Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-27
Congressional.

Congressional.
WAsuINdroN, May 19.-Tho joint
resolution for adjournment was read twice
and referred to tho committee on appropri.
ations, nftcr n debate which showed O
difference of opinion as to whether in its
present form it required the Presidents
| signature.
Mr.. Conklipg iutimatcd that it had been
purposcly made joint instead of concurrent
ID order to throw the responsibility of tho
adjournment before important bills were
passed on the President.
| MIR. Butler spoke against the resolution
to unscat Kellogg Hc didn't thok the
Senate had q legal aud constitutional
| power to unscGt members, who had been
admitted after contest on the merits of
his case except on motion to expc; how
ever much he might personally regret tho
partisan action Of tho Senate in seating
Kellogg, he was bound by it until it should
be shown that majority of the committee
and of tho Senate acted frauduently. The
proceeding Of tho Senate in passing on tho
| qualifications Of it's members are essentially
Judicial, and there is no power with appel
ate jurisdiction. 1t would be unsafe and
dangerous to establish precedent or adopt
rule by which an appeal may bo taken
from one majority to another. 1t would
! TO no sufficient justification to him to depart
| from the line OF conscientious duty in pas--
sing upon the constitutional power of the
Senate over the seat of one of its members
on which it had already adiudicatcd, that
the Republican party in the past had disrc-
gardcd the restraints Of the law. It would
be a stingiug rcbuke on the Republican
revolutionary methods for tho present ma
Jority to show tho country Tat it has
courage to respect the judgment of the
Senate IN the face of the terrible tcmpta-
ton to retaliac in y most agsrayating case.
The interest of toe public requires that
there be an end Of litigation. If the dec--
sion of one majority is to he reversed By
another majority tho cusc will never end.
Who except the Scuatcr from Georgia
would venture 10 assume infalibiI,y of
Judgment and say who was wrong and who
right? lie resented Mr.. Hills recent
insinuatiun that the Democrats voting
against the resolution would be acluatcd bv
other considerations than law, constitution
or evidence. lie called on that Senator to
speak openly and not take refuge in inuen-
does. lie could not underatand why Mr..
Hill had apccially alluded to South Caro-
lima, unless to put on record tho fact that
he never belonged to that tpcculiar school"
of politics represented by thut State Quot
ing Ilil's languasc) lIo need not have
troubled himacIf to say that. No one
would ever accuse lin Of being Of that
school which had no disciples EXCEPT
these With fixed and we'll defined political
principles, thorough convictions and openly
developed political methods. IIedeclncd oIot
lii! speak for tho honor Of Soath Carolina,
and in Tic course of his spccch made scyc-
raj other keen thrnsts at Hill Tho people
Q. South Carolina had freed themselves
from the carpet bag rule ty the supreme
efforts Of despair and again twined their
arms around the grand column of American
liberty. llc would not havo them turn
back and wallow in the mirc of carpet bag
iniamy, and for ibis reason and others
would respect the judgment of the Senate.
1t the sitting member were unfit for n
Senator the proper remedy was expulsion.
Time was cicatrizing tho wounds of Louisi.
ana. Soon this last thorn in her side would
DO expelled by to festcring it creates.
Better SO than tear it it out by tho roots.
lle did not believe thai tho Packard Lcgis.
aturo was legal, but unfortunately tho
Senate had decided it was, and its iudg.
mcnt could not be disturbed. Ho closed
by an elaborate legal argument fayoring tho
doctrine Of tic res adiudicata.
Mr.. Garland took the floor on the Kcl-
loog resolution.
Mr.. Hill said that both of tho Senators
from South Carolina had insisted on mis-.
constituting his remarks and commenting
unjustiliably oa his political record. Ho
would reply to them when lie could get tho
floor.
Tho resolutions wcro Informally laid
aside, and the Bayard bill regulating the
rank and pay of deputy marshals was taken
up. Mcssrs. Carpenter, Teller and Conk-
ling offered several amendments inflicting
penalties for intimidation in connection
with elections, etc, whicl, were rejected by
party vote.