Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-17
yONHR E,.ssi0NAL.
Sensitive Senators Sail in to
Soulless scribbfe,'s.
4 Bill Presented to Create the
Territory of Penbina.
ScIrHtc

,a.es aud asked to- bc discharged from
furlher consideration. Agreed to- T
He also submitted the following as
a report OF the committee on the
subject:
ReSozc.17, The proceedings and dc
ba,es-shal be printcd in lie Record sa
actually delivered and taken down by
official FIeporters; gralfatlca1 errors
excepted and Snail be furnished TO The !
printer iii season tor The :JeXt publica
,ion OF the Rpcord
l!lacrd,on The calendar.
Senators Yves, aud Logan Whose
names were in The article, denounced
it as ~, unnltlga1ed Ialsehpud. Mr..
= l,l,n,urls read from -,hc Baltimore
Gazrltr, a dispatch, stating ihn, the
Judiciary committee We're holding
back The house witness bill, while
senators Conklng and Logan We're
looking up anlnoriles Tor deleaiing
ii, To save solnes-sf lheit isendS Who
were mixed up with whisky frauds.
Hesaid as !. member Of the committee
lie felt authorized 10 say that not one
particle OF influence FROM ANY person
or source whatever, had bee,lbronglIi
to bear or the committee in relation
TO this bill.
Nr.ThumAn as a lnslnbcr of the
san,cccommiuee, SAID he had taken
the bill up out of its turn. =-- --I-
MIR. Comkilng SAID thst there was
no, an lota Of truth IN the statement.
The time was passing. il! it had not
already gone by, when The people
could be beauiled and deceived by
such absurd articles.
lahe tune will come when such ar
tieles- of misrepresentation VIII -bc-
Justly considered as {. epi,sieifae.y2
defamation against our Institutions
themselves, and the question wonld
arise what country would next try
the experiment OF a government OF
the people for the people.
MIR. logan said he did not know
tina, such a bill had reached the senate.
Mhpn h,. did and should see it, he
would advocate 1t orioppose IT AS he
though. best. Ii was c,;,fgeee-ih hat
he was afraid for some of his friends
in the whisky ring He had never
traiiic!scd IN II gallon of whisky inhis
lie: never visited a distliery; never
owned a dollars worth OF stock in one;
never had onc of his trienls; n.i-er
Knew oi them till ''1e tie
papers. Noucof h,s friends were ever
indicted il, whisky frauds. One mar
whom he had recommended aior 8
position, had been Indicted, and many
a man has friends whom he has re-
commended, turn out badly. lnshort
he pronounced all statements concern
ing him as infamous hes, aud no m;t.,
dare stand up before him and charge
him with these things to his face
Only coward skulk behind corpora.
,ions and newspapers.
Mr.. Windom introduced bill 70
establishing the territory oiFembina
Referred.
Mr.. Boutwell, introduced the follow
ing:
Rcsolcetl, That the secretary ofth
treasury be requested to furnish 70
the information Of the senate the al
rual product Of gold aud disilver in tn
United States from lS45 to 1915 il
elusive, also the amount of gold an
silver in otter parts ot-,hc world I,
the same years, and an estimate Of III
GOLD and silver in the United Stat.
q, the present time. Adopted.
MIR. Cameron Of PENNSYLVANIA SCI
up a slip from a newspaper charg''
tia, several senators KEPT, private Sc
rs.tary's who were paid as clerks;
one of the senator's mentioned he d
MED the truth Of the article.
The morniug hour having expire
the senate resumed consideration
senate bill to provide for and reugla
the counting of votes Of the pre-
dent and vice-president. The h
was disctssed.by Messrs.' Thunnt
Christancy, Flelinghnysen, Johnstt
Howe and Morton. The latter $;
If it was necessary. have an qmp
at all the safest and best way was
refer the disagreeisg yo'" TO the
preme court Of the United Stat
IIe submitted plan for calling III
in, as follows: That Judges of
supreme court shall be assembled
the same time, and in case the I
houses cannot agree, the quest
shall be submitted to the judges, v
shall proceed at once TO decide VII
is the valid return.
After an executive session,
senate adjourned till Monday.
House.
Mcssrs Ward, Hewitt and x,
spoke against the issue of silver {
and Mr. Regan in advocacy Of
Without action the committee al