Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-07
A WAR OF WORDS.
Ingalls, Violently Attacks
Democracy.
THE PRESIDENT CENsURED.
Senator Blackburn Takes up the
Cudgels and Makes An
Able Reply.
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directing the Secretary OF the Interior
to investigate the practicability OF
constructing reservoir for storage Of
water in the United States.
The rule as to the executive session
was modified SO as to read: "When a
treaty shall be laid before the Senate
for ratification it shall be read the first
time; and no motion shall be in order
except to refer it to a committee 10
print in confidence for use of the
Senate to remove the injunction Of
secrecy or consider it in open execu-
tive session."
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The Senate Committee ON Finance
forwarded a favorable report on the
Hoar bill to provide for the purchase
of United States bonds by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, with verbal
amendments.
The following resolution was offer
ed by Beck as an amendment: "That
all laws and parts of laws requiring g
the maintenance of the sinking fund
and purchase of bonds Of the United
States for said sinking fund, as here
tofore authorized, are hereby re-
pealed."
THE PENSION BILL.
The Senate then resumed consider
alton of the Pension Bill, the question
being on Wilson's amendment. After
brief debate, Sherman referring to
Beck's speech of last week read a
paragraph in which he (Sherman) had
been severely criticised for his con-
nection with silver demonstration
He would not have regarded it worthy
of notice because the Senator from
Kentucky had been laboring under
excitement, but because he had used
the word "secrecy"-that it was done
under cover-that he (Sherman) was
objecting. He proceeded to show how
the principle OF the law had been le-
ported in the bill three years before
it went into effect; how it had been
discussed, etc. He wanted to know
why such matter had been lugged
into debate with which it mad moth
ing 10 do.
Beck asserted that he would to-
morrow, prove all his statements.
INGALLS, ADDRESS.
ingalls, having called Platt to the
chair proceeded to address the Senate
the galleries being crowded to their
fullest capacity. He had been sur
prised one day last week on returning
to the Chamber after brief absence
to learn that the Senator from Mis-
souri, (Vest) had referred 10 him in
terms not complimentary, and had
coupled with personal remarks an in
timation that the people of the Dis
trict OF Columbia were incapable OF
disinterested patriotism and that the
veterans OF the Republic were a mob
OF sordid plunderers. AS to himself
he would say that the nomination
and election Of Grover Cleveland had
made the pretentions OF any American
citizen to the Presidency respectable
There was no man in this country
whose ignorance was so rrofound
whose obscarity so impenetrable,
whose antecedents go degraded, that
he had no right to aspire to Presiden.
tial nomination by the Democratic
party. He regretted that the Senator
from Missouri was not in his seat to-
day. IIe should initiate that Sena-
tors bad example, and would con-
fine himself, as far as he was con-
cerned, to that Senator's autobiogra-
ply. That Senator was born in a
State that had seceded-Nlissouri
The Senator from Kentucky Black
burn) had also referred sneeringly to
the super-loyalty of the soldiers oi
the Union. 1t was curious that the
Confederates from the United States
were little more pronounced,
A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE
And little more violent in their de.
nunciation of the North than the Con.
federates from the States that seced-
ed. He did not know where the
Senator from Missouri got the figures
from, when he stated that but 5000 oi
Lees army had surrendered at Apo.
mattox, but one parallel was to be
found to the extraordinary inaccu-
racy of that statement and that was
the same Senator's assertion that oi
the 2,3OO, 900 soldiers OF the Union
army, more than half had applied fol
pensions. Such speeches as these oi
the Senators from Missouri and Ken
lucky were intended to catch the
Confederate vote and they would
catch it. He wanted the Senators on
the Democratic side to understand
that the disguise for the opposing o1
the pension bills was exceedingly
thin, and that nobody was deceived by
it. The South did not love the Unior
army, neither did the Democra til
party.
Morgan reminded Ingalls, that the
Democratic party had nominated anC
sustained federal officer, Genera
Hancock, for the presidency.
Yes, said ingalls,, it did supper
Hancock. and it also supported Hor
ace Greeley in attempting to fool thu
North. 1t also nominated and sup
ported that other ally of the confeder
acy, George B. Mcclellan. Such pre-
tensions are altogether too diaphan
GUS. Why was it that when the as
sociate Justice of the Supreme Cour
of the United States, who, by one o
THE STRANGE cAPRICEs OF HISTORY
Now sat in judgment upon these grea
constitutional amendments adoptet
against his protest and efforts, VIII.
was it, when he arose in the Senat
and said that he would resent as
personal affront any imputation upol
the honor, integrity or patriotism G
Jefferson Davis, when he said that h
had no doubt that Jefferson Davi
would occupy niche in history b
the side of George Washington, VIII
was il that no Senator on the Demo
cratic side, of the North or South
arose to repudiate and disavow it
And yet the moment any Senator o
the Republican side or any editor {
any Northern paper talked about th
Union army they were taunted wit
waving ensanguined under-garmonts
raking up the ashes Of sectional STRIFE