The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-20
Stumping In Congress--An Evening OF oehe-
raj Debate in the House.

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Whole (Mr. Cullom, of Illinois, in the chair)
for general debate-that is for the purpose. q
a round of stump speeches on the issues, can
didates and platforms connected with the
Presidential contest This Is convenient
method of circulating, through the Congress
SIGNAL Globe, at the public expense, the learned,
profound. instructive, but superfuous ha-
rangues of the members on the political situa-
ton for the general information of the country.
Mr. Stone (democrat), of Maryland, opened
the preceding evening, in defence Of General
Frank Blair's trenchant letter on the Congress
sional system of Southern reconstruction-tha
startling letter in which the bold Missourian
says If elevated to the White House he would,
la Cromwell, but without any psalm singing,
make short work of the Long Parliament and
all it's doings. Mr.. Stone contended-in The
Pickwickian sense, no doubt-that this letter
was q manly appeal to the conservative senti-
ment of the country in behalf of State rights, as
expounded in the Virginia and Kentucky reso-
lutions of 98 and 80. This was long time
anterior to the Deluge; but Mr.. Stone was
speaking for the Maryland democracy of the
strict construction school, according to the
constitution as it was and the Union as it is in
the oyster regions of Chesapeake Bay.
Next in order came Mr.. Hill (republican), Of
New Jersey, in an exposition Of the principles
and purposes of the republican party, as I'M
derstood among the. ''huckleberry" plantations
and peach orchards in the imperial dominions
Of Camden and Amboy. Last November, on
universal negro suffrage, Mr.. Hill and his po-
litical brethren found in the results of their
State election that they had undertaken an
uphill business, and it is probable that they
will have their hands full in pleading the more
convenient policy Of compulsory negro suffrage
by act of Congress, in South Carolina, for in
stance, and suffrage according to the will of
the States north of Mason and Dixon's line.
Mr.. Maynard (republican), of Tennessee,
preached from an easier text-the public SER
vices and solid and reliable character and
qualifications of General Grant for the highest
public trust. We have heard it said that Mr..
Maynard, on the stump in Tennessee, is re-
garded by his friends as more than Q match for
Andy Johnson in ''swinging round the circle"
In any event we are free to infer that with the
in the House at ninety-th Mr..
Maynard, in undertaking a campaign speech
by gaslight, must have thought the occasion to
be ''big with the fate Of Caesar and of Rome"
and likewise Pompey.
The sold Commoner," more Familiarity
known as cold Thad, next took the floor, and
In being able to do so at near ten o'clock at
night, with the mercury among the nineties,
after week of such sweltering heats in Wash
ngton, it proves that the old man, who for
many months has been reported on the verge
Of dissolution, is still possessed of prodigious
amount Of vitality. The indomitsble leader of
the House, however, had something more I'm
portant to deliver than the common opinions
Of his party on the Chicago or New York
nominations and articles Of faith for he rose
10 the discussion Of resolution reaffrming the
right of the House to voice in all treaty
stipulations involving the purchase of terri
tory, and to instruct the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to inquire into the expediency Of pro-
viding funds to purchase q convenient naval
station and depot among the West India
islands, if the same can be had at q reasonable
price, and requiring negotiations at the same
time to be instituted in view of such
purchase. This, if not satirical means
that while Mr.. Stevens is in favor of
the island Of st. Thomas or the bay
of SANTANA in Dominica, he is opposed to leav-
ing such contracts exclusively to the State De-
from the preamble to the Alaska Appropriation
bill, that Mr.. Stevens has the House at his
command on this proposition.
The terrible Logan, of Illinois, came next,
in tearing philippe on the democratic plat
form, in which he pronounced the personnel Of
the Tammany Hall Convention as the same
parties who started the rebellion and sought
the destruction of our nationality"-the very
theme for Logan. He was followed by Mr..
Van Horn, of New York, on the same side,
and at ten o'clock p. NJ, exhausted by the
oppressive heat and these superfuous cam
paign speeches, and saturated with perspira-
ton, and painting for the cooling application of
a sherry cobbler or a lemonade with stick
in it" the committee rose and reported pro-
gress, and the House adjourned.
Moral-Whcn the House Of Representatives
can find no better employment for a night ses-
sion, with the thermometer at ninety three,
than the discussion of the Chicago and Tam
many Hall platforms, 1t is high time for Con-
gress to shut up shop and go home.
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