Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12
INGALLS, EXPLAINS.

INGALLS, EXPLAINS.
RUle-Favors an Impartial Elections Bill.
But Not the Lodge Bill Unless Properly
Amended-Advice to Partisan Critics.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Gin the Senate
Mr.. ingalls,, rising to personal state
ment, said that he had been absent from
the sessions of the Senate during the
last few weeks in which interval action
had been taken on the closure rule and
the elections bill. His attitude on both
these questions had been the
subject of comment and censure
and of animadversion. On the
day of his departure, after consul
tation with Mr.. Allison, on whom
he had been accustomed to lean in
every hour of need, he had left with
Mr.. Casey, who had charge Of the pairs
vote against the proposed change of the
rules, and should vote for a motion to
proceed to the consideration of any
other than the elections bill; and am
paired accordingly with Senator Ali
son, who is at liberty to vote to make
quorum.
He had been opposed, he said, un-
alterably opposed, to the adoption of
the closure, for many reasons sufficient
and satisfactory to himself There
were those present who knew that,
many months ago, while occupying the
chair in the absence Of the Vice-Presi-
dent, he resisted many urgent fmportu-
mites and many strenuous solicitations
to cooperate in that direction by meth
DDS which he then believed and now
| believed were revolutionary and sub
versive of the fundamental principles
of constitutional government He had
not since seen any occasion to change
or modify his convictions.
He was now, he said, and always had
been in favor Of a just and impartial
elections law, directed alike against
force and fraud, nonpartisan, and APP
plicable equally to all parts of the Ma
ton. The measure under considera-
ton, however. did not, in many of its
details, receive the sanction of his judg-
ment. 1t appeared to him to be cum
brous, complicated, obscure in many of
its provisions, and difficult of applica-
| ton. It subordinated the judiciary
to political control and opened the
Treasury to indefinite expenditure with
out requisite supervision and in viola
ton, in his Judgment, of the spirit, if
not Of the letter, of the provision of the
Constitution that declared that no money
shall be drawn out Of the Treasury ex-
cept in consequence of appropriations
made by law. In order to guard against
the enactment of such a measure into
law, in his absence, and without amend
ments, which he regarded as essential
to prevent dangers not less distinct
| than those which it was intended to
Obviate, he had reserved the right to
vote Tin his absence) with those Re-
pubHcanS who favored the considera-
ton Of other important measures unless
those notifications were made. He
had no arrangement, agreement or I'M
Outstanding, expressed or implied, di-
rect or indirect, remote or contingent,
to have his vote counted against the
passage of the elections bill; and in
| that statement he was convinced that
he would be confirmed and corroborated
by the Senator from Iowa. He was as
ready now as he had always been to
proceed with its consideration and, with
notifications which he had always be-
lieved essential, to support it to the end
He had been Repu blican, he said,
since the party was born, and had voted
without variablenesS or shadow of
turning for every Republican candi-
date. During that period he had never
espouseda cause which he believed to be
wrong, because it was popular, and had
never refused to advocate a cause which
he believed to be right because it was
unpopular. He had recently expressed
no opinion on political. social or econ
omic questions which he had not long
entertained and to which he had not
given frequent utterances in the Senate
Chamber and elsewhere.
It was related that the streets of
Jerusalem had been kept clean by every
man sweeping before his own door, and
he commended to the self-constituted
guardians of the sciences and their as
Der, that they should observe a more
frugal. prudent and guarded husbandry
of their d1sapprobation.
These leaders, who had conducted
the most powerful political organiza-
| ton known in American history to the
most stupendous and overwhelming
disaster received in its annals, might
well pardon those who were disposed to
doubt the infallibility of their judg-
ment. If they were wise they
would be less proscriptive and more
tolerant of differences of opinion
among their associates on questions of
opinion on which differences might be
allowed, especially among those whose
devotion to human liberty had never
been questioned and whose constancy
and fortitude had been exposed to tests
as severe, at least, as any which they
had ever known.
Mr.. Allison deemed it due to himself
to say that on every occasion when he
had opportunity he had stated that he
had no pair with Mr.. Ingalls, in votes
respecting the elections bill.
| Strike in Russia.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6. Several
hundred men employed in the Admiralty
ship building dock yard who had be-
come greatly dissatisfied owing. as they