Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-02-29
EVENING STAR.
CONGRk1ksIONAL.
x..eIu-ien Yesterday. Proceedin

sFNATF.-Aftsr our report closed
Mr.. Sumner continued his remarks on his res.
1HK SALE OF ARMS
81. the French government, saving:
n the Alabama claims are only 10 be saved by
the ssCrinCe OF the good name OF this country
Of purity. of honesty, IT is too fearful a price:
Isf them 60 He had insisted that England
mould be held accountable for her wrong doing
aud wa he TO be 'ess anxious that the integrity
ct his own country should be maintained? II is
aid that We are compromising the good name
Of eur county 1t - compromised nOw-cOm-
promised - Paris, in Berlin and in Geneva and
I. being more seriously compromised every day
hat this investigation is DELAYED.
AT the close OF his speech, the question was
taken on Mr.. TTumbulPs motion TO recOnsifIer
Dir. COnklngs amendment; watch was reject
ri-veas 10, nays S-republicsuS in the affirm
alive being hessTs. Ferry of Conn Hill, Logan
SpTaSue. 1Iumbuli and West.
Nr. Schurz offered an amendment to inquire
whether brfech loading mGskets or muskets
capable OF being transform al into breech- LOAD
srs were sold in such quantities as seriously to
AFFECT the defensive capacity OF the country in
case Of war
Nr Harlan said that conscious that the Sena
tors NCs>r>. sumner and SchurzI had m ade an
error IA thsir assertions to the defenceless
condition OF the country, he had called at the
ordnance apartment this morning, and had
ssCCTtsined tbat there were so 33i seryiceabIe
arms IN the depOts. not including those in the
hands OF troops. These facts were lust as access
-.ble 10 these eminent Senators as to any one
here the report OF the ordnance Off Ger made last
year. nc C6I!d not tell. That report said there
were l1stn arms of the model of 1896 IL he
MI. H. should 20 into an extended reply to
Nj. Sumner, he could show that the argument
OF that senator to-day had been as baseIess of
facts. from beginning to end, every other
speech he had made on the subject. III this in
yt>tIgatiun ordered Ii would he MAJ to
appear that this French Marquis who had been
ru.0gi/ed here So highly, has fathered the whole
'hyesti gatioh- Ihls party had applied to an
is
this iOor-tO Senator who was supposed TO be
friendly 20 the administratOn-and this was done
IN order 10 aliay suspicion. Being unable to sue
CeCd IN thlS attempt, he found Senator TO assist
rim in his dt sign " no has himse against
The administration OF his own government.
AFTER commenting upon the extraordinary char
after iireSe nted by the spectacle OF the Ampri-
can Senate engaged in discussing the alleged
Celn9ut ncies OF the agents of a foreign govern
ment, MI. H. replied to the argument of Mr.
SChuTZ that the statute had been violated by
the sales of rmes; and said the Application Of
the term suitable" As made by Mr. Schurz
vas mere play in words. Flint-lock muskets
WOULD DC suitable If there were no better; but
De commended that the true meaning and intent
OF the statute was to allow of the sale of all
arms, which were superseded by new and more
approved models. The Secretary of War had no
discretion in this question, he was bound by the
law He had sold ordnance stores, which were
not available for the uses of the government
and which If kept on hand would have constant
~ deterioTatsd in value. The proceeds of these
sales amounted TO SO .OOO 600 and had been paid
INTO the treasury. The Senator MR. SUMNER
seems 90 think this OF very little account but to
The taxpayers OF the nation it is matter OF some
consequence.
MIR. SCkurz. in reference to the statement Of
Mr.. Harlan concerning the arms now on hand
read again from the last report of the chief of
ordnance that there were on hand, suitable for
issue. less than 10 900 breech-loadidg arms. He
also read from the report OF Secretary Stanton
that AZ the close OF the war there were on hand,
ct all kinds and deSeri ptioEs of arms. about
i.asD,UOp, and the reports showed that 81 900
had been sold If the ordnance department
afJCr stating in its report that less than III, 900
bTeech- lOacing muskets were on hand. could
give such a statement in pencil to Mr.. Harlan
us Way> certainly were mysterious and past
finding out, and that was the reason he had
offered his amendment
Mr.. Carpenter. having obtained the floor gaYe
way. ami the Senate, at 100 7. m, adjourned.
HOUSE.-AfteT our report closed
The hii TO extend the time to the state OF
Wisconsin to complete a road from Lake ST.
CT0iN 20 Lake Superior was taken up, and, after
Islecting a motion 10 lay the bill on the table,
the House adjourned.
81 a St Louis man never drank water. Here
We have several men who never drank II either.
ga Tom Scott preside ntial club has been
Organized in Memphis.
eSSalt Lake had its first masluerade ball
Feb . 1t ended in a disgraceful fight.
"The lighting OF Rochester. y. Y. with
natural gas from the Bloomfield wells, is likely
10 prove success.
AZ The Atlanta New Era publishes the rules
ISOLATION OF Atlanta
fFSOrhc Sparkle writes to the New York
Mail that. ''If woman had no cruel and bitter
wrOTgs to endure, there wosld be no ciamor for
her n ShtS,"
ps~Dr. Amos Osgood, of North Yarmouth.
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