Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-04
KENNEDY'S BLAST.
An Ohio Man Forgets "Con.
gressional Courtesy"
FURIOUS ATTACK ON THE SENATE.


The Upper House Given an Angry Co
ing Over and Some of Its Members
Picked Out for Special Denunciation-
Tho Killing of Barrundia and Our Gov
ernment's Interest Therein-The Raum
Investigation Drags weariiy - The
Days Work in Congress-.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 4-"Congres-
sional courtesy" was ignored in the house
yesterday in a manner seldom witnessed
In either chamber, and the senate given
scoring that was sensational in its lack
of regard for the amenities of statesman
ship. The Clayton Breckenridge case was
up and Kennedy obtained the floor to
speak thereon He began by declaring
thai the details of Clayton's murder were
abundant justification for the passage of a
federal election bill, and continuing said:
Speaking for myself l shall nail the ban
ner of the Republican party at the mast
head, with the doctrine which has become
inseparable from the history ef its exist
ence and which demands the protection of
the humblest citizen in the right to an
honest ballot and the protection of life
and property, and stand ready To defend
that doctrine to the last.
POstponement of the Election Bill.
THAT the election bill has been killed
by Republicans is true Without
fair treatment the bill which the house
of representatives said imperatively was
demanded for the preservation of its own
hn,N g..
its honor, and for the protection of the
whole country against outrage and in
timidation and violence is de-
liberately put aside without hearing
and without opportunity of considera-
ton. When before, in all the past his
tory of legislation, has one house of
congress deliberately put upon the other
the mark of its dersiOn and contempt?
The consideration of this measure
was demanded by every sense of de-
cency and honor. 1t was demanded by
the house of representatives that its
floor might be purged of those who are
enabled to enter by reason of violence and
murder
Senatorial Courtesy Scored.
learn that there is bar of public opinion
and at that bar it is now being tried
To have been a senator in the DAYS of
Webster and Clay and Calhoun was to
have been part of body that won and
had the admiration of the people north
and south. To have been senator in the
days of Wade and Fessenden and Critten-
den was TO have been associated with men
whose sense of honor would have denied
eompanionship to one whose name was
furnished over by even suspicion OF in
fanny or corruption. Ii the
Roman tOga had been dragged in the filth
and mire of the centuries, surely the cloak
OF senatorial courtesy has been used to
hide the infamy and corruption which
has dishonored and disgraced body
which was once the proudest in the land.
A Whack at Payne and Brice.
THE cloak of senatorial courtesy has
become stencil in the nostrils and by
word in the mouths of all the honest citi-
zens of the land. 1t makes cloak behind
which Ignorant and arrogant wealth can
purchase its way to power and then hide
its cowardly head behind the shameless
protection of senatorial silence
chickering's may barter away a party's
principles and play the demagogue in the
face of the people. 1t means a cloak be-
hind which pretended honesty hides its
dishonest head while in secret it is trad
ing and traflicing in the rights and liber-
ties of the people. 1t means cloak I'M
der which not only the timid but the cow
ardly politician can cover up his tracks
and be either foul or fair as the necessity
demands. The hour for senatorial cour-
tesy has passed"
Fierce Onslaught on Senator Ouay
The speaker then said that the Repub-
lican party was victorious in every field.
and If it failed now it would be owing to
the treason of its leaders, and went on as
follows: THE Judas Iscariot of 1000
years ago is to find "A counterpart in the
Judas lscariot of to-day. The Judas who
took the thirty pieces of silver and went
and hanged himself has left an example
for the Mat Quays that is we'll worthy of
their imitation. Some time since / stood
up in my place on this floor and de-
nounced senator [Paynel from my ma
tive state because, when charged with
corruption and branded with infamy, he
didnot rise in his seat.and demand an in
vestlgatlOn. One other occupy
ing IA high place in the councils of the
party to which | belong has suffered him
self month in and month out to be
charged with crimes and misdemeanors
for which if guilty he should have been
condemned and had melted out to him the
fullest measure of punishment. This man
is a Repu blicau; shall | now renal n ST
lent?
Wants Him Driven into Retirement.
IL, L.. L..
made against the chairman of the Ma
tional Republican committee are true or
false, but / do know that as a great Re-
publican leader he owed it to the great
party at whose head he was, either to
brand them as infamies or to prove their
falsity, or he owed it to that party to
stand aside from its leadership. He has
not done either and for this | denounce
him. He has delayed too long
to justify the belief in his innocence
Under such circumstances he
should be driven from the head of the
party"
Kennedy Had n Clear Field.
This outburst was listened to with sur.
prise on all sides, Indignation by the
friends of the senators attacked and ella
ton by their enemies on both sides of the
house. Although it is an ancient rule of
parliamentary bodies that members of
one house shall not refer to the action of
members of the other in debate, the
speaker pro tenn made no effort TO call
Kennedy to order and he had his say I'm
interrupted.
Proceedings in Congress.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. AIN the SEN
ate yesterday resolution offered by Call
declaring the shooting of Gen. Barrundia
on an American vessel in the harbor of
Guatemala an insult to the American
flag was referred to committee. The
tariff bill was taken up and the sugar