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CONGRESSIONAL.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25.
Mr.. Ingalls, offered resolution calling on the
secretary of war for list of all appointments
other than those in the army made in his de-
partment since the LIST of December, 1879, to
March 4, 1881: under what provisions of law
tile said appointments have been made; what
changes, promotions, details and transfers
reason for such transfers; what re-
vocations Of appointments and pro-
motions had been made; what dismissals
had been made and for what cause; what en-
ployes had been paid out of the lapsed fund:
what clerks had been paid by statute and
vened to consider the appointments in said de-
partments Laid on the table for further ac-
| ton.
Mr.. Dawes called up the resolution for the
election of senate officers, the motion being
that to postpone it's consideration until the first
Monday in December.
! A long debate ensued between John
ston Of Va, Logan, Beck, Dawes Then speech
making was abandoned and roll calls followed
on alternate motions made on the Democratic
side to adjourn and to go into executive session.
| These motions were all defeated, generally by
paired that the senate was lett withouta quorum
| and the roll was called and adjournment soon
followed. There is so little argument
possible upon the proposition to change
the officers that the astute men who. partici-
pate in it, while they may have the power to
electrify the country on constitutional ques-
ton, upon the pending one find an aching
and an Indifferent public to deal with
Inquiry among senators on both sides revealed
a general feeling of determination, but the irk-
someness of the position is keeny felt, and it is
not improbable that an agreement may be
reached within aday or two, fixing day during
the present session when vote may be taken.
SENATE, MARCH 16.
Immediately after reading the journal Mr..
Dawes demanded the regular order, being the
resolution for the election of senate officers.
Mr.. Pendleton moved to go into executive
session. Rejected-yeas 20, nays %; Malone
motion to lay the motion on the table was lost
yeas, %, nays 20.
A motion to go into executive session was de-
feated-yeas, rs, nays 27.
A motion to 60 into executive session having
been defeated, Mr. Malone took the floor to ad-
dress the senate This aroused that body, which
had been dull all day, into something like atteh-
ton. He was unfortunate, he said, in having
been absent from the senate yesterday when
some illusions had been made to Riddleberger
and himself. He had been indisposed, and was
still too unwell to review the speeches.
Mr.. Dawes interrupted and said if the gen
tleman would prefer to speak on Monday, he
would move to adjourn. The motion was
agreed to.
MONDAY, MARCH 26.
The senate was crowded to hear the reply of
Senator Malone, of Virginia, to the attacks of
so unlike the one delivered before in it's man
ner that it was disappointing to the listeners
He lacked the fire OF the day he threw back the
imputatons of Ben Hill. He stood still and at
one of the front desks and read long argu-
mentat1ve statement from printed slips. Once
little fiery impromptu invective that added
spice to the effort The speech in the main
was rehearsal of the Virginia debt question
that is of interest only to the old dominion as
far as details CO. He declared that he came to
the senate as a representative of the demand
for free ballot, full vote and an honest count
He put this in the strongest terms of which the
English language is possible, and in so doing
disclosed the recent and the sole ground for
Republican Endorsement He was congratulate
ed by Conkling, Dawes and other Republicans,
and without other business the senate ad-
journed.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29.
Immediately af the reading of the journal the
resolution was called up for the election of
officers of the senate
Wade Hampton made speech defending
South Carolina, and was followed by Jones of
Louisiana and Kellogg who aired for the hun
dredth time the woes of the pelican state.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, made an attack on
Charles W. johnson, of Minnesota, the republi-
! can candidate for chief clerk. He read extracts
| from the testimony taken before the Carlisle
| committee in the investigation of the Donnelly-
| Washburn contest which showed that Mr.. john
son had been very active in politics as the sec
retary of the state central committee, which was
about all that the Kentucky senator could al
lege. This brought Mr.. Mcmillan to his feet,
who handled the objections rather roughly.
The senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80.
Another day like the several preceding.
Motions for the election of officers, to go into
executive session, and speeches about Malone
and the war occupied most of the time. There
| is as yet. no indication of compromise from
either side The only incident of the day to re-
lieve the monotony of the proceedings was q
charge by Ben. Hill of Georgia, that
General Logan, at the beginning Of the
war sympathised with the secession. Logan's
face fairly blackened at this. His brow gath
cred in intense anger, and he strode forward
long step or two, and stood confronting the
/ Georgian to reply. In the meantime Hills
audacious assertion had produced tremendous
sensation in the galleries, and from all parts Of
| the crewd came chorus of hisses. The uproar
subsided in moment and there was breath
less silence, while every eye turned upon the
swarthy face of Logan, to hear his retort He
deliberately, in the most emphatic tones, de-
clared such an insinuation to be a glaring false
hood. He said it must stop right here, and
striking the desk heavy blow with his clinched
/ fist he looked defiance at the Georgian, and then
| quietly turned his back upon him.
THURSDAY MARCH31.