Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-15
Sharp Passes between Trumbull, Nor.
ton and Others.
House Passes the AppOrtiOnriefit Bin.

sharp RAISES between 1rumbull, Nor
ton and Others.
House Passes the AppOrtiOnniefit Bill
SENATE.
! WAsHINGToN, Dec. 14.-Mr. Freling
huysen presented petition for the Venez-
uela Steamship Company, asking redres:
| for the seizure CT their steamers by
Venezuela, and said that the complaint
against Venezuela might yet necessitate
severe measures on the part of our govern
ment.
Mr.. Sumner said that he had examined
the question and found his own country in
the wrong.
The Al was referred.
Female Suffrage.
Mr.. Buckingham presented memorial
! against woman suffrage, and said more
than 10000 of the most refined and respect
able women in the country have signifed
to Congress their unwillingness to have the
responsibilities of suffrage thrust on them.
This protest contains the names of the
most respected and influential women OF
the country. In looking over the list find
that l know many OF them. They are not
manly women, but women of good sense,
and their judgment is entitled to considera-
ton. They don't say anything about
the abstract right of suffrage
but say that, having already their full share
of the burden and responsibility of life,
they fear that others more bold than they
may succeed in having imposed on them
other burdens and responsibilities unsuited
to them, and therefore they ask Congress to
protect them from these dangers. They
say the extension of suffrage TO them will
be adverse to the interests of working
women, that it win introduce a fruitful
element of discord into the existing mar.
rage relations and viii be fraught with
danger to the general good order of the
country. l sympathize with them. l see
no possible benefit which can arise by the
extension of suffrage to women; no benefit
to them or the country.
Mr.. Conkling presented a petition Of New
York soldiers in the late war recounting the
services of women in the war and asking
Congress to make some provision for an
Acknowledgement of their heroic and char
table work.
Coal and Salt.
Mr.. Trumbull asked Mr.. Sherman when
the Committee on Finance intended to re-
port the House bill repeating the duty on
coal and salt.
Mr.. Sherman said he thought it unadvisa-
BILE to take up tariff matter separately from
internal taxes.
Mr.. Trumbull: Then l give notice that
tomorrow | viii move to discharge the
Committee OF Finance from further cOnsid-
Grafton of the House DILL repeating the duty
on coal and salt.
The Eight Hour Law.
On motion of Mr.. Wilson, the Senate
took up House bill to equalize the pay of
werkingmen under the eight hour law.
Mr.. TrumbulPs amendment repeating the
law was read, but at the request of Mr..
Wilson, Mr.. Trumbull withdrew the amend
ment, in order not to embarrasS the original
bill.
Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, renewed it,
when the bill was referred TO the Commit
tee on Finance.
Retrenchment.
The Senate then resumed the considera-
ton Of Mr.. Anthony's resolution to create
a committee on retrenchment, with Trum-
bulls amendment, authorizing it to sit dur
ingTeceSs and send for persons and papers.
Mr.. Wilson warned his Republican
friends that they were placing their party
in false position before the country. Al
ready there were millions throughout the
country who believed that an attempt had
been made in the Senate. of the United
States to special administration. He hoped
there would be a unanimous vote for Trum-
bulls 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 short cOmings by
talking Of the gigantic swindles in New
York. There were Republican thieves as
well as De Iocratic thieves, and Republi-
can thief was to him the far more hateful
of the two, because he brought disgrace
upon the Republican party. Notwith-
standing its defects, the present admins
tration was far purer and more efficient
than most of its predecessors. No previous
administration had ever been so prompt in
furnishing delinquency among its officers.
Mr.. Blair-The Senator is very boastful
about the purity and rigOr of the admins
tration. ] wish to call his attention to a
case in Arkansas, where District Attor-
ney and Marshal were both removed from
office for procuring an indictment against a
man for violating law of the United
States.
Mr.. Wilson, don't know whether that
was so or not.
Mr.. Blair reiterated the statement.
Mr.. Wilson said he was not boastful OF
the administration. He simply desired to
be lust, and therefore he said that the ad-
ministration was seeking progress in the right
direction, although good deal more Of it
was necessary. He was not one Of those
Republicans that thought the Democratic
party dead; he expected to encounter them
in full force next year, and he warned his
friends against relaxing their efforts in any
degree, in a vain hope that they would meet
no vigorous opposition in 1872.
Mr.. Nve opposed Mr.. Trumbulrs resolu-
ton. Certain gentlemen in the Republican
party, who thought the President was be-
coming too popular, had devised a scheme
of civil service reform, and under that cry
they were now attempting to revive the old
committee, with all the extraordinary pow
ers of sending for persons and papers.
Mr.. Thurman-The Senator objects to
sending for persons and papers. Where
was his voice on the memorable occasion
WllGD q COllLllJtet u Tic IipuSC VI ibVilC-
sentatives was examining into the conduct
and affairs of Senators, to discover whether
they had not been bribed to acquit Andrew
johnson, and were ransaCking the tele-
graph offices to get at something that might
compromise those Senators?
Nye-Just where it is now. Give me
another such a set of circumstances and |
will vote for it again, bnt there is no such
occasion now. There is peace in the ranks
now, save with one here and there, who
would be greater than his master. Laugh,
! ter
Mr.. Schurz replied to Mr.. Nye, and in
the course his remarks said, the legitimate
| sphere of a comedian is within the walls OF
a theatre. but ifthe Senator is satisfied witt
| the role he plays here, nobody else has
reason to be dissatisfied. Those who defend
| a bad cause always resort 10 a certain line
! of defence. They attempt to throw
! suspicion on the motives of those
! who attack; so the Senator from
Nevada, (Mr. Nye,) like other Senators
! here, makes DO attempt to disprove any. q
| the facts that | related yesterday in reoarC
! TO the New York CustOmhoUse, but simpl,
! throws aspersions on my motives and ac
! cuses me Of insinuating that mans sarv
! ice in the army should prevent him from
obtaining employment in the civil service
! of the government, and that the Presiden
had something to do with the carriage bust
ness in New Y ork. | wish to say a few
| words in reDlv TO the gentleman from New