Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-02
WARNING SENATORS.
Ingalls, Vituperative Reply
to Voorhees,.
HOT WORDS FROM BOTH SIDES.
The Kansan Given the Lie by
the Senator from
Indiana.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Senate
galleries presented an unusually ami
mated appearance at the opening o.
to-day's session, being crowded with
spectators, principally ladies, drawn
by the announcement OF a speech al
2 O'Clock by ingalls, in response tc
Voorhees, invective OF last Wednes-
day.
At the conclusion of the morning
business Stewart proceeded to address
the Senate in support Of his silve,
coinage resolution.
At the conclusion of bis address the
resolution was adopted.
As the hour Of 2 O'Clock drew near,
the buzz in the chamber and galleries
became marked. Ingalls, desk was
decorated with flowers. He COM
menced his speech by recalling the
fact that on the 11th of July last,
Major General Fitz-John Porter, now
on the retired list, wrote a letter
n which he thanked his
friends and said that his heart
was always with them, although at
one time his hand and heart bad
worked the best that they knew how
against them. The Senator from In
diana had complained last Wednesday
with bitterness, that an attempt had
been made to blacken the names of
all the great civil as well as military
leaders in the late war, who remained
true to the Democratic party. Fitz-
John Porter had been one of those
military leaders who maintained their
allegiance to the Democratic party,
and he, within the last few months,
had written that "his heart was
always with them" Referring to Gen.
Mcclellan, ingalls, spoke Of his edu-
cation at West Point, his business
connection with Beauregard and his
attempt toextend and continue human
slavery by the acquisition Of Cuba.
BE spoke of him as having begun his
military career by disobeying the
orders Of General Scott, as having
abandoned hope at Centerville, as
having failed to put the rebels to the
sword at Antietam, as having refused
to obey the orders of the President to
follow the rebels to Winchester, and
as having fatally controlled the des-
times Of the army until the battle Of
fredericksburg. History had pro-
nounced it's verdict upon him as sol
-dier, and the Senator from Indiana
would not be able to place him in the
category with Napoleon, Hannibal
and Caesar. He (Ingalls) dealt with
him as politician and said that no
one could read his letter to President
Lincoln after the disastrous seven
day slight on the Peninsula and before
Richmond without coming to the
conclusion that Mcclellan was not
fully and actively in sympathy with
the forces, ideas and sentiments
which were then controlling the
American people. AS to Gen. Han.
cock he was also one of the military
leaders who were true to Democra-
cy. His martial career was one ol
the unperishable heritages OF Ameri-
can glory. He marched and triumph
ed. He filed the abyss of fame with
names which would be eternally lu-
minous-the Peninsula, Antietam
Gettysburg, Charlottesville, Colo
Harbor and Petersburg. Had he
been soldier under Napoleon, he
would have been Prince and Mar
shal of the Empire. He had beer
we'll called 8 Hancock, the Superb,
but after the war closed, he, (like Nc
Clellan) had become tainted with ths
fasal virus ofambition the for Presiden
tial nomination; but Notwithstanding
his magnificent and ufappreachablt
career, the American people recog
nized his hostility to the Recoustruc
ton Measures, and in the Presi
Dental election of 1880 he carried bu
three Northern States-California
Nevada and New Jersey, and the frs
two Of these were stolen by the forger.
and fraud of the Morey letter, ISSUED
bv Democratic politicians. He ha,
also received the 1873 electoral vote
of the solid S,uth, which had beel
promised him in his speech at Gin
cinnati by a Senator from Soutl
Carolina, Hampton. He spoke Q
the affected indignation of the Sen
ators from Indiana and Kentucky a
discreditable to their intelligence 0
their candor. If they did not kno,
that he (Ingalls) had spoken Of thes
Union Generals, not as soldiers. bu
as politicians and as Democratic can
didates for the Presidency, they wer
dull, stupid and ignorant'indeed.
they did know it, and persisted i
their assertions, they were disingenl
GUS, and he suspected (if such thin
were possible) that they we're botf
(Laughter.)
ingalls, continuing said: Mr.. Pres
dent-FrOm the impassioned eulog!
from the rhapsody Of appreciation tbs
flowed from the Senator from Indian
at the great military achievements ,
Mcclellan and Hancock, / began
have some doubt who it was that r.
ally put down the rebellion. WI
driven curiously to inquire what WI
the attitude of the Democratic part
in the North and OF the Senator fro
Indiana, as one Of its great leaders
1862, when Mcclellan, the ideal Der
ocrat, was fighting the battle OF Al
tietam in 1868, when Hancock WI
hurling back in confusion and disma
the scattered squadrons of the COME
eracy; l was really, for momen
Mr.. President, inclined to believe tn
the Democratic party of the North al
the Senator from Indiana and tho
other great patriots whom
euloeises as an immovable bulwal
Of liberty, Of the Constitution and Il
Union, Mr.. Thomas Hendricks al
Mr.. Horatio Seymour and w. !
Richardson were in full panoply
battle, assisting Mcclellan, assistil
Hancock, doing what they could
make the success Of the armies pos
BILE. and it seems like the very clim
Of affrontery, like the apex Of auda
ty, for these men, whose history is
we'll known, who were from the !
ginning the avowed enemies Of I
cause Of the Union at every step
Is progress, and who like the 6enai