The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-12
SENATOR TRUMBULL.
From the Neu York Times.

From the Neu York Times.
When Lyman Trumbull was elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Thirty
fourth Congress, he had still to serve eight
Justice of the Supreme Court, and when
there had been brought into the State Leg
islature members enough to elect him a
Senator of the United States. seven years
of his term as Judge were still unexpired.
His election as Senator was, therefore,
both in defiance of the Constitution of H.
nois, which declares: "The Judges of
the Supreme and Circuit Courts shall not
be eligible to any other Office or public
trust of profit in this State. Or the United
States, during the term for which they
were elected, ror for one year thereafter.
All votes for either of them, for any cleo
tive Office, except that of Judge of the
Supreme or Circuit Courts. given by the
General Assembly, shall be void"
Senator Trumbull's first term expired in
1861. His brother-in-law, VIM. Jayne,
was elected, or counted into the Legisla-
ture of Illinois in 1861, not without the use
of money, raised in part by appeals on
behalf of Mr.. Trumbull, in other States;
and Mr.. Jayne's vote gave the Republicans
a majority of one in the Illinois Senate
Mr.. Jayne's vote gave the election to MIR.
Trumbull, who then entered upon his Sec
ond term. Soon after Mr.. Jayne cast his
vote for Mr.. Trumbull, and when Mr..
Jayne's legislative term was only begun,
Mr.. Trumbull applied to President Lincoln
to appoint Mr.. Jayne Governor of a Terri
tory. Mr.. Lincoln demonstrated, saying
that to take Mr.. Jayne from his place in
the Legislature of Illinois would leave
the body to which he belonged without a
Republican majority, which, in view of
measures essential to carrying on the war,
might lead to great public injury: Mr..
Trumbull was impervious to Mr.. Lincoln's
objections, and succeeded in carrying his
point, and his brother-in-law was appoint
ed Governor of Dakota. By this act, as
Mr.. Lincoln foresaw, the Republicans lost
control of the Legislature of Illinois.
This same Jayne appears to have been
the object of peculiar solicitude to Senator
Trumbull. President Grant gave the
Pension Agency at Springfield, ILL.,, to Gen.
Bloomfield, Union soldier, who had earn
ed his promotion and lost limb in the
war. Mr.. Trumbull, however, coveted the
place for his brother-in-law, applied to the
President for it, refused to be convinced
that Gen. Bloomfield had the best of all
claims to it, and finally, after great deal
of worrying of the President, he got
Bloomfield turned out and Jayne put in.
What the rest Of Mr.. Trumbull's recon-
may have lacked in urgency,
as compared with this, their quantity was
sufficiently imposing. He wanted places
for ninteen Consuls, a Consul General, two
Commercial Agents, including that in
San Domingo, twenty nine for Trustees
and four Postal Agents, two Judges, two
Marshals, two District Attorneys, three
Indian Agents, two Pension Agents, one
Surveyor General three Superintendent
of Indian Affairs, one Librarian, six Clerks,
one Governor, one Claim Agent, seven
Assessors, five Collectors and two Super
visors of Internal Revenue, while for one
of his friends all that he begged was some
Office, no matter what.
After many of the above requests had
been complied with, by "taking care of
his friends" Mr.. Trumbull applied to
President Grant to appoint his son Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue for the Territory
of Montana. The character and career of
the young man were such as to render the
unfit and unsafe. The Presi-
dent, in several interviews, excused him.
self to Mr.. Trumbull from making the
appointment, and at length, when the
was again repeated, positively
declined. Here occurred one of the only
two instances in which President Grant
has been subjected to menace by those
seeking patronage. Senator Trumbull
betook himself to violent language and
gestures, declaring to the President that
g he'd see, before he had done, whether
his son could be appointed or not.'
When the President refused to appoint
his son, gratitude changed from'a sense of
the many favors done to lively sense of
benefits to come from new alliances. The
very acts of the President now most bitter
ly denounced had Mr.. Trumbull's full as
sent. So the acts of Congress which he
now assails received his vote. When Mr..
Stewart was nominated Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. Trumbnll voted to confirm
him, and when the law was found in Mr..
Stewards way Mr.. Trumbull saw way of
getting round it. When the acts of Con-
gress now denounced as despotic and GEN.
were passed, Mr.. Trumbull urged
voted and for them-and for the strongest
Of them. All this, however, was before
his vote up on the impeachment of Andrew
] Johnson, and other acts, had destroyed his
prospect of obtaining another Senatorial
term from the Republicans of Illinois.
So much for Senator Trumbull's claims
to be considered civil service reformer."
And now, take a case which bears upon
his character as an honest man. The
case of McCardle is here referred to.
McCardle was arrested and detained under
the Reconstruction acts, for stirring up
turbulence in the late rebel States. He
sued out writ of habeas corpus from the
United States Circuit Court of Mississippi,
and, after hearing, was remanded to i'm
prisonment by the Court. He claimed the
right of appeal to the Supreme Court, and
the impression prevailed that several of
the Supreme Judges the Bench being
then not full) were biased against the Re-
acts.
1t was proposed to declare by law that
in such cases jurisdiction should be con-
fined to the Circuit and District Courts of
the United States. This, Senator Trum-
bull strenuously resisted, on the ground
that no appeal Or writ of error to the
Supreme Court lay in such case. This
position, he insisted, could be surely
before the Court itself. Sena-