Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-05-27
TELEGRAPHIC.
XLVI. CONGRESS-.
SENATE.
SEN "A Il H.
WASHINGTON, May 26.


ator. He moved that the appointee
be sworn in.
The credel :ials of Gov, Brown
were read.
Senator Edmunds vt. remarked
that they we're dated May 21st, and
asked if the date of Senator Cor
don's resignation was officially
known to the senate. 1t had been
held by the senate on some
former occasions that the
governor of state has no
power, under the constitution, to
appoint @ senator until a vacancy
actually exists. Of course, every
body knew that he had no objection
to Mr.. Browns being sworn in
except the sorrow it gave him that
his friend, Gen. Gordon, was to go
away. But lie thought it right to
call the attention of tie senate to
the fact that it might perhaps be
better for the senate to hold, as
matter of convenience, that the
former decision was wrong, and that
a governor might issue commission
in anticipation of a vacancy.
Senator Gordon stated that
his resignation ante-dated the
commission of his successor
by four or five days. SEN
ator Edmunds said the question
then arose if vacancy had actually
occurred on the twenty>frst of May,
the date of the commission, then by
what constitutional or other authors
ty had his friend Gordon exercised
the facilities of senator since that
date. That would be a puzzle, but
he did not know that it would affect
the present question.
Senator Hill (Ga.) thought it had
nothing to do with the present
question, which was simply
whether Gov. Brown be sworn in.
He moved that it be done. Brown,
thereupon, was escorted to the desk
and the modified oath was admins
tered by the president pro. tem., and
he took his seat.
Senator Cockreil (Mo.), from the
committee on claims, reported favor
ably on the bill for the allowance of
certain claims reported by account-
ing officers of the treasury, known
as "fourth of July claims" Placed
on the calendar.
On motion of Senator Eaton
[Pa. the pension deficiency appro-
priation bill was taken up. Senator
Eaton moved an amendment appro-
priating SIS, 900 for the committee
expenses of the senate, which, after
some debate. was agreed to.
Senator Window tMinn.) offered
an amendment appropriating
$500, 1000 for payment of the fees of
U. s. marshals and their deputies.
Rejected by party vote; yeas 22,
nays 33.
The amendments proposed by
the senate committee on appropria>
tions were agreed to. After the
adoption Of an amendment appria>
ting $4,000 for the continuance of
the work of settling the claims of
states on account of swamp lands,
the bill was passed.
At the expiration of the morn,
ing hour the senate resumed the
consideration of the bill defining the
terms of the chief supervisors of
election.
Senator Edmunds w. spoke at
length in opposition to the bill, which,
he said, was intended to secure the
control of elections.
He was folio we'd by Senator Rol.
Inns IN. H, in general attack
upon the record Of the democratic
party. He quoted from the evi.
dence of the outrages in the south,
and paid special attention to
South Carolina, declaring that the
"Hamburg massacre was an uns
provoked and unjusti6able attack by
southern chivalry upon a parading
negro company whose resentful
comments, though not accompanied
by violence, served as a pretext for
the massacre of the whole town.
On the conclusion of Senator
Rollins remarks, Senator Butler
rs. G. said: The senator from
New Hampshire has ransacked ell
the filthy, dirty records in WASH
ington and everywhere else for the
purpose Of pronouncpg the bene-
diction upon my state. | simply
desire to say now that what ne has
said is, from beginning to end, con-
temptible calumny on the charac-
ter Of South Carolina. l
shall take occasion hereafter
to pay my respects to what the
honorable senator has said. | will
not delay the senate now.
Senator Lamar Miss. said he
also wished to reply to the state,
ments Of Senator Rollins, with re-
gard TO Mississippi, but was not well
enough TO do so to,day.
About an hour was then occupied