Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-24
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
WASHINGTON, A
IN THE SENATE

WASHINGTON, April %
IN THE SENATE.
Senator Spencer asked consent to re-
ply to some Of Senator Trumbulls re-
: marks at the Cooper Institute meeting
in New York.
Senator Harlin objected.
The deficiency bill was taken UP.
Senator Bayard continued his re-
marks against Senator Merrill's amend
ment until the expiration of the morn
hour, when the North Carolina case
came up.
: Senator Cole moved to Law it on the
table; motion lost.
Senator Carpenter again made legal
argument in reply to Senator Thurman
in favor of fadmitting Mr.. Abbott to a seat
in the Senate. The question was taken
on the minority report admitting Mr..
Abbott, and was rejected by the follow
ing vote:
Feas-Ames, Chandler, Craigen, Gilbert
Howe, Nye, Osborne, Patterson, Poole, Saw
i NatJs.Aleorn. Bavard. Blair. Buckingham.
Caldwell, Cameron, Casserly, Clayton, Cooper,
| Davis lNirginial, Fdmunds, FentOn lCOnnec-
tlcutl, Ferry Connecticut, Ferry, Michigan
/ Freilinghausen, Goldthwate, Hamilton,
lMarylandl, Hill Hamlin, Hitchcock, john
son, Kelly, Logan, Morrill, lAlarylandl, Nor
rill Vermont Morton, Pratt, Ramsey, Rob
ertson, Schurz, Scott, Sprague, Stevenson.
Stockton. Summer, Thurman, Upton, Trum-
bull, Vickers, West, Windham, Wright-42.
Senators Carpenter, Flanagan and Rice
who would have voted yea, We're paired
with Senators Salisbury, Hamilton Tex
asl, and Norwood, who wouldi have
voted no. f
The resolution reported by the Major
ity Committee declaring that Abbott
was not entitled to a seat was then
adopted.
Senator Pomeroy offered resolution,
which was agreed to, calling on the
! President for information relating to the
acts of marshals ahd deputy-marshals in
the Indian country, also for all infOrma-
! ton possessed by the department rela-
| ting to recent outrages at WhitemoFe's
Barren Fork, Cherokee Nation.
Senator Carpenter, "a resolution, which
was agreed TO, calling on the Department
of Justice for Information as to the pro-
| ceedings which have been taken into
courts TO restrain the digging of a canal
across Minnesota point, near Duluth.
The following House -billwas reported
| by SenatOrkreelinghuy from thecOm
mittee on Agriculture without amend
ment:
A bill 10 prevent cruelty to ami
mais while in transit by railroad or
other means of transportation within
the United States.
The senate then resumed the considera-
ton of the deficiency bill
Senator Bayard concluded his remarks
on the pending amendment limiting
the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims.
Senators Conkling and Frelinghuysen
favored the amendment. @
Senator Morton also advocated it. and
predicted that if the Democratic party
should come into power, the constitu- |
tional amendments would be ignored
and all legal distinctions between loyal |
men and rebels be blOtted out.
Senator Edmunds took the floor. |
He spoke of the Cincinnati Convention |
as designed to be the nucleus of party
which should be the same as the Demo- |
cratic party in everything but name.
Senator Thurman said that he was |
not one of those who had been expect
ing great results from the Cincinnati /
movement, but from the uneasiness and !
anxiety in regard to it shown by the
two distinguished Senators Morton
and Edmundsl, he began to think that
he had been mistaken. Those Senators
seemed to fear a stampede from their
own party, and to have taken this oc-
out the country to watch their troops
lest they should desert. Unless on this
hypothesis he couldn't account for their
making stump speeches on the pending
question designed TO alarm timid peO-
pie and attacking the Cincinnati
movement in the absence of those Sena-
tors who were supposed to favor it.
Senator Edmunds replied that, telling
the truth, there was neither cause or
sign of alarm, and as to attacking the
Cincinnati movement i'll the absence of
its friends, he felt justified in addressing
himself on that subject directly to the
leading representative Democrat in the
Senate tSenator ThurmanJ because he
and everybody else knew that the bot
tom of that movement rested not upon
those Senators alleged as its cham
pions, but upon the Democratic side of
the chamber.
Pending action ON the amendment
the Senate adjourned, H