The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-19

| authority 70 make an arrangement by which
| Packard was not upheld; stating that
| of President Hayes TO have done it. That
/ Mr.. Vest said, was the statement of
the most distinguished Republican now living
| without Difference. possibly, to the Senator
| from Ohio tlaughterl-the standard-bsarer Of
| the Republican party In the last presidential
| anvass. and it was to be taken for granted, to
be the standard bearer of that party IN the
| ing contest. Mr.. Blaine had then asserted that
| il Packard was not elected Governor OF Louisi-
ana He was from Mr.. Shermanl, Mr. Hayes
was not entitled 10 the electoral vote of that
| State.
| Mr.. Vest then passed on to the question of the
| Louisiana returning board. and stated that
/ every member and officer of that board, and
their relatives, had been provided with lucrative
| Offices. except one colored member lCasenavel.
| who had not been so provided, and who had
| come TO Washington and appealed TO President
| HAYES aud MIR. Sherman. then Secretary OF the
| Treasury. for pecuniary aid, which had been
given or offered to him, to the amount
no charge, he said, of any corruption in the mat
Ter the part of the Senator from Ohio;
/ but what claim, he asked, had that
member of the returning board on Mr.. Hayes if
| Casenave had simply carried out his legal and
constitutional dufyl Why had it been that
| every man connected with the returning board,
from the highest the lowest had been
warded with an ofice7 There page of
administration history that demanded more ex-
PLANTATION than that viii CHI now stared him In
the face. The Senator from Ohio had attacked
the people of Louisiana. charging them with
crimes that would stamp them with infamy;
but he Mr. Vestl stood there TO avouch that
whatever mad been done in the State OF Louisi-
ana that occasion had been done, not to
bring about unfair election, nor TO trample
the ballot of any human being, bat to defend
themselves against the outrageous and criminal
conspiracy against their property, at the hands
of men who had gone there for the single and
sole purpose of plundering. He criticised sar
castically the opposite sentiments expressed by
Mr. Sherman in his two recent speeches at
Nashville, Tenn, and at Springfield, ILL.,, and
aid in nluain "a ria n he
Senator's contempt. / undertake TO say that the
American people never will be satisfied with the
explanation made to-day but that. like James
O.. Blaine, they have already come to the con-
clusion that it is impossible even for the in
gen uty of the Senator from Ohio to explain
why it was that the vote or Louisiana, as re-
turned by the returning board, was good for the
purpose of giving the electoral vote of Louisi-
ana 20 Mr. Hayes for the presidency, but was
not good for the purpose OF giving it to Mr..
Packard for the Governorship of the State.
MIR. Sherman thanked the Senator from Mis-
souri, fer reading extracts from his Mr.. Sher-
man'sl speeches Every word uttered in those
speeches he would utter again if opportunity Of
fered. Who. he mr.. Sherman would ask. re-
moved Packard who deprived him of his officef
ard 30 Office or to recognize him before the Leg
islature of the State had duly elected him?
What did Hayes do to Packard9 General Grant
had refused to recognize him. President hayes
had no more power over the returns sent by the
returning board to the Legislature than he had
over the Koran of Mahomet; and SO he knew,
and so Governor Packard knew. Packard had
never blamed President Hayes for his course.
After the Democrats had driven him out, de-
prved him of his Office and sought to disgrace
him; after they had inaugurated a reign of tyr
amy there to drive him out. il was not in the
power of the President of the United States to
ard was properly appointed to an
office, and deserved q better one.
He one of the best and purest men he Mr.
Sherman had ever met. Casenhve was an hon.
est and good man. but poor. and he Mr.: Sher-
man was willing to give him a hundred dollars.
'How many broken-down ducks in the Demo
cratic party" he asked, have each of you paid
to get back to their honest [aughterl. Ander-
son, of the returning board, was brave and
true man. and he Mr.. Shsrman] wished he
could have appointed him to a better Office. Mr.
Sherman closed with the declaration that the
colored people in the South must be protected
in their rights
Mr. Hawley followed Mr.. Sherman and ex-
planned at length the functions o. the twisting
COMMITTEES"
The bill went over without action, and the
Senate adjourned.
Labor Bills Passed by the House:
WASHINGTON, April 18.-In the House Mr..
Belmont of New York, introduced a bill to pro-
hibit thescoming of Chinese laborers into the
United States. Referred. Its main provisions
similar to those contained in che new treaty.
The act OF May 6, 1882, is repealed.
Mr.. McCreary, of Kentucky, submitted the
conference report upon the bill authorizing the
President to arrange q conference between the
United States and the South and Central Amer
lean republics, Hayti, San Domingo and the
empire or Brazil.
MIR Towns bend. of Illinois, said that as the
author of the bill he would only cal! attention
to the fact that it was practically the American
Zollverein proposition first introduced by him
in the House four years The report was
agreed to-.
The floor was then accorded to the committee
on labor, and the bill to establish department.
of labor was passed.
The next bill called MP was that to create
boards of arbitration for the settlement of con-
troversies and differences between interstate
and All md 4 wa
considered in committee of the whole.
Mr.. O'Neill. of Missouri. briefly explained the
substantially the same bill which passed the
last Congress- but at too late day to receive
presidential action. The only difference was
that the pending bill provided for special boards
of arbitration. to be appointed by the President
TO inquire into the cause OF strikes and report to
Congress.
being good for nothing. It pointed nowhere and
went nowhere. 1t was a m ere temporary make
shift, and left all the great questions which
troubling the labor of the country prec isely
where they were before, with a mere pretense
that Congress had done something. IL was
swestened wind. 1t a cheat and fraud
upon the people of the country He favored
law upon the subject which would prevent the
commerce OF the country from bsing paralyzed
whenever difference occurred between rail-
road management and its employees.
Mr.. Anderson. of Iowa. criticised the measure
touching a great question in delicate and
weak way. While he could vote for the pending
bill, eff il was the best that could be had, he
would like to see it recommitted, with instruc-
tions to the committee to put sorae meaning and
force into it.
Mr.. Anderson. of Kansas, spoke in support of
proposed amendment providing for enforced
arbitration. The amendment provided, he
said, that if either party proposed arbitration,
the other must accept it promptly.
Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, hoped that |
the House would not allow this fraud to pass.
Ir useless balloon. 1t was mere |
tub to a whale
Mr. Tarsney, of Michigan. favored the bill as
a step in the right direction, although he adj |
znitted that it did not reach the. foundation of |
the labor troubles. If the pending bill did not
reach the remedy, it a toward it. |
The remedy was SO to frame the tariff laws that |
there should not be q few millionaires in the |
country at the expense of pauperized millions OF
people Applause the Democratic side.
Mr Buchanan of New Jersey said that the |
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