New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-29
WASHINGTON.
:. nprc1nrN1ys vETO SUSTAINED.

THE PRESIDENTS VETO SUSTAINED.
.r,oS nuI. FAILS TO RECEIVE CoNsTI-
,,y1oNAL MAJORITY IN THE MANIFESTATIONS
.uuRuAE CHALLENGES THE ADMINISTRATION
10 ANNOUNCE A FINANCIAL PouCY-A DISCUS
s,oS As TO MR.. SUMMERS RELATIONS TO THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
lRY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRInUNS.l
WASHINGTON Apnl 2S-lesterday the great hghts
.fthe Administration party in the Senate testihed
n eloquent words that came. no doubt from sincere
- their respect and admiration for the charac-
-, ofthe late Senator Sumner, and to-day they were
ID 70 smart as they deserved for their unjust
.."a,mept of him while living. The occasion was
Sah.te that continued the whole afternoon on mo-
on 70 postpone the consideration of the Louisiana
ri IN order TO take vote on the Currency bill
lately vetoed by the President
A norton of the Senate, led by Mr.. Conklng, was
sesirous of postponng the matter until Friday, ana
the discussion was wandering over the whole hnah-
,ial field when Mr. Thurman said tina the did not be-
heve il possible to draw up compromise measure
that would suit all parties IN Congress ana receive
tbe signature of the President. There was one way
N which financial measure could be passed ana
.,Dod and that was for the Administration to per-
o., - and then 10 stand or fall with it, This is the
course that is always taken in England and the
ourse that has always been taken by strong Admin
iarations in this country. In the times OF Jackson
and Van Buren, he said the Administration would
NOT allow its supporters to drift along as the Repub
bean party had drifted with this currency question
Mr.. Edmunds said that he liked that speech. 1t
was true that in the days of Jackson and an Buren
the members of the Democratic party were not al
lowed to have opinions of their own. but were
forced like serfs, TO obey the imperious Will OF the
head of the party The Republican party was or
&
allowed 10 bold their individual opinions and yet to
remain in the party ranks. This gave Thurman an
opportunity to strike a blow at the Administration
party. which he could not resist embracing. He
said that when he came to tho Senate
FIVE years ago. there was one who
was aoile prinosps in the Republican party. To him
more than TO any one else that party owed its
existence But when that man differed with the
Administration on the Santo Domingo question, he
was degraded from the position he had long held
At the head of the Foreign Relations Committee,
and went to his grave believing himself, as the
eountry believed him to be, a prescribed man. In
other matters the President had made his influence
felt at the Capitol. On the SantO Domingo question
nobody would deny that he had fulfilled the
promise made by Babcock in the treaty, that the
President would use his influence with the
Senate to secure its ratification
The reference to the removal of Mr.. Sumner from
the Foreign Relations Committee was the signal for
a general outburst on the Republican side. Ed
nrnds and Hamlin and Cameron and Howe denied.
as they have often denied before, that the Senate
refused to retain Mr. Sumner in hs position on ac-
count of ms sentiments in regard to the annexation
Of Santo Domingo. He was not on speaking terms
with the President aud Secretary of State, and that
was why the change was made Mr. Thurman re-
tored that he would allow the Senator's posthumOus
speech to answer that.
Mr.. Anthony, much excited, denied that there
was any posthumous speech, and said something
ugly about the man who broke the Senator's conf
Ience and published it. Upton clinched the argu-
ment by saying that unless some one doubted that
Mr. Sumner wrote the speech il must be admitted
that the statements il contained were true. Ii Is
long time since a scene of so much excitement has
occurred in the Senate and when it closed there was
little opposition to an immediate vote. The result
Of this was that "a Senators voted for the bill, not
outstanding the Presidents veto, and 30 against
it. every Senator who was present voting as he did
on the first passage Of the bill.