Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-27
CAUSTIC AND CRISP.
In Speaker CarliSle'S Absence From
the House His Colleagues
RUSH In A BODY TO HIS DEFENSE.
King Bob Kennedy. of Ohio, Rouses a Nest
of Hornets About His Ears.
HE IMPUGEs THE SPEAKERS HONESTY.
Mr.. ROmes Appears as a Living Witness of Democratic
Fairness


A bitter and acrimonious debate on party
lines was precipitated in the House of Rep
resentatives yesterday by Mr.. Kennedy, o.
Ohio, referring to speech of his made last
July. In the course of his remarks Mr.
Kennedy made an attack on Speaker Car.
Isle, which, in that gentleman's absence,
several OF his colleagues took it upon them.
selves to answer, in a vehement manner.
WASHINGTON, February 26.-The House
to-day went into committee of the whole
(Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, in the chair, }
on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr..
Kennedy, of Ohio, referred to a speech upon
Southern elections made by him in July
last. No answer to that speech had been
made until few days ago, when Mr.. Crisp,
Of Georgia, had alluded to the speech of a
man whose name, ne believed, was Kenne-
dy. The gentleman from Georgia had said
that he (Mr. Kennedy had been mistaken
when he said that the Committee on Elec-
tions had been appointed by the Speaker.
If the selection of the gentleman from
Georgia for the Craftsmanship of that COM
mittee had been an insult to the House and
to the intelligence of the people of the
United States, was it not as much an out
rage if he was selected by Democratic
caucus as if he was appointed by the
Speaker?
The records of the Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses, continued Mr..
Kennedy, showed that the Speaker had ap-
pointed as the chairman of the Committee
on Elections, Mr. Turner, of Georgia, a gen.
tleman elected by the same sort of fraud and
lniamy which had returned Mr.. Crisp to
this noUr.
ONE BAD AS THE OTHER.
If it was an infamy to appoint Mr.. Crisp
was ii not an infamy to appoint Mr.. Tur-
ner? In the Fiftieth Congress Mr. Turner
did not desire to continue at the head of
that committee, and asked the Speaker to
relieve him. He was transferred to the
Committee on Ways and Means. Mr..
Crisp, instead of getting the Chairmanship
of the Committee on Pacific Railroads to
which, BY the unwritten rules of the House
ne was entitled, had been selected for the Com
mittee on Elections. The people of the United
States had been insulted and outraged by the
selection of a man whose election was chal-
lenged by every sense of decency and honor
The committee had been appointed for a pur-
pose. With undue haste the committee had re-
ported the case of John G. Carlisle to the
House.
At this point Mr. Taulbee broke in with the
exclamation that the gentleman from Ohio
had selected good time to make his speech
MIR. Carlisle being absent Mr.. Bland then de-
nounced 1t as unfair for the gentleman to make
his speech, and raised the point of order that
the gentleman must confine 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. Mr.. Kennedy proceeded but his
hrst remark was in the line of his previous re-
marks; and again brought Mr.. Bland to his feet
with the declaration that the gentleman was in
emphatic contempt Of the rules of the House.
INTERRUPTIONS IGNORED.
Utterly ignoring Mr.. Blands interruption,
Mr.. 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 ex-
actness with which he treated the case of
Robert Smalls, of South Carolina. Eleven
months after the Carlisle case had been consid-
cred the case of Robert Smalls had been
brought into the House.
Again Mr.. Bland interrupted and demanded
that the gentleman should be compelled to pro-
ceed in order. Mr.. 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 black
man.
Mr.. Bland-I raise the point of order that the
gentleman is not proceeding in the line author
lied by the rules
The Chair overruled Mr.. Bland's point that
the gentleman from Ohio was not in order
Mr.. Bland appealed, and the Chair entertained
the appeal notwithstanding that several pro-
tests were made against bis doing SO. How
ever, quorum appeared to sustain his ruling;
nd Nv Il llN~ zg1I a..
contrasted the Butterworth case in 1879. and
the action of a Democratic House upon it.
with the action of the Democratic House in
the Carlisle case. The Speaker. he said, re-
manned as silent as the SphynX. Never but
once in the history of the Government had
there been such q proceeding. He would not
mention any names, but the gentleman would
90 out to private life stunned by his political
associates and despised by his politicald
enemies without society save that only
which Ill gotten gains could purchase him,
TOO Low FOR PITY
And beneath contempt Was it any wonder
that the contestee should, after the vote, be
covered with humiliation and shame? Was it |
any wonder that he left the exhilarating effects
of Washington society and sought the breezes |
of Old Point Comfort to restore him to mental |
and moral equilibrium? He (Mr. Kennedy |
left him to himself, his country, and the people |
SlOe1.
The gentleman from Georgia had said that |
he (Mr. kennedy)knew nothing about Georgia
If in 1863 the gentleman had not been moving
so swiftly to the South he might have made his |
acquaintance in Georgia. His (Mr. Kennedy's) /
standing might be as high as that of the gem
tleman from Georgia because that gentleman |
had worn the Confederate gray and he (Mr.
Kennedy the Union blue in the great
contest. He had no desire tn COM
Pro,,, C,anTo;a b,+ be bo1ioI,od senGelnan nan
of every loyal man in the country.
his record was as high above the gentleman's |
in that great conflict the angels of light were
above the angels of earkness. Applause on
Republican side and derisive laughter on
Democratic side.l The gentleman's distinction
at home and abroad came from the fact that
he was elected by smaller number of votes
than was any other member who had ever been
elected TO Congress. He trusted that the
national distinction the gentleman had thus
achieved would never again be achieved by anv
man within the limits of the Government The
gentleman from Georgia had said that elections |
were fair and honest in Georgia but the |
gentleman had not attempted to answer the
figures gwen by him in his speech of July last
GOVERNOR LEES CHOICE.
Mr.. Kennedy then referred to the speech re-
Gently made by Governor Lee of Virginia, in
which he declared that the country wanted a
white mans government. Governor Lee
dnbCu 4hah SOf0IulIeuis ne
Kennedy wanted an honest mans govern
ment. He would rather have an honest black
mans government in the country than dis
honest white mans government. While the
beringed and bejeweled fingers of the South
ern aristocracy had been endeavoring to pull
down the nation, not a single instance could be
cited when the black people had not been
loyal to the Constitution and devoted to the
flag. History would forever record the fact
that black man had run the boats past Fit
Moultrie, and that black arm had sustained
the flag Of the Union on the top of Ft Pillow.
Applause on the Republican side.l In Arkansas
only last week four members of the Legislature