Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-07

litne relations we're reversed and IL the
FEDERAL Government had been over.
thrown. he did not believe he would
nave felt comfortable in voting pen-
SONS to Confederate soldiers. But he
should have regarded rs the eli.
max. of oIfrontery, as the very aoex
OF hardihood and audacity (he would not
say pusillsnimlty and dishonor). if after
he had accepted pardon and had had his
disabilities removed and had taken the
oath of allegiance to the successful
Southern Contederacy he had denounced
day after day the efforts which those
Contederates made to reward their own
soldiers; and il he haggled about
the price which the conauerinc
country should have seen fit To
bestow on the men by whose arms
1t had conquered, He did not think
that the North was at all deluded by the
pretentions OF senators of the other side.
1t was a little singular that in all the
years which had elapsed since the war
there never had come from one OF
the States that had been in the rebellion
$50 Tar as he knew q Union soldier as a
representative in either branch of Con-
grcss electedby Democratic voters. The
Democratic party in those States never
had blundered by sending to Congress
or electing as Governor man who had
not served in the Confederate army in
some capacity. That had been the SUI
preme test. When he looked over the
rolls of the Senate and OF the House
and reflected how few of those who had
served In the Union army were found in
the councils OF the nation he was not
surprised at witnessing such demonstra-
tons as were Witnessed when the pension
bills we're mp for action.
Crihcising the statement of Mr.. Vest
that OF the 1888, 600, 900 paid out in pen
sions $3.50, 600, 600 had been contributed
by the South, he declared that such
statement was "a glittering generality.
He doubted whether the South had ac-
tually contributed $3.50, 900 instead of
$3.50, 100000. But even if the South had
paid S290, 000, 600, it was very lucky that
it did not have to pay the whole of the
pensions. Instead of grumbling and
complaining that it had paid 1920, 000,-
O00, 1t ought to be thankful that it did
not have to foot the entire bill, as France
had TO do after the Franco Prussian war.
Mr.. Ingalls, declared that the move
mcnt for pensions was not going to stop
until the arrears of pensions were paid
until the limitations were removed until
every pensioner was, from the day of his
disability, or IN the case of survivor
from the day Of the soldiers death, and
until every surviving soldier Of the
Union army was placed on the pension
rolls for service only. That was, he
said, when 1t was going TO stop, and If
the other side did not like it they might
make the most of it. Very great APP
plause on the floor and in the galleries ]
Mr., Blackburn rose to reply, and said
latter the confusion succeeding Mr..
lngalls's speech had subsided) that he
was at loss to account for the course OF
the Senator from Kansas in dragging him
into the t.radein which he had INDUCED.
tie was sure that he blackburn had
never boosted his identification with the
military service, and had never referred
10 the fact of his having been Confed
crate soldier. Unlike the Senator from
Kansas he (Blackburn) thought his
military service TOO modest and too
humble to prove a subject OF in
terest to the galleries. He did
not need to be told by that Senator that
kentucky had always been loyal. That
Senator knew that be blackburn repre-
scented q constituency which had sent
three men into the Union army for one
man that Kansas sent, and it was not !
without pride that he recalled the fact |
that of thirty-odd States then in the |
Union Kentucky was the only State /
which had without a draft supplied |
more than her quota Of men to both |
sides during the struggle Why the |
Senator from Kansas should have tray !
elled out of his way 10 make an onslaught |
upon HIM he did not know. He did /
not know thpt he blackburn was q ne
cessary connecting link with the Sena-
tors acceptance of the presidential |
nomination. The Senator from Kansas !
doubtless did know that illness in the !
family of the Senator from Missouri !
had taken him d long distance from the |
city, and that he was to be absent for |
some time on that account. He did not |
intend TO be involved in any controversy |
with the Senator from Kansas, but he |
protested against the lack OF fairness |
evinced by that Senator when he under
took to deal in such fashion with |
men who had simply stated facts
and submitted data for the considera-
ton CT the Senate on the pending bill. !
What connection, he asked, had the |
speech made in Atlanta or the speech |
made at Brooklyn or New York by a |
gentleman who had never been a men,
Der of either house of Congress with the |
pending bill When the Senator from |
Kansas undertook to speak of the Chief /
Executive of the country IN the terms /
he had seen fit TO employ, and which, he |
took it, were deliberately prepared and /
conned, he Qngalls) certainly could not |
take Issue with him blackburn If he |
concluded that it was not entitled to
response or reply in the face Of so au-
Gust and distinguished body as the Sen |
ate of the United States. What cause of /
grievance the Senator had that warrant /
ed him in applying language to the /
Chief Magistrate which would not be |
permissible on the hustings-he would |
not say that it would be disgraceiul, |
even to be employed by fish women-he !
did not know. But when that Senator
undertook TO denounce the Chief Exc
cntive of the United States after such
fashion. it did seem to him (Blackburn)
that the dignity of the Senate chamber
refused permission to respond. he was
not here TO defend the President from
such unwarranted attacks. He knew
bnt one stu which the President
had committed in the eyes of the
Senator from Kansas. That might be
the unpardonable sin. 1t was that
having defeated the Senator's party at
the POLLS, he had given to the American
people for three years past so eihclent,
80 honest. SO elean-handed an Admins
tration as to doom the last OF the Re-
publican aspirations TO disaster: Zap
plause on the Democratic side and IN the
Galleries. But the Senator from Kan
Sos had even gone farther and done
worse in his Incorporate zeal. tie
had not spared the sanctity OF the
+rrava in his frantic efforts TO stir