Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-12-29
a Scene IN the Missouri Senate.

"a COMMUNICATIONS rgUI TIE CovrRToR.
Il very queer scene occurred in The Ser
ale ChOIa5ef on Saturday evening which l
had almost forgotten, but which, rs 1t IL
entirely too COED 10 be lost, give yea
now.
Some days since Senator Watkins oTere'.
a resolution. in eifsoi, requesting he Ger-
ernor 10 communicate 10 the Senate his yes
sons for issuing bonds in lavvr OF tie Cal
70 & Fulton Railroad. This was adopted
and forwarded by one Of the pages OF The
Senate. On Saturday,, The same resolution
was returned, ell !orsed CT The bauk as ioI-
tpws:
"JrTgrRsoS CIrr, l7h, 80.
II issued because lad the right and
power 10 do SO. Il. II. STEWART"
=, On the reading o! ihis very remarkable
she document, thsre was 81 awful pause.
II an elephant had been suddenly intro
duced tc periGra fancy and grotesqus
dance on the fUer OF he Sana;a, OF ii The
Governor had popped in upon them in a
sociabls banner, elevated on siiits, perhaps
the Senate, and Gen Watkins in particular,
would no, lave been more astoundsd.
General Watkins looked round al his
brother Senators, as ii to ask what fSey
thought Of ii, and his brother Senators
looked at lin in return, as il 10 ask what
he thought of ii. The awful pause coaiin-
ned. Gen. Watkins looked at The Presi-
dent, but finding the President in the same
fog, he licked al the Secretary, ana slowly
rising frcla his chair, he as slowly asked:
is that message from the GOve!nsr!-
Are yen acquainted with his handwriting?
Is it signed by tie Governor
TO all these plain lnlercgatiCns the
Secretary sGid-"Yes."
Gen. Watkins agaia locked round upon
his brother Senators, bat as he did not ind
any solution of The mysterious, lacOnlc COM
nuEicaIion there, he turned ill his despair
to The President.
"This strikes re, M. President, n the
most loroibie manner imaginable, as being
rather undigaifed."
ia. Senator Watkins thrust lis arms intS
bis pockets half wSy up 10 The elbows, as
he said:
5 Il hardly know, Mr.. Presiden: really,
scarcely tGow wha; motion 20 make with
regard 10 this extraordinary processing.
Whsreupsn Senator Ihompson, Of Clay,
arose 10 his relief, and said:
II cannoi bear 10 see an honorable and
venerable gentleman, like the Senator from
Cape Gira.deau, treated in this manner,
and vii. stand BY him toihe last. l move
thai the resolution and the reply bs spread
upon the journals"
Senator Watkins arose.
II protest against ihis being msde per-
sonai matter betwssn the Governor and
myself"
The Senator from Sullivan, in his seat
spoke:
TIE insult is not alone 10 the Senator
from Cape Girardsau. il is 10 The whole
Sens!e."
Senator Scott now struck in
II DO not think, afr. President, that The
Governor has been treated with Inc proper
degree Of courtesy in this manner. The
resolution was sent 10 him by page; an1
the usage has been 10 forward such by an
officer o. tina Ssaate. hape tia motion Of
Senator Thompson will not be pressed"
-- Senator Newland, Of Rails, remarked
is as nothing at all remarkable in this
communication. TBs Senate has been
treated in @ similar manner ty the Govern
or On several occasions, and particularly in
the veto message en- the same subject. J
regard it as an insnlt TO the Senate, and
sustain Senator Th0npson's molten"
Senator Wilson said
Il think the communication was, per-
haps, not properly presented to the Govern
or, and hope The Senate will not De has'y
! IN any action connected with it. From the
endorsement on the papsr, he may have re-
garded it as a mere memorandum from
which to prepare reply. do not approys
of the motion TO spread it en- the journals
and hope that il may be passed over infor-
msily." :, -ssia
troubled waters OF Senatorial dignity, the
matter was suffered to be inferred; tie Sen
ators forming themselves intOa Committed
of the whole as chief mournsrs.
NJ Why are blacksasiihs The most dis,
eontsnted Of .radssnsn? res
p.oarss fIsy are algayS on the strike lei