The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-13
WASHINGTON.
THE SENATE AND TIE TREATY.
WAsUTNGToN MAY Il

W ARLINGTON, MAY IL.
The Committee on Foreign Relations
held an adjourned meeting at ten o'clock
to-day, continuing until noon. Assistant
Secretary Of State Davis was again before
the Committee tn finish his explanation
Of the treaty. The Senate met at twelve
O'clock, and Immediately after prayer aud
the reading Of the Journal Of Wednesday,
the Senate went into Executive Session,
Attention was called in the Senate to
the premature publication of the
treaty, and there was q spirited debate on
that subject An investigation has been
ordered. Mr.. Cameron has stated that
the Committee on Foreign Relations will
not be ready To report on the treaty until
Monday next at II o'clock.
The Senate has confirmed the nOmina-
tiOn Of Maxwell Woodruff, OF the Dis
trict Of Columbia, rs Assistant Secretary
Of the Legation at London, in place Of
Mr.. ChesGbrough, declined.
The Senate adjourned until Monday
next at II o'clock.
The committee to investigate the pre-
mature publication of the treaty consists
Of Carpenter, Conkllng, Trumbull, Davis
(Ky), and Sumner Much Indignation Is
expressed by some Senators at what they
consider n violation OF the privileges Of
the Senate. The officers OF the Senate
this morning conndentially distributed
among hitherto unSupplied members Of
that body officially printed copies of the
treaty.
THE PREMATURE PUBLICATION OF THE
TREATY-DIscUssToN OF THE MATTER
IN SENATE,
Soon after the adjournment of the SEN
ate, Il became known that the subject Of
the premature and unauthorized publiCa.
tiOn Of the treaty had been brought to the
attention Of that body, when an earnest
diCuslOn took plaCe,in which the illusions
to newspaper correspondents were not Of
IL very ilattering character to those gen.
tlemen, while Il was insisted that the dig.
nifty Of the Senate demanded that an
effort should be made TO discover and
punish the viOlators of It's privilege. The
treaty, Il was said, was communicated In
confidence by the Executive, and the
Senate should therefore take measures TO
prevent It's members and officers from be-
ing compromised by such publication.
1t was suggested that perhaps the fault
was with the Executive Department from
the fact that the outline Of the treaty was
furnished by the Department Of State for
publication In two newspapers Of this
city and which had been circulated by
telegraph throughout the country, Il few
In favor Of the Senators. 1t was also said
they were furnished with advance copies
of the treaty before Il was sent to the
Senate, while others did not receive theirs
until to-day. Tho full text Of the treaty
having been published in the New York
Tribune yesterday morning, the TACT was
also alluded to that this was not the first
time that the treaty had been published
pending Its consideration in the Senate,
and that even during the past year the
yeas aud nays on the rejection Of tho San
Domingo treaty were published in news.
papers. The injnnctions Of secrecy not
having been removed, these things, II was
insisted by several Senators, ought TO be
considered, with view Of remedy IN the
luture.
A resolution was adopted declaring
that breach OF privilege In the Senate
had been committed by the publication
Of the terms and stipulatiOns orthe treaty,
and that a committee Of five be appoint.
ed TO investigate the means by which the
publication was procured, with power to
send for persons and papers While some
Senators seem Indifferent to the investi.
gation others appear determined TO make
II thorough examination, in order 10 have
the Executive proceedings more carefully
guarded in the future, and to punish
those who may violate the Senatorial
privileges, whether members, officers or
other parties. The Committee will meet
tomorrow, when the subpnnas will be
served on the correspondent Of the New
York Tribune and other journalists. 1t
Ia suspected that the investigation will
directly or indirectly extend beyond the
Glct attending the publication Of the treaty
at Washington, involving sources Of
other information really, or presumed to
be Of II confidential character