Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-02
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, May

955, ,552. Fiftieth COngress--First Session.
 WASHINGTON, May 1.
 SENATE-Mr. Call introduced bill appro- priasing $100, 0,000for the prevention and ex
 tirpating the yellow fever in the United States. Referred to the committee on epi- demic diseases.
 It was approaching the hour of 3 o'clock and the buzz in the chamber and galleries be- came still more marked when Mir. Ingalls, took his seat where his desk was decorated with flowers. He commenced his speech by recalling the fact that on the 11th of July last Major General Fitz John Porter, now on the retired list, wrote letter in which he thanked his friends, and said that his heart was always with them although at one time his hand and heart had worked the best that they knew how against them. The Senator from Indiana had complained last Wednes- day with bitterness that an attempt had been made to blacken the names of all the great civil as well military leaders in the late war who remained true to the Democrat ic party. Fitz John Porter had been one of those military leaders who maintained alle- glance to the Democratic party and he within the last four. months (although he had been dishonorably dismissed from the service and had been restored by the action of the Democratic party and it's members who had been mem- bers of the confederacy) had written that his f'heart was always with them" Refer ring to General Mcclellan, Mir. Ingalls, spoke of his education at West Point, of his busi-- ness connection with Beauregard and of his attempt to extend and continue human slavery by the acquisition of Cuba. He spoke of him as having begun his military career by disobeying the orders of General Scott; as having abandoned Pope at Center vile, as having failed to put the rebels to the sword at Antietan; as having refused to obey the orders of the President and follow the rebels to Winchester, and as having fa- tally controlled the destiny of the army un- til the battle of Fredericksburg. History had pronounced it's verdict upon him as a soldier and the Senator from Indiana would not be able to place him in the category with Napoleon, Hannibal and Cesar. He In- galls) dealt with him as politician and said that no 'ons could read his letter to President Lincoln after the disastrous seven days fight on the Peninsula and be- fore Richmond without coming to the conclus sion that Mcclellan was not fully and active- ly in sympathy with the forces, the ideas and the sentiments which were then controlling tho American people. As to General Han cock he also (Mr. Ingalls, said) was one of the military leaders who was true to the Democ- racy. His martial career was one of the im- perishabIe hostages of American glory. He marched and triumphed. He filled the abyss of fame with names which would be eternal- ly luminous-the Peninsula, Antietam, Get tysburg, Charlottesville, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Had he been 8 soldier under Napoleon he would have been a prince and marshal of the empire. He had been well called Hancock "the superb" But after the war closed he Qike McClellsn) had become tainted with the fatal virus of an ambition for the presidential nomination, but notwith- standing his magnificent and unapproachable ha hostility to the reconstruction measures and in the presidential election of 1880 he ear- ried but three northern States, California, Nevada and New Jersey, and the first two of them had been stolen by the forgeries and brand of the Mercy letter issued by Demo- cratic politicians. He had also received the 13S electoral votes of the solid South which had been promised him in his speech at Gin cinnati by the Senator from South Carolina (Mr Hampton). He spoke of the affected indignation of the Senators from Indiana and Kentucky as discreditable to their intelligence or their candor. If they did not know that he (Mr. IngaIls) had spoken of these Union generals not as soldiers, but politicians, and as Democratic candidates for the presi- dency, they were dull, stupid and ignorant indeed. If they did know it and persisted in their assertions they were disingenuous and he suspected If such thing were possible) that they were both. (Laughter).
 MT. Ingalls, said said he had inferred from MT. Voorhees, recent speech that it was the mission of copperheads and butternuts and Knights of the Golden Circle to assume the task of defending the fame and memory of Union generals and Union soldiers. The Senator from Indiana had assumed this task, yet that Senator in 1862 had advised Union soldiers to go to the nearest blacksmith shop and have iron collars made and placed upon them inscribed tLincoln's dog" He had denounced all Union men as "Lincolp's dogs" ou1 hoA faA md Clellan. The Senator from Indiana had in 1884 denounced Lincoln, the martyr President, as monster, an unhappy felon reeking with the gore of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers needlessly and wantou- Iy sacrificed. He had denounced Lincoln in these awful terms. He had urged that at the close of his first term that great President should be allowed to retire to his dishonest obscurity. The Senator from Indiana had in 1864 declared the war a failure. He quoted sentence from MT. Voorhees, speech to the effect that the only wonder about the Louis jana election was that the vote was not unanimous and he said that it was more than unanimous. The Democratic party in the South have learned the art not only of making elections unanimous, but of making them more than unanimous. It had learned the art of returning larger Democratic ma jority than the registered vote. He wondered himself at this moderation in returning only majority of 75, 900 in Louisiana, and it had been going up since the Senator from Indi- ana had spoken and was now 93, GOO. What X it would amount to before the dog days mo- | body could tell He read lot of letters and statements from Republican sources detailing acts of outrage and cheating at the Louisiana election and declared his belief that fair re- | turns would have shown Yarmouth elected \ by majority of 63, 900 or S4 ,000. Then he discussed with some tediousness of detail the relative positions of the two parties on the ! pensions question and closed with a perora- | tion picturing what would have been the miserable fate of the country if the rebellion \ had prevailed and contrasting that picture with the present and future prosperity of the | United States.
 \ MT. Ingalls, closed his speech amid ap- plause at o'clock, having spoken exactly | two hours.
 | Then Mir. Voorhees arose and in slow, measured tones remarked that the speech which the Senate had just listened to recalled Il to his mind the fable of the mountain in labor. He proceeded to compare MT. h. | gals to peacock on barnyard fence posing | of summer morning, looking at his own 1 feathers as they glanced in the sun and vo- | cslizing the whole neighborhood with his I harsh unmusical and unmeaning cry, un- ! mindful of the faot that there were more
 useful fowls in the barnyard. How useless l it had been for that Senator to arraign him. He (Ingalls) had read to the Senate the old stale, putrid, rotten islanders of years gone | by on which he {Voorhees) had trampled in forty political campaigns. It had seemed to | him like the voices of spavined, broken winded, haekneyed political campaign liars of the last twenty-five years. That he ever uttered one word against Union soldiers, or