The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-03-07
FIERY DEBATE.
FIREBRAND SHOWS
HIS HAND.
This Time it is Congressman Kennedy Of
Ohio, but lie is "Sat Down Upon" by
Messrs. Crisp and Turner Of Georgia.
WASHINGTON, February 26.

WASHINGTON, feDruary 20.
The House to-day EAsed the Def
cheney Appropriation bill and consider
ed the Indian Appropriation bill. Incl
dental to the Indian bill, prolonged
debate took place on political outrages
in the South, and bitter attack on Spea-
ker Carlisle was made by Mr.. Kennedy,
of Ohio. He referred to a speech upon
Southern elections made by him in
July last. No answer to that speech
mad been made until a few days ago,
when Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, had al
luded to the speech of a man whose
name, he believed was Kennedy. The
gentleman from Georgia had said that
he. (Mr. Kennedy had been mistaken
when he said that the Committee on
Elections had been appointed by the
Speaker. If the selection of the gen.
tleman from Georgia for the chairman
ship of that committee had been an
insult to the House and to tine intelli-
gence OF the people of the United
States, was it not as much an outrage
if he 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 appoint
ed as the chairman of the Committee
on Elections Mr.. Turner, of Georgia,
a gentleman elected by the same sort
Of fraud and infamy which had return
ed Mr.. Crisp to this floor. If it was
an infamy to appoint Mr.. Crisp was
it 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 committee on Ways and
Means. Mr.. Crisp, instead Of getting
the Guardianship Of the Committee
ON Pacific Railroad, to which, by the
unwritten rules Of the House he was
entitled, had been selected for the
Committee on Elections. The people
of the United States had been insulted
and outraged by the selection of a
man whose election was challenged by
every sense ofdecency and honor. The
committee had reported the case OF
John G.. Carlisle to the House.
At this point Mr.. Bland denounced
it 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. Utterly
ignoring Mr.. BANDS Interruptions, Mr..
Kennedy said that he desired to show
that the gentleman from Georgia al
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 ot
Robert Smails of South Carolina. He
wished to show that the Democratic
party never had done and never want
ed to do justice to black man.
Another interruption came from Mr.
Bland and another demand for the en-
forcement of the rule. Thr chair ruled
that he might proceed with his speech
From this ruling, Mr.. Bland appealed
and the vote resulted 125 to 90 II
favor of sustaining the ruling.
Mr.. Bland raised the point of nc
quorum.
Further points of order were made
by Mr.. Bland, and overruled.
Continuing, Mr.. Kennedy contrast
ed the Butterworth case in 1870 ane
the action of a Democratic Houst
upon it, with the action of a Demo
cratic House in the Carlisle case. Th'
Speaker, he said, had remained as 81
lent as the sphynx. Never but onc'
in the history of the government hae
there been such proceeding. HI
would not mention any names, but tn
gentleman would go out to pivat
life condemned by his political asso
ciates and despised by his political en-
emies, without society except that OIL
which ill-gotten gains could purchas'
him-too low for pity and beneatl
contempt. Was it any wonder tha
the contestee should, after the vote, b
covered with humiliation and shame
Was it any wonder that he left the ex
hiliarating effects of Washington soci
ETY. and sought the breezes Of Oh,
Point Comfort to restore him to men
tai and moral equilibrium? He (Ml
Kennedy left him to himself, his coun
try, and the people of Kentucky, (hisse
on Democratic side The gentlema
from Georgia had said that he (M,
Kennedy knew nothing about Geol
gia. His (Mr. Kennedy's) standin
might not be as high in Georgia a
the gentleman from Georgia, becaus
that gentleman had worn the Confed
crate grey, and he Mr.. Kennedy tn
union blue in the great contest. H
had no desire to compare records wit
the gentleman from Georgia, but bt
t lieved in the estimation of every low
, man in the country his record was (
high above the gentleman's in th;