Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-03-22
SENATOR INGALLS, TRADE.
The KaRSan airs The Bloody Shirt, and
Senator Blackburn airs Him.

Ia the United States, March Z, in
slant, Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas,
spoke ss follows:
Nh. INGALLS,. Mr.. President, con-
siderations of decorum and propriety.
excessive, perhaps, and sometimes
over strained, have deferred me from
particips tiOn in debate thus far this
session Of the Senate, my impression
being that perhaps order could be
more impartially maintained and the
rules Of the Senate better enforced by
abstinence on the part Of the Presiding
Officer from the controversies of the
floor.
was surprised, therefore, one day
last week, upon returning to the
Chamber after brief absence, to learn
that the Senator from Missouri Mr..
VEST had taken occasion when I was
not present to allude to me in terms
the reverse, to say the least, of COM
plimentary in discussion in which I
had taken no part, and including in
his combined and concentrated and
coagulated cynicism not me only, but
the inhabitants of the District of Co.
lumbia also, and all the comrades of
the Grand Army of the Republic; in
timating that those were incapable of
disinterested patriotism, and that the
surviving veterans of the Union armies
were a mob Of sordid mercenaries or
ganized for plunder, and for sale to
the highest political bidder.
Personal illusions to myself l will
pass by with but one single observa-
ton, and that is, that the nomination
and election of Grover Cleveland have
made the pretensions Of any American
citizen to the Presidency respec table.
There is no man in this country whose
Ignorance is so profound, whose OBJ
scurity Is so impenetrable, and whose
antecedents are 50 degraded that he
may not justifably aspire to Presi-
DENTAL nomination by the Demo-
cratic party. TApplanse and laughter
IN the galleries
The PRESIDING OFFICER The gal
!eries must preserve order.
Mn. INGALLS,. regret, Mr. Presi-
dent, that the Senator from Missouri
is not present to-day. He is a court
eous and cour1 geous antagonist. l
have waited for his return. The day
following this debate the discussion
turned rather upon the infrmities of
the tariff, than upon the infirmities of
age. Thereafter the Senate adjourned
over, and this is the first convenient
opportunity that I have had to ad-
dress myself to the bill under consid-
Grafton.
To whatever degree the Senator
from Missouri saw fit to criticise with
iudignity and to asperse with personal
alIusion colleague upon the floor
who was not present, ! shall not imi-
tate that bad example, but conhne
myself, so far as lie is concerned, TO
what has been disclosed in his auto
biography.
The Senator from Missouri was born
in State that did not secede from
the Unlon-the State of Kentucky.
His autobiography shows that he re-
presented in the Confederate house of
representatives. for two years, and in
the senate of the Confederate States
Tor one year, the State Of Missouri.
The State Of Missouri did not secede,
Mr.. President, and while I have no
doubt that the Confederate house of
representatives and the Confederate
senate were the judges of the election,
the qualifications, and the returns of
their own members, it would be a
special qualification to the historian to
know upon what conditions and by
what methods a member of the Con-
iederate house of representatives or Of
the Confederate senate could have
been admitted from the State of Mis-
souri, that never seeded from the
Union. | do not propose, however,
10 push my investigation into the SUBJ
ject OF his right to represent that State
in the Confederate senate so far as to
move to refer his credentials 10 the
Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions. 1t is matter Of ancient his
tory.
Nor, sir. do allude to this matter
in any disparagement to the Senator
from Missouri any more than l do to
the same fact in the history of the
Senator from Kentucky Mr.. BLACK.
BURN who sits now before me, and
who with great deal of profusion of
speech rose and denounced the "su-
perlOyaity" of the Grand Arny OF the
Republic, efiticising them as horde