The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-07
INGALLS, GIVES IT AWAY.
THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO PEN
SION EVERY SOLDIER.

He Expresses Surprise that Mr.. Vest
should Have Referred to Him in the
Debate-Mr. Blackburn Answers the
Gentleman from Kansas in His Own
Coin.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-The Senate at
O'Clock this afternoon took up 1.-The de-
nendent pension bill" the question still
heng on the amendment of Mr. Wilson, of
Iowa. to insert the words "from the intirm-
tiles of age" After brief speeches by
Messrs. Berry, Manderson, Sherman, Teller
and Beck, Mr. Ingalls,, the presiding officer,
having called Mr. Platt to the chair, pro-
ceeded to address the Senate, the galleries
being crowded to their full capacity. He said
that considerations of decorum and pro-
priety perhaps excessive and overstrained)
had deferred him from participation thus
far in the debates of the Senate. He had,
therefore, been surprised one day last week.
on returning to the chamber after a brief
absence, to learn that the Senator from
Missouri (Mr Vest) had referred to him in
terms not complimentary in a debate in
which he had taken no part, intimating
that the people OF the District of Columbia
we're incapable of disinterested patriotism,
and that the veterans of the republic were a
mob Of sordid pluuderers.
AN UNCALLED FOR INSULT.
As to himself he would say tha6 the nomi-
nation and election of Grover Cleveland had
made the nomination of any American citi-
zen to the Presidency respectable. There
was no man so ignorant or mean that he
might not aspire to a nomination to the
Presidency by the Democratic party
Laughter and applause He regretted
that the Senator from Missouri was not in
his seat to-day He should not initiate
that Senator's bad example, and would con-
fine himself, so far as he was concerned to
that Senator's autobiography.
That Senator was born in a State that
bad not seceded-the State of Kentucky
and had represented i'll the Confederate
Congress the State of Missouri, State
which had not seeded.
ANCIENT HISTORY.
1t would be gratifying to the historian to
find out how he had been admitted to repre-
sent State which had never seeded. But
that was matter OF ancient history. The
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Blackburn,
had also referred sneeringly to the super
loyalty of the soldiers of the Union. He
did not challenge the honor or courage of
these Senators in their devotion to the South
and to the Southern Confederacy. They
could not be suspected of lnsincerity. They
had gone into the Confederacy because they
wanted to go; because they believed that
slavery was better than freedom. and seces-
sion better than union 1t was curious
that ConfederateS from Union States were
little more pronounced and little more
aggressive and a little more violent in
their denunciations of the North than
COnfederateS from States that had seeded
lie did not know where the Senator from
Missouri had got the figures from which he
stated that but 5000 of Lees army had sur
rendered at Appomatox.
FANCY's FEATHERS.
If that Senator had plucked few of the
plumeS from the dazzling tail of his imagi-
nation and had stuck them in the wings of
his Judgment he would have flown more
accurate flight. Instead of 5000 men with
muskets who were in the final crash and
collision of war there had been 73, ,911 men.
The Senator's mathematics were certainly
/ gddy. But one parallel was to be found to the
extraordinary inaccuracy of that statement
and that was some Senator's statement that
OF the 2, 300, 900 soldiers of the Union army,
more than one-half had applied for pensions.
H such speeches as those of Senators from
4 Missouri and Kentucky were intended to
catch the Confederate vote, and they would
catch it. They were "center shots, striking
II the bulls eye every time and ''ringing the
bell lApplause, vigorously suppressed by
the chairman He wanted the Senators on
n the Democratic side of the chamber to un-
4 derstand that their disguise for opposing
q pension bills was so exceedingly thin that
8 nobody was deceived by it.
NOT A QUESTION OF COST.
1t was not a question of cost. The South
did not love the Union army, neither did
Il the Democratic marty
Mr.. Morgan reminded Mr.. Ingalls, that
the Democratic party had nominated and
sustained federal officer-Gen. Hancock
for the Presidency.
Yes" said Mr. ingalls,, sit did support
Ten. Hancock and it also supported Horace
Greely, attempting to fool the North. 1t
also nominated and supported that other
any Oh the Confederacy, George B. McClel-
lal' ouch pretenslonS are altogether too
Glaphanous. They require to have the
drapery removed for ins pection.
& GRADY's SPEECH.
# In 1886 there was in Atlanta a grand
historical occasion when statue to the
memory of an honored Senator was to be
unveiled, man whom he Qngalls honored
qlu 45 respected, and on that occasion the ex-
resident of the Confederacy was invited
10 ne present. Men fiocked to that city as
Chey go to banquet-as waves
colha when navies are stranded
ana the city was decorated with
CoAIederate emblems to make Confeder-
ave holiday. Mr.. Ingalls, quoted from the
ol,eech OF Henry w. Grady at the unveilng
0l tne Hlll statue at Atlanta, in which JEFF
terSoh Davis was spoken Of as one whose
gray hairs were crowned with deathlesS
i've and as one who Though an outcast
rom the privileges of this great govern
N'eit Is the uncrowned king Of our people. "
MASHED THE INJURIOUS YANKEE
81 ne did not propose to rehear.e the reply
VI M DAVIS, except to quote one sentence
~ winch he referred to Senator Hill as hav-
ls mashed the injurious Yankee" Mean
my ne supposed, their friend now in Flor
MNceJ he spoke of the same orator
,9lr. Grady having gone to
1tw se York and New England soon
aIterward, and made speeches there
% PoulIhg out his "treacle, cold cream and
WuVtHey and maple syrup all over the North. y
W tIeh' he askel WIS that orator sincerei
y, 9en did he speak the sentiment, feelings
ru conscience of the Southern people
& ,S 1t whom he delivered that Grafton III
rtiiiaShJa on May 1, 1856, or was it when he
% ,pned OIL and wine over all the American
people Of the North9
PUTTING HIMSELF IN OUR PLACE.
z5 5s IoGning back to the opposition of the
ajI inern Senators to the pension bills, he
s,ll ,'lu ne did not blame them for it, He often
GIuuered how he would have acted if the
/. ry,Sylons had been reversed and if the
W ~ paN5ih ~ ~ government had been overthrown.