The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-03-14
South Carolina in Congress.


Senator Humpton's Credentials Presented South
Cdroiias's Old IYar Claim Defeated Cor6 n
Gets His SS,OO6 rs =
r. Washington, Mach. Yesterday, just after
o'clock, Senator Butler presented the certificate
of election of Senator Wade Hampton. After
the reading clerk, the worst in the world, had
gotten through with the diploma like sheet of
parchment, ornamented with ribbons and the
seal of South Carolina, Mr. Edmunds said, sis
that ull," but soon found that there was anoth-
er paper prepared in due form, and he there
upon grurited as tho clerk read it.. Blaine, who
sat near "St. Jerome" as they miscall Ver-
mont's bitter Senator, Immediately advanced to
the Secretary's desk and inspected the certih-
cate. Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, did likewise,
and each, no doubt, found that it was as hand
somely gotten up as such papers are in New
England.
DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS DEFEAT SOUTH CAROLINA s
JUST CLAIM.
South Carolina has not to blame her represen-
-tativcs in either branch of the Congress for the
defeat of her just claim of nearly 100000 for
advances to the General Government during the
war of 1912, for they did their level best in and
out of session for it. In fact the able report of
MIR. Evins on the subject of these advances, and
the mode by, which they were settled in part.
was used by Senators Butler, Withers and
others, in their fight to get the claim through.
Nor have you TO thank the Republicans for your
defeat, for Blaine and Dorsey voted for it In
committee and then again in committee of the
whole The following Democratic Senators vo-
ted that it was not in order because it was gen
cral legislation OH q general appropriation bill,
to-wit: Bayard, Merrimon, Mcdonald, Salus-
bury, Herman, Barnum, Eaton, andothers, whose
names do not recall. Now, the vote stood
ayes 2S to noes 31-any two of these Demo-
Gratis could have kept the claim of the sundry
civil appropriation bill, and the House would
bavo readily concurred in it, This BILL il should
be remembered, like the river and harbor bill,
wns passed under q suspension of the rules IN
the House, aud Messrs. Evns and Aiken could
not, rs they intended, move to insert this claim
ms an amendment to the bill named. Your cor
respondent sees plainly that it will pass ut no
distant day, for there is no reason to prevent
unprejudced Senators from treating South
Carolina and Virginia as Republican Congress
5dh tNyai4e and d MasSaGahussgsss g and Democrat:
Zach Chandler, true to his hostility to the South,
led in the attack on it, and remarked to Don
Cameron: IL defeated your father thirty years
ago, and I will now defeat you in this very mat
ter" Pennsylvania has claim similar to that
of South Carplnn, and it was embraced in the
proposed amendment.
CoRDIN MADE GOOD THING OF IT.
predicted that the friends Of Mr.. Corbin had
no idea Of ousting Senator Butler, but that they
were after spondulix, and they got it. Eight
thousand dollars was pretty liberal pay for the
work he did. Senator Hereford was only will
ling TO allow him attorneys fees, and Senator
Hill thought $1,000 more than compensation.
But Radical Senator had previously remarked
in private, in the heat of his indignation Mt the
idea Of the Senate falling into the hands of tue
Democrats, that when they got control of Con-
gress they would find the treasury empty, and
this liberality to Mr.. Corbin was in keeping with
this predicion.-Cor. Ncics and Courier.