Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-17
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.
The Senate Yesterday-A Discussion
ns TO the Delay OF Business-The
Presidents Private Secretary -
Nominations Sent I'm Yesterday.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Ia the Senate,
the organization resolution was called up,
whereupon Mr.. Cameron. OF Pennsylvanis,
moved to adjourn, but yielded to Mr.. Vest
to offer a resolution requesting the Presi.
dent to communicate to the Senate the cor
respondenee and accompanying documents
between the Governments of the United
States and Mexico during the years 1859
to 1861, inclusive, in reference to the pro-
posed treaty between said governments,
and also the correspondence during the said
years between the State Department and
the United States Minister at Mexico in
reference to any proposed convention or
treaty between the two governments.
Adopted.
Mr.. Davis, of West Virginia, offered a
resolution directing the Committee on Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds TO take into con-
sideration the condition of Washington city,
looking to the future needs Of the govern
ment, and report at the next session of Con-
gress. Laid upon the table for eetion when
the committees shall have been appointed.
A motion to adjourn was losC-yeas 3,
nays 35, Mr.. Malone not voting. This was
followed up with a moti0a to proceed to
the consideration OF executive business,
which was also lost-yeas 30, nays 81, Mr.
A20O06 NOLlHZ the dII1FE0ablNe.
Another dlatorV motion having been
voted down, Mr.. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
called attention to the fact that there were
appointments on the table which should be
acted on immediately, and he therefore
moved to go into executive session.
Mr. GroOme suggested that nominations
could not be acted upon for want of COM
mitteRs.
Mr.. Farley said that there appeared to be
q 6fcnnafffOU tho ciI 70 do
business whatever.
Mr.. Dawes asked the Senator from CALI
fornia to inform the country on whose mo-
tion the Senate adjourned yesterday.
Mr. Farley replied that the record would
show thst fact. Dilatory motions had been
made, and it had become evident that the
Republican side did not intend to do any
business.
Mr. Salisbury thought that the remark
made by Mr.. Dawes was unjust, and that
the Senator knew 1t to be unjust upon
Democrats In this chamber. He knew that
the Democrats had been attempting to organ
fze the Senate SO as to proceed to public bus-
ness. He (Saulsbury) referred to the action
of the Republicans in the last Congress,
who, he said, had interposed dilatoIY mo-
tions against the consideration Of nomina-
tions which had been sent in by the man
who had been elevated without right to
the Presidency =
Mr.. Cameron, of PENNSYLVANIA, asserted
that the Republicans desired to proceed to
work as much as the Democrats, and that
therefore he had moved to proceed to ex-
ecutive business. The motion was lost.
Mr.. Beck said that as there wss a Repub-
lican President backed by a Republican
House, 1t might be better for the Demo
cratic party that he also had the
Senate at his back, and would have the
credit of al that was good and the
responsibility OF all that was bad.
Therefore, he (Beck) was not attempting to
hold on to few privileges, and he thought
that the Senate might as well adjourn, and
made motion to that effect, which was, at
l O'Clock, agreed to.
NOMINATIONS.
Among the nominations sent to the Senate
to-day were the following: L. Dana Horton,
of Ohio, TO be Secretary TO the Commission
ers on the part OF the United States to attend
the International Monetary ConfereEce at
Paris; Postmaster Robert r. Mines, at
Newman. Collectors of Customs-Alex. G.
Davis, for the District of Beaufort, N. c.;
Thos. J. Black, for the District of st.
Mary's, Ga; Thos. L. BroadWater, for the
District of Vicksburg, Miss. Surveyor of
Customs-J oseph L. CASTOR, for the port of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
THE PRESIDENTS PRIVATE SECRETARY.
J. Stanley Brown has been appointed pii
v&te Secretary to the President. Mr.. Brown
is young man about "a years of age, and
was formerly stenographer to Major Powell
of the Smithsonian Institute, and went with
Gen. Garfield in the same capacity while the
latter was still in the House of Representa-
tives. He was at Mentor during the cam
paign and has been acting as the President's
secretary since his Inauguration, although
Col. Rogers has nominally held that posi-