Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-07
NGALLSAN BLACKBURN.
KANSAS AND KENTUCKY LOCK HORNS
IN THE SENATE.

| BLACKBURN Wakes hepiS- tfoNue'
Chamber to Hear II Notable Exchange u
Compiiments--The Internal Revenue Re
duotion Bill Before the Ways and Mean
CommIttee--The Public Printer.
WASHINGTON CITY, March The sensa
ton Of Tuesday in the senate was tue attacl
Of Ingalls, upon the president and the DemOc
racy, and in anticipation thereof the gallerie
were densely crowded long before the hour a
which Ingalls, WINS expected to begin. In re
Spouse 10 an inquiry a. To- whether he intend
ed to speak, and II 81 ON what subject Sen
ator Ingalls, had jeStingly stated that h,
would take tue floor and exercise the proud
privilege of every American citizen OF
aspiring 10 the presidency ingalls, had with
drawn from the chamber and Plutt was il
the chair
II was p m. before the dependent pen
sions bill, which was to be Ingalls, opportuni-
ty, was reached, and n half hours debate car.
ried ON by Aldrich, Berry, Henderson, Beck
and others interviewed previous to ingalls, TAX
ing the floor, and the crowd in the galleries
was by this time almost unprecedented, the
floor of the senate also being thronged with
| members of the house who desired TO hear
| the kansaSStatesman
ingalls, asked that the pending amendment
he read. The amendment grants "A pension
to veterans who are dependent, or in any
way incapartated. Ingalls, said that consd-
eratiuns of decorum had deferred him from
participation in debate heretofore as per-
| haps in better keeping with his position of
| presiding officer. lie was surprised there
| fore, TO learn some days ago that during his
| absence from the senate, the senator from
| Vest had referred TO him in "A manner the
| reverse Of complimentary, and had included
| himself, the people of Washington, and the
| Grand Army OF the Republic in II combined
and coaGulatod cyniciSm.' He would pass
| 10y the personal aluson to himself with the
single statement that the election of Grover
Cleveland had made the aspirations of any
citizen to the presidency respectable. No
| citizen could be too ignorant or obscure, or
| of too degraded antecedentS hereafter to as
pre tO the preSdency-or TO secure the Dem
ocrAtic nomination for that Office He re-
GREETED that the senator [NeStl was not pres
ent He had waited for him Ingalls, then
proceeded to personal attack on Vest. He
found in that senator's official autobiography
the statement that the senator had repre-
sented the state of Missouri in the Confeder-
ate congress. As the state of Missouri, had
never seeded, it would be interesting to
know on what basis that representation could
have existed
Referring to Blackburn he said his devotion
TO the Confederacy was certainty sincere,
like Vests, as i'll neither case did their states
secede, and state allegiance could not be
pleaded 10y them They both went south be-
cause they wanted to go; they believed the
stars and bars more worthy of patriotic
fidelity than the stars and stripes.
He then turned his attention to other Demo
cratic senators who had attacked the Grand
Army of the Republic, and said it was a
singular fact that Democratic senators from
Union states led in defense of Confederate
armies and leaders, and in sneerS at Union
veterans and leaders He reviewed Vests
statistics of the Confederate armies. These
statistics diI2icd the arithmetic of imagina-
ton, If the senator would pluck some of the
brilliant plumes from the tail of his imaginu-
ton and stick them in the wings OF his
imagination, lie might lily less erratC ora
torical flight. The statistics had been falsi-
fled from first To- last The senator's mathe-
matics were giddy. The fa4ehoods of these
Confederate statistics were only uaralleled by
by the falsehuOd Of his Union stutStcs--the
statement that one halt of all the Union
veterans have applied for IA pension He did
not doubt that the Democratic senators who
ridiculed the armies of the north and extoled
the Confederacy fairly represented their con
stituencies. Democratic senators who accused
the advocates OF this hill of bidding for the
soldier vote were themselves bidding for the
Confederate vote-and they would get it
every time Such talk uwoke an echo in the
southern states 1t was popular there 1t
was never repudiated.
The speaker next asked why it was that no
Democratic senator repudiated that memora-
BILE defense of Jefferson Davis made in the
senate by that senator who, by one of the in
explicable evolutions of politics, now sat upon
the supreme bench of the United States to
pass upon the amendments to the constitution
adopted against his protest and in the face of
his declaration of their invalidity. 1t was
time that the Democratic senators understood
that the hostility of the Democratic party to
the Union veterans and all pension legislation
was so thinly disguised that nobody could be
deceived. He was tired of being accused of
waving the ensanguined Enlargement every
time he favored reasonable pension legisa
ton
Morgan asked whether there were not cx-
Confederates on the Republican side of the
chamber. Ingalls, said there were. But he
had never heard from them such denunca
ton of the Union army and its veterans
Morgan asked whether the Democratic |
vote for General Hancock was in accordance
with his assertion. Mr.. ingalls, replied that |
it was. Such a political deception, such |
political insincerity was easily understood |
IL was llhe SuIlllpl Vi ptlltIdl
McClellan-that ally of the Confederacy |
who declared the war was failure after |
trying for three years to make it SO. 1t was |
like the Democratic vote for Horace Greeley |
He read from various Democratic sources |
tributes to jefferson Davis and other Con |
federate leaders. 1t was true that many of |
the Democratic orators who said these things |
in the south spoke differently in the north
that ON northern soil they declared that the
prodigal son was fain to eat the husks to come
back under the old flag and secure the neces-
sary appropriation, They sometimes spoke
in this way, and the Democratic party Of the
north arose one man and fell upon their
neck and the parable of the prodigal was full
filed in their reception.
Ingalls, disclaimed any ill-feelng toward
the southern senator's. He had sometimes
wondered how he would himself have felt if
the result of the great struggle had been re-
the old flag had been tattered and
the capitol spoated He did not think in
such a case he would have enjoyed voting for
pensions. The Democratic senti
ment so constantly manifested he did not
wonder at He did not see how it could well
be otherwise. He knew that it was universal
He could not recall single Unionlst elected
as a governor of Il disoyai state or a repre-
of such state in congress since the
war. The test Of fitness still applied in the
test of service rendered to the late Confeder-
acy. The jailors and murderers of Ander-
Sonville and Libby are sitting beneath the
capitol dome as legislators, and haggling over
the amounts which shall be paid to the pri-
soners whose health was broken in the hell of
their incarceration.
The pension legislation of this country is
not to be checked until all arrears Of pension
restrictions have been removed and uni
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