The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-27


time, and suggested that at the point of the
bayonet and the end of the saber
and IN 800 battlefelds the north
had punched that idea out Of the south. II
Lee and Beauregard and Rosser had been
hanged at the gibbet, as they ought to have
been hanged after the contest was over,
they would not now DO teaching reOe ellion
and treason to the young men of the south.
Gen. Bradley Johnson had said that the
government was controlled by the confed-
crates. He thanked God that that control
was passing away, and that the confederates
would be compelled to take back seats. He
congratulated the country that the other
side OF the chamber would be free from the
dlctatlon to which it had boon subjected, q
dictation which had been humiliating not
only to the House, but TO this entire land.
MR.. CRISP REPLIES.
Mr.. Crisp said that before he would
characterize the gentlemans remarks as
they deserved to be characterized he would
expose to the House aud to the country
their deliberate and willful inaccuracies,
The charge had been made by the gentle
man in a speech delivered in July last
a charge that he could not evade
by prating about his loyalty. No
assault had been made upon that; no init
nation had been made that the gentleman
was not true and loyal soldier, aud it was
entirely out of place for the gentleman,
when charged with deliberate inaccuracies,
to say that he was soldier in the army OF
the union. The gentleman had charged
that the committee on elections had
been appointed by the speaker, @-This
he tMr. Crisp had denied, and he now
quoted from the Record TO show that the
COMMITTEES had been elected by the House.
The only charge he had made against the
gentleman from Ohio was the charge Of
ignorance, and he left to the House IL he
had not submitted proof sufficient to con-
vict the gentleman before any jury on Gods
earth.
A NEW POSITION.
The gentleman, from his remarks to-day,
seemed to be willing to fly from the posi-
tion Of ignorance and assume that Of mali
clous defamation. He (Mr. Crisp said that
with the full knowledge of the meaning OF
the words-malicious defamation of the
speaker OF the House; the gentleman who
had had no controversy with the gentle
man from Ohio; a gentleman who stood
before the House and country as an honor
able and high-toned man; tho gen
tleman from Ohio had come in
here and made a statement in di-
rect contravention of the Record, 80
that he might say malicious things of a
man who occupied high position in the
Democratic party-things which he had
absolutely failed to sustain. The gentle
man had cited the case of Thoebe VS.. Car
Isle. In justice to the committee ON cleo
tions, and in justice to Mr.. Carlisle, he
would say that the committee had fra med
the docket for the trial of these cases, and
that that docket had met the approval Of
every republican member OF the committee.
MR.. CRIsP's SMALL VOTE.
The gentleman had criticised bis small
vote in Georgia, and he called attention to
the fact that there had been no opposition.
The object of the gentleman in refe ring to
his district seemed to be to justify the
Republican party in some outrageous con-
duct which was to come in the future. He
would not follow the gentleman into the
criticism of his war record.
There was nothing in his tMr. Crisp's)
record that he was ashamed of; nor had he
any regrets to express. The gentleman had
spoken abou honesty and had assumed
high moral position. Whel the gentleman
assumed high position of honesty, the in-
quiry was natural whether there was any
thing in his character or past life which
would lead the public TO accept his state
ments
KENNEDY's RECORD.
He then referred to the well known pro-
cesdings which look place in the Ohio state
Senate when Mr.. Kennedy, as lieutenant
governor. presided over it, stating that
with but seventeen of the thirty-six MEM
bsrs present, the gentleman had entertained
a motion to turn out four democrats, and
seat four republicans, and had refused to
permit the democratic members Of the SEN
ate, upon their return, to place on the
journal protest against the Injustice and
iniquity Of such ruling. This was a cir
cumstance by which the gentleman could
determine what value should bs placed on
the opinion of the gentleman from
Ohio on the question OF honesty.
Applause on the democratic side.
When it came to politics the gentleman
figured that II was the half of 49, [Laugh-
teri That was the kind Of gentleman who
put himself on the hgh pinnacle of honesty
and said tnat he was friend Of the south,
and that he wanted honesty and fair deal
ing down there Laughter The south
had suffered many ills since the war. She
had struggled through poverty and hard
times, and oppression; but he Thanked God
that il had not fallen so low that IL would
like to have the support of such friends as
the gentleman from Ohio. daughter and
applause.]
LIGHT ON THE ARKANSAS ELECTION.
Mr.. Breckinridge Of Arkansas said that
the gentleman from Ohio had referred TO
the resignation OF four members OF the
Arkansas legislature, and had alluded to
some gentleman on this floor who had OBJ
tained his seat at the same election, who
had not vet resigned his commission. He
(Mr. BreckinridgeD assumed that the
gentleman meant him. Ia order that the
House might judge of how thoroughly the
gentleman prepared himself before he
made his charges, he would say 10 the gen.
tleman that tho election which sent those four
members to the legislature was held In Sep
tember, while the congressional election
was in November [Applause on
the democratic side As further evi-
dence Of the gentleman's thoroughness and
impartality, he would state that not one of
those four members lived In his district.
[Applausel IL would not do for him to dis
cuss the question Of his own election, which
must receive judicial determination, but
the gent sman would fnd that in the an
nais Of his (Mr. Breckinridge'sl district
there had not been a rumor of fraud in the
legislative election. [Applausel
MR.. TURNER HUMOROUS
Mr.. Turner Of Georgia said that tho July
speech Of the gentleman from Ohio had been
called to his ettention by page, the state
ment3 therein being such as TO shock the
sensibilities Of the little lad. Laughter.
He had intended 10 reply TO them, but as
his colleague (Mr. Crisp was the cheap vic
tim Of the cheap denuncistion OF the speech
he had transferred the right 10 him. He
mir Turner had crouched and skunk
away from the redoubtable gentleman
from Ohio. [Laughter.l He had hidden
himself behind the arm Of his colleague. and
had supposed that he would have nothing
more to do with an issue which TO him was