Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-27

- inS the following: Provided tn
"nen the quarterly returns Of any postma,
mat the salary allowed is ten per cent. lel
than 1t would be on the basis Of conmissio
under the act of 1851, fixing compensetioT
then the Postmaster General shall revia
and re-adjust under the provisions Of Al
section. ARE oaL
aii $500 SENATE.
Mr.. SUMMER said The underlying ouas
ton was, had Mr. Stockton right 70 vote
ITO that said Mr.. Sumner, '1 understan.
It replied that his name was borne on III
roll of the Senate, and accordingly wa
called at the desk byou Secretary. To tha
reply, and to my mind the reply eanno
De answered, the roll Of the Senate is to b
construed always in suberdinatiOn to th.
/ Prlnelple Of natural law and parliamentary
laW, therefore you are brought again to the
ton right to vote ? Hsdhe right to voks
hrst, according to the principles Of natural
| law,or IN other words, according to the prin-
| cipies of universal law
y Mr. SUMNER then proceeded 70 ouoka'
from ancient and modern autborities B.
sustain his position that Mr.. Stockton could
not act as judge and jury in his own case.
NJ. 'JOHASON said that in the vote cat
| by Mr.. Stockton he represented not himself.
but the State of New Jersey. Whether ba
properly represented New Jersey was not
the question before this body. In the vote
which ne cast, he cast it claiming to be z
representative of New Jersy. His name
stands upon your files as the representative
OF New Jersey. How are you to get it of
He has voted on every proposition that has
been before this body. His vote has always
been recorded, and when has he ceased 70
be member of this bodyg
Mr. TpINpTrTT
that this question is presented in the shane
in which it is before Us. In the considers
ton Of the right to seat BY the Senator from
New Jersey, he had regarded it, and the
committee to which it was preferred had
regarded it as a judicial question. He
endeayored 70 look at b It purely in
that light. It was question of
aw, whether the Senator from New
Jersey was entitled to his seat or not;
IN the opinion of the Committee he was an
Titled TO 1t That was my opinion, it is still
my opinion; think he was clearly entitled
70 It. The Senate differs. Il is not Wheth-
er the State of New Jersey is entitled to q
representative, but whether q person who
claims to have been elected to this body
has been elected or not Il is judicial
question; in my judgment the Senator from
New Jersey had no right to vote. believe
the Senator from New Jersey, as I said
before, is entitled to his seat, but do not
believe he is entitled to hold his seat
by his own vote. He would have held his
seat without his own vote. The vote was .
tie without the Senator from New Jersey.
That would have left him in his seat, he
having been sworn IN. It was not neces-
sary that the resolution should have passed.
1t would have required an Affirmative vote
TO deny him his seat.
Mr. SUMNER said he would withdraw
his motion to allow Mr. Trumbull to move
a reconsideration. sa'1 Eaa
Mr.. DAVIS contsaded at length for the
right Of Mr.. Stockton to vote and chsrac-
terized the attempt to remove him from his
seat as party measure, and an attempt to
get a two-thirds vote on the. other side Of
chamber. ga
Mr.. STOCKTON then took the floor and
argued at great length upon his right to
vote on behalf of his States interest. He
said his colleague, Mr.. Wright, was confined
to sick bed, and Mr.. Morrills conduct he
would characterize in the strongest parlia-
mentary language.
Msssfs INNER and FESSENDEN de-
fenied Mr. Morrill's action.
Mr.. FOSTER eplainxed his ruling Of Fri
day as disclaiming the decision a. to
whether Mr.. Stockton had right to vote
on the question. e n1saTaL
The motion to refer the resolution Of Mr..
Sumner was debated by several Senators.
after which it was dissgreed to by the fol-
lowing Fete: rsa-a q d0flI
Yeas-Anthony, Buekslsw, Cowan, Davis,
Guthrie, Harris, Hendricks, johnson, Lane
sfa Kansas, McDougsl, Nesnith, Norton,
Riddle, Salisbury, Sherman, Trumbull,
Van Winkle, WiIlsy-Is.
Nays-Brown, Chandler, Conness, Crag-
gin, Oressweli, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes,
Howard, Howe, KirkwOod, Lane, of Indi-
ana, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy, Ramsey,
Sprague, Sumner, Wade, Wilson and Yates
-22. Absent, not voting-Dixon, Doolistls,
Foote, Henderson, Morgan, Morrill,, Stew
art, Stockton, Williams and Wright-10.