Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-24
Senator Edmunds' Speech.
WHAT we PAPERs AZ.

A special dispatch from Washington
says: The great topic of discussion to-day
+ and last night was Senator Edmunds
speech on the new plan for adjusting the
presidential difficulty 1t was an able ef-
fort, one of the best ever made by Mr.. Ed
munds, and has made marked impress
sion on the senate and house. 1t has put
the republicans in position of the ut
most delicacy, for he has pleced himself
squarely on record as opposed to Senator
Morton's plan, and it is conceded by many
{ that the senate will pass the compromise
by good majority.-BoSton Daily Globe.
Senator Edmunds opened the electoral
debate Saturday, with one of his most
powerful speeches, and, whatever may be
the opinion of its effect on the electoral
bill there can be no doubt whatever that
he completely demolished the vce-presi-
dental theory. The republican extremists
are angry and detected for, with Edmunds
and C0nkling opposed to the ce-presl-
dental scheme, it has no possible chance
even if the electoral bill were TO fail but
it will not fail. 1t looks now as if it would
pass the house first, for it will be called up
there Tuesday, and put to vote Wednes.
day evening" Wash. Cor. Springfield Re-
publican.
The great speech by Mr.. EdmundS of
Vermont, in the Senate to-day, on the bill
establishing the electoral tribunal, is an
event nearly rs important us the pubica-
ton of the bill itself The Senators lis
tened with undivided attention. Many
prominent members Of the House listened
as we'll. The galleries were crowded. The
effect of the speech was very marked. Ii
fell like pail upon the extremists, head
ed by Morton and Sherman, who have not
yet yielded The revolutionary position that
the Judgment of the president of the Sen
ate is final on the electoral returns. So
powerful and eloquent were the Senator's
words as he brushed away the fullaces
that paltisans have woven around the
presidential question that it seems unlikely
that there will be any sincere and open
attempt made by any other Senator to ar
que in favor of the right of the president
of the Senate TO count. If there had been
any doubt before about the passage If the
bill this speech would have removed it, for
) it has completely stifled the only basis that
the majority of republicans have had for
opposing he idea of tribunal, viz: that
there was II lawful and proper way of seat
f ing Mr. Hayes without the interpo>ilion of
any tribunal. Mr.. Edmund's speech is
regarded as the finest legal argument thai
has been heard in the Senate for years and
the hest speech he ever made,-Bost0n
Herald Correspondent.
Senator Edmunds made long and able
speech Saturday in the Senate in advocacy
of the compromise bill Mr.. Edmunds
evidently spoke from his convictions ms IL
constitutional lawyer, and the measure
must therefore be taken to express his
views, irrespective Of any consideration of
political expediency, or of any fears of Il
disturbance OF the peace of the country
N Y. Tribune.
Senator Edmunds both as chairman of
the senate committee and the real father
of the measure, opened the debate on Sat
urday with what seems to have been the
great speech of his senatorial life. 1t was
u triumphant vndication, alike of the con-
stitutonality, legality, justice and necessi-
ty of the measure lie addressed himself
especially to the objection made by the re-
publican opponents that the power it as
serted for Congress, and in the exercise of
which it now invites the assistance of the
supreme court, belongs, by the consttu
ton. with the president of the senate, and
showed by citation and comparison that
the constitution did not fairly invest that
officer with such supreme authority, and
that he had not in any case of dispute pre-
sumed or been allowed by Congress TO eX-
ercise it.-SpringfeW RepubIicDn.
The Pennsylvania Legislature talks of
allowing the people to vote on the ques-
ton whether the state capital shall be re.
moved to Philadelphia, though the MAORI
ty Of its members are against the change,
and Il majority of the people are believed
to be also.
The proposed compromise or agreement
of the Joint committee of the Senate and
the House is in violation of the constitu-
ton and laws, and abrogative of specially
created and delegated authority, by clear
: provision of the constitution, to the sever
al states Washington Republican (RCp)
Secretary Chandler denounccs as II de-
libera,e forgery, the following alleged dis
patch which has been repeatedly publish,
ed, no such having been written or sent
by him -" New York, November Sth. To
Governor NJ. II. Stearns, Hold Florid;,
for Hayes and Wheeler. Money and
troops will be sent you. Signed, Il. Cmnd
ler.'
Gravclin, the Weathcrsficld murderer,
who attempted suicide, still lives and on
the whole is improving, but very penitcnt
and anxious to live, and SAYS he has no re.
collection of attempting suicide. ltscems
that he cut his throat with dinner knife,
which he retained and sharpened for the
purpose and which was found covered with
blood seCreted in the bed.
1t is compromise which involves the
! surrender of the right of the House to IN
equal and Independent voice in deciding
what votes shall be counted. 1t is anla-
mount to declaring the election in No
vember draw, and ordering Il new e.ec-
ton by 10 men, instead of by the people
1t is constituting II tribunal nominalIy to
decide virtually to elect Washington
Union (DGm)
There was quite scene in the U. S.
Senate Friday. The irrepressble Bogy
called Gov. Packard ian infamous rob
Der and the most infamous Of men;
and the galleries applaudrd vocilerously,
when Edmunds insisted that they should
be cleared, which the Senate ordered done.
Bogy went on, and soon after called Pack
ard IAN infamous dog " The republicans