Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-04

Crisp, OF Georgia, said the whole ma
jority report was founded upon suspi-
cion and not upon proof There had
been one ballot box stolen, but giving
Clayton every vote contained therein,
there would have been no change in the
prima facie case. A certificate had been
given to Breckenridge long before the
assassination of Clayton.
Crisp. gave notice that he would at
the proper time move to recommit the
pending resolutions with instructions
to the committee on the elections to as
certain whether Breckinridge or Clay
ton received majority of the votes cast
at the election.
Lacey. of Iowa, replied to Crisp and
criticized the minority report.
Cultivate, of Ohio, argued in support
of the sitting member retaining his
seat.
Kelly, OF Kansas, spoke in favor of the
majority report.
Kennedy, OF Ohio, drew from the
details of the Observation-Disclosures case
the conclusion that federal election
law should be enacted. He reflected
severely upon the senators who had been
opposed to the Lodge bill. AS for him
self, confident in the doctrines of the
Republican party, fully committed to
the principles of that party, he must
forever dissent from the cowardly sur
render which hauls down the flag and
strikes the colors of the Republican
party to defeated foe. Continuing, he
said: "That the election bill was killed
by Republicans, or pretended Republi-
cans, is true. Without fair treatment,
bill which the house of representatives
said imperatively was demanded for the
preservation of its own honor and for its
safety and stability, and forathe protec-
ton of the whole country against out
rage and intimidation and violence, is
deliberately put aside without hearing
and without the opportunity OF consid-
Grafton. Before, in all the past history
of legislation, has one house of congress
not deliberately put upon the other the
mark OF its derision and contempt. The
consideration of this measure was de-
manded by every sense OF decency and
honor. 1t was demanded by the house
of representatives that its floor might be
purged of members who are enabled to
enter by reason of violence and murder
The senate of the United States will
learn that there is a bar of public
opinion, and at that bar it is being
tried. The cloak of senatorial cour-
tesy has become a stencil in the
nostrils and by-word in the mouths of
all honest citizens of the land. 1t makes
a cloak behind which ignorance and the
arrogance of wealth can purchase its way
to power, and then hide its cowardly
head under the shameless protection of
senatorial silence. 1t seems a cloak
which shall cover up from the public
gaze of an outraged people infamies
which demand an investigation, and
which merit the punishments of
broken laws and violated statutes. 1t
means cloak behind which petty party
pickering may barter away a party's
principles and play the demagogue in
the face of the people. Itmeans a cloak
behind which pretended fairness hides
it's dishonest head, while in secret trad
ing and trafficking in the rights and
liberties Of the people. 1t means a
cloak under which not only the timid
but the cowardly politician can cover up
his tracks and be either foul or fair as
necessity demands. The hour for
senatorial courtesy has passed. The OK
team OF senatorial progress must
give way to the motor of
more enlightened and pro-
gressive and determined age.
Let the old and threadbare cloak of sena
toral courtesy be hung up with the sic
kle and and the fail of bygone days.
Referring to the betrayal of Christ by
Judas, Kennedy said: 1T was meet and
fitting that Judas should be paid thirty
marks of silver; it was still part of the
eternal fitness OF things, that having
been guilty of the basest crime of all
centuries, he should go and hang
1. Il SC
ing . itsel The party OF the
Republic, having lived for
thirty-five years, yet never assisted in
riveting the shackles on a human being,
and now when it was to be expected it
would redeem ifs pledges and be faith
full to its history, it is about to prove
false, and its oft repeated promises are
not to be redeemed. 1t comes victorions
from every field. and if it fails now, it
finds in its own party those who are
faithless to the trust reposed in them.
If it is to be sacrificed, it is only
because its chosen leaders have
bartered away it's principles for
the petty schemes of politicians.
The Judas Iscariat of 1000 years ago,
is to find his counterpart In the Judas
Iscariat of today. The Judas who took
thirty pieces of silver and hanged him
self, has left an example for the Matt
Quays that is we'll worthy OF their imi-
tation. Some time since l stood in my
place on this floor and denounced a
senator because, when charged with
corruption and branded with infamy,
he did not arise in his seat and and de-
mand an investigation and inquiry that
should establish the purity OF
his actions and his per-
sonal honor. Another occupy
ing high place in the councils of the
party to which l belong, has suffered
himself month in and month out to be
charged with crimes and misdemeanors
for which, if guilty, he should have
4 been condemned under the laws of his
state and had meted out to him the
fullest measures of its punishment. This
man is Republican. Shall 1 now re-
main silent? Is it just and honest to
remain in my seat silent, because one
who is accused of crimes and refuses to
seek for vindication is Republican, and
that Republican a recognized leader
of my party? Neither decency nor
honor would permit me to do So.
1 do not know whether the charges
made against the chairman of the
Republican national committee are true
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