-
row upon question Of privilege, and
would address the House upon the sub
iect.
Cox said he had been advised by
friends on both sides OF the House to pay
no attention to this nonsense. For many
years this book, "The Buckeye Abroad"
had been quoted against him on many
subjects. Though young man he had
in that book indicated, as every young
American should, the doctrine Of our
Constitution as to religious liberation.
He had paid visit to Ireland and had
tribute OF the people of that country.
The gentlemen should have made this
attack on him during the debate on the
tariff. The bullet had gone by and the
gentleman did not know enough at the
time to know that he was shot. He did
not know it because he was an incarnate
suppressionist.S That was the Irish for a
man who did not tell the truth, although
(laughter) he admitted the gentleman's
assertion that he was better lawyer
than he (Cox) was. He had therefore
referred to Blackstone and found, when
the jury had heard the evidence,
that the accusation was groundless,
it formally entered on the back OF the
bill "Ignoramus." If the gentleman
were indicted for intelligence and for
telling the whole truth, and the jury
kept to the old custom, it would write on
the back OF the bill "Ignoramus. :"
Laughter All he had to say to the
gentleman, in conclusion, was "dig, dig,
little mole; dig under the ground there's
sunlight in the sky"