Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-24
Forty-Second Congress First Session
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 90.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, ID. C., March %.
SENATE.
There was a lively skirmsh debate in the
senate this afternoon after the reception of pc
ttiOnS. Mr., Sumner rose TO present resolutions,
which, it was intimated, related to San Do
mingO.
Mr.. Conkling at once objected to the rccep-
ton of the resolutions taking the ground that
the Anthony rule, adopted yesterday excluded
everything except the four matters embraced in
it.
Mr.. Sumner replied that the vice-president
had stated yesterday that senate resolutions
could at any time be presented,
Mr. Cpnkling persisted in declaring Mr.. Sum
ner out of order, and he was himself called to
order by Mr.. Garrett Davis.
Mr.. Sumner read the decision OF the vice
president made yesterday, and maintained that
he only desired to offer Il senate resolution,
which would not require the concurrence of the
house and was not therefore legislative
Mr.. Trumbull sustained Mr.. Sumner in hav-
ing right to offer his resolution, and was fol-
lowed by Mr.. Hamln, who declared that they
were out of order
Mr.. Sumner then said that the senate could
not act on the reception of his resolutions with
out knowing what they were He proposed to
inform the senate, and he accordingly com
menced reading his resolutions in clear voice,
to the discontinue of those who had hoped to
exclude them.
When Mr.. Sumner had reached his second
loud voice and finallyinsisted on making point
of order.
Mr. Anthony, who was in the chair declared
that Mr.. Sumner was in order, and the senator
from Massachusetts proceeded with the reading
of his resolutions.
In few moments Mr.. Morton again made a
point Of order
Just then the clock denoted that the business
hour had expired, and Mr. Sherman called the
attention of the chair to the fact, claiming the
regular order OF business.
MIR. Sumner appealed to Mr.. Scott who had
the floor, to permit him 10 finish reading his
resolutions, but Mr.. Scott declined, and com
meneed his speech.
Mr.. Summers resolutions are as follows:
Resolutions regarding the employment of the navy
of the United States on the coast of st. Domingo
during the pendency of negotiations for the ac-
QUESTION of part of that island.
Whereas, any negotiation by the nation with a
people interior in population and power having in
view the acquisition OF territory should be above
all suspicion OF influence from superior force; and
IN testimony to this principle Spain boosted that
the reincorporatiOn of Dominica with her mon
archy in 1861, was accomplished without the pres
ence of single Spanish ship on the coast, or a
Spanish soldier on the land, all of which appears in
Whereas, the United States being republic
founded on the rights of man, cannot depart from
such principle and such precedent without
weakening the obligations of justice between ma
tions and inficting blow upon republican institu-
tions; therefore,
Resolved that in obedience to correct principle.
and that republican institutions may not suffer- the
naval forces of the United States should be with
drawn from the coast of St. Domingo during the
tendency of negotiations for the acquisition Of any
part of that island.
Resolved that since the equality ofa nations with
out regard to population size of power is an axiom
Of international law the equality ofall men is
axiom of our Declaration of Independence, nothing
can be done to a small or weak nation that would
not be done to large or powerful nation. or that
we would not lallowIto be done to ourselves, and,
therefore, any treatment of the republic of Hayd
by the navy Of the United States inconsistent with
this principle is infraction of international law
In one of Its great safeguards, and should be dis
avowed dy the government of the United States.
Resolved, that, since certain naval officers of the
United States with large war vessels including the
monitor called the Dictator" and the frigate
Severn" with powerful ornaments, acting under
instructions from the executive and without the
authority Of an act Of congress- have entered one or
more ports of the republic of Hayti, friendly ma
ton' and under the menace of open and instant
war, nave coerced and restrained that republic
N us sovereignty and Independence under interna-
onai Jaws therefore, In Justice to the republic of
hay ~ recognition Of its equal rights in the ami-
" OF nations and In Difference to the fundamental