Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-21
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Mr.. Corbin, Of South Carolina, doesn't
intend to submit to the usurpation oil his
seat in the Senate by Hamburg Massacre
Butler without contest. He demands a
hearing upon the merits OF his claim
Senator Conkling, if We are to believe the
reports of the executive secretsesslon, declared
that he had not recommended an appoint
ment in the New York Custom House for
eight years. He also referred to Senator
Blaine two or three times in his speech-a
thing he had not done in the twelve years
during which these Senators have not been
on speaking terms.
In explaining his vote to confirm MI
Roosevelt, Senator Burnside said that he
would gladly vote for his friend from New
York against confirming these nominations,
but he would never go back on an old
soldier who had served under him, meaning
President Hayes. This does not seem to be
much of a reason, somehow, in such mat
ter.
Mr.. Edmunds is reported as saying that
he was inclined to congratulate the Presi-
dent, on the issue of the contest over the
New York Custom House appointments, sin
asmuch as if Mr.. Roosevelt had been con-
confirmed my belief is that he the President
and all of us would have regretted it within
few months
A Washington special says there is rea-
son to believe that Evarts and Deyens are
doing all they can to prevent a further
widening of the breach between the Repub-
icans and the Administration. Evsrts has
been held responsible for betraying the Pres
ident into the mistake of returning the New
York Custom House appointments to the
Senate. This is undoubtedly incorrect.
That blunder and the staggering blow which
it compelled the Administration to receive,
were due to the persistent efforts OF the Sec
rotary Of the Interior.
A Washington special says that Repub-
lican Senator, who has been and is one OF
the most steadlast supporters of the Admins
tration, stated that he had sincerely hoped
that the President would have taken the
hint conveyed by the failure OF the Senate to
act on the contested New York nominations
at the special session, and not send them
back again. The tenor Of his remarks be-
trayed the fact that he had voted to sustain
the President, but that his sympathies were
quite strongly the other way. 1t is under
stood that two or three other Republican
Senators who voted to confirm the nomina-
tions Of Messrs. Roosevelt and Prince ex-
pressed similar sentiments.
The New York Times Washington cor
respondent says Of Senator Gordon :
"Mr. Gordon, by his staggering manner,
has made himself very offensive in the Sen
ate this session. He Is all the time talking
about his honor or the honor of somebody,
and he goes around with his honor balanced
Oh ms snouiuer ior soneDouy u KNOCK ou'
IN schooi-boy iashion. lie seems 10 nave
learned nothing by his experience IN the
war, which taught most Southern soldiers
that other men besides themselves were hon.
orable, and that too, without boastlng.
Renorts of the late elect;ons in Georo;a
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STU" 'na' 'ne 'nuepenuen' 'ano'oA'es "eie
generally successful In speaking recently
" Of the development of the indepen-
dent morement Senator Gordon declared
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p-.;I..,- 49, -. "a A..
PO.'''' "nu 'NA' 'AU''
ments oil that sort were inevitable, extending
over large portion Of the South. By be-
coming chamnion of the Administration
Gordon believes he has mt himself at the
head If tho ;ndenendent movement in Geor-
ola Other nrominent Southern leaders er-
nress the oninion that the Georgia elections
indicate the beginning of a new order of
things in the Sonth The negro vote thew
s,v was divided The indenendent tickets
were ali anti hourhon
w
we ooser.e 'nat .he rresiI1nl 20. no sup
port from ei'nei y, 'ne we" iahisnio 3en-
ators oh the we" ioih appointments Our