Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-13

| Congress; offences for witch men IN private
\ life would assail each other, at Iesst IN the
courts.
M. Butler replied to Mr.. Blair and re.
| marked that the greatest blessing that could
| oyertake the Senate and the country would
| be for the Senator from New Hampshire 10
he AZ faithful 10 the line OF duty which he
| had marked out for himself. IL there had
! beeu any encumbrance or incubus on sen
sibIe, respectable, orderly discharge OF the
duties OF the Senate, II had been ~ tue per-
SON Of the Senator from New Hampshire
and Ia measures which be bad introduced.
Mr.. Blair: Please TO specify.
Mr.. Butler: II would be absolutely I'M
possible to specify.
Mr.. Blair: Thick II would.
Mr.. Butler: I might take everything
which the Senator does in solido and reDeat
| the propoution-that we should be infinitely
! better of IL he were less attentive, and II he
would fptiQue us less and fatigue the country
less with many OF tue measures which ne
brings into this body for our consideration.
Mr.. Bntlcr went on 10 say that IL was much
more manly, much more Ia accordance with
the standard which the senator from New
Hampshire hai set up in bis remarks TO at
tack. him (Buter) where be bad rightto
yindlcate himself than II was Tor him TO at
tack the President OF the United States. who
bad no Opportunity to reply TO his assertions
Quoting the remark OF hr. Biair's that the
President might ut least have sent bus veto
messages in gentlemanly language, Mr.. Butler
exclaimed: "God save the mark. What a
terrible calamity IL would be to this country
! II the standard OF gentleman had to be es>
tablished by the Senator from New Hamp-
shire. 1t would undermine and destroy
every rule on the subject recognized among
civilized people.v AS to bis Nj. Butlers)
having criticised the Senate with too much
freedom. he asked the senator from New
Hampshrc II he remembered how many pen.
sion bills per minute had been passed atthe Sc
cretary's desk, and he reminded the Senate
that on one occasion 147 bills bad been
| passed in one bour and ten minutes, or at
| the rate OF more than two bills per minute.
and vet the Senator had said that be (Dutler)
had been too free In criticising the action OF
the senate. lie spoke OF MIR. Blair's srraign-
ing him as an attempt TO create diversion
| like demagogue by appealing 10
| the soldier vote OF the country. In
what he (Butlsr) had said he bad cast no
personal reflection on the gentlemen VINO
! composed tue committees Of the Senate, and
had not said one word in disparagement OF
any member Of the Committee on Pensions.
But II be had any doubt OF the virtue. wis
dom, and propriety Of the provision OF the
Constitution which conferred the veto
power on the President the conduct OF Con-
| gress would have removed that doubt.
Mr.. Blair asserted that the Senator from
South Carolina could not escape the predlca-
ment in which he had placed himself by in
sulting him (Blair) for accepting his own
confession. But he denied that Senator's as
sertion so far as he (Blair) and other sena'
tors were concerned. he did not quite I'M
derstand what the Senator meant by insinu-
ating that the Senator from New Hampshire
was demagogue. The Senator from New
Hampshire was not traitor aud was not in-
debted for bis life to the mercy OF his coun-
| try. II be (Blair) had offered measures In
| the Senate which had not met with The APP
prOval Of the Senator from south Carolina ne
/ had only to say That IL the measure which he
supposed the Senator had in his mind (the
educational bilD had been the law OF
| the land quarter oil century
AGO there would have been free
men aud a free ballot in his own
southern part OF the country a. well as
in the North. and the institutions Of America
would not have been threatened with de-
struction by successful rebellion, which
started itself now under the forms Of the
| Government and boosted it was doing its
work under the old flag.
Referring 10 an alluslon by Mr.. Butler 10
/ his (Blair's) courage he remarked that while
/ he claimed no excess OF courage and never
! expected to be called upon to exhibit even
the ordinary courage OF a senator or civilian
he would not shrink from any test probably
which the Senator from South Carolina
might seek To subject him to.
This closed the discussion.