The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-04
xLIID CONGREss..sECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, June 3-Several bills relating
to the cemetaries were passed. # tF
Before the expiration of the morning hour
Mr.. Chandler said give notice than at an early
day shall attempt to vindicate the memory of
a personal friend, Edwin M. Stanton from the
assertions cast upon it on this floor. l knew
Edwin M. Stanton in life. / honor his memory
and shall attempt to vindicate it upon the re-
port of the committee on the sale of arms.
The sundry civil appropriation bill came ND
when Mr.. POmeroy moved to postpone it in
definitely and yielded the floor to Mr. Carpen-
ter who addressed the Senate in reply to Mr.
Schurz's criticisms.
He said the Senate had been quietly proceeding
with the public business, when a preamble and
resolution introduced by Mr.. Sumner in relation
to the sale OF arms, came like clap of thunder
out of a clear sky. AS soon as that preamble
and resolution were read, every friend of the
administration saw that full investigation was
necessary and the resolution could have been
passed in ten minutes, but Mr.. Sumner by in
sisting on the preamble forced upon the Senate
debate OF two weeks, though at the end of
debate he became ashamed of the preamble and
voted to lay it on the table.
Mr. Carpenter had extracts from the Globe.
read to show that he declared himself in favor
OF the fullest and most searching investigation
and every Senator subsequently placed on the
committee voted for the Investigation. He ar
gued from the manner in which the committee
proceeded, that the investigation fair, full and
and complete Therefore when the Senator
from Massachusetts denounced the report of
the committee as a withdrawing report, he
violated all the decencieS of parliamentary life
1t was apparent from the first, however and
the subsequent course of the Senator from
Massachusetts, has shown that his object was
not to have full and fair investigation of the
arms sale, but to make deliberate, predeter-
mined, malicious assault upon the admnistra-
ton without regard to truth or Justice In re-
viewing the course of the investigation, Mr.
Carpenter read from Mr.. Summers statement
in his protest against beSng called as a witness
that under other circumstances he would be will,
ing to submit not only this matter but the
conduct of his public life to the closest scrutiny
and congratulated him upon his singularly viz
tuous condition, saying that never before, since
the lowly Nazarene walked beneath the palms
of Palestine had any one appeared upon the
earth, except the Senator from Massachusetts.
who could say, every act every letter. every
idle word of my past life meets my present an
probation. (Laughter) Passing to Mr.. Schurz's
speech and reviewing the report of the Arms
Committee, Mr.. Carpenter said that the Sena-
tor from Missouri was clearly a philosopher
and came within the Scotchmans definition of
a metaphysical philosopher whe talks
about what nobody understands and what an
parently he does not understand himself For
tunately the most brilliant discourse and the
most striking rhetoric, if not founded on fact
or reason, could not make revolution in this
country and the Senator from Missouri ought
ho0 W liii W CUuSlutT ILLS, because what he
aimed at was nothing less than a revolution.
That Senator had drawn doleful picture of
our preser condition, and saw that the report
OF the Arms Committee indicated an unhe althy
political atmosphere and certainly the atmo-
sphere here did seem very offensive to the Sena-
tor s nostrils, especially since his return from
the pure ether of Cincinnati, where not an
Office-seeker went and where, of those who d id
go, not one would hold office for forty wears
(Laughter.) The Senator (Schurz) had also ex-
nd n foo Fnr H.
country, because the Arms Committee eompos-
ed OF lawyers had endorsed a soldiers con-
struction of the law. Indeed the Senator is
exceedingly hard on the soldier and upon all
who served this country in the late war, but L
apprehend no dangers from that source NV
fears for the perpetuity of our institutions do
not rest on the blunders of honest blunt soldiers
1t is not by these that the liberties of nations
are overthrown, but by the efforts of artful. in
triguing rascals who have gained the public
ear, artful, designing Jesuits who have swept
away the foundation of free institutions, while
pretending to defend and maintain them The
liberties of Rome were not struck down by the
military usurpations of Caesar, but they were
finally overcome by the artful intrigues of
Augustus Caesar. IL our liberties ever go. it
will be under the manipulations of set Of de-
signing and artful men who stand out as mod
els OF Repubhcanism purer than their fellows
MI Carpenter then made long legal argu-
ment IN reply to Mr. Schurz's argument on Fri
u"y1 anu III ouppolO VI Tile report OF ul6 Arms
Committee.
Mr. Logan followed. He again denounced
MIR. Summers attack as slanderous and ma
lignant and without just foundation. The ar
gument OF MIR. Sumner that President Grant,
having been educated as q military man could
not be successful civilian was an argument
that no one was fit to be a legislator or execu-
tive officer OF the Government unless he had
been educated expressly for that purpose, like
MI Sumner himself. The doctrine might do
gnttJ Al. L -
der to be fit for the office of town constable a
man must be educated at Harvard; but Grant S
old soldiers and the common people of the
country would not appreciate it. The Senator
| (Sumner) had been before the country as a
statesman, and what had he accomplished COM
pared with what Gen. Grant had done Mr..
Logan thought that it was correct to say that
| the statute book bore fewer measures originated
by MIR. Sumner than any other man claiming
10 be statesman. The fact was that his states
!nlahshlp ana greatness consisted in high sound
| ing pnrases long drawn out, and sentences and
| quotatons from old books, His history and
acmevements were mere glittering generalties
While the tanner of Gaena had written his his
tory IN raa o1ooa and it would be read as long
the President with helping his relations, as Il it
were crime, but the fact was that he Logan)
was responsible for some of the amendments
charged upon Gen. Grant, and the President
| hlmsei1 nag appointed only a few of his rela-
ter by President Johnson Then there was a
brother-in-law: of Mrs Grant in an important
office at New OIleans, but he, it was reported,
was to resign.
The charge that the President had maid fo,
| gifts with appointments to office was basely
false. 1t was true the President had accepted
a few gifts, but was it wrong for man who
had done such great things for his country to
accept gifts from his grateful countrymen?
J The charge of muddling our foreign relations
I was unfounded. There was no muddle with
Spain or Russia or Cuba and if there was any