St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-07
Senator ingalls, Defiles the
Graves OF Hancock, McClel-
Ian and Greeley,
And Poups His Surplus Venom
On the President Of the
United States.
Blackburn's Vigorous Reply
to the Scandalous Assault
on the Dead.
Text Of the New Internal Rev.
enue Bill--General Cap
ital Notes.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-The senate
at 2 o'clock resumed consideration OF
the dependent pension bill. At about
2:30 Mir. ingalls, left the chair and short
ly afterwards secured the floor. He
asked that the pending amendment be
read. The amendment grants pension
to veterans who are dependent or in
any way incapacitatcd. MI. ingalls,
said that considerations of decOrum had
deferred him from participating in de-
bate heretofore as, perhaps, i'll better
keeping with his position of presiding
officer. He was surprised, therefore, to
learn some days ago, that during his alb
sence from the senate. the senator from
Missouri (Mr. Vest had referred to him
in manner the reverse of compliment
tary, and had included himself, the
people Of Washington and the Grand
Army of the Republic in combined
and coagulated cynicism. He would
pass by the personal alluSiOn TO himself
with the single statement that the cleo
ton OF Grover Cleveland had made the
aspirations of any citizen to the presi-
dency respectable. No citizen could be
too ignorant OF obscure, or of too de-
graded antecedentS hereafter to aspire
to the presidency-or to secure the
Democratic nomination for that office.
He regretted that the senator (Mr.
Vest was not present. He had waited
for him. M. ingalls, proceeded to a
personal attack upon Mr.. Vest. He
found in that senator's official autobiOg
raphy the statement that the senator
had represented the state of Missouri in
the Confederate congress. AS the state
of Missouri had never seeded, it would
be interesting to know on what basis
that representation could have existed.
Mr.. ingalls, turned his attention to other
Democratic senators who had attacked
the Grand Army OF the Republic.
IT WAS \ SINGULAR FACT
that Democratic senators from Union
states led in defense of the Confederate
armies and leaders, and in sneers at
Union veterans and leaders. Mr. ingalls,
reviewed Mr.. Vests statistics Of the
Confederate armies. These statistics
diZZied the arithemetic of Imagination.
brilliant plumeS from the tail of his
Imagination he might fly less erratic
Orat0ric flight. The statistics had been
falSiiied from first to last. The senator's
mathematics were giddy. The false
hood of these Confederate statistics
were only paralleled by the falsehood of
his Union statistics. He did not doubt
that the Democratic senators who rIdi-
culed the armies of the North and eX-
tolled the CUnfederacy. fairly repre-
scented their constituencies. The Dem
Ocratic senators who accused the adVO-
Gates of this bill Of bidding for the
soldier vote. were themselves bidding
for the Confederate vOte-and they
would get it-every time. Such talk
aW0ke an echo III the Southern states.
1t was popular there. 1t was never re-
pudiated. Mr.. ingalls, inquired why it
was that no Democratic senator repudi-
ated that memorable defense of Jetfer-
son Davis made in the senate by that
senator who, by one Of the ineXplicable
evOlutiOnS of politics, now sat upon the
supreme bench of the United States to
pass upon the amendments to the con-
stitutiOn adopted against his protest
and in the face of his declaration of
their invalidity. 1t was time that the
Democratic senators understood that the
hostility of the Democratic party to the
Union veterans and pension legislation
was so thinly disguised that
NOBODY COULD BE DECEIVED.
He was tired of being accused Of way
ing the ensanguined garment every
time he favored reasonable pension
legislation.
Senator Morgan asked whether there
were not eX-COnfederateS on the Repub-
lican side of the chamber.
Mir. ingalls, said there were. But he
had never heard from them such de-
nunciation of the Union army and its
veterans.
Senator Morgan asked whether the
Democratic vote for Gen. Hancock was
in accordance with his assertions.
Mr.. ingalls, replied that it was. Such
political deception, such political in
sincerity was easily understood. 1t was
like the Demos attic support of Gen.
Mcclellan that ally of the Confederacy
who declared the war a failure after
trying for three years to make it so. 1t
was like the Democratic vote for
Horace Greeley, who for years had been
in illicit intercourse with the worst ele-
ments Of the South. Mr.. ingalls, read
from various Democratic sources
tributes to Jefferson Davis and other
this bill was good one. Its provisions
were reasonable and Just. He believed
1t would pass this body. He hoped it
would pass the other Legislative branch.
If this proved to be the case the occu-
pant OF the White house might veto the
bill, but must do SO al his peril.
Senator Blackburn rose to reply to
Senator Ingalls, so far as the illusions
were applicable to himself. He did not
wish to reply to what was political
speech, a declaration OF candidacy tor a
presidential nomination. The senator
from Kansas must permit him to say
that the speech just delivered was I'M
worthy OF reply and unworthy of the
senate.
THE ATTACK UPON TIE PRESIDENT
was diSgraceful and inexcusable. Mr..
Cleveland had committed the unpardon-
able sin. 1t was that Of having de-
feated the senator's party at the polls.
He had given to the American people
for three years past so efficient. so hon
est, so clean-handed an administration
as to doom the last of Republican as
piratiOns to disaster. But the senator
from Kansas had even gone farther and
done worse in his Incorporate zeal. He
had not spared the sanctity of the grave
in his frantic efforts to stir up prejudice
between sections already reunited. He
had dragged up for abuse and yillifca-
ton, before the American senate, such
men as had furnished with their I'M
blemiShed swords the brightest pages
of American history. Mcclellan and |
Hancock were TO be denounced in the |
senate chamber as allies OF the Confed- |
crates. Would it not have been in bet |
ter taste lat least more creditable to the |