New-York tribune., 1873-03-15

ARIE ARGUMENTS IN THE SENAlE'
ITOR sCOrr ARGUES AGAINST Mr.. MoRrONs s
INSTRUMENTATION SCHURZ PROVES ITS
CONsTITUTloNALlTY.
iBY rnRGRAPB TO THB TRBUSRl
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The Caldwell debate Is
~, beginning to become interesting In the hurry
nd overwork of the last weeks of the expiring Con-
,rss. senator's had no time to read even the news
,aper reports of the testimony that was itaken'
and hardly gave the report of the Committee q
nAsing examination, and when the attn Oh match !
- nassed II was several DAYS before Senators could
screw their courage up TO the TASK oi oA'''- 1
ming the eco and more pages OF evidence
- tbe case which Law upon their desks. The
5aba,e therefore. began IN a langmd way, as
.so,cb nohodv except the Committee intended TO
..te much part in it, and less interest was mani
tested in il than in discussions on the most ORDINARY
,ouies but now many OF the most prominent Seha-
,ors On both sides Of the Chamber have read the
,.simony for themselves and others have had their
,,erest IN il stimulated by the glimpses Of 1t gwen
: ,be speeehes already made, and at the adjourn
,t this afternoon the debate was just fairly under
,,av and seemed likely to continue another week.
Two Great speeches were made in the Senate to-
dav Mr. Scott who has during the session that
,centv closed done much 10 vindlcate hls clam 10
high rank as a Senator. made the strongest speech
thai has vet been delivered against the legallty OF
Mr. Morton's resolution. His argument was clear
and compact and ably delivered and if it failed TO
,o,vince II must have been because his premises
,.ere NOT admitted. Having disposed of the legal
nay Of the question he turned to the case ITSELF and
e,osed his speech with a few passages that
vii rank very high as examples of pa
4betic elomence He referred in feeling terms 10
tbe memories that clustered IN his mind around the
name of Caldwell the Senator having been born IN
his Scotts county and his father having served the
ooUS7rv nobly in the Mexican war. All his sympa-
shies had gone ont for Mr.. Caldwell, especially when
he saw hum attacked by men Of such bad character
as the testimony showed his accusers TO be; but
when he saw that all agreed about the payment OF
slsOOO 20 Gov Carney, and that the only ques-
non about $1,000 more was whether Carney
or members Of the Legislature got IT,
ne was bound 10 believe that Mr.. Caldwell
when he went up to Topeka, fell among
thieves and be added with much feeling, he wished
he could say that he had turned his back upon them
M Scott viii doubtless vote for resolution OF ex-
pulslOn.
Senator Schurz followed with speech that was
"a marked for It's vigor and elOquence in favor Of
the resolution as Mr.. Seotts was against It. Mr..
Morton had proved that the resolution was in accord
anee with English parliamentary law, but, after all
even when YOU prove that those laws may followed
by the Senate, that fact has comparatively little
influence upon Senators in their votes; but when
YOU show them that the Constitution Of the United
States expressly gives them power TO do thing, then
they listen. This was just what Mr. Schurz did this
afternoon. and how we'll he succeeded the reader can
Judge from the full abstract herewith gwen. DE
was listened TO throughout with the marked atten-
ton be always commands, and the speech was one
Of hls best.