The daily gazette., 1880-05-15
THIRD EDITION
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, May. 14th.

WASHINGTON, May, 14th.
THE KELLoGG-sPoFFoRD CAsE-
sPEECHEs OF SENATORS PENDLEToN
AND CAMERON OF WISCONSIN.
The Senate resumed consideration
Of the kellogg resolutions to-day, and
Mr.. Pendleton, (Dem.) of Ohio, spoke
In opposition to reversing the previous
action of the Sen1te, not upon the
principle of res dgjudioGtG, which he
did not think applicable here, but
upon the ground that no new evidence
had been presented since the previous
decision to warrant such reversal
The testimony taken before the COM
mittee proved nothing but the utter
villany of the witnesses. 1t did not
prove Spofford's charges. Whether
they were capable proof or not he did
not know, but he would not vote to set
aside former action of the Senate
upon such evidence, even if it had been
new evidence.
Mr.. Cameron, Republican, of Wis
consin, then proceeded to oppose the
resolutions, opening his speech with .
historical statement of the proceedings
in the case of 1877. He denied that
Spofford had been deprived of the priv
ilege of producing all the evidence be
desired on the FIRST hearing. The evl-
dence in support of the resolutions
contained nothing new in it. After an
elaborate review of the history of the
case, which he held to show that
nothing in the Ave points nor in the
supplementary points insisted on by
Senator Hill had been proven before
the committee, he did not desire to
touch upon the other aspects of the
case at present, but at some future
time would ask the indulgence of the
Senate while he reviewed the evil
dence.
The resolutions were then informal
ly laid aside and the Senate proceeded
TO other business.
DETERMINED TO STICK.
Meantime the wavering third term
ers here read with dismay a report in
the St. Louis Globe Democrat, one of
the most Jealous third term journals,
that the ex-President has within a few
days said to friend, my enemies
cannot force me from the field" They
regret to believe that he has committed
SO far and they would read
with delight letter from him formal |
y declaring that he has had all the
lonors to which any American citizen
% entitled.
THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION.
Taking the third term estimates of
State delegations to the National Con-
vention it appears again that the ex-
President finds his strongest support
in democratic States Thus the third
termers claim that they will have 200
Southern delegates in the Convention,
all from democratic States, and leav-
ing aside New York, which is a very
doubtful State, they claim only 1872
votes from Northern States, of which
100 are claimed from Pennsylvania
and Illinois, both of which delegations
they assert will be solid for the ex-
President. If they are not solid what
ever they lack must be deducted from
the 1879 votes of republican States in
which the third termers rely to help
their candidate to nomination. That
is to say, in the States and in the coun-
ties the ex-President is weak where
the republican is strong and strong
where the republican is weak OF power
less.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CoUNT-REPoRT
OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
The Senate's Select Committee on
the Presidential Count, by a strict
party vote, to-day decided to recon-
mQnh tho ahnrfinrl Of ha
proposed by Senator Morgan on the
9th inst, and to report adversely Sena-
tor Edmunds' bill ON the same subject.
The two measures were reported back
to the Senate this afternoon and placed
upon the calendar. The committee
nave made no changes in the provi-
sions of the Morgan proposition, which
was published on the day of its intro
duotion in the Senate, except few
merely verbal amendments, but they
nave added a new section, providing
that the joint rule shall be adopted,
to stand until, by the affirmative action
OF one of the two houses, the same
shall be vacated"
WASHINGTON NOES.
The House to-day passed the Legis-
iative, Executive and Judicial Appro-
priation bill.
The President sent to the Senate to-
day the nomination of N. G. Ordway,
OF New Hampshire, to be Governor of
Dakota Territory.
1t was ascertained from an official
source that j. j. Stewart, of Balti-
more, Is to be appointed Arbitrator of
the Spanish Claims Commission on the
part of the United States, vice Joseph
Segar, deceased.
The New York State Senate yesterday
started bribery investigation. The
charges are that large sum OF money
were used in connection with the amend
nent to the BROOKLYN charter The