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Show l Ithime Alrorntiii K'IIokC Senator Blaino after reading the telegram sent from Governor Chamberlain Cham-berlain on Wednesday asking information infor-mation in regard to the puliey of Lhe i administration in .reference to too , loiter of Stanley Mathews and William M. Evarls, asking him (Cliamerlaiu) lo yield launched out us lollo.vs: Is there any senator on this floor who desires to stand spouser for that dispatch, or for tho policy that it coverur Is there any senator hcie who proposes to abandon tho remnant rem-nant that is left ut tho republican party between tho Potomac aud the Kio Graude and consent that it shall go down for tho ."public good," as Mr. Stanley Mathews puts il? I ara not ready for that. I do not propose either at the beck of Mr. Stanley Mathews or Mr. Evarts, to say the public good requires the remnant of tht brave men who have borne tbe llag and the brunt of the battlo in the southern states ngainat persecution persecu-tion unparalleled in this country ahull retire for the public good. I do not propose it. I am here to do battle with any ono in my bumble way, who espouses that policy. I lay that gage down fer any senator who stands sponser to the suggestions of Mr. Stanley Mathews and Mr. Evarts, on this question. Nor am I to be dislodged from my position by a quotation from tbe late president of Lhe United Stales of whom I would only speak in terma of personal respect; res-pect; but the late president of lhe United States having, like every one of the rest of us, the right to change his mind and alter his views of public policy, did not, in the dispatch read by the senator from Delaware, main-Lain main-Lain the same attitude which bo maintained in a previous dispatch to General AugLir, in which he declared that, Packard was the legitimate governor of Louisiana, lil iiuo then alluding to Bayard's remark re-mark that bis (Blaine's) words sounded like a tire-Oeil, said that Bayard Bay-ard aud himself represented different schools iu politics and diOerent actions. ac-tions. We have represented ideas eoiore the war and during tbe war and since the war wholly aud entirei) different. While I have tho greatest respect and kindest regard lor him personally I do not propose to take 1 lus advice on this question. I do not propose for myselt ai long r.s I may oe entrusted with a seat on this floor, that whoever else shall halt or grow weak in maintaining it, eo long as I nave strengtn i will stand lor the southern Union men of both colors and when I cease to do that before any presence north or south, in official offi-cial botlies or before public asscmbiys may my tongue cleave to the roof ot my mouth and my right hand lorgel ils cunning. Morton followed, giving the legal aspects of the Louisiana case. He said that the democratic charge that Tilden and Nicholla hid received an undoubted majority of the votes of Louisiana, and bad be:-n counted out by fraud was false. Mori ill Baid he voted for Bayard's substitute referring the Kellogg case to the committee on elections, though j he believed Kellogg was fairly elected, but ho thought t lie mailer was oi sufficient importance to bo iuvesti-! iuvesti-! gated by a committee, as well as that !of the governor of Oregon, j A motion was made to swear in I Morgan, senator-elect from Alabama, : but a motion for un executive session was agreed lo and no further public action was taken. |