Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-07

for the storage of water in the arid regions
of the United States.
The rule as to executive sessions was
modified so as to read: when a treaty
shall be laid before the Senate for ratifica-
ton it shall be read the first time, and no
motion shall be in order except to refer it
to committee, to print in confidence for
the use of the Senate, TO remove the in
junction of secrecy, or TO consider it in
open executive session."
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the pension bill, the question being on
Wilson's amendment.
After brief debate, Sherman, referring
to Beck's speech of last week, had read a
paragraph in which he (Sherman) had been
severely criticised for his connection with
denomination. He would have re-
garded it as unworthy of notice, as the
Senator from Kentucky had been under
some excitement, but that he had used the
word secrecy u; that it was done under
cover, and that he (Sherman) was respon-
sible. He proceeded to show how the
principle of law had been reported in the
bill three years before it went into effect,
and how it has been discussed, etc. He
wanted to know why such a matter had
been lugged into debate with which it
had nothing to do.
Beck asserted that he would tomorrow
prove all his statements.
INGALLS, TAKES THE FLOOR.
Ingalls,, having called Platt to the chair,
proceeded to address the Senate, the gale
ries being crowded to their full capacity.
He had been surprised one day last week
on returning to the chamber, after long
absence, to learn that the Senator from
Missouri (VesD had referred to him in
terms not complimentary, and had coupled
with personal remarks an intimation that
the people of the District of Columbia were
incapable OF disinterested patriotism, and
that the veterans of the Republic were a
mob of sordid plunderers. As to himself,
ne would say that the nomination and
election of Grover Cleveland had made the
pretensions of any American citizen to the
Presidency respectable. There was no man
IN this country whose ignorance was so
profound, whose obscurity was so
impenetrable, whose antecedents so de-
graded that he had not a right to
aspire to the Presidential nomination
by the Democratic party. He regretted
that the Senator from Missouri was not in
his seat to-day. He should initiate that
Senator's bad example, and would confine
himself, so far as he was concerned, to
that Senator's autobiography. That Senator
was born in a State that had not seeded
(Kentucky), and had represented in the
Confederate Congress State which had
not seeded (Missouri). The Senator from
Kentucky (Blackburn) had also referred
sneeringly to the super-loyalty of the sol
diers OF the Union. 1t was curious that Con-
federates from Union States were little
more pronounced, little more aggressive,
and little more violent in their denuncia-
ton of the North than Confederates from
States that had seeded. He did not know
where the Senator from Missouri 90. the
figures from when he stated that but 5000
OF Lees army had surrendered. at ApDo-
mattox. But one parallel was to be found
in the extraordinary inaccuracy of that
statement and that was the same Senator's
assertion that of the 100000 soldiers of
the Union army, more than half
had applied for pensions. Such
speeches as those of the Senators from
Missouri and Kentucky were intended to
catch the Confederate vote, and they would
catch it. He wanted the Senators of the
Democratic side to understand that the dis
guise for opposing the pension bills was ex-
ceedingly thin, and that nobody was de-
ceived by it. The South did not love the
Union army, neither did the Democratic
party
Morgan reminded ingalls, that the Dem
ocratic party had nominated and sustained
a Federal officer General Hancock for the
Presidency.
Yes" said ingalls,, sit did support
Hancock, and it also supported Horace
Greeley in attempting to fool the North. 1t
also nominated and supported that other
ally of the Confederacy, George B. McClel-
lan Snph
dlaphanous. Why was it that, when an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, who by one of those
strange caprices of history, now sat in
judgment upon those great constitutional
amendments adopted against his protest
and etiorts-why was it, when he arose
in the Senate and said he would
resent as personal affront any imputation
upon the honor, integrity or patriotism of
Jefferson Davis, when he said he had no
doubt Jefferson Davis would occupy a niche
in history by the side of George Washing
ton-wby was it that no Senator on the
Democratic side, from the North or South
arose to repudiate and disavow it? And
yet, the moment any Senator on the Repub-
lican side, or any editor of any Northern
paper talked about the Union army thev
were taunted with waving ensanguined
undergarments, raking UP the ashes of Sec
honal strife. and appealing to partisan
hatred and malice. It was time the twenty
four COnfederateS on the other side of the
Chamber were informed that the Northern
people were not i'll i-advised about this mat
ter"
IDgalls referred to the unveiling of Hills
statue, in Georgia, in 1886, and the speeches
of Grady and Jefferson Davis thereat He
spoke OF the same orator having gone to
New York and New England soon after,
making speeches there pouring out his
cold cream and honey and maple sugar all
over the North" When" he asked.
" was that orator sincere?"
Coming back to the opposition of the
Southern Senators to the pension bills. he
said he did not blame them for it. If the
Federal Government had been oveithrown
he did not believe he would have felt com
forted in voting pensions to Confederate
soldiers. But he would regard it as the
climax of efrontery if, after he had ac-
cepted its pardon and had had his dis
abilities removed, and had taken the oath
of allegiance to the successful Southern
Confederacy, he had denounced, day after
day, the efforts which those Confederates
had made to reward their own soldiers, and
if he haggled about the price which the
conquering country should have seen fit to
bestow on the men whose arms it had con-
quered. He did not think the North at all
oeluded by the pretensions of the Senators
on the other side. 1t was little singular
that in all the years which had elapsed since
the war, there had never come from any of
the States that had been in rebellion. so far
as he knew, Union soldier as Represent
alive in either branch of Congress, elected
by Democratic votes. When he looked
over the rolls of the Senate and reflected
how few who had served in the Union
army were found in the councils of the
nation, he was not surprised at witnessing
such demonstrations as were witnessed
when the pension bills were up for action.
The South should be thankful il did not
have to foot the entire pension bill. as
France did after the Franco Prussian war.
" And yet" said he, 1--WE have the iailers
and murderers of Andersonville, Belle Isle
and Libby prison sitting under the flag
which they attempted to pull down, legis-
iatlDg for the country they endeavored to
destroy, and trying to pinch, and belittle.
and minimize the amounts to be paid the
mutilated and disabled survivors of the
army of the Union. The Senator from
Missouri had asked, in burst of indigna-
ton. where all this was going to end. |
Will tell him." said ingalls,, and every
Senator on that side of the chamber.
whether he likes it or not, what we intend
to do. 1t Is going TO stop when the arrears
OF pensions are paid, when the Limitation
Is removed, and when every soldier on the