Show i IN BOTH HOUSES r i Scathing Speech 1 in Trails I I i the Senate Yesterday < l 1 GOING AFTER THE PRESIDENT 1 in the House The i10j lia rrue WIth the KnilhtsTbe 7r Riy to JaY Gould 1 I i 1 IS TE u March 2fiThe Chair WIU b lid pe tie Senate the Presidents ji ransmittins the rpport of the t 1leJ cj r 3rve con mission Referred J u oi the bills iutroduced was one by HM providing for inquests under B3tiujal authority Hoar said the bill fjs suggested by reports of recent occur fHtft at Carrolton Miss The Senate hsI bad no information in regard to thee occurrences but newspapers of bo political parties seemed to agree sbu t them Acording to their reports j wanton and unprovoked crime had been committed resulting in the death ofilarge number of citizens in trhich all the victims were of one race and he prMimed of one political party and jl the mirderers ot another Such ocwrrences unfortunately had been off feiaent occurrence but when investigated inves-tigated were apt to take a political turn Persons defending or apologizing for them said they had no political significa i lion still the fact remained that it was the opponent < < of the Democratic party that were killed an i that adherents of tiit party were th victims Ingalls denied that the Senate had asked for the Presidents reasons for impending any one or that private papers pa-pers had been asked for The Senate since January 25th 1836 had confirmed i 493 nominations It had again been charged that the J Senate wai trying to keep Republicans in office The Republicans ot Kansas Ifr Ingalla said were neither afraid nor ashamed to be classed as Republacans They were proud of the achieveme its of 1 their party Thy believed that in all great measures in the last quarter of the century they were right and their opponnts wrong and they were able to give a reason for the faith that was in them The Republicans of Kansas also tefceveJ said Mr InStalls that no Republican Re-publican could hold public office under a Democratic administration without either sacrificing his convictions convic-tions forfeiting his selfrespect Accordingly Ac-cordingly when the new adminis tration was maugurit hr > uv Wd oflice in that state began to maki exouses for retiring to prvate life He was not one of time who believed in nonpartisanship nonpartisan-ship in politics After election the Democrats expected to get in and the Republicans to get out But a new Genesis had come about of late years Iclass of political philosophers who be ared that nonpartisanship was a pan eea for all the evils that afflicted the Republic men who decried the operation opera-tion of the American system as they ailed it This new party had been recruited re-cruited from the Republican party If there was any genuine civil service reformer re-former who had deserted the ranks of 4 the Democracy history did not record hiscame Laghter The neuter gender Mr Ingalls said was not popular either in natue or in science Male and male created he thembut there MS i third tex if that could sex be callel which sex had noneresulting j sometmes from the cruel caprice of I nature and at others from accident or malevolent designpossessing the vices i of both and virtues of neither laughter unable either to beget or to bear possessing pos-sessing neither fecundity nor virility endowed with contempt of men and the derision women doomed to sterility isolation and extinction laughter j But said Mr Ingalls they have 1 two functions they sing falsetto great laughter and they are usually se lected as guardians of the serag I las of the oriential despots renewed re-newed laughter To come from a 1 figure to fact he continued this 1 third party had distinguished itself by singing in falsetto phrases of civil service ser-vice reform and had been selected as the guardian of the conscience of the national government He was not hereto here-to impugn the good faith patriotism or the many extraordinary qualities of the President of the United States The President was the sphinx of American politics It was said that he was a fatalist and that he regarded himself as the child of destiny that he placed ievout and implicit reliance upon the julding influence of his star Certainly iThether Grover Cleveland was a very treat or a very small man he was a cry extraordinary man His career orebade any other conclusion The Democratic party was not wanting hen the convention was held in tocago in many great and illustrious uues men who had led the forlorn ipe in its darkest days men for whose factor and history not only their or Kzation but the country had the Roundest admiration and respect i te was Thurman and Bayard and Bricks and Tilden and others per > not less worthy but less Illustri ipjjinon o 4 whom the mantle of that farr distinction might properly have ri but Grover Cleveland a man whs1t the mature age of 35 abandoned a mjfil and honored profession that he m g become the sheriff of an interior Cono was selected for that position and he Iten a little more than a yea ao ben red the Senate Chamber and s this ° entIy took the UailTUl office on I ence pLuf ° nn he encountered an audi had tIt onetwentieth part of whom Whotrt seen him and a greater part of him tfl 0 years before did not know 1 that n efta by name and who was at with lliO ent practically unacquainted I Senate t readers of his own party In the sudden The rise of Napoleon was 1 other nM01 and startling Many from oWnS of fortune had sprung tiOIl of tutlty to fame but no illustra o profound an ilevation from an obscurity nd dazzlf1 to a height so brilliant 3 the Ing I was recorded in history 0 selection of Grover Cleveland to hen tuagistr50 of 60000000 people If outlined lIe thaSt inaugurated he had de that nat the functions of the gov L ernment should be exercised DY the men of his own party the nationwould have been content and berein wa founded the justification that thema jority of the Senate could use in demanding de-manding that no action should be taken in connection with these proposed removals nf tliihU movals from office until there had been satisfactory assurances that injustices had not been done If it were under stiod that these removals were made for political reasons the country would be content The Republican majority in the Senate would be content Tho President had declared that there should be no changes in the offices where the incumbents were competent com-petent for political reasons but they b ra 1g aio sth f tl should bu allowed to serve their time Like tto e that were grinding the mill one had been taken and another left Some Republicans had been suspended and others retained What was the irresistible ir-resistible inference of the logic of the situation in view of the Presidents Presi-dents action except that every suspended man was suspended for cause and not for political reasons Mr Ingalls alJuded to the celebrated circular issued by the PostmasterGen eralwhich he characterized as the most thoroughly degraded defiled execrable and detestable public utterance ever made by any official It was an invitation I invita-tion he said to every libeller every anonymous slanderer and scurrilous I defamer to pour sewerage into the postoffice department The Postmaster Generals reply to the resolution of the Senate introduced by himself Ingalls showed that 8645 fourthclass Postmasters Post-masters had been removed in particular particu-lar by an administration pledged to remove re-move men only for cause This was twentyeight removals for every day in the year and counting seven hours to a i days work it was four removals an hour and one for every fifteen minutes for every working day for twelvemonths twelve-months Laughter That was nonpartisan non-partisan civil service reform Mr Cockrell inquired how many fourthclass postmasters there were in the county Mr Ingalls did not know Mr Cockrell said there were 50000 and of those only about 8000 had been removed Well said Mr Ingalls the administration admin-istration did the best it could angels could do no more Laughter He suggested that Mr Cockrell curb his impatience and impetuosity The PostmasterGeneral would get there in time One for every fifteen minutes was not so bad How many do you expect This number Mr Ingalls continued did not include the many who had resigned or whose term had expired and this was in but one department How many in the other departments including the illuminated I dent men t ll c j S < > unknown therefore the friends of the administration administra-tion saould be consoled Mr Logan said that the Senators had I I travJed far in the debate and discussed many topics disconnected with the question ques-tion before the Senate The only question ques-tion was whether the AttorneyGeneral should furnish the papers relating to the conduct of a district attorney This government said Mr Logan is based on the will of the people and the people should have all the information that they thought their representatives in Congress should call for The President calls these papers private but the moment he places the papers on the files of the Department they become by his own act public papers Could the President mean that tomorrow he could box those papers up and send them Buffalo Or that he could at any time hereafter take them away Could he leave them there for ten or fifteen years and then make a demand of government for them as private papers If that was an argument it was one that it was impossible to support sup-port by any sort of logic orfair dealing Mr Harrison followed in support of the majority The policy of the present administration he said had been without with-out precedent and would be without an imitation Secret charges have been accumulated against the reputation of men and what was more against the reputation of women and were acted on in the dark A proclamation of the President has been that mere differences of opinion were notto operate against the men but the feast was like the feasts of the old story to which men were invited for the purpose of assassination assassi-nation Mr Edmunds in closing the debate reviewed the whole question carefully vJe tet3e Irr and contended that the two Houses of Congress had the right to see the papers affecting the business of the government govern-ment JfU said Mr Edmunds you took out of this very presence at this moment the influence of Executive patronage pat-ronage to be given to Senators and their friends there would not be five votes en this chamber against any one or all the resolutions propose by the judiciary committee The question was then on Mr Van iVycks amendment providing that in such cases of removals the matter of confirmation shall be considered in open session of the Senate Mr Van Wick made strong speech in advocacy of its amendment Mr Logan said he would vote for the amendment but for the fact that it was thought that it would encumber the resolutions Mr Hoar raised the point that the amendment was not in order inasmuch as it changed the rules of the Senate and no notice been given of it The President pro tempore sustained the point of order and an appeal taken by Mr Butler was laid upon the table yeas 31 nays 23 This was a strict party vote except that Mr Van Wyck and Riddleberger voted with the Democrats Mr Harris having demanded a separate sep-arate vote upon the Edmunds resolu tions the first resolution adopting the report of the committee on judiciary was adoptedyeas 32 nays 20 The second resolution condemning the re fusal of the AttorneyGeneral to send copies of the papers called for by the senate was adoptedyeas 32 nays 25 The question being on the third resolution resolu-tion declaring it to Ie the duty of the Senate to refuse its advice and consent to the proposed removals of officers documents in refer reference to te supposed misconduct of whom are withheld Mr Gray raised he point that it changed the rule of the Senate and was not in order The president pro tern overruled the point of order and Mr Gray appealed i from the decision A vote being taken on the third resolution reso-lution it was agreed to yeas 30 nays 29 Mitchell of Oregon Riddleberger and Van Wyck voting with the Democrats Demo-crats The fourth resolution condemning condemn-ing the discharge of exUnion soldiers and the putting in their places of men who had rendered no military service for the government was then voted on and agreed toyeay 5G nays Mr Morgan Before that resolution came to a vote Butler said if he had time he could demonstrate de-monstrate that the Republican party had violated the law relating to soldiers ten times where the presentadministra hon had not departed from it once Mr Morgan offered a resolution declaring de-claring that nothing m the resolution already adopted was to be construed as declaring that the conduct of the At torneyGeneral rendered him liable to impeachment and that the Senate disclaimed dis-claimed he right or power to puni h him by imprisonment or otherwiseother than by impeachment for the oilense charged against him in the resolution Un Mr Edmunds motion this resolution resolu-tion was laid on the taole yeas 33 nays 20Mr Mr Platt then attempted to make a bill for the admission of Washington Territory unfinished business for Monday Mon-day but some filibustering motions interfered in-terfered and at 9 30 pm the Se ate adjourned ad-journed till Monday when Mr Platt will attempt to get up the bill named HOUSE WASUIKGTOJT March 2GThe Speaker laid before the House a communication from Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Fairchild transmitting the draft of a bill to amend the laws regulating immigration im-migration Referred The bill exempts from the pur capital tax of 50 cents transient alien tourists and provides a penalty of 500 for the permanent landing land-ing ot alien paupers idiots insane and convicts The Secretary the Treasury Treas-ury is given power to appoint commissioners commis-sioners of immigration not to exceed three in number at Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Key WestNew Orleans Galveston and San Francisco who shall take exclusive charge and provide for the support and relief of such alien immigrants as may fall into distress dis-tress In commenting upon this change the assistant secretary says Agents through whom the existing law is accomplished namely the boards of immigration are appointed by State governments and departments have no control of those agents except by contracts which it has no means of enforcing The bill transmitted puts the entire charge of destitute alien immigrants in the care of the imas m BIUU apjrvjllUca as officers of the United States and leaves them in no state to the charge of the state 1 officers to be treated indiscriminately with other poor over whom the state exercises supervision If the government govern-ment takes care of the alien immigrants in distress it should not divide that I supervision with the State authorities Also a letter from AssistantSecretary Fairchild asking for an appropriation for the storage and transportation of silver dollars Referred The letter says in vieWof the fact that the amount of standard dollars required to be coined under the existing law is about 27000000 each year and that the remaining space available in the vaults of the subTreas ury offices other than at New Orleans is not sufficient for the storage of the coinage of the ensuing twelve months it is deemed advisable and prudent to ask that a suitable appropriation be made to enablethe department to erect vaults in some other subTreasury offices leaving the vault at New Orleans free for the storage accumulated coinage coin-age executed at the Mint that city The House took a recess until 730 this evening the session to be for the consideration of pension bills The House at its evening session passed forty pension bills and adjourned adjour-ned until tomorrow |