The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-06
HOT TALK IN THE HOUSE
KENNEDY. OF OHIO, BREAKS LOOSE ALL
OF A SUDDEN.
An Old Time Sloody-Shirt Whoop-Car-
Isle Denounced as a Robber and Crisp
as Fraud--Lee, BeaureGard and Rosser
Should have been Hanged.

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Should have been Hanged.
From the Associated Press dispatches
to the Columbia Register is taken the
following account of a part of the pro-
ceedings in the House:
The House then went into committee
of the whole on the Indian appropria-
ton bill
Kennedy of Ohio referred to the
speech upon Southern elections made
by him in July last. No answer to that
speech had been made until few days
ago, when Crisp Of Georgia had alluded
to the speech of a man whose
name he believed was Kennedy.
The gentleman from Georgia had
said that he (Kennedy) had been
mistaken when he said that the com
mittee on elections had been appointed
by the Speaker If the selection Of the
gentleman from Georgia for the chair
manship of that committee had been an
insult to the House and to the lntelli-
gence of the people of the United States,
was it not as much an outrage if ne was
selected by a Democratic caucus as if he
was appointed by the Speaker? The
records of the Forty Eighth and Forty
Ninth Congresses showed that the
Speaker had appointed as chairman of
the committee on elections Turner of
Georgia. gentleman elected by the
Same cort Of fraud and infamy which
had returned Crisp to this floor. If it
was an infamy to appoint Crisp, was
it not an infamy to appoint
Turner lu the Fiftieth Congress Tur-
ner did not desire to continue at the
head of that committee, and asked the
Speaker to relieve him. He was trans
ferred to the committee on ways and
means. The people of the United States
had been inSulted and outraged by the
selection of man whose election was
challenged by every sense of decency
and honor. The committee bad been
appointed for purpose. With undue
haste the committee had reported the
case of.John G. Carlisle to the House.
At this point Taulbee broke III with
the exclamation that the gentleman from
Ohio had selected /. good time for his
speech, Mr.. Carlisle Deing.absent.
Bland then denounced it as unfair for
the gentleman to make his speech, and
raised the point of order that the gen
tleman must confne his remarks to the
Indian bill.
At first the Chair was inclined to the
belief that the point was well taken, and
directed the gentleman from Ohio to
proceed in order.
Kennedy proceeded, but his first re-
mark was in line with his previous re-
marks, and again brought Bland to his
feet with the declaration that the gentle
man was in emphatic contempt of the
rules of the House.
Utterly ignoring BANDS interruption,
Kennedy said that he desired to show
that the gentleman from Georgia, at the
head of the elections committee, did
not treat the Carlisle election case
with the same precision and exactness
with which he treated the case Of Robert
Smalls of South Carolina. Eleven
months after the Carlisle case had been
considered the case of Robert Smalls
had been brought into the House.
Again Bland interrupted with a point
of order and demanded that Kennedy
should be kept to a strict observance of
the rules governing debate. His point
was oyerruled by Dockery Cn the chair.
Bland appealed, and the House sus-
tanned the ruling of the Chair.
Kennedy said that by his reference to
the SmallS case he wished to show that
the Democratic party never had done
and never would do justice to the black
man.
Bland again raised point of order,
was overruled, and appealed, and the
vote resulting 1875 to 20 in favor of sus-
tanning the ruling, raised the point no
quorum. A call of the committee was
ordered, a quorum answered, the ruling
was sustained, and Kennedy resumed,
only to be interrupted by Bland.
After three or four times repeating
this programme, Kennedy was allowed
to proceed. He contrasted the Butter
worth case in 1879 and the action of the
Democratic House upon it with the
action Of Democratic House in the Car
Isle case. The Speaker, he sad, had
remained as silent as a Sphinx. Never
but once in the history of the govern
ment had there been such a proceeding
He would not mention any names, but
the gentleman would 60 out to private
life condemned by his political asso-
ciates and despised by his political
enemies, without society, save that only
which ill-gotten gains could purchase
him, too low for pity, and be-
meath contempt. Was it any
wonder that the contestee stands, after
The vote, covered with humiliation
and shame Was it any wonder that
he left the exhilarating effects of Wash
ington society and sought the breezes of
Old Point Comfort to restore HIM to his
mental and moral equilibrium He
CKennedy) left him to himself, his
country and the people of Kentucky.
[Hisses on the Democratic side. Inc
gentleman from Georgia had said that
he (kennedy,) knew nothing about
Georgia. in 1868 the gentleman had
not been moving so swiftly to the South,
he might have made his acquaintance IN
Georgia. His (kennedy's) standing
might not be as high in Georgia as the
gentleman from Georgia, because
that gentleman had worn the
Confederate grey and he (Kennedy)
the Union blue in the great contest. he
had no desire to compare records with
the gentleman from Georgia; but he be-
lieved that in the estimation CT every
loral nnn in the country his record