Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-28
From the Baltimore Gazette.

From the Baltimore Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, March q.
The proceedings Of the Senate to-day
have been spicy. The ball opened by a
" personal explanation of Hon. Roscoe
Conkling, of New York. 1t seems the
Chronicle Of this city had given a fancy
sketch Of what occurred aud was said in
secret caucus, by the Radicals day or
two ago, in which the Knickerbocker
Senator is represented to have dsriBgly
and vociferously set at defiance the in
structions Of his State upon the Tenure
of-Ofire act, and to ha e said divers
other things which he ought not to have
said, and done things which he ought
not to have done. From the in
which the Senator rolled up his sleeves
/ and squared himself, something of i'm
portance was supposed to be on the tapis.
/ But. Judge of the Disappointment Of the
! spectators, when be cOntented himself
with only stigmatizing the Radical Or
gan SIS unworthy o. belief, and its state
ments a tissue Of lies from beginning to
end. Poor Forney! Everybody sp-
peared to look upon the announcement rs
mere surplussge. The quondsm Sscre-
tary of the Senate is evidently no.
where"
Sssrcsly had this little "onplessant-
mss - subsidized when Mr.. Trumbull sub
mitted the grand result of al the recent
c~sucussing upon the eDgulphiDg ques-
ton. The first section OF his new bill
81 repealsn IN toto the obnoxious law
but the second instantly Te-snscts the
most Objectionable features OF it. This
was made manifest by the few remarks
made by M. Crimes, which you will
get otherwise. With the single exeep.
ton of Cabinet offices, the law will re. |
main substantially and practically the |
same as when originally enacted. The
main point is given up by the repeal
ers,n snd that Is that the Senate reserue
TO Itself The poUeT to restore onV officer
removed, or suspended 6y the President ! !
Upon a test vote the 'repealers mus
tered twenty-five votes. This is q very
remarkable adherence TO principle. /
when 1t is considered that there were
only thirty-'hree Of the Radical faction
who had sworn upon their co-s'iences
to accept nothing short of 8 total sbrogs-
ton Of the infamous act. But what IS.
tOnished everybody, and to the de-
gree of sctusl wonderment, was
that the General .in-Chief Of the
forlorn hope, after calamity lead
ing his little squad, reinforced
by Conservative recruits, to the last
ditch, suddenly abandoned his COM
mGnd, and went over to the enemy, "it
not with bag and baggage, at least with
scrip and ~serippsge." The intellectual
giant, Morton, csved in, and in q long
speech sought to show that by q fraudu
lent construction of the new law, the
new President night evR1e il! HIS
speech is a perfect specimen Of that sort
Of logic in vogue nova days, by which
any proposition, however absurd, may
be maintained By begging the question
at issue.
The Anglo Saxon Of all this maneu
is simply this: Grant has been
whipped in his cOntrOversy-hss submit
ted to the yoke Of the Senatorial wire
and awaits their decision ss to
the most important Offices. / forbesr
comment. Il is known here that the
measure wss submitted to TIE President
and acceded to by him. Its final passage
Is 8 foregone conclusion. Y.