Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Wrangle About Adjournment.
Savage Attack on Schurz and Sumner.
An Indefinite Political Session.
SENATE.

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Mr.. Bayard offered as a substitute the
resolution of the House, adopted to-day, to
adjourn on the 4th.
Mr.. Edmunds opposed the substitute.
Mr.. Window offered an amendment to
adjourn at 10 A. NJ.
A motion to non-concur liz the conference
report on steamboat bill, after a short de-
bate, went over.
The sundry appropriation was informally
laid aside, and the discussion on adjourn
ment resumed.
Mr.. Flanagan said the session would pro-
badly be prolonged by political speeches,
but the responsibility was upon the enemies
of the administration. Messrs. Sumner
and Schurz, like
Two Volcanoes,
had poured out their political lava, think
ing the Senate must adjourn Monday, and
there would be no time to answer them.
but they were mistaken, for they would be
answered and answered successfully. Mr..
Flanagan then proceeded to review the his
tory of political parties.
Mr.. Cole-I wish to appeal to my friend
from Texas to let us proceed with public
business. The House has just taken re-
cess, having nothing to do.
Mr.. Flanagan wish my friend every
prosperity in the world, but 1 am talking
now, [laughter1. Mr.. Flanagan continued
censuring severely Liberal Republicans par
ticularly Schurz.
Mr.. Chandler moved to lay the adjourn
ment resolution on the table and proceed
with Conference report on steamboat bill.
Mr.. Cole said Chandler evidently wished
to have Congress adjourn Monday, so as to
make an extra session necessary. Mr.. Cole
questioned the wisdom of the course.
Mr.. Chambers motion was lost-yeaS IA
nays SO.
Mr.. WINDOWS amendment was then re-
jected, yeas 16, nays "a.
Mr.. Morton was in favor of adiourning
as soon as possible after disposing of public
business but not before.
Bayard said if an extra session should
become necessary it would not be the fault
of the minority, because they had thrown
no obstacle in the way.
Morton said it was true that the Demo-
Gratis had worked faithfully and had not
INSTRUCTED business, but it was not true
that the Administration party would be re-
sponsible for the extra session if one should
be called. The speeches made yesterday
were not in the interest Of the administra-
ton. The majority had worked hard to
dispose of the public business, but are not
responsible for the extraordinary Interrupt
ton yesterday.
Mr.. Casserly said the minority believed
an extra session would be great evil.
Mr.. Conkling advocated resembling the
resolution to adjourn Monday leaving the
end of session open so as not to put it in the
power of anybody to again embarrass pub
lie business as was done yesterday. The
Senator from Massachusetts, (SumneT),
said Conking, having given notice that he
found himself assaulted in the report Of
the committee on the sales of arms inter-
posed yesterday, moved to postpone
great appropriation bill on which the move
ments of the government depend and
then launch on the Senate printed essay
which required four hours to pass his lips
in which was made no reference to any
vindicatioE that be needed against the re-
port of the committee touching sale of arms.
When five O'Clock had come and we had
sat here weary with want of sleep and ex-
hausting labor, the Senator from Missouri,
(SchurZ), rose with a portentious pile of
manuscript and we were reminded that
courtesy required US then to take recess
in order that Senators who we're unaccus-
toned to go without food might refresh
themselves in order that the interval might
command more snowy and imposing au-
dience than was at that moment
waiting on the Senator from Missouri.
Mr.. Conkling thought Mr.. Sumner would
live long enough to regret his speech,
speech aimed at another, but which the
honorable Senator viii find
A Boomerang,
returning now and in the far future with
deadly blow. The other side voted for re-
cess. The evening was wasted, and now
we are determining the question as to
throwing on the President the responsible
ty of calling an extra session. He hoped
the Senate would pass only on the question
of what is necessary in the exigency before
it.
Logan
was not surprised at the anxiety of Demo-
Gratis to adjourn after the malignant, cruel
attack put forth in their interest. Demo-
cratic Senators had their case better pre-
sented by Senators claiming to be on his
side of the chamber, and had it done better
than either one of them is capable of. If
called session result, it cannot now be laid
at the door of the friends of the admins
tration, but it can be laid at the door of the
two Senators who have been so studiously
attacking the administration. If the ses-
sion is extended he (Logan) will attempt
a defense against one of the
most malignant assaults ever made against
an honest man. The assault made yester-
day against the President (applause in the
galleries) was fitted for no deliberate body
on earth. 1t was fit only for the hastings,
and it should have been uttered only from
the lips of some stump orator who knew
not the cOurtesies or decencies of the SEN
ate chamber. He proposed to defend the
President on the stump, not because he en-
dorsed everything that has been done by this
administration, but because he believed
an attack of this kind is intended to destroy
the President with the people, whose liber-
ties have been saved by his own strong arm,
which, in the van of the loyalists of the
land, severed the chains of slavery and
preserved the Union; a thing that all
the silvery words uttered by the
tongue of the Senator from Massachu-
sets never effected, and never could eff
feet. This attack has been made
On a man to whom the country is more in-
debted than any other. He has shOrtcom
ings, perhaps, like other men, but be is en-
titled to the gratitude of the people. He is
entitled to be secure from aspersion, from
villidcatiOn, frCm
classification
and from slander-[subdued applause in
the galleries. and 1 tell the Senator from
Massachusetts now that he will find the re-
spouse to that malignant speech on every
crutch that aids wounded soldier to wend
his way through the world, in every wooden
arm, in the grieved heart Of every widowed
mother mourning for her patriot son, that
will oVerwhelm him and all bis oratory.
These will speak in thunder tones in de-
Tense of one of the
Most Gallant
soldiers that ever lived in any nation on
earth. cloud applause in the galleries
which was with difficulty suppressed).
This is all l shall say now on the subject
because 1 did not intend to occupy much of
the time of the Senate on this occasion He
regretted that the speech of the Senator
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