The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-20

is in accordance with the disposition he
has shown from the beginning"
Hill, of Georgia-"The Senator said
the Republic would be subverted if the
resolution was not acted upon"
DaWes-But the Senator would never
be convinced untilhe happened TO have a
majority.
Hin-Ohi We won't insist upon hav-
ing il considered.
Dawes-An accident is an eye opener
To the Senator.
Senator Hill turned around and sug-
gested to Senator Davis, of Illinois, that
there was nothing to prevent the Senate
from adjourning this week sine de.
The Senate then went into executive
session.
The situation in New YOrk-Fhe Press on
the Senatorial designations.
NEW YORK, May Ex-senator Conk-
ling has resigned as United States sena-
tor for the State of New York. Senator
Plat has also resigned.
NEW YORK, May 16.-The CONNER
cial says the case of Senators Conkling
and Plat is now in the hands of the
legislature of New York, and it is TO
decide whether or not it approves of the
action they have recently taken. A new
election can take place week from to-
morrow il the papers are received in
Albany today, as the REVISED Statutes
provide that in case of a vacancy occur
ing during q session of the Legislature,
it shall be filed on the second Tuesday
after notification is received.
New YORK, May 16.-A Washington
special says it is believed Senator COnk-
ling and Plat intend to stand for re-
election, and will make the campaign
a test of the approval Of their action in
the Robertson matter.
NEW YORK, May 16.-The Posts
Washington special says: The Senators
are greatly excited over the resignation
of the New York Senators. The qnes-
ton Is what shall next be done. This
sensational and violent move on the
New York Senators part seems to do
away for the present with all hopes of
electing Republican officers of the Sen
ate, and to relegate Malone, Gorham
and Riddleberger to the background, as
it leaves the Republicans in n minority
for the time being. 1t is said, however,
that a programme has been arranged,
and that the two senators are to be i'm
mediately returned. This action by the
Senators, therefore, is regarded as a step
whereby they Can get formal and en-
phatic justification by the present Legis-
laiure.
New YORK, MAJ 16.-The Post CON-
ments as follows, on the designations of
Senators Plat and Conkling. They
have resigned in a pet because they have
not been allowed to have their way. The
act is contemplate in its childishness
II their object is to revenge themselves
upon the President and Republican par
tn Il nnlHy 10 cd asn6 rtr
manly proceeding, but it is not clear as
to how it can be effectual. If they are
seeking endorsement" of their conduct
by the means of reelection the ex-
pertinent is dangerous to make with the
Legislature that little while ago unan-
imously approved the nomination of
Robertson. Perhaps, after all, the SIM
plest explanation is true one. Perhaps
Conkling and Plat have concluded that
if the Senate is anything more than an
instrument to distribute patronage, their
occupation is gone. They can do the
state no more service. If this shall turn
out to be the truth, the grateful people
will treat them magnanimously and Will
even suspend adverse comment admitting
that nothing in their public life has so be-
come them like their leaving it.
The Commercial says that the two
Republican representatives of the state
whose electoral vote gave Garfield the
Presidency, are compelled in self-respect
and out of regard for the honor and dig
nifty of their state, to leave the two seats
of New York in the United States senate
vacant. The intelligence falls with
crushing weight on the hearts of the
Republicans of New York, who admire
and esteem ConklIng for his purity,
fidelity and commanding ability. 1t
will shock Republicans all over the
United States. Conkling's motives are
doubtless for the good of his party, and
the reasons he has assigned for his
Their regret will be none the less deep,
and there will be an equal desire for his
return to the senate from one end of the
state to the other; and, indeed, with the
exception of small malignant politicians
who have wrought this calamity, from
one end of the Union to the other. The
state whose honor and selfrespect have
thus been vindicated, may send them
back again to their places by almost a
unanimous vote. Let Republicans at
Albany do their duty.
Opening OF the Southern Hotel at st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 11.-One of the
most notable events that have occurred
in this city for several years was the
opening tonight for the first time of the
new Southern Hotel, with a grand ball
and banquet, given by the leading citi-
Zens of st. Louis, in honor of the recon-
struction of the building destroyed by
fire four years ago. Some 1900 guests
were assembled in the house, among
them large number of the Oldest, most
prominent and influential gentlemen of
the city, with their wives and families !;
and the scene was one of unusual brill
liancy and beauty. The building occu-
pies the block between Fourth and Fifth
streets, two hundred and seventY-five
feet, and Walnut and Elm streets,
two hundred and twenty-six feet;
has three stone fronts thirty
six feet, one of brick, six stories high,
with deep-fnished basement; it is as
thoroughly fire-proof throughout as any
building in the world, every known de-
vice and invention to effect that object
being brought into use. The main fea-
lures of the interior are grand rotunda
On the ground floor, sixty feet wide and
two hundred and twenty-six feet long,
from Walnut to Elm streets, crossed by
q hall twenty-six by two hundred and
seventy-five feet, from Fourth to Fifth
streets, terminating in sky-light in the
roof, thus giving four main entrances to
the hotel three main stairways of iron
and slate from the ground floor to the
upper story for guests, and two for serv-
ants five elevators in different parts of