Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-24
Forty-Second Congressional Session
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 90.
SENATE.

At one O'Clock Mr.. Carpenter was entitled TO
the floor on the North Carolina case, but Mr.
Cole demanded that the deficiency bill be con-
sidered
The senate, by a vote of 90 ayes to IS NAYS,
declined to crafty Mr.. Cole, and Mr.. CARPENTER
proceeded. He again made legal argument
in reply to Mr.. Thurman in favor of admitting
Abbott to the seat.
The question was taken on the minority report
admitting Abbott and 1t was rejected
:, YEAs1,Ames, Chandler, Cragin, Gilbert, Howe,
Nye, Osborne, Patterson, Pool and Sawyer-lO
NAYs-Alcorn, Bayard Blair, Buckingham Cald.
we'll Cameron, Casserly Clayton, Cooper, Davis
lW Vab Edmunds, Fenton Ferry Conn., Ferry
Kelly, Logan, Morrill, Mel Morrill, tVtl Morton
Pratt, Ramsey Robertson, Schurz, Scott, Sprague,
Stevenson, stockton, sumner, Thurman. Upton,
Irumbull, Vickers, West, Windom'and Wright-62
Messrs Carpenter, Flanagan and Rice, who
would have voted aye, were paired with Sauls-
bury, Hamilton of Texas, aud Norwood. who
would have voted no. The resolution reported
by the majority of the committee, declaring Alb.
bolt not entitled TO his seat, was then adopted
Mr.. Pomeroy offered resolution, which was
agreed to, calling on the president for nforma-
ton relating to the acts of marshals and deputy
marshals in the Indian country; also for ali the
information in possession of the department re-
lating to the recent Outrages at Whitemore's.
Barren Fork, Cherokee nation.
Mr. Upton introduced bill granting the
right Of way to Dakota to the Grand Trunk rail
road
House bills were reported as follows:
BY Mr.. Vickers, from the committee on COM
merce, without amendment, authorizing the city
of Buffalo to construct tunnel under the Nj
agara river for the purpose of obtaining pure
water.
BY Mr.. Frelinghuysen, from the committee on
agriculture, without amendment, the bill to pre-
vent cruelty to animals while in transit by rail-
road or other means of transportation within
the United States.
The senate then resumed consideration of the
deficiency bill, and Mr. Bayard included his
remarks on the pending amendment limiting
the jurisdiction of the court of claims
Messrs. Conking and Frelinghuysen favored
the amendment. Mr.. Morton also advo-
Gated it, and predicted that if the demo-
cratic party should come into power, con-
stitutonal amendments would be ignored and
all legal distinctions between loyal men and
rebels would be blotied out.
Mr.. Edmunds took the same view and spoke
of the Cincinnati convention as designed to be
the nucleus of party which should be the same
as the democratic party in everything but in
name.
Mr.. Thurman said he was not one of those
who had been expecting great results from the
Cincinnati movement but from the uneasiness
and anxiety in regard to it shown by two dis.
tlngulshed senators Morton and Edmundsl, he
began to think he had been mistaken. These
senators seemed to fear a stampede from their
own ranks, and to have taken this occasion 10
warn their lieutenants throughout the country
TO watch the troops lest they should desert I'M
less upon this hypothesis, he could not account
for their making stump speeches on the pending
question designed to alarm timid people, and
attacking the Cincinnati movement In the alb
sence OF those senators who were supposed TO IA
vor II.
Mr. Edmunds replied that telling the truth
was neither cause or sign OF alarm; and as