The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-27
HOT SHOT,
A Lively Debate In the House Gu Elections
In the South.


House being in Committee OF Whole
(NIr, 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 III
July last, No answer to that speech had
been made until few days ago, when
Mr., Crisp alluded to the speech OF q man
whose name he believed was Kennedy
The gentleman from Missouri had said
that he (Mr, Kennedy had been mis-
taken when he said that the Committee
on Elections had been appointed by the
Speaker. II the election OF the gentle
man from Georgia to the Craftsmanship
OF that committee had been an insult to
the House and to the intelligence Of the
people OF the United States, was it not
as much an outrage II he was selected by
Democratic caucus, as II he was APP
pointed by the Speaker2
Tho records OF the Forty-eighth and
Forty'ninth Congresses showed that the
Speaker had appointed Us the chairman
OF the Committee on Elections, Mr.,
Turner, OF Georgia, q gentleman elected
by the same sort OF fraud and iniamy
which had returned Mr., Crisp to the
floor. If 1t was an infamy to appoint
Mr., Crisp was 1t not an infamy TO ap.
point Mr.. Turner? In the Filtleth Con-
gress Mr.. Turner did not desire to con.
tinue at the head OF that COM
mitteo and asked the Speaker
TO relieve him. He was trans,
ierred to the Committee Of Ways
and Means. Mr.. Crisp, instead OF get
ting the craftsmanship OF the Committee
on Pacific Railroad, TO which by the un.
written rules Of the House no was en-
titled, had been selected for the Com.
mittee on Elections. The people OF the
United States had been insulted and
outraged by the selection Of u man
whose election was challenged by every
sense OF deCenCy and honor. The COM
mittee had been appointed for q purpose,
With undue haste the committee had
reported the case OF John G. Carlisle to
the House.
At this point Mr.. Tauble broke in with
the exclamation that the gentleman from
Ohio had selected u good time to make
his specCh-Mr. Carlisle being absent.
Mr.. Bland then denounced 1t as unfair
for the gentleman to make his speech
and raised the point Of order that tho
gentleman must conflno his remarks TO
the Indian bill.
The Chair sustained the point and d.
rected the gentleman from Ohio to pro.
ceed In order,
Mr.. Kennedy proceeded in the same
line Of his previous remarks, and brought
Mr.. Bland to his feet again with the
declaration that the gentleman was EN-.
phatically in contempt Of tho rules OF
the House.
Utterly ignoring Mr.. Blands interrup.
tion, Mr.. Kennedy said that he desired
to show that the gentleman from Geor-
gia, ut the head OF the election commit
tee, did not treat tho Carlisle election
Case with the same precision and exact
ness with which h0 treated the case OF
RobertSmalls, ofSouth Carolina. Eleven
months after the Carlisle case had been
considered, the case OF Robert Smalls
had been brought into the House.
Again Mr.. Bland interrupted and de-
manded that the gentleman should bO
compelled to proceed in order.
Mr.. Kennedy said that by his refer
ence to the Smalls case he wished to
show that the Democratic party never
had done, and never would do, Justice to
q black man. Mr.. Kennedy then re.
ferred to tho speech recently made by
Governor Lee, Of Virginia, in which lle
declared that tho country wanted a
white mans government. Governor
Lee wanted n white mans government,
he (NIr, Kennedy wanted an honest
mans government.
In Arkansas, only last week, four
members ofthe Legislature had resigned
because they had been elected by fraud,
intimidation and violence. lie then
quoted General Rosser's deClation that a
Southern gentleman could whip al
Yankee every time, and suggested that
at the point OF bayonet and at the end
OF sabre, aud in three hundred battle
fields the North had puched that idea
out OF the South.
General Bradley johnson had said
that the Government was controlled by
the Confederates. He thanked God
that that control was passing away and
that the COnfederatcs would be COM
PEELED to take back seats.
Mr.. Crisp, Of Georgia, said that no u.s.
sault had been made upon Mr.. Ken.
nedy in July last, and no intimation
had been nude that the gentleman was
not q true and loyal soldier. The gem
tlOman had declared that the Committee
on Elections had been appointed by the
Speaker. This no (Mr. Crisp had dc.
MED, and he now quoted from the record
to show that the committee had been
elecled by the House. The only
charge lie had made agaidst the gentle.
man from Ohio was the charge OF igno-
rance and ho left to the House II he
had not submitted proof sufficient 10
convict the gentleman before any jury
on Gods earth. Tho gentleman, from
his remarks to-day, seemed to be willing
to fly from the position OF ignorance
and assume that Of malicious defana.
tion. The gentleman had cited the case
OF Theobe versus Carlisle. In justice
to the Committee on Election and In
Justice 10 Mr.. Carlisle he would say that
tho Committee had framed docket for
the trial OF these cases and that that
docket had met the-upproval Of every
Republican member Of the Committe.
Tho gentleman had criticized his small
vote In Georgia and he called attention
to tho iaCt that there had been no oppO.
Bition. The object Of the gentleman re-
ierring to his district seemed to be to
Justly the Republican party In some out
ragcous conduct, which was to come in
the future. He could not follow the
gentleman into criticism Of his war re.
cord.
Mr. Breckenridge, Of Arkansas, FOL.
lowed Mr.. Crisp, and severely attacked
Mr.. Kennedy on tile resignation Of the
members Of the Legislature In Arkansas.
Mr.. Turner, Of Georgia, closed the de-
bate.
The reading OF tho bill by sections
was then entered upon, but In a few mo.
ments theCommittGO rose and the House
took q recess,
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Tho Arkansas Election Thieves.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9O.--In the Senate
to-day Senator Hoar offered tho follow.