Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-24

them, aud he certainly know them as vel
: rs any Senator, No question had beef
. raised Rs ia the ability OF the Senator ffuu
n Massachusetts, and no prctcnsiun had beet
. made that he was surpassed IN any rgspec
by the gentleman y opposed 10 succeed him
4 but u was known 10 those who pruposcS
n the change that the personal relations eAiat
ling between the senator from MRssachu
? setts aud the President ufthe United State
! and the head Of the State Department wer,
, such as 10 preclude all social into c0urs,
between them, la brief the Information
, Was that the Senator ffom Massachusetts
I refused Ia hold porsanal intercourse will
the Secretary Of State
Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts Just tht
contrary,
) Mr. Howe, OF Wisconsin, continuing
I without, noticing the remark And that th,
Senator has not held any intercourse with
; the President OF the United States IL
Z view 0f these facts Il was deemed best thai
I the Committee 1T foroiga Relations should
have head who would be un the hesIspcak
ing terms with the Secretary Of State aud
} the President
. Mr Schurz, Of Missouri, replied that he
was very credisbly informed, andthat nom
the best authority, that The Senator from
Massachusetts, sitting behind them Sum
nori, had not refused 90 enter into any Of
the Secretary of State,
II Mr. Howe, Of Wisconsin, | ask my friend
not O. change the issue | did not speak OF
their official relations l spoke of their
personal relations
Here is an explicit statement that
the social and personal, not official, re
lla,ions existing between Mr.. Sumner
on the one hand and Messrs. Grant
and Fish on The other hand enforced
the action of the Republican caucus.
Who, then. inspired the caucusg Who
complained 10 the caucus of rup,ured
personal relationsy However that
may be, the public has from Senator
Howe u reason
A few minutes later in the debate
Senator Howe denied the correctness
i"of Mr.. Schurzs assertion that the
I"Santo Domingo scheme was ut the
bottom of the whole matter, aud
"maiutained that the Senate's action
"had no significance further than he
"had stated
This last assertion of Howe brought
Wilson TO his feet, who declared The
I"true reason for this action had not
l"yei been given. The Senator from
Wisconsin denied that the Santo DO.
"mingo matter has anything 10 do with
I"it. but everybody Fnew the fact,
"and it was useless to deny il, that
this effort has grown out of the Sanlo
I"Domingo matter. We all know that
l"if this SantO Domingo annexation
scheme had never come up there nev.
"er would have been any effort to
change the composition OF the Com.
"mittee on Foreign Relations
Whether this be the "retort courie-
ous" We leave others TO say. Certain-
| ly il. in moral effect, charges Howe
either with ignorance or ialsehOod
While this inconvenient issue is pend
ing between two Senators, in comes a
child of the setting sun. flaming with
warpaint, Upton by name, and Ne
braska is his nation. Listen TO this
artless son Of the backwoods. away
from the vices Of civilization aud the
tricks Of diSsimulatiOn
He said he knew some time ago the inten-
tiOn 20 array the President against the
Senator who led on against tho SAnto DO
mingo indignity, When the Senator frOm
Connecticut Ferry had made motion to
investigate the imprisonment Of Davis
Hatch, IL was charged that be vas attacking
the administration. Ho then added that
he had taken down In yesterday proceed
trtNts Int Nh
which fell from the lips of fthc Senator from
Wisconsin Mr.. Howel as to the reason for
this change The words were that the
majority OF the Senate were IN favor Of the
annexation o. SAnto Domingo, and a ma
joriiy Of the Committee on Foreign Rela.
tiouS were opposed 90 IL, aud that was the
reason for making the change
Mr. sherman. of Ohio, asked II Mr. Tip
ton did not feel some cumpunctions -
conscience In divulging the secrets ola par
~ caucus
Mr Upton said he might have, had he
not seen the whole proceedings Of the eau
Gus in the morning papers, with the yeas
and nays, and his friends SHERMAN 81
name among them,
Mr.. sherman remarked perhaps his friend
Upton had revealed the proceeding
Mr.. Upton replied that the Senator did
not ask that question in good faith; that
the senator had too much respect Tor
Mr.. Upton - integrity and honor 20 iuti-
mate that he would do nothing of that
kind.
Mr.. Howe, Of Wisconsin, then repeated
what he did sAy in the caucus. IL was
substantially that there was one parliamcn-
iary reason why, ia his judgement the right
10 alter the Committee on Foreign Relations
should be exercised, and that was that he
understood a majority ofthc Senate 10 be
in favor o! the annexation OfSAnto Domiu-
20, and q majority At the cummitisc O. be
opposed 10 IT, II was ia accordance with
parliamentary usage TO reronstiiutc tho
committee. But this was not itself the
reason for removing the head Of the COM
mittcc, because the adverse majority might
very well be corrected by removing any
other member Of the committee, and u
that had been the only difficulty with the
Committee on Foreign Relations IL might
DO waived hereafter rs IL been heretofore.
Mr.. Upton, of Nebraska, did not see that
there was any material difference ia this
siatcmcn. from what he had said. lie did
not acknowledge that majority the Sen
ate was IN favor Of Sauto Domingo anneXa-
tion. The vote stood 2s 10 y, Rs stated
in the newspapers, aud this he knew in be
true. tLAughterl
The attempted rebuko FISHERMAN is
evidence that Upton had blabbed, and
blabbed truthfully. Howe was COM
PEELED TO own up. He tried to get in
a fine distinction to save the integrity
of his first statement, but Upton was
too close on his trial and instantly took
his scalp. Wilson too was. for once
in his life, right. Howe's answer to
Scburz may have been civil. but was il
honest World