Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-26
THE "LATE LAMENTED..
Administration Senators Mourn
Over the Lost Measure.
Logan Declares Open War upon the
President-The Latter, with Carpen-
ter, Prepared 10 Lead n Revolt
Western Representatives AbOut
Evenly Divided I'm Opinion.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The Presi-
dents veto message still continues to be
the one absorbing topic of conversation and
comment in Washington. In Congression-
al circles nothing else is thought of. The
committees which meet on Thursday for
the transaction of business devoted their
time to-day to canvassing the message. In
the Senate, after the expiration of the
morning hour, the members betook them
selves to the cloak and cOmmittee-roOIns
for consultation, leaving poor Senator Mer-
rimon to deliver his Louisiana speech to
empty seats.
MORToN's OPINIONS.
A great change was apparent in Senator
Morton's appearance. He looked haggard.
as if he had spent a sleepless night, as no
doubt he did. In conversation TODAY he
was calm and pacific, the very opposite of
his ieutenants, Logan and Ferry. Mr..
Morton steadfastly refused to make any
disrespectful allIsions to the President; on
the contrary, when it was suggested to him
that
GRANTS ACTION WAS DICTATED
from Wall street, Mr.. Morton ,repudiated
the assertion, and assured the person he
was addressiDg-who, by the way, is a
prominent Wisconsin CengresSman-that
he (Morton) was satisfied that the Presi-
dent was actuated by the purest and most
patriotic motives when he wrote the veto.
The President, he said, had been led astray
by certain members of his Cabinet and
Treasury officials, and would, in time, see
and acknowledge his mistake, but at a pc
riod too late to retrace his steps.
LOGAN PUTS on HIS wAR-PAINT.
Logan, on the other hand, has been foam
ing and fretting all day like a mad bull.
The Presidents message has had the same
effect upon his nerves that is produced by
Haunting red flag in the face of the mas
culine bovine, to which he is likened when |
ever the veto is mentioned in his presence. |
He makes wild dash at its author, and |
restraint upon his tongue appears to be I
simply impossible. 1t is very much to be
feared that
HIS PIETY WILL NOT SURVIVE
this great draft upon its staying quail ties.
1t already shows signs of distress. j. dginp
from his conversation during the ls st TWEEN.
ty-four hours, it is feared that an impartial
observer would be liable to set. him down
among the hardened sinners.
He was in an extremely salcastic vein to
day. Said he:
'.Grant is now assured II his third term,
ana nave no doubt he will be continued |
IN once Tor the next thirty or forty years,
if he so desires. He mas secured the sup- |
poIt Of eighteen hundred National Banks |
of this country, and, as the population of |
the nation is but little over 100000
what can such a handful of people expect |
TO do against the combined money inter |
ests?"
LoGAN's SARCASM.
Inc brilliant Senator, warming with his
subject, continued:
"Hes, it is hell Of message. 1t is a
most wonderful MESSAGE; more damned
nonsense was probably never condensed
INTO the same space. Why, this man Grant
iOnt know even how to do sum in simple
addition. He adds up A and -i6 and calls
It I00.r
WHAT THEY WILL DO ABOUT II.
In another point in his remarks, in reply