The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-02-22


Monday when Senator Conkling said that
five months Of this Congress had already
passt and the business of the country
waited while debate for political eff
feet went on.
Appropriation bills were made TO wait;
the revision of q tariff which would strike
$40, 100000 from tie shoulders of indus
try and reduce the Internal Revenue and
debt to skeleton was made to wait while
the Senate was forced to waste its time in
political debate. But it could be avoided
The rule was that Senator could not be
questioned elsewhere for words uttered
in the Senate, and SO Senator might by
a preamble and speech Islander his Gov
eminent and his country and place them
in false position before the nations of
the earth, and he might do it either in
plain words or by insinuation, the last
always the most deadly language III the
slanderer's vlrulent vocabulary. The
Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr. Sumner)
WAS responsible for this waste Of time.
He would not have investigation, he
would have debate, lie had himself asked
when he introduced this resolution that
it should lie over, but this fact had not
prevented the Senate from SANDER AS
usual the Senate went into executive
session and soon after adjourned without
coming to a decision in the matter.
@ HoUsR OF REPRESENTATIVES,
. During the discussion on the Naval
Appro priation bill on Thursday Mr..
Slocum moved to strike out the item fol
the Brooklyn naval hospital, and spoks
of the immense cost of keeping up that
esta blishment and ofthe folly of retain
ing land there which was worth million
of dollars. He said it wluld be cheaper
to send every sick sailor in that hospital
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and keep the
SAILOR and physician there, than it is TO
keep up the naval hospital. Every sick
.gailor there costs more That the Cabinet
officers in Washington.
A petition from the .shipwrghts OF
Philadelphia was presented for repeal
of duties on tea and coffee, and for pro-
lection of home industry.
On motion of Mr. Dawes, bill was
passed allowing photographic pictures
for exhibition at the National Photo
graphic Association, to be held at Cleve-
land in June next, to be imported free.
Or. Friday r. debate ensucd on allowing
Mr. Beck of kentucky to have the floor
for personal explanation, which privil-
eye being accorded that gentleman
proceeded with his remarks in the
course of which he stated that
be did not pretend to use any
blIingsgate or slang, or to degrade
the House by any alusion which members
would say were not eminently proper
It Vas more important to him that he
h,uld he heard, and hat the House
should say that lie was right in the re-
marks for which he bad been arraigned
in the Senate. In that speech he had said
hat Gov Brownlow, of Tennessee, had
made. pandemonium ofthat state He
(Beck) had been on the committee to in
vcstigate the condition of the South, and
when he had cone to lock over the con
dition of things in Tennessee, from the
close OF the war, for four years, he.saw
such state of things as was exhibited
nowhere else on the American continent !;
and it was because he found the state OF
things so existing that he made the re-
marks to which exception had been
taken. If those facts did not exist, he
was guilty of SANDER; but they did exist,
and If he could prove to the House that
t lat state had been, by nlisrule, made a
pandemonium for four years after the
war closed, then he was rot guilty Of any
SANDER. He should either stand before
she House as willful and malicious
libeler, or he should stand confirmed by
facts, as he would show them. Before he
would say word as to the personal at
tack on himself, be wanted to show the
House that he was right in saying that
Tennessee had been a pandemonium for
four years. lla7 a2faa taa
With regard to the Tariff bill the
Committee is going forward to prepare