Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-02-03
The Exciting Scene in the Senate on
-..,. ....-... Friday. So.
DaueLAs, FITCH AND DAVIS GET UP seem

DeUGLAs, FITCH AND DAVIS GET UP SCENE.
! Washington Correspondent of the N. Y. Times. ]
There was lively time in the Senate
Executive Session on Friday afternoon
Mr.. Douglas, in the course of debate upon
the character Of some Of Mr.. Buchanan s
appointees, stated that of fifty thousand
documents which he sent 10 his consti,u-
ents through the mail, not one ever reached
IFS destination! He said, further, that he
would give 500 for every copy that could
be shown 10 have been delivered. -..
The nomination pending was that of Pot
ter as Collector, Toledo, Ohio. Pugh op.
posed it, because the man displaced was his
friend and he charged that the nominee was
unsuitable for the place. He intimated
that it the Administration wanted to make
an issue with him, he had no objection.
This gave Douglas an opportunity to COM
ment upon the Illinois appointments at Chi
cago and elsewhere, TO fill vacancies made
by sacrificing his friends. Against Post
master Cook, Of Chicago, he made specific
charges, and denounced the appointees gen.
orally in the most bitter terms, as incompe-
tent and corr Ipt. The first charge made
by Douglas was that all of the appointees
Of the Administration in Illinois were a set
Of currupt scoundrels. The second charge
was that the Postmaster of Chicago, Isaac
Cook. was dishonest and little better than
a commOnth that he had intercepted his
correspondence during the late campaign,
and that he Douglas) had sent 10 the Chi
eago Postoffice fifty thousand documents
having his frank, which had never reach
ed their destination; that Senator Green had
written him several letters, addressed TO
him at Chicago, and which he had never re-
ceIved, and intimated that they were ab-
stracted by Cook, the Postmaster Doug
las likewise stated that Mr.. Fitch claimed,
in some remarks made BY him in the course
Of the debate, 10 know more of Illinois pol
ities and men than he { (Douglas.)
To these allegations Fitch, as his son wa,
one Of those appoinIees, felt called upon 10
deny the general charge as untrue, and said
that Douglas knew it to be untrue. Doug
las admitted that there were exceptions to
the general charge, and intimated that
Fitch's son was an exception.
To the charges against Cook, Fitch said
that Douglas, on previous occasion, had
made similar charges against Cook, and
pledged his word and his honor that if the
Senate gave him time TO procure official pa
pers, he would prove them; that time was
granted him, and he appeared before the
Senate with his papers, but that they dis
proved every charge he had made, and that
therefor e, he could not expect the Senate
to believe his unsustained assertions. v
TO this answer in reference to the charge !
against Cook, il is alledged that Douglas re-
mained silent. '''
To Douglas last statement, Fitch rejoin-
ed that he had never used such language,
or entertained such sentiments, and that he
requested Douglas when he alluded 10 him,
to confne himself to the truth. During the
course Of .Fitch's remarks, which was very
personal, he was repeatly called to order.
9 Douglas rfjOined siercely and bitterly,
and was finally checked by the Chsir, at
general cries Of .order, and was proceed.
ing, when he was called TO order. Mr..
Brown subsequently, moved that Dougla.
be permitted to resume his remarks, in or
der. In response TO ,hismotion, Mr.. Davis
laboring, under some excitement, reproba-
ted severely the style Of debate assumed by
Dsuslss, but although not ofsensiyelys per-