The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-23

me wsshsoxson iost US thst there y
no doubt tia; tbe eeca.t NIL be eepsensa
h sxlrs session Is a5bos n pcssih't.
rhe saue%pzpEr plnizsbex tsieefam
rom IsxIesaon. Ky. saying that Senator
Beck expresses the opiuion tbst senator
H.w.np viii be seiecied as President pro
tsss. Of The senate. he also says The Demo
crsss hsye three usIofisy, and new members
e,anos be sworn 10 until after the President
rro tenn. "a electcd.ts swear them 10.
The same paper ibsers1ewed Senator ~.
CALLS. Of Ksnsss. ~fepubiiean, snd senator
GARLAND, Of Arksnsas, Republican D
hosh expressed tbemselves al being In fayef
- an exlra session or the senate as a thing
Imperatiyely demanded by the clrcum'
stances now surrounding tho President.
The washington Rspubiscan treats the
same subject, bat In o different way. It's
cdeor. the notorious GOKHAa, Is the candi-
date OF the same party that pomiuased Rid
pt.KpgRagR for Sereeant-at-Arms. GoRHAM
sees that bis and R-IDDLEBERGER's hopes Of
Office will sil be blasted II an extra session
OF The Senate be called and the Democrats
organize that body before sdmiiting to'neir
seats the new senator's from New YORK ana
Rhode Island. Tue Repabt'cdn raves as
follows:
g what better than revolution or mere
arbitrary power would IL be for a majority
OF a Senate notfuH-a majority which exists
onIy because all the senators are not seated
10 perpetuate itself by refusing duiy-com-
missioped senators who are present the
seats which belong to them on the shallow
and absurd preiext that Congress mas
marked out O course OF procedure Tor Inc
Senate as 10 the swearing IN OF ne" men-
beis, and that The Senate must submit"
virginia elected two senators IN 1859, and
they were not allowed to take their seats
until the spring OF 1870. Why notf Be-
cause Congress had ''marked out a course
Of procedure" and our senators had 10
submit. But we will let the Republican
snswer its " question. 1t says, in another
place:
can act Of Congress cannot override the
noner OF the Senate rs 10 the admission OF
~OuukuftBt ulou tHN 2Nc'pHi
return, and qualification Of senators Is be-
yond the reach OF any act OF Congress.
What the Senate shall will on that subject
is The highest expression OF ~indisputaDle
constitutional authority"
That's sound doctrine. Nothing can
{" override the power of the Senate as to the
admiss on of senator's" Therefore Messrs.
LlPHAM and MILLER will have TO abide the
Judgment OF that body. 1.-THE Senate" is
the senator's who have already been sworn
in. II Is for them TO say who else shall be
sworn In. Not every man can be seated
who may present credentials, or there
would recently have been three sena-
tors from Louisiana, three from South
Carolina, and three from perhaps other
States. JOSEPH SEGAR presented ereden-
tials from Virginia during the war, but
he was not allowed to take his seat. 1t
is for "the Senate" to Judge Of the election
OF each member; OF the return each mem
Der presents; and OF the qualifications o.
each member. "Whst the Senate shall t1iH
ON that subject is the highest expression OF
indisputable constitutional authority
And the Senate, says Senator BECK, will
,1lA that a new President pro tenn. shall be
elected before the new senators shall be adj
mitted to their seats.