Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-29
|. H. TAYLOR
LAMAR ON DAVIS.
|noUS OLD CONGRESSIONAL
TILT
y ne LaIe Justice, Secretary Blaine
oAw TOOs Pari-Fisry Speeches
on Both Sides.

Hngton, jan. 2S.-When Mr..
4 was lying on his deAthbed In the
house opposite the executive man
pm had been informed of the death
toaate Justice Lamar, the news re-
10 him the exciting legislative en-
|s IN which these two giants of de-
|ngaged during the years when
eN IN their prime Lamur's herc-
hgonlsts were Roscoe Conkling
lmes q Blaine. Lamar In his hot
wy Conkling and Blaine ON the
81 amnesty 10 Southern men and
POLITICAL questions growing out of
generally held his own. and once,
~ came Oh victorious over each
N antagonists In the Forty
congress, when Kerr wits spenk-
.9 l drove Blaine fairly into a cor
lul Tue ex-spcuker was compelled
nv % the house % protect him
snaI be called unjust attacks.
'losl sensational dcbnte i'm which
was engaged subsequent to the
'gulh congress occurred In the
lVls past midnight on the Icgislp-
4 OF March L. 1879. The arrears
n.y., ,'On ollls, which included the cases
a'Iu,l veterans, was under discus
Ny senator Hoar of Massachu-
|Iilegel the following amendment:
INV nut no pension shall ever br
49, ms act 10 Jefferson Davis. the
4 ''ucnl OF the so-called Confed.
created an instant sensation and
49, m.N,tlr followed, participated i'm
4 ~ IN N iio'r; Garland of Arkansas,
a leAls' Thurman of Ohio. Cor
4 "o'E'a ana Lamar of AIissis-
@.9r began his remarks with
'su ~, AIR President, il Is with
M, 'luetance that / rise 10 say n
.pol lhls subject. | must confess
Vass,, Ilu regret that the senator
,honp' nuneus should here wanton-
" P'p'ocauon, fling this in
10y, .i point Mr. Edmunds Of yor-
J iva was In the chair. PROMPTLY
uoWn the gavel and called tbe
W order After "A running 10
M XIV she question TO the senate
AMI ' words of the senator were i'm
IN I'M vote of 10 to 2G II was
LANAI tne words should stand.
shs uhereupon apnlogized fo,.
lne sensibilities of MIR Hoar
%4lRle and Proceeded win bis
s. of GIus SSh comprised the following
VI jefferson Davis. ' " W
Nhly dillprpnc.
ter SG M Davis is that his ex3ited
Ished ro, pi,reeminent talents. his well
M }, lYpulation as a statesman ~
I'M I n.y., as soldier enabled Him An
4qoto5 au IN the cnuse I'm which I
n n,, myself and 10 which eya,.,,
ldnc,ioan eart responded. There WIS
|ntbs.on between insult Ia him ond
chosen IiSople, except that he was
stic n leader and they his en-.
ilerercoa' oNSrs, and there has been
M n.y. since, jefferson Dovis'
Ntlos wv; mas never counsaIej H.,
Rmen, spst the authority NJ tiis
8ponds,o,,,' ol one word has no rttrr.
y on ttflt with the greotnass NM
n from Aia.Ne'nerican republic. The
lcrance n's1sSSachusetts can point to
he peon,o JEFFERSON Davis which
siiies nm eI NE South 10 cherish
os NJ aug hostilitles To his mnio,,
ID \ NM. S;aerish them himself ''i I'M
tHei tbis W. me 20 say. not only I'm.
oaorpd' amendment, but be 1 no,,ni ,nl
4 ho name with with treason s ', ~,
u0red among the SoutbeTrl
y siB uo'y What they sought 70 do
+ Which " chosen 10 lead Them - II, 10 Z
oaiisno" Z, al cherish. and ms man, ~ !
isa b ,t 70 be honorod for b,s ''u I,n,.
y an n d .aat great movement t''S u,j pal
anhua,sSS lFe people-a peonla MN H,h,
hsgre9 !, py motives as s1r .r nv ~.
yashia,,ll.he breast Of n Hamndo u
NE mon ] say this os i y Ilnlo,
lrsriri1's.o.p.l Of the son M d, niol
y lt ..op nom the fo1p foh oga ,ia
M Nv and conslitptinm,al ~ ,, uc
Ava 4. believe you ar" ' sabiii Sy
upou , oss senator cannot NM psi'i ~.
Ds distinction between nv ~.