The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-25
ON THE LIBERAL RE.
PUBLICANS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Trumbull
took the floor and addressed the Sen
ate. He said every effort at reform
in this body had been met by as
saults upon those who make the
effort, by asperslon upon their mo-
tlves. by charges of bad party faith.
! Trumbull continued, saying that
the questions affecting the purity of
the Government and welfare of the
public are, i'll the opinion of some
members of this body, who assume
to be the peculiar opponents of the
Republican party, no longer to be
decided on their merits, but only
with a view to their bearing on the
party. [ intend to say something in
reply to the repeated assaults that
have been made by those who assume
to be better Republicans than their
fellow Senators. [ intend to show
the course of these Senators. Irum
bull then reviewed the course of the
majority n the Senate on the ques
ton of removing Sumner from the
Craftsmanship of the Committee on
Foreign Relations; IN the resolution
to investigate the management of the
New York Custom-hOuse and on the
pending resolution, and insisted that
on each of these questions the ma
joritv had voted and acted without
reference to the right or wrong in
volved. but wholly with reference to
the supposed interests of the party.
On the pending resolution the same
old cry of party, party had been
made, and the Senators who moved
the resolution We're threatened with
fine and Imprisonment. He would
not comment upon the motives of
Senators, but the people were thor
oughIy aroused against fraud and
corruption everywhere, and they
would understand the motives OF
these Senators very we'll. The Sen
ator from Indiana had denounced the
platform of the Liberal Republicans
as anti-Republican and essentially
Democratic, and he would now I'M
dertake to show that the man who
held that view did not know the
meaning of Republicanism. He then
went over the resolutions in the plat
form. one by me-, and insisted that
thev were all in accord with the prln-
ciples of the Republican party.
They were principles he had con-
tended for through all his public
life, and, God helping him, he would
contend for them to the end.
Morton said T%rumbull had come
into the Senate with a prepared
speech, containing two things-an
assault upon him (Morton) and a
| defense of the Missouri Liberal Re-
publican movement and its platform.
1t was unnecessary for him to show
further than he had shown already
that there was a movement designed
to divide and defeat the Republican
party. He was sorry that Irumbull
had identified himself with ii, but as
he had done SO, the others could not
do less than recognize it. The fact
was generally understood that SEN
ator Trumbull was to be the Pres
idential candidate of the Liberal Re
publicans. The people generally
understood that the Senator had
stepped cut of the Republican party;
stepping, however, within cas- re
turning distance, and was standing
with his back all chalked over Bar.
ks is within" CLauGhter.) Nor
ton reiterated the statement that the
Liberal Republican platform was
essentially Democratic, and that he
based his criticism on the resolution
which declared the kuklux law I'M
constitutional. Senator Trumbull
talked much about Civil Service re-
form, but he had been informed to-
dav that that very Senator had made
one hundred and three recommends
tions to office since the Administers
ton came into power.
Trumbull said he had no means OF
knowing exactly how many he had
made, but he was satisfied that IN
the last five years he had not made a
dozen recommendations, and that
there were no men in Office who had
been placed there at his request.