Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senatorial Discussion on
Party Ways.
SHARP TILT IN THE HOUSE.
Gathered Gleanings From the
Committees and From the
Departments.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERAI D.

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Associated Press Dispatches to the HERAI D.
WASHINGTON, April 18.-The Land
forfeiture bill went over as unfinished
business in the Senate, aud at two
this afternoon the Dakota bill came
up, and Sherman took the floor in its
support. He replied in an impas-
stoned manner to Vests illusions to
the unfair methods in the election OF
President Hayes. He claimed that
every suspicion ever cast upon the in
tegrity of that proceeding had been
repelled, and that it stood in history
as matter in which the Republican
position could not be impeached.
Sherman showed by the vote in the
Senate that the electoral commission
bill was not a Republican, but Dem
,ocratic measure Twenty six Demo
Gratis had voted for l., and only
twenty-one Republicans, while
the votes against it were
fourteen Republicans, including
himself and one Democrat, Mr. Eaton,
of Connecticut. The Democrats were
therefore precluded from assailing the
bill as partisan measure. He de-
,clared his full conviction that Hayes
had been fairly and legally elected,
and that ii by some hocus pocus Til
den had been inaugurated, he would
have been illegally elected. He ex-
planned the incongruity of Packard
not getting the Governorship of Louis
lana by showing that that was subject
to local laws and decisions, and de-
clared his conviction that Packard
was illegally deprived of his office.
The Democratic party had not only by
FRAUD AND BY VIOLENCE
Sought to control the Presidential
election, but it had actually succeeded
in depriving Of their Offices, the duly
elected Governor and members of the
Legislature. Then he proceeded to
read extracts from q speech made in
the late canvass by Senator Eustis, in
which he declared it to be the deter
mination of the white men of Louisi-
ana to solve the race question without
regard to Northern sentiment. If
that, said Sherman, was the desire and
determination of the white people oi
Louisiana the constitution OF the
United States would have to be chang.
ed. When it was said there must be
a white Governor in Louisiana il
meant an un-Republican government.
The people of the South instead oi
seeking to win the colored people by
kindness had maintained systems
of domineering crime and violence
against them. He had felt called upon
to make these remarks, partly to cor
rect the historical error into which
many persons had fallen, and to show
that not only did the Returning Board
of Louisiana have sufficient evidence
before them of fraud and violence and
outrage in the election OF 1876, but
that the present Governor of that
State and one OF its Senators had con-
fessed ali, and more, that has ever
been claimed by the Returning Board.
If ever anybody had any doubt of the
'ClCollOii VI hhJco tuio uouDJ Hd-
been removed by the admission of the
very men who had participated in the
wrong of that day in Louisiana. Sher-
man continued his defense of Hayes
election, aud made general arraign-
ment OF the authorities of the South
ern States ofintimidating negro voters.
He was listened to with profound at
tention.
Mr.. Vest said he still denied the
honesty and legality of that election.
The question he had asked about
Packard and Hayes had not been
answered satisfactorily. Vest referred
to the speech made in the Senate by
Blaine, in which Blaine declared that
the elections Of Hayes and of Packard
were indissolubly connected. Vest
passed on to the question of the Louis
lana Returning Board, and asked why
it had been that
EVERY MAN CONNECTED
With the Returning Board, from the
highest to the lowest, had been re-
warded with office. There was no
page of the Administrative history
that demanded more explanation
than that which now stared him in
the face. He (Vest) stood there to
vouch that whatever had been done
in the State of;Louisiana on that occa-
sion had been done not to bring about
an unfair election, not to trample on
the ballot Of any human being, but to
defend themselves against the out
rageous and criminal conspiracy
against their property at the hands of
men who had gone there for the
single and sole purpose of plunder.
He criticized sarcastically the oppo-
site sentiments expressed by Sherman
in his two recent speeches at Nash
vile, Tennessee, and Springfield
Illinois, and said, in conclusion cat
the risk of the Senator's contempt,
undertake to say that the American
people never will re satisfied with the
explanation made to-day, but that,
like James G. Blaine, they have
already come to the conclusi On that
it is impossible ever
FOR THE INGENUITY
of the Senator from Ohio to explain
why it was that the vote of Louisiana
4S ActutHou ny tu0 Ieo1uIAiuS DOdTu
was good for the purpose of giving
the electoral vote of Louisiana te
Hayes for the Presidency, but was not
good for the purpose of giving it to
Packard for the Governorship OF the
State.
Sherman reiterated his previous
statement, and said in reference tc
Packard, that President Hayes had nc
power over the returns sent to the
legislature. After the Democrats had
ina'igurated their reign of tyranny tc
drive Packard out it was not in the
power of the President to recognize
him without usurpation.
The Senate then adjourned.
House Legislation.
In the House, Belmont introduced
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