Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-07
INGALLS, AND BLACKBURN
INDULGE IN SARCASM IN THE SEN-
 ATE CHAMBER.
The Grand Army's Pension Bill Leads to Spicy War of Words Between the Senatorial Statesmen from Kansas and Kentucky.


 voted on before adjournment to-day. The fact that Senator Ingalls would speak had been published and at 12 o'clock the galleries began to fill up, and by ? o'clock they were crowded to suffocation. He said that con- alterations of dccoruln and propriety, ex- cessive perhaps, and somewhat overstrained, had deterred him from participation in debate thus far this session of the senate. He was surprised, therefore, one day last week, upon returning to the chamber after brief ab- sence to learn that the senator from Missouri Vest had taken occasion when he was not present to aIlude to him in terms the reverse of complimentary in discussion in which he had taken no part, and including not him alone, but i'll his combined and concentrated and coagulated cynicism the inhabitants of the District of Columbia, and all the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, intima- ting that they were incapable of disinterested patriotism, and that the surviving veterans of the Union army were mob of sordid mer- cenaries, organized for plunder and for sale to the highest political bidder.
 AS to hlmself he would say that the nomi- nation and election of Grover Cleveland had made the nomination of any American citizen to the presidency respectable. There was no man ignorant mean that he might not aspire to nomination to the presidency-by the Democratic party.
 He had no doubt that the senator from Mis- souri and the senator from Kentucky fittingly and fully represented the convictions, feelings, purposes and int tention of their constituents. They knew what sentiments would awaken an answering response in the south, and when the attempt of the Republicans to pension wounded Union soldiers was alluded to as being an attempt to bid for the soldier vote, the senators would pardon him for saying that they knew speeches like this were intended to bid for the Confederate vote. And they would get i>-every time.
 He never heard from any quarter in the Democratic party any repudiation of these sentiments. Why was it that when an asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of the United States, who, by one of the strange caprices of history, nov sat in judgment upon those great constitutional amendments that were adopted against his protest and efforts, arose in the senate and said he would resent as perso. al affront any imputation upon the honor or the integrity or patriotism of Jefferson DaV.s, no senator on the Demo cratic side arose 10 repudiate and disavow it?
 And yet the moment any one on the Repub- ican side talked about the Union armies and the obligations oi the nation, he was taunted with waving the onsanguined undergarment, raking up the ashes of sectional strife, and appealing to par; san hate and malice.
 MT. Ingalls, wanted Democratic senators, who were opposi. this bill on the ground that it was an attempt to dispose of the sur plus. to understood that the disguise was ex- ceedingly thin. The south didn't like the Union soldiers. 1t never did.
 MT. Morgan thought the Democratic party liked Gen. Hancock, they all voted for him.
 MT. Ingalls, reioined that they voted for Gen. Hancock as they voted for Grover Cleve- land-by compulsion. They had heen in H. licit intercourse with Democratic elements of the north for the last twenty-five years Northern people understood why they voted for Gen. Hancock, and why they voted for that other ally of the Confectionery, George B. Mcclellan.
 Criticising the statement of Mr. Vest that of the SS3,O00, ,O00 paid out in pensions $29O, ,O00 900 had been contributed by the south, he doubted whether the south had actually contributed $290, 900 instead of $29O,- 100000. But even if the south had paid S29O,- 0O0,O0O, instead of grumbling and complain ing it ought to be thankful that it did not have to foot the entire bill.
 The senator from Missouri has asked where all this was going to end2 It is going to stop when the arrears of pensions are paid when the limitation is removed and every soldier on the rolls or who gets on tee rolls, is paid from the day of his disability, or, in case of a sur vivor, from the date of the soldiers death, and when every surviving soldier of the Union army is put upon the rolls for service only.
 MT. Blackburn said that, unlike the sena- tor from Kansas, he thought his military ser- vices too modest and too humble to prove a subject of interest to the galleries. He did not know that he was necessary connecting link with the senator's acceptance of the presidential nominatio
 When the senator undertook to speak of the chief executive of the country in the terms he had seen fit to employ, and which were deliberately prepared and conned, he certainly could not take issue with him if he concluded that it was not entitled to re- sponse or reply in presence so august and distinguished as the senate of the United States
 What cause of grievance the senator had that warranted him in applying language to the chief magistrate which would not be per- missible on the hustings-he would not say that it would be disgraceful even to be em- was not here to defend the president from such unwarranted attacks. He knew but one sin which the president had committed in the eyes of the senator from Kansas That might be the unpardonable sin. It was that, having defeated the senator's party at the polls, he had given to the American people for three years past so efficient, so honest, so clean handed an administration as to doom But the senator from Kansas had even gone further and done worse. He had not spared the sanctity of the grave In his frantic efforts to stir up prejudices between sections already reunited, he had dragged up for abuse and yiliication before the American senate such men as had furnished with their unblemished swords the brightest pages of American history, Mcclellan and Hancock. Would it not have been in better taste at least more creditable to the courage and can dor of the senator, if he had made such a charge before both of these men were buried
 The senator from Kansas complains of the senator from Missouri, and says that he rests his complaint upon the senator's autobiog- raphy. l believe it is gener lily assumed that a gentleman writes that bit f interesting his tory for himself. In looking over the short but conspicuously brilliant autobiography of the senator from Kansas I find that he was not in the army in 1S6l He certainly wa. not in the army ill 1862, because he says he was in the state senate of Kansas in that ye r. But he was in the army from 1868 tc 1865-and i what capacity? I saw the bronzed and weat.er bea en commander oi the American army (alluding to Gen. Sheri dan) sit here in this chamber and blush ir modesty at tho humble par which hs found be had played in the war of the rebellion iI comparison with that of the senator from Kansas. What was the senator's occupation in O military capacity7 He was judge advo cate of the Kansas volunteers, while Con Black the commissioner of pensions, wa, bleeding on the Kansas frontier. While Mo Clelan was commanding the army at Peters burg; ile Hancock was wetering in hi! hloOd if Cametery HeiphtS at (4etfvSh,1ro