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Daily Kennebec Journal.
T0rty-SecOnd congressional Session
WAsHINGToN, 23.

SENATE.
The French arms resolution again came up
in the Senate to-day.
Mr.. Cole moved to have final vote taken
on the bill.
Mr. Harlan objected.
MIR. Cole asked him to suggest some other
hour at which this intermnable discussion
should be brought to an end.
Mr.. Harlan said that he was willing that
vote should be taken now.
Mr.. Cole said the proposition was impracti-
cable because it was evident that several
Senators intended to speak on the subject to-
day.
Mr.. Trumbull then addressed tie Senate.
He said that every effort at reform made "
this body was met by assaults upon those
who make the effort by aspersions upon their
motives, and by charges Of bad party faith.
The questions affecting the purity of the
government and the welfare of the public are
IN the opnlon cf some members Of this body
who assumed to be peculiar expo nents Of the
republican party, no longer to be decided
upon their merits, but only with view az TO
their bearings upon the party, the chief Of
whom is the Senator from Indiana, (Mort0n.)
Mr.. Trumbull continued at length.
In the discussion OF the resolution under
consideration he has devoted two or three
hours to assaults upon those who have felt it
their duty to move this investigation, and
not content with that lie has taken occasion to
wander away from the subject and talk about
a Senatorial cabal. | 90 not know by what
authority any member of this body assumes
to be a peculiar exponent Of the republican
parts, or even of the administration. / intend
10 say something in reply to the repeated as
saults that have been made by those VINO as
sumo to be better republicans than their fell
low Senators. In intend to show the course
OF these Senators, and before | have done
unless | misunderstood the principles of the
republican party | think l will able to show
that the Senator who stands foremost here
on all occasions to denouhce others as
saulting the party has himself forgotten the
principles on which the republican party is
founded and is himself at war with them.
Mr. Trumbull then reviewed the course of
the majority in the Senate on the question Of
removing Mr. Sumner from the chairman
ship of the committee on foreign relations,
on the resolution to investigate the manage
ment of the New York Custom House, and
on the pending resolution, and insisted that
on each and all these questions the ma.oriy
had avowediy 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 Morton
speaking OF the position of Sumner, had /
the propriety Of the act, but that the majority
intended TO stand by the organization and
usages of the party. That was the standard
Of duty for the Senator acting under oath. !
When it was proposed to investigate the
abuses in the New York custom house, the
Senator from Indiana did all he could to de- /
feat it, but he now boasts that it has vind- I
Gated itself from suspicious; that it was white !
washing the committee upon the pending
resolution. The some old cry of party, par
ty, had been raised, and the Senators who !
moved the resolution were threatened with !
fine and imprisonment. The Senator from
Indiana had also denounced the platform of
the liberal republicans as antirepublican and
essentially democratic, and he would under /
take 10 show that the man who held that |
view did not know the meaning of republ- |
canism He then went over the resolutions
in the platform one by one, and insisted that
they were all in complete accord with the
principles of the republican party. They
were the principles he had commended for
through all his public life, and God helping
him he would contend for them to the end.
Mr.. Morton said Mr.. Trumbull had come
into the Senate with a prepared speech con-
tanning two things-an assault upon him
(Morton), and defence of the Missouri I
liberal republican movement and its platform. |
He was sorry Trumbull had identified him
self with it, but as he had done so, others
could not do less than recognize the fact, that
the people generally understood that the
Senator had stepped out of the republican
party, stepping however within easy return
ing distance, aud was standing with his back
all chalked, "Barkis is Wllin'." If that
impression was wrong, this was a good OPP
portunity to correct. The Senator had re-
viewed the liberal republican platform and en-
dorsed it, and had expressed establishment
that he (Morton) called it essentially demo-
cratic. Speaking of the causes suspending
the habeas corpus, Mr.. Morton said that
there was still rebellion existing at the South,
and he had heard it said, and believed that
more men were killed and wounded by the
ku-Khx in South Carolina during the last
four years, than were killed in the war of
1872.
The Senator (Trumbull) talked much about
civil service reform but he had been informed
to-day that that very Senator had made one
hundred and three recommendations to office
since the administration came into power.
Mr. 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 dozen recommendations and
there were no men in office who were placed
there at his request.
Mr. Morton said he was authorized to say
that Trumbull had made 1903 recommenda-
tons.
Mr.. Trumbull said he would like to see the
evidence of it.
The discussion continued at great length by
Messrs, Trumbull and Morton when the SEN
ate adjourned till Monday.
House.
There was long debate in the House to-
day on the question of relations with Spain.
| Mr.. Voorhees, said this was not the proper
moment to increase complications with for
| cign nations. Our relations with Spain are
already delicate. Our relations with Great
Britain are also. 1t would be an unheard of
calamity if our troubles with Great Britain
should result in the breaking down of that
treaty, which was an honor to human nature,
and which ought to be an eXemplar in all
future times, for all nations, in settling their
grave difficulties without war. He hoped
that the House would be very slow to take
any measure in regard to Cuba, to Spain, to
Great Britain, or to any other nation with
which we are not at peace, to harass, iritate
and deepen the angry feelings which already