St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-06
making public announcement of this
new commercial arrangement.
INGALLS, EXPLAINS.
He Reviles Republican Leaders
for Past Errors.

He Reviles Republican Leaders
for Past Errors.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--In the senate
to-day Mr.. Ingalls,, rising to 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 Oh the clOture
resolution and the elections bill. His
action on both these questions had
been the subject of criticism and COM
ment and animadyerSiOn. 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,
he had left with Mr.. Casey (who had
charge of the pairs of abSentees) a note,
saying:
II should vote against the proposed
change OF the rules 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 OPP
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.
fundamental principles of con
StitntiOnal pOvarnmQnf 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 its details, receive the sane
ton of his judgment. 1t appeared to
him to be cumbr0uS, complicated, OBJ
scure in many of its provisions. and
difficult in application. Itsubordinated
the judiciary to political control and
opened the treasury to indefinite eX-
penditures, without requisite super
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 absencel with those Republicans
who favored the consideration OF other
important measures unless those modlfl-
cations were made.
He had no arrangement, agreement or
understanding, express or implied. di-
rect or indirect, remote or contingent,to
have his vote counted against the pass
statement he was convinced that
he would be confirmed and corrob-
Grated by the senator from Iowa
He was as ready now, as he had
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
a cause which he thought to be right
because it was unpopular. He had re-
Gently expressed no opinion, or polit-
zeal, 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 chamberj
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 well 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, or
which differences might be allowed, eS
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
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