Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
Debate ON the Cincinnati Convention.
Lively Personals in the House.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 23.-Mr. Spencer
asked consent to reply to some of Senator
Trumbull's remarks at the Cooper Institute
meeting in New York.
Mr.. Hamlin objected.
Abbott Disposed of.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the North Carolina election case came up.
Mr.. Cole moved to lay it upon the table.
Lost.
Mr.. Carpenter again made legal argument
in reply to Mr.. Thurman, in favor of ad-
hitting Abbott to a seat in the Senate.
The question was taken on the minority
report, which admitted Abbott, and it was
rejected by a vote of 10 TO AZ, the yeas
being Ames, Chandler, Cragin, Gilbert,
Howe, Nye, Osborne, Patterson, Poole,
Sawyer. Carpenter, Flanagan and Rice,
who would have voted aye, were paired
with Salisbury, Hamilton, of Texas, and
Norwood, who would have voted no.
The resolution reported by the majority
committee declaring Abbott not entitled to
a seat was then adopted.
The Cherokee Massacre.
Mr.. Pomeroy offered a resolution which
was agreed to, calling on the President for
information relating to the acts of Marshals
and Deputy Marshals in the Indian country,
also, for all information in possession of the
department relating to the recent outrages
at Whitemore, Barren Fork, Cherokee
Nation.
The Cincinnati Convention.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the deficiency bill, and Mr.. Bayard con-
Guided his remarks on the pending amend
ment to limit the jurisdiction of the Court
of Claims.
Messrs. Conkling and Frelinghuysen ia
Vored the amendment.
Mr.. Morton also advocated it, and pre-
dicted that if the Democratic party should
come into power the constitutional amend
ments would be ignored and all legal distinc-
tions between loyal men and rebels would
be blotted out.
Mr.. Edmunds took the same view, and
spoke of the Cincinnati Convention as de-
signed to be the nucleus Of party which
should be the same as the Democratic party
in everything but the name.
Mr.. Thurman said he was not one OF
those who had been expecting great results
/ from the Cincinnati movement but from
the uneasiness and anxiety in regard 10 it
! shown by the two distinguished Senators
Morton and Edmunds) he began to think
| he had been mistaken. These Senators
seemed to fear stampede from their own
party, and to have taken this occasion tC
warn their LieUtenants throughout the
country to watch the troops lest they should
desert. Unless on this hypothesis be could
not account for this making stump speeche;
on the pending question, designed to alarm
timid people and attacking the Cincinnati
movement in the absence Of those Senators
who were supposed to favor it.
Mr.. Edmunds replied that telling The
truth was neither a cause nor a sign o.
alarm: and as to attacking the Cincinnati
movement in the absence of its friends, III
felt justified in addressing himself on thai
subject directly to the leading representa-
tive Democrat in the Senate (Thurman)
because he and everybody else knew tina
the bottom of that movement rested MOI
upon those Senators alluded to as its cham
pions, but upon the Democratic side OF the
| Chamber.
Pending action on the amendment tn
Senate adjourned.