Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-05-26
IXT8A SESSION OF THE SENATE
The ClOSfng Scenes.

The Senate remained in Executive session
yesterday until 81 O'Clock p. M, when the door.
were reoponed and consideration OF MIR. Wilson, g
resolution for the relelse of Messrs. White and
hamsdell WIS resumed, end q discussion en-
sued, WI 'ch Wes pa iciplted IN by NJ ssrs
Conklipg, Chendler, Edmunds. Wilson, Sher-
mar, sumner, Thurman and Stewart. During
tne discussion, Mr.. Conkling said this iuvesti-
the Senator from Wiscor sin (Mr Carpenter \
he pronounced as untrue any allegation th at
ne had directed any suspicion in this matter
sgains. hs colleague, Mr.. Fenton,) or any other
Mr.. Chandler was anxious to narrow down the
circle OF investigation a. to who is the execu-
i've Leporter or the Senate, and he wanted to
Mr.. Carpenter, from the select committee n
inquire into the premature publication on the
treaty, made report, submitting all 'he testi-
moDy takenj and stating that Charles A. Tin
ker, manager OF the Western Union Telegram
Company, and j. A. Kirby, an operator Of that
company, had refused to answer certain oues-
lions, and were therefor liable for contempt
Mir. Trumbull moved to lay the report on the
table, bis object being to turn Messrs Tinker
and Kirby over to The court under the law, and
custody, that their case may take the same d.
rection. The motion was agreed to-34 against n.
\ The discussion on Mr.. Wilson's reJolltion was
the Senate adorned.
. To-day's Proceedings.
The Serate met this morning at IL O'Clock,
Mr.: Howe offered re-olu ion, which wa,-
adopted, instruc. 'pg the Commit on Printing
70 inquire mo the expediepcy OF erecting line
between the Capitol, Government PRINTING
ONCE, and Departments, and report at the next
The chair announced as the regular order the
re-olution OF Mr.. Wilson to discharge
hHseRs. WHITE AND RAMspKLI
.:om crstody Immediately upon the adjourn
Mr.. Carpenter took the floor and said bs had
nothing to do with sta. ting the investiga: on.
and denied the ot.en rspested STA. ,ment tiat
ne ne mao oeen zen MADE inc cata-paw OF Mr.. Conk-
ANONYMOUS LETTERS,
threatening that the entire American press
would be against him personally IL he should
proceed with thu investigation. The inn
ca ed for at TIE Capitol when they @''''
SHOULD HAVE BERN IN JAIL.
If this had been the case, the Senate would
Gentensn. Of the press WSs they Ss1G Ssd n Ssst
posed the newspaper men Of washington voutd
give an entertainment to the imprisoned cor
RESPONDENTS when they should be released.
prisoned correspondents would be apnIsuded
for rot answering the committee. Mr. Carpen-
ter then had read an editorial from the New
S YORK Tribune. chsrsin that he tsir. carpenter)
press had little TO be proud Of in making him.
Mr.. O. acknowledged that the editor OF that
paper told the truth. He acknowledged that
he was entirely unfit for the place OF United
States Senator. AS the New York Tribure
was only an alias for Horace Greeley, he
desired to say that while the columns Of the
Tribune were teeming with fslsehood and abuse,
the editor, who was o personal friend to the
speaker, was in Texas delivering Agricultural
lectures. All the abuse OF him In the Tribune
could be accounted Tor by q paragraph which
he (Air. CO. had read in another paper, as fol-
lows:
"whitelaw Reid was eeen on the street yes
terday
where are the police?D
Mr.. Carpenter argued at some length a,aiust
Mr.. Wilson's resolution, and had read a note
from MI Tinker, Manager Of the w. u, Tele-