Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-21
LATEST TEGEGRAMS.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGs
senate.

w AShlNGIONs July IO.-mr. marian
moved TO take up the House bill for the
regulation and election of officers for WASH
ington City.
A point of order was passed that to con-
slider this bill was violation of the rule
adopted at the commencement Of the ses-
sion, and it was decided that the bill could
not be taken up.
Mr.. Chandler moved that the Clerk be
instructed to return the adjournment reso-
luton which had been communicated to
the House. He noticed that the Senators
who voted for the resolution were the same
who voted last spring against an extra ses-
sion. In the course of his remarks he re-
| ferred to Mr. Fessenden as the Conserva-
| tive member from Maine, who in April last
had so much confidence in the President,'as
| to believe be would call Congress together
| Unnecessary. The President in his Rebel mes
sage had said substantially that we woulden-
force the reconstruction law of Congress. He
hoped Congress would not adjourn until il
| had provided for meeting again at an early
| day. After further remarks, he said there
was a sort Of hybrid concern in the Senate
known as Conservative Republicanism, and
like all other hybrids it was incapable of
| reproduction. 1t originated in 1862 under
VIM. H. Seward, Thurlow Weed and few
Copperheads and Northern Rebels In 1865
| it again raised its head in an attempt to
unite Republicans and Rebels. The high
| way of Conservative Republicanism was
as clearly marked with gravestones as the
| highway to California was marked with the
carcasses and bones of dead mules. The
people had not gone to erecting tombstones.
Some of the large cities were Conserva-
| tive, but nine-tenths of the people of the
| United States we're sound Radicals.
Mr.. Fessenden replied that the Senator's
speech was evidently intended as an attack
upon himself l have been aware for some
| time that this Senator and some other
Senators designed deliberately, if they
could to iniure my standing and position
as much as might be done in the party to
which l have the honor TO belong. This
is not the first attack made on me by the
Senator and his friends / am aware that
the Senator land he is not the only one) has
| taken pains privately to represent me un-
| favorably, because / do not agree with him
| in his notions with reference to the con-
duct of public officers. It has not been
| confined to this body and the other House,
but has even gone into the reporters
/ offices, who have been denounced in the
/ same way. Divers and sundry charges
have gone the same way, but my notion is,
that the reputation of public man will
| take care of itself, and when he does right,
| the public will so determine. Mr.. Fessepden
| then alluded to an attack upon him in a
Detroit paper, where Chandler resides, and
in which he was denounced as opposing
| the impeachment because he had so many
/ friends and relations in Offices. He had
three brothers in offices, neither of Whora
had been appointed at his request or by
his solicitation or suggestion. He had
been twitted with the fact that his sons
we're Generalsin the army. God gave him
| four sons, three of whom were volunteers
| the other volunteered, but his health broke
down and he was obliged to return home.
His youngest son fell in battle, another
had his arm shattered, and that the third
was wounded. He never asked the APP
| pointment Of one Of them to any position
in the army. They got their own recon-
mendations from their superior officers,
and were promoted, through their exer-
! tons. They are now out of the service en-
| tirely. As for himself, no fear whatever of
Radical examination of his course here in
| the Senate, and upon this question or any
other, he would leave his public character
to take care of ITSELF and if he had the
slightest idea what the Senator from Mich
igan could say would affect it, he should
look upon himself with contempt. He did
not feel, in conclusion, that Mr.. Fessenden's
time had come. There was q very serious
difference of opinion in Congress. Upon
this very important question he considered
that II was not proper for a Senator to ex-
press an opinion or even form one. His
idea was that men who might be called to
account as judges, should keep themselves
from anything that might be supposed to
influence their opinion in advance with re-
gard to this great question. As a matter Of
policy, and as a matter Of good sense, be
had not withheld his opinion from his
friends, and perhaps that opinion was we'll
known to the Senate, but should the ques-
ton come before the Senate he trusted that
be should be able to meet it calmly and
vote upon it fairly, whether with the ma
iority or the minority.
Mr.. Chandler said the Senator had
brought up his family and exhibited it in
the Senate. He (Chandler) had never al
luded to that family record at all. He had
uCNCA 5CEn Nlt dItACi6 W WHICH, Es5tuutD
alluded to as appearing in Detroit paper.
He had attacked Fessenden on his public
record, and bis public declarations on this
floor. 1t was known, not only to the Sem
ate, but TO the country, that the Senator
from Maine had stood here month after
month, and week after week, the defender
of Andrew johnson and his Cabinet.
Mr.. Fessenden-I have but few words
to say, and that il, that the Senator from
Michigan says that which is not So
Mr.. Chandler-Was it not defense of
the President to say that he would call an
extra session of the Senate?
Mr.. Fessenden-Ho, sir.
Mr.. Chandler. Then | don't understand
the meaning of the English language. He
stood here as the defender of the President
and Secretary of the Treasury day after
day, and week after week. | care nothing
about him nor his family. | care not how
many men he has in Office, or how many
out of Office. 1t is a matter too small to
allude to in this body. His public record
his utterances on this foor-his votes
these / have a right 20 comment on.
When he talks about contempt for me, /
hurl back his contempt with scorn. have
record as well as he, and / am as proud
of it as he is Of his. | have nothing on
that record to apologize for or explain.
My votes and utterances for ten years /
see no reason to change or review.
House of Representatives.
A resolution for printing $1,000 copies
of certain chapters of the report Of Captain,
now General A. A. HUMPHREYS on physics,
on hydropathy of Mississippi river and
10000 copies of the correspondence be-
tween the navy department and Rear Adj
miral Goldsborough was adopted.
Mr. Banks, from the Committee on For
eign Affairs, reported Senate bill to carry
into convention with Venezuela for the
adjustment of the claims OF United States
citizens. Passed
Mr.. Banks presented communication |
from the Secretary of State in reply to |
Robinson's resolution, asking information \
with reference to citizens tried and con- I
victed in Ireland for words spoken or acts