St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-13
HOT STUFF.
Congressman Turn Loose on the
Topic Of Sectionalism.

Topic Of Sectionalism.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The house,
after some sparring as to the limitation
of general debate, which was finally
fixed at one hour and half, went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Dingley,
of Maine, in the chair for the further
consideration of the army appropriation
bill. MI. Stone, of Missouri (taking adj
vantage of the wide scope allowed to
general debate), entered upon general
denunciation of the elections bill, which
he denominated as menace to the in
tegrity of the states and to the liberties
of the people. 1t was intolerable I'M
pertinence on the part of those who
proposed 1t, and of snivelling 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 re-
ferred to Mr.. Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
as representing the Oscar Wilde type of
craftsmanship. and to Senator Hoar as
the maternal masculinIty who repre-
scented the New England Pecksniff. He
was heartily tired and sick of this eter-
nal cant and hypocrisy.
Mr.. GrOSvenOr, of Ohio, said that he
would not attempt to follow or reply to
the gentleman from Missouri. He
merely desired to amplify the spirit of
the able speech of the gentleman from
Texas (Mr. Lanham), delivered Satur-.
day. That speech had found re-
sponsive echo in his heart, especially
that portion of it in which he had in
weighed against the prescription of
nfflpnC
the government. In spirit of frater-
nifty and of breaking down the barriers
of prescription that had been 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 Democratic party
steadily refused to nominate for preSi-
dent or vice president any man who had
served in the Confederate army? Never
had there been time in the history of
politics when a class of men had been
so stigmatzed as the men OF the South
had been stigmatized by the negative
action of the party to which they be-
lOnged.
Mr.. Enloe, Of Tennessee, inquired
why the Republican party had never
GENITAL ticket
Mr.. Grosyenor replied that they had
never been candidates. The first rebel
appointed to a cabinet Office hadbeen aD
pointed by Ulysses S. Grant, and the
second by r. b. Hayes. Republican
administrations had sent more Confed
crate soldiers to foreign posts than had
thes Democratic administrations. He
charged the Democratic party with hav-
ing built up, intrenched and made per-
petual the brand upon the men who
served in the Confederate army. The
speech of the gentleman from Texas
was an appeal from Confederate to
have amnesty adopted i'll the Demo
cratic party. The Democratic party, in
power in the house with a slight eXcep-
ton since 1870, had never dared to put
a Confederate in the speakers chair.
Let this beginning OF fraternity begin
in the Democratic party; let it begin i'll
the party that had prescribed its own
members. and no sectionalism could be
found in the Republican party.
Mr.. Spinola, of New York, said that
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. GroS-
yenOr) asked why the Democratic party
did not put some Confederate soldier at
the head gifts 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 it's ticket?
Mr. Grosvenor suggested that two members
of the Ohio house of representatives were
colored men.
Mr. Spinola-That is an immense reward
for carrying three or four of the largest states
of the Union-to white them to two insig-
nficant seats in the legislature Of Ohio.
Mr.. Williams, of Ohio-I object to the gen.
teman calling the Ohio legislature insignif-
can't because it elected New York man a
United States senator.
Mr.. Spinola-That was because it knew
where to find good man.
Mr.. Miller of South Carolina, said what
the negroes needed was not so much offices
as it was protection at home in their rights,
chiefest among which was the right to live.
If they got an elections bill, South Carolina
would have six or seven Republicans here.
The committee then proceeded TO the
consideration of the army bill by sec
tions. Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, offered
an amendment providing that nothing
of the appropriation for the pay of the
army shall be paid to officers detailed to
state colleges and institutions. This
was ruled out on point of order, from
which ruling Mr.. Bland appealed. pend
ing which the committee rose and the
house adjourned.