Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-03
THE SENATE.
Report of Proceedings Of the Sen
ate in Extraordinary Session.

ate in Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, May 2-The Vice
President laid before the Senate the
unfinished business, being the reso-
luton for the election Of Senate
officers
Mr.. Farley called attention to the
large number Of nominations which
were awaiting action by the Senate,
and moved to go into executive ses,
sion. The people of his State, of all
parties, were appealing to this Sen
ate to ee.ssia"- .mrortant matters on
which they were directly interested.
Petitions were daily coming from the
public press of California asking for
the consideration of he Chinese
treaty. In one Of these papers he
had observed that he had been
charged with retarding the considers
alton Of the Chinese treaty. The
record of the Senate contradicted
that statement. Tor many weeks
the Democratic Senators had
invited the Republicans to
go into executive session.
Eight hundred or one thousand
Cinnamon were arriving semi-month-
ly at San Francisco. A ship full of
Cinnamon, and with smallpox on
board, was to-day lying an quaran>
tine in the harbor of San Francisco
and the people of California WEI q
protesting against this neglect on
the part Of the Senate, for which
neglect the Republican party was
responsible.
Mr.. Dawes said that he was as
anXions to go into executive session
as any man could be, but the record
of the past two 1 is would dis
C 'se the fact that the Senator
(.?arley) and those who acted with
Il m had been solely responsible for
any delay in not going into executive
session
Mr.. Farley replied that the Re-
publican party could not escape the
responsibility foI the evils which had
befallen t . people of the Pacific
coast.
Mr.. Dawes rejoined that the Sena~
tor stood here and told the people
of California that rather than have
the Democratic Secretary of the
Senate displaced he would let TIE
Chinese come and bring all the evils
that they might. The Senator and
his party had been in the majority
in the Senate, and no one had
touched his harp or piped his lutte in
favor of considering these Chinese
treaties, but now the Senator CO Ie
i'll at this dying hour as last
chance and uttered a malediction
upon the Senate itself.
Mr.. Farley repeated the statement
that the people of California were
protesting against the inaction of the
Senate, and declared that the Repub-
hcan party of that State were pro-
testing against the election of Mr.
Gorham as Secretary of the Senate.
I1e oeheved that the other side of
the chamber had at last came to it's
senses There was an opinion on
the Pacific coast that the Senator
from Massachusetts, Mr.. Dawes and
his colleagues, were opposed to pla-
cling any restriction upon the immi,
grafton of the Chinese. Whether
that was true or not time would de,
velop, but the present rction of the
Senate would strengthen that opin~
ion.
Mr.. Dawes inquired to what party
were the people of California in,
debted for any merits which the
Chinese treaties might contain. To
whom were they indebted for the
fact that those treaties were not to-
day the law of thesland? Mr.. Beck
charged the Republicans with cow
ardlce and not going into executive
session. They had not dared to do
so because of divisions in the party