Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-07


four Confederates on the other side Of
the Chamber were informed that the
Northern people were not ill-advised
about this matter. ingalls, referred
to the unveiling OF Hills statue in
Georgia in 1886 and the speeches OF
G ady and Jefferson Davis thereat.
He spoke of the same orator having
gone to New York and New England
soon after and making speeches there,
pouring out his "cold cream and
honey and maple syrup all over the
North" When, he asked, was that
orator sincere?
Coming back to the opposition OF
the Southern Senators to the pension
bill he said that he did not blame
them for it. If the Federal Govern
ment had been overthrown he did not
believe that he would have felt COM
forted in voting pensions to Confed-
crate soldiers, but he would regard
it as
THE CLIMAX OF EFFRONTERY
If after he had accepted pardon and
had had his disabilities removed and
had taken the oath of allegiance to a
successful Southern Confederacy he
had denounced the day after, the eff
forts which these Confederates made
to re ward their own soldiers and if he
haggled about the price which the
conquering country should have seen
fit to bestow on the men whose arms
it had conquered. He did not think
that the Nosth was at all delud-
ed by the pr tensions of the
Senators on the other side.
1t was little singular that in all the
years which had elapsed since the
war there had never come from any
State that had been in the rebellion,
SO far as he knew, Union soldier as
representative in either branch of
Congress elected by the Democratic
votes. When he looked over the
rolls OF the Senate and reflected how
few who had served in the Union
army were found in the Councils of
| the Nation, he was not surprised at
witnessing such demonstrations as
were witnessed when pension bills
were up for action. The Senate
should be thankful if it did
not have to put the entire
pension bill as France did
after the tranco-Prussian war, and
yet, said he, we have the jailers
and murderers OF Andersonville.
Belle Isle and Libby Prison sitting
under the flag they attempted to pull
down, legislating for the country they
attempted to destroy, and trying to
pinch and belittle and
MINIMIZE THE AMOUNTS
To be paid 10 the mutilated and dis
abled survivors of the army of the
Union. The Senator from Missouri
had asked, in burst of indignation,
where all this was going to end. 81
will tell him." said Ingalls,, "and
every Senator on that side of the
chamber, whether he likes it or not,
what we intend to do. We are going
to stop when the arrears OF pensions
are paid; when the limitation is re-
moved and every soldier on the rolls
or who gets on the rolls is paid from
the day OF his disability, or in
the case of a survivor, from the date
Of the soldiers death, and when every
surviving soldier Of the army is put
on the rolls for service only. That il
is when we are going to stop, and if
you don't like it, make the most.of it. :"
After eulogizing the Grand Army,
ingalls, said in conclusion: "We pro-
pose to pass this bill, and initiating
the language used on the other side
of the chamber, ri hope it will pass
the other house Of the Congress; and
if it does, let the President veto it at
his peril" Very general al plause
ON the floor and in the galleries.
BLACKBURN REPLIES.
Blackburn replied at length, and
said that when the Senator from Kan
sas undertook to speak of the chief ex-
ecutive of the country in the terms he
had seen fit to employ, and which
were deliberately prepared, he (lng-
alIs) certainly could not take issue
with him (Blackburn) if he concluded
| it was not entitled to a response or re-
ply in a presence SO august and dis
tinguished as the Senate of the United
States. He was not here to defend
the President from such unwarranted
attacks. He knew OF but one sin
which the President had committed
in the eyes of the Senator from Kan
sas, and it was thatof having defeated
the Senator's party at the polls. He
had given to the American people for
three years so efficient, SO honest, SO
clean-handed an administration as to
ooom the last of the Republican as
pirations to disaster. The gentleman
from Kansas in his Incorporate zeal
had not spared
THE sANCTITY OF THE GRAVE.
He had dragged up for abuse and
| villification such men as had furnish
ed with their unblemished swords the
brightest pages of American history
Mcclellan and Hancock were de-
nounced in the Senate as allies Of the
Confederates. Would it not have
been in better taste, at least more
creditable to the courage and candor
of the Senator, if he had made such
charges before both these men were
buried?
Ingalls-"I did often" (Applause. }
Black ckburn-"Then so much the
worse for the Senator from Kansas.
What warrant or ground had he for
that, except that they were both diff
ferent from himself, at least in politi-
cal action, if not in many other re.
CARDS. Blackburn then devoted some
time to taunting in a bantering man.
ner
INGALLS, MILITARY CAREER.
He was Judge-Advocate of the Kan
sas volunteers. While General Black
was bleeding on the Kansas frontier,
while Mcclellan was commanding
the army, while Hancock was welt
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