Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-03-09
PARTY LINES In THE SEN
ATE.
Blackburn Doubles mp tho Kan.
SRS JaY.Ell wker with n
Few Trile Remarks.

o1"h' S"Oo:
In the Senate to-day Ingalls, of Kan
sas in reply to the speech of Senator
Vest (who was absent), mnde last week
i'll opposition to the Pension bill,
poured out his vindictive pIeep against
the Democratic party, the President,
the South, and in fact everything and
everybody opposed to the venality of the
Republican party ar,l its corrup: bosses
and supporters. After the Republican
featherweight had exhausted his vocnb-
MARY of yindictive spleen and the pa
tieuce of the audience gathered in the
Senate Chamber to listen to words of
wisdom, Blackburn of Kentucky round
ed up the whipper-snupper of the purity
without a head in the following trite re-
marks:
When, snid Blackburn, the Senator
from Kansas undertook to spenk of the
Chief Executive of the country in the
terms he had seen fit to employ, which
were deliberately prepared, lie (Iugallsl
could not take issue with him (Blnck-
burn) if he concluded it WAS not emit
tied to response or n reply in pres
ence so august or distinguished as the
Senate of the United Stntes. He was
not here to defend the President from
such unwarranted attacks. He knew
of but one sin which the President had
committed in the e-es Of the Senator
from Knnsas-it WIS TINT of having de-
teated the Senator's party at the polls.
He had given to the American people for
three years past so efficient. 30 honest,
30 clenn-handed IN Administration as
to doom the last of Republican aspira-
tions to disaster.
The gentleman from Kansas in his
Incorporate zeul hnd not spared the
sunctity of the grave. He had dragged
up for abuse and utilization such men
as had furnished their emblemished
swords for the brightest pages of Amer
icnn history. Mcclellan and Hancock
were to be denounced in the Senate as
ALI es of the Confederacy. Would it
not have been in better taste, ut least
more creditable to the courage and cum
dor of the Senator, if he had nude such
chnrge before both OF these men were
buried?
Ingalls-I did often.
Blnckburn-Then 80 much the worse
warrant or ground had he for that, ex
cept that they were both different from,
himself, at leust in political action if
not in many other r"glrds2
Blackburn then devoted some time to
running down in bnnt ring manner III
gals military record. He was, he said,
Judge Advocate of the Kansas Volul
teers. While General Biloxi was bleed
Ing on the K InSns frontier; while Mt
Cle.l Ian was commanding the army;
while Hancock was weltrring il his
blood on Cemetery Nights at Gettys-
bnrg, the s nttor from Kansas, always
behind the rear of the army, was prose-
cutting Kansas jny.bawkers for rifline
hen-roosts. "Now. what are you to
hink of n Senator who will leave his
sc It as presiding officer and come to the
floor. an illustration OF pnrtisnn Zeal
which has never been equnlled, attack
iIg all decent people from the President
of the United States down (civilians Us
we'll ID military menu and letting no
objeo cape the venom Of his tongue2
have never opposed the pensioning of
disabled Union soldiers. aud l do not
know tho Confederate who has done
30"
Blackburn then proceeded to refute
the assertion that the Southern States
had never sent Union soldiers to Con.
gress. He concluded: "Party man as
am, partisan AS confess myse to be, !
sinosrly trust that I may never find
my term Of public service prolonged 10 .