The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-05-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Ak AR4usTIcR- IN THE SENATE PROS
Poets OF AN EARLY ADJOURNMENT

Ak ARAusTIcE IN THE SENATE--PR0s-
PEcTs OF AN EARLY ADJOURNMENT
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED AND
TREATIES RATIFIED.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 6, 1881.
| To the Editor of The Morristown Gazette:
The deadlock has been broken, or at
least relaxed for little while. but
there is as yet no prospect that the lion
and lamb will lie down together, and
nothing, not even a summer session, it
is believed, will end the struggle be-
tween the so nearly evenly matched par
ties in the Senate. As for the President
and the Senior Senator from New York,
| each feels that he has too much princl-
pal and interest involved to yield in
the issue between them, and one or the
other must fall, for neither will retreat.
The talk among Senators to-day is
that the Senate win adjourn about the
21st of May, but the action of the Senate
in going into executive session does not
signify that the contest over the cleo
tion of officers is terminated. Some Re-
publican Senators are known to be in
favor of resuming the fight as soon as
the more important executive appoint
ments are confirmed. The plan of act
ion ratified by the Republican caucus
looks to this end, and we may have the
Senate with us all summer yet. Should
the Senators remain through the warm
season they will no doubt become i'm
pressed with a realizing sense of the
NUISANCE of the Potomac flats, and will
perhaps be inclined to give some atten-
ton to the matter of its abatement.
We are not precisely on the verge of
a revolution, but we are near the cul-
mination of small events and petty
crises. The President has Withdrawn
all the important nominations from New
York except that OF Judge Robertson,
which indicates that he has no DISPOSE |
ton to compromise with Senator Csnk- |
ling, but will attack him where lie is |
weakest, awaiting himself Of the i'm |
mense vantage of his superior power,
office and influence. In this contest, |
Senator Conkling must fall. A majori- |
tY of the Senate will sooner or later vote
for Robertson's confirmation, and, this
important case settled, the situation will
be much simplifed A large number of
Senators visited the President yester-
day in the interest of harmony, but
their ministrations have been without
avail President Garfield has had suf-
fcient time to calculate all the chances
and responsibilities Of the course he has
taken; he is no amateur politician, but
as old and as able as Conkling himself.
He doubtless realized that any compro-
mise in the beginning of his Presidential
term would be equivalent to an abdica-
ton of the prerogatives of his office,
and source of embarrassment to his
for four years.
The Senate transacted remarkably
large amount of businesSin its executive
session yesterday, closing the calender
of treaties, and also taking final action
on eighty-four nominations. in about
four and half hours. The first matter
of was the Chinese immigra-
ton treaty, which after continuation
Of Wednesdays debate Casting three
hours, but developing no fresh points
of INTEREST," was ratified without amend
ment by practically unanimous vote,
there being only two Senator'S recorded
in the negative.