The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-04

and he seemed to summon oil his energies ana
heavy. II did not lie with Edmunds- priest
Of cant and apostle Of Radieal,smEto re5 9aRs
had his day OF scorn and shame and eontume-
". Time has been when almost any gibe at him
would have found Quick Response q Weppbng
ton. But this tin John bad the public heart
with him. and go when, he rose to reply to
EdInunds there was ample charity for his fee,
bleness and resoundlng echo OF cheers and
merrimnnt for the two OF, three really telling
points he made. Like all men whose worst
IHult is weakness and whose wrong-doing Is
rather misfortune than sin, John suddenly
found that TO be right for once in bis lie gave
him guperhnman strength and the discovery
was almost too much for him But, barring
something ola struggle with the rules ofsyntasx;
y2hn got alqng very ws era abo hfp dan
@ Thger Waa Mon In
fray when Edmunds, taking advantage OF q
lucky, newspaper paragraph-as be DEL,
pected stone wall and makes Iarapet OF it
almost 5tampeded John. but
GORDON CAME 10 THE RESCUE
with masked battery and forced the grisly Yer
monier to take cover incontinenuy. Edmunds
had found in the newspaper paragraph an
arnbilscade whence to launch at John the charge
OF having purchased with his. veto for Butler
anessd IN South Go ii But ne Gordon op met
him quick as lightning with an intimatioe,n that
ne tEdmunds) had tried to make an equally cor
IuDJ DHTgH1n WIFI IIl6 1uuRb VI HHt tphtl uett III
which the question Of Johns egxtradition is
pending. Ii is to be regretted that Edmunds'
discretion got the better of his yalor at that mo-
ment, for Gordon only awaited - reioinder In
kind to his insinuation to spring a trap that
would have gripped Edmunds with very un-
comfortable tightness But That was not al Tor
man proceeded to sit down on him with all
the weight. and precision Of ile-driyer ,
That episode subdued the spirit OF blood.
letting that had been rising in the Senate and
the rest of the afternoon wore away i'll rather
tame fashion of
FILIBusTEmNG.
mingled with dull speeches against time and
relieved only by a well timed and well put little
speech from Oonover, which, by the way, put a
unietus upon the charges of bargain and sale
1t was now twilight and the great gas Jets In
the glas 8 roof of the senate Chamber blazed out
full and strong for an all night session. Mo
tiens to adjourn were now in order, ana they
were put in all conceivable shapes only to be
voted down by that steady vote of t,wenty;-.eight
o thirty Which as es Senate as w sa
hungry and the Democrats allowed motion to
go into. executive session to prevail, but this
business was discussed at all it was done
around the little tables la the Senate taurant:
AT all events as soon as the Solons had refreshed
filled up again, and that same oil d vote of twen
ty-eight to thirty began to meet renewed mo.
Hons 70 adjourn The question now was one Of
source or forensic skill and the two clans began
TO get good .natured. The Senate. which hunger
had made !docile grew placid with sleepiness,
and pair after pair of gladiators could be seen
stealing Off to the cloak rooms for
QUIET sNoozE,
In which all the ambitions and the rancors of
politics were forgotten. Most of the Democrats
In the Senate are young and robust men and
as d whole there is far better average of physi-
cal endurance on that than on the Republican
side. But There, were a few exceptions, the most
notable of which was
THE poNDERous DAVIS
whose three hundred weight of lymph pressed
heavily as midnight drew near. Whereupon
the 1.-the and why Bayard constituted himself a
commit ee of safety to see to, it that his adipose
to refresh the inner man of the Illinois infant
with about six pounds of supper, washed down
with about a quart of champagne and the diges-
tive travail soothed with half q dozen Reind Vic
tojSas. The lounges in the cloak-rooms were
not made for David Davis. and so the ex-judi-
M ali ia nesnSe
and whence he rose at roll call to waddle out
upon the floor and vote stentorian Mol upon
all motions to adjourn.
AZ ) O'clock a. m. tho galleries were deserted
md at not more, than dozen Senators were
IA their seats. and they nodded. Another mo-
The little pages too were tired and the Senators
sleeping In the cloak-rooms were hard to
arouse. But
FIELD MARSHAL THURMAN
was on the alert; out came that famous red
bandanna with flourish and the marble halls
resounded with a blast like the bugo horn of
Rhoderick Dhu.
One blast upon that bugle-horn
Of Thurman Just then was worth seat in the
Senate for the six hundred times a thousand
people who live in South Carolina, And the
somnolent Solons staggered out, rubbing their
eyes in the gray dawn that streaked down the
sky-lights to cast again that tnvincible vote of
30 to %. Cocktails and mutton chops in the
restaurant below were again in requisition and
by O'clock the galleries were full. But it was
plain that the Radicals were giving out Their
speeches against time were becoming mechani-
cal efforts, and their motions to adjourn were
fewer and farther between hour by hour. At
made, the resources of delay had been ex-
hausted and sixteen years of supremacy col
lapsed in that same vote of 80 to 2s, by which the
committee was discharged and
THE BATTLE WON.
Now the question comes on o motion to swear
Butler in. 1t may be debated as long as the Re-
pubiicans care to make speeches. But it cannot 1
be swamped with amendments or STAYED off by
rollcalls. because it is question of the highest
privilege, which must be disposed of before any
other. business can be transacted. 1t may be
done before this reaches you; but whether it is
or not, Nj. @. Butler is Senator from South Car
any resource within the power
OF the Radicals to prevent; and it is all the re-
suit of the best arranged, most skillfully man
aged and incest calculated parliamentary battle
known to the annals of the Senate.
Field Marshal Thurman is of course the
Wellington OF this Waterloo of Radicalism and
In my minds eye can see Edmunds standing.
SIX feet high, solitary enough. and lacking only
There will be plenty of Thenardiers
A. O. BUELL..
Immense reductions in superior black silk