The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-05-13
FORTY-SlXTH CONGRESS.
(6econd 6easion.)
The Senate.

WASHINGTON. May 10.-President pro TEN.
Thurman laid before the Senate communi-
cation from tho secretary of the interior, stat
ing his estimates of March 8. 1850, for def
cheney for arrears and army and navy pensions
had not been found sufficient, and trsnsmittinp
increased estimates.
Senator Bayard said, if possible, he would
call the Eaton tariff commission bill no in tho
morning hour tomorrow.
Senator Beck wished it understood tho report
Of the commission was not unanimous. He
would oppose the bill and advocate that Of
Senator Garland. He didn't want Congress to
put lts business into tho hands of outsidefs, e.
pecially as it appeared in this case that the
petitions for the bill were all on one aide
machine petitions.
Senator Eaton denied the petitions were ma
chine petitions. one especially, representing
$500. .Ql0. GOO Of capital in cotton manufsctur-
ing, which represented every shade of opinion
on the tariff: Tho Garland bill, he would re-
mind the Senator from Kentucky, Beck, in
Representatives and three Senators.
Senator Burnside moved to postpone the
calendar and consider the House JOINT resolu-
tion relative to extending the nationsl survey
into the States.
senotor Cockrell objected and hoped = test
would now be made % to whether the calendar
should be considered and every one given an
grab for precedence every day by senators in
terested in special bills. Tho motion was
agreed to; yeas, "a; nays, 20. The Joint rese-
lation was therefore taken up. It PROVIDES
that the national survey authorized by the sun
dry civil act of 1875, may be extended into the
tions Propose to amend 30 ~ to provide it may
be extended into tho respective States when re.
Quested by the authorities thereof.
Pending debate, the morning hour expired
and dr. Hoar spoke in opposition to the Kel-
log9 resolution.
the case, but said he could not forbear some r.
ply to the personal charges made on the other
side. The voice proposed to be stifled here
was the last voice from State lately in rebel.
tion, which representa- their loyalty. 1t Wa
the voice of one who had seen honorsble mill
tary service in the cause of the republic, under
commission signed by Abraham Lincoln. Al
governor of Louisiana, he had found her credit
weak and left it strong. He found her bonds
selling at 25 cents on the dollar and left them
at IS cents. He found her treasury empty,
he left in it = surplus. He found the State tax
$25, soc, 600 and left it at $14, &c., .OOO He did
not add = dollar to her debt. His Democratic
successor expended the surplus be left in the
treasury to the credit of the interest fund in
payment of one instalIment of interest And
then repudiated the debt.
Senator Hoar said the logic of the Senator
from Georgia (HilD, and those who fought
with him, WAS that when the people Of any
change in their State government, this action
has the retroactive effect of unseating the Sena-
tor from that State, aud undoinX the deliberate
judgment of the Senate. If the judgment of
the senate on the merits be not final, surely
mere permission to take the oath without
l,~,~-
and there Ia no guarantee to a seat.
Senator Hill (Ge0rgia) interrupted to state
that the Senator from Massachusetts was mis-
taken In supposing that any one on the Demo-
cratic side held that revolution in Q State re-.
troacted to unseat . Senator. The controversy
relative to tho Packard Legislature WAS whether
it was ever constitutional, and the majority
says that the State itself had settled that con.
troversy by deciding that the Packard legisla-
ture never was legal legislature.
Senator Hoar-Exactly. The two legislatures
assembled in January, and the Packard legis-
lature acted in January, and the question of
validity and the effect of its action were essen-
Another legislature met in March after the
Senate met, and they undertook to elect Spof-
ford, and one portion of the committee said
the Senate must determine which legislature
in March had . riRhtful title, and proceeded to
do it. The Senator from Georgia (HilD said
ing Nichols legislature in, however, has Set
tied that question, and the effect of that sub
sequent action reacts for the government of
the Senate. There is no escape from the logic
of that proposition, nor from its revolutionary
consequence.
Senator Hoar concluded by saying that if 1t
became necessary hereafter, the challenge of
the Senator from Louisiana. JONAS to investl-
gate the means by which he and certain of his
colleagues obtained their seats, might be &C.
cepted, and if 10, the country would hardly be
much reused by their charge that their oppon.
ents were Haunting the bloody shirt, if it be-
came apparent that tho garment waved by
them was not only bloody but stolen.
Senator Hill, (GeorRia) took the floor, but
preferring not to begin speaking at the late
hour, yielded it to other Senators until to-mor.
row. The report of the conference committee
on the diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill was presented by Senator Eaton and adopt
ed. After an executive sesslon adjourned.