New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-25
ADJOURNED.

woman's answer to the departing bOre's re-
mark that he must be going" You might have
"gone before if you had only spoken about it,"
That is about the feeling of the people over
the adjournment. The called session has not
been especially brief, and it has certainly been
anything but brilliant. Its excuse for being at
all was the precedent which has obtained of
calling the Senate together Immediately on the
final adjournment of Congress for the pur-
pose of confirming Presidential appointments
which there was no time to act upon during
| the regular session. 1t has one or twice served
rs an occasion for bringing into safe and COM
Portable offices the crippled and wounded in the
previous Fall campaign. The elections of
October ard November last left an unusual
number of wounded to be brought in and
| crpples to be provided for, and the willing
ness with which they answered all the calls
of the President and supported all his meas
ures during the session that ended on the
| 4.h of March forbade that they should be
neglected. To take care of these worthless
and keep up the character of the best civil
service on the planet was the Ostensiblc OBJ
iect and the first business of the session. 10
get through with it comfortably, and remove
all obstacles or apparent obstacles TO
the rapid dispatch Of this business,
the President instead of suspendiDg the
"rules" for each appointment as usual,
brushed them all aside and abolished the sys-'
tenn. 1t was easy enough then to appoint a
member of Congress who had supported the
Force bill and other Administration measures
to be Foreign Minister or Postmaster without
putting him to the torture of examining up on
decimal fractions and the principal lake ports.
So the President huddled them in on stretch
ers, Maynard and Orth and Tyner and GOOCh
and Snyder, and all the rest, each with his
little official plum, and the Senate said to
each, "Blcss you, my Child' and the good
children went away with the benedictiOn to
wait for quarter day and new salaries.
But it was q Senate that could not content
itself with such ordinary routine business as
confirming Executive appointments. The Hon.
Mr.. Morton, who has been waiting for years
for an opportunity to make a few suggestions
regarding the Louisiana business, dropped tear
over the departing statesmen who had been so
often indicated, and then sweeping with his
eye the new audience said to himself, "These
"men need to be enlightened upon the
" Louisiana question. ] will unload fifteen or
" of them" And so he opened. 1t was en-
trely proper and in accordance with the
traditions of the Senate that its first business
should be to vindcate somebody, and
so the resolution upon which Mr.. Morton
was to bring forward his accumulat!ons
of fact and argument upon Louisiana affairs
was one vindicating the Hon. Mr.. Pinchback
by declaring him the legally elected Senator
from Louisiana. The resolution was the OcCa-
sion of much orat0ry in addition to Mr.. Nor
toms. Not least of these efforts was that OF
the Hon. John A. Logan, who diScOuTsed in the
most eloquent and imprisoned manner upon
the importance of the resolution to the peace
and tranquility of the South. 1t was after
| the debate had ragged for several days, and
Mr.. Morton had given the Senate to under
stand that unless il was passed there would
be bloody work in Louisiana, and Mr..
Logan had wrapped himself up several
times in the American flag and with his
quivering fOrefnger high in air had called
Heaven to witness that if Pinchback were not
admitted the blood of several million colOrcd
persons of all ages and sexes and natiOnali-
ties and previous conditions of servitude
would be upon the heads of the men who kept
| him Quit was just after this that Senator
West of Louisiana moved to postpone the
subject till next December, and all the Re-
pubicans voted for it except Logan, who
looked on in a dazed way and did not vote
at all, because, as lie said, be did not under
stand it.
But Mr.. Morton felt that it was a waste of
opportunity to let tho session go by without
indicating somebody. So he introduced
another resOlutiOn-On Louisiana, of course
the purpose of which was to vindcate the
President. This with amendments and alter
atoms of various sorts, most of which were
intended to dilute the dose to the weak stom-
achs of two or three Administration Senators,
occupied several days in discussion. 1t gave
Mr.. Andrew Johnson an opportunity to disap-
point his friends with q speech which had no
strength except in the vigor Of its inyective,
and furnished to Mr.. Eaton of Connecticut an
occasion for very absurd and violent
speech which his party at home. already
struggling against the Odium incurred in his
election, will hardly thank him for. And
after much talking and caucusng and tinker
ing of the resolution, the Senate finally re-
solved that " the action of the President III
protecting the government in Louisiana of
(which VIM. p. Kellogg is the Executive and
the people of that State against domestic
violence, and in enforcing the laws of the
United States in that State, is approved"
AS vindicatiOn, just trife weak and wishy-
washy, but still a vindication and so Mr..
| Morton could feel the session had not been In