New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-19
TUE TREATY INVESTIGATION
~,,r rR1R,NE CORRESPONDENTS ORDERED
'H-' DCro CLOSE CONFINEMENT.

INTO CLOSE CONFINEMENT
orD,rp IN THE sENATE-THE
',-,,,-o OF THE LEADERS IN THE lNVEsii-
,rIoy--Tpp CORRESPONDENTS SENTENCED
rons THEIR ANSWERS WERE READ-ThE
as rup SENATE WITHOUT PRECE-
AloN r,-o or DISTINGUISHED SENATORS
ON THE SUBJECT ,,,.u
Try TELEGRAPH TO THB TKiBuNh'i
,r,surxarox Thursday, May Is. 1871
WI, co,,o+o snept seven more hours, to-day,
- how it would punish two correspondents
=, ,,,n,ng state Department copy OF the treaty OF
and then refusing to satisfy the curiosity OF
c,n,,ps, who, through his willing catspaw,
:. irving to fix the responsibility of furnishing
.o,v upon Gov Fentcn There is the best ground for
,o,,s, that herein ia the whole animus of the rigor
an. steps taken toward your correspondents Conkling
has apnarenty kept himself in the background, but has
nssn throughout the constant prOmpter of Carpenter
The threat Of the latter. yesterday, Of "forty
wears in the common JAIL" was an attempt to
frisbten the correspondents into an answer. The
rsseiutions Of to-day, carefully drawn before
the answer had been made in the Senate, embodying
the enlightened proposition to commit the witnesses
70 the common jail till next December, was another at
tempt to exort replies by fear the main object being.
not punishment Of newspaper men so much as to en-
able Mr. Conkng to the great power of the Senate
% help him smell out something OF advantage in his war
fare on Gov. FeRton.
To accomplish this he, with the Chairman Of the Com
mitee had two methods Of Influencing the Senate. They
could be sure Of technical lawyers, and Carpenter was
Committee and in this latter method they assisted
by Logan, who ntmated that while he was opposed to
the thing, he always made it point to "stand by
committees. These were the main elements that
enabled Carpenter hold the Senate to the disgusting
and disgraceful work he had marked out for It, There
others. represented to-day by Mi. Chandler
who have had frequent reasons to be ashamed OF e1-
posures made concerning secret sessions, who acted
with the majority. Yet it is Just to this majority to
seaut them Of any knowledge of the real purposes Of
those who were managing them.
The fact that Carpenter had his resolution Of COM
mitment to the common Jail ready drawn when the
Senate met, showed every one that any answer the
correspondents might make at the bar was not an
element In the case as they viewed 1t. 1t is true
however, that Of the main actors sneaked along
Newspaper Row" last night to try to worm out the
character Of the that your correspondents were
likely to make so to be oil ready to meet 1t, and 60
on with their congenial work without interruption.
At the opening of the session Mr.. Sumner
offered an additional rule, providing that all
treaties be hereafter considered in open ses-
sien, unless otherwise ordered. Mr.. Conbling
moved to amend by adding the words, and all other
matters known as Executive matters" The vcePres
dent ravely directed the Secretary to take down the
amendment Of the Senator from New York and every one
thought he was earnest proper did the proposition
SEEM till Mr.. Conkng laughed and so made known that
he was speaking "ronically" Next, the regular order
was demanded by Carpenter, and many supposed that
he had determined 60 with the business for which
the President had called the Senate together especially
rs II was known that at the White House and the State
Department and the part of the English High Com
mssoners there was great anxiety to have the Senate
begin its work But that the regular ORDER was
his proposition to send the correspondents to the common
jail and continue his Committee during the Summer.
for the purpose Of keeping them there. Mr. Morton,
70 test the Senate, instantly moved to lay it on the
table which was lost, by 25 Yeas to sc Nays Mr.. Sum-
ner then made point that attracted much attention,
namely that the precedent Mr.. Carpenter had chosen
follow established by the author of the Fugi
tive Slave law IN his efforts to prosecute those who sup
ported John Brown. Mr.. Summers amendment was
adopted by the following vote: