The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-27

Whyte moved the rule be read which
gives him power to compel attendance.
Wallace wanted the reEort inwriting,
that the county might know the absentees.
Conkling entered and objected that the
rules did mott allow less than quorum to
direct the sergeant to prepare list OF the
absehtees.
The roll call showed 81 present-a
quorum. After long debate on points of
order, .Wadleigh called for continuation
Of the reading of testimony.
Thurman objected to such abuse of sen
ator's privileges, and argued that testimony
could not be read without leave of senate,
and demanded the senate vote on that
point.
Wadleigh contended it was no abuse to
present vital testimony He wanted the
country to know the record of the claimant.
Bayard declared this testimony out of
| place and said the democrats never at
tempted such dilatory proceedings in the
senate, and would have been put down if
they had. z.@A
Edmunds asked if Bayard remembers
about 1850, when Jefferson Davis, Soule
and others occupied the senate the whole
night having the message of the president
read.
Bayard said he didn't, though it might
/ have happened,
Thurman withdrew his objection, and
Wa1leigh then argued the facts in South
Carolina case.
At 5:45, Edmunds moved recess till
II; rejected, 26 to %.
WadleigE resumed, declaring bis testi-
mony bore directly on the validity of the
election.
At 9:l5 Edmunds moved recess till
10 for breakfast; rejected 26 to II.
Paddock moved to adjourn; rejected, 26
TO l9: He moved recess till 9 o'clock,
rejected, 26 to l6.
Wadleigh resumed reading, but at
O'Clock, at his request, Edmunds took the
book aud read to relieve Wadleigh who
had been on the floor since 1880 last
evening.
Edmunds having interjected numerous
comments on the testimony, Gariaud OBJ
ljected to such remarks, If he was, as it
appeared, mere agents clerk, mere
fungus of Wadleigh.
! Motions TO adjourn aud to proceed to
executive business were rejected and Ed
munds continued reading.
\ AT eight o'clock Mitchell moved an
executive session; no quorum was present.
and when vote taken, motion lost. 26 to Is.
WadIeigh continued til! 8:2O, when
Burnside relieved him.
At $50 no quorum appeared, and when
obtained, dilatory motions continued, In
terspersed with reading until after ten,
when Cameron, of Wisconsin,, took the
floor on the Butler-Corbin case.
At IL; 80 Allison moved. recess until
one; lost 25 to 81.
Cameron continued until noon, when a
motion for recess till two was rejected, 26
to %.
Atl2:O5. Hoard, who occupied the chair
during temporary absence of the vice.
! president, said be would call attention @!
the senate to the fact that II o'clock, The
hour for daily meeting of the senate bad
arrived In the judgment of the chair
the legislative day continued until adjourn.
, ment of the senate took place, and unless
objection was made, it should be so con-
/ sidered,
No objection being made. Dorsey moved
to resume discussion of legislative business
,, rejected, yeas %, pays %.
7 Merriman said he did not rise to ente
: upon a discussion Of South Carolina affairs
: but to show how entirely false were state
: ments as to intimidation 10 South Carolina
. The whole population entitled TO vote wa
= lS4, 943, and the whole number of vote
. cast in 1876. was lS3,3SS How was
persons were intimidated when nearly th
! whole vote of the state was polled. BE
= sides, the republican candidate for gov
= :. ernor in 1876 received many more vote
! than any candidate before had ever re
= ceived. The Hamburg riot was in conse
, quence of long continued series OF out
Z RACES in Hamburg on the part of negroes
the evidence showed when men were she
: down like wild beasts at Hamburg. Ger
re- Butler had left that place
= WASHINGTON, 3 o'clock Nov. 27.-Th
: senate is still in session and Cameron,
:, Wis, is replying to Merriman.
+ THE COMMITTEE DISCHARGED
70 WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-In the senal
10 the amendment OF Mitchell making speci
ss order for tomorrow at half past twely
D. the resolution of Senator Thurman. di
OF charging committee on privileges and elet
OF tioDs from consideration of credentials
as Nj. c. Butler was rejected-yeas %, nal
n. IS, and resolution discharging committt
oil was then agreed to-yeas 90. nays ?
to Immediately after the announcement
o the vote dischargiug the committee, e.
to munds objected to present considerable
a. of credentials, and under rule, they wei
w laid over
sh ROUSE.
10 WASHINGTON, Noy. 27.-Mr. MorrisC
'ss asked unanimous consent to address tt
ca house for a few minutes upon the currene
- question.
70 Consent was given,
7. Morrison having concluded. Singleto
lis chairman of printing committee reporte
us a resolution providing for printing fO,0t
ls copies, and the testimony taken by mo
~ etary commission, together with repor
l'1 1 for the use of house.
- Hewitt said the report was a one sidi
us affair, aud after discussion the resoluti,
was recoEsmitted.