The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-04-26
TIE LAST OF THE GORHANC0LE
DIFFICULTY.

We were able to gather from the dis
patches of a week ago that the trouble
between Mr.. Gorham and Senator Cole
had, by common consent of Republican
Senators, been indefinitely postponed.
This conclusion is subslantiated by
statements in the later Washington pa
pers. The Washington Republican OF
April 18th says:
A caucus of Republican Senators was held
yesterday to receive the report of the COM
mittee recently appointed to investigate the
personal troubles existing between Senator
Cole and Secretary Gorham. The committee
reported back the testimony without recon-
mendation, and the time of the caucus was
consumed in reading it. The testimony is
said to be very voluminous, as to consist, on
the part of the Senator, of afidavits as to
certain epithets which the Secretary applied
to him in private conversations more than a
year ago. There was not, as might have
been supposed from an item contained in an
evening contemporary of yesterday, any ques-
ton whatever as to the manner in which the
Secretary has discharged his official duties.
The controversy is wholly of personal
character, and has grown out of the faction
fights in California. The caucus adjourned
until to-day, when the whole matter will pro-
badly be disposed of.
In its issue of the l4:h inst. the sa me
paper says:
The caucus of Republican Senators which
assembled Yesterday spent mere than an hour
and half in good humoredly considering the
personal grievances which Senator Cole has
presented for consideration, and after patient
sitting and close vote determined to adjourn
TO Friday next. Several Senators, seeming
to regard the whole affair as an unnecessary
bore, absented themselves from the caucus,
thus at one time leaving it without quorum.
1t was suggested by wag that the soiled lin
en of Senator Cole and Secretary Gorham be
handed back to them, with the request that
it be washed elsewhere. The suggestion is
not without reason, as the Senate has never
yet been converted into a laundry.
In its issue of the 10th April the Re-
Publican says:
The adjourned caucus of Republican SEN
ators which assembled yesterday to consider
the personal charges presented by Cole |
against Secretary Gorham, remained in ses-
sion until sharp twelve. As the matter under
consideration is purely of a personal charact-
er, it has been quite difficult to get exact in
formation as to what was done. 1t is certain,
however, that the caucus adjourned, after
having requested the committee, to whom the
matter was previously referred, to arrange it
amicably. 1t is presumed that the caucus
wished to wash its hands Of an unpleasant
matter, which it should never have been asked
10 consider, in such manner as not to wound
the feelings of either of the gentlemen who
have been engaged perhaps unnecessarily in
the unhappy controversy. 1t is to be hoped
that this is the end of it.
We clip the following editorial item
from Col. Forney's paper, the Washing
ton Chronicle, of the 10th inst. 1t is
conclusive as to the status of the diff
Guilty j.
The Republican Senatorial caucus yester-
lay afternoon disposed of the complaint
against Secretary Gorham by referring it
Jack to the subcommittee, with the recon-
to effect reconciliation between
lin and Senator Cole. This is happy ter
.linatiou of an unpleasant affair, and we now
ook for a restoration of good feeling between
he parties. Mr.. Gorham has always been /
eady for such an understanding. {
All this means that an opportunity is
fered to Senator Cole to bury the
a.ches with no compromise of his off
iai dignity, and that Mr.. Gorham will I
OF be subjected to a further inveztiga- q
on of his private expressions and
pinious.