The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-01-27
From Washington.
The COMPROMISE.

ing the presidential count The committee
made their report to the two houses on FIJI
dav of last week, and in the Senate Mr.. Ed
munds promptly brought it to the fore on
Saturday and insisted on its prompt adoption
or rejection This was necessary, because
the measure proposes TO commence the pres
idential count on the lst Of February instead
of the 18th, so that there is no time to lose
Mr.. Edmunds opened the debate at once by a
clear exposition of the nature OF the PROPOSE
ton, maintaining both its expedlency and
constitutionality, and demonstrating the I'M
eonstitutionality Of the plan of the conspira
tors, to have the vote counted by the presi
dent of the senate.
The vigorous and aggressive speech Of Mr.
Edmunds at once alarmed the conspiratOrs
and at its close they got an adjournment
spending the balance of the day, if not most
ofSunday, in secret caucus devislng plans to
defeat the committees plan. 1t appears the
best device they could hit upon was to kill it
by talking against time With this purpose
Morton took the floor on Monday, talking
until night. Frelinghuysen followed him IN
favor of the BILL and then Mitchell, Sherman,
&C., urged an adjournment, pleading they
wanted plenty Of time. Edmunds, seeing
their object said with some excitement, This
measure is not gong to die by a slow rot. 1t
is not going to disappear by trick. 1t is go.
ing TO have fair play l ask the senate to
mark thatw An adjournment, however, was
carried until Tuesday, when Sherman took
the floor, talking clearly only to consume
time, as his argument was without point or
force. But he was followed by Conkling, and
then there aoas music. Conkling spoke some
three hours on Tuesday, and then yielding to
an adjournment, spoke four hours more on
Wednesday. All accounts agree that since
the DAYS of Webster and Hayne, no such
speech had been delivered in the senate. 1t
was IN turn polished, witty, sarcastic, severe
ly argumentatIve, logical and eloquent. On
Morton, who became so restless as to annoy
him by Interruptions, he finally turned and
literally crushed him, Though republican,
and expressing his belief that Hayes was
tlcCtCuy anu hopS 'hoe Nv "oNAS w Ah"N5
urated, he literally riddled the one man plan
of the copspirators, and SAID he was unwill.
ing Hayes should come into his great office
otherwise than clear ofthe shadow of wrong.
Conkling was followed By Sherman, Bayard
Christiancy Morrill, and others. the debate
being prolonged through the night, but the
friends of the measure refused to adjourn till II
was passed. Finally, at 7o'cock on Thursday
morning vote was reached, when the bill
passed, as follows
YEAs-Alcorn, Allison, Barnum, Bayard
Bogy, Booth, Boutwell,, Burnside, Chatte,
Cragin, Davis, Dawes, Dennis, Edmunds
Frelinghuysen, Goldthwaite, Gordon, Howe
johnson, Jones, Fla.,l Jones New Kelley
Herman, McCreery, Mcdonald, Mcmillan
Maxey, Merrimon, Morrill,, Price, Randolph,
Rawson, Robertson, Salisbury, Sharon, Stew.
enson, Teller, Thurman, Wallace, Whyte
Window, Withers, Wright-47
NAYs-Blaine, Bruce, Cameron penn
Cameron (WIs.), Clayton. Conover, Dorsey
Eaton, Hamilton, Hamlln, ingalls,, Mitchell
Morton, Patterson, Sargent, Sherman
West-17
The bill was sent to the house on Thursday
aud strong effort will then be made to pass
il before the close of the week. The presi
dent has intmated that if it passes he will
promptly approve it, so that doubtless by next
Thursday the work of counting the presiden
tial vote will be commenced
POWERS OF THE HOUSE.
The house has been largely occupied dur
ing the week in debating a series of resolu'
tons reported by special committee on the
subject, asserting and defining the powers OF
the house over the presidential count. The
debate, in view of the certain adoption of the
compromise plan, is of no special Importance
except from the fact that it brought out some
vigorous expressions of opposition to the one
man scheme OF the conspirators from the re
publican side of the house.
RETURNING BoARDERs.
Kenner and Cassanave, the two negro mem
been summoned, in addition 10 Wells and An
derson, to appear before the house and answer
for contempt In refusing to testify before the
congressional committee In New Orleans
Since the committee were at New Orleans
things have undergone considerable change
there, and Kenner somewhat despondingly re,
marked, on receiving the summons to Wash
ington, that when there he might 'take fit to
tell the truth and testify in way that would
raise hell" There is nothing the conspra-
tors so much dread as full revelation of the
true inwardness ofthe lnIQulties of the Louisi-
ana returning board.
KELLOGG.
kellogg, elected by the rump legislature TO
the senate from Louisiana, is IN Washington,
and on the Goth Morton presented his creden-
tals in the senate. They were not even refer
red, but laid on the table
CHANDLER.
J. B. DeBarry, a telegraph operator at ITALIA.