The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-25
senatorial Notes,

There are five pairs in the present Sen.
ate-the Camerons, Joneses, Ferrys, John.
sons, and Morrills.
Senator Eaton, OF Connecticut, is said
by some one to have look of perpetual
anger on his countenance.
Nobody can look for five minutes at Gen
eral Burnside, the new Senator from Rhode
Island. without wondering how so small
State can support so large a pair of side
whiskers.
So Senator Hamlin went into the scheme
for doubling postage on transient news.
papers, periodicals, and merchandise, with
his eyes open. Pity that election question
down in Maine is settled.
Joseph ID. Ward, ex.member of the forty
third congress, was nominated on Friday
to be United States att orney for the north.
ern district Of Illinois. lie is distinguish.
ed for having made a minority report on
Arkansas, in favor of the presidents plan
and in opposition to Judge Poand's.
But3S ex-mem5ers of congress who voted
for the force or third.term bill now remain
on he presidents slate, the number hay-
ing been reduced again by the nomination
to the senate Friday of ex-Congressman
Jasper d. Ward Of Chicago to be United
States district attorney.
Senator Edmunds, like Judge Poland in
the Arkansas matter, is not afraid of being
ignorantly called democrat, simply be
cause he, looking to the future, wants t, be
a consistent statesman rather than an I'M
thinking partisan, and so while the senator
does not believe in Kellogg he does be-
lieve in Grant, and that his course in
Louisiana matters is to be approved and
defended.
Six Republican senator's, among whom
are Messrs. Edmunds, Ferry, Chrisuancy
and Dawes, oppose the adoption by the
senate of any resolution which may pro
pose TO recognize, either directly or in
directly, the legality of the Kellogg leg
islature. In the absence of Senators Wad-
leigh, Wright and Sharon, the Republican
majority is so small that if six or seven
Republicans vote with the Democrats, the
latter will control the action of tie senate
on this question.
| Senator Edmunds is now fulsomely prais-
ed by the papers who, two months ago,
could find no language severe enough to
condemn his defence Of the Presidents pol
icy in Louisiana. No more vigorous Ian.
guagc in defense of the republican policy
in Louisiana has been heard in the senate
| chamber than Edmund's speeches directly
after the DE Trobriand business. In op
posing Pinchback's admission he takes
position held by the majority of republicans,
and in no sense inconsistent with the most
uncompromising republicansm
For eight years past, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Tribune, the pen
sion agent in Congressman McDougars dis
trict has been a particular friend Of Sen
ator Conkling. Before the close of the
last session, Mr.. McDougal, backed by
large part of the New York delegation,
recommended for the place a Colonel Meade
who was very severely wounded at the bat
tie of the Wilderness, and the president
decided to appoint him. Friday morning
Mr.. Conking went to the white house and
caused the name Of the wounded soldier to
be erased from the nomination, and the
name of his friend, the present agent sub
stiuted, and the president sent the nomn-
alton TO the senate in the afternoon. When
Mr.. McDougal heard of il, he called on
Mr. Conkling, and the scene between them
is said to have been a very interesting
! one.