The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14

sOhdl gam. III tnefe were such, In the
words OF an eminent American, ''let no
guilty man escape"
Mr.. Rogers (Ark.) offered an amend
ment to the Dockery resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of special com
mittee of five members to inquire into all
the facts and circumstances connece ed
with silver pools in which senators and
representatives are alleged to be interest
ed also as to the alleged purchase and
sale OF silver prior to and since the pas
sage of the act of July IA, $780, including
the name of the persons purchasing or
selling the same and who are the owners
of the 10000 of silver bullion which
the United States is now asked to pur-
chase.
Mr.. Grosvenor %. said that it was due
to the committee on rules and to himself
that he should make brief statement.
Some days ago Mr.. Dockery had come to
him and asked him whether he had heard
a statement made by Conger when he had
taken his seat after making the speech
alluded to. He (Mr GroSvenor) had re-
piled in the affirmative. Mr.. Dockcry had
asked if Mr.. CODger had made the direct
charge that he had been solicited to enter
a silver pool. He had replied that Mr..
Conger had made direct charge a day or
two afterward. Mr.. Mckinney had come
to him and asked whether he had made
such statement to Mr.. Dockery and he
had answered that he had. In reply to
further question by Mr.. Mckinley he had
stated that Mr.. Conger had mentioned the
name of no member of congress. Mr..
Mckinley had asked him to appear before
the committee OH rules and he had ex-
pressed his perfect willingness to do so.
He came 70 the capitol this morning for
the r1nrnosn Of doiDu ht1f ba arrival 81,
late that the members of the committee
had left. He thought that this statement
was due to the committee on rules
Mr.. Rogers amendment was agreed to
and the resolution was amended and
agreed to.
Mr.. Rockwell Mass reported the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill
and it was placed upon the calendar.
The house then, after some sparring as
to the limitation of general debate, which
was finally fixed at one hour and a half,
went into committee of the whole, Mr..
Dingley in the chair, for the further con-
sideration OF the army appropriation bill.
Mr.. Stone Mo- taking advantage of the
wide scope allowed to general debate, en-
tered upon general denunciation of the
force bill. which he denominated as
menace to the integrity OF the states and
tolerable impertinence on the part of
those who proposed it, and of driveling
hypocrisy on the part of those by whom
it was urged. 1t was treason disguised
and brought here In the hands and under
the protection of hypocrisy. He referred
to Mr.. Lodge Mass. as representing the
Oscar Wilde type OF craftsmanship and to
Senator Hoar as the maternal masculinity
who represented the New England Peck
sniff He was heartily tired and sick of
this eternal cant and hypocrisy.
Mr. Grosvenor said that he would not
attempt to follow or reply to the speech OF
the gentleman from Missouri. He merely
desired to amplify the spirit of the able
speech of the gentleman from Texas Mr..
LanhamJ, delivered Saturday. That
speech had found responsive echo in his
heart, especial V that portion of it in which
he had inveighed against the prescription
of Southern men from the high offices of
the government. In spirit of fraternity
and in breaking down the barriers of pro-
scription that had built up, he demanded
that the democratic party, IN Its national
capacity, should remove those barriers
when the democrats OF the south furnished
153 electoral votes for the candidate of the
democratic party. Why had the demo-
cratic party steadily refused TO nominate
for president or vice-president any man
who had served in the confederate army?
Never had there been time in the history
OF politics when class OF men had been so
stigmatized as the men of the South had
been stigmatized by the negative action of
the party to which they belonged.
Mr.. Enloe inquired why the repub
lican party had never placed Bruce or
Langston on the presidential ticket.
Mr.. Grosvenor replied that they had
never been candidates. The first rebel
ever appointed to a cabinet office had
been appointed by u. :. Grant, and the
second by r. B. Hayes. Republican adj
ministrations had sent more confederate
soldiers to foreign posts than had the
democratic administrations.
Mr. Greenhalge Mass, referring to
the remarks OF Mr.. Stone, said that Il
posthumous argument on the federal
election bill, a shameful and cowardly
attack upon any member of the house or
on q member of the coordinate branch,
was not worthy of any man of chivalry,
honor or self-respect. He appealed TO the
chivalry and the decency OF the house to
condemn this resuscitation of arguments
projected months and months ago and now
brought forward in a sepulchral shroud.
Mr.. Ianham said III his speech he did
not mean to inspire any sectional talk ;
his whole speech was against sectionalism.
If there was anything OF that in the dem
ocratic party he hoped that it would de-
part from it forever. The time had come
when every citizen of the United States
was entitled to every privilege which be-
longed to him as a component part OF this
great government.
Mr.. Spinola IN. Y said that the gentle
man from Ohio (A1r. GrosvenorJ asked
why the democratic party did not put
some confederate soldier at the head of
its ticket. He would ask in return why
the republican party, which owed its
power in the North to the negro vote, did
not put some colored man OH its ticket.
Mr.. Grosvenor suggested that two mem
bers of the Ohio house of representatives
were colored men.
Mr.. Spinola-''That is an immense re-
ward for carrying three or four OF the
largest states OF the union-to whittle
them down to two Insignificant seats in
the legislature of Ohio"
Mr.. Williams-"I object TO the gentle
man calling the Ohio legislature insignif-
can't because it elected New York man a
! United States senator" Laughter
Mr.. Spinola-'That was because il knew
where to find good man." [Laughter.l
Mr.. Miller Is. c. said what the negroes
| need was not so much office as it was pro-
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