Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-03
Forty-SecOnd Congressional Session
WASHINGTON, June 1.
SENATE

resolution fixing next Tuesday at five o'clock,
and Mr.. Window moved June 10.
Mr.. Edmunds declared that he did not intend
to consent to an adjournment until the house
had passed certain bills necessary for the good
government of the country.
Mr.. Trumbull replied, criticising Mr. Edmunds
rather sharply for the manner in which he had
alluded to the house.
As he spoke, the representatives came into the
senate chamber in body, the house having taken
recess until O'Clock tonight.
Mr.. Edmunds answered MIR. Trumbul with
cauStic humor. The senator from Illinois had
undertaken to lecture him on consistency; which
he was competent TO do, having been on all sides
in politics, and well capable OF understanding
the prophecies of consistent and inconsistent
action
When the morning hour expired the galleries
were crowded, and there was large attendanceon
the floor, as it was expected Mr.. Carpenter
would have spoken, but he did not put in an APP
pearance, and the debate on adjournment was
resumed, Mr.. Trumbull in turn paving his re-
spects to Mr. Edmunds
Senator Flanagan is a native of Virginia, SIX
and fifty years of age. who found his way when
a boy TO Kentucky, and thence to Texas, where
he has since taken quite an active part in
politics as an old line wing, and recently as
a republican. He has the old southern pronun-
citation with the quaintnesS of border civilization,
and resembles the once celebrated Davy Crockett
when speaking more than any one now in CON
gresS.
He sat uneasly during the skirmish between
MesSrS. Edmunds and Trumbull, and when he
found none of the prominent republicans pro-
posed to reply to Messrs. Sumner and Schurz,
he sprang to his feet and sailed in. His speech
was original, pungent and peculiar, especially
when he alluded to the speakers of yesterday as
the great opposition volcanoes, the Vesuvius and
the Etna Of oratory, belching forth torrents of
lava in every direction.
AIr lnru tp Low no oh
resolution on the table for the purpose of pro-
ceeding with the conference report on the steam
boat bill, and read Il number of kilograms to
the president from st. Louis, Boston, Buffalo,
Detroit, Cincinnati and Chicago, urging the
passage Of the bill.
Mr. Cole said Mr.. Chandler evidently wished
to have congress adjourn Monday, so as to
make an extra session necessary, and he (Cole)
questioned the wisdom Of thar course.
Mr. Chandler said Mr.. Colo misappreheuded
his object, which was TO secure action on a very
important measure.
Mr. Chambers motion was lost
Mr. WINDOWS amendment was then rejected.
Mr.. Morton said he was in favor of adjourn
ing as soon as possible after dispOsing of the
public business, but not before.
Mr. Bayard said that if an extra session was
necessary it would not be the fault of the mi
nority.
Mr. Morton said it was true that the demo-
Gratis had worked faithfully and had not oh
structed the business of the senate; but it was
not true that the administration party were re-
sponslble for calling an extra session.
Mr.. Casserly said the minority were, he be-
lieved, unanimous in the opinion that an extra
session would be a great evil, and that they had
done and would do nothing to make it neces-
sary.
Mr.. Conkling advocated resembling the resolu-
ton to adjourn Monday and leaving the end of
the session open, so as not to put 1t in the power
Of on y on hop fbn -,
the transaction of public business, as was done
yesterday. The senator from Massachusetts
(Sumner) said Mr.. Conkling, having given
notice that he found himself assaulted in the
report of the committee touching the sales of
arms interposed yesterday and moved to post
pone the great appropriation bill, upon which
the movements of the government depend and
then launched upon the, senate printed essay
which required four hours to pass his lips, and
in which was made no reference to any yindi-
cation that he needed against the report of the
committee touching the sale of arms. When
five O'Clock had come and We had sat here weary
with want of sleep and exhaustive labor, the
senator from Missouri (Schurz) rose with por-
teDtous pile of manuscripts before him and
we were reminded that courtesy required us then
to take recess in order that the senator's I'M
accustomed to go without food might refresh
themselves and in order that the interval Nigh
command more snowy and imposing audience
than was at that moment waiting upon the
senator from Missouri.
MIR. Conckling continued ventured to say
then that it was not question of courtesy, that
| thought the question was made of Sterner
stuff, and repeat it. 1t was the advent of two
speeches in the senate which, if appropriate
anywhere might be made upon the hastings
and which, il there were no other objection,
were made at a time when they wrecked the
session, when they drove the important bills
remaining to destruction unless some most
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been squandered, we were told that courtesy re-
quired that we should take recess in order
that, with strength replenished, an evening and
night might go down to the tomb of hourS-I
will not say wasted, but devoted by the senator
from Massachusetts, (Sumner) to the reading of
a speech (if that word describes it) which he
will live long enough to regret. A speech
aimed at another, but which the humble senator
will find a boomerang, returning row and in
the future with heavy if not deadly blows upon
him. Our friends on the other side
voted for that recess which some of us tried in
vain to resist, and the evening was, as | have
said, wasted, at least as regards advancement of
business; and now this morning we are engaged
in what seems to be rather a game of bounce
upon the question whetherwe cannot so manage
and exploit this question as to throw upon the
president the responsibility of calling or omit
ting to call an extra session. Well, imagine
that as the president has been found equal so far
in field and in cabinet, to such eXigencies as
have waited upon him, he will be able without
instruction to determine whether his duty is TO
see the residue of public business lie PROSTATE
until December or to Teconvene the representa-
tiyes of the people. | say nothing in regard to
that but assume that the purpose of the SEN
ate ought TO be land hope it will bel to pass
not upon the question of advantage as between
parties or candidates or ambitions to be gained
by thTustlng upon the president the alternative
OF an extra session, but upon what we should
do in the exigency before us.
MIR. Logan-I am not surprised at the
exhibition of virtue made by the demo-
cratic senators, or at their anxiety
to adjourn now, after the senate has listened to
deliberate, malignant and cruel attack put
forth in their interest, of which they expect to
receive the benefit. Well may the senators on
that side be satisfied with what has been done;
well may they say they desire to cease public
business and return home, now that the attack
has been prepared and put forth for their bene-
fit; better prepared, better delivered, and put
before the country in better shape, than either
one of them, in my Judgment, is capable of doing
it. Your side of the case has been made, gem
tlemen, and made by senators claiming TO be on
this side of the chamber. | came here this
morning determined to defend, in my feeble way
an old soldier with whom was in camp for
years; but saw that the pressure OF public bust
ness was such that if | attempted to do so
would be accused of interfering with it and
making a called session necessary and there
fore | refrained; and now say that if an adj
journment must take place on Monday, and ifa
called session is to result, 1t cannot be laid at
the door OF the friends of the administrations it
cannot be laid at the door of true republicans in
this chamber; it cannot be laid at the door of
men who are DESTROYS Of performing their
duties here without wasting time in political
discussions; but it be laid at the door of the
two senators who, night after night, have been
studiously preparing attacks upon the admins
tration and upon one Of the organized committees
Of this body. 1t is no harm, however, if the re
suit be that called session shall be brought
about by their action, l presume they are re-
spOnsible at this time to nobody, and hence no
one Is affected by it. They can take the respOn-
sibility, and am willing that they shall take it.
But ii the session should be extended, | will at
the proper time, in my feeble way, attempt a de
Tense against one of the most malignant assaults
ever made against an honest man-the assault
made here yesterday against the president of tho
United States. lApplausa in the galleries. Such
an assault was fitted not for the senate chamber
nor for the lower branch of congress. 1t was
fitted for no deliberative body on earth. II was TT
only for the hastings and 1t should have been ut
tered only from the lips fsome stump orator who
knew not the eourtesies or decencies of the SEN
ate chamber. An attack so brutal so vile, so ma.
lignapt should never have been made except al-
ter cool, calm preparation, and then only by a
man CALCULATED TO make such an attack, Intend
TO defend the president against il. | may DO
forced to do II on the stump; but ] assure you,
sir, that will do it; and will defend him not
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