St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-06
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INGALLS, EXPLAINS.
He Reviles Republican Leaders
for Past Errors.

for Past Errors.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-In the senate
to-day Mr.. ingalls,, rising to a personal
statement. said that he had been absent
from the sessions of the senate during
the past two weeks, in which interval
action had been taken on the cloture
resolution and the elections bill. His
action on both these questions had
been the subject of criticism and COM
ment and animadversion. On the day
of his departure. after consultation with
Mr.. Allison, on whom he had been ac-
customed to lean in every hour of need,
charge of the pairs of absentees) note,
saying:
II should vote against the proposed
change OF the ruies and should vote for
a motion to proceed to the consideration
of any other than theselectiOn bill, and
am paired accordingly with Senator
Allison. who is at liberty to vote to-
make quorum" He had been op-
posed, he said, unalterably opposed, to
the adoption of the clOture for many
reasons, sufficient and satisfactory to
himself. There were those present who
knew that, many months ago, while oc-
cupying the chair in the absence OF the
vice president, he resisted many urgent.
opportunities and many strenuous
solicitations to cooperate in that dlrec-
ton, by methods which he then be-
lieved and now believed were rev.
olutionary and subversive of the
fundamental principles Of con-
stitutional government. He had
not since seen any occasion to
change or modify his convictions. He
was now and always had been in favor
of just and impartial elections law.
directed alike against force and fraud,
non-partisan, and applicable equally to
all parts of the nation. The measure
under consideration, however, did not,
in many of it's details, receive the sane
ton of his judgment. 1t appeared to
him to be cumbrous, complicated, OBJ
difficult in application. subordinated
the judiciary to political control and
opened the treasury to indefinite eX-
penditures, without requisite super
vision and IN violation Gn his judgment)i
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 except in con-
sequence of appropriations made By
law. In order to guard against the
enactment of such 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 OBJ
viate, he had reserved the right to vote
lin his absence) with those Republicans
who favored the consideration of other
important measures unless those modlti-
cations were made.
He had no arrangement, agreement or
understanding, express or implied. di-
rect or indirect, remote or contingent.t to
have his vote counted against the pass
age of the election bill; and in that
statement he was convinced that
he would be confirmed and corroe
Grated by the senator from Iowa.
He was as ready now. as he ha0
always been to proceed with the consid-
Grafton and with notifications which
he had always believed essentiaD to
support it to the end. He had been a
Republican since the party was born,
and had voted without variableness or
shadow of turning for every Repub-
lican candidate. During that period he
had never espoused cause which he
believed to wrong, because it was pop
ular, and had never refused to advocate
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because it was unpopular. He had re-
Gently expressed no opinion, or polit-
ical, or social or economic opinions
which he had not long entertained, and
to which he had not given frequent
utterance in the senate chamber
| and elsewhere. 1t 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 cOnsciences of their as
sociates (outside of the senate chamberl
| that they should observe more frugal.
prudent and guarded husbandry Of their
disapprobatlOn. Those leaders who had
conducted the most powerful political
organization known in American his
tory to the most stupendous and over
| whelming disaster received in its annals,
might we'll pardon those who were dis
| posed to doubt the infallibility OF their
Judgment. If they were wise they would
he less proscriptive and more tolerant
| of differences of opinion among their
associates on questions Of opinion, on
which differences might be allowed, es1
pecially among those whose devotion to
human liberty had never been ques-
toned, and whose constancy and torti-
tude had been exposed to tests as Sc
we're, at least, as any which they had
| ever knOWnn