Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19

on that subject in the Senate bv Mr..
Blame, in which Mr.. Blaine declared the
election OF Hayes and Of Packard werein-
dlSsolubly connected, and asked who
nao authority to make an arrangement
by which Packard was not upheld.
stating that it was impossible for the
Administration of Hayes to have done
IT, That, said Mr. Vest, was the state
ment OF the most distinguished Republi-
can now living, with due Difference, pos
eibiy, to the Senator from Ohio laugh
/ ter the standard-bearer of the Repub-
Ican party in the last presidential
canvass, and III was to be taken for
granted TO be the standard-bearer
OF that party in the coming contest.
Blaine had then asserted that
IT Packard was not elected Governor of
Louisiana "He was, from MIR. Sher-
mani Mr.. Hayes was entitled to the
electoral vote of that State.
Mr.. Vest then passed on to the cues
ton OF the Louisiana returning board,
and stated that every member and officer
of that board and their relatives had
been provided with lucrative Offices ex-
ccpt one colored member (Cassanave),
who had not been so provided, and who
had come to Washington and appealed
to Hayes and Sherman (then Secretary
of the Treasury for the pecuniary aid
which had been given or offered to him
to the amount of over $1,000.
lie (NesD made no charge, he
said. of any corruption in the
matter on the part of the Senator
from Ohio, but what claim had that
member of the returning board on
hayes If Cassanave had simply carried
out his legal and constitutional duty {?
Why had it been that every man CON
nected with the board from the highest
to the lowest had been rewarded with an
office There was no page of administra-
tive history that demanded more explana-
ton than that which now stared him in
the face. The Senator from Ohio had
attacked the people of Louisiana,
charging them with crimes that would
stamp them with infamy but he Vest
stood there TO avOw that whatever
had been done in Louisiana on
that occasion had been done not
to bring about an unfair election not
10 trample on tho ballot of any human
being ; but to defend themselves against
a ruthless, outrageous, and criminal con-
splracy against their property at the
hands Of men who had gone there for
the single and sole purpose Of plumber.
The Senator from Ohio had read news
paper extracts with stories of outrage
and murder and crime in Louisiana :;
but. where he asked, would that Senator
or himself be to-day if the newspapers
spoke the truth about them What
would become Of any public man in this
country If newspaper statements were
TO be taken as evidence before any
tribunal? He criticised sarcastically the
opposite sentiments expressed by Mr.
Sherman in his two recent speeches at
Nashville, Tenn, and Springfield, ILL.,,
and said in conclusion; cat the risk
even of the Senator contempt, under
take to say that the American people
never will be satisfied with the explana-
ton made to-day, but like James q.
Blaine, they have already come to the
conclusion that it is impossible for the
ingenuity Of the Senator from Ohio to
explain why it was that the vote OF Louis
ana, as returned by the returning board,
was good for the purpose of giving the
electoral vote OF Louisiana to Hayes for
the presidency but was not good for the
purpose Of giving it to Packard for the
goyernorship of that State.
Mr.. Sherman thanked the Senator
from Missouri for reading the extracts
from his [Shermansl speeches. Every
word uttered IN those speeches he would
utter again If the opportunity offered.
With regard to his speech at Spring
field every word was true. He WAS
speaking within sight of the monument
to Lincoln, and was recalling the circum-
stances of Lincoln's life and of the war
period, and telling the course of the
Democratic party North and South.
The Nashville speech was made
to the men Of the future
10 men who he believed were
hopefully looking forward for the disap-
pearance Of the results Of the war the
other a recital, recapitulation, review
of the past-every word of which was
true. If senators from the South would
only give assurance that there snail be
free and fair elections in the South ; if
they would only do what the Constitu-
ton and the laws require, there would
lee peace and fraternity. He would say
to them now, in all seriousness, that if
the cOlored people are deprived of their
rights in the future rs Ia the past the diff
ficulty and danger that surrounded the
South would 90 on increasing, and the
time would come when these rights
must 10 yielded, or worse would
prevail. There could be no doubt of
this. lie would be glad to do anything
he could 10 relieve the South of this
question. In some States the negroes
are increasing rapidly in numbers, while
the whites are decreasing. Power was
passing from one to the other. The
south wanted diversified industries. In
stead of breaking down the industries OF
the North the South ought to try to
rival them. Instead of breaking down
the tariff laws they ought to seek to
strengthen them and share IN their bene-
fits. 1t was in this spirit of suggestion
that he made his Nashville speech. MIR.
Sherman closed with the reassertion OF
the propriety Of Hayes's action IN con-
nectiop with Louisiana matters.
Mr.. Hawley, who was member of the
Louisiana Commission Of 1877, also re-
piled briefly to Mr.. Vest, and the debate
ended without once recurring to the bill
before the Senate-the Dakota bill.
Upon the suggestion Of Mr.. Allison
and others that several other senators
wished to make speeches upon the Da-
kota bill. MIR. Platt assented to the post
of the vote upon it until to-
morrow.
Mr.. Frye presented the conference re.
mort on the bill to invite a conference of |
American republics, but no action was
taken upon 1t.
Adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
Mr.. McCreary, of Kentucky, submit,
ted the conference report upon the bill
authorizing the President to arrange
conference between the United States |
and the South and Central American re-
publics, Haytl, San Domingo. and the
empire of Brazil. -,
Mr. Townsend, of Illinois, said that he |
would not detain the House by making |