The daily gazette., 1879-05-08
III RsiIy Gas.tt.
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ssfhR CoNKLING's AUDAClTy.--Mr.
Conhling's impudence and audacity in
the Senate is something disgusting to
rsntlemen of milder manners and who
have not been accustomed to adopting
III language of the rough. His conduct
snd his remarks in the Senate on Tues
day were of such . character as to call
forth . rebuke at once from Senator
Thurman, and attract also the attention
Of the press of his own party, which has
accused him Of having been eunparlia-
inentary, and from q partisan point Of
view, indiscreet," on the occasion. This
paper went further and charged that
s'Mr. Conkling invited from the Demo-
Gratis some decidedly unpleasant sugges-
tions Is to the influences which secured |
kellogg his seat" 1t even added that
aMr. Conkling knows perfectly well that |
kellogg was seated, not because he had |
q clear title to his seat, but because the |
Republicans wanted his vote" xrhat is
the truth; and the remarks quoted ema-
mated in and are copied from Republi-
can journal. We copy them to show our
Democratic readers the proof from the
utterances of the better class Of our OPP
ponents. e..4
Senator Salisbury is the chairman of
the Committee on Elections, and it be-
came his duty to bring the resolution
before the Senate. He will not finch
from any duty that may devolve upon
him, He remarked, in reply to Mr..
Oonkling, that "all the committee de-
sired was authority to investigate the en-
tire question, SO that it would be ena-
bied to act intelligently."
This, however, did not satisfy the I'M
perial Conkling, who shortly afterward
took the floor again and said, ''the object
was TO clutch the seat because it was
need for day not far distant. 1t
would turn out TO be an unfortunate in
cident If the retention of power in the
hands of the majority should be made
to depend on the success of this expert
ment. He denounced this scheme as a
violation of the rights and privileges of
the members of the Senate"
No longer able to hold his seat, the
profound lawyer and able and expert
enced Senator from Ohio very properly
retorted in style which seems most be-
fitting the audacity of the New York
would-be bully. He said ''the Senator
(Conkling) charged that the resolution
was an attempt to turn Senator out for
the purpose of preserving party majori-
ty. If he (Mr. Thurman) had reported
the resolution he should consider the al
legation personally offensive. He knew
Of no right of the Senator to impugn the
motives of his fellow Senators. He
might say that Mr.. Kellogg was admit
ted to preserve Republican majority.
but he did not say so now nor when the
Senator was admitted. He was surprised
at the substitute declaring that the case
was in 1877 finally decided, when it was
known there was no investigation by a
committee"
1t will become Mr.. Saulsbury's duty
further on when the case shall have been
properly Investigated by the committee,
to furnish the reasons that influenced
the Committee on Elections to have the
resolution, now under debate, put before
the Senate. And we are the more par
ticular to place this matter now before
our readers, so that they may see to
what tricks and shans and rascaly de
vices the leaders of the Grant-Haye
party in the Senate had resorted to hole
the control of that body for the past tw,
or three sessions of Congress. No maj
who came there with any plea that coul,
be made to have the merest semblanc
OF an election to the Senate, if h
was akepublican, was sent away withou
being seated. Bribery of Legislators an
fraud In every step toward the position
were notonly charged but exposed at near
ly every recurring meeting of Congress
Tor the past ten or fifteen years; and S
corrupt had the Senate become that eve
many OF the Grant party were disguste
at 1t, and the fear spread throughout tn
land that seats in that body would 500
be openly sold unless check was pr
to the reckless course which seemed I
grow worse at every session. In fact "
do not believe there had been a fairl
constituted majority of Republicans i
the Senate for five years previous to IL
adjournment Of the last session. Conl
ling, Cameron, Hoar and Edmunds, c
Tuesday, opened wide the door for Il
exposure Of the rascalities that we
practiced for years to enable the Gra
and Hayes Senators to hold the pow
and disperse the patronage of the 60
ernment among their favorites al
friends; to defy the House and redu
the salaries and exorbtant expenditur
which the House frequently demand,
and which sorely oppressed the peor
with taxation.