Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-02-28
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a Mr. Trumbull Of Illinois addressed th
!. Scuate. lie said that every effort at r,
form in this body is Rst BY aspcrsions up
c on their motives aud by charges Of bal
D party faith. Questions afesiipg the pur
b iiy Of the government aud the welfare o
g the public, are. in the opinion Of som
E members Of this body. who assume 10 b
, the peculiar exponeuts Of the Republican
party, no longer to be decided upon thei
merits, but with Il view to their bearing
upon the party, the chief Of whom is th,
senator from Indiana, tMr Morlon). Ii
the discussion Of the resolution be has de-
voted two or three honrs TO assaults upon
those who have felt it their duty to move
this investigation, au4, not content with
that, he has often taken occasion to wan
der away from the subject aud talk about
a senatorial eabal. do not know by
what authority any member Of this body
assumes to be the peculiar exponent Of the
Republican party, or even Of the admins.
tratiOn. ] intend to say something in re-
/ ply to the repeated assault that have been
made by those who assume to be better
republicans than their iellow.senatOrs. |
intend to show the course Of those sena-
tors, and before have done, unless mis-
understand the principles of the republi-
can party think | shall be able to show
that he who stands foremost here on all oc-
casions to denounce others as assaulting the
party has himself forgotten the principles
on which the republican party was found
ed, and is himself at war with them.
Mr.. Trumbul then reviewed the course
of the majority in the Senate on the qucs-
ton Of removing MIR Sumner from the
craftsmanship of the committee on foreign
relations, on the resolution to investigate
the New York custom house and on the
pending resolution, and insisted ttat on
each and all these questions the majority
avowedly acted, not with reference to the
right or wrong involved, but wholly with
reference to the supposed interests of the
party. the senator from Indiana (Mr. |
Morton) speaking Of the position of Mr..
Sumner had boldly said that the question
was not as to the propricty of the act, but
whether the majority intended to stand by
The organization and usages of the party.
When It was proposed TO investigate the
abuses in the New York custom house,
the senator from Indiana did all he could
to defeat, but nov he boasts that the CON-
mittee has vindcated itself from the sus-
picion that it was whitewashug COM
nlttee. That committee has not yet made
It's report, and he (TrumbulD would not
lssail it, but ITS conduct in making the in.
'estigation was public, and was somewhat
The committee was instruct
ID to inquire into official abuses in the
custom house, to inquire whether officials
lad improperly lnterfered with the free
lom of election, whether they had not in
eriered improperly in the organization of
ETC., but it had undertaken
ilso to inquire into the conduct Of other
'eople. Witnesses who testified that these
Ulcers had interfered with the Legisla-
ure of New York were asked whether
hey were not there themselves for the
anne purpose, as if the people have not
light to take part in politics, and as if the
ommittee could call the people to account ,
or political action. He had seen it stat. a,
d, too, that notice had been given that :
illnesses who were brought before the +
ommittee for the purpose ofexposing cor /
upton were themselves to be prosecuted
"a good way to encourage witnesses 10 i
estify. Again, on the pending resolu- o
ON the same old cry of party, party, has .
cen raised, aud the senator's who moved :;
ne resolution are threatened with fine /,
nd Imprisonment. He would not criti- !.
lsc the motive Of the senator from In.
lana, but the people are thoroughly !,
reused against fraud and corruption !,
vcrywhere, and they would understand
ie motives of these senators very well. ;,
The senator from Indiana (,Ir. Morton),
OF content with speaking for the republic ,
IN party, assumed to know all about
hat all political parties intended to do. :,
e had foretold what would be the course
the democratic party, and Of the liber-
republican party, though, if the latter :
I'd any existence at all as distinct or. :
'aization, he (TrumbulD was not aware .
it. lie denied Mr. Morton's authority :"
speak for the liberal republican party. u
ut the senator from Indiana had SO de- !"
'unced the platform of the liberal repub- p
'aus as anti-republican and essentially Oh
mocratic, and he would now undertake SO
show that the man who held that view d
d not know the mean;no of ron,hl; IN