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immediately in the morning to the pending business makes it desira NAYS-20. ble to get out of this dilemma to-night. Allison, Dawes, In.IZ3lls, Mitchell, :Mr. MITCHELL. I was paired with the distinct understanding :Blair, Ferry, MCDill, Morrill, :Burnside, Harrison, McMillan, Platt of N. Y., that I might vote to make a quorum. I am ready to do so. Cameron of Pa., Hill of Colorado, Mahone, Plnmb, Mr. HOAR. Has the- Conger, Hoar, Miller, Sawyer. Mr. HARRIS. I demand the regular order. Mr. HOAR. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. Has the vote been ABSENT-37. Anthony, Fair, Jones of Nevada, Saunders, .announced t Bayard, Frye, Kellogg, Sewell, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The vote having been announced, :Beck, Garland, Lamar, Sherman, the roll-call will proceed. It is the duty of the Chair to require the Camden, Groome, Logan, Teller, Cameron of Wis., Hale, McPherson, VanWyck, roll of the Senate to be called. Cockrell, Hawley, Maxey, Voorhees, Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. To see whether or not a quorum is Conkling, Hill of Georgia, Platt of Conn., Williams. present! Davis of lllinois, Jackson, Ransom, The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is the purpose. Edgerton, Jonas, Rollins, Mr. DAWES. I supposed, if I may interrupt the call, that there Edmunds, Jones of Florida, Saulsbury, were Senators paired who were at liberty under their pairs to vote to So the Senate refused to proceed to the consideration of executive make a quorum, and we could get along without this roll-calL If I business. am mistaken-- Mr. BECK and Mr. DAWES addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent that can be The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts. -done. Mr. BECK. I desired to take the floor to make a few remarks in Mr. DAWES. I ask unanimous-consent that Senators who are so the morning. I would rather not do so now. situated may be allowed to vote-- . .Mr. DAWES. If the Senator will give way, he holding the floor,. Mr. HARRIS. I demand the regular order. I thought the Senator I will move to adjourn. from Massachusetts would have moved au adjournment; but as he Mr. BECK. Certainly. -sees proper not to do so, we will proceed in order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair understands that the Mr. DAWES. I am sorry to disagree with the Senator- Senator from Kentuc]ry has the floor and yields to the Senator from The PRESIDING OFFICER. The roll-call will proceed. Massachusetts to move an adjournment. The question is on the mo The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. tion of the Senator from Massachusetts, that the Senate adjourn. Mr. VANCE, (when Mr. RANsoM's name was called.) I desire to The motion was agreed to; and (at four o'clock and thirty-five .announce that my colleague [Mr. RANSOM] was called home suddenly minutes p.m.) the Senate adjourned. by illness in his family. I expected him to arrive back this morning, but he has not done so. · The roll-call having been concluded, the following Senators had .answered to their names: Allison, Dawes, Ingalls, Platt oC N. Y., TUESDAY, April 12, 1881. Anthony, Farley, Jackson, Plnmb, :Beck, Ferry, Johnston, Saunders, Blair, Frye, Jonas, Sawyer, Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. :Brown, George, Kellogg, Sewell, The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. Burnside, Gorman, McDill, Sherman, :Butler, Groome, McMillan, Slater, RANK OF NA. VAL GRADUATES. Call, Grover, Mahone, Vance, Camden, Hampton, Miller, Vest, Mr. VANCE submitted the following resolution: Cameron of Pa., Harris, Mitchell, Walker. Resolved by the Senate of the Vnited States, That the Secretary of the Navy be Coke, Harrison, Morgan, requested to inform the Senate what alteration, if any, has been made in the rela Conger, Hill of Colorado, Moriill., tive rank of graduates of the Naval Academy as originally established at gradua DaVlSof W.Va.., Hoar, Pendleton, tion under the provisions of sections 1483 and 1521 of the Revised Statutes in any classes graduating since the year 1870; and, if so, under the provisions of what The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is present. The Secre act the said alteration or rearranitement of rank was made.. tary will proceed with the call on the motion of the Senator from Tennessee, [Mr. HARRIS,] that the Senate proceed to the consideration Mr. DAWES. The phraseology should be " directed" instead of of executive business. ' "requested." We direct the Departments and request the President. The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. Mr. VANCE. Let it be modified in that way; and I ask for the Mr. BECK, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the Sen present consider_ilttion of the resolution. ator from Maine, [Mr. HALE.] The resolution was considered by unanimous consent, and, as mod ified: agreed to. ~Ir. FRYE, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the Sen- ator from Georgia, [Mr. HILL.] . MICHAEL BOYTON. Mr. GROOME, (when his name was called.) Upon this and similar Mr. BURNSIDE submitted the following resolution; which was con .questions I am paired with the Senator from Illinois, [Mr. LOGAN.] sidered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Mr. GROVER, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the Resolved, That the President be respectfully requested, if in his judgment not; Senator from Nebraska, [Mr. VANWYCK.] incompatible with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate any informa· tion in possession of the Government touching the alleged arrest and imprisonmer..t Mr. JONAS, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the of Michael Boyton, who claims to be a citizen of the United States, by the anthon- Senator from Minnesota, [Mr. EDGERTON.] ties of Great :Britain. · Mr. KELLOGG, (when his name wa-s called.) I am paired with the OFFICERS OF THE SENATE. Senator from Dlinois, [Mr. DAVIS.] Mr. ANTHONY, (when Mr. L.u£A.R's name was called.) I am paired The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate tho with the Senator from Mississippi, [Mr. LAMAR.] unfinished business of yesterday, being the resolution of the Senator Mr. MITCHELL, (when his name was called.) I am paired with from Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] providing for the election of cer the Senator from Delaware [Mr. BAYARD] with the express under tain officers of the Senate, the pending question being on the motion standing that I may vote if it is necessary to make a quorum. I shall of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. PENDLETON] to postpone the resolu not vote at present. tion indefinitely, on which motion the yeas and nays have been Mr. SAUNDERS, (when his name was called.) I am paired on ordered. political questions with the gentleman from Kentucky, [Mr. WILL Mr. BECK. Mr. President- !Al\IS ;] but I do not consider that that pair is binding on me if my Yr. PENDLETON. If the Senator will give way I will move that yo~ is n~eded to make a quorum. I shall not vote at present, but the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business. if 1t reqmres my vote to make a quorum, then I shall ask the right The VICE-PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Kentucky yield t o vote. the :fioor! The roll-call was concluded. ' .Mr. BECK. I have no objection to that motion. Mr. SHERMAN. I wish again to announce the fact that I am Mr. PENDLETON. I move that the Senate proceed to the consid paired with the Senator from Delaware, [Mr. SAULSBURY,] and there- eration of executive business. fore I decline to vote. · Mr. DAWES. After the arrangement and understanding with the ' Mr. GROVER. My pair has been transferred to the Senator from Senator from Kentucky last night, I hardly supposed that he would North Carolina, [Mr. RANSOM,] and to make a quorum I vote "yea." yield for such a motion this morning when the Senate is so thin. Mr. BLAIR. I wish to announce that my colleague [Mr. RoLLINs] Mr. HOAR. The motion does not seem to be fair just now. is paired with the Senator from Florida, [Mr. JoNEs.] Mr. PENDLETON. At the request of the two Senators from Massa Mr. MITCHELL. I vote to make a quorum. chusetts, who indicate that their side of the House is unexpectedlJ" The result was announced-yeas u~, nays 20; as follows: thin, and that the motion w~s not expected this morning, I with draw it. YEAS-19, The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Ohio withdraws the Brown, Farley, Harris, Slater, motion; and the Senator from Kentucky will proceed. :Butler, George, Johnston, Vance, Mr; BECK President, I shall occupy the attention of the Sen Call, Gorman, Morgan, Vest, Mr. Coke, Grover, Pen.dleton, Walker. ate but a short time this morning. I had at one time intended to Davis of W. Va., Hampton, Pngh, follow somewhat in the line of deb~te which has been indulged in 264 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 12, pretty freely on both sides, and I had especially stated to the Senator I am not going to say that you did this because of a corrupt bar from New Hampshire [Mr. BLAIR] that at some time this week I gain. I do not intend to make the Senate Chamber a bear-garden should endeavor to reply to the speech he made the other day; but or to have crimination or recrimination between myself and other as there has been a good deal of-I will not say crimination andre Senators by reason of charges that I might make on this floori· but crimination on both sides, but a good many attacks by ~entlemen on it is both parliamentary and just to say that the country at arge one side of this Chamber on the question of the repudiation of the has a strong suspicion that the alliance is a foul one, and even the debts of the South, tissue-ballots, bulldozing, and other things, and republican press of the country has charged it in forms so offensive as within the last day or two "the wind has shifted," and there have that when a democratic Senator caused one of the leading articles been a good many serious attacks made on the States of New England, to be read from that desk, he was asked if he avowed it as his, and Iowa, Minnesota, and other States in the North and West which seem dangers at least of personal responsibility were threatened; be was to be in the same category, I shall endeavor to confine myself pretty told that he must stop. He did not Btop, I admit. However, I say I much this morning to giving to the country and to the Senate the rea am not going to charge anything; but I have a right to say that it I sons why I am here and why I intend to adhere to our position, and is seriously believed in the country that the bargain was a foul one. why I think the democratic party expect to stay here a good while Many respectable people believe it, many of my constituents believe longer if the present course is persisted in by the republican caucus. it, and I am advised by them every day that they believe it. They The much-abused caucus, when democrats were supposed to be influ know the facts; it will be. difficult to answer or. explain them away enced by it, is now the law and the gospel to all the members of the when they come to be discUBBed upon the stump; these admitted republican party, whether they like it or not. facts constitute the basis of their belief. It is known, Mr. President, that we have been nearly forty days in The committees were agreed upon and organized in a caucus; that Bpecial session called for executive business. We were detained is conceded. The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] intro here by a republican President to attend to matters of public impor duced them before the Senate as the leader of the party by order of tance relating to executive business which he said he would com the caucus, and what did they do Y Five distinguished members of municate to us from time to time. We found an anomalous condition the republican party, some of them old and tried members, with two of affairs. The last Senate had adjourned leaving I believe about of whom I served in the House of Representatives, have no chairman one hundred and thirty nominations unacted upon; they had all died ship at all. Judge McDILL, of Iowa, who sits before me, served with with the Congress; and all I may say certainly nearly all, of that me in the other House; and M.r. VA...~ WYCK served with me there large number were nominatwns1 of republicans, were sent here by a also many years ago. Other distinguished gentlemen were unpro republican President in order to enable him to carry on the business vided for. What else do we find T The Senator from Virginia, [Mr. of the country in a proper manner. MAHoNE,] who bad never served in either Honse of Congress, who Therefore we had not only to deal with all that was left undone so far as I know bad never served in any legislative body, (he may by the last Congress, but with all new matters which the President have done so,) was made chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. . deemed important; all that was left undone by the last Congress was I am not charging him with having demanded it, but the fact is (and so left because the republicans had filibustered day after day and I am now stating the facts) he was made chairman of the Committee night after night; they had sat in their places refusing to vote to on Agriculture. What is the meaning of that ! What do the old carry out the orders of their own President who sought to fill the republican politicians on this floor understand that to meant What places then vacant. did they in~nd it to effect f The chairman of that committee is When the present President of the United States called us together assumed by the people all over the country, by all the farmers of under those circumstances the democrats were in a majority. We Virginia particularly, to have the control of all the patronage, the confirmed his Cabinet promptly, without the intervention of commit appointments, and everything that can be had from that great Agri tees. We confirmed every man any republican Senator asked us to cultural Department, and the farmers of Virginia are expected to confirm, without waiting for committees. 'When any gentleman on look to the chairman of that committee for all the favors they can the other side said the good of the public service required prompt get from or through that Department of the Government. Of course action, we took his word and confirmed the nominees. We proposed they will be deceived and disappointed. That is a small matter if the in an orderly way to proceed with the appointment of committees, deception can be made available till after the Virginia election. which could under the rules only last during the session. We did What next T That Senator was constituted by the caucus a mem not propose that they should extend during the Congress, but only ber of the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads; that commit for the executive session which had been called. If our suggestions tee is supposed to control the patronage of the Post-Office Depart had been adopted all the executive business might have been attended ment, which reaches every hamlet, every village, every town, and to long ago, and we should now have been at home attending to our every city in the land; and the men of Virginia are to be deluded into respective private duties and interests. the belief, "If yon expect anything from that Department, there is a The filibustering commenced at once on the other side, led by the member of the committee from your own State who can reject or who _distinguished Senator from Pennsylvania, [Mr. ClliEROY,] for two can confirm the appointment of any postmaster, who can govern weeks. We were told, and told defiantly, that although we had a and control everything connected with the patronage of that great majority of four or five, we should not organize until it suited their Department of the Government." That, too, will prove a fraud. convenience. We acquiesced in that, and after two weeks spent in What next t He is placed upon the Committee on Naval Affairs. organizing the committees of the Senate so that they were ready to Why! The shrewd politicians on the republican side know why. go to work under republican control, with their chairmen and clerks The Norfolk navy-yard has been one of the great sources of repub duly installed, we at once proceeded to executive busineBB. All that lican corruption in the politics of Virginia. The House has had con they asked us to do was done; no democrat complained or held back, test after contest over the frauds committed there. The records of no democrat created either delay or presented any difficulty, nobody the other House in the contested election of my friend, John GoodeJ opposed the orderly and decent transaction of public business except show that over three hundred men were at one time marched from the gentlemen on the other side. that navy-yard to the polls in line, that ballots were placed in their What then happened! After we had an executive session or two, hands, and they were required to hold their hands up showing those after the new committees had taken possession of all the committee ballots as they went to the polls for fear that they might have dem rooms, after they had installed their clerks and messengers and turned ocratic ballots in their vest pockets which they would, if not watched, llS all out, after every convenience that any democratic Senator could take out and deposit. An officer from the navy-yard came with them have desired to retain had been surrendered to the gentlemen on the and took their names down, handing them the ballot as they went other side, surrendered cheerfully and without delay and we had into a narrow aisle near the voting pla.ce, and watching them with s1town that we were willing they should proceed with their work their hands up until the ballots were deposited, to see that there should without delay, what then transpired Y They said "You shall not be no cheating, (so called,) and they dismissed all who refused to obey proceed with executive business because we have held a republican their orders. The Senator from Virginia is placed on the naval com eaucus and have determined in secret conclave that we will turn out mittee, and with that record before them the people of the country the officers who are now holding positions in the Senate and install will understand why the republican party put him there. Those others in their places; we will first disorganize the present organiza ballots were as bad or worse than tissue-ballots or anything else that tion of the Senate and organize it to suit ourselves; and we will I know of. I hope Senators will read the record of the contested denounce you as guilty of treason, revolution, and everything that is election of Goode, as I have merely indicated some of the frauds it 'Vile if you oppose us ; we will hold you up to the country as disloyal shows, and I have not stated the worst of them. I do not think the -conspirators unleBB you acquiesce in all that we require you to do." present Secretary will allow a repetition of these offenses. That, too, We said to them, "Gentlemen of the republican party, yon have an will prove a delusion as a means of catching votes.· organized Senate; you have absolute control of all the committees; What el!e! The Senator from Virginia has been placed on the we have surrendered to you everything that you have demanded or ·Committee on Education and Labor. All the colored people of the suggested, everything that tends to the convenience and comfort of conn try have been made to believe that the Committee on Education Senators or to the power over the business of this body; but when and Labor has their interests under eS}!ecia.l charge, and all the col you preseni us a list of men, and among them a man from Virginia ored men of Virginia it is expected will have to run to the Senator who is the head and front of the repudiating element in that State, from Virginia as their special advocate and champion on the Com a man who carried a repudiating bill through the Legislature of Vir mittee on Education and Labor for all the favors which pertain to ginia that was only prevented from becoming a law by the veto of a all that is to be done in regard to those things about which they are. democratic governor, and all the principles of which have been con so much concerned. demned by the supreme court of the State-wben you present us with Their experience in regard to the Freedman's Bank may make them. that name we do not propose to go any further." careful as to the promises or baits held out by republican leaders. 1881. 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Those are wonderful assignments for a man who had never held a over and over, that there was a bargain, a bargain we will not allow place in either House of Congress-chairman of the Committee on you to consummate; and I desire to say to my friend from Massa Agriculture, a member of the Naval Committee, the Post-Office Com chusetts, [Mr. D.A.WEB,] here and now, that while I avoid expressing mittee, the Committee on Education and Labor; if they had been any opinion about these transactions here, when the Virginia election selected in order to give that Senator absolute power over all the upon which all these matters bear comes on, as he says he is going arrangements necessary to draw to his support whatever could be to keep us in session until next December and that election comes on drawn to the support of anybody in Virginia there could have been early in the fall, instead of talking about repudiation in Ma8sachusetta, no other committees so well and so carefully selected to give him all and exclusion of a third of her population and other things that annoy thatpower. . him, I invite him now to pair with me and go to the State of Virginia Do you think the people of the country fail to understand the during the months of September and October, and then I will tell meaning of that Y They may not reason out all the details of it, but that people, what I cannot decorously do in this Senate, what I think when they see a mule they know there has been an alliance between was the true meaning, intent, and purpose of all these combinations, two distinct classes of animals. When they see political miscegena appointments, and disposition of patronage. We may as well spend tion like this they understand that it is for a purpose. They under our time canvassing Virginia as to spend it in the Senate quarreling stand it, too, when you go a step further as is now proposed and say, with each other about whether our States have repudiated this, that, "That is not pay enough· there are only thirty-seven of us repub or the other, or whether or not we can change their constitutions, licans here who voted for itfr. Garfield; there are thirty-nine Senators which at an executive session we know we cannot do, even if they who voteil. for General Hancock; but we have managed, although were not absolutely beyond our control at any time. there are only thirty-seven of us, to organize the Senate and turn All this struggle, it has been admitted and asserted on the other you all out of your committee-rooms, to take your clerks from you, to side, grows out of the Virginia election next fall, and the meaning, take control of all the business machinery of the Senate; we could purpose, and intent of it all is to influence that election before tl1at not do it ourselves without this help, and we intend to pay the man people. The Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. CAMERO~] has avowed well who gave us this assistance." it; the Senator from Virginia [Mr. MA.HoNE] himself avowed it; all The republican leaders know also, if they do not say it, "We have the other Senators who have ventured to speak of it avow that that our part of the bargain in our pockets. We have the committee is the fact; of course we all know that a great election is to be held rooms; we have the clerks; we have all the machinery of the Senate. there soon for governor of the State, lieutenant-governor, the State We cannot affotd to stop short of delivering all that we agreed to officers, the Legislature, and that Legislature ~s expected, if the repu deliver as a consideration for what we havegot." I tell you the country diationists win, to appoint a supreme -court in place oi the one now is saying your ballots are not free, gentlemen. You have received there known to be against them, who will declare the Riddleberger your part of the bargain, (so the people of the country will say,) bill and all the repudiation of the Virginia readjusters to be legal and and you are now determined to do whatever remains unsettled in the constitutional, and a UnitedStatesSenatoris to be elected bythatLeg agreement before you will even proceed to public business. And islature to come to this Chamber in the place of my honorable friend what is that other business, or residuum of purchase, as plain people the Senator from Virginia, [Mr. J OHNSTO~.] The republican party has will calli t f Yon have named as Sergeant-at-Arms a Mr. Riddleberger, attempted to place all the machinery that it can control, both in the of Virginia. The Senator from Virginia said in his speech the other appointments of committees and in the efforts it is making now to day: bestow the patronage of the Senate into the hands of the readjusters,. Mr. President, I must beg the indulgence of this Sena.te for a few minutes longer repudiationists, call them what you will, who are seeking to destroy to do justice by one for the mtroduction of whose name here I am responsible. the good name, the goodfaith, the integrity (heretofore untarnished} He then vindicates that man, Mr. Riddleberger, and adds: of the old State of Virginia. They can yield a. complete republican organization, but cannot a.cce~t this Vir It is in the canvass in Virginia, Senators, if you desire to be heard ginia. readjuster. I note with astonishment the reasons assigned, but discern very_ and if you desire to have told you precisely what a good many of us. clearly the real and underlying ones. Say they, he is of the repudiating party. If think this arrangement means, that you can. hear it by going to that so, Mr. President, I , too, am of that party. canvass with us. I have no doubt that you will find a democratic And again: Senator to pair with every one of you who desires to go. I can pick Mr. President, it is the coming contest in Virjtinia which makes this opposition out pairs for you now. I want to go, if he will allow me, with my to Mr. Riddleberger. His enemies and those of his party know his power, his in distinguished friend from Massachusetts, [1\Ir. DAWES.] fluence, and his courage. Yet, in the face of these facts which I have stated, we have been The Senator from Ohio, [Mr. SHERMAN,] the other day, made a told by the Senator from Massachusetts, we have been told over and remarkable statement in the face of that speech of Mr. MAHoNE, over again by the Senator from Ohio, that our action in delaying the which I will call attention to. The Senator from Ohio, interrupting republicans from carrying out all these arrangements, and in prevent the Senator from Florida, [Mr. CALL,] who was then holding the ing them from giving all this power and all this patronage to Mr. :floor, used this Ian guage : · Riddleberger, is treasonable, revolutionary, destructive of all the Long ago it was manifest by the drift of events that the Senator from Virginia. best interests of the Government. The Senator from Ohio has had no stopping-place short of the republican party- repeated that over and over. I will read a few lines from his speech The Senator from Virginia will not indorse that. If he does, the the other day : readjusting party of Virginia will perhaps not be as large as it is Now, sir, resume the argument, look over it all. Here is a proceeding that is. because we know, by the discipline exercised by the democratic party upon every admitted to be, if carried to an extreme extent, revolutionary and dangerous, man in the South who differs with them on any question whatever, that there is, which blocks the wheels of government, preventa our di charge of the public busj to use the language of the honorable Senator from South Carolina, no half-way ness, prevent our ~oing into executive session unless, forsooth, the majority will house; and I expected before I came here that the Senator from Virginia, although yield to the minonty in regard to tha order of business. Suppose, gentlemen, you. he never has participated in our caucus, never has gone into our conferences, never should drive us to go inro executive session; suppose you should control our action has made any prolniaes to us, that "the logic of events " would drive him into so far as to say we shall not do what the majority desire to do ; yon have the the ranks of the great party to which I belong. power t<1 do it; no one questions that. Fifteen of you, if you have made up your minds to that dangerous expedient, can do it. It will not be long before the public Now, if the Senator from Virginia was never in any conference, attention of this country is called ro that dangerous re>olution. was never in any caucus, had never made any promise, how does he Again he said: (to use his own language) become responsible for the name of 1\Ir. This example is dangerous, it is revolutionary; it is like many good thin~s which Riddle berger being introduced here, as he says he is, when that name taken in moderation do very well. These dilarory motions to accomplish a wise comes from the chairman of the republican caucus and is held ·here purpose will always be acceded to and justified by the people; but when they go so persistently by that caucus! The Senator from Ohio can perhaps beyond reason they travel upon revolution, and I believe that the good sense of explain how that is. The Senator from Virginia says he is responsi the people of this country will see this controversy in that light. ble for Riddleberger, but the Senator from Ohio says he has had noth Now, 1\lr. President, whether our action is revolutionary or not ing to do with their consultations. depends upon this fact: If we believe-ami no man bas a right to What do the republicans in caucus propose to do in addition to all question us as to what we believe-that you have entered into and that they have given to the Senator from Virginia in his own right 1 made a corrupt bargain, and you are seeking to carry it out by making They propose to place his friend, 1\Ir. Riddleberger, in the position of these appointments and distributing this patronage, ought we not to Sergeant-at-Arms of this Senate. I hold the pay-roll and the num resist the consummation of that bargain by every means in our ber of employes under him in my hand. The total is one hundred power t Will not the country demand that we should t Can anything. and thirty-seven men and boys, including one-half the Capitol police, be more dangerous than legislation organized by corruption T Does sixteen in number, and the pay-roll is 149,219.50, by far the largest not fraud vit.iate everything T No, it did not vitiate one thing; we portion of all the' expenditures of the Senate. One hundred and know the fraud of 1876 was a success; I admit that. But when you thirty-seven employes and $149,219.50 of a pay-roll constitute the speak of revolution it all depends upon one of two things. Are we patronage of the Sergeant-at-Arms; and we are told that we shall right in assuming, if we do assume, that your bargain- is a corrupt not be allowed to go into executive business until all this power and one t If so, we can go before any community in America and say all this patronage is pla~ed in the hands. of Mr. Riddleberger, whose that we did refuse to allow you to consummate it and they will say,. name Mr. MAllo~~ says he is responsible for placing before the Sen "Well done, good and faithful servants." If, on the contrary, they ate, although the Senator from Ohio says he was in no caucus, in no believe that what you have done is right, then they will hold us re conference, and had no understanding in regard to it. The repub sponsible and keep us at home hereafter. We will take that risk upon lican party in this case does not propose to repudiate its debts; we the facts I have stated and we will discuss them anywhere with you,. do not propose to sanction such contracts. either in Virginia or anywhere else. When you put these facts together, I assure you the people of the The Senator from Ohio is right when he says we have the power country will understand, as the republican press has expressed itself to prevent you from electing Mr. Riddleberger. You know we have. . 266 OONGRESSION AL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 12,
Yon have talked learnedly about your" constitutional majority." Let He has gone-! suppose likely gone for this session. I supposed that me put a case to yon : Suppose, after we have stayed here forty days he would perhaps vote to take up the resolution, but he surely never longer and yon have trifled with all the recommendations of the Pres would vote for it; he is not one of that side. ident-for he has never asked yon to disorganize this Senate in order Mr.MORRILL. Will theSenatorfromKentuckyallowmeto ask him to put Mr. Riddleberger or anybody in position here; he knows that a question t I am rather delighted to hear the programme presented the public business can be done as well without them as with them; by the Senator from Kentucky. I desire to ask him whether he pre old, well-tried officers are here now, admitted to be honest, compe sents that in behalf of every member ·On the democratic side, from a tent, aml efficient-suppose, after yon have gone on forty days longer, caucus, or whether it is only of his own motion that he assumes that and yon still refuse to transact any public business, we respectfully after this side of the Senate is fnll then the other side will all vacate notify the President that we have from the 4th of March, day in and their seats T day out, sought to go into executive session and have faithfully t!ied Mr. BECK. Mr. President, I hope the Reporter will carefully note to do all that he asked us to do ; that we have endeavored to cons1der what I say. I not only did not lay down such a programme for this the treaties that were before us; to confirm or reject, at least to act side, nor did I pretend to say that I would do it myself. I said that upon, the nominations that he had sent us; if the Supreme Court is if this side did retire and saw fit to do so, your "constitutional ma blocked, as it can be now by the sicknesa of one judge, we are will jority" would find itself not to be a constitutional majority, for you ing to furnish another there; Louisiana has now no circuit court have but thirty-eight, and the Vice-President cannot make a consti since Judge Woods's appointment to the Supreme Court; we are will tutional quorum of thirty-nine'for you. ing to send some proper officer there; we are willing to do all that Mr. DAWES. The Senator from Kentucky said we should be o, we think ought to be done; and after we have waited, as I say, some minority. time longer, until you are as full as you can get, until you have notified Mr. BECK. It would be a tie; in other words, I was seeking to all your partisans to be here, and we say to the President it is obvi illustrate that there could be no constitutional majority without a ous that the men of your own party do not propose to attend to the constitutional quorum; and I never have said nor intimated that I business for which the Senate was convened, but they require us to or any man on this side was about to adopt any such programme, but carry out before they will do it what we regard as an improper thing I desired to make it very plain to your own minds that your claim of to do, because we do not believe it was fairly brought about, we now a constitutional majority was false, as the illustration I have given propose to retire from this Chamber unless you have something else showed. for us to do; and we leave yon here. How many have you f Thirty Mr. DAWES. In order that it may be plain to my mind, I should eight, with the Senator from Virginia; thirty-nine is a constitutional like to ask the Senator a question, if it will not interrupt him too quorum of this body. The Vice-President cannot give a casting vote much. The Senator said that if his side should go into the cloak to make the constitutional quorum. I know of no constitutional ma room and our side should stay here, our side would be in a minority. jority without a constitutional quorum. Do any of you know how I suppose he meant by that that there would be more in the cloak- to constitute a majority without a quorum T room than there would be here. . So, then, after you have refused every reasonable proposition, if Mr. BECK. No; I meant to say that you had no constitutional we leave your" constitutional majority," of which yon have boasted quorum of the Senate without the aid of gentlemen on this side. so much, with all the thirty-eight, embracing Mr. MAliO:l'I'E, in your That is all I have said, and the Reporter I think has got it correctly, seats, what are you going to do about it You have no constitu and the country will understand it. tional majority; yon never have had. Yon have half the Senate Mr. DAWES. Then the Senator was unfortunate in the use of with the aid of the Senator from Virginia, and when a question arises phraseology. He said we should be in a minority. in such a form that the Senate is equally divided we concede that Mr. BECK. Now, Mr. President, I have used that illustration as I the Vice-President can give the caating vote in your favor; but have others. It is true, and, Senators, youallknowit. I have shown when it comes to the question of a constitutional quorum yon have that we rely for our vindication upon the facts which I have stated not got it, you have never had it, and we can leave here to-day and as a justification before our constituents for the course we have pur retire to these cloak-rooms after you have every man who belongs to sued; and I repeat that if it was conceded that the organization of you in his seat, and you are not a majority of the Senate. the Senate, the placing of majorities on committees, all the machin So you have to rely at last upon the fact that we are going to help ery which they have taken now six weeks to obtain, and then do you out of your difficulty, and you pretend that you are going to nothing, was the result of a corrupt bargain, there is not a repub force us to consummate what I believe the country understands to lican in the country who would not say wedidrightinresistingit. I be a corrupt bargain, or at least many people in the country, before do not say positively that it is so; I have never said that it was. I you will even allow us the privilege of transacting the business for have said that I will make no attack upon this floor that will call for which the President called us together. crimination or recrimination or that will render necessary or proper Mr. BURNSIDE. I should like to remind the Senator from Ken any scenes here unbecoming the American Senate; but I will lay the tucky of a little circumstance that happened here, if he has no objec- facts before the country so that the people can judge whether we are tio~ · right or not, and they will surely judge what we believe by the votes Mr. BECK. Certainly ; state it. we give and by the persistency with which we adhere to them, and Mr. BURNSIDE. The Senator from Illinois [Mr. DAVIS] voted by the further assurance that if we did not think we had good reason with us on the consideration of this resolution, and told you you for the course we have taken we would not obstruct public business ought to consider it. which was legitimate and proper. Perhaps they can guess .from that Mr. BECK. The Senator from Illinois has voted with us to go into what I think about the performances of the last few weeks, and I do executive session upon every occasion. not propose to go any further in that direction. Mr. BURNSIDE. He has; but on the question of the considera Mr. President, I stated that what I rose to speak for was to tell my tion of this resolution he has told you that yon ought to have yielded people why I am here, and why I believe the democratic party is here. it with the committees; and therefore we have a constitutional quo It is because we are not going to allow, if we can help it, the worst rum in favor of the resolution. elements of Virginia society to control that State, for I have no hesita Mr. BECK. It was announced yesterday that he waa paired upon tion in saying that, from all the information I have, nine-tenths of these subjects with the Senator from Louisiana, [Mr. KELLOGG.] thEY property-holders, of the best men in the State, are against this Mr. BURNSIDE. Only upon executive session. repudiation and readjuster doctrine of Mr. 1\IAIT0:8E and Mr. Riddle Mr. BECK. Be it so. berger. The honor of that old State is involved. The contest next Mr. BURNSIDE. He took particular pains not to pair upon this November will determine whether or not a republican Senate can question. bring together all the bad elements of white society there and throw Mr. DAWES. Will the Senator from Kentucky allow me a mo iu the colored vote, most of it honest but ignorant, because when it mentt is backed by the republican party it will think that it is right to fol Mr. BECK. I do not propose to discuss-- low in the lead of that great party organization, and thus adding Mr. DAWES. If the Senator from Kentucky will allow me a mo the ignorant and misguided portion of the republican party to the ment- worst elements of the democratic party in their efforts at the destruc The VICE-PRESIDENT. Does the Senator from Kentuc1.ry con tion of the credit of that old Commonwealth. In that contest I will sent to be interrupted T leave nothing undone to defeat yon that the rules will allow, because Mr. BECK. I always yield to the Senator from Massachusetts. I I and my fellow-democrats believe that yon are seeking to degrade have yielded to him so long. and disgrace one of the grandest and noblest States in the American Mr. DAWES. The Senator from Kentucky is never backward in Union, and the democratic party does not intend, if it can help it, to -courtesy to me. The Senator will recollect that the Senator from Ill allow you to do it. inois the moment these resolutions came up for consideration declared You talk about" a free ballot and a fair count." The men who in a written speech that these offices belonged to the side that had the have gone off in that repudiating party in Virginia are the men ho -committees, and that nothing on his part would delay their going above all others were the disorganizers, the guerrillas, the men who there as speedily as possible. Now, why does the Senator say that have no respect for free, fair votes or counts, or for the integrity or the Senator from Illinois is opposed to our organizing this Senate in character of the State, or for the right of the people, while tbe men -the way proposed t The Senator from Illinois is desirous of going who are the debt-payers, the democrats, the funders, the gentlemen to business in executive session, as I am, and he does nothing to pre of Virginia who are resisting it are the men who are standing up for -vent that, but he says the quicker we elect these officers the better, a free vote and a fair count and the honest payment of all obligations .and nothing on his part shall obstruct that. in Virginia and everywhere else. The pretext now that you are pick ~ Mr. BECK. I_have said nothing about the Senator from Dlinois. ing up a body of men in Virginia who seek to give "a free ballot and 1881. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 267
:a fair count" because we oppose it, is a pretense that this country that he is a better democrat than the democrat Mr. Hl:LL, of Georgia, will never accept as true. Your motto is, ".Anything to beat the or the democrat he pairs with! He will get no pair, in my opinion, democracy." Yon do not care where your support comes from. on the democratic side, if this session lasts until December, until he You heard yesterday the letters written by order of the Secretary avows himself as good a republican as the Senator from Massachu .ofthe Treasury. The Senator from Ohio, when he was not engaged in setts or the Senator from Ohio. That done, then he is on an equal a political contest of this sort, bnt occupied the high position of Sec footing with the rest of them. xetary of the Treasury, told Mr. Raum when he received the infor The Senator from Ohio seemed to think that when he said he was mation, even anonymously, which proved to be a lie, as most anony a democrat he meant a democrat in what he called the broad sense. mous communications are-the Senator from Massachusetts ought to I am a republican in the same broad sense; yon are a democrat, :Mr. take warning about anonymous communications where the name is President, if you like, in the broad sense. He Raid he was a party ·concealed, as in the one he held up the other day, of the fate that democrat. I hold in my hand his organ, the Richmond Whig, or befell this anonymons communication that the Secretary of the rather extracts carefully copied from it in the Dispatch of Sunday, Treasury caused .Mr. Raum to advise Mr. Van Anken about. Then, April10, 1881-numbers of them. I will not take time to read all of however, he suspected an official as guilty of readjusting repudia them, but the Dispatch said: tion; he promptly demanded his resignation, if tile man belonged to They induced us to overhaul the files of the Whig, wherein we found a bonanza. the party of Mr. MAHONE. Now he thanks God that he has ~ot an .accession from those ranks, and a chairmanship and clerk rn the The Whig is General ].LrnoNE's leading and able organ, and they give such extracts just before the election of General Hancock. Here Senate; he is willing to give to the gentleman fr?m Virgini~ who joins him all the positions on the committees that will enable him to is what t.he Whig said, the organ of Mr. MAHONE; I believe he is a contrcl the State of Virginia in the interest of the repndiationiats or large owner of the paper, at least it has been so stated on this floor: readjusters, call them what you will; now he will not go into execu The Whig, on the 18th of October, 1880, ten months after General MAHONE's tive session even to confirm necessary nominations of the Administra election to the United States Senate, said- , tion until he has put Mr. Riddleberger, the head and front of the Although the Senator from Ohio said he saw before he was elected repudiating movement, in high position here as Sergeant-at-Arms, and ever since he was elected that it would degrade him and dis with one hundred and thirty-seven employes under him and a pay grace him if he continued to be a. democrat, ten months after he was xoll of $150,000. Oh, he is so gracious t he says he will do what is elected on the 18th October, 1880, the Whig said: right by us, and allow our clerks pay till December if we will only The Dispatch quotes foolish or malignant paragraphs questioning General qnit revolutionizing. MAHosE's democracy, and then adds: "Yet we have always classed him with the I have seen old foxes before, bnt I think the Senator from Ohio democrats." The Dispatch knows very well that as readjustment is more demo cratic than funderism, so is General MAHo~'E more of a democrat than Echols or showed more of foxy saga.city the other day than I have seen any any other of the fnnder crew. He is no fnnder; and if he has given ample testi where else. I wish I could lay my hand on his speech; it is here mony of that, his no less determined fight against the republican party and its somewhere; but this is the burden of it; I can state it. In answer leaders, Sta.te and national, as fully atteSts that he is no republican. There is no to the Senator from Delaware, [Mr. BAYARD,] the Senator from funder in Vir~inia who has fought the republican party with half the vigor and effect with whlch General MAHO.h'E has; there is no conservative in Virginia who Ohio said, "We will not be hard on you; we know that these men has done more to save the State from radical rule; and there is no democrat within who are going ont have borne the heat and burden of the day, and our borders whose long record of brilliant service for democracy so elevates him ought to receive their pay from now until next December; we will above all suspicion. There is no suspicion of his democracy anywhere. arrange that satisfactorily;" out of the public money, of course-" any That was party democracy in earnest advocacy of Hancock and .appeal that yon may make to us in a kind way will be considered." English. This was on the 18th of October, 1880, and the Dispatch is And I suppose he would be. willing, he would be glad, to modify tJ;.e full of just such statements. What has the democratic party done xeaolution so that the electiOn of these officers should take effect m since that time to make him change f What is there in their platform, December next. Of course he would. Why'f Because the moment what is there in their record that induces Senators to say or intimate Mr. Riddleberger appoints his one hundred and thirty-seven he dis that new issues have sprung up since then, that lights now appear .appoints three thousand seven hundred who expect to get places; to Mr. MAHONE different from what they appeared at the time he but if you will just elect him now and not let him fill these places voted for Hancock 1 The only excuse I can find is that the Senator until December, uE.til after the Virginia election is over, he can from Ohio gave, which was this: promise those one hundred and thirty-seven places to three thousand I will say that although the Senator from Virginia voted for an electoral ticket seven hundred repudiating readjusters in Virginia, and hold them all Jlledged to vote for General Hancock he did not do what I would do. He was will· in his hands from now until then to work for the election of a repu mg to vote for General Hancock upon the platform that be, the Senator from Vir diating legislature that will elect him to the United Stat-es Senate, ginia, framed, taking General Hancock's promises to be true; but if he had known .and next December he will be sorry that he could not do for them what I knew, or what I believed, that the democratic party could not be trusted to carry out the promises mado by General Hancock, the candidate for whom the what he promised to do! I believe it was Artemus Ward who, when Senator from Virginia was willing to vote, be, I think, would have come over a A. Johnson, as he called him, was swinging around the circle, said little sooner and a little more rapidly. that when he got to some place in Pennsylvania in the morning The Senator from Ohio undertakes to tell ns that we are not to be there were one hundred people waving their hats and shouting, and trusted, that all our statements and avowals of principles are false, inquiry was made, "What is all this shouting about!'' The answer that we do not believe or regard what we say, and that if the Senator was, "We are all candidates for the post-office at this place." The from Virginia had known what he knew or believed what he be next place he reached he found one fellow waving his hat. "Why lieved he would have joined the republicans sooner than he did. Who are you here alone f" "I am the man that A. Johnson appointed makes the Senator from Ohio our censor! What is there in his course last week." One was shouting then where one hundred were shout or in his consistency to entitle him to talk of the democratic party in ing who expected appointment. In posse is better than in esse. that way, and to tell us that we are not to be trusted! Are you to The shrewd politician from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN] who spoke the be trusted if we are not Y Are we to go to you and take your words other day, while he was so generous, knew he could use the patronage when one of your leaders, the late Secretary of the Treasury, rises in that was rendered sure to come in December in the election next fall his place and gives as an excuse that the democratic party cannot be in Virginia far better and make it far more available than he could trusted, that he knows it, or at lea-st believes it f nse the one hundred and thirty-seven Mr. Riddleberger could put Mr. President, perhaps I ought not to criticise too much the scold here now, even if the republicans gave them all to him, which they ing of that Senator. You, Mi. President, were not in this Chamber would be sure not to do; hence the great generosity of the Senator when some pretty severe scoldings were given to yon, sir, in com from Ohio. The veil was too thin. We do not propose to walk into munications since made public from that distinguished officer, then an open trap. the Secretary of the Treasury; but it did not take him long to get I fear the Greeks and their proffered gifts. Whenever I feel sure on his knees and go to New York and beg your pardon in a very pub that my enemy wants me to do a certain thing, I take care not to do lic way; and when he scolds the whole democratic party in the same it. That is a good rule in politics and in war. When the other side .excessive wayz I suppose that, too, is in a Pickwickian sense; I am want us to help them out of the dilemma they are in, then I do not willing to let 1t pass as though it was. propose to do it; jnst as I would not consent the other day when the The democratic party had a platform in the late contest, and all Senator from Nebraska [Mr. SAUNDERS] undertook to pair my col democrats insist that they made it honestly and stand by it faith league [Mr. WILLIAMS] with the Senator from Virginia, [Mr. MA fully, and Mr. MARONE was fully advised of that platform when he HONE.] I protested, and refused to allow it. "Why 'f" was the ques accepted it, and we had a candidate who accepted that platform. tion. I replied, My colleague is a democrat; the Senator from Vir Among the planks in it that every democrat stood by and maintained ginia haa risen in his place and said on this floor that he is a demo and every democrat in this Senate will stand by and maintain to-day -crat, a. better democrat than the Senator from Georgia, [Mr. Hn.L.] as long and as honesty as the Senator from Ohio will maintain a.ny I decline to pair my colleague with a democrat. I said, Let the Sena position he has taken, were these: tor from Virginia avow himself to be a repub1ican; let him say he The subordination of the military to the civil power, and a genuine and thorough ~ gone into the camp of the radicals; let him tell the democratic reform of the civil service. readjnsters of Vir~inia that he is a republican, and that he has aban The right to a. free ballot is a right preservative of all rights, and must and shall doned them and gone into the republican camp, as the Senator from be maintained in every part of the United States. Ohio said he knew he would have to do, and then we will talk about And when we sent that platform to our candidate he said in pairing with him. Let him take the responsibility of being a repub acceptance of it : lican, a stalwart, as my friend from Massachusetts is, but do not let It is a vital principle in our system that neither fraud nor force must be allowed him play democrat here and go away and avoid casting votes, being to subvert the rights of the people. When fraud, violence, or incompetence con· paired with another democrat, and still tell the people of Virginia trois, the noblest, constitutions and wisest laws are useless. The bayonet is not a 268 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENAT~. .APRIL 12,
fit instrument for collecting the votes of freemen. It is only b~ a fn1l vote, free an equal number of republican Senators demand of an equal number ballot, and fair count that the people can rnle in fact as required by the theory of of democratic Senators that the Vice-President shall be allowed to our Government. Take this foundation away, and the whole structure falls. pass the resolution by his casting vote. These democratic Senators That wa-s our platform, air; these were the terms of acceptance of say 110 ; while the resolution i.s m;umstaka:ble in its OW!l. 1:ecitals. of its our candidate for President; these principles we maintained every- meaning, and perfectly constitutional on tis face, yet It 1s untm~ly, where; we maintain them now, and neither in Rhode Island, where against the custom of the Senate made by long usage and acqrues they ca!ll buy voters like ~h~ep, ~sit is said by their own people, n!lr cence, and a hardship on the ino~bents, w;ho are· adm.itte~ t o be in Massachusetts, where It IS sa1d by Genera~ Butler and other dis- qualified and worthy; and there IS no public reason, necessity, or tinguished citizens that they exclude one-third of the people from convenience requiring the Senate to make this resolution an exception voting, will we be driven from them, but everywhere, North and by untimely~ unusual, and harsh action. If the resolution was left 1 South, we will endeavor to remove the shackles from the right of all by itself to aefine its own face meaning and objects, a.nd to s ta~d ·on men toafreevoteandan honest count, and Mr. MAHon and the party its own merits, I hazard nothing in saying that the dead-lock 1t has that is leaving the democrats in Virginia,·when these gentlemen go produced would not last twenty-four hours. down to that canvass and see them, read their past history, know Why do 1 say so Y Because the able and distinguished Senator from their antecedents, look at the men, and then look at the £under dem- Ohio [Mr. SHERMA...'f] announced that so far as the resolution itself ocrats, the men who are standing by the democracy, and they will was concerned he would not give the snap of· his finger to secure its not hesitate long in deciding that the men for a free ballot and a passage; and the able and distinguished Senators from Pennsylvania. fair count, who have the honor of the State and its property and [Mr. C.A..l\IERON] and Connecticut [Mr. HA. WLEY] with equal empha prosperity at heart, are on our side, and the men who have formed sis declared that the change of officers sought by the resolution was that alliance are not the men whom they would trnst to carry out immaterial and without any public importance. Then, it is not the. these great principles of justice and human liberty. Senators, if you resolution itself, or any object recited on its face, that ha-s caused the have made the bargain the country thinks you have, it is a bad one, dead-lock. What is it that has broken up the intellectual founda and we will not allow yon to consummate it, if, as you admit we can, tiona of this Senate and turned them loose t o meet in irreconcilable we can prevent it under the rules. You may ~swell unders~and ~t. anta(Tonism 'i It is the authoritative announcement by representative. Mr. President, I have spoken longer than I mtended. I did think republican Senators that the resolution had its origin in what I. ~all at one time, as I said the other day, that I would answer the speech a coalition of persons never before members of t~e same poli~1cal of the Senator from New Hampshire, [Mr. BLAIR,] made last week party, by which these persons a~e to meet together m ~e repnbli~an on republican rnle in the South, but after I read it I determined that party without regard to past differences on any questiOns wowmg I would not. The Senator from New Hampshire said in regard to ont of principles, measures, or policies, however important or rrrecon carpet-bag governme.ats: . cilable; and all these are to be buried and forgotten in theinit?-ation ~ nut Mr. President, the carpet-bag governments were the best governmellts the organization, and success of a new movement under the auspiCes of South ever had· and the common school and the principles of nniversallibertfi the republican party, aimed at the disintegration of the" solid South " thosewhich great prevail ideas there of gennmenow. and liberty :Which ext:endedare the basis to all of .men your '!9'hich ~ing are prosperi~, the basiS aof and the defeat of the democratic party in the Southern States. It your prosperity and of your fntnre happmess, and wh1ch will make yon the crown· must be admitted that this purpose, declared to be so important as i.ng 2Iory of our great Union of States, come to yon by virtue of these same carpet- to just~ unyielding determination, is wholly outside of, foreign to, bag governments which you curse. and independent of any of the lawful and.legi~ma;te objects set fo~th When I read that I thought if there is a man, woman, or child any- in the resolution, or any of the effects fa,rrly Within the scope of Its. where who will indorse that statement, I never have seen or heard of constitutional operation. him or her, and I do not believe the Senator from New Hampshire, if . Then, what is the reason given, what is the foundation of the right. he will look over the history of those times, will do it himself. It claimed for the persistent and unchanging determination of repnb waa in the heat o.f debate that. he indulged in a statement of that sort. lican Senators to pass the resolution for the consummation of the Why, sir, on the opposite page of the same RECORD in the speech of coalition to produce results purely political and partisan, and that the Senator from Florida [Mr. CALL] is the answer to it all. No man neither the Senate nor all the departments of the Government com under the reconstruction a.ots who had been a justice of the peace or bined have any constitution.al power to aid by legislatian t Non& a. constable forty years before the war, who may have been as loyal to other than that the republicans have the constitutional powel", made the Government of the United States as any man in New Hampshire, up of an equal number of Senators and the casting vote of the Vice- who had resisted secession in every form, and, if yon please, had gone President, to pass the resolution. . . . . to jail because of his resistance, whose son, perhaps, equally unwill- IdonotdenytheexistenceoftheconstitutiOnalpower. It Is mislead ing to go into the confederate army, h~.been con~cripted ~nd taken ing to say that democratic Senators resist the constitutional po":er on. there-if that man, thus Joyal, thus res1atmg, had given a parr of shoes account of its existence. The existence of constitutional power 1s not to that son when he was barefooted in the snow, he was disfranchised always the test of du~ to submit to its exercise. It may,. and fre by those reconstruction acts. quently does, happen that results are produced by the e~ercis~ of un- If the Senator will read the great ca.se of Milligan and Bowles, questioned constitutio~al power that are fatal to the mt~gnty and which made Judge DAVIS a democrat, if he was not before, for he benefits if not to the eXIStence, of government. Democratic Senators rendered a decision which will go down to history and make him a resist the exercise of the admitted power of the majority because the· great character, in which all the principles of the reconstruction acts resolutjon is believed to have had its origin solely in a coalition of. were denounced and exposed as things not to be thought of by a questionable propriety between the beneficiaries of the resolution and. people hoping to remain free; if he will read the veto messages of those who have the majority power to pass it, to make patronage, sa Andrew Johnson, for which perhaps he was impeached, he will see cured by the organization of Senate committees and the election ?f Sen that every republican and democratic .P~CiJ!le was invaded. If .h.e ate officers, the inducement, the reward for the agreement to urute and will read The Prostrate State, by a disting~h~d ~nd ho~ored CI~- make common cause in the movement to dissolve "the solid South" zen of Maine. referring to the State of Sonth Carolina, or if he Will as a support of the democratic party and thereby insure the suprem- o~~~ read the report of the majority of the l_(u Klnx committee, fourt~en acy of the republican party in State and Federal Government. republican Senators andl\Iembers, he will not make a statement like My deliberate conviction is that if democratic Senators were to· that again. submit to the passage of the resolntion in the face of the announce-· I was reminded, too, of the folly of going into a~ these old trou~les ment by its authors of the sole object sought to be accomplished by by a very wise remark made by the present Pres1dent of the Umted it when they had the constitutional power secured to minorities to States in his place in the House of Representatives some two years d~feat it, they would dishonor themselves and forfeit the respect and. ago. This is an extract taken fr9m those remarks of his: confidence of their constituents. Democratic Senators are the rep- The man who attemDts to get up a political excitement in this country on the resentatives of the unity of the democratic party, believing as they old sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support. The do that the principles, purposes, and policies of that party are essen-- man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of 1ts leading f 1 d 1 1 thought, and that is the restoration of business, trade, commerce, industry, sound tial to preserve the character of our system~ ge~e~a a.n . .oca ~ov pollticaleconomy, bard 100ney, and honest payment of all obligations. ernment and to insure honest and benefictal CIVIl admmistratiOn. Believing that to be the duty of the Senate, and believing that the With these convictions, whether well or ill founded, what is our machinery necessary to enable the President to carry on the Govern- plain duty f Is it fair, just, or reasonable for brother Senators~ ment in regard to the great measure~ of which he speaks should be press action when submission to it would in our judgment forfeit furnished, and believing especially that at an executive session, where our integrity as representatives, not to say anyth~ng about tho ac there is no power to. legislate, all attacks made by republicans of the curacy of our opinion that submission would senously affect the· North against the South because of supposed past delinquencies, or integrity of tbls body 'i the democrats of the South against the North because of peculiarities But you answer perhaps .that your integrity as SeJ?atoz:s and rep in the management of their affairs, are not what the country expects resentatives of the republican party would be forfeited if you w~re us to consider or argue now, I decline to proceed to the consideration to yield the exercise of your majority power to pass the resolut~on of any of them; and having stated the reasons why I think the conn- now and here· that it is your duty as republicans to do everythmg try eXpects us to insist upon attending to executive business and ex- you have the donstitutionaJ. power to accomplish, to divide the South,. pects us not to go into the question of the election of officers, about and re-establish republican rule th~re, so as t.o ~ure goo~, ho?est,.. whick there is, to say the least, grave doubts, both as to the integrity and wise government to those berughted, eVIl-mmded, nnsgwded,. and honesty, I shall not trouble the Senate any further. and unteachable people; that however distasteful, offensive, or dis- Yr. PUGH. Mr. President, the resolution before the Senate in its reputable the methods, they are the only .means no~ in: your sight. recitals is plain and simple in meaning and perlectly constitutional that promise any success, and the democratic party bemg ~ such bad in its objects. Because it is obvious in meaning, and constitutional, repute with republicans of the North on the currency, tariff for pro- 1881. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 269 tection, Gov~rnment cre~it, and aid to associated capital in corpora To the South this question is of supreme importance but the responsibilitv for tions, yon will have the mdorsement of your party m anything yon the exis.tence of slavery did not rest upon the South aione. The nation itself is r~s~onmble ~or the ~nsion of ~e .suffrage, and is under special obligations to do for success in breaking the solidity of the South; that "nothing atd m remoVl.Ilg the illiteracy which It has added to the >oting population. succeeds like success." As to the question of your duty to press and of our duty to submit . But t4e.most fra_nk and valuable statement for my purpose I find because the resolution on its face is constitutional and yon have the m the bnef and Important speech of the able and distinguished constitutional power to pa!!s it, I beg republican Senators to test by Senator from Connecticut, '[Mr. HAWLEY.] He says: reason an~ their own committals the validity of such a claim. The practical declaration of the entire democratic party of the South to-day is Republican Senators have declared without contradiction that so that universal suffrage is a failure. They say that the great mass of freedmen are unfit to vote. and cannot haye the~ votes counted arithmetically; they shall not far as the resolution itself is concerned, and the objects recited on its have the weight that the anthmetwal count of those votes entitles them to. They face, its passage is wholly unimportant and not worth the snap of say th?se men ~re not intelligent, they are led away by corrupt men, and all that. senatorial fingers. Then it is plain that an unyielding determination Yes, S}l'1 I admit whatever of truth there may be in that; I admit there is weight. to pass the resolution is sought t-o be justified, and must stand alone I admit that the South is involved in great and painful difficulties upon that q ues: tion; but I claim that the difficulties are not all on one side in this country. I on the ground that the resolution becomes and is material en~ugh t~ assert that in many of our large cities we are confronted by some of the most tor from Connecticut, [Mr. HA. WLEY,] and all other republieans, when it has been reproduced in this debate to satisfy all the fondness for t'key answer this question a-s follows : repetition. I tell you, sir, what the whole country knows and what the evidence proves, that But, dealing with the present "painful difficulties of negro suffrage the decla.ration of the democratic party, especially of the South, known as "the that involve the South," what is the great unsettled question that solid South," is that universal suffrage is a failure, and therefore they are deter mined that a minority there as in this Cha.mber, shall take npon itself the abso has no pity for the repose of this nation; "the dana:er which arises lute government of that section1 and govern it as a solid section. from igno~ance in the voter that cannot be denied;'' that covers a * * * * * * * field far wider than that of "negro suffrage and the present condition The So nth, '' the solid South," declares that the fifteenth amendment is a failure ; of the ra{}e"- a "danger that lnrks and hides in the sources and fount that it cannot be executed in letter and spirit. ains of power in every State T" The South declares no such thing. The South only declares what Disguise it as you may, I affirm that every intelligent and educated the Senator himself admits in the speech from which I have quoted and honorable and Christian man in the Southern States asks noth in relation to the character and perils of universal suffrage when he ing else, claims nothing else, declares nothing else, than that the in- · says: telligence and morality and virtue and patriotism and honesty and I admit that the South is involved in great and painful difficulties upon that experience of the populations interested in their governments, 's tate question; but I claim that the difficulties are not all on one side in this country. and Federal, wherever found, shall dominate in chi.l rule and civil I assert that in many of our large cities we are confronted by some of the most ad'ministration. painful problems of civil government. I further declare that in every State, county, and town in the South How does the Senator propose to solve them in the large cities of where governments are in the possession and under the control of t h~ the North t He answers : intelligence and morality of the voting population, yon find hone t ..A.nd I affirm that the int-elligence and morality of this country is perfectly capa and competent officials, representatives in State and F ederal Legis ble of dealing with the whole great question of impartial suffrage. latures of character and ability, enjoying the confidence andre pect What the Senator affirms of the capability of "intelligence and of their constituents of both races, and peace, good order, content morality to deal with the whole great question of impartial suffrage" ment, and prosperity abound in the land. When these beneficent re the South affirms in reference to the capabilities and willingness of its sults have been produced by the agencies I have mentioned, why not intelligence and morality to deal with the question of negro suffrage let us alone Y You will not for no other reason than that the intelli and the execution of the fifteenth amendment in letter and spirit. How gence and morality of the South governs in the interest of the dem is it that the efficacious, healthful, and rightful influence of northern ocratic instead of the republican party. You impeach the fitness and intelligence and morality in dealing with the great question of im fidelity of southern intelligence and morality for the sole reason that partial suffrage in the large cities of the North should be greater and it refuses to exert itself to secnre the ascendancy of the republican allowed any more sway m the North than in the South in discharg party. .A.nd what p_enalty do yon propose to intlict upon that mys ing "the great and Heaven-imposed trust, the care over the weaker, terious divinity called ''the South" on account of the '' compactness the inferior, if you choose, also the corrupt elements of the negro of our organization" and determination to employ all our brain population, and to govern and control and lead them on the better power and intelligence and morality and energy and experience in side?" Why is it that the claim of the intelligence and morality of preserving the supremacy of the democratic party f Yonr proposi the North and its exercise in solving the "paiiifnl problems of civil tion, "pnre and simple," is to take away from the people of the South government in its large cities" by "governing and controlling and who have the capacity, intelligence, and morality that qualify them leading on the better side" the " weaker and the inferior and the for regnla.ting their own affairs through home officials elected by .corrupt elements of their population" is all right and patriotic and themselves, and to organize a" new movement" to divide and capt national at the North while at the South the same claim of the same ure Southern States for the republican party. • agencies over the same weaker, inferior, and corrupt negro popula What is the plan of the new campaign to carry out an old purpose T tion is a declaration that "universal suffrage is a failnre;" that "the You start out by seducing with Federal patronage and promise of dis fifteenth amendment cannot and shall not be executed in letter and tinction office-seeking democrats who have failed to have their ambi spirit," and shows a cc determination that a minority shall take upon tion gratified by the organized democracy. And then comes yonr itself the absolute government of that section, and to govern it as a great bond of nnion with high hopes of success and many spoils to solid section!" As I have already suggested, not only is the" intelli yonr southern followers. Yonr war cry is "an honest vote and a price gence and morality" of the South capable, but willing and anxious less ballot and a fair count;" that these inestimable rights must be to secnre the benefit of a free and unpnrchased ballot to all qualified secured at all hazards to every sovereign ; that they have been denied by law to exercise it. by. the intelligence and morality of the South, three-fonrths of which But, Mr. President and Senators, in the language of the same dis have been absorbed by the democratic party, under the ostraciem and tinguished Senator, "there is no use in beating about the bush or despotism of the slave oligarchy; and it will never do to allow such attempting to disguise it;" it is perfectly understood by the people intelligence and morality to rule except in favor of republican candi that when intelligence and morality at the North ''deals with the dates ; and all that is left us is to take the chances of buying or se great question of universal suffrage" so as to" govern and control ducing from the democratic party as many ambitious and disap and lead the weaker, inferior, and corrupt elements in the population pointed malcontents as possible, by the use of Federal patronage and of their large cities" on the side of the republican party, it is all the hope of office and·honor in the republican party; and on the plat righti patriotic, and national, although northern intelligence and form of" an honest vote, a priceless ballot, and a fair count" we can mora ity employ in their work United States marshals and Federal turn over the solid negro vote of the South through the agency of supervisors of elections, who are skilled and unscrupulous agents, the United States marshals and Federal election officers appointed by appointed by republicans, to employ all the money, intimidation, republican officials on account of their skill in the use of money, trickery, and falsehood necessary to insure " honest ballots and price intimidation, falsehood, or any other mea.ns, in massing negro votes less ballots and a fair count of the votes" for republican candidates. and seeing to it that they are really cast and certainly counted for But when" the intelligence and morality" of the white people of the republican candidates; and then we shall knowJ and the country will South deal with the "great and painful difficulties" with which know, that the fifteenth amendment has been executed in Jetter and negro suffrage has involved the South and nndertake to discharge spirit, and the promise in your platform to have "an honest vote, a "the great and Heaven-imposed trust, the care over the weaker, the priceless ballot, and a. fair count" will have been redeemed. inferior, and corrupt elements" in the negro popnla.tion of the South, Such are your declarations. I inform you that the white people so as to govern and control and lead them to vote for the candidate of the South are wide awa.ke to all your practices and purposes. of the democratic party, it is all wrong and sectional, and amounts They have pa.ssed through the cruel and merciless ordeal of recon to a declaration "that universal suffrage is a failure,'' and that" the struction and suffered the pains and penalties of corrupt carpet-bag fifteenth amendment cannot" and shall not "be executed in letter governments ; they have endured and survived yonr persistent and and spirit." malignant effort to degrade them by parading in your partisan press But the honorable Senator from Connecticut in furnishing reasons and speechesfa.lsereports by nnscrnpulous political tramps of south for his condemnation of the "solid South" has made a contribution ern outrages; and you have tried and condemned the population of to theprejndicesof the people of the North that is not characteristic whole States by their corrupt and criminal classes, and by such foul of him, according to the estimatethe peopleof the South have made means yon have obtained the snpporJ; of the northern masses on the of his sense of justice and fairness and freedom from the arts and basis of hate and distrust of the white people of the South. Your new appliances of the ordinary politician. He says that the reason why movement to revive old agencies and instrumentalities and policies the South is solid and defies the fifteenth amendment, to govern the and practices to re-establish yonr domina.tion in the Southern States South absolutely as a section, is found in the fact that "the majesty will only crystallize our solidity by purging it of traitors to their race of that mysterious divinity called 'the South' is composed of the and people, and make us more vigilant and determined to frustrate former confederate and slaveholding element;" and "from that in all your plans and disappoint your expectations. evitable compactness of or~anization and will and despotic power I tell yon frankly and with no intention to mislead you that yon that the great slave system 1mpoeed upon them." This is a great and can never disintegrate the solid South and separate the intelligent mischievous mistake. The South has been made solid for reasons and and honest white people of the South from the democratic party by causes that have never been known to produce any other effect upon any movement or policy founded on distrust and hate of the whites, the minds, feelings, instincts, prejudices, and actions of any other and dependent for success upon making the negroes the dominant people in the world's history. element in your southern party organization. We know that th& I shall not go into the history of these reasons and causes. It bas negroes of the South are incapable of organizing themselves or of filled the newspaper press, and furnished the material for stump preserving their organization, aiJd when left to themselves they will speeches North arld South for the ~ast twelva. years. And enough of fall under the control and submit to the control of the intelligent,. 1881. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 271 moral, educated, Christian people of the South, and all that has or sauce served by them at that time may not be just as good for the can separate them from such control is the work of bad men and nn- republicans now. principled political adventurers and speculators for the spoils of The Senator from Indiana, [Mr. VoORHEES,] and whom I regret I office, who come clothed with the authority of the Federal Govern- do not now see in his seat, then made use of the following language, ment to manage elections for republican candidates. which was given to us in his usual graceful and pleasant manner : We know from long association and experience with the negroes of I desire in a very few words to place this question before the Senate as it occur& the South that they are easily controlled by appeals to their ignorant to my mind. I have no assault to make on any outgoing officer, and I have no ex- ace fears and preindices · and when the "'re told b republ"1 can can cuse to make for voting a~t him. By the will of the American people the Senate r " ' Y"" Y - has come to have a majority on the democratic side, and in my judgment the officers didates and stump speakers that the white people held them in slavery of this body ought to be in substantial harmony with the majority of it. The and opposed their emancipation and would re-enslave them if they majority of this body will be held responsible before the people of this conntry for had the power, and that the whites of the South are their enemies and its management. We shall bo held responsible for what occurs in the office of our "d bl ffi ,_ f h a1s · t Secretary. We shall be held, and justly held, responsible for what takes place in oppressors, the necessary and unavoi a e e ecu 0 sue appe IS 0 the offic-e of the Sergeant-at-Arms, for the management and secrecy of our executive band them together as a race ; and when the whites see this mass of sessions; and I for one say, without a moment's hesitation, that when I have to illiteracy thus organized and controlled by wicked men for evil and choose between my political friends and,my political enemies for places of trust, ruinous purposes, the natural and inevitable counter effect is to force honor, and profit, I stand by my friends, as I have always asked them to stand 0 the white people together as a race for self-preservation. For these by ~ d. in saying that 1 mean no reflection upon gentlemen of different political reasons and causes the presence of this frightful mass of illiteracy in opinions from myse1f; I mean no reflection upon the outgoing Secretary of this a distinct race, whose ignorant prejudices are easily inflamed against body. A partisan politician of course he is, and he nses one of tao keenest blades the whites, is the source of all our troubles and a standing menace to in the Unit-ed States. I would not vote to turn him out merely on that acconnt. · t d d · d t · d 1 al t but because he is not of my _political faith and I am not of his. our some y, peace, goo or er, 1D us nes, an oc governmen s. These cries and la-mentations that have been set up here to-day by the Senators The highest interests and welfare of both races demand that their on the opposite side will not deceive anybody. No sensible people throughout the relations shall be friendly, and the whites recognize the fact that the United States expected this body to do otherwise than what has now been :{>ro negro, in his present condition of illiteracy, is the helpless victim of posed. The funeral wails that have been heard are mere mockeries and lost time wicked men, and every intelligent, honest, Christian man feels the on~:~~ ~e ~~~·of the world has there been a more proscriptive, hungry, obligations of a great Heaven-imposed trust to take care of this and voracious party than that which is heard from now in these obituary notices 1Veaker and defenseless population, and to govern and control them of those who are about to die7 [Laughter.] With nearly one hundred thousand m the right way, so as to prevent their ignorance from causing them offices to fill and more created from time to time to appease the hungry, gaping to be converted into enemies of peace, society, property, and civil mouths of the crowds that have come aronnd this Capitol, it has been impossible for me to listen to this appeal with entire patience and composure. I did not in· government. If trURted with the discharge of this high public duty, tend t~ utter a sin~le word; but this attempt to insnare the public mind into the according to our best ability and judgment it would be but a few belief that some inJury is being done, some outrage committ-ed which the Senators years oefore all these race troubles and difficulties1 involvi:i:Jg the over there themselves would not do under like circumstances, is a little too much . d for human endurance. In the last eighteen years what have we seen 1 Droves, South on acconnt of negro s uffrage wo uld forever disappear; an gangs, brigades, and squadrons of office-seekers coming here; and when the limit then "the solid South" wo~d cease to be a standing menace to the was exhausted by the number of offices all being filled, we have seen more created republican party, and intelligent, moral, honest, Christian white peo- from time to time to satisfy the demand for them. le at the South would divide on governmental theories and princi- I did not want to say this. I had hoped there would be no debate on this ques P tion and that we would proceed to do our duty in order, as we intend to do and as pies, and questions of tariffs for revenue and protection, and currency the country expected us to do, and fill these places with men whose political prin- and finance, and internal improvements and civii reform and a.dmin- ciples are m harmony with the majority on this side, and for whose official cpnduct istration, and array themselves in different parties. we have to be responaible before the country. · d · di f d 1 · I shall part from evecy outgoing official here with nothing but kindness1 good B u t w h en the Ignorance an preJU ces o races an c asses are m- wishes, and a ho~e for h1s :prospenty durin~ 1ife in the future; bnt who does not :flamed and· appropriated by politicians and demagogues for party know the diver8lties, the VIcissitudes of political fortnne? Who does not know success, you will find dangerons men like Kearney increasing your that the heart of my excellent friend, the present Secretary, would have bee re troubles in civil government by inflaming the prejudices of the labor- joiced if, through his indefatigable efforts in raising money and in every other way, · 1a · 1 •t• d th af t f lth d my term should have been lliriited to the 4th of last March 1 Who does not know mg c sses m your arge Cl 1es, an 6 B e Yo your wea an so- how~~! he would have hailed my defeat in the hard-fought battle of last year ciety and civil government will be endangered by the domination of inln · 1 Iblamehimnotatall. Iwishhimwellhereandelaewhere. Sowith agrarianism and communism. And when the crusade is opened on our Sergeant-at-Arms. But this is one of the changes of political life that come wealth because it is wealth, and on your property because it is prop- sometimetousall. Someofusarehereto-dayandmaybegoneto.morrow. !have erty, and on your capital because it is associated in corporations, then seen men go out from this body from the great position of Senator itself within the last few days, with deep regret and sorrow on my part, sorrow to part from them you will understand what it is to be threatened with the domination and because they sorrowed over it themselves; but this is the fate of political war- of ignorance, venality, and corruption in society and civil government. fare, and the fewer lamentations now and the fewer unnecessary tears that are shed And then your wealth, your property, your corporations will strike on t.he other side of the Chamber on the subject, the better will the American peo for self-defense in the only way left them, by bribing your officials pleliketheSenate. and representatives and buying and intimidating your illiterate de- I wonder if the language that applied to a ~ajority then cannot be pendent suffrage. Remember, Senators, that when you inaugurate applied with the same force and effect to the majority now. What is your crusade on southern society, property and civil government, Sllonce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander also, and what through United States marshals and Federaleiectionofficers appointed ever applied to rights of a majority then ought certainly to be equally by republican officials to marshal the black mass of ignorance and applicable to the majority now. vote it and count it for venal and corrupt place-hunters because they The· Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Eaton, not now a member of act with or claim to be republicans, then we warn yon that the white the Senate, indulged in the discussion of the same subject in the fol people of the South will strike back for self-preservation in all the lowing language: ways and with all the means left them and leave the consequences to A great party have come into power. we are responsible and able to be respon- God and their country. sible for the carrying on of the legislation of forty or fifty million people, and Mr. SAUNDERS. Mr. President, if I thought that the reorgauiza~ we intend to do it with our own servants. That is the way t~ tell it and to ta1k tion of the Senate at this tiDe had no other significance, or no higher it. We propose to elect our own officers. We do not propose to remove all these · h h · l people, not everybody here. I can name a dozen men, sound, stalwart republic- reason to support It t an t e sunp e matter of changing a few offices ana, whom I desire to have remain in their offices, but not these gentlemen; and which are under the control of this body, I would not trespass upon I know none of them will bear me anyill·will for what I say. Itianoclean sweep, the time of the Senate long enough to say one word. But, sir, look- to use an Anglo-Saxon term, but we propose to take t.he beans off three or four of ing as I do upon the settlement of this question as one of the highest these gentlemen and put democratic heads upon their shoulders. importance to the future welfare of the body-politic of the whole Well, if democratic heads were in order to be served up then, I nation, I cannot well afford to let the opportunity pass without stat- cannot see why republican heads should notwinnowwhen we have a ing a few of the reasons which induce me to aid, at least by my vote, majority of the Senate. When we look back to the days in which in sustaining the question now before the Senate. these things transpired and see how the republicans were treated by We have done without having our political friends in these offices the majority, we might well be excused if on the matter of change more than two years, and, if necessary, could do without them there of officers only we should show some anxiety. for two years more, or indeed for ten times. two, but then if the But, Mr. President, there is so much significance to this question republican party, being in the majority, desires a reorganization of ' above and beyond all theseminorconsiderationsthatifeel we should the Senate, extending to both committees and officers, I see no con- be justified, if necessary to success, in spending a whole seaaon in its stitntional or other reason why it should not avail itself of its right. consideration and in bringing it to a final issue. For years and years Two years ago, or up t~ the 4th of March, 1879, the republican party the republican party has been engaged in the work of reconstructing held the Senate organization, but upon the advent of the democratic the political situation in the Southe~States-the intention being, as majority, and almost immediately after the first meeting of Congress, I understood it, and understand it now, to continue this laudable .,a movement was made to reorganize the Senate so as to turn ont the work until every legal voter in the South, be he black, white, or red, republican officers and put in their places an equal number of dem- should have the same chance to cast his ballot at any and all legal ocrats. The energy and persistence with which the question was elections and to have it counted just as it was given and deposited then pushe~ by the democrats was in wide contrast with the holy in the ballot-box as is extended, rather guaranteed, to the voters in norror wil.lch IS now expressed on that side of the Chamber at the other States. In other words, we have had the desire to break, polit proposed change. There seems to be a great difference with them as ically speaking, the "solid South." There is no more reason for a to whose ox is gored. solid South than there is for a solid North, and the fact is there is no Let us turn for a few moments to see how many good arguments reason for either; but every man, every voter, should have the free were put forth in favor of a change of officers two years ago, on the right to cast his ballot just as he pleases, whether he resides in the advent of the democratic majority in the Senate, and let 1,18 see if East, West, North, or South. Every one was conscious of the fa-ct. I; 272 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 12, that whenever this solid South should be broken up somebody or cause the Senators on the 6ther side of the Chamber fear that if this the people of some one or more States must move in the matter. We resolution is adopted by the aid of that Senator, that the southern have all been looking for it to come, but where it would begin or by charm will be broken, and that this independent movement will take whom it would be championed we knew not. It, however, was finally root and finally overshadow and drive from exist(lnce all the evil discovered, and very properly, too, I think, that the people of the ''Old effects that have been hidden under what is called the solid South. Dominion," the State which has been proudly called "the Mother of Mr. President, there is no good citizen of the North who does not Presidents," proposed to lead in this work. She elected her legisla deplore the financial condition of the South as well as its political tors, who in turn elected a representative man to introduce to the condition. The citizens of the Northern States know full well that Senate of the United States their wishes and their sentiments. That if one portion of our country should suffer all other portions must man is here, and he speaks for himself. With whatever he says or suffer too to some extent. If one member of the body suffers the may have to say about the finances or the financial condition of his whole body suffers with it. This is a.s true of our Union as it is of State we have nothing to do- that belongs to the people of Virginia the human system. So far as the free untrammeled enjoyment of the to settle and not to the Congress of the United States. But whatever right of suffrage is concerned, and so far as the general financial he may say for himself or his people on the subject of legal or uni business of the people of the United States is concerned, we should versal suffrage, every good citizen is interested in, and it becomes a know no distinction; but all should be equal and have equal advan proper subject for consideration here. The Senator from Virginia, tages. When that day comes, and not till then, will these United [Mr. MAllo~,] in his great speech, delivered before the Senate on States be absolutely prosperous and the people contented. the 28th day of March last, while speaking on the subject of suffrage, The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. FERRY in the chair.) The ques alluding especially to Virginians, said: · tion is on the motion of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. PExDLETON] to Por one I want no political serfs in Virginia.; I want no longer any condition of indefinitely postpone the resolution. personal servitude. I desire not only in theory the right secured to all men of a Mr. PENDLETON. I suggest to my friend from Massachusetts free, untrammeled ballot, a priceless ballot, but I desire that there shall be secured [Mr. DAWES] that inasmuch as the debate is evidently lagging a an honest count. Whatever may be the professions of gentlemen on that side, I stand for that in fact, and I stand prepared here on this floor, by the courage of little we should go into executive session and attend to the duties the men who are behind me at home, to assure the eountry that in Virginia. at there and resume the debate perhaps to-morrow morning. If it will least there shall be a free suffrage, a fnll vote, and an honest count. [Applause.] snit the Senator's purposes I will invite the Senate again to go into I stand here to guarant-ee the enforcement of the laws by the brave men who stand executive session, or I will give way with pleasure for him to make at my back in the cause of freedom. the motion. Mr. President, to any man, and especially to any Senator, be he Mr. DAWES. I am obliged to the Senator for the suggestion, and from the South or from elsewhere, who proposes to stand on the it leads me to make one to him. If the Senator will make a motion platform laid down by the Senator from Virginia, I heartily extend to go into executive session and submit to the result, I will cheerfully the right hand of fellowship, and bid him God speed. That he is submit to what the majority shall say on that subject. If the ma not alone in the position he has taken is proven by the fact that jority say "Go into executive session," I have not a word to say. if already a large number of the newspapers of Virginia have indorsed the Senator will agree to keep still when the majority say they Will the position he has taken and among them that old-time paper, the not. The difference between the Senator and myself is, I am anxious Richmond Whig, a paper that has been a leading organ in Virginia to submit to the will of the majority and he is just as anxious not to politics for more than fifty years. The breaking up of the political do so. solid South means, as I believe, the dawn of a brighter day for the Mr. PENDLETON. In accordance with the invitation of the Sen Southern States, not only politically but financially, than they have ator from Massachusetts, I move-- seen for many years. Mr. DAWES. I want the Senator to understand that he takes it on But, Mr. President, to return again to the immediate precedent the condition suggested. which is attempted to be set, I fear it may, if carried too far, prove .Mr. PENDLETON. I move that the Senat-e proceed to the consid a bad one for the principle which lies at the very foundation of our eration of executive business. system of government, whether called republican or democratic. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the mvtion of the This system can only be sustained by the minority submitting to be Senator from Ohio, [Mr. PE~"DLETON,] that the Senate proceed to the governed by the majority. Whenever the people of this nation re consideration of executive business. [Putting the question.] The fuse or decline to be governed by the expression of a clearly defined noes seem to have it. majority, then what better will our Government be than the mon Mr. PENDLETON. I ask for the yeas and nays. archies of the Old World, or any other form of government where the The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded to few rule the many. I do not condemn a minority for taking all ad call the roll. vantage it can to defer action in cases where their number is not Mr. BECK, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the complete, whether through absence or any other reasonable cause, but Senator from Maine, [Mr. HALE.] I do not see him in his seat and here the Senate is virtually full, absolutely full, except where pairs therefore decline to vote. are agreed upon. In this case there is no good or valid reason why Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia, (when Mr. CAMDEN s name wa.s the minority should take further advantage of the liberal rules which called.) I wish to announce now, once for all, that my colleague govern the Senate and delay the business proposed by the majority. [Mr. CAMDEN] is paired with the Senator from Wisconsin, [Mr. Mr. President, it is no proper answer to this complaint to say that SAWYER.] Were my colleague here, he would vote " yea." one member of the Senate is supposed to have voted for General Mr. CAMERON, of Pennsylvania, (when his name was called.) On Hancock, and that therefore he has no right to vote with the repub this subject I am paired with the Senator from South Carolina, [Mr. licans. Every Senator here knows that it was heralded all over the BUTLER.] country, previous to the election of la-st fall, that Virginians were Mr. McMILLAN, (when Mr. EDGERTON'S name was called.) My divided on the questions of finance and the right of their voters to colleague [Mr. EDGERTON] is absentfrom the city to-day, and is paired have a free and untrammeled ballot. We know also that it was then with the Senator from Louisiana, [Mr.Jo~AS.] My colleague would fully understood that the late Senator from Virginia, Mr. 'Vithers, vote "nay" if he were here. was the candidate for the Senate on the stalwart or Bourbon demo Mr. GORMAN, (when Mr. GROOME's name was called.) My col cratic ticket, and the present Senator [1\Ir. MARONE] was the can league [Mr. GROOME] is paired with the Senator from Illmois, [Mr. didate of the opposition, which included the republican members of LOGAN.] the Legislature and the readjusting democrats, and no democrat Mr. GROVER, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the here, so far as I know, ever claimed the present juni::>r Senator as Senator from Nebraska, [Mr. VANWYCK.] being their candidate. But now since it is found the Bourbons could Mr. HARRIS, (when his name was called.) I agreed to pair with not succeed, it is presto, change I All at once it is discovered that the Senator from New York [M.r. CONKLING] who is now absent. The whether elected by their class of democrats or not, he is required by Senatorfromlndiana[Mr. VooRHEES] isalsoa.bsent, and I have trans them to do their bidding and vote as they may dictate on peril of ferred the pair with the Senator from New York to the Senator from being charged with being anything but an honest man. Indiana. I vote "yea,'' and make the announcement of the pair of This, Mr. President, is not in accord with my idea of huma.n and the Senator from New York with the Senator from Indiana for the political independence, and I am glad to see that the Senator from day. Virginia has taken the same view of the subject, and is disposed to Mr. JACKSON, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the vote as his friends, who elected him, desire he should, and not accord Senator from Connecticut, [Mr. HAWLEY,] and I announce that pair ing to the wishes of his enemies. I have never before since I have for the day. been in the Senate seen the spirit of the doctrine of "rule or min" Mr. JONAS, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the so prominently brought before this body as is manifested in this Senator from Minnesota., [Mr. EDGERTON.] case. So long aa there was any hope of using the Senator to carry Mr. KELLOGG, (when his name was called.) I am paired with .out the object and desire of the democratic party, the Senator was the Senator from Illinois [Mr. DAVIS] on all motions to go into exec feasted and feted and coax~ on all sides· but as soon as he asserted utive session. On motions to adjourn, to postpone indefinitely, and his right and determination to truthfilly and fairly represent the like motions, I am not paired with any one. principles upon which he waa elected, and to carry out the pledges Mr. VEST. I neglected, when the name of the Senator from Florid:!> he had made to his friends in the late canvass, curses both deep and [Mr. Jo~~s] was called, to state by request that he is paired with loud were heaped upon his head without stint, and the cry ever since the Senator from New Hampshire, [Mr. ROLLINS.] That pair will has been "crucify him, crucify him." stand during the absence of both Senators. And why is all thi.8! Is it because of any persona.! prejudice or Mr. McPHERSON, (when his name was called.) I am paired with • hatred of the Senator! By no means. But, Mr. President, it is be- my colleague, [Mr. SEWELL.] 1881. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 273 Mr. COKE, (when Mr. MAxEY's name was called.) I desire to an Mr. PENDLETON. I cannot consent to meet at an hour as early nounce for the day that my colleague [Mr. MAxEY] is paired with the as my friend indicates, and I move to amend his motion by making Senator from Colorado, [Mr. TELLER.] it ten o'clock. Mr. SAWYER,"(when his name was called.) I am paired with the .Mr. HARRIS. I demand the yeas and nays, if the Senator from Senator from West Virginia, [Mr. CAMDEN.] 9hio insists upon putting it off as late as ten o'clock. The roll-call waa concluded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio moves to Mr. BROWN. I was out of the Hall and do not know whether the amend by inserting ten o'clock instead of nine; on which the yeas pair of my colleague [Mr. HILL] has been announced. My colleague and nays are demanded. [.Mr. HILL] I understand is paired with the Senator from Maine, [Mr. The yeas and nays were ordered. },RYE.] Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. I like twelve o'clock a good deal .Mr. PENDLETON. I desire to announce that my colleague [Mr. better than either of the motions of my friends, and to give time, I SHERMAN] is paired with the Senator from Delaware, [Mr. SAUI.8- believe-- BURY.] 1 make the announcement for the day. Mr. HOAR. I object to debate. The Senator from West Virginia Mr. FRYE, (after having voted in the' negative.) I understand is wholly out of order. that the Senator from Georgia [Mr. BROWN] has announced that I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is made to debate on a mo am paired with his colleague, [Mr. HILL.] I did not know that the tion to adjourn. pair extended to to-day and voted. If the pair has been extended, Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. If I am out of order, the Senator I will regard the pair and withdraw my vote. from Massachusetts is out of order. Mr. BROWN. I will state to the Senator from Maine that I had a Mr. HOAR. No; I rise to a question of order. letter this morning from my colleague saying that he would not be Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. The Senator is doubly out of order, able to return for a day or two, and asking that the pair might be because I am on my feet and the Senator is in his seat. extended. I announced the pair on the supposition that it had been The PRESIDING OFFICER. But the Senator from West Virginia extended. is out of order on his feet. · Mr. FRYE. I knew nothing relative to it, but I will consider the Mr. DAVIS. of West Virginia. I understand that I am not out of pair as existing and withdraw my vote. order in making the motion I rose to make. I move that the Senate Mr. BUTLER, (after having voted in the affirmative.) May I in do now adjourn. That motion is always in order. quire if the ~enator from Pennsylvania [Mr. CAMERON] hM voted f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. He has not. Senator from West Virginia that the Senate adjourn. Mr. BUTLER. I withdraw my vote. I am paired with him. I Mr. HARRIS. I ask for the yeas and nays. was under the impression that he had voted. The yeas and nays were ordered, and the Secretary proceeded to call The result was announced-yeas 20, nays 20 ; as follows: the roll. Mr. I YEAS-20. I BECK, (when his name was called.) desire to say that I am Bayard, Farley, Johnston, Ransom, paired upon all questions with the Senator from Maine, [Mr. HALE.] Brown, George, Lamar, Slater, I shall not announce the pair again, as the Senator from Maine may Call, Gorman, Morgan, Vance, not be here during the remainder of the day. Coke, Hampton, Pendleton, Vest, Mr. FARLEY, (when Mr. FAIR's name was called.) I wish to make Davia of W.Va., Harris, Pugh, Walker. the announcement now for the rest of the week that the Senator NAYS--20. from Nevada [Mr. },AIR] is paired with his colleague, [Mr. JoNES.] Allison, Dawes, Inealls, :Mitchell, Mr. FRYE, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the Sen Anthony, Ferry, MCDill, Morrill, ator from Georgia, [Mr. HILL.] Blair,. Hanison, McMillan, Platt of Conn., Bul'DSlde, Hill of Colorado, Mahone, Platt of New York, Mr. GROVER, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the Conger, Hoar, Miller, Plumb. Senator from Nebraska, [Mr. VANWYCK.] ABSENT-36. Mr. JONAS, (when his name was called.) I am paired with the Senator from .Minnesota, [Mr. EDGERTON.] I announce the pair for Book, Edmunds, Jackson, Saulsbury, Butler, Fair, Jonas, Saunders, the day. Camden, Frye, Jones of Florida, Sawyer, Mr. SAUNDERS, (when his name was called.) I again announce Cameron of Pa., Garland, Jones of Nevada, Sewell, my pair with the Senator from Kentucky, [Mr. WILLIAMS.] I will Cameron of Wis., Groome, Kellogg, Sherman, Cockrell, Grover, Logan, Teller, probably not announce it again to-day. Conkling, Hale, McPherson, VanWyck, Mr. SAWYER, (when is name was called.) I am paired with the Davis of lllinois, Hawley, Maxey, Voorhees, Senator from West Virginia, [Mr. CAMDEN.] Edgerton, Hill of Georgia, Rolliris, Williams. The roll-call having been concluded, the result was announced So the Senate refused to proceed to the consideration of executive yeas 20, nays 22; as follows: business. YEA.S-20. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question recurs on the motion Bayard, Farley, Johnston, Ransom, to indefinitely postpone the resolution. Brown, George, Lamar, Slater, Mr. DAWES. Now, the Senator from Ohio having appealed to the Call, Gorman, McPherson, Vance, Coke, Hampton, Morgan, Vest, Senate and having failed to get a majority, I trust we shall proceed Davia of W.Va., Harris, Pendleton, Walker. to act on the resolution. Mr. PENDLETON. I think the Senator failed to get a majority NAYS-22. Allison, Ferry, MaDill, Platt of Conn., · also, as there was an equality, and only under a technical rule wa.s Anthony, Harrison, McMillan, Platt of N. Y., the motion lost. Blair, Hill of Colorado, Mahone, Plumb, Mr. DAWES. The Senator had the affirmative and made his motion, Burnside, Hoar, Miller, Sewell. and he failed to carry it. Conger, Ingalls, Mitchell, Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. We had better test it, I think, by Dawes, Kellogg, . Monill, making another motion. ABSENT-34. Mr. DAWES. If yon will let us have a vote on the resolution, which Beck, Edmunds, Jackson, Saunders, is an affirmative proposition, we will take the result. Butler, Fair, Jonas, Sawyer, Camden, Frye, Jones of Florida, Sherman, Mr. HARRIS. I had risen to say that we have progressed so slowly, Cameron of Pa., Garland. Jones of Nevada, Teller, have done so little within the last three weeks, that I think it proba Cameron of Wis., Groome, Logan, VanWyck, ble we could accomplish more if we met earlier and sat later; in view Cockrell, Grover, Maxey, Voorhees, Conkling, Hale, Pugh, Williams. of which fact I want to submit a motion that when the Senate ad Davia of lllinois, Hawley, Rollins, journs to-day, if it shall consent to do so, it will be to meet at ten Edgerton, Hill of Georgia, Saulsbury, O'clock to-morrow. We are meeting too late; and I submit that So the Senate refused to adjourn. motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question recurs on the amend Mr. DAWES. Will the Senator not put it at eight, so that we can ment of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. PIDIDLETON] to the motion of get on with the business T the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. HARRIS] to make the hour of meet Mr. HARRIS. I readily adopt the suggestion of the Senator from Massachusetts, if he prefers eight o'c1ock. The earlier the hour, the ing ten o'clock to-morrow, instead of nine as proposed in the original better for me. motion, on which the yeas and nays have been ordered. Mr. DAWES. I prefer that those who vote for it should come here The Secretary called the roll. at eight. . Mr. SAWYER. I am paired with the Senator from West Virginia, Mr. HARRIS. Does the Senator desire that I shall modify the [Mr. CAMDEN.] motion f Mr. BUTLER. I again announce my pair with the Senator from Mr. DAWES. Most certainly. I prefer that the Senators who vote Pennsylvania, (Mr. CAMERON.] for it shall come here at eight. The result was announced-yeas 19, nays 22; as follows: Mr. HARRIS. Iwillcompromisewith theSenator, then, byputting YEAS--19. it at nine o'clock instead of ten. Bayard, Farley, Lamar, Slater, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee modi Brown, George, McPherson, Vance, Call, Hampton, Morgan, Vest, fies his motion and moves that when the Senate adjourns to-day it Coke, Harris, Pendleton, Walker. meet at nine o'clock to-morrow. Davia of W. Va., Johnston, Ran.som, XII-18 274 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. APRIL 13, NAY~!:!'J. Mr. HOAR. Mr. President, I trespassed on the courtesy of my col Allison, Ferry, McDill Platt of Conn., league to express my very great desire to hear the speech of the hon Anthony, Harrison, McMillim, Pla.ttofN. Y., BJair, Hill of Colorado, :Mahone, Plumb, orable Senator from Ohio. I hope he will not disappoint us. Burnside, Hoar, Miller, Sewell. Mr. PENDLETON. Well, I will not disappoint you; but I should Conger, Ingalls, Mitchell, prefer to gratify you to-morrow. Dawes, Kellogg, Morrill, Mr. DAWES. Does the Senator suggest that he would desire to ABSENT--35. proceed to-morrow Y Beck, Edmunds, Hill of ~orgia, Saulsbury, Mr. PENDLETON. It would be rather more agreeable to me tog(} Butler, Fair, Jackson, Saunders, on to-morrow morning, but I have no disposition to trespass too much Camden, Frye, Jonas, Sawyer, on either the courtesy of the Senator from Massachusetts, from whom Cameron of Pa., Garland, Jones of Florida., Sherman, Cameron of Wis., Gorman, Jones of Nevada., Teller, I always receive a full measure of it, or npon the courtesy of the gen Cockrell, Groome, Logan, VanWyck, tlemen on the other side, and while it would be convenient to me to Conkling, Grover, Maxey, Voorhees, go on to-morrow, I am prepared to go on now. Davis of Dlinois, Hale Pngh, Williams. Mr. DAWES. If the Senator from Ohio cannot reconcile it to his Edgerton, Hawley, Rolli.ns, duty to proceed with the public business this afternoon, I cannot re So the amendment was rejected. fuse to yield to his appeal for an adjournment, he holding the floor . The PRESIDING OFFICER, The question recurs on the motion for to-morrow morning. Therefore, I move that the Senate do now of the Senator from Tennessee, that when the Senate_adjourns to-day adjourn. it be to meet at nine o'clock to-morrow morning. The motion was agreed to; and (at two o'clock and fifty-five min- Mr. HARRIS called for the yeas and nays, and they were ordered. utes p. m.) the Senate adjourned. · Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. I believe it would be better to go into executive session and attend to the' business we came here for than to adjourn to nine o'clock to-morrow morning, and I think by the consent of the Senator I will make that motion. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration ef executive business, and ask WEDNESDAY, April for the yeas and nays. 13, 1881. Mr. INGALLS. Can that motion be made pending a motion to adjourn T Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. J. BULLOCK, D. D. Mr. DAWES. I raise the point of order that the pending motion The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. being to adjourn- .OFFICERS OF THE SE...~ATE. The PRESIDING OFFICER. This is not a motion to adjourn. It is a motion that when the Senate do adjourn, it be to meet at a, par The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the ticular hour. unfinished business of yesterday, being the resolution of the Senator Mr. DAWES. I was not aware of that. from Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] providing for the election of cer tain officers of the Senate, the pending question being on the motion Mr. DAVIS, ~f West Virginia. I would advise my friend to look attherule- of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. PENDLETON] to postpone the resolu Mr. INGALLS. lly Rule 43 motions relating to adjournment take tion indefinitely, on w-hich motion the yeas and nays have been or precedence. dered. The Senator from Ohio [Mr. PENDLETON] is entitled to the Mr. DAVIS, of West Virginia. I withdraw my motion. floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the motion of Mr. PENDLETON. I should be very glad tomovethatthe Senate the Senator from Tennessee, [Mr. HAruus,] that when the -Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business so that what I may adjourns it be to meet at nine o'clock to-morrow morning, on which have to say shall not detain the Senate one moment from the consid motion the yeas and nays have been ordered. eration of its legitimate duty, if such a course would be agreeable•to The Secretary proceeded to call the roll. my friend from Massachusetts who has charge of the debate. ltlr. GROVER, (whenhis name was called.) I beg to announce for Mr. DAWES. I beg the Senator's pardon; I did not hear him. the day that I am paired with the Senator from Nebraska, [Mr. VAN Mr. PENDLETON. I said I should be very glad to move ;that the WYCK.] Senate proceed immediately to the consideration of execut;ve busi The roll-call was concluded. ness in order that what I may have to say shall not detain it a moment Mr. BLAIR. I wish to announce the pair of my colleague [Mr. from the business for which we have been called, if such a course ROLLINS} with the Senator from Florida, [Mr. JONES,] my colleague would be agreeable to my friend, the Senator from Massachusetts, having been called away from the city for a few days by reason of who has charge of the debate. the destruction of his property by fire. Mr. DAWES. Does the Senator desire to submit his remarks in Y The result was announced-yeas 20, nays 21 ; as follows : executive session Mr. PENDLETON. I shall be very willing to do so. YEAS--20. Mr. DAWES. If the Senator will only consent to proceed at once Bayard, Farley, Johnston, ~m. to the disposition of the pending resolution we shall be delighted to Brown, George, Lamar, Slater, hear his remarks in ten minutes. It will not take ten minutes to pass Call, Gorman, McPherson, Vance, Coke, Hampton, Morgan, Vest, the resolution. Otherwise I think the Senator will have to overcome Davis ofW. Va. Harris, Pendleton, Walker. his modesty and make his remarks in public. Mr. PENDLETON. I rather think, from the experience we have NAY~21. ha_d1 that it will take more than ten minutes to pass the resolution. Allison, Fel'11, McDill, Platt of N.Y., .Mr. to Anthony, Harrl80n, McMillan, Plumb, DAWES. The difficulty is that the Senator will not submit Blair Hill of Colorado, Mahone, Sewell. the majority. That is the only difficulty in getting at it. Burn.Side, Hoar, Mitchell, Mr. PENDLETON. Oh, "the majority" is but one-half, aided by a Conger, Ingalls, Morrill, constitutional contrivance to get us out of a dilemma. Dawes, Kellogg, Platt of Conn., Mr. DAWES. However, I will not interfere with the Senator's ABSENT-35. choice. If the Senator prefers to reserve his speech until we get into Beck, EFair~undB , Jackson, Saulsbury, executive session, if he thinks it will keep, I hope we shall proceed Bntler, , Jonas, Saunders, to act on the resolution. . Camden, ~rlane, d, Jones of Florida, Sawyer, Mr. PENDLETON. The purpose of my inquiry was to avoid having Cameron of P &., u-co Jones of Nevada, Sherman, Cameron of Wis., Groome, Logan, Teller, my attention called, as it was yesterday, to the fact that some of our Cockrell, Grover, Maxey, VanWyck, friends on the other side of the Chamber were, perhaps unexpectedly, Conkling~_ Hale, Miller, Voorhees, absent, and that it would not be fair to make a motion to proceed to Davis of Dlinois, Hawley, Pngh, Williams. the consideration of executive business. Edgerton, Hill of Georgia, Rollins, Mr. DAWES. The Senator is entirely fair and frank about it. I So the motion was not agreed to. have had some doubt whether the indulgence which the Senator ex The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question recurs on the motion ercised yesterday has a good effect on t4is side. I think if he would of the Senator from Ohio, that the resolution be indefinitely post bring us up standing once on this side-- poned, upon which the yeas and nays have been ordered. Mr. PENDLETON. If it is the desire of the Senate that I should Mr. PENDLETON. Mr. President, I intended to submit a few re do so, I will exercise that discipline at once. · marks to the Senate upon the resolution before it; but the speeches Mr. DAWES. I am almost tempted to call the Sena.tor to my aid. made by the Senator from Kentucky and the Senator from Alabama However, I will let the Senator proceed with his remarks. anticipated so much that I had to say that I feel very ready to yield. Mr. BECK. Will the Senator from Ohio allow me to make a re to my friend from Massachusetts if he desires to go into executive markT session or even if he desires to do no business and adjourn. Mr. PENDLETON. Yes, sir. lli. HOAR, (in his seat.) We would rather hear your speech. Mr. BECK. I desire to say to the Senator from Massachusetts be 1\!r. PENDLETON. The junior Senator from Massachusett-s is ex fore the Senator from Ohio begins, as some little confusion grew np tremely polite and I am obliged to him for the suggestion; butjust yesterday on the suggestion of the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. at that particular moment I was addressing myself to the senior Sen BURNSIDE] and of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. DAWES] rel ator from 1\!assachusetts, [Mr. DAWES.] ative t-o the position of the Senator from Illinois, [Mr. DAVIS,] the