Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-07-11


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Bingham had disciaimed all pefsonai 9nklnoness
and asked him VIII her ne pnq efstood IN saying
that he (Bro6ksl was guilty q the moral turpl-
-tuds Of slayel 8. - flT,
Mr. Binghaln eCnsl4e8esrE4elslyen never en-
Mr. Brooks replied that II Was altogether sat
isfactory.
Mr.. Orr said that Bingham, after lnduiglng IN
q beautiful paroxysrl, asserted that Sumner was
stricken doWnin consequences ora pleading set
up in behalf Of the injured people OF KANSAS; it
was attempted to- produce such an impression
ON the pnblicnindj but 1t was not true IN point
Of fact Sumner was punished for libel on 5.
Carolina aud SANDER on Butler (the absent rel
alive of Brooks, who SO informed Suniner,=-
franklin was right when she said freedom of
speech was freedom of the cudgei; this was no
more against q Senator than against a neN.spa-
per editor whose foul ISLANDERS against private
individuals are often punished by blows there
being no remedy Ct law *
1t was not true that Sumner was struck down
with bEudgeon testimony il WINS, shown it was an
ordinary walking cane; one witness testtlng
that it was one inch in thtekness above and
fye-eIghths of an inch below Far play IS
jewel The design OF the. n,srepfesentaeonls
to opcrate on the Presadentlal election Who
ever heard before Of 2 personal difficulty being
imagnifiei to such IN extent as this has besusl
day to print one hundred thousand copies of
the report on The Sumner assault IS electioneer-
ing documents. s,f
Mr.. Hickman rising amid tho confusion said,
did not vote for it as an electlppeeTipg docu-
nent, for owe no allegiance to the RepublicRn
party, and am opposed to it. ~, '.tas5S5l
: Mt. Orr-If the gentleman is not, his posi-
ton has been much plisQnderstood throughout
the country lit is part, of a system to intame
the public mind and if the gentleman from
Pennsyl did not vote for the proposition,
he cast vote the effect of which was to injure
the party to which the gentleman processes to
belong ry
Mr.. Hickman desired TO reply ibut objections
from various quarters wore made.
Mrs. Orr quoted the testimony OF. Dr. Boyleto
show that the h ysical condition OF sumner has
been misreprcsented for political effect and CON
cluded by arguing the case pending the qrles-
ton of privileges. Adjourned
&c ~ = WASHINGTON, July 10.
SEsSTR-The Senate made sunClry amend
ments TO the Indiana appropriation bill, passed
Mr. Mason, from com on Foreign Relations,
rcported a bill to amend the act of last session
totrernotlel tho diploma tic 1fdsconsuIar
which was made the special order for Monday
next Tho principal changes proposed are, ma
kim the salary of the Minister to France the
same same as, rs England $1,000 raising Austria to
full mission, $4,000 salary; Sandwich Islands,
S6 600: the Ministers to France and England to
have each a clerk at S., 800.
The bin to amend the act to promote the eff
cheney of the Navy was taken up and several
made among them one striking
ont the section creating the grade of admiral
AVA tai7rlq5 jI
Ho,,s T,o Honse tool; NJ, tha Hills reso-
t,tions s,;n,s fine select scon,mittee to INQUIRE
into tic, subject Of the alleged frauds in con-
Mr. Elliott remarked that the, resolution