The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-04
WASHINGTON
THE HOUSE WAITING on TIE SENATE
The Tariff Bill Ready To Be Reported
from the Conference.
Andrew johnson and the
Buell. Records.

WASHINGTON. June g. 1917
The House Hanging Upon Senatorial
Action.
The House has been lying on its oars for the last
| few days waiting on the Senate taking recesses
and adjourning from time to time, but In readiness
| for any business which the Senate may return or
send to 1t. The leading committees Of the House
| have nearly cleared their dockets of business
ferred to them. The Committee Elections
have disposed Of all the contested election cases.
except few, which the parties themselves have
consented to postpone until December The Com
mittee Of Ways and Means have disposed OF all
their public measures except the Tax and Tariff
bill, which is now in conference between the two
houses The Committee Appropriations have
disposed Of all their work, and have had no meeting
| for the past week. Nine Of the twelve appropria-
| ton bills are now law, the three remaining ones
| being in the Senate-the Fertilization bill,
which has been reported to the Senate
without amendment, but which is waiting for
action; the River and Harbor BILL which is still in
| the hands of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
and the Sundry Civil bill, which was up for action
| in the Senate, when Mr.. Sumner moved to postpone
! 1t indefinitely in order to make his four hours
| speech against the President The Committee on
Public Lands have reported large number OF bills
They have been mostly of local Importance
the House at this period of the long session has not
been for many years so far advanced as now, and
In many years that Of the Senate has not been so
INSTRUCTED by political debate. To-day after
| the passage Of number Of unmport-
| ant bills, and the reference Of others to COM
| mttees the House, at one O'Clock, took q
| recess until three O'Clock The members awaited
themselves of the opportunity to listen to Senate
| debates. At three O'Clock the House reassembled
| and resumed routine business until four O'Clock,
| when it adjourned until eleven O'Clock tomorrow,
| when it will probably take another recess until
| after the Philadelphia Convention
| There is still q determination on the part Of a
few Senators to force an extra session, with the
hope of passing the Ku Klux, Civil Rights and En-
forcement acts There is determined opposition
to this in the House, for the that it is
| sidered impossible to get these bills before the
House for action as the democrats could success
| fully nlibuster for some days. 1t Is quite
probable the Enforcement act might pass but quite
unlikely that the Ku Klux could by any possibility
| do so. In the meantime, the House has to wait
| patiently until the Senate has exhausted itself
| with speech-making Considerable dissatisfaction
| Is expressed among the members of the House ON
the Senate frittering away its time in political
debate, instead of taking action on the bills for
which the House agreed to extend the time of ad
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treated the House with great indignity, and the
democrats assert that they will not vote to extend
the session one hour beyond the time already
areed upon.
Sumner and Stanton.
The personal friends of the late Secretary Stan
ton are highly indignant over the course OF Senator
Sumner in making use Of his name as authority for
statement concerning General Grant that is
known to be contrary to the oftexpressed views or
the deceased statesman, and which he cannot either
refute explain, and in giving notice OF his inten-
ton to-day to vindicate the memory OF
the dead Secretary Senator Chandler spoke
for nearly the whole body of Mr.. Stanton's
intimate associates in public life. 1t is remembered
that the first person of distinction to congratulate
General Grant upon his nomination at Chicago was
the Secretary Of War; who, for that purpose and to
the astonishment of those in his office, left the
War Department, in which he had been kept close
prisoner through the efforts of President johnson
to dispossess him. in violation Of law, and went
across the street to General Grants headquarters
where his manner toward the embryo President was
so Enthusiastically sincere and cordial that General
Grant was visbly affected by 1t. This visit was the
subject of much comment at Army Headquarters
at the time because, although the relations Of the
Secretary and the General Of the Army had always
been cordial and the latter had often acknowledged
ceived from Mr.. Stanton, the position of
| the latter with regard to General Grants
| candidature for the Presidency was not
| derstood owing to the Secretary's habitual
| reserve. The conduct Of Mr. Sumner at this juno
| ture Is unfavorably cOntrasted with that OF Mr..
Stanton in regard to q circumstance somewhat
| IDENTICAL The latter had more than once been
made by President Lincoln the recipient of his
| views concerning the Massachusetts Senator, and
| they were too much in accord with those
| now entertained by Summers enemies con-
corning his egotism and arrogance and the paucity
of his recent achievements to be natterng
to his vanity. On one occasion in particular, while
| in the Secretary's room in the War Department,
Mr. Lincoln lost his temper in warming up with his
| oft-recurrng theme, and demanded to know what
Sumner had ever done that he should presume to
dictate the whole policy Of the government on every
question and brand with treason and imbeciity the
| men who had done the work OF the nation
while he stood vaporlng with idle words Neither
before nor after the death Of Mr.. Lincoln did the
Secretary, who made the best excuses for Sumner
that he could devise at the time, ever repeat the
occurrence TO anybody so far as known, and only
the excited manner and loud tones of the Pres-
dent, which carried the conversation outside the
private ROOM preserved the incident for the future
| Andrew John SON and the Buell. Records.
| EX-PrCSlueHb JOIISoH, WIZ uliANSu hCiS 'o-"dy
from Tennessee, In obedience to the summons Of
the House Committee on Military Affairs, appeared
| before that committee this afternoon. He testi
! fed that General Buell. had published some state
ment in the character OF a defence, a notice
of which he had seen, but was never able
| to procure q full copy of 1t. In this
statement he had mentioned his name in connec-
ton with the defence of Nashville. There was no
personal quarrel between him and General Buen,
but merely q difference OF opinion as to the
| propriety OF the evacuation OF that city. Mr..
| Johnson said that from subsequent events his own
! Judgment was shown to be correct. Therefore
| III his name were mentioned in the
records OF the Buell. Military Commission,
alleged to have been removed from the
! War Department 1t must have been to his credit.
He made this remark in order to dscredit insinua-
tions that possibly he had some agency In the re-