New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-09
WASHINGTON.
THE REJECTION OF Mr.. PINCHBACK.

THE REJECTION OF MIX flNChDAOh'
a aENERAL SIGH OF REIIEF-AN INCUBUS ON SEN
ATE PROCEEDINGS FOR THREE YEARS Al LAei
GOT RID oF-ANALYsIs OF The VoIK'
lBr I4LRGRAPH TO THE TRIBUEs.l
u.sy,vcroV. March S.-There will be through
-. .ho country "a there has been in Washington
.h;s evening. expressions of profound satisfaction
the action of the Senate to-day, not so much on
econnt Of the fact that Mr. Pinchback has been set
.side Int because the case is at last set
.lod and cannot reasonably intrude itsen
gain ON the public notice. For more
tban three wears this nauseatlng subject mas oeen
beneath the nOsrils of Senator'S; ana Whatever was
nm or whatever was put aside, OF Whatever was
Eantipp Mr. Pinchback has seemed always 10 pe III
order If business Jagged little IN the senate MI
Norton brought up Mr.. Pinchback. If there was q
..ossrre and contest between sections or between
interests MFR. Morton always Brought forth harmony
vth Mr.. Pinchback. But fOrthat subject, recreation
md sustaining from much foolshness might have
come to the Senate, Mr.. Kellogg might have been
left in obscurty and Senator Carpenter might never
have acknowledged that $1,000 would relieve hlm
sfbis condition of being desperately short Inc
,ase il now settled, at least for the present. anu
visitors can 20 to the Senate galleries without the
fear that Mr. Pinchback will be rung III lheH ears
again.
The regular report will convey to the reader the
Uay in which Mr. Pinchback's claims were rejected
and the votes that produced the result. Inc senate
was Unexpectedly full to-day, and every Senator
was accounted for except Mr. Burnside. The vote
was first taken on Mr.. Edmundss amendment
which was TO the effect that Mr.. Pinchback was not
entitled to a seat On this amendment the vote was
30 to 20, and it was carried. The next vote was
the adoption of the resolution as amended, and was
the same in every respect full Senate num-
hers a. The seat Mr.. Pinchback was con-
tepdipg for is now vacant, and therefore 10
was the full number to be counted. There
were five pairs making ten votes. Mr.. Burnside
WAS absent and although he had been repeatedly
autographed TO- he failed to respond, and did not PAIR
ar indicate how he would vote. There is only one
remaining vote to be accounted for which is that OF
Mr.. Robertson of South Carolina, who was present
Int refused to vote There are three native Repub-
6csn Senators from the south, namely, Messrs. Al
corn. Hamilton and Robertson. Two of them were
in favor of Mr. Pinchback and the other, Robertson,
would have voted for Mr.. Pinchback if 1t would
have gained him admission. The Republicans who
voted against Mr.. Pinchback, we're, including the
pairs Messrs. Booth, Christiancy, Dawes, Edmunds,
both the Morrills, Paddock, and Wadleigh.
The vote of to-day makes vacancy, which Gov.
Kellogg cannot FILL and the Legislature is not In ses-
sion. Mr. Pinchback takes his defeat very philo-
sophically, and says he win return TO Louisiana,
carry the Legislature next November, and come back
next Winter with an entire new set of credentials,
which viii have to be received. After the vote to-
day, be telegraphed to his friends in New-Orleans,
saying that he had been stabbed in the house of his
friends and that the old abolition State of Vermont
had sacrificed HIM.