New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-27
LIVELY PERSONALITIES IN THE HOUSE.
GENERAL KENNEDY ATTACKS SEVERAL SOUTH

GENERAL KENNEDY ATTACKS SEVEhALf nOOIh
ERN MEMBERS, WHO REPLY WITH SPIRIT.
Washington Feb. 90 (specaD.-The demons Of dis
order and obstruction TO have taken full posses
sion of Mr. Bland OF Missouri. He prevented the
transaction of any business under the rule during
the rt hour of to-day's sitting and later in the day
he KENT the House in O turmoil for nearly two hours
in a vain attempt to prevent General Kennedy Of
Ohio. from speaking thirty minutes on Southern
election methods and the treatment of election
tests by the Democratic majority in Congress 1t
not until after he had wasted hour in bustcring
against a decision OF Chairman Dockery, Of the
Committee Of the Whole, and after his appeals from
Chairman Dockery's decisions had been twice over
ruled by a unanimous vote of the Committee Of the
Whole that Bland was sIlenced. Perhaps General
Kennedy realized before tho tempest raised by him
had subsidized that II might have been better for him
n Rland had succeeded in choking him of. The
Ohioan,s speech was extremely bitter and personal
and several times no trcspassed the bounds of
parliamentary decorum. Moreover unfortunately for
him some of his assertions were refuted by Chairman
Crisp and Mr.. Turner, Of the Elections Committee,
tom the ofcsa records Of the House, so that while
much Of hts speech was opposite and justtfsble, he
cave his opponents opportunity, which they did
not neglect shirk the real issue which he tried to
raise and 10 take the offensive. The remarks OF
Crisp Breckenridge, OF Arkansas, and Turner, were
delivered with much feeling and in several respects
overStepD0d tho legitimate DOunOS OF llSCusSlOn.
They shrewdly refrained from attempting to defend
or auologize for the recent ebullitions OF Ftzhugh
Los and General Rosser.
Mr. Kennedy referred 70 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 his speech.
The gentleman from Georgia had said that he tNir.
Kennedy had been mistaken when he said that the
Committee on Elections had been appointed by the
speaker He declared that the Committee on Elec.
tlons had boon so selected. and that the emalls-
Elliott contested election had not boon treated
with the same precision tho Carlisle Thoebe case
Mr. Kennedy then referred to the recent speech OF
Governor Lee of Virginia, in which he declared that
the country wanted white mans Governments He
Cdr Kennedy wanted honest mans Govern
ment lie would rather have an honest black mans
Government In the country than q dishonest white
mans Government He then quoted General Rosser's
declaration that a Southern gentleman could whip
Yankee every time, and suggested that in 900 battle
folds the North had punched that idea out OF the
south. II Lee and Besuregard and Rosser had been
hung at the gbbet, they ought TO have been hung
after the contest over, they would not now Do
teaching rebellion and treason % tho young men OF
the South. - -. v,,-
charges that the Committee on Elections had been
appointed by the Speaker, and quoted nom me
Record show that the Committee had boon elected
by the House.