New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-27

lew ORLEANS, SATURDAY, JUNE 27 1874.

How the Senate Slaughtered Shepherd.
The following is from the st. Louis
Globes Washington correspondent, writing
under date Of June 3:
The chief event of the day has been the
rejection by the Senate of the Shepherd
nomination for the district commissioner.
1t has been asserted all along that the ex-
Governor would be rendered place at the
head Of the new commission, but more mod
crate and sensible persons deprecated any
such idea, and it was therefore a surprise
when, about two, it was known that the
President had sent in the names Of Shep-
herd. Hon. H. T. Blow, of your city, and
Ex-Governor Dennison, of Ohio, as the COM
mission. The Senate at once went into ex-
ecutive session.
of some witnessed in Andy JOhnson's day.
Shepherd vas planted in the office Of Sec
retary Gorham, and, to locker on, it ap-
peared as if the secretary and his clerks
were nothing but the ex.GOvernors eat
elites. They manifested extraordinary in
terest, anyhow, in his success.
Outside there was large number on the
anxious seat. Nothing was known for over
two hours, except that the Geneva award
commission had been confirmed, and that
Messrs. Blow and DennisOn encountered no
sons not in the ring set that it was not ex-
pected that either Of the gentlemen would
accept, and that, consequently, their places
would be filled to Mr.. Shepherds advan-
tage. There is no doubt but that the lat
ter's friends fully expected that he would
be confirmed. Bets were freely offered to
that effect. About four o'clock it was
asserted that the nomination had been over
whelmingly rejected, and this was soon
he In TOT hn
broker ring that the vote stood six for and
thirty six against. Further inquiry shows
that Mr.. Shepherd received the following
votes: Sargent, of California; Jones, of
Nevada; Spencer, Of !Alabama; Clayton, Of
Arkansas; Flanagan, of Texas, and Patter-
son, of South Carolina.
Mr.. Sargent led the debate in favor of
Shepherd, and is stated, by his usual in
discreet style of attack, to have provoked a
characterized Shepherds administration
here in the severest terms. He cited cases
of seeming malfeasance, and used language
more Saxon than polite.
Mr.. Allison, though not as savage, was
quite severe. Even Mr.. Stewart did not
alude to the nomination cOmplacently.
One New England Senator is reported as
referring to the nomination as piece Of
"senseless idiocy."
Inero can Oe no OOuDb tnaG Cne OoDauo
was far more vigorous and denunciatory of
the ring than anything that has been
uttered in open session. The average vote
cast during the day was about sixty. The
vote ON Shepherd shows about eighteen
evading the issue. OF the thirty six
nays, seventeen were Democrats, Hamil-
ton being the only Senator of that
ilk not voting. 1t is not quite positive, but
the following Republicans are believed to
have voted with the majority: Alcorn, Alli-
son. Anthony, Boutwell,, Edmnnds, Harvey,
Hitchcock, the two Morrills, Pratt, Robert
son, Sprague. Stewart, Wadleigh and
Washburn-l5 Messrs. Fenton, Schurz,
Hamilton, of Texas, and Upton. the Libe-
| raj quartette, voted No. Mr.. Carpenter
was presiding and did not vote. Mr.. Conk-
| ling is absent. M. Morton went home
| early, from indisposition, but would have
voted no. Messrs. Buckingham, Chandler
Ferry of Michigan. Gilbert, Frelinghuysen
Howe, Hamilton, Ingalls,, West and Win
| dom were in or about the chamber but
failed to vote. Ii is understood thus ended
the 1ir