Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-10
Washington Special to New York Tribune.

Washington Special 10 New York Tribune
If the Congressional Record Of to-mor-
row is a true and not 4 revised " trans
cript of the debate to which the Senate
has listened to-day, that publication will
for once contain some mighty interest
ing reading" Not within the recoIIec-
tiOns of its oldest members has the Sen
ale witnessed a contest in which So many
! personalities have been banded about
the lie has been passed SO frequently, SC
much ill-temper has been shown, or the
traditional dignity of the body so set at
defiance by the audience. - denounce
the man who prompted the Senator from
Kansas as liar and a scOundrel," poor
Senator VOORHEES, exclaimed, in a trans
port of passion, referring TO Congressman
Johnston, who sat close to where Mr. In
gals was standing, after the latter had
dealt the Indiana Senator a crushing
blow. The Senate only laughed at poor
Voorhees, discontinue. Senator Cock
rell, of Missouri. wanted the galleries
cleared and people who laughed OF ap-
plauded arrested by the Sergeant at
Arms, but his suggestion was impracti-
cable. The galleries contained at least
5000 people. and the floor of the Senate
was jammed with Representatives and
Others entitled to the floor More people
sought to gain admission probably than
on the day when Cleveland was inaugu-
rated President.
1t was a scene not easily forgotten by
those who were so fortunate as to wit
ness it. The only spot in the galleries
conspicuous by the absence of the people
entitled to occupy it was the front row OF
benches on the Republican side, reserved
for the President As if to offset this,
two members of Mr.. Cleyeland's Cabinet,
Messrs. Villas and Dickinson, occupied
seats on the Democratic side of the cham
Der, and were present to witness Voor-
hees'S humiliation.
VOORHEES, INVITES CHAsTISENENT.
Mr.. Voorhees, rose to answer Mr.. In
gals, congratulating himself no doubt
on having escaped with so light drub-
bing. Poor man-little he knew what
was in store for him! He grew bold
defiant, and finally, receiving no reply,
became abusive, playfully sarcastic, hi
lariOusly impertinent. 1t was the clev-
erness of an elephant attempting to
dance on a tight rope, but immensely
gratifying to his Democratic colleagues,
who shook their sides with laughter at
what they considered wit.
"If the Senator were in a police court,
Hn 70 +ha l. In
drunkenness and disorderly conduct"
or words to that effect, was the only
comment Mr.. ingalls, made when Mr..
Voorhees, gave him the lie. Up to that
time Mr.. ingalls, seemed to have tolera-
ted the Indiana Senator's absurditieS.
But as he rose for reply, his face SEEM
ed to say, Il will have no more nonsense"
His strange hesitancy, which was so
unaccountable at first, had all disap-
peared, and with it the plan mapped out
by him for this debate became apparent
He had succeeded in leading poor Voor-
hees into trap, and into that trap the
Indiana Senator had clumsily fallen be-
yond the hope of recovery. For an hour
or more Mr.. ingalls, mercilessly reviewed
his war record, exposed his reasonable
practices, laid bare his cOwardly treat
ment of Union soldiers, and drew the
picture Of a copperhead such as has not
been drawn before. To all Of it Mr..
Voorhees, had but one reply to make:
Islander, lies, campaign stories"
But when Mr.. ingalls, produced the
named the witnesses and
gave his authorities. Mr.. Voorhees, grew
livid in the face, shouted ''liar," and
finally refused to explain things on the
ground that he had been ''vindicated."
Vindicated, as Mr.. ingalls, afterward put
it, by the Indiana Democracy" but not
by the people of Indiana. He retreated,
demoraliZed, through the
door of the cloak-room, muttering to
himself as he went along: THE dirty
dog, the dirty dog
SYNOPSIS OF THE DEBATE.
Mr.. ingalls, spoke in part as follows:
The Senator from Indiana (Mr. VoOr-
hees) in his observations last WedneS-
day complained that determined attempt
was made during the war, and he adds
it has been continued since, to blachen
the names of the great civil as well as
military leaders who remained true to
the Democratic party as at enmity with |
the cause of the Union. FitZ-JOhn POr- |
ter was such leader, and yet within the
past four months, although he had been |
by the action of the Democrat |
ie party and its members, who had been
members of the Confederacy, he writes
that his heart was always with them,
at one time his head and his
hand were against them. Major General |
George B. Mcclellan began his military
career by disobeying the orders of Gen
Scott; he abandoned Pope to the mer-
cieS of his foes at Centreville; he failed |
to put the rebels to the sword at Antie-
tenn; he refused to obey the orders of
the President of the United States to
follow them to Winchester; he fatally
the destiny of the army until
the battle of fredericksburg: and he
was the intimate friend and companion
IF Major General FitZ-JOhn Porter. |
am now dealing with Mcclellan as a
Democratic politician and as a candidate
for the Presidency. In 1864 he accept
~ bilC ACOltlOlliI6tl liblii11dtiOli ltDtil
hat party upon platform that express
y declared that the war was failure
His nomination for the Presidency was
'eceived by the newspapers of the Con-
'ederacy with enthusiasm, and on
he following day in the Confederate
congress Mr.. Foote, of Tennessee, de
,lared: 81 say that we have friends,
good, true and valiant friends, at the
North. Every vote given for McClel-
an was for peace; a vote against Lin
,oln's African policy and for an armis-
ice" When Mr.. Lincoln was elected /.
le resigned his commission and passed
nto history.
Major General Winfield Hancock's
martial career is one of the imperishable
leritages of American glory. But he I
90 became tainted with the fatal virus
# an ambition for the nomination to I
he Presidency by the Democratic party.