Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-03-25
THIRTY SEVENTH CONGRESS.
REPORTED FOR THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE. !
IN Senate, Saturday, March 90.

The resignation of the Vice President a;
| presiding cilicerci lie special session Vi tie
Senate was read and accepted.
Mr.. Hale introduced resolution appoint
ing Mr.. Foot presiding officer of the special
session, which was adopted, and Mr. Foot,
with few remarks, took the chair.
Mr.. Wil.on moved that Il committee Of two
be appointed TO wait upon the President
and inform him Of the election OF Hon. Mr..
Foct Us presiding officer of the Senate,
which motion was agreed to, and Messrs.
Wilson and Bright were appointed to dis
charge that duty.
Mi Wade presented to the Senate the Gre
dentials Of Hon. John Sherman, United
States Senator elect from Ohio.
Mr.. Sherman having taken the usual oath
10 support tn Constitution,
NJ. Simmons made Il personal explana-
! ton, relative to the misunderstanding be-
! tween him and Mr.. Clingman.
Nr llale moved to take up the resolution
; introduced by him tow days since that the
Seuasc proceed 10 election for Sergeant-at-
Arms. Doorkeeper and Assistant D0orkeeper
on Saturday at two o'clock.
Mr. Bright moved the postponemont Of
the subject ill the first Monday in Deem
! her.
The yeas and nays were then called on the
motion TO take up the resolution, resulting
Yeas IS. nays l..
The resolution being before the Senate,
Sir Bright moved the postponen!ent Of the
consideration CT the resolution till The first
Monday in December; on which the yeas
we're 10, nays Is.
I arT
till Monday next at : o'clock y. III. He
desired to say that during his service as Pre-
siding Officer there had been huv one dis
charge, aud that was where the party was
Il. tuaily guilty Of dishonesty. None Of the
Senators were aware of the political princ-
piles If any Of its officers. and he hoped that
if they were 70 be removed, t would be post
poned till December, so that they could OBJ
tain employment for the:. selves elsewhere,
in the meantime.
hr Hale denied the right Of the Senator
from Kentucky, to draw the conclusion that
i! was intended to make general Sweep
lie concurred with much which had fallen
from the Senator from Kentucky, and if bis
politica! friends intended any general sweep
they should not have his assistance.
Mr. Bright said he had been a member ct
the Senate fer sixteen years, and had never
known change made among the officers Of
| the Senate on political grounds.
MIR. FeSSenden caucurrtd in the views
of Mr.. Hale. and declared that no general
sweep was intended.
Dir. HYaakiri.ihge expressed his gratiica-
ton q. what had fallen !rom Senators OH III"
opposite side. He vas glad 10 hear 40 word
spoken in defence Of the policy, now to be
inaugura5nd.
Mr.. C!ingman said shat some Whn canr
here ior foreign MISSIONS now pressed Scaa-
tors ior Doorkeeperships, and probably
would soon 10 content with Did Cothas.-
lie warned Senators that they had not officers
enough Tor the seekers, ANA that the seekers
would probably be 40 better oif' II year after
they we're appointed than they nnw are,
while hundreds would he disappointed.
Mr.. Douglas thought that the Senate was
about u make a step in wrong direction. -
Sensible men everywhere were becoming
convinced that this proscrl ptlon for Opinions
sake WAS wrong. Heretofore, the Senate
had escaped tha conIasioa; Why now en-
brace it.
Mr.. johnson, Of Tennessee, SAD that t!ia
Senate had assembed for the consideration
ui Executive business, aui, he moVeti, that
the Senate so into Executive session.
The motion was lnst--Yeaa y, nays %.
Mr. Nesmi:il, oi Oregon, said that be BE-
longad - the party which believed that 10
the yictors belonged the Spols, the Only
question was whether this was the Tune IL
laspoil the wounded, and strip the dead
|! l. said hc hal had some business To tran>-
act with tie Departments, and could not &C.
near them, for toe crowd~-young men, long
lank and tall: old men, fat and bald, all IN
waiting on The favor of s*tlne Secretary. ita
bad no objection ~ change IN The ':tiln'>.
iui he thought that tie administration
should attend 10 the country first, and then
to tie rffice holders. lie would. if he were
President, order out the United States forces,
and drive the Office seekers from the city at
| the point OF the bayonet. He hoped, howev-
er, that this practice Of change would not i'll
wade the SenSe.
After various dilatorv motions. and fnrt!l-
cr debate bv MeSsrs. Powell ard n0e!itts
the Senate went into Executive session, and
afterwards adjourned.