Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — Senatorial Courtesy. [ARTICLE]

Senatorial Courtesy.

General Ben Harrison, in his speech to 300 people at Rochester, on the 19th iust, said in so many words that “Hon. D. VT. Vooi'hees dodged the vote on the bill to increase the tariff on wooled goods,” etc. Now the gallant General know when he mads this statement that both Senators Ransom ‘’and Voorhees came into the Senate a few mom© ts after the vote was announced on that bill, aucl -fated that they were unexpectedly detained out side the Senate when the vote was taken, and had they been in their seats they would have voted “No.” As General HariKon had just voted for ths increase ou woolen goods it is probable be beard Senator Voorhees make the statement. At any rate General Harrison knew this, because it was published in the Congressional Record on the same page with the vote on the knit goods bill, and it was also pu!disked in the Sentinel ana published .all ever the State. To dodge a vote, means to evade or shirk the expression of an opinion. Did Senator Voorhees do this? General Harrison knows very well lie did not, and he also knows that, rig l t or wrong, Senator Voorheos has the courage to express o his convictions on all subjects. Again, in he same speech. General Harrison told the 300 oeopie to whom he was speaking that Senator Voorhees voted against taking og the duty on matches,” out ho did not say that the same bill Thiel, he proposed to take the duty from matches, amounting to some two millions of dollars, also proposed to relieve the banks from o ( ver eleven millions of takes they are now paying the government, and that this was the reason Senator Voorhees voted against :he bill, a fact which the Gen eral well knew, because Mr. Voorhees so stated ou the floor of the senate* and it is published in the Congressional Record.

lleneial Harrison knew very wellbecause Mr. Voorhees so stated, that he was willing to repeal tue tax on matches and on every other industry, to relieve tho minks from their share of internal revenue. General Harrison stands convicted before the eountrj of willfully suppressing or perverting the truth and of a want of courtesy and fairness to ward a brother Senator to gain a pitiful and temporary political advantage. Alas! that a man who lias worn tne uniform of an American Genera and who occupies a seat in the mos f honorable legislative body in the world should descend to the small subtirfuge of a pettifogging lawyer to please the party he serves. “To what base use we may return.”