The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-07

federates 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 man by whose arms it had
conquered
MIR. Ingalls, declared that the movement
for pensions was not going to stop until
arrears of pensions were paid; until limita-
tions were removed; until every pensioner
was paid from the day of his disability, or,
III the case of a survivor, from the day of
the soldiers death, and until every surviv-
ing soldier of the Union army was placed
on the pension rolls for service only. That
was, he said, when it was going to stop, and
if the other side did not like it they might
make the most of it.
CONFEDERATEs ALONE ELECTED.
He did not think that the North was at
all deluded by the pretenslonS of the Sena-
tors of the other side 1t was little singu-
lar that in all the years which had elapsed
since the war there never had come from
one of the States that had been in
rebellion $50 far as he knew a
Union soldier as a representative in
either branch of Congress elected by
Democratic votes. The Democratic party
in those States never had blundered in
sending to Congress or electing as a Gov
ernor man who had not served in the
Confederate army in some capacity. That
had been the supreme test. When he looked
over the rolls of the Senate and of the
House and reflected how few OF those 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.
GLITTERING GENERALITY.
Criticizing the statement of Mr.. Vest that
of 1888 200, 900 paid out in pensions, $780,
600, 900 had been contributed by the South
he declared that such statement was q
"glittering generality He doubted
whether the South had actually contributed
$290,00O instead of $500, ,000. 900 But even
if the South had paid 1920, ,000, 900 it was
very lucky that it did not have to pay the
whole of the pensions. Instead of grum-
bling and complaining that it had paid
1920, 900, 600 it ought to have been thankful
that it did not have to foot the entire BILL
as France had to do after the Franco-Prus-
sian war.
Mr.. Ingalls, spoke an hour and half, and
at the close of his speech there was very
general applause on the floor and in the
galleries.
BLACKBURN HITS BACK.
Mr. Blackburn rose to reply and said
(after the confusion succeeding Mr.. Ingalls,
speech had subsidized, that he was at loss
to account for the course of the Senator
from Kansas in dragging him into the
TRADE in which he had just INDUCED. He
was sure that he (Mr Blackburn had never
boasted his Identification with the military
service, and had never referred to the fact
of his having been q Confederate soldier I'm
like the Senator fl ON Kansas, he (Mr. Black
burn) thought his military service too
modest and too humble to prove subject
of interest to the galleries. He did not need
to be told by that Senator that Kentucky
had always been loyal That Senator knew
that he (Mr. Blackburn) represented a con-
stituency which had sent three men into the
Union army for one man that Kansas sent,
and it was not without pride that he re
| called the fact that of the thirty odd States
then in the Union Kentucky was the only
State which haG, without draft, supplied
more than her quota of men to both sides
during the struggle. Why the Senator
from Kansas should have Travelled out of
his way to make an onslaught upon him, he
did not know.
NOT A CONNECTING LINK.
He did not know that he (Mr. Blackburn
was necessary connecting link with the
Senator's acceptance of a Presidential nom
ination. The Senator from Kansas doubt
less did know that illness in the family of
the Senator from Missouri had taken him a
long distance from the city and that he was
to be absent for some time on that account
He did not intend to be involved in any
controversy with the Senator from Kansas,
but he protested against the lack of fairness
| evinced by that Senator when he undertook
to deal in such a fashion with men who
had simply stated facts and submitted data
for the consideration of the Senate on the
pending bill What connection, he asked
had the speech made at Atlanta, or the
speech made at Brooklyn or New York, by
| gentleman who had never been a member
of either house of Congress, with the pend
ing bill3
WELL DESERVED REBUK1.
When the Senator from Kansas under
| took to speak of the chief executive of the
country in the terms he had seen
| fit to employ, and which, he took
| it, were deliberately prepared and
conned, he (Mr. Ingalls,, certainly could
not take issue with him (Mr. Blackburn
| if he concluded that it was not entitled to re-
sponse or reply in the presence of so august
and distinguished body as the Senate of
the United States. What cause of griev-
ance the Senator had that warranted him
in applying language to the Chief Magis-
trate, which would not bepermissible on the
hustings (he would not say that it would be
disgraceful, even to be employed by fish
women, he did not know But when that
Senator undertook to denounce the chief
executive of the United States after
such fashion as to deliberately
declare that no man afflicted with ignorance
so profound, with obscurity so gross, should
consider himself as unfit to become the
Presidents successor, it did seem to him
(Mr Blackburn that the dignity of the
Senate chamber refused permission to re-
spond He was not here to defend the
President from such unwarranted attacks.
BUT ONE SIN.
He knew but one sin which the President
had committed in the eyes of the Sena-
tor from Kansas-that might be an
unpardonable sin. 1t was that hav-
| ing defeated the Senator's party at
the polls, be had given to the American peo-
! pie for three years past so efficient, so
| honest, so cean-handed an administration
as 10 doom the last of the Republican as
pirations to disaster. Applause on the
| Democratic side and in the gallery.l But
the Senator from Kansas had even gone
farther and done worse in bis incorporate
zeal He had not spared the sanctity Of the
gavel in his frantic efforts TO
! Stir up prejudices between sections
! already re united, he had dragged
up for abuse and villifcation before
| the American Senate such men as had fur
nished with their unblemished swords the
brightest pages of American history. If
| Gen. Mcclellan and Gen. Hancock were to
be denounced in the Senate chamber as al
lies of Confederates would it not have been
| in better taste lat least more creditable to
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