The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29
PATTERsON,s VOTE

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publican ranks in the Senate # the
fact that Senators Patterson anu jnno.
yer have indicated AT intention vote
for the admission of General Butler. as
Senator from this State, whose votes,
taken from the Republican column and
transferred to the Democrats, will be suf-
ficient to secure his admission. The
northern papers are discussing the out
look with vehemence which the follow
ing quotations but family shows:
vron The Baitimore Sun.
The motion of Mr. Hoar TO lay en- the
table Judge SIerrimon's motion 20 dis
! chs,ye the committee on privileges and
elections from the further consideration
OF the Butter case, war submit .c,, TO the
Senate by the Vice. President. AS the
| clerks were calling the roll there was all
excitement to watch how Conover and
Patterson would vote. AS their names
| were called both responded with very
| decided mo The vote on the motion
was thirty for to thirty-two against, and
the Vice-President announced that it was
lost. Matters began TO look somewhat
bilious fox the Republican side. Mcssrs.
Edmunds and Conkling, after short,
hurried consultation, prepared to initiate
a series of dilatory motions. 1t was Ger
ta:hly ra.her novel spectacle that was
| now presented. For many weary years
these two Senators, with an oyerwhelm-
ing majority behind them, have, with n
naughty and almost unbearable insolencc.
trod the minority in the very dust of hu.
initiation.
Measure upon measure affecting not
| only the rights, the liberties, but ne
lives of millions of the people of mis-
country have been rushed through i'm The
| dark hours Of midnight or in the early
dawn in violation not only of the rights
| Of the minority, but of ell the principles
| of parliamentary law and of courtesy.
There are Democratic Senators now on
| the door who have been told almost in so
many words by these gentlemen that they
were permitted there only by suferance.
Yet here were these two leaders, who but
yesterday fancied their hold of power
to be perpetual, finding themselves in a
minority, and will it be believed, actually
resorting to that last refuge of the minor
| ity-filibustering7 Perhaps this was not
| retributive justice. but many will imagine
| that it was.
| Another circumstance almost Us extra
ordinary was that two despised carpet
baggers became all at once the objects of
the greatest interest, and their votes were
awaited with hushed lips and bated
breath. One by one Mr.. Edwards hand
ed in his motions to delay, for it was set
tied Ho" beyond the doubts of any one
that on tho square question Of the admis.
sion Of Butter, if that could be reached
COnover and Patterson would vote in the
affirmative. Through the efforts of Mr.
Buffers friends All arrangement mad been
secured whereby Mr. Patterson was re-
leased from attendance at corrt, so that
all fear on the one hand or hope on the
| other at his absence was at rest. He and
Mr. Conover ought to have felt hattered
at the attention which vas bestowed upon
them. First Republican and then a
Democratic Senator would approach one
and the other and reason with him in the
most affectionate and earnest manner.
Mr. Kellogg, who was ensconced in the
retiring room on the Republican side
sent for Senator Conover several times
and talked to him like father. Then
MIR. Butler, who was quite active on the
floor, would get hold of Conoyer and Pat
terson In turn, and though it was NJ
more than pantomine to others, it wa:
q pantomine full OF interest, and one thai
was entirely comprehended. At one
time MIR. Patterson was in q group oi
which the others wers Senators Gordon
Lamar and Morgan, and Mr. Butler.
This scene was witnessed with mutter-
ing and scowling from the Republicans
and some of them said audibly: "Those
men wouldn't speak to Patterson if they
were not using him." The inevitable
Pinchback stood off in one corner an in.
terested observer Of what was going on.
AS he was smilingly stroking his nous.
tnche Republican Senator, who mad
voteG against his admission, passed close
to him. Pinchback said, il an ironical
tone, "Well, Senator, guess you Repub-
licans would like to have my vote about
this time?" The Senator addressed said
Yes, I am sorry now did not voto fol
you"
On one of Mr.. Edmund's motions Mr.
Conoyer did not vote at all, which re-
duced the majority against the Republi-
cans to one. On q subsequent motion
he voted in the affirmative, but fter a
little talk with Mr.. Butler he rose and
changed his vote to the negative before
She result was announced MIR. Patter-
son, who really looked very unhappy,
voted steadily with the Democrats on all
motions. 1t was stated that prominen.
republican who has the privilege of the
floor of the Senate walked up to him at
one time after he had voted and accused
him, not in choice language, of being a
traitor to his party.
From, the Ne,p York Tribune.
OF course, there is but one explanation
of Mr.. Patterson's behavior to-day. He
has had before him the choice of two
Notwithstanding to his party, or
confinement in the Penitentiary. He
has made strike for liberty, and chosen
the former course. it may be that none
OF the Democratic Senators are privy to
the bargain which has been made, but it
Is asserted by those who ought to be in
formed on the subject that no more open
and barefaced q bargain and sale has
ever taken place in the history of legis-
lative bodies.
The testimony against Senator Patter-
son which has been taken by the grand
jury of South Carolina, which is ex.parte
In it's character, is so far as it goes, over
Wneiming. a careful examination of il
fails to show r single flaw, and unless his
defence IS ndch stronger than any one