Daily globe., 1879-01-31
Senate.
SENATORIAL RIGHTS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-The Vice President
| apon the rights of the Senate in the matter of
| amendments to the post route bill of last ses-
sion, Brazilian mail steamship subsidy, ETC.,
senators Edmunds, Ferry, Hoar, Thurman and
Nhyte.
OLD WAR CLAIMS.
Senator Hill presented petition of his Stat G
| oraying payment of the balance due on account
of expenditures i'll the revolutionary war. the
war OF 1872 and various Indian wars. Referred.
COUNSEL FEEs.
Senator Plumb called up the House bill pro-
viding for the payment of counsel fees in the
Usage ceded land suits aggregating $4,000.
Pending discussion the morning hour expired
and the bill was laid aside.
The resolution of Senator Edmunds de-
claring the vail iity of the thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the consti-
tuition was taken up and Senator Morgan ad-
vocated his substitute of Jan. 2Uth.
SenaCor Morgan said the Senator from Yer
mont was unable to get his resolutions before
che Senate until aided by Senators on the
Democratic side. No Senator had been sworn
aere who did not understand that his oath OF
tfice Included the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments, no matter whether ht
came from the Nsrth, South. East, or West
Ind no Senator had, by any motion or speech
indicated that he did not intend to supper,
che amendments as part of the constitution
of the country. The Senator wanted the
Senators n"w to pledye themselves by resolu.
tlon to keep their oath to support the :hir-
teenth: fourteenth. and fifteenth amend dments
Senator Morgan tn en- argued the constitution.
al amendments had been solemnly ratified
and there was no necessity for bringing this
matter back to the attention of the Senate
aud declare by resolution that the ameud ments
were valid. State after State in the ,uth b ad
ch h4nged It's constitution to conform with thu
fifteenth amendment. and vet the Safe OF
Vermont and other Northern States had failed
To do so. He advocated his substitute for
Edmunds resolution, and said the sub titute did
not seek To bring before the country any har-
rowing question, but rested upon the ground
that the amendments were part OF
the constitution, and valid as any other par,
Ut 1t. The Democratic party, and he hoped ev-
cry American. concurred with the Senator from
Vermont that amendmt were valid Was
that not enough? What more could they do?
The real quarrel of the Senator from Vermont
Was with the supreme court Of the United
States. 1t was a democratic doctrine to sup
port the decisions OF the supreme court. The
resolutions OF the Senator from Vermont now
before the Senate, were an attack upon that
doctrine, and therefore an attack ON the Demo
cratic party, and when that party failed to
meet such an attack, it would amount to
naught.
Senator Morgan argued that the executive
was simply the right hand of the Judiciary to
enforce its DEGREES. If the Senator meant the
President of the United States had the right
TO use the army of the United States when no
court required its use; if he meant to give the
executive department. authority to go by other
AGENCIES than those prescribed by civil law,
then the Senator and himself differed as to the
constitutional powers of the executive.
Before Morgan concluded his remarks the
Senate went into executive session.
ARMY REORGANIZATION.
The doors being constructiyely opened, Sem
ator Burnside moved to amend the bill recently
reported by him from the joint committee on
ths army reorganization. by withdrawing GER
tain portions to be referre1 to the committee
OF military affairs, leaving the balance of the
bill to stand as that reported by the commit
lee. Agreed to. The Senate ordered the bill
to be printed as was proposed in the am end
ment Adjourned.