The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-23
XLIst CONGREss---Thi,d Session.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS CONTINUED
At the close of Mr.. Summers speech the
Senate took recess until evening.
AT the evening session Mr.. Morton took the
floor and made vigorous reply to the speech
of Mr.. Sumner. He defended the action of the
President in the matter from first to last, and
then took up various points of Mr.. Sumner
speech, which he review ed in his usually forci-
Die and earnest style.
Mr.. Nye followed in one of his rambling
stump-speeches, affecting to lament that q
member whom he honored as he does Mr. Sum-
ner should be led to accuse all his friends of
crime becau 9 they did not think as he did
Then Mr.. Chandler took the floor and made
Almost supplementary attack on MIR. Sum-
ner, accusing him of a desire for the presiden-
cy, which led him to imagine he could split the
Republican party and uniting half of it with
the Democracy accomplish his design. He
held uE to Mr.. Sumper the example of Messrs.
Seward, Chase and Johnson,-but this was not
the worst. He had letters from Forney to
President Grant, and another narrating the
circumstances of the interview between Grant
and Sumner regarding this treaty, all of whom
said they understood Mr.. Sumner to say he
would support the treaty.
Mr.. Summers reply was great. He said he
was con PEELED to make statement which he
had hoped never to make and tnen gave an ac-
count OF an interview between the President
and himself. He said the President four times
addressed him as chairman of the judiciary
committee, and spoke of the new treaty he had
negotiated, whereupon Mr.. Sumner changed
the subject and went to talking about MIR. Ash
ley, meantime meditatipg how to meet the
matter; and when the President again intro
duced the subject, he informed him IN delber-
ately chosen words that he was an administra-
ton man, and whatever the President might
do should receive careful and considerable at
tentiOn, and that was all. On his political DO
sitiOn he said when the Democratic party fol-
lowed him it would be regenerated and Re-
publican.
He appealed to the Vice President, saying.
II call upon you to call at once upon the Pres
ident, to repair Immediately to the Executive
mansion, and tell him by the authority you
can justly command not to follow. the example
Andrew JohLs Tell him not to Cypress
weak and humble people; tell him not to exer-
else the war power without the authority of
Congress-; tell him not to forget there is
grandeur in Justice and in peace beyond any
thing in war;" @
He further argued against annexation and
in conclusion protested against the adoption of
this resolution, as he had dune in the begin
ming of bis speech. as another stage in the
drama of blood. He said he protested against
it in the name Of justice outraged by violence;
in the name of humanity, insulte n the
name of the weak and trodden dow1 In the
name of peace, imperilled, and in the name of
the African race, whose first effort at independ-
pence mad been rudely aSsalled.
Afterward q recess was taken and on reas-
semblng the debate went on. Roscoe Conk-
ling reviewed Mr.. Summers course and policy
with all the rhetoric and sarcasm at his COM
mand.
Mr.. Schurz's motion to ad journ at one o'clock
was lost, II to 80. Mr.. Buckingham motion
to refer the resolution to the Committee on
Foreign Relations was rejected, IL to 81. An
amendment by Mr.. Schurz charging the in
vestigation SO as to include other points than
San Domingo was reported. Mr.. Bayard's
amendment to require the appointment of
49,
A motion to adjourn was voted down at
three o'clock by An overwhelming viva yoce
vote, the friends of the resolution expressing
their determination to sit out all opposition
and several Senators being asleep on lounges
in the Senate
Mr., Scott submitted an amendment prohib-
iting the appointment of Congressman as
members to the proposed commission; reject
ed, 16 to g.
At four O'Clock Mr.. Casserly took the floor
and proceeded to show the majority were de-
termined to prevent an inquiry not agreeable
to them. go
The debate thereafter was mainly of an in
terlocutory character but was marked at times
with an acrimonious spirit which relieved the
monotony Of the late sessions.
An amendment by Mr.. Schurz to postpone
all investigations until three months after
withdrawing the United States naval forces
from Dominican water, was supported by Mr.
Sumner upon the ground that an expression of
the popular will of the Dominicans for or
against annexation should be unnfuenced BY
the presence Of bayOnets. He commenced APP
provingly upon the laws in England prohibit
ing the presence of the military within GER
tain limit of election polls, and argued that the
amendment involved a great principle of con-
stitutiOpal liberty.
Mr.. Thurman of Ohio, regretted the princi-
pal laid down by Mr. Sumner had not been ap-
piled of late in New York.
In the course of the DEBATE Mr.. Sumner and
Mr.. Edmonds became involved in a personal
controversy, which resulted with Mr. Summers
admission that when at the last session he be-
came satisfied he could not support the treaty
he ought TO have communicated that fact to
the President, and he regretted not having
done that. This, he said, was the extent of his
offending and it did not justify all the denun-
Citations heaped upon him during the debate
He thought Mr.. Edmunds should do him lit
tie more Justice. Mr.. Edmunds retorted that
| if full justice was done the Senator from Mass.
his language to-day in regard to the President
| would have received much more severe CEN
| sure than it had.
Mr.. Carpenter spoke in defence of the Presi-
| dent, and at o'clock MIR. Casserly proceeded
to deliver general resume of the who con-
troversy but without proceeding far yielded to
The resolution was then passed, 81 to 9. The
| vote was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Abbott, Ames, Brownlow
Carpenter. Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett
Cragin, Edmunds, Flanagan, Hamilton Of
Texas, Hamlin, Howe. Howell, Morton, Nye
Osborn, Pomeroy, Pool, Ramsey, Revels, Ross
| Sawyer, Scott, Sherman, Stewart, Thayer
Warner, Wiley and Williams-31.
Nays-Messrs: Cassery, McCreery, Morril
Of Vermont, Patterson, schur2, Stockton
Sumner, Thurman, and TiptOn-9.
Messrs Howard and Lewis who would have
voted in the affirmative were paired will
Messrs. Bayard and johnson in the negative
The Senate at Gas A. NJ, adjourned.
THURSDAY.
Soon after IL o'clock the Senate went into
| executive session and confirmed the nOmna
ton of Gen. Schenck as Minister to England
On the opening of the doors, Mr.. Schurx pre-
| sented the credentials of Mr.. Jewett of Mis-
souri,, appointed to temporarily fill the vacanc.
| caused by the resignation Of MIR. Drake, and
Mr. Jewett was qualified and took his seat
Mr.. Daniel F. Jewett, the new Senator, i
a native of Maine, and was until he went t.
Missouri thirteen years ago, practical lawye
in Bangor. He was originally Wing, then
Douglas Democrat, and an active Union mai
during the war,-Ed. Press.1
At 1 clock the Senate resumed open ses
sion, and the House bill relieving certain cti
gems of Virginia of political disabilities, wa
discussed by Messrs Lewis and Bowman. MI
Trumbull also spoke In favor of general am
nesty; after which the bill was laid aside with
out further action.
The deah of Representative Smyth of lows
was announced, and after a eulogy by MI
Harlan the Senate adjourned until January 4
| HOUSE.
The House met for general debate on III
Presidents message and was addressed BY MI
Jones in favor of universal amnesty.
The bill regulating the rates of duty on suga
was signed by the Speaker and sent to tn
President for his Siunatura