The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-23

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Schurz, he can take care of himself. Look
ing ut these party troubles and bubbles we
sometimes think that General Grant has the
| game in his hands anyhow, sometimes that his
enemies will drive him to the river, as they
did at Shiloh, and that hs reserves will not
| come up; sometimes that we shall have in
| 1872 fearful scrub race; aud these late
scenes in the Senate 60 very lar to strengthen
| rs ia this opinion. AS Congress seems at last
| to have surfeit of niggers we know of no
better experiment for General Grant than q
bold push on those Alabama claims.
Congress --vl,e Holiday Eccess-gne ST. Do-
IninGo Question.
The adjournment Of Congress yesterday for
The Christmas holidays was prelaced by the
passage in the Senate of the joint resolution
relating to st. Domingo. From noon of
Wednesday till near seven o'clock yesterday
morning the Senate chamber was the scene of
an exciting debate. Sumner ragged and ina
gined vain things against the President, but
found himself refuied logically by Morton, made
fun Of by Nye, roared upon by Chandler, and
almost drowned under q food of invective by
Conkling but STILL undsmayed by the storm he
! had himself provoked, he struggled on through
the weary hours OF the night, and only as the Sun
rose realized the tboroughuessof his defeat in
the recorded vote Of thirty -0ne TO nine. Only
three Senators OF his own party stood by him
in his fall-Schurz, Patterson, and Morrill, of
Vermont. The first named had had bis own
private quarrel with the President, and there
fore voted against the resolution. Patterson,
moro of scholar than politician, flnds
himself more at home in university than in
the arena where great public events are de-
cided, and may be supposed to have a
and as for Mr.. Morrill,, if he has weakness, it
is for economy, and any project that may take
money out Of the Treasury finds no friend or
supporter in him. 1t can, therefore, hardly
| be said that the joint resolution found on the
| republican side of the chamber one Senator
who voted against it on its merits.
! No wonder that President Grant felt
| elated when the pleasant news Of the triumph
| of his policy and Of the utter defeat Of the
| enemy was announced to him by Vice Presi-
| dent Cofax on his return home from the
Senate yesterday morning The vote insures
the annexation of ST. Domingo, because the
| Senators whom Summers impotic course i'm
PEELED to support the resolution will fDd it
inconsistent, even if 80 disposed, to vote here
| after against the project of annexation. The
| joint resolution, as it passed the Senate, was
sent yesterday to the House, and lies on the
body after the holidays 1t will then,
| we presume, be referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, with leave
to report at any time aud as the chairman
Of that committee, Mr.. Banks, and the ma
jority of its members, are warmly in favor Of
the annexation scheme, It will be promptly
reported back, and will be passed by the House
| with little or no opposition. In the House
yesterday the time was passed altogether In a
little badinage among Virginia members rela-
tive to universal amnesty.
| In the meantime, Senators and members,
clerks and officers, have packed up their
travelling valises and started towards all points
| o. the compass to spend their Christmas holt
| days at home. Thus closes the first chapter
| of the acts Of the present session When they
come back business will be resumed in earnest,
| and the two remaining months of the Forty.
first Congress will be consumed in the abso-
lutte and actual work Of legislation.
READING OUT OF THE PARTY. If it is
competent for the republicans who DOM
know exactly where they stand themselves
to read anybody out Of the republican
party, it is fine instance Of retributive justice
to have them read Sumner out--Sumner, who
has been lion in the fight ever since he wal
knocked into confirm abolitionism by
Preston Brooks cana--Sumner, who was
veteran OF abolitionlsm when some Of hi
readers-out were just shedding their demo
cratic skins-Sumuer, too. who, claiming {
chief proprietorship In the party, has beer
meroiIessIy rigid in reading out Of 1t such re-
cusant members as Fessenden, Trumbull aud
the famous seven who saved Andy Johnson
Sumner has been bitter against all such. HI
has been the conscience of the radical party
singing all the weaker members TO his ideas O
duty, and now to have the whole party, as !
were, singing him in turn is consummatiol
that the grave Senator from Massachusetts
never expected to see.
GENERAL SCHESCK has beeu confirmed &
Minister 10 England.
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