The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-07
He Makes an Unparalleled Assault
On President Cleveland.
He Calls Mcclellan and Hancock
Allies OF the Confederacy.
Mr.. Blackburn Answers the Prose-
cutor of Kansas Jayhawkers.
He Defends Hancock. the Superb, and
"Iittle Mac" and Cites tho Con-
trast Between Them and the
Kansas Senator.

A joint resolution passed directing The
Secretary OF the Interior TO investigate tho
practicabiity Of constructing reservoirs for
storage Of water in the arid regions OF the
United States.
Mr.. Sawyer reported back favorably the
bill for the construction OF bridge across
tho Mississippi ut Memphis. Calendar.
minority report was presented.
Mr. Aldrich called up tho report made
by him some weeks ago from the commit
tee on rules TO amend the rule. The rule
as TO executive session was modified with
out discussion 30 as 10 read: "Whena
treaty shall be laid before the Senate for
ratification Il shall be read first time,
and no motion In respect 10 II shall be In
order except TO refer Il TO committee to
print In confidence for the use OF the Sem
ate, TO remove the injunction Of secrecy
or TO consider II in open executive scs-
sion"
On motion Of Mr.. Berry the House bill
TO enable the Secretary OF the Interior 10
allow the additional use OF hot water at the
Hot Springs reservation, Ark, was taken
up aud, after long discussion, went
over without action.
Tho Senate then resumed consideration,
as tho unfinished business, on the bill
granting pensions 10 cx-soldicrs and sailors
who are ncapactated from the perform.
ancc Of manual labor and providing for
pensions to dependent relativcsoi deceased
soldiers aud sailors, the question being on
the amendment offered by Mr.. Wilson, Of
Iowa, 10 insert the words from the in
| iirmiiics Of age"
icrring TO Mr.. Bcck's speech Of last week,
sent 10 the clerks desk and had read the
paragraph In which he (Shcrman) had
ncclion with silver demonstration. lie
would not have regarded Il as worthy Of
| notice because the senator from Kentucky
| had been under some excitement, hut that
he had used the worl "sectctly"- II
was done under cover Wy some prctcnsc,
and that he lShcrmanl was responsible.
lie had not believed that the senator from
Kentucky would havo permitted thosc
words 10 stand, but as they did stand on
the record, he would cndcayor 60 show
that thoy were entirely false and Unbound
ed, not only In point Of fact, but on point
Of reflection, not only as 90 himself, but
~ 10 Others. and hc would do - from
tho record without rcsortingto declaration
Of other remarks. lilo proceeded TO show
how the principle Of the decentralization
law had been reported in bill three years
before Il went into effect; how Il had been
discussed aud known 10 all mon how at
that time silver WIS nj n premium OF 3pcr
cent, and how for forty years prior thereto
no silver dollar had been coined because Il
was not found adapted 10 the wants Of the
people.
Mr. Teller denied tina, silver dollars had
been found not adapted 10 tho wants VI the
people.
Mr. sherman repeated his assertion, and
said that u was because silver dollar was
| then worth Sl.03. lie wanted 90 know
why such matter had been luggcd int0a
| debate with which " had nothing Co do
Mr.. Bcck asserted that he would tonor-
row prove all his Statements.
Mr.. Ingalls, the presiding oaucer, having
called Mr.. Plat 10 the chair proceeded 10
address the Senate, the galleries being
crowded 30 their full capacity. lie aid
he had been surprised one day last week,
ON returning 10 the chamber after n bricf
absence, that the senator from Missouri
| Vest had referred 10 him Ia terms not
complimentary In q debate In which he
had taken no part, and had coupled with
| the personal remarks an iniimation that
| the people OF the District Of Columbia
| were incapable of disintemsied patriotism
aud that the veterans Of the republic were
a mob Of gorld plnnderfs. AS TO him.
self, he would say that tho nomination
and election Of Grover Cleveland had
made the proiensions II any American
citizens 10 tho Presidency respectable.
There was no man Ia this country whose
ignorance was 20 profound, whose obscur.
ity 10 impcnelmble, whose antccedcnts 40
degraded, that he had not the rigat 10
aspire TO the presidential nomination by
the Democratic party.
That senator was born In State that
had not seeded, the State OF Kentucky,
and had represented In the Confederate
Congress the State Of Missouri, State
that had never seeded IL would be
gratifying TO n historian 30 find out how he
had been admitted 10 rprcscnt q state
which had never seeded. But that was
q matter Of ancient history.
The senator from Kentucky (Blnckburn)
| had also referred snccrlngly 20 the super
| loyalty Of the soldier Of The Union. lilo
did not challenge the honor or couragc OF
these senators In their devotion 20 the
south aud tho Southern Conicderacy.
They couldn't be suspected Of inslncerity.
They had gone into the Coniedcracy be-
cause they wanted 10 80; because they be
lievcd that slavery was better than nee
dom, and secession better than union. II
was curious that Conicdcrates nom Union
States were little more pronouncef and
little moro aggressive, and little inorc
violent IN their denunciationsot the north
than Conicdcrates from States that had
| seeded
lie didn't know where the senator nom
Missouri had got tho figures from which
he stated that but 5000 OF Lees army had
surrendered at Appomaitox. II my II
a,or had plucked few OF the plunef n
the dazzling tail OF his imaginati4 "a
hal stuck them In the wings OF MS ig
ment he would have flown a more accn-
rate flight. Instead Of 5000 men with
mnskois, who were In tho final rash ana
collision Of the war, there had been 's,vII
men. The senator's mathematics VERY
ccr.alnly glddy. But one parallel was 20
br found 10 the extraordinary inacsuiasl