Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-20
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
WAsHINGroS. D. c.. Jan. IL. 1873.


At the reassembling of Congress yesterday
a lot of suffrage women made an effort to
carry the two Houses by storm, and one of
them threatened to carry the Senate by
God The effort failed on both ends, the
House disposing of the proposal to hear a
committee crate at its bar by an objection
from Mr.. Crittenden; and the Senate arrived
at the same result late in the day, on a SINH
lar modest proposition, after an amusing de-
bate which was participated in by Senators
Hoar and Sargent in favor of the request,
and Senators Edmunds, Howe and Thurman
in opposition thereto. No man has ever had
the assurance to make such I. request III the
face of a standing rule of the Senate; but this
did not prevent a not very orderly crowd of
women from pouring into the galleries and
even threatening, to the great CONSERVATION
of the timid Sergeant at-Arms, to take pos
session of the floor of the Senate at the mo-
ment it should adjourn. Every lover of fun
was sorry not to see the programme carried
out so that when the dead and wounded had
been disposed of, the mysteries of the female
toilette, strewn over the floor of the Senate,
would have been made patent to an admiring
nation. 1t was understood that the Sergeant
alarms was for the blood and booty of beau
ty, and the failue of the programme may after
all be regarded as a merciful dispensation to
what is now hoped will be future generations.
Senator Sargent made probably good
Il, II.
case would admit of =; and nobody who wit
messed his earnest manner could doubt his
sincerity Senator Edmunds contented him
self chiefly with keeping before the Senate
violated which prohibits any person from APP
paaring before the Senate to present petition
or do anything. Senator Thurman treated
the matter i'll a different manner, and, enter
ing somewhat into the merits OF the case, ut
tered what most people will regard as whole
some truths He denied that the women here
present represented the women of the coun-
try. Said he, :" Where are their credentials
that constitute them the representatives of
the women Of the United States | should
Ike TO know where they are. One of them
said that they would carry the
Senate By God. Well. perhaps they will: |
but it will be long after some of us old fogies |
are out of the Senate; il viii lie when younger |
men shall be here" He advised the women
to appeal first to their States, and to & begin |
with Massachusetts, and States thereabouts, |
which was not bad hit at the absurd theories
which have had their origin i'll New England
He further said, - The woman who sits at her
ireside and takes care of her children is with
lie a rather more respectable character than
he woman who lays siege to the Senate of
he United States, and threatens to carry it
~ God - sentiment which must commend
Itself to all the good people of Carson The
question was, as a matter of course, disposed
f by the very decisive vote of IS in the af-
rmative and 81 in the negative, and it is
elieved that if all of the 80 aosentees had
cen present, their votes would have been
dded to the negative side
The Senate will not meet until Monday.
hen Senator Randolph will make a speech
gainst the Matthews resolution. Silver talk
i'll doubtless predominant for week or two.
Senator Davis, OF West Virginia, has for a :
'ng time been DESTROYS Of having commit 7
'e appointed TO investigate the United States
reasyry accounts, and after several failures
I'd some hard rapS at his want Of capacity, he !
'me time ago succeeded. lie thinks lie !
lows more about bookkeeping than Aexan- p
y Hamilton who Was the originator of the -
'csent system, and The Senate at last agreed
give him full swing, by making linn chair !,
all Of the committee, The committee itself :.
IS supplemented this by indorsng experts of G
$ own selection, 50 that if he fails to find !.
ares nest, the fault will be his own He -
IS at the outset shown an appreciation of c
e fitness of things by appointing the well
lo:-n Edward Byrne, formerly Of San Fran
SEQ, as one of the experts. All who know re
-rnc say that is the books and accounts fool u,
N, the end Of all things is at hand =.
PALTA -
LITERARY NEWS II b. Peterson & Broth til
), Philadelphia, have in press new book tr
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