Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-14
Mr.. LODGES REPLY.
His Answer to the Remnants Of Mr.. Stone Of
Missouri on Monday.

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His Answer to the Rsnsrks Of Mr. Stone Of
Missouri On Monday.
During the discussion Of the army appropri-
alton bill in the House yesterday an amend
ment was adopted prohibiting retired officer
from drawing pay when he was in receipt OF
any other salary from the government
Mr.. Smith OF Arizona moved to strike out the
provision for horses for Indian scouts. The
people of Arizona had found from considerable
experience in Indian troubles that the Indian
as a scout was Just the same individual as the
Indian as q marauder. the Indian a. an
assassin. They had heard a great deal Of talk
about the fidelity Of the Indian, Of ranting that
had become sickening. The employment OF
Indians "a scouts merely gave them informa-
ton Of value when they went out OF ONCE and
led the raiders.
MR.. LODGE REPLIES TO Mr. STONE.
Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts, said he found
that while absent Monday he had been honored
by personal attack from the gentleman from
Missouri (stone). The carefully prepared sem
fences Of the gentleman showed much labor
and it was evidently his intention to be severe.
But the gentleman had mistaken abuse for Be-
verify, and into acompetition Of personal abuse
he dodge had no intention 81 entering. He
willingly yielded the supremacy. He had a
large charity for those gentlemen whose mental
limitations were such that they could reach no
toriety in no other way except by personality.
The head and front Of his offending, Mr..
Lodge said, seemed to be that he was largely
responsible for the elections bill, which. with
the aid of his colleagues, he had helped TO put
through the House. Whatever the imperfec-
tons of the bill may be, he believed most thor
oughly in the principle which it involved. 1t
was the principle of honest elections, OK the
protection Of the ballot box, not in the north
or the south alone, but throughout the
breadth and length Of the country.
With that principle he was ready
and proud to be identified. He believed
that the republican party could make no
greater mistake than if IN the face Of its re-
peated pledges it now failed in fidelity to that
doctrine. He was quite ready to let his record
stand on that question and it did not disturb
him in the least that gentlemen on the other
side should assal him on account Of it. 1t only
showed that the shaft was well aimed and that
1t had gone home.
The gentleman from Missouri (Stone) seemed
to be annoyed that he Iodge) had a great
grandfather. He was a respectable and not al
together undistinguished gentleman and the
speaker was proud of his memory, although he
had some views in politics to which he Q-odge)
personally did not agree. No attack on New
England would ever be complete withoutan allu-
sion to the Hartford convention. 1t had been
the resource OF democratic statesmen when at
a loss to say something for the last seventy
eight years and he supposed it would continue
Of the convention were unable to resent any
thing they might say. lLaughter.l
SENATOR HoAR DEFENDED.
The gentleman from Missouri saw at to as
sail the Senator from Massachusetts,, who could
not reply to him. For speech less violent re-
lating to another Senator the House saw fit to
take every decisive action of censure. He left
1t to the House to say whether the time had
not come to repeat that action. The Senator
fro aatof Ia not haul
it necessary that the speaker should enter into
u defense of him from such an attack. When
the gentleman who made it had passed from the
House into the forgetfulness which awaited
most Of us the name of the senator would re-
main in the history of the United States as o
patriotic, farseeing, educated and intelligent
statesman. Still less was it necessary to defend
New England or Massachusetts,, whose record was
before the world. Her great record for human
rights and human liberty was written in the
history of the United States That record
could not be erased and her people had no fear
Of the verdict.
The gentleman had referred to him AZ the o.
car Wilde of craftsmanship. 1t safe attack,
for it was quite impossible for him Lodge) to
return the compliment. for he was not aware
that the gentleman was the proprietor of any
kind of statesmanship. [Laughter.l He sup
posed the allusion was intended to be that the
craftsmanship of Massachusetts, was effeminate.
That was the view which was taken Of higher
civilization by every one less high. 1t was the
view which would naturally be taken of the
civilization Of the public school compared
to the civilization Of the shot gun. But when
the civilization Of the public school came into
contact with the civilization Of the shotgun and
the slave there was nothing effeminate in the
civilization of the public school, and the civili-
zation Of the shotgun and the slave went down
In bloody ruin, never to be restored. lap
plause.I
Mr.. STONES DISCLAIMER.
Mr.. Spinola Of New York took the floor, but
yielded to Mr.. Stone of Missouri, who dis
claimed any intention Of making any attack on
Massachusetts He (Stone) meant simply to
express an opinion concerning the sniveling
lived in Massachusetts. II the gentleman who
had just addressed the House desired to leave
II where it was he saw no reason to object. The
gentleman was SO soon done for he did not see
what he was begun for.