The Republican journal., 1877-11-29
Washington Matters
EEFEAL OF THE RESUMPTION ACY

htfE AL OF THE RESUMPTION ACi.
WASHINGTON. Nov. %. The bill TO
repeal the Specie Resumption act passed
the House to-day-l33 yeas to 100 nays.
Inc day was mainly spent in voting down
fourteen amendments which had been
offered to the bill. The usual routine OF
Fridays work was given up and every
thing else waived tOr the struggle to re
peal the Resumption act. There was
hardly two hours Of Speaking. Mr.. Fort
argued for twenty minutes in favor Of lis
amendment, which the Committee had
accepted because it embodied the vital
principle Of the Ewing bill, viz, uncon-
ditlonal repeal Of the Resumption act.
MI Chittendcn, the peppery little mem
Der from New York, alone undertook to
answer Mr.. Ewing. He raised laugh
but made 10 impression; indeed further
talk was useless. Evelybody's mind was
made up. The voting began shortly after
o'clock, and the first call Of the yeas and
nays indicated that every amendment
would be voted down. Each in turn Was
voted down easily, until the last was
reached This was Mr.. Wards, provid-
ing that nothing in the act should be con
Strued to affect the payment OF debts due
Tor wages OF labor on January LIST, 1879
or which may become due after said date
but all said debts shall be legally payable
IN such coin OF notes as will be by law
se1erally a legal-tender, without limita-
ton as to the amount, for payment OF all
debts, including duties on imports For
this amendment so many repcalerS voted
mainly as a catch paw for labOring votes
in their districts that when the call was
completed it was evident the amendment
was carried. Then there was a hurried
changing OF votes until it was finally lost
toy the close vote of l27 To i29. Gen.
Butler voted AYE" and changed The
final ote on MI Forts substitute ended
at about o'clock. The call proceeded
quietly, and mild applause followed the
announcement that the amendment had
been adopted An analysis Of the votes
show that only - Republicans voted for
and - Democrats against repeal: New
England voted almost aOidly against the
repeal. Ben Buffers action was, as usual,
ineXpllcdble. He was in his seat when
his name was called, looked straight at
the Clerk, and did not Vote. no New
orker voted ior the repeal. Mr.. Coz,
who would have voted aye. was paired
of the sixty lght votes from the extreme
East, Messrs. Cox and Phelps We're the
only two i'll the affirmative. Messls. Kim
nell and Schleicher were the only Dem
ocrats from the South who voted "No,"
and Mr.. Brogdon was the only Southern
Republican who voted eyes" 1t is a sin
gular fact that Of AL the large cities the
Representatives Of Cincinnati alone voted
for repeal. The Representatives from
Boston, Providence, New FORK. BROOKLYN,
Baltimore, Charleston. st. Louis, Detroit
and san Francisco voted solidly against
repeal The Representatives from Phil
adclphia. New Orleans and Chicago were
divided. The anti Resumptionists are of
course elated tonight, but are only mod
erately hopeful that the bill will pass the
Senate.
MONDAY IN THE SENATE.
At the end Of the morning hour Mr..
Thurmans resolution came up as I'M
finished business, and the real fight be
gan, On the Republican side, the Gle
phantine form Of David Davis arose slow
lY. There was an eager craning Of nechs
as he began to explain his vote. Fifty
words made it clear that he intended to
continue as he had begun, voting in favor
Of Thurman'S resolution The crowd set
tied back The first excitement was over.
Then Nh EdmundS arose, and all ewes
centred on his angular form to see what
the elected leader OF the Republican side
would DO. He opened with caustic snecr
at Mr.. Dayiss Independence. 1t was a
bad blunder, but only the forcrunner OF Il
succession Of such egregious blundcrs that
whatever reputation Mr. Elmunds may
have for sharpness he may not claim any
rs leader. From his opening words be
acted like a man whose stomach was sur
charged with bile, and whose chief anxiety
was to spit it out. Ills slur on Mr.. Davis
changed him at once from passive oppo-
ncnt to an active enemy. His inucndocs
brought Mr.. Patterson to his feet in a
personal explanation. which was the first
bombshell of the day.
Mr. Patterson's speech WAS not model
of rhetoric ut times it was hardly cohe-
rent, but it was terribly effective. The
charges that he had made an alliance he
first denied broadly, and then proved the
talSity by showing that he declared pub
licly last May that he should vote for But
Ter. He pointed to his record to prove
that his Republicanism was straighter
than that Of either EdmunIs OF Conk-
ling, whose example in the Pinchback
case he was only following now He
dared those to read him ont Of the party
who had thrown ink ut him in 1856 for
making Republican speeches. He ere
ated Il sensation by waving 4 telegram
from eX-Gov. Chamberlain approving his
course, whom he alluded to as the ablest
Republican South Carolina had had, and
4 man ''Who had spent rs much money as
any man III the State to secure your seat,
Nh President pointng at the Nice-PrcS-
ident). Fmallyhe charged to their teeth
that their attack on him was because he
dared to do right, and he reminded them
that he had not survived eight years of
political life in South Carolina to be bull
dozcd now in the Senate.
SENATOR CONOVER'S SPEECH
After Patterson came Conoyer His
speech was the greatest surprise to the
party Of the day. 1t was short, and he
read it without an effort ut dramatics,
but its sting was terrible. He gave as
bis reasons for supporting Butler that
their President and his had affirmed the
legality of the Legislature which elected
Butler; that the supreme Court OF South
Carolina had affirmed it; that he never
heard OF a Democratic State eecting Re
publican Senators and did not believe this
one had tlat he could not oppose Butler
without questioning the title Of the Pres
ident to his office, and that he was un-
willing to do that. Then he reviewed
Edmunds's course in the Pinchback ease,
and asserted that he was only following
the leadership of the distinguished Sena-
tor from Vermont.
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