The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-20

position by arraigning a sovereign State in
the settlement of its domestic affairs
Rhode Island was capable of taking care
OF herself, and she would. And South
Carolina was capable of taking care Of her
self, and she would.
AN ABSURD PROPOSITION.
Coming back to the question of South
Dakota and the admission of two men
claiming to be Senators from that State,
Mr.. Butler asked where were the creden-
tials of the two Senatorsl Who had signed
them9 Were they signed by blizzard and
countersigned by snow banki Who was
the Governor of South Dakotas Where
was he and what were his powers1
The mere statement of the proposition
and carried with it it's own absurdity. All
the sounding of gongs, he sa d, and diver
slons from the real issue were intended to
cover up and conceal from the public the
real motive behind all this movement. He
spoke af the two Senatorial claimants from
South Dakota as a new political firm, not
of Moody and Sankey, but of Moody and
Eggleston. He said that Mr. Sherman had
lndulged in TRADE of abuse and misrepre-
sentation of one section of the country,
had condescended to deliver to that
section a lecture on how its people should
conduct themselves, and had reflected on
the Senators from Louisiana for taking ad-
vantage of alleged frauds and violence,
A KNOCKDOWN BLOW.
If he (AIr. Butler) were to retort on that
Senator, he might say that he (Mr. Sher-
mani had got the advantage of his own
wrong as a co-conspiratOr in the greatest
fraud that ever disgraced American politics,
and had manouvered himself into the
Treasury of the United States, and that he
had done more (which could not be said
of any Southern man, had rewarded his co
conspirators in that crime and fraud out of
the public treasury of the United States by
giving them office. He would not say that
the Senator had done that, but it would
have been just as competent for him to say
that as for the Senator to say that the
Senators from Louisiana were occupying
their seats by fraud and bloodshed and out
RACES in elections.
Mr.. Hawley-The Senator from South
Carolina would say that boldly concerning
the Senator from Ohio if it were true,
would he nots
Mr.. Butler-No, sir | would not. l have
too much regard for the decencies of life.
Mr.. Hawley-The Senator has, however,
practically said it.
EXPLAINING HIS MEANING.
Mr.. Butler-I said that might retort in
that way. What mean is that one stat =
ment is just as far true as the other. The
Senator from Ohio went to the verge, and
I think beyond the verge of decorum in
making these charges against men who are
his equals IN every aspect of life.
Mr. Chace took up Mr.. Buffers allusion
to the election frauds in Rhode Island and
undertook to repel that SANDER The insin-
uation against the Republicans of Rhode
, Island he denounced as an unqualified false
hood. So far as the action of the Republi-
can party was concerned, there never had
been a fairer election. The State had been
flooded with money-Democratic money
by men who were organized to manage the
affairs of the Democratic party, national
and State. The gentlemen on the other
side seized these ISLANDERS published by the
Democratic and Mugwunp papers, and
rolled them as a sweet morsel under their
tongue as countervaiiing argument to the
charges of fraud and violence in the cleo
tions in certain Southern States.
MR.. VESTS AUTHORITY.
Mr.. Vest said that in his allusion the other
day to bribery in the Rhode Island election
he had given his authority as the Provi-
dence Journal, paper which had belonged
to Senator Anthony, and which he under
stood to be Republican paper.
Nh. Chace-It announced itself as an
independent paper. | suppose that the
Senator will agree with me in one respect.
! have no doubt that he will look upon
Independent papers and Mugwump papers
very much as Rdo, and that he will say to
them, in the language Of the Holy Writ,
Because ye are neither hot nor cold, / will
spew you out of my mouth Laughter
Mr.. Call made speech in refutation of
what he called the aspersions on Southern
States, and was interrupted by REMARKS
made by Messrs. Edmunds and Hoar The
latter called attention to a recent news
paper article ind eating the existence of
election frauds and violence in the South
written and published, he said, within the
last fortnight by Henry Watterson, an
eminent Southern Democrat, and said to be
man of honor There was also, he said
an article from the same eminent gentleman
in the Forum stating the same thing.
Mr.. BERRY REPELS THE CHARGES.
Mr.. Berry also spoke to repel, he said,
charges affecting the honor and good name
not only Of members of the Senate, but of
the people of the Southern States. He
recalled the outrages of carpet baggerism
in the Southern States but especially in
the State of Arkansas, and he asserted that
there were more crimes committed in the
North in proportion TO population than
there were in the South. Referring to Mr.
Sherman's speech, he decltred that
the man who made it had not that
love of country which qualified him
to be the couutry's Executive. Every such
speech made IN the Senate tended to in
crease the bitterness between the white and
colored people Of the South and to cripple
those who were anxious to see the colored
man secured in every right guaranteed to
him by the Constitution.
Mr.. Sherman said that he had not partici-
pated in this debate until he heard a charge
that Mr.. Hayes had held his seat by fraud.
In refuting that charge he had found it
necessary to go over the history of the
events of 1915, and he declared again that
the charge was false by whoever uttered
or wherever uttered.
MR.. VEST REPEATS THE CHARGE.
Mr.. Vest replied TO Mr. Sherman and
again brought up Mr.. BIaine's statement
in tn Senate that il Mr.. Hayes had been
elected 7, esident, Mr.. Packard had been
elected Governor Mr.. Vest proceeded to
quote from Mr.. Blaines speech, iterspers-
ing the quotations VITA comments of his
own and declared in conclusion that the
seating OF Mr. Hayes was colossal fraud
ia the history of the government lie
would say so ''in church or graveyard
and believed that the people of the United
States would endorse that opinion.
Mr.. Platt made the closing speech IN favor
OF the bill, in which he spoke OF the Terrific
rial governments being only carpet bag
governments that had existed in the United
States for the last twelve years. An allus-
ion made by him TO the objection made by
him TO the name Of Lincoln for the new
Territory, caused Mr.. Butler to declare