National Republican., 1888-04-18
DiKOTA---T TARIFF.
THE SunJECT~. RI;SrEC
IN SENATE ANU HOUSE.
senator Vest Tries to Answer tho
speech Of senator Spooncr Premier
Mills Calls Up the rariT Bili 1.-TWO
Big speeches Thereon.

reported from committees and placed ON
the calendar was the Senate bill To make in
auguration day Il holiday In the Distrr. Of
Columbia.
MIR. Stewart Offered II resolution (Which
wae agreed to) calling OH the Secretary ul
The Treasury for statement of the amounts
IF United States money deposited in ma
,ionnl hanks and whether the bGul,, are
allowed Ia usr the money without payment
Of interest: also, Us to whether there IL any
regulation of the Treasury Department by
which II can he determined IN what bank dr
posits shall hc made. and tu what extent
the place of deposit il discretionary with the
Secretary.
Tho resolution offered Yesterday by Mr.
Riddlchcrger suspcnding the rules us 10 oX-
ccutivc sessions during the consideration Of
the Iishrrics treaty was laid before the sea
ate by the picsidiug officer.
Mr.. Eduuluds. IN the consideration of
that resolution ! move that The door. he
closed.
MIR, Harris. ! second tho motion
Mr.. Wddlcb"igcr. ask the senator from
vermont 10 withdraw his motion. | simply
want to make Il statement, aud VIII not dis
cuss The treaty at ALL
Mr.. EdmnlidS, however, persisted in Ills
motion, and the motion having hrcu Sec
undCl. which is all that the rules of the
Senate require in such matter. the Ser
gcant at-alms was directed by the presiding
officer To clear the galleries, and close TIE
doors uf The Senate.
Within Ten minutes the ,luurs were re-
opened. and th" public bisinc.S uf the
ScuGtc proceeded with.
Mr. Dawes thy request introduced lill
Ia. at Il,
trici, territorial. supreme, and other courts
III the Indian territory. Referred to judi
cinry CCmlnitier.
ON motion Of Mr.. Plumb the hill to foreit
certain lands heretofore granted for The pur-
pose Of aiding In the construction Of rail
road, was taken up for consideration.
\ number Of amendments were offered,
and. after discussion, were agreed to. The
hill and all the amendments were ordered
10 he printed, aud Went over till to-day.
The Senate then resumed consideration ot
the hill FOR the admission Of The stats of
South Dakota and the organization of the
territory Of North Dakota. and was adj
dressed by Mr.. Vest in opposition to the bill.
lie denied that the question was Il local one.
aud admitted that it was partisan in its
nature. Ii was unfair he said. for the Re
publican party to undertake to divide the
territory of Dakota. 1t was the first time
in the history of the country that the people
of Il territory had undertaken, propriu
vigurc to divide their own area. The sena.
tor from Vermont MIR, E,rIud~J had in
tcricctcd remark The other daN that South
Dakota possessed all the qualities for state
hOod except "balbaric politics. meaning,
IN other words, Democratic politics. But
what. Mr.. Vest asked, was bNrbarisln in this
connection! II was the status Of Dakota
outside of the constitution aud outside
Of the laws. II was Savae"ry; H.
was anarchy. The senator from
Wisconsin (Mr. SpOOncr) had waved ycstcr-
day that cusarIuincd garmont, known ~
"lhc bloody shit and scattered its ruldy
remains around the chamber. He lad
spoken Of secession. and said that there was
10 difference between states trying to break
out ri the Union and state. trying to break
INTO il, But what did that Senator say of u
state, neither in nor out Of the Union, which,
claimed To exist us u state in spite OF the
laws, and in defiance of Congress Was
not that n state of 'balhuric politics -
Was II not Il state which justified the
cpitlct applied 10y the senator from Yer
mont? II any southern community had
undertaken to do what the people of Dakota
had done there would have beGii an uutcry
Immediately, only exceeded by that IN re.
gard TO Fort Sumter, and the senator from
Vernon, would have proposed Il piece Of
Legislation equivalent 10 that celebrated
btblhiUtibl WHICH, li'. liuu III lN.b
which put Hayes into the presidential chair,
and 40 arms to arms would have been the
cry all over the north.
Mr.. Edmunds wished Ia say with EN-.
phusis that lie believed. anl that nine
tCnths of the people UJ the Uuitcd States
who knew anything about ii believed, he
thought that President Hayes was lawfully
and fairly and Justly elected by the vote, Of
the states, according to HE constitution Of
h,A .,I ,,II hat tl,f, NFl
had existed in regard lO that matter was
the attempt Of Il body OF men at hradqumr-
trrS in New York iu hrihc the electors Of
the state of South CHrulina.--1nl those men
had not been Republicans
Mr. Vest declared that he had never uu-
dcrstoOd, and that the people Of the couutry
had never been able 10 understand, why
Packard had not been elected governor Of
Louisiana by the same votes that HAYES hal
| received for the presidency, and yc, Pack
aiu had been sent as consul to Liverpool
AMI Ilayes had been sworn in Us President
of the United States He lid not now
choose To base his assertion on Democratic
opinion, but on that OF the foremost man Of
the Republican party, who was now lying
stricken to death in the city of New York,
and who had been heard to say IN the Sen
ate chamber that "t0ther fraud Hayes
claimed to be President of ils United
States"
Mr.. Edmmds. Nv kindly and sincere
friendship for Mr., tonkling in hi present
unhappy condition (which, ain glad 10
hope, is Improving leads me 10 say now
that Mr. Conkliug was one of the foremost
men in the committees which conferred Oh
| preserving the peace Of the United States
| in settling the dispute hy the electoral com
mission bill. And my belief is that Mr..
| tonkling believed (as | did and now duJ
that Mr.. Hayes was lawfully elected, lie
believed las did then and do now that the
! only fraud in the business was the fraud Of
| person of the party tn which my friend
! from Missouri belongs, AMI In which my
friend himself never would have been Il per
s0nal party. And my belief Is that whatever
Mr., CUnkling may have been said 10 have
said, If he ever said II (Which do not he
| lieye), urOsc from certain difficulties aud
differences which arose, later on, after Mr.
Hayes had come in. II is due to President,
Hayes, to Democrats and Republicans, and
10 Mr., COnlliug himself, to say that thing
think my friend from Missouri Is mis-
taken (not 10 say anything further about it,
IN bringing Mr. COnklng's name in here AT
| this Tine in this connection, because J. re
peat that Mr.. COnklng was one Of the
! ahlest (of course We all know that) and the
foremost OF the people who engaged with
good Democrats-Scnator Thurman and
others in trying to preserve the peace of
the United states by having some lawful
way of deciding disputed question.
Mr. Vest, My alluSion 10 Mr., Conklng
was not at all prcmcdtNted, aud was elected
by the remark of the Senator from Vermont.
Mr., Couliliug made the statement which
have repeated here, and made IL not once,
but made IL over ana over again, and Mr.,
Justice Strong of tho supreme Court Of the
United States made it, in different language
hut Ia the same effect. And the conviction
is settled to-day with the people of the
United States, irrespective Of party, that
Rutherford b. Hayes was not fairly elected
President Of the United States. The scnatOr
from Vermont says he has no doubt Of Mr.
lIayess election. As matter Of course no
one expects that distinguished senator 10
li ~.