Show LATEST TELEGRAMS p r FORTYSEVENTH CONGRESS EXTRA SESSION SENATE Washington 7The Senate 30 to 20 refused to go into executive session ses-sion Vance denied that North Carolina ever repudiated her debt she had been forced by reconstruction acts at the dictation of the loyal honest virtuous republican party of the north to repudiate her obligations obliga-tions but it was not voluntary Riddleberger was a democrat an unrepentant un-repentant readjuster How could thc rpniihlipaTiK fnrrnvfl him Why support him He D objected i to voting vot-ing for any democrat who had a surname before the word democrat The foisting of Riddleberger upon the Senate was a defiance of the whole plan of political salvation He has been taken up in sin unrepentant unre-pentant and been translated into the heaven of republicanism without having tasted of death Kellogg made a speech upon the North Carolina debt question asserting as-serting that since that state had been under the control of the democrats demo-crats the state debt had been scaled from 48000000 to 20000000 a repudiation re-pudiation of 822000000 A long discussion ensued the North Carolina senators answering Kelloggs charges and denying that that state had in any manner repudiated re-pudiated its honest obligations Ransom called attention to the fact that the 4 per cent bonds of North Carolina were quoted at icon ic-on the dollar and he appealed to the senator from Ohio Sherman to state whether that was not a high price for state bonds Sherman replied it was a fair price for 4 per cent state bonds |