The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-03-14
CoHkiins's Restitution.

! = Washington dispatch has the follow.
! ing relative 20 the. resolution to investi-
gate the recommendations to of ce:
"One of the most curious exhibitions
that has been seen in the Senate for
many day was given during tie morn
ing hour, to-day by Mr.. Trumbull, aided
by Parson Upton He who Is so willing
TO foster charges which, if true. would
| sully other mems S official character, who
courts investigation for others, when a
proposition was made to call on the Pres
ldent for certain transcripts Of depart
mental records which would establish the
truth Of what he had publicly stated in
debate Was not true, to-wit, that he new
er clung to the skirts Of power, and did
not believe he had secured FIVE appoint
nlcnts to Office in FIVE years, he opposed
it with such passion and cagerness as to
give by his manner the strongest evidence
against his OVID honesty IL this particular.
In colloquy with Mg. Morton last Fri
day, aliuding to a statement By the latter
that he had been informed that Trumbull
made one hundred aud three recommen-
datlons to Office during this Administra-
ton, MIR. Irumbull said, | should like to
sec some evidence OF that. | should like
to sec who it is that has recommended
people to Office. hope the Senator will
offer resolution, and let US see the
recommending Of persons to Office by
Senators. Mr.. Morton-If the Senator
will offer it, L will vote for it. Mr. Trum-
BULL want some evidence of this asser-
ton. | say the statement is not true.
So Mr.. Conkling offered a resolution
which would produce just the evidence
Mr. Trumbull professed to be so anxious
to have. He proposed to call for state
mcnt from the President with reference
to the states of New York, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska, of the number Of
recommendations for appointments and
removals from Office made to the present
Administration, so far as can be ascertain
ed by the Senators from those states, and
the action taken on such recommends
tions. Mr. Trumbul instead of haiIiUg
this resolution as one would expect, went
into rage at the very reading Of it
WI hat right, says he, has anybody to go
Prov ling about the departments after in
formation to convict Senators? Who
was it that was sneaking about the de-
partments on this business? What if he
had made recommendations to Office,
whose business was that but his own ?
Mr.. Trumbull sickened at q dose Of his
own medicine; the great reform preacher
did not want to know how it was himself.
When the microscope is turned on these
men the country sees they are no better,
no more perfect, no more virtuous than
other men. Altogether Mr. Trumbulrs
very painful exhibition to-day showed
that he is painfully lacking in the very
first quality Of an investigator-t that of
clean hands. He and Parson Upton be-
gan the practice Of parliamentary tatics to
defeat the resolution. They are going
TO load it down with amendments a1d
provisos til, if passed, it can do no harm
They confess by this action that they
have clung to the skirts of power as long
as possible, and now fear that their pr
fessions to the contrary will be proved
false. The resolution will undoubtedly
pass in some form to secure the informa
ton sought, and its revelations will show
some strange things in view of the reck-
less charges that have been made about
the use of patronage. Mr.. Morton, in
the remarks he was making when the
hour ended, alluded to the unusual and
persistent efforts and demands made by
Mr. Trumbull to get his son appointed
Assessor of Montana Territory, which
history viii, itself, mako an Interesting
illustration of the need of reforming the
reformers.