The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-29
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WASHINGTON.

!. CT WASHINGTON.
Is A. Interesting Resssss 81 ai:: Pre-
day.
WASHINGTON, Dee 2I.-Mr. Sumner
made personal explanation in the Senate
IT this evening i'm regard 70 the publication con-
"a corning the differences between himself and
the President He denied that he had ever
spoken Unexpectedly of the President or
impugned his motives, either in executive
r session or in the street cars or elsewhere
u There is no doubt, however, that the PrSi-
!. dent has been assured that Mr.. Sumner had
done all these things, and upon such as~ur-
ances he made the statement telegrapbed
/, Yesterday. Ii has cuIne out that the staff
officer who spoke Of Offering violence to Mr.
.. Sumner was Gen. Babcock.
Mr.. Morton, IN reply to Sumner, this
evening. stated that The reasons and the arcii-
ments of the latter were immateriai and
frivolous, and Eiadc vigorous defense of the
administration. The intention OF the friends
Of annexation, he said, was to begin de MIRO;
! therefore they proposed this commission.
Mr.. Chandler arraigned Sumner for tie
statement that the President lad attempted
TO change the Committee on Foreign Re-
sdtioTi- WI. Itf
proofs,
Mr.. Sumner replied that il had all been
discussed in the cilcuS Of the committee, OF
which lac, (CLandleil was chairman.
Mr.. Chandler acknowledged this by de
nouncing the man who repeated the conf
dental conversation, very mean, and de- /
manded his na,nc, which Mr. Sumner de- /
ciined TO give. Mr.. Chandler, bv reading |
part of two letters, furnished by the Pre~i-
dent, purporfing Ia give the substance of 1
promise made by Mr.. Sumner to the Presi-
dent, at the house Of the former, to support
the treaty OF San Domingo, compelled iir. !
Sumner TO relate what occurred He said
the President called At his hoii-e and at
tempted to explain the new treaty. In doing
~ he three times addressed Mr.. Sumner a.
Chairman of the Committee, on Foreign Re
la;ions, and spoke OF the trsarv enc that
would come before the Committee. He
Summer did not promise 10 support the
treaty, buI assured tine President that any !
measure he proposed would receive his
earnest attention. The statement was re-
oeived with surprise.
At half past 10, Mr.. Conkling took the
floor, and, until sometime after H. had
proceeded in one Of the most bitter, personal,
and IN many respects, powerful speeches, !
.
In all his Congressional career he has never :
spoken under so much excitement. His ,,
statement, however, thai Mr.. Sumner OBJ /,
circulation Of the dispatches con-
corning his differences with the President, is q
known by all newspaper men concerned, to
he wholly unfounded.
Mr.. Sumner, obtaining the unanimous Il
of the Senate 10 make a personal Q
forwarded 10 the Secretary and a
had read portions Of AN article in the morn v
lng's issue Of the daily II,ri0t At Washington,
headed Efforts to bring about i reconsider i,
lion between the President and Mr. Sumner" a
ecgraphed You this morning. "
MIR. Sumner then said: Ii there were any
TO believe that this statement would
e confined 10 the newspaper in which find
il, do not know that should call attention 7
% ii, but was appri-ei las; night that state
ncnt OF this character would he made by
telegraph, and was asked to give some sane
ion 10 it. | replied at once Sthat :.
,ob"dy would have authority from me, nor \
would say word the subject to any, d'
'ody. On last evening and evening before, a
vas approachedin the same way and each time al
gave the same answer. l now deem it nv duty, yn
Is far as | am concerned, To- get the state III
egatiors that Mr.. Sumner attacked the Pres
dent in the Executive Sessions OF the SEN '"
lie. appeal TO my associates in ihe Cham re
er, one and all appeal io my friend from -.
indiana MOrtonl and ask him 10 say to VI
he President simply what he said TO me al
'ersonally, yesterday, with regard TO =,
his allegation. | have never alluded
0 the President in the Executive
es-iOn, except with the most respectful
indness, and challenge anybody TO saw to
he contrary. have criticised his acts, as b'l
Senator. l was obliged To. 80 much for &c
hat. Then comes the generality, Ia which "a
will not allude simply on account of vague wi
ess. i proceed 10 the next point. The In
resident added that on some of these occa- a,
ions Sumner had attributed dishonest mo- h'i
ives to him. Never. challenge every Wa
itizen and Republican, from one end OF the La
Duntry to the other, wherever they nae DE
ave bcen--I challenge every Senator Ia Al
,stify to that point. ! knew too we'll his In
osItion and my own Ia make any st., AT -,
eachment. Then, as to what have SAID, L d
ding back again to this allegation which is "a
} vague, have summoned one witness, a
from Naturalization. now me
,mmon two others and I hone NV voice xii
Iay reach them wherever they NAV he. n
me is Secretary of the State and the
Their is Secretary Of the Treasury.
18th are members soi the Cabinet, and
have this 10 say. l have said WI
nd written to the Secretary of State the no
ords in regard To- the President and his acts III;
: strong, al least, As any 1 have ever ex- th'
ressesi IN the most private intercourse, and III
am inclined 10 think, stronger. ] have
I'D in society, and in the presence Of the
ecretary of the Treasury all the hard things
have SAID against the President, and he III
nows whether they could in any way justify
re imputation. do not SEEK IN any way TO )
,volve these distinguished friends, but ]
Immon them as witnesses and let them tell
ne President what i have said of him. tn
Tn, Senate then proceeded with the reru- is
IT business cal
Bills were introduced 10y Mr.. Einunds, az
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nation OF he New Orleans P">sn'as- AN
Yer. r.
WAsuiNGToN, Dec. 22.-lhe Prcsl'!en,
a. visited, To-day, 10y many Senators ana "
representatives,, who congratulated him upon
ie fs'7-'Ss ". 'Ht LII i't"h-' 's'."'''' |
: the SENATE. lie sad, IN reply, that he
'lieved the annesaiion policy was wise and ~,
rndeni, and he Thought It would gam TO-
Yesterday the President transmitted "a
csSaye To the Senate asking a return of the t"'
pmina,ion of Blanchard, - Postmaster nj r.
ew Orleans in place cf Lowell, the pr,7srnl
Some conversation took place
Ia the position ui the LATTER who was srs- FRI,
several similar cases are before ex
,e Senate. and in order io fix a precedent IN.
he nomination waS rejected to-day, and a tw,
solution passed declaring in substance that,
nder the Tenure OF Office bill, in case of the
lection of Il new nominee, the old incum-
mt remains without The filing Of new
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