Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-07
LIVELY DEBATES.
4 REGULAR FIELD-DAY IN CONGRESS
YESTERDAY.
Tae PsBsios Bill ia the senate-Ineslls.
Blackburn. and olhers-wsrm
Words in the House
WARRINGTON, March 6, 1883.
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W hohiNoIcN, MarCn b, 1888
senare.
Nr Morrill,, from the Finance Com.
,otec, reported hack favorablv ana
with IN amendment House hin 60 pro.
sud, Tor the purchase OF United States
bonds by The Secretary OF the Treasurv
Sra gave notice that he would call il mn
afaa esrly date Calendar.
lir. Beck offered an amendment n Tho
hticr mil which was ordered 10 be
printed.
SIR. sawyer reported back adversely
ere bin for the construction of a BRIDGE
across the Mississippi river at Memphis
Calendar.
4 minority report was presented by
NJ Gibson on behalf OF himself ami
N.>srs Ransom, Coke. and Kenna
Nr Harris gave notice that so soon as
che h,li was punted he should ask for its
co.-3eraiion.
>,r, Aldnch called up the report made
by tim some weeks ago from the Com
m.t,ce on Rules to amend the rules.
lhc first amendment was in regard 10
ottor>, aud it was agreed TO without
discussion. The rule now reads
"tvcry petition and memorial shall be
s.Drl by The petitioner or memoriallst
co. shall! have endorsed thereon a brief
adem,nt of its contents and shall be
Yr nt'd and referred without debate"
The next debate vas one that requires
ihc Appropriations Committee to CON
Slsr bills az least five DAYS before
roIung them. This was laid over.
!rc rule as 10 executive sessions was
modified without discussion so as TO read
"vacn treaty shall be laid before the
senate for ratification il shall he read
t.rst time, and no motion in respect
toit shall be in order except to refer 1t to
committee. to print II in confidence for
size use of the Senate, to remove the in
junction OF secrecy, or to consider it IN
en- executive session
ihe Senate AT = p. NJ. took up the
"a pendent pension bill, the question
f beng on the amendment OF Mr..
WILSON. Of Iowa, to insert the words
"tron the indrm'ties of age"
iiier brief speeches by Messrs. Berry.
Henderson. Sherman, Teller. and Beck,
Nr Ingalls,, the presiding officer having
c-.,J dr. Plat to the chair, proceeded
n aIjrcss the Senate, the galleries being
crowded 10 taoir full capacity. He said
rcat consideration of decOrum and pro-
rli ~ perhaps excessive and over
c-uell had deferred him from
participation thus far in the de-
cat.s q the Senate. He had, there
-o.e. been surprised one day last
week on returning TO the chamber
a'',r a brief absence to learn that the
senator from Missouri had referred to
l.l IN terms not complimentary ii a de-
ls,e 10 which he had taken no part, in
t-a'ing that the people Of the District OF
Columbia were Incapable of disinterested
,.ru1ti,In and that the veterans of the
~.rlblc were mob OF sOrdid plum
l,r.r, As 10 himself he would say that
tla nomination and election of Grover
Cleveland had made the nomination of
any American citizen to the
presidency respectable There was no
nan 50 ignorant or mean that he
might not aspire to nomination to the
rra-ljency 10y the Democratic party
laughter ana applause. He regretted
ID 20 the senator fIOm Missouri was not
u ms seat today. lie shouid not imi-
tate that Senator's bad example, and
v0lli conhne himself, so far as he was
concerned, to that Senator's .utobiogra-
Vhr. That Senator was bonn IN a State
that had not seceded-the State Of Ken
ucky-and had represented in the Con-
te eratc Congress the state Of Missouri,
State which had net seeded.
it would be gratifying to the
historian TO find out how he
had been admitted 10 represent a State
which had never seeded. But that was
a matter Of ancient history. The Sena-
tor from Kentucky Mr. Blackburn had
also referred sneerlngly 70 the super
LOYALTY of the soldiers OF the Union. He
did not challenge the honor or courage
OF these senators IN their devotion to the
South and 10 the Southern COntederacy
They could not be suspected OF insincerl-
IT, J hey had gone into the Couiederacy
because they wanted togo; because they
believed that slavery vas better than
freedom and secession better than
Union. 1t was curious that Confederates
from Union States were a little more
pronounced and little more aggressive
and a little more violent IN their denun-
cation of the North than Confederates
from the States that had seeded He
Oii not know where the Senator from
Missouri had got the figures from which
he stated that but 5000 OF Lees army
had surrendered at Appomsttox. lfthat
senator had plucked few OF the plumes
from the dazzling tail of his imagination
ali had stuck them into the Wigs OF
lis judgment he would have flown a
more accurate fight. in5tead of 5000
men with muskfts who were IN the final
crash and collision of war, there had
been 1911 men. The Senator's mathe-
mstics were certainly gIddy. But one
parallel was 10 be found TO the extraordl-
urv inaccuracv Of that statement, and
t.at Was the same Senator's statement
trat OF 2.300. 600 soldiers Of the /
Union army more than one half bad /
applied for pensions. Such speeches /
Us those Of the senators from Missouri /
and kentucky were intended 10 catch the /
Couiederates, and they would catch It. I
They we're "centre shots" striking the 4
bulls eve every time and bringing the I
ne WdNitl HtiluiOAn va W..
cratic side OF the chamber TO understand I
tlt their disguise for opposing pension 4
/, was so exceedingly thin that no 4
body was deceived by it 1t was not
question Of cost. The South did not
9fl the Union army; neither did the
Ieuocratic party.
lir Morgan reminded Mr. ingalls, that
The Democratic party had nominated and
sustained a Federal otiicer-General
Hsncock-for the presidency.
Yes. said Mr.. ingalls,. it did support
General Hancock, and it also supported
Horace Greeley, attempting TO TOOL the
North. 1t also nominated and supported
t,at other ally Of the Confederacy,
George 3. Mcclellan. Such pretenAons
a,a altogether too diaphanous. They
require % have the drapery removed Tor
Inspection.
IN 1856 there was in Atlanta grand
historical occasion, when q statue to the
memory Of an honored senator was 70
be unyeiled-a man whom be Qngalls)