The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-18

Senate.
WASHINGTON, January II.
Mr.. MORRILL, (Me) from the Committee on
the District Of Columbia, reported the bill tC
lumbia, and for other purposes, with amend.
ments. The amendments provide for the APP
pointment by the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of five Judges OF election for the city OF
Washington and three for the city Of George
town, whose duty 10 shall be- biennially ana
prior to each election, to prepare q list OF the
persons qualified to vote in the said cities, the
sadJudges TO be in open session IN tnelr re-
hcatiOns of persons claiming to be voters, and
for correcting SAID lists, on two days biennially,
not exceeding hve days prior to each election
for city officers giving public notice of the time
and place of said sessions, and that the said
Judges shall, at least ten days prior TO said
election, post up in their respective cities list
of the voters thus prepared.
Mr.. LANE Gnd.) called up the bill TO regulate
the appointment Of pension agents.
Mr.. FEssENDEN (Maine) said he objected to
the kind of legislation contained in the amend
ment vacating all offices filled slnco the ISL OF
Pending the consideration Of this bill the
morning hour expired, and the regular order,
which was the bill to regulate the tenure OF
office was taken up. 80,
Mr. MCDoUGALUall spoke against the bill.
Mr. WILEY (W Va.)replied to speech made
nv Mir Cowan Yesterday, in which the latter
gentleman said the President had removed
none from office but those who had made use
of abusive language toward him and his policy.
The President, Mr.. Wiley said, had not ad-
hered to that course in West Virginia, for there
the most, One man, named Long, had been
appointed Postmaster at wheeling. lie was
the editor OF the Wheeling Register.
MIR WILEY read extracts from the paper
named, of the dates of March 49, II and ID, 1868,
in which the President is denounced as
drunkard an idiot, etc,
Mr.. JOHNSON Md asked when that appoint
ment was made, and if it had been confirmed?
Mr.. WILEY Nv. Va) said the appointment
mas made i'm the recess of Congress- and had not
Mr. CowAN pa. said it was impossible, where
nWfNNV nNaTNf IN M
avoid an occasional mistake.
Mr. HENDRICKs Qnd) replied toa speech from
Mr.. Sumner few days since, in which the latter
gentleman said the misconduct of the Executive
threw new duties upon Congress.
He (Nr. Hendricks) had never sympathized
with general removal from office, but the doc
trine of Mr.. Sumner was that man once in
office should continue in office. The President
had removed but one man in six in the civil
Offices Of the country, leaving five against him.
In 1861 there was a prescription for political
opinion more sweeping than was ever before
known in the country. Scarcely man was LETT
in office TO represent the large minority through
out the country. Mr.. Hendricks never charged
Mr.. Lincoln with doinS wrong in the removal
of Democrats from Office. SO great had been the
prescription OF the last five years that it had
entered the Courtroom and influenced the
lection OF juries, so that cases in law might be
decided from party standpoint
The first day of this session three distin-
guished Senators had been removed from the
heads of committees because they indorsed the
President The office-holders of the city were
nearly all opposed to the President The post
masters and collectors of the citv were leaders
of the Republican party. In nine cases out of
ten where the President had removed any
body. he had appointed in his place a man
who had voted the Lincoln and Johnson ticket
In 1864
While Mr.. Hendricks was speaking, he was
Interrupted by Mr.. Sumner, who asked him if
he (Mr. HendriclIs) meant to give his approba-
ton to the extraordinary language of the Presi-
cent, IN which he announces the policy to
which he (Nlr. Summer referred. and made de-
claration of his intention to kick men out of
Office, which he commenced to carry into exc
culion on hisreturn from st. Louis to Washing
ton. He (Mr Sumner) would ask the Senator
from Indiana, if he was vindicating the conduct
oithe President in carrying that declaration
into effect
Mr. HENDRIeKs- question is a question
OF rhetoric; Uaughter) cannot say that l
like the style attributed to the President of the
United States. (Laughter) l say, then, that
thePresident otthe United States, by the judg-
melt OF the country in former administrations,
has been sustained in removing from Office men
opposed to his policy, and placing in office men
VINO are in sympathy with him. This had al
ways been expressed in the pleasant terms of
removal from Office; but to kick a man out is to
express the same thing in other language not
Now, Mr. President, have doubts whether
the PRESIDENT uSt that language; and so strong
we've my doubts. hat, after heard il from the
Senator from Massachusetts, / went and asked
MIN II he was sue the President had used it.
ne SAID ne read 1t ~ the newspapers. I had not
read that speech I had read some of the
speeches, but I didnot take upon myself the
TASK OF reading all. the speeches made by the
PRESIDENT on his way to Chicago and back.
kBaughter.)
Mr.: CoNNEss (Call lreviewed the history of the
political diierencesNbetween the President and
congress. The responsibility for these unfortu-
nate diderences waspot with Congress. As TO
the offices and removals it was we'll known that
the PRESIDENT would.not have restricted him
sell TO four hundred removals We're il not that
tAe senate stood between the PRESENT incum-
Dent OF Federal offices and the President The
Philadelphia Convention played for all the
omces IN the country and they lost all and
Nj. Hendricks as to Me proscrintion Of the
senate III excluding thIfe Senators from chair
iHiSanshlps OF committeeS he would say that the
~ JuutllehE hau Deen confirmed in the case of one
OF tnese Senators, who Nad recently received
tiI CHS NoteS OF tne opposition members Of the Le-
Slsiature OF his State for the Office of senator
Mr. MCDoUGALL (Cal.) resumed the floor on
me general subject OF the tuure of office.
ofISnc d,CTil d1o9iLirILE M (Wisl fvored tenure Of
@OdiICG @ curing good behavior. He had become
CONVINCED in favor of this ulon an inyestiga
tton n, oi MOAN affairs in the British Provinces
Agents and others in that eupIovnent were
retained during life and the Government was
gLeatiy Denentted: The power of removal
WheJher placedhn the Senate or in the Fxenutive'
Convention and the gentlemen who nsrtici
teo Raoeo IN IN IT, ne claimed for himself and for
Inose VINO acted with him. the most natriotic
motives. He would NOT sneak at Ien%b on tbi
Topic now, out at future time he eXpected TO
90 So he expected to prove that the poIicy Nf
the Administration was The noiicv nf RTr RTr'TS VI
Si com, ana nom which the Republican party had
Mr.. HOWE CWis.) said that ipasmrcb os ,,,.
colleague tAr Doolittle) had spent good daai
OF ume IN attempting to demonstrates the pTob.
lem already. and as twO-thrds of the naoDio
had failed to see 1t, he did not think il yyopiJ
pay for bim to try to demonstrate il anV move
Mr.. DooLITTLE said he could demonstrate H.
from his colleagues own speech on the ones
ton OF admitting Arkansas TO representation
N MT, ~ HOWE denied that any such thing could
De proven from the speech referred to.
MI. SUAiNER (Mass.) replied to the remarks of
seNeIaI senators against the pending PROPOSE
ttlon' Whlchs was the amendment offered by
HlnlI anu congratulated the President on having
I9una SO able defender and champion as MI
Hendricks, and he would say that before this
CONTROVERSY was endad tie Dresidant ,unnIa