Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-07
TIE TILT IN THE SENATE.
VIZ. ingalls, Speech and VIZ. Black.
burns Reply.

burns Reply.
FIGHTISG THE WAR OVER AGA1S-soNE SHARP PAS
sAGKs FROM THE SExaRks Or THE SENATORS FROM
KANSAS AND KENTUCKY.
The large audience which filed the Senate gal
eries and even crowded the floor OF the CHAMBER
| yesterday, was not disappointed in the expecta
tion OF lively time senator ingalls, speech wa:
full OF biting sarcasm and keen invective. At thu
outset he directed his attack upon Senator's Yes,
| and Blackburn. lie said the states they repre-
| senled-Missouri and kentucky-did not secede
that no dag Of state allegiance summoned them 4
/ cass their fortunes with the South Mr.. Ingall;
| quoted Mr.. Vests statement, that when Gen. Lee
| surrendered at Appomattox, ne had but 500
musSet and be characterized the Missouri sena
| tors mathematics as ''gid1y." Mr. Ingalls, made
out the number Of men surrendered by Lee to be
139l1.
SOUTHERN SENATORS AND UNION SOLDIERS.
He said that In opposing the granting OF pen
sons TO Union soldiers the southern Senators
were voicing the sentiment OF the people behind
them: that MIR. Blackburn, in denounclng the
Grand Army. knew that he would win the APP
plauSe OF his constituents Mr.. Ingall referred
10 Gen. Mcclellan in disparaging terms, and TO
Gen. Hancock as shat other ally OF the COnled-
eracy." Gen. Black, Pension COMMISSIONS also
came In Tor share OF his cenoure.
The South, declared Mr.. IugallS, had never
elected any but eX-COnfederateS 10 Congress, and
IN response 10 complaints from the other side as to
what "a service pension system would cost, and as
10 what proportion OF
THE BURDEN THE SOUTH BEARS,
Mr.. ingalls, said thai section was lucky in that
IL id not have TO bear the entire burden. Ger
many compelled France to pay the cost OF the
Franco. Prussian war, and the North might have
compelled the South 10 bear the whole burden OF
pensions TO L MON soldiers. 'sAnd yet here" said
he, ave have the jailers and murderers OF Ander-
sSnviIie Belle Isle and Libby Prison sitting under
nf IN n
lating for the country which they endeavored TO
destroy, and trying to pinch and belittle and mini
disabled survivors OF the Army OF the Union" He
said he had voted Tor the Mexican pension bill to
remove the last obstacle IN the way OF giving
service pension to every Union soldier. The SOL
Giers or every other American war but the war Tor
the mon were now receiving service pensions.
He would give notice that the pensoning OF
Union soldiers would not stop until the arrears OF
pensions were paid: until the limitation Is re-
moved, and every soldier the rolls, or who gets
Or IN case OF a survivor, from the date Of the SOL
dier's death, and when every surviving soldier OF
the Union IS put on the rolls for service only.
Mr. ingalls, was frequently appaudej ia spite OF
gene OF the doorkeepers TO suppress noisy Demon
STATIONS.
Mr.. BLACKBURN's REPLY.
Mr. ingalls, had scarcely resumed his seat when
Mr. Blackburn, who had occupied seat immedi-
ately across the aisle and within few feet OF the
Kansas senator throughout the latter's speech,
arose. Senator Blackburn, facing Mr.. Ingalls,, had
listened with unremitting attention. Senator
BackournS response was brief, but pointed. He
scored Mr. Ingalls, for his assault upon the Illus
tri0us dea }, Mcclellan and hancock, and he de-
Tended Gen. Black.
Mr.. BLACKBURN BEvIEws NIX. INGALLS, MILITARY
SERVICE
1t might be assumed, sid Mr.. Blackburn, from
the Kansas Senator's utterances that he was at
the front during the war. But Mr.. Ingalls, auto
biography showed thai he did not enter the mill
tary service until 1863. and then not in any eX-
posed capacity. He was judge advocate Of the
Kansas volunteers, and "while Gen. Black, the
Commissioner OF Pensions, was bleeding on the
Kansas frontier, while Mcclellan was command
Ing the army OF the Potomac, while Hancock was
weteribg n his blood on Cemetery Heights at
Gettysburg. the Senator. from Kansas. always be-
hind in the rear OF the army, prosecuting Kan
saS Jeyhawler5 for rifling hea-rOOStS." Laughter
and applauSel
In reply to what Mr.. Ingalls, had said as TO Mr.
Blackburn representing an altra-Confederate peo-
pie the Kentucky senator said that he represented
"A constituency which sent three Union soldiers 10
the Held for every one that went from Kansas. He
Was prodd TO be able 10 say that Kentucky was
The only state in the Union which sent more than
her quota To cOtn sides OF the controversy without
cOnpulslon IroiG draft or couscript laws. senator
Blackourh'S short speech seemed TO delight his
party friends, as Mr. Ingalls, remarks had the ad-
mlTerS or the Kansas Senator