New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-19
REGULAR REPORT OF SENATE PRO CEEDINGs
SENATE. WASHINGTON May Is, ISL.


Mr.. SUMNER (Rep. Mass.) offered the follow
ing as an amendment to the rules:
That all treaties with foreign Powers be considered In
pabc aud open session. unless submitted In special con-
ndence by the President, or ordered otherwise by
Mt. CONKLING (Rep, n. " submitted an amendment
by adding: ...
And all other matter heretofore known az Executive
business"
The amendments ordered TO be printed.
THE TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENTS AGAIN QUESTIONED.
Messrs. White and Ramsden were together brought
into the Senate by the sergeant-atArms.
Mr. White the first arraigned, when the VicePres
dent accordance with the order Of yesterday asked
what he had for not answering the several inter
rogatories propounded to him by the Select Comm ee
and whether he was now ready to appear before the
Committee and answer all proper questions that might
be put him touching the disclosure directly or ind
reetly through any member of the Senate officer
employee thereof Of what pupors to be copy OF the
Treaty Of Washington pending before the Senate In
Executive session.
MANLY ANSWER OF Mr.. WHITE.
Mr. White read paper in which he said his excuses for
not answering we're:
First: That 1t would be violation OF his professional
honor His profession to collect news and transmit
il by telegraph 10 the Journal he represented Ii had
been the uniform practice TO regard confidential the
Of news and always implied the promise OF Sc
his nstient or clergyman to dying man II he vio-
lated it, he believed he would make himself infamous In
second He did not iobtain copy Of the Treaty from
any Senator officer Of the Senate 1t not Senate
document. 1t printed in folio pages with single
column page and was printed by the Department
Of State. Forty copies had been printed by the
Department. He ready TO go before the Committee
aud that he did not obtain the copy directly OF In
directly from Senator officer Of the Senate nor, as
far as he knew, from any employe tnereo1.
THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.
Mr.. CARPENTER (Rep, Wis., asked that the witness
be now sworn which was done, when the VicePresdent
read to him the questions put to him by the Committee
Among them the following:
"From whom did You obtain copy Of the document
from which you made cOpyf Where did you obtain 1t
Did you pay anything for the use of it When did you
last see iti'
These several questions the witness respectfully de-
clined TO answer.
Mr.. Carpenter then submitted q preamble setting
forth that Mr. White had refused to certain
questions and had shown valid therefor, and
had not said he was ready to answer, therefore,
Resolced That the said White be committed TO the COM
JAIL and kept in close custody until he shall signify
his willingness to the questions OF the Senate,
and appear before the Select Committee and answer all
proper questions; and,
ResOlped That whenever said White shall he ready 10
Aforesaid, the Sergeantat-Arms shall bring
him before the Committee, and IL he answer all proper
questions he shall be discharged from custody aud the
Committee shall be authorized 10 sit during the recess,
&c.
A TEST VOTE.
Mr. MORTON ep Ind, in order to test the sense OF
the Senate moved 10 lay the resolution the table,
This was decided in the negativeYeas %; Nays, &c.
The following is the vote in detail