Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-05-20
TELEGRAPHIC.
xLVI. CONGRESS-.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 10.

COumlttco Oh boSoA % - SPNA'o~
resolution appropriating $780,
900 to put the Pensacola navy yard
in state of efficiency. Referred
to appropriations committee.
| Senator Coke (Texas), from the
committee on Indian affairs, re-
ported bill providing for the
allotment Of lands in severalty
to the Indians on the vari>
GUS reservations and extending the
protection of laws of the states and
territories over Indians. Placed on
the ca endar.
Senator Cameron penn. intro>
duced bill granting pension to
the widow of Gen, Heneritzleman.
Referred.
i The joint resolution for adjourn
ment was read twice and referred TO
the committee on appropriations.
After debate, which showed a
difference of opinion as to whether,
in its present form, it required the
presidents signature, Senator Conk-
ling intimated that it had been pro-
osed to make it joint instead OF
concurrent, in order to throw the
responsibility of an adjournment
before important bills we're passed
on the president.
: Senator Butler Is. c. spoke
against the resolutions to unseat
Kellogg. He did not think the
senate had the legal and constltus
tional power to unseat a member
who had been admitted after con-
test on the merits of his case, ex-
cept on a motion to expel. How
ever much he might personally re-
gret the partisan action of the SEN
ate in seating Kellogg, he was
bound by it until it should be
shown that the majority of the
committee and of the sen.
ate acted fraudulently. The
proceedings of the senate
in passing on the qualifications ol
its members are essentially judicial
and there is no power with appellate
jurisdiction. 1t would be unsaft
and dangerous to establish a prece,
dent or adopt a rule by which al
appeal may be taken from one ma
! .jor,ty to another. 1t would be nc
sufficient justification to him to de-
part from the line of conscientious
duty in passing upon the constitu'
tional power of the senate over tht
t seas Of one of its members
5 which it had already adjudicatet
. that the republican party IL
the past had disregarded the re
straints Of law. Il would be
9 stinging rebuke on the republican
revolutionary methods for the pres
: eut majority to show the countr,
that it has the courage to respec
the judgment of the senate, in th'
face of terrible temptation to re
taliate in a most aggravating case
= The interest of the public require
d that there be an end of the liti
+ CATION. If the decision @
s one majority is to b
$ reversed by another majority. tn
i case will never end. Who but tn
e senator from Georgia would ventur
to assume infallibiity of judg
. ment and say who was wrong an
. who right. He resented Hills re
!, cent insinuation, that democrat
/. voting against the resolutions wonl'
u be actuated by other consideration
IS than law, constitution or evidence
II He called on that senator to spea
e openly and not take refuge in innu
b eDdoes.
n He could not understand why Nj
Is Hill bad specially alluded to Sout
3 Carolina, unless it was to put o
record the fact that he had nege
a belonged to that peculiar schoc
r of politics represented by tha
,e state,' quoting Hills Language
|. He need not have troubled hmse
e. to say that no one would eve
n accuse him Of being of that schoc
or which had no discpl except thos
il with fixed and well defined politics
e. principles, thorough conviction
ir and openly developed politics
II, methods. He declined to let Sen;
ut tor Hill speak, for the honor
South Carolina, and in the cour'
of his speech made sewers
&c " other keen thrusts at Hill. III
ie people of South Carolina had free
:. themselves from carpet bag rule b
1e supreme effort of despair, ar
er again twined their arms around II
OF grand column of American libert.
is 'is He would not have them turn ba'
at and wallow in the mire of carpe'
to bag infamy, and for this reason ar
ps others, would respect the j udgmen
I'd of the senate. If the sitting men
dh ber we're unfit for a senator tt
proper remedy was expulslo
Time was healing the wounds
Louisiana. Soon this last thern
her side would be expelled by Il
he fostering it creates. Better so ths
s, to tear it out by the roots. He d