Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-15
UNITED STATES SENATE.

fonnSylVaula, suuultteu o iosoiuIion Insa' 1no
credentials of L. G. @. Lamar. Senator elect
from the State of Mississippi, be taken from
the table and that he be sworn in. Mr.. An.
thony moved that the Senate adjourn, which
was rejected, and Mr.. Blaine spoke in favor
of seating Mr.. Lamar, contending that his
credentials were regular. Dawes also declared
in favor of seating Mr.. Lamar, which was
finally agreed to. After Mr.. Lamar had ta-
ken the oath, Mr.. Blaine submitted resolu-
ton in favor of seating Wm. Pitt Kellogg,
Senator from Louisiana. Mr.. Bayard sub.
mitted substitute for theiresolution, placing
the credentials upon the table until the ap-
pointment of committee on privileges and
elections, to whom they can be referred. Mr.
Blaine opposed the substitute, taking the
ground that the electoral vote of Louisiana
was legally and properly cast for Hayes and
Wheeler, and that Packard is equally of right
the Governor of that State, and, therefore,
Kellogg, elected by the Packard Legislature,
is the legal Senator from Louisiana. At the
conclusion of Bl4ine's speech, Bayard obtain.
ed the floor, and the Senate adjourned.
In the Senate on the 7th, Mr.. Bayard spoke
in opposition to seating Kellogg as Senator
from Louisiana. Morton followed in favor
of Kellogg when vote was taken resulting
by vote of 35 to % in favor of referring
the credentials of Kellogg to committee on
privileges, when such committee shall be ap-
pointed. Mr.. Patterson, Of South Carolina,
submitted resolution that the credentials of
D. T. Corbin and NJ. c. Butler, each claim
ing seat as Senator from South Carolina, lie
upon the table until the committees are ap
pointed and that their credentials shall then
be referred to the committee on privileges
and elections. Agreed to. A message was
then received from the President of the Uni
ted States containing the cabinet nomina-
tions, which we're referred to committee
the usual course Incidental to the discus.
sion of the Louisiana election and the creden-
tials of Kellogg, Mr.. Blaine had the follow
ing letter read
COLUMBIA, s. c., March g. 1s77.-Io Hon. d.
T. Corbim: have just had long interview with
Haskell, who brings letters to me from Stanley
Matthews and Mr.. Evarts The pufport OF the
Matthews letter is that ought to yield my rights
for the good of the country. This is em6arras
sing beyond endurance. IF such action is desired
I want to know it authoritatively. I am not
acting for myself and cannot assume such re-
sponsibility. Please inquire and telegraph me
tonight u. b. CHAMBERLAIN.
Mr.. Blaine then asked:
"Is there any Senator on this floor who desires
to stand sponsor for that dispatch or for the poll
cv that it covers? Is there any Senator here who
proposes to abandon the remnant that Is left OF
the Republican party between the Potomac and
the Rio Grande, and that it shall 90 down for the
public good, as Mr.. Stanley. Matthews puts it :
Being little of partisan-differing in that re-
spect from the Senator from Delaware-I am not
ready for that. I do not propose, either at the
beck of Mr.. Stanley Matthews or Evarts, to say
that the public good requires that the remnant OF
the brave men who have borne the flag and the
brunt of the battle in the Southern States against
prosecutions unparalleled in this country, shall
retire for the public good.
do propose for myself, as long as may be en-
trusted with seat on this floor, that whoever
else halt or grow weak in maintaining it, 80 long
as have the strength will stand for Southern
Union men of both colors and when cease to
do that before any presence, North or South, IN
official bodies or before public assemblies, may
my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, and
lily ElSut Idiiu lol SOV ico SuLAAAh6'
In the Senate on the 9th, John F. Morgan
was sworn in as Senator from Alabama, and
after debate on the question, L. W. Grover
was sworn in as Senator from Oregon. Du.
ring debate in executive session, Mr.. Blaine
had read the following note: .
WASHINGTON, D. c., March SO Hon.. J. G.
Bluiase DEAR S1R-Hon. w. M. Evarts, begged
me to say to you that he did not endorse the let
ter of Stanley Matthews to Governor Chamber
ernor Chamberlain to me. That the letter was
presented to him by Mr.. Haskell, of South Caro-
lima, and he wrote upon it substantially as fol-
lows That he had read the foregoing letter; that
composed, and he desired to hear from Governor
Chamberlain upon the subject: Very respect
fully, d. T. CoRB1N.
On the 9th, the Senate was in executive
session only twenty minutes, when the cabi
net nominations were referred to committees
as follows: Schurz to Finance; Devens to the
Judiciary McCrary to Military, and the 9th.
ers to the appropriate committees. A motion
to adjourn to Monday was defeated by vote
of AZ to II. Evarts was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs.
In the Senate on the 10th, communica-
tion was read from Mr.: Orton, President of
the Western Union Telegraph Company, re-
questing the return of messages, about 10000
in number, recently delivered to the commit
tee on privileges and elections. Laid on the
table. The committee of privileges and elec'
tions of the Senate took up the case of Kel-
logg, claiming his seat from Louisiana. The
Republican members Of the committee took
the ground that Kellogg's credentials we're
regular, and he has prina tacie right to said
seat, and should be sworn in; and the inves-
tigation as to which is the legal government
of Louisiana should be considered afterwards.
The Democrats claimed that the committee
have judicial knowledge that there are rival
governments in Louisiana; and, therefore,
there should be previous investigation as to
which of them is legal before any action is
considered. The majority and minority re-
ports are to be presented to the Senate In
executive session the Senate confirmed all the
cabinet nominations.
STANLEY MATTHEW'S CORRESPONDENCE
The following is the full text of the let
ter of Stanley Matthews and Mr. Evarts' en-
dorsement on the same to D. H. Chamberlain,
reference to which was made by Mr.. Blaine
in the Senate on the 7th instant. The writer
of the letter is an Ohio JUDI ge, and is reported
to be confidential adviser of President
Hayes:
WASHINGTON Cry, March 6, 1876.