The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-27
AN ATTACK ON CARLISLE
KENNEDY OF OHIO WARNS OVER
LAST SUMMERS CHESTNUT.


The Speaker Not Present When the
Speech Was Delivered, and Messrs.
Taulbee and Bland Try to Head the
Ohioan Off-Gen. Rosser's Speech
Picked Up.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The House to-
day went into committee of the whole on
the Indian appropriation bill. Mr.. Kennedy
of Ohio referred to 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
mad alluded 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. II the selec-
ton of the gentleman from Georgia for the
Craftsmanship of that committee had been
an insult to the House and to the intel
ligence Of the people Of the U United States,
was it not as much an outrage il he was
selected by the democratic caucus as if he
was appointed by the speakerl
MR.. TURNER'S DEoLINATIoN.
The records of the Forty-eighth and
Forty congresses showed that
the speaker had appointed as chair
man of the committee on cleo
tions Mr. Turner, of Georgia. gentleman
elected by the same sort Of fraud and in
fanny which had returned Mr.. Crisp to this
floor. If it was an infamy to appoint Mr..
| Crisp was it not an lnfamy to appoint Mr.
Turnerl In the Fiftieth congress Mr.
Turner did not desire to continue at
the head of that committee, and asked the
L. l. l. H.
ferred to the committee on ways and means.
The people of the United States had been
insulted and outraged by TIE selection If
man whose election was challenged by every
sense of decency and honor. The committee
had been appointed for purpose. With
undue haste the committee had reported
the case of John @. Carlisle to the House.
MR.. TAULBEE INDIGNANT
At this point MIR. Taulbee broke in with
an exclamation that the gentleman from
Ohio had selected a good time for his
speech--Mr. Carlisle being absent.
Mr.. Bland then denounced it as unfair for
the gentleman to make his speech and
raised the point of order that the gentle
man must confine his remarks to
the Indian bill. At first the
chair was inclined to the be-
lief that the point was we'll taken, and di
rected the gentleman from Ohio to proceed
in order. Mr.. Kennedy proceeded, but his
first remark was in line with his previous
remarks, and again brought Mr.. Bland to
his feet with declaration that the gentle
man was in emphatic contempt of the rules
Of the House.
MR. BLAND IGNORED
Utterly ignoring Mr. Bland's iaterrup-
ton. 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 cIse wi tn the
same precision and exactness with which
he treated the case Of Robert Smals Of
S,uth 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 with a
point of order, and demanded that Mr.
Kennedy should be kept to strict observance
of the rules governing the debate. His
point was overruled by Mr.. Dockery, who
was in the chair
Mr.. Bland appealed and the House sus-
tanned the ruling of the chair.
| 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 the black man.
LACK OF A QUORUM.
Mr.. Bland again raised point of order,
was overruled and appealed, and the vote
resulting in 1875 to 20 IN favor of sustaining
| X,
| A call of the committee was ordered, a
quorum answered, the ruling was sus-
| tanned. and Mr.. Kennedy resumed, only
again to be interrupted by Mr.. Bland.
After three or four times repeating
this programme, Mr. Kennedy was allowed
to proceed. He contrasted the Butter orth
case in 1879 and the action Of the demo-
cratic House upon it, with the action of the
democratic House in the Carlisle case. TIE
| speaker he said, had remained as silent as
a sphinx. Never but once in the history
| Of the government had there been
such a proceeding He would not
mention any names, but the gentleman
would go out to private life condemned by
his political associates and despissd by his
political enemies, without society save that
| only which ill-gotten gains could purchase
him, too low for pity and beneath con-
tempt.
HUMILIATION AND SHAME.
Was it any wonder that the contestee
stood, after the vote, covered with humiia-
tion and shameg Was IL any wonder that
he left the exhilarating effects Of Washing
ton 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 p.c-
pie Of Kentucky. [Hisses on the
democratic sidel. The gentleman from
| Georgia had said that he Mr.. Kennedy
|
the gentleman had not been moving 50
swiftly TO the south, he might have made
his acquaintance in Georgia. His (Mr.
Kennedy's) standing might not be as high
in Georgia as that of the gentleman from
Georgia, because that gentleman rad worn
the confederate gray and he lMr. Kennedy
the union blue in the great contest.
NO DESIRE TO COMPARE RECORDS.
He had no desire to compare records with
the gentleman from Georgia; but he be-
| lieved that in the estimation of every loyal
man in the country his record was as high
| above the gentlemans In that great con-
fiict as the angels Of light we're above tbs
angels Of darkness. [Applause on the re-
publican side, aud derisive laughter on the
| democratic side
Mr. Kennedy then referred 10 the speech |
rece tly made by Gov. Lee of Virginia, in |
which he declared that the country wanted |
a white mans government. Gov. Lee |
wanted a white mans government, but be |
(Mr. Kennedy wanted an no est mans |
government. He would rather have an |
honest black mans government in the |
country than dishonest white |
mans government. While the be- |
ringed and bejeweled fingers of |
the southern aristocracy had been endeavor-
inR TO pull down the nation, not single in
stance could be cited when tho black people |
had not been loyal TO the constitution and |