The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17
Congress Yesterday-Beck's Cartel To III,
Carpet-Baggers-The Senatorial Single
BarreIIed Triumvirate,

Congress Yesterday-Beck's Cartel to the
Carpei-Baggers-The Senatorial single.
BarreIIed Triumvirate.
Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, was afforded the
opportunity yesterday by the House to defend
his personal character and reputation from
the virulent attack made upon him in the
Senate on Thursday by Mr.. Brownlow, of
Tennessee, better known as ''Parson" Brown
low, and we'll Beck made use of the opportu-
nifty extended to him. In order to justify the
remarks which had provoked Brownlows ire,
and in which he had described the State of
Tennessee while under the Parsons rule as
Governor, as a 'pandemonium," he had
necessarily to review affairs in that unfortu-
nate State but he was frequently interrupted
by points of order, to the effect that he was
making political speech and not personal
explanation. The Speaker, however, backed
by Banks and Dawes, Of Massachusetts,, upheld
the right of Beck to choose his own mode of
putting the case and inquired of the directors
whether they thought they should dictate to
the gentleman from Kentucky the line of his
argument. Thus encouraged and sustained,
and stimulated also by the earnest attention
paid to him by the members and by the crowds
of spectators in the galleries, Beck, with
splendid impetuosity, sustained his position,
justified all that he had previously said by
review of the history of Tennessee for the four
years following the war, and then flung down
the gauntlet to the whole crew of carpet-bag
H. H. Ah,co
with having put forward Brownlow to assail
him because Brownlow was cripple and an
imbecle; but the rest of them, he said,
could walk, and he had really said
worse things of them than he had said
of Brownlow. Governor Davis, Of Texas, he
said, had been looking him full in the face
when he was exposing their infamies, and
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, had been occu-
plying a seat near him. Why had not they, or
Scott, of South Carolina, or Reed, of Florida,
none of whom were crpples, come forward to
challenge what he had said, and which he
stood ready to prove in the House or else
where, instead of shielding themselves behind
an old imbecile? Beck's chivalrous country
man, Fitzjames, could not have hurled his
defiance at Rob Roy and his freebooters with
greater scorn than did Beck at these modern
plunderers.
The Senate had its own entertainment III
the discussion over Summers resolution of
inquiry as to the furnishing of arms to the
French. Mr. Morton, of Indiana, the cham
pion of the administration in the Senate, made
an able speech in its defence, and Mr.. Conk-
ling moved to amend Summers resolution by
directing an additional inquiry as to whether
any Senators had been colluding and plotting
with the members of the French Legation in
this matter, thus turning the tables upon the
Massachusetts, Senator. Upton, of Nevada,
who is earning for himself the soubriquet of
<'The Upton Slasher" of debate, ranged him
self, as usual, alongside of Sumner and Schurz,
and pitched into Morton, Conkling and Ed
munds as having constituted themselves sort
of trumvrate to rule the Senate and the
administration, and he quoted approvingly the
remark of an Omaha newspaper that they were
all ''single barrelled"
No legislative business Of any kind was
transacted in either house except the passage
In the House of some private bills, and of a
bill to admit, free Of duty, the Importation of
Photographic pictures for exhibition. The
Senate has adjourned till Monday, but the
House will be open to-day for general bun
combe purposes.
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