New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-16
XLIID CONGRESS-2D SESSION.
SENATE. .wAsInSGroS. Feb. TO- 1871
puIs REpC KrEp AND INTRODUCED.

Dill making Shreveport. La, port OF onu9'
Mr. WILSON Osep., MsssJ introduced Dill au'norn
No the issue Of clothing to enilsteu Heh !" p''o VI
,,o,hioc destroyed Nv accident.
Er GOLF Rer.. Cal) submitted resolution, when
wa asrced TO- insructing the Committee on EdHSanon
n,cnt 10 the Constitution providing some educational
in the exercise or tee nn cTT,ories 70
rSport on the expcdicncy Of enacnc law to prevent
Che udiscrninae slaughter and determination OF ante
''PI PERSONAL fs EXPLANATION BY SENATOR RRowSLow
,eTona explanation in writing in reply to the remarks
male hy Mr.. Beck Of Kentucky about bun in the House
EIpwniow. whie Governor Of tennessee. made that
State pandemoumm that he and the other reconstrue
on,y re .nsc il they could escape the pcnitentiary
seemed TO he in the Senate of the United states mr.
prowuIow began by saving that there time Wheh
Mr Beck would not have dared to put this Insult uhoh
him. lest he Ont Br"wno should 'ano o M his p hack
he also said 6st when Mr Beck abandoned the respect
A. lcow the notice OF a decent nen
rhe VlCtIPRESlnENT aad this language was 'ui
BE- CIINNDiI3E CRcp.. Nich) moved that Mr.. Brown
low have unanimous consent 10 proceed w., os;gont
knew of precedent for the utterahee u su''
N !1 2v a. 6 6'r h. sd recocct several
instances when Language had been nteIeu pu "a
Corc no; IN aecoi nee VIII par1sinrtSS language
Nj BLAIR Dem No) at VIZ BroWioS h ned hs
arprPhae;o mCns D. when en- , ne Sean'u HIS
Rwuow's career Governor Of Tennessee, ana az, as
sItd cy honest and further said that Mr. Beck's
s:a'emeut that he GOV: Brownlowl was haten I aJp
In corcIron ne said he left Beck in the worst possible
company namely with himself
TIE FRENCH AIMS SALE ,.
The Sepofe then resumed the consideration OF the reso-
YUKON To inquire into the sales OF arms u 'e0 0
du-iur the Franco German war. . .-.--. "a
III HARLtN rep, Iowa. resumed his statement OF
W. wv b,narfnent He said that since 1865 our Gov
e-nu,cu. had had hand great quantity OF cIdhahcc
nrnc and private sale and had been purchased largely
bv car o,.1 citizens well as by foreigners wien Ine
VIZ broke Out between France ana tLsSa Ile Govern
Ineut refused 10 sc arms TO either peIHGercnt, OF 10
known agents of either OF courses tnfH S"tyo 20 20
~ Own citizens. ana II vas NOT IN tn,f IpMeI 10
prevent these arms being rcsol 10 one or ne oAcr pei
particle OF evidence 70 snow that 3nr autholues were
cnczlnt thar OF the arms sold were destined Ior
the French. Inc rst charge being disposed o. e would
re.ed account OF the arms sold was not paid Into
IT, Ieasury. He read from the report OF ne Chet OF
o. anCe OF the sales of and claimed that the ds
r. qn,ics alleged bv Mr.. Sumner did not exist In re-
he included in the report Of the Chief Of Ordnance,
to support which MI sunni had read an Associated
Pres ispqfc stating such sales had been made.
Mr. iasliu explained that no such sales were made the
bids having been rece Ca III TUcr 81 NE hen re-
viewed In detail the preamble OF Mt sumner resou-
referred 10 therein showed clearly that in the
eoust-y must he in n0n-Ofical and unauthorized com
uni,ation with French Legation, because several of
thr could not have been got in any other way. He be
lieyed. therefore, that the whole proceeding bad
been melted by the present French Government,
draw in 1t member of the Senate. Tia French Gov
ernmct wanted evidence to prosecute some of its own
sgs suspected Of dishonesty and it had been able TO
And here who was willing to AID IT, and ran
the records OF the French Lesau0n IN tic nope ~
nnIng something that could be used against depart
ment of his Government. The preamble compared
the records Of the War DSp9 tment OF tne amounts re-
eevcd for arms, and the French records OF WAT had
where did the author Of the preamble get access TO the
m NV hand while spoke Yesterday II will be found in
the Joarnai Of ne French Repu0ite
MIR. sUMNEE-It is the report OF French official pub
MI HARLAN-And copied INTO The Npr York SIM
Nv. sUMNER-Copied into nc sur, lL1nehterl
It, for the arrdgument Of high officer OF our own Gov
eminent by member OF the American Senate. leave
for tie American people to decide Nj. Harlan then
criticised the resolution Itself, aud asked
Why it proposed to limit me -, nyc ST.
motive 20 vindcae our own Government from an
Just uspcon. Again wpy was the Comrttee TO asSer-
kahn no were tine parties interested What differ
ence did make 20 our Government whether the pur
enasels bought for themselves for somebody else
Further, why must ascertain what sums were nc iu
81 paid by the real parties IN interest Inc eXpina
formation used against their own officials and the
question was whether II was legitimate fC the Aetcan
PURPOSE with the slOI tcOmnSs or crimes and II France
mad received any wrong at our hands let her resort to
Hr. FRELINGHUYsEN CRep.. ". j. renewed tho
paragraphs OF the preamble one by one ana gEed tlat
an that none OF them furnished foundation for the allie
on but he hoped would be made not by the Committee
YToposod In ts resolution, because by parliamentary
usa ce the chairman Of that COMMITTEE (Nlr sumneI)
would I've one who had already assumed in this preamble
the matter would be referred the Committee 1nyes
tigaton aud Retrenchment--the Committee created for
OF Investigations. They were ordered on almost
every lrctex and many OF tn ei IKE , Unf
after the Philade phia Convention.
Mr. sCHURZ Qiep, MOI said that this Investigation
bad seemed TO be very popular III the senate Yesterday,
but il was less SO to-day. 1t was now regarded as a
disgrace the American name, and tho Senator from
Massachusetts, (r SUMNER who had always passed for
good American. suddenly made 10 appear III tho
character of agent OF France, or person put up to
ob by somebody for the benefit OF inc arcnh Govern
ment The Senator from New-Jersey (Mr. Frehnghuy-
incte the Prussan Government TO make claims AGAINST
TIE United states II Appeared, Therefore that MI;
that the two great belige ents Of 1870 were united In
this thing. tLlushterl But the opposition 20 Is
remembered that the resolution for The inyesgaiion Of
the abuses Of the Newly CustomhOuse had been met
in the same manner and that the men who moved aud
HTged were said 10 he very doubtful characters COM
pared with Leet Stocking. tLaughtcr]
The pendiug resolution contemplated the investigation
OF certain facts, and the question for the Senate was
Is the investigation necessary Senators who argued
point and he would 70 ow their example, which he did
lie insisted that there was no GROUND whatever i0r INC
insnuaOn that MI Sumner, or any Senator, had iDs
gated the proceedings Of the French Governmeni The
facts seemed be that that Government had ordered
certain Investigations, and had discovered difficulties.
And also reasons for believing that the Government OF
United States aware OF the practices OF ques
honable character having gone on here III connection
with the sale or arms. Inc ldlQ down ScU ny
the United States Government seemed TO have been
that should be sold TO known agent Of other
belgeTent and, if this rule had ODseTV ed
would have been sold, when their going into the
hands Of either belhgerent was matter Of ordinary
probability. IL sold to indi viduas who with
any degree Of probability could bo presumed to
them to either beligeren then il clear as sun
hight that the adoption OF that rule oufy a solemn
nOcEery Wien The war between France and Prussia
raging, IL Il fair presumption that every
man offering 90 purchase large lot of
wanted them for other of the bc gerents.
man applied for $1,000 muskets and 10 batteries Of
uleyy the presumption that he did not want tucn