The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-12-27
CONGRESS-.
Senate.

Senate.
December 14.-Mr. FEELING
nUYsEN presented the petitionof the
Venezuela Steamship Company, ask.
ing redress for the Seizure of theil
steamers by Venezuela, and said thai
the complaint Venezuela might yet
necessitate some measures ON the par
of our Govern ent.
Mr.. SUMNER said that he had ex.
amincd the question and found hi:
own country in the wrong.
Mr.. BUCKINGHAM presented. q
memorial against woman suffrage and
said "more than ten thousand of The
most refined and respectable woman
in their unwillingness 10 have the re
sponsibility OF suffrage thrust upon
them.
THE INFRINGEMENT COMMITTEE
The Senate then resumed the con-
sideration of Mr.. A~nthony's resolution
to create n Committee on Retrench.
ment with Mr.. TrumbulPs amendment
authorizing it to sit during recess, and
send for persons and papers.
MI. Wilson warned his Republican
friends that they were placing their
party in q false position before the
country. Already there were millions
Throughout the country who believed
that an attempt had been made in the
Senate of the United States to-
SHIELD THE ADMINISTRATIONS
He hoped there would be a unanimous
vote for Mfr. Trhnbulr's resolution,
so as TO let the people see that the
Republicans were determined to keep
the administration pure in all its de
partments. He had no sympathy
with the plan of covering our own
shortcomings by talking of the gigan-
tic swindles in New York. There
were Republican thieves as well as
Democratic thieves, and a Republican
thief to him was the far more hateful,
because he brought disgrace upon the
Republican party, but, notwithstand-
ing the
DEFECTS OF THE PRESENT AD-
MINISTRATION,
it was far purer and more efficient
than most of its predecessors. Nc
previous administration had e been
so prompt in Furnishing delinquency
among its officers.
Mr.. Blair The Senator is very
hoastful of the purity aud rigor of the
administration. / wish to call his at
tention to a case in Arkansas, when
the District Attorney and Marshal
were both
REMOVED FROM OFFICE
for procuring an Indictment against a
man for violating a law of the United
States.
Mr.. Wilson, don't know whether
this was so or not.
MI. Blair reiterated his statement,
Mr.. Wilson said he was not boast
full of the administration. He simply
desired to be just, and therefore h
said that the administration was seek.
ing progress in the right direction, al
though a good deal more of it was ne
cessary.
HE WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE
Republicans who thought the De
mocratic party dead. He expected te
encounter them in full force next
wear, and he warned his friends
against relaxing their efforts in any
degree in the vain hope that they
would meet no vigorous opposition
in 1872.
THE BATTLE BEGINS.
Mr.. Nye opposed MI. Trum-
bulls resolution. Certain gentlemen
in the Republican party, who thought
the President was becoming tot
popular, devised a scheme of civil
service reform, and under that cry
they were now attempting to revive
an old committee . with all the extra
ordinary powers of sending for person:
and papers.
Mr.. Thurman-The Senator object.
to sending for persons and papers
Where was his voice on the memorable
occasion, when a committee of TIT
Hose of Representatives was examin
ing into the conduct and affairs o
Senators, to discover whether they
had not been bribed to acquit Andrew
johnson, and were ransacking tele
graph offices to get at something tina
might compromise tnose oehatoISs
Mr.. Nye-Just where IT is now
Give me another such set of circum-
stances and 1 will vote for it again
And there is no such OCCASION now
There is peace in the ranks now. save
with one here anG there who would b.
(laughter)
GREATER THAN HIS MASTER.
Mr.. Schurz replied to Mr.. Nye and
in course OF the remarks said that thu
legitimate sphere of the comedian !:
generally within the walls of a theatre
but if a Senator is satisfied with TIL
role he plays here, nobody else has ;
reason to be dissatisfied. Those who
defend a bad cause always resort to
certain line of defence. They attempr
to throw suspicion on the motives o
those who attack. So the Senator
from Nevada, (Mr. Nye,) like Other
Senators here, makes no attempt t.
disprove any of the facts that l STATED
yesterday in regard to the New York
Custom House, but simply throws ar
ASPIRATION upon my motives, and &C:
cuscr me Of insinuating that Mr.. Leeti