The Russellville Democrat., 1881-05-12
SENATE PROCEEDINGS CONDENSED.
What Has Been Done During the Past
 Week by this Body in Extra Session.

Week by this Body in Extra Session.
 APRIL 2S.--Unfinished business came un. A motion to go into executive session was lost 20 to 2i......Mr. Butler then took the floor, promising his speech by reading from the Record report of the coiloquy which took place between himself and MT. Burn side, on the 20th inst during the course of which he had stated if he did not by ire fragable evidence establish the fact that there had been bargain, he would resign his seat in the Senate. In endeavoring to do so he desired it to be understood that with the purposes and intentions of Sena- tors, as Individuals, he had nothing to do; he was not here to impeach the motives or to call into question the individual integrity and honesty of Senators. The Senator from Virginia fMahone1 had said that no man could search the human heart; that was true, but men were held responsible for their acts to society, and it was his duty, as q Senator, to criticise legitimately the pub lie acts, the public votes and public utter ances of all men who belonged to the pub lie. He made no charge against the Senator from Virginia. He had nothing but the kindest feelings for that Senator. But when that gentleman and his friends rose and charged the Democrats with revolution and treason, it was his (Butlers) duty in vindication of himself to account for the course which he was taking. He then went on to state what he considered the evidences of the bargain, and was replied to by Mir. nside.....Adjourned.
 MAY 2-The unfinished business was laid before the Senate. Mir. Farley called atten- ton to the large number of nominations awaiting action, and moved an executive session. The people of his State of all par ties were appealing to the Senate to consid- CT the important matters in which they were directly interested. Petitions were daily coming from California asking for the consideration ot the Chinese treaty. A de- bate ensued between Messrs. Dawes and Farley, the Chinese question receiving con siderable attention. Senator Beck said the Republicans had not dared to go into ex- eeutive session because of divisions in the party on important nominations. He taunted the Republicans with cowardice. Mir. Salisbury denied the charge made by Mr. Dawes, that Democratic Senators were responsible for the delay in transactng public business, and asserted the contrary to be the truth. After reference to Riddle barger and 'that bargain he said he was not sure the Administration could have one-half it's nomination confirmed except for the aid which it expected from the Dem ocrats, but if this thing kept up-if the Ad- ministration was to aid in strengthening the hands of repudiation in the Southern States-he (Saulsbury) would for one say unhesitatingly that the Administration was not worthy his support. A motion to go into executive session was lost-yeas, 21: nays, 22. The hour was wasted upon dila- tory motions and the Senate adjourned.
 MAY 3.-Uniinished business came up. ..... Mir. Davis, of West Virginia, took the floor with speech upon the debt question be- tween the Virginias, promising his remarks with an expression of regret that the speeches made by the Senators from Vir- ginia and Ohio (Mahone and Sherman) should have compelled him to discuss in this chamber what he considered to be purely local matter The debt question in West Virginia had never been made poli- tical one, and he regretted that Republican Senators should make statements refiecting upon the action of the Democrats of that State on that question. Mir Davis gave history of the debt complication and said the Virginias and their people will pay their debts and the sooner the better He said the two States would soon come together and settle the question. ...Ad- journed.
 MAY 4.-The Senate opened with the formal announcement from Mir Dawes that the fight should go steadily on as before. He arraigned the Democratic party as ob- structionists, who had paralyzed the efforts or the majority or the senate to complete its organization. He declared the Democratic miHority revolutionary, in the same style in which they have been declared for two months, but at the close of his remarks Mir. Dawes said it would not do for the Repub- licans to neglect their duty elsewhere while they were resisting the minority. Rec ognizing the necessity of this, he would move to drop the fight for a time and at tend to other pressing business. This creat- ed considerable amusement on the floor and in the galleries, even Rpublican senators not retraining from smile at the way the question was finally put. There was some little sparring between Pendleton, Dawes and Beck, and the motion for an executive session was carried unanimously. The ex- ecutive session was very dull indeed being mostly devoted to the reference of nomina- tions and the Chinese treaties. Senators struggled out and loafed about the restau- rant in a nonchalant way, as if executive session had long been all every day affair instead of rare occurrence. The follow ing nominations were confirmed: Robert Hit, Illinois, Assistant Secretary of State. Horian Price, Iowa, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Alfred NJ. Jones, United States Marshal, Northern District of Illinois Sanford A. Hudson, Wisconsin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. Joseph o. Jones, Postmaster, Terre Haute, Indiana. The foregoing were all confirmed by unanimous consent. Other nominations on the table were referred to appropriate committees, and the senate then took up the Chinese treaties Adiourned