Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-13
President Garfield to be the Orator
at the Yorktown Celebration.
The Prospects Flattering for a
Successful Affair Of It.
The Usual Daily Criminal Record
from the Lone Star State.
Bad Showing for the Fruit Crop of
Portions Of Georgia,
THE SENAT

Report of Proceedings Of the Sen
ate in Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-On motion
of Mr.. Vance, a resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of
the Navy for information as to what
alterations have been made in the
relative rank of graduates of the
naval academy as originally estab~
lished.
On motion Of Mr.. Burnside, a reso-
luton was adopted requesting t
President to communicate to
Senate any information in possess G e
of the government touching tho
alleged arrest and Imprisonment, bv
the government Of Great Britain,
Michael Boynton, vino claims to be q
citizen of the United States.
/ The Vice President laid before the
Senate the unfinished business resoiu
ton for the election of Senate officers,
| and the usual motion to go into execu-
tive session was withdrawn, at the
request of Mr.. Dawes, who stated
that it had not been expected.
! The motion was withdrawn, be-
i cause if persisted it would have ne
cessitated call Of the Senate, there
being at the time no quorum present.
klr. Beck then took tue floor, sta
ting that he would not detain the
Senate dis long as he had originally
intended, but would contine his re-
marks to the subject directly under
consideration. The Republicans had
said, he continued, that he Senate
! should not so into executive session
! because they had held a caucus, and
had determined to turn out officers
now holding places and install
others, and that the Democrats were
guilty Of treason and revolution
unless they acquiesced i'll everything.
The Democrats had replied, You
have organized the Senate; you hay e
power over all cOmmi tees; We have
! surrendered every thing that tends
to the convenience and comfort of
Senators; bnt when you present to
us a list of names for offices, and
among them that Of man from
: Virginia who was the head and front
Of reputation III that State, we do
not propose to go any further" He
was not going to say the Repubi-
cans were doing this because Of q
! corrupt bargain, because he did not
intend to make the Senate chamber
, Il beer garden, but t.e country at
large had strong suspicious that the
alliance was Il foul one. The lead
ing Republican press Of the country
had charged it IN TENS SO often
sive that when Senator (Mr.
Voorhees, had Lad an extract
from q Republic n paper read,
danger Of personal responsibility
had been threatened He referred
to facts which tended to show that
there had been bargain, empha-
sizing the fact that Mr. Malone had
been placed on committees which
would give him the greatest infu~
ence with the people of Virginia,
while he avoided expressing an
opinion here, when the Virginia
election came on. AS the Sen
, ator from Massachusetts, Mr..
Dawes, was going to keep the
Senate until December, he would
invite that Senator to pair with him
and go there in September and Octo,
Der. He (Ir Beck would tell the
people what he could not decorously
do here-what he thought was the
meaning, purpose and intent of all
this action. The Senators might as
, well spend their time canvassing in
Virginia as quarreling in this
chamber. Whether the action of
the Democrats was revolutionary @
not depended Oh this fact. If the
believed that the Republicans ha
entered into corrupt bargain, an&
were seeking to carry it out, ought
{ the Democrats not to resist the cons
, summation Of that bargain by every
: means IN their power? Could
anything be more dangerous
than legislation organized bv
corruption? Were the Democrats
night III assuming that the bargain
was a corrupt one? II so. Ihev
: could go before any community in
: America and say they had prevented
the consummation Of that bargain,
and the answer would be: We'll
done, thou good and faithful ser
want" Ii they had not done right
they would be held respon-
slble. They would take
that risk on facts and would discuss
them with Republicans anywhere in
Virginia or elsewhere. He proceeded
TO argue that there could he no Con =
stltut1onal quorum, and called atten-
ton to the fact that if the Democrats
should go home, there would be
but thirty-eight Republicans left,