The daily gazette., 1877-11-22
NOVEMBER 22.IS71

HOLDING THE SENATE BY FRAUD
The desperation of Mr.. Conkling and his
fellow Senators must arouse the people in
opposition to the course of the Republican
majority. Mr.. Coukling wants to control
all the appointments in New York, ana
deprive the President from making any
changes, although commission has re-
ported Irregularities in the officials OF tnat
State which necessitates, as the PresluenI
says, change. The Republican senators
will not confirm appointments, ana want
to hold their majority in the senate py eS-
cluding the members elected from Soutn
Carolina and Louisiana TO consumate thelr
design of forcing the President into the sell
fish schemes of Mr.. Conkling. The Repub-
ucans of the Senate know that Kellogg is
not entitled TO a seat in that body. and that
Mr.. Morton said in previous session that
if fPinchbach was not entitled Eastls was
and yet the Republican majority nave
taken up Kellogg's case, and hold IL uhuer
advisement, in order to keep the Senators
OF Louisiana and South Carolina out oi
their seats. They are thus holding ma
iority of the Senate illegally to brow-beat
and force the President to retain pack OF
rascals in Office who were appointed by
Grant at the suggestion of the anti-Hayea
Senators. If the Senate can deprive two
States of their legally elected representa-
tives of seats in that body. to hold parti-
zan majority. they can deprive any num-
her of States and thus make their party au-
thority perpetual. The Senate is now pur-
suing a revolutionary course which must
r,l inn fha mol
character of the men who are engaged in
such vile effort to pervert the course o.
government and divert it toward subserv-
ing their own interests. In the debate in
the Senate yesterday, Senator Bayard hits
the nail on the head in the following which
we clip from the morning papers.
IMPORTANT PREoEDENTs.
Mr.. Bayard pointed out that the consti
tuition of the United States provided tina
no state saould be depri we'd of its represen
fore, this resolution to discharge the com
mittee from the further consideration o
the credentials of Mr.. Butler was ques
tion of the highest privilege, and 1t wa
the duty of the Senate TO see that this mos
important provision of the constitution
was not violated. There were three vacan
cies in the Senate now, and the credentlal
of one of the applicants, (Mr. Eustis) ha'
D6eH peIluluB bWO yodIs' 4ASlo wa
no contestant for his seat, and he shouit
have been admitted. He then referred +
the South Carolina case, and said he hai
read the statements of Messrs Butler an
Corbin. and he believed that Lthey bot
agreed that their cases might be dispose
of upon the basis of the printed briefs sub
mitted by them.
Mr. Bayard then referred to the Cbngre
sional Record to show that when tbe bill I
readmit the State of Texas into the unio
was pending in 1866, Mr.. sherman, then
Senator from Ohio, moved to dischare
the Committee on the Judiciary from IL
further consideration of that bill that in
mediate action might be had upon 1t
the Senate, and on the following day IL
Senate, by a vote of yeas 80, nays Is, di
discharge the Committee, despite the prt
test of the chairman, Mr.. Trumbull,) an
by vote of yeas Al nays II, passed
Two days afterward the two Texas Sens
tors CMessrs. Flanagan and Hamilton
appeared and were sworn in. The State
South Carolina had the right to the repr
sentation on the floor of which she hs
been deprived without her consent. In co
clusion he urged The prompt settlement
all these contested cases in justice TO u
Senate and in justice to the country.