Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-15
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE LAWS OF SUFFRAGE. Not Universal According to
 Senator Brown. AN ATTACK ON NEW ENGLAND. Senator HaWley in Defence
 of Connecticut. A CAUCUS TO ARRANGE MATTERS. Republicans to Take Up lm-
 portant Nominations.
A CAUCUS TO ARRANGE MATTERS.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

bAAc D0AAOcfnt1c DOctr1ne-Tn0T AF&u-
 ments Answered by HOar and HayvIey-
 ARepublican Caucus in Prospect-An
 Effort to Dispose of Important NOmina-
 tions-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, April 14.-Another day of
 weary, unproftable and stale discussion has
 been added to the record of the special ses-
 sion of the Senate. Messrs. Malone and
 Ben Hill were among the very few Senators
 present when the body was called to order to-
 day, and with Don Cameron who came in
 shortly after, were parties to a general inter
 change of good natured comments on the
 scene of yesterday. After a motion to %
 into executive session had been voted down.
 Mir. Morgan, of Alabama, got the floor. He
 gave brief review of the debate in which
 the Senate had been engaged for the last
 twenty days. At first the Democratic side,
 not suspecting any intention to prostitute the
 high powers of this Senate to become part of the machinery of great political organiza- tion, had thought that the Senators on the other side were greedy for few offices That as mere scramble for office would be bad enough, but the next step in the debate had developed the fact that there was coalition Of factions to degrade the patronage of the Senate for the purpose of electing a successor to gentleman on this foor (alluding to MT. Johnston, of Virginia) That fact had raised spirit of inquiry and resentment through out the country. The United States Senate was using it's patronage for the purpose of capturing in Virginia and placing in this Chamber man who would become more the aIa nf fho who had ever had the privilege of disgracing seat on this floor. He next proceeded to discuss the issue of free ballot and fair count He talked for nearly three hours without saying anything of novel or peculiar interest. MT. Brown, of Georgia, followed Mir Morgan. Among other things he spoke of the recent remarks of Mr. Hawley and de- nied the statement that universal suffrage was the law of the world. It was not even the law of any civilized country of the world. In the South any man had a right to vote, but not in Massachusetts, Con- necticut or Rhode Island He then went into 8 review of the suffrage laws of those States. The Massachusetts Senator repeatedly tried to interrupt the speaker, but he declined to yield the floor until he might have finished his speech. He took up the doctrine of State rights as laid down by the New England Senators, and asserted that no State interposed more bars to legal suffrage than Massachusetts. Should her rules be adopted and enforced in Georgia eight-tenths of the colored voters in that State would be deprived of their suffrage. In support of the idea of the cohesiveness of executive patronage the speaker quoted figures to show how few officeholders in the public depart ments came from Georgia, and argued that party could not be kept together without pat ronage, and the Republican party in Geor- gia was now being wiped out by Republi- can injustice. The independent Democrats of the South were not on the road to recruit the depleted ranks of the Republican party. Now and then an ambitious young man or office seeker might go over to them, but when the watchword of reconstruction" should be Haunted the thinking young men of the South would stand aloof The idea of Republicanism that the South shall stand as it stood at the close of the war is prepos- terous. The society of the South could not be disorganized. The mistake would readily be recognized if the Republicans hoped that the southern independents would follow the leadership of the Senator from Virginia He was not sure but what it might become necessary to do SO to thwart the Republican purpose in Virginia, in defence of the threatened reconstruction of society in that State. Mir. Hoar followed in condemnation of such a threat to overcome the just majority of the voters of Virginia or any other State Mir. Brown made brief reply which he concluded by saying that when the Senator from Massachusetts, saw fit to explain his recent imputations as to trea- sor and revolution in the part of the Demo- cratic position in the Senate he would have 8 few words to say in reply. MT. Hoar then undertook to correct some statements of Mr. IQ,o1r %ho chised adults in Massachusetts, and a discussion followed in which Messrs. Brown, Butler and Call confronted MT. Hoar, and which was con- ducted more to the amusement than to the edifcation of those who heard it. Mir Flaw ley also had a word to say for Connecticut He claimed that no one of ordinary intelli- gence need be deprived of his vote in that State. He had never known of man there to be deprived of his vote by violence or to be compelled to vote contrary to the dictates of his conscience. At few minutes before six o'clock the Senate adjourned until Mon day.
 An order has been issued by the Postotice department declaring that all publications that violate the international copyright law shall be regarded as unmailable matter This decision was called out by certain Canadian publications.
 Manufacturers and dealers in butter are on the war path in consequence of the shipment of oleomargarine invoiced as butter from this country to Canada and Europe The Secretary of the Treasury has referred to the Attorney General the question as to whether @ collector of customs has power to examine packages invoiced as butter and offered. for to points outside of the United States The question IS considered of great and the decision of the Attorney General is awaited with interest
 InQuirieS among Senators to-dav as tO their opinion of the letter of Senator Davis, of Illinois, on the political situation revealed the fact that but few had read it. Those that had, both Republicans and Dem- ocrats, held that it was ridiculous to talk of disbanding the existing parties, the Demo- crats believing they were yet to come into their inheritance and the Republicans believ- ing that the prosperity of the country de- bends upon the continuance of their organi- zation. The truth is Davis letter did not attract much attention at the Capitol. The only criticism upon it was that the letter was just what might have been expected from an independent and especially the most prominent independent in the land, who if 8 new party was formed out of the old ones would probably be the Presidential candi- date of the new party.
 Professor Gamgee's 'tzero-motor' has been exciting considerable attention here, and sci entifc men are inclined to set high estimate on it's value. One of the examiners in the Patent Office says he regards it as the most important patent since the telephone. If it succeeds at all, however, it will be of far greater consequence than that or any inven- ton of recent times. Briefly characterized, it is designed to use the expansive force of ammonia gas as a motive power. In Chief Engineer Isherwood's report on the subject to Secretary Hunt, document which has called particular attention to the invention, he declares the plan as devised by Professor Gamgee to be liar from chimerical. It is founded on well demonstrated thermodynam- ical principles. The whole is definite and precise, both in theory and mechanical de- tail, nor can it be shown c psfoa1 that there is not fair prospect for it's success.'s The motive power, practically, being water as against coal, it is needless to say the new en- zine, if found practicable on experiment., must work revolution in mechanics, super seding the steam engine, as that has taken the place of less economical mechanical pow