The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-20

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CORRUPTION
EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT OF BLACK REPUBLI-
CANS TO SCREEN THE PARTIES IMPLICATED.
The House Of Representatives thrown into exraor
binary excitement yesterday blythe of Mr.
Davis of Maryland that the special committee congress
sonal corruption was ready TO make their report AT the
ssry threshold of the proceeding and before the
port read Mr. Bennett Of New York. objected to it
reception and entered upon abored and excited course
argument against tho proceedings and action of the
mee 1t surprising that he should undertake to in
duce the House to refuse the reception of report before
the House had heard read yet such his anxiety
screen his political friends whose conduct is implicated
that he abored zoalousy but very ndiscrcey to
even the reading Of the report He sustained in his
strangely impotc opposition to the reception Of the
report by Mr. Grow who arragned the special committee
with acrimonious imputations, and manifested degree Of
ardor and constituencies which indicated extreme sotude
for the fate Of his black-repnbican friends implicated
These two gentlemen spoke if they fully apprzsd
the character of the report and if they had prepared
themselves with deliberations if not with concert shield
their friends against the trial to which the committee pro-
posed subject them Looking upon Messrs Bennett and
Grow the leaders in this proceeding the impression
made upon mind was that in the House
had determined to screen the Implicated parties all
hazards and at every step Of the proceedings 1t will be
hereafter whether those gentlemen not the repre-
senatives and opponents Of their party in the House
When the investigation was instituted We applauded
the members Of all parties for their promptnes in deter
mining to relieve the House from the foul suspicious
upon the entire body occurred that
SO extraordinary an attempt would be made sup
press the results of the investigation ordered We did
not doubt that TIE investigation would remove all susp
con from the democrats Of the House. and gratfed
that our antcpations in this respect have been fully
Allied 1t to be hoped and did earnestly hope that
the result would prove that the whole charge of
ton base and baseless caumny the House. and
each member of it The Speaker discharged his duty nobIy
in the selection Of the committee and the whole country
accorded the gentlemen selected the highest quaca
tons for their duties They have labored assduousy,
night and day execution Of their commission and when
they forward the result of their abors
they were met by the extraordinary opposition and
to which we have referred. Without waiting to
hear the report the proof but upon the knowl
edge that the conduct Of four republicans implicated
two Of their prominent political friends undertake to make
issue with the committee, and to cast dscredit upon
their conclusions In this matter the party zeal ofthose
gentlemen far ahead OF their discretion They have
involved the republican party in issue which viii scat
its forces into fragments No party organization
stand before the country upon the grounds which
Messrs Bennett and Grow undertake the parties
charged by the report Of the committee.
will be seem by reference to the proceedings in anoth
column, that the reports were finally received and
deed to be printed Four members charged with
duct which induced the committee to recommend their inn
mediate expusonyz: Mtssrs. Gilbert Matteson, and Ed
wards, Of New York, and Mr. WEIGH Of Connecticut all
being members Of the republican party The resolutions
proposed by the committee viii be found in the proceed
ng and they show the conduct Of each member charged
which the recommendation Of expulsion is based The
subject is postponed until Wednesday next at which time
it win be whether the republican party will add
other plank their platform by identifying itself with the
of the members involved in the grave charges spec
fed in the report and the resolutions.
HAH e84 HON J. r. DOWDELI,