The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-14
FOETY-SEYENEH CONGRESS.
Extra Session.

SENATE, April 4.-The Senate re-
sumed consideration OF the pending business,
the resolution for the election of Senate Of
fcers +; a motion by Mr. Pendleton to go into
executive session was lost--yeas, rs nays,
80. lengthy debate between Messrs. Dawes
and Johnston in relation to the manner of
conducting elections at the south was in
duiged in, and regarding local questions in
Virginia. Mr.. Salisbury appealed to the
Republicans to ground the weapons of rebel
lion against its own administration. If any
man needed pity and COMMUNICATION 1t was
the president who had been treated with such
marked disrespect by his own friends. Per
haps the presidentnow in the White House was
saying there were some IN this chamber from
whom he had not expected better treatment,
! man in the Chicago convention; but then
there was a senator from Ohio, whom he had
| nominated for the presidency; why did he
sit in silence and refuse to consider nOmina-
tiens The president might be saying "There
is the senator from Massachusetts (Hoar)
ana is privy to all the secrets I am party to,
and did not expect this from him. Then
| there is the vice president, whose name has
been described with mine, and whose image is
stuck up beside my own in almost every junk
shop. He ought not to have turned his heel
my messages He salisbury appealed to
help the president of their choice
Mr.. Dawes called attention to the facts that
the last effort made to go into executive ses-
sion had been rebul1ed by an emphatic major
ity of the Senate. It had not been defeated by
a tie vote, but by number of votes, and it
was the Senate which the Senator from Della
ware quarre1ing with, not the Republican
side. He inquired as to when the Democrats
| would permit vote to be taken on the resO-
luton. Being always met with the response
J Of Fiycf in oha,t fin. 1xy
Dawes, remar!.ng That it had become evident
that the majority of the Senate was opposed to
postponihg the consideration of this resolu-
ton, and expressing the hope that the minor
lily would come tomorrow prepared to stay
until the will Of the majority was obeyed,
moved to adjourn. Agreed to, and the Senate
adjourned.
SENATE, April 5.-The same routine
of presenting the unfinished business, was per
formed as on previous days, and a motion to
go into executive session was lost. Senator
of New Jersey reciting the fact that Michael
Boynton, an American citizen, had been arrest
ed by the British government, and thrown in
to prison on vague charges of melting crime
and violence. He had been denied the right
of a trial before jury of his peers and was
calling upon congress to demand that the
United States government should interfere for
his protection. Senator Hoar objected to the
acceptance of the petition on the ground that
there were no recording officers of the Senate,
and the petition laid over. No progress was
made towards breaking the deadlock, and the
Senate adjourned.
SENATE, April 6.-After the pre-
sentation of the regular unfinished business,
Mr.. Mcpherson presented petition from citi-
zens of New Jersey, respecting the case Of an
American citizen confined in an English pris-
on. Several senators INDUCED in an accrimoni-
Gus debate IN continuation Of the questions
heretofore discussed.
SENATE April THE pending bus
mess, the resolution for election of Senate
officers, was taken up, and motion to go
into executive session, made by Mr.. Pend1e.
ton, voted down-yeas 20, nays 80. A discus
sion as to the payment of the debt of several
states, but nothing was done tending to break
the dead lock, or bridge it over, and the Senate
adjourned.