St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-27

Oh elections Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, q
gentleman elected by the
SAME SORT OF FRAUD AND INFANY
which had returned Mr.. Crisp to this
floor. If it was an infamy to appoint
Mr.. Crisp, was it not an iiifamy to APP
point Mr.. Turner? In the Fiftieth con-
gress Mr.. Turner did not desire to con-
tinue 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 COM
mittee on Pacific railroads, to which by
the unwritten rules of the house he 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 man
whose election had been challenged by
every sense of decency and honor. The
committee had been appointed for a
purpose. With undue haste the com-
mittee 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 this speech.
and raised the point of order
that the gentleman must con-
fine himself to the Indian bill.
Utterly ignoring Mr.. Bland'S inter-
ruption Mr.. Kennedy said that he de-
sired 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 Car
Olina. He wished to say that the DEM
ocratic party never had done and never
would do justice to black man. An
other interruption came from Mr..
Bland, and adOther demand for the en-
that he might proceed with his speech.
From the ruling Mr.. Bland appealed,
and the vote resulting 1880 III favor
of sustaining the ruling, raised the
point of no quorum. Further points of
order were raised by Mr.. Bland and
Overruled.
Continuing, Mr.. Kennedy contrasted
the Butterworth case. in 1879, and the
action of Democratic house upon it
with the action of Democratic house
in the Carlisle case. The speaker, he
said, had remained
AS SILENT AS THE SPHINX.
Never but once in the history of the
government had there been such pro-
ceeding. He would not mention any
names. but the gentleman would go out
20 private life condemned by his politi-
cal associates and despised by his politi-
cal enemies, without society save that
only which ill-gotten gains could pur-
chase him-tOO low for pity and beneath
contempt. Was it any wonder that the
cOntesteeS should, after the vote, be
covered will: humiliation and shame?
Was it any wonder that he left the ex-
hilarating effects of Washington society
and sought the breezes of old Point
Comfort to restore him to mental and
moral equilibrium? He (Kennedy) left
him to himself, his country and the peo-
pie of Kentucky. fHisses on Democratic
sidel. The gentleman from Georgia had
said that he (Mr. Kennedy knew moth
ing about Georgia. His (Mr. Kennedy'S)
standing might not be as high in Georgia
as the gentleman 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 to
compare records with the gentleman
from Georgia; but he believed in the
estimation of every loyal man in the
country his record was as high above
the gentleman's in that great conflict as
the angels of light were above the angels
of darkness. Mr.. Kennedy then re-
ferred to the speech recently made by
Gov. Lee, of Virginia, in which he
declared that the country wanted
white mans government. He then
quoted Gen. RoSser's declaration that
Southern gentleman could whip
Yankee every time. If Lee and Beau
regard and Rosser had been hung at the
gibbet as they ought to have been hung
after the contest was over, they would
not now be teaching rebellion and
treason to the young men of the South.
MR.. CRISP, OF GEORGIA,
said that the gentleman had charged
been appointed by the speaker This
he Crisp had denied, and he now
quoted from the record to show that
the committee had been elected by
the house. The gentleman, from his
remarks to-day seemed to be willing to
fly from the position of ignorance and
assume that of malicious defamation.
He Crisp said that with full knowl-
edge of the meaning of the words
malicious defamation of the speaker of
house-a gentleman who stood before
the house and the country as an honor
able and high-toned man. In justice to
the committee ON electiOus and in JUS
tice to Mr.. Carlisle, he would say that
the committee had framed docket for
the trial of these cases, and that that
docket had met the approval of every
Republican member of the committee.
The gentleman had criticised his small
vote in Georgia. The object seemed to
be to justify the Republican party in
some outrageous conduct which was
to come in the future. He then
referred to the proceedings which took
in tot tf, ba,
Kennedy, as lieutenant governor. pre-
sided over it, stating. with eighteen :of
the thirty-six members present, the
gentleman had entertained motion to
turn out four Democrats and seat four
Republicans. This was "a circumstance
by which gentlemen could determine
what value should be placed on the opin-
ion of the gentleman from Ohio on a
question OF honesty.
MIR. TURNER, OF GEORGIA,
said that he believed that the very
worst enemy of the public peace and of
the welfare and prosperity of the coun-
try; the very worst foe to the highest
interests of the land, was the man who
ayailed himself of every slight prOvoca-
tion to stir up old wounds. and fight
over again the battles which honorable
men had adjusted on the field long ago.
Talk about Grant (peace to his ashes,
and Sheridan and (pausing) Kennedy
in the same breath. While the gentle
man had been delivering to-day slanders
upon him (Turner) he could have
placed his hand upon one of his own
colleagues who was a living monument
to the fairness of a Democratic
house of representatives. He re-
ferred to MIR. Romeis, and he asked
that gentleman if be would stand I'D in
the presence of his colleague and say
whether or not his (Turner's) adminis-
tration of the committee on elections
had been infamous. Mr.. Romeis-I am
a living witness to your fairness, and /
am prepared to say So [Applause and