The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-15
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THE SITUATION.
The Press on Matthews Con.
firmatiOn.

The Press on Matthews Con
1irmatfOn.
New York, lS.-TTibltae Several
who were counted among ConklinR's
supporters three or four days SGD are al
ready said to be wGvering in their ale
glance. Even Anthony is said to be con-
s.deriDg whether he can Effurd TO stand
with the New York senator aRd against
the Administration on the question,
which has become one Of nstionsl dis
cussion and interest 1t is understood
Anthony has received information from
a prominent republican in Rhode Island
TO the effect that his continued adherence
to ConkliDg may endangsr his own re-
election to the Senate. 1t is also said
that several other republican senators,
hitherto ranged themselves under that
banner, have received intimstions from
leading republicans in their own states
that their course 10 that respect is Great
| ing great dissatisfaction.
Republican senators who cordially sup
port the Administration will not remain
in session a single day for the purpose of
engaging in an attempt to elevate to
Office q man who, day after day, pOurs
out upon the Administration 8 torrent of
abuse and Islander 10 the columns OF his
newspaper. Supporters of Gsrfeld's
Administration will never elect Gorhsm
secretary of the Senate.
ITIbune'S Washington: One repub-
lican senator, In conversation with cor
respondent this afternoon, said: mo
senator is now bound by any obliga-
ton, understanding or rule, except
the ordinary rules of the Senate
for the conduct of executive Guinness.
No committee will attempt to smother
any nomination which has been referred
to it, and the Senate will promptly pro-
coed, next week, to dispose of the execu-
tive business which remains 10 be done 4"
Another republican senator said substan-
TALLY the same thing, and added: 81 can |
see only one possible danger low; this |
hot weather may drive enough senators |
away to break our quorum before we |
can get TO Robertson's nomination" OF |
course, what these senators said can have |
only one meaning; the caucus rule in re- |
lstion to contested nominations is no
longer operative, and Conkling under
stands that no attempt to smother the
nomination Of Robertson will be permit
ted to succeed.
Worlds Washington: Gorham, in his
paper, to-day, made personal fling at
Nichol for his card in defers Sc Of the
President. Nichol publishes a card in
reply, tonight, in local paper, in which
he reiterstes his denials ofthe part attri-
buted to the President in the Herald ar
ticles, and closes with this pertinent in
Iuiry: "Why are there not some rumors
n the air of pledges 10 Blaine to secure
lis service in the campaign, or to Sher-
nan or Logan, or. to somebody but !
COnkling, or some Of his lickspittles7
vahnArr fbn,.bf q
'CdY else asking or wanting any pro-
Mise or pledge" Mr.. Nichol is pretty '
veil qualified to speak for the President,
n respect to the matters charged in the
Herald, because he had supervision OF
be Prelidents correspondence during Q
he campaign and in the contest with t
iorham; whose editorial comments gave il
olor to the rumoI that the Herald ar
cles are prepared under his direction,
nd then revised by Conkling. i
The HeTdLd'S occasional correspondent C
t Washington, speaking of the effort to a
iscOver the author of the Great Ex- Ii
ose, " says as to the alleged authors: l o
ave nothing to ssy, all of them are men o
first class ability; but after all, what d
lstters it who writes, or who does not
rite the opening chapters of the inside a
istory of the Mulligan administration. v
Suns Washington ssyG: Garfield has t
on and Conkling has promised the d
aucus 10 report Robertson's nomination 81
q Monday. The correspondent adds C
oEkllng as saying but very little. He 3
impressed the senators this afternoon II
18th having left unssid very much more Ii
ian he told. He did intimate that he t
ad no favors 10 ask hereafter and none II
ould be accepted. One of the senators 81
Ipresses the prevailing idea as follows: Il
mis- is Conkling's Bull Run; only his Il
rst battle in which he is worsted; q mere is
finnish to what will follow. Ct
New York, 14-C0nn1eTciGL Bulletin: X
he real significance of the Senate's con- e
-mation of Stanley Matthews as Su- n
eme Court Judge, is not in connection Of
it'll its party relationship, but in the p
ct that power has arisen in this coun- A
y which is strong enough no " to over o.
ar both great political barties, and S
ght in the teeth of an opposing popular p
Union and Of every dictate of propriety, Il
compel those two parties, as occasion "
az require, to do their bidding. This n,
at once apparent upon an analysis of sc
e vote. Thus, among senators in the tC
irmative, will it be believed, are such ii
aiding democrats as VOORHEES,, of Indi- tt
3; Pendleton, of Ohio; Beck, of Ken B
cky, ard Lamar, of Mississippi We
not see how these heretofore ostenta- d.
JUS opponents Of corporate monopoly b,
n look their constituents in the face II
hen they return home, after having b
ade such record. It looks as If these p
nstituents have been deliberately sold b
Sun: To the credit of the republican b.
lie of the Senate, be it said, that this as Ii
nishing event has been accomplished 70
the votes of democratic senators. 1t
these chosen representatives of the dem II
ratio party who have elevated Matthews n
q station of which he is unworthy. d.
he confirmation seems to have been 81
hieved through the earnest assistance d
Joseph E. Mcdonald, of indianapolis, b.
no ceased to bs a meInb II Of the Senate 81
1t few weeks ago. Mcdonald is not tC
erely a protesting democrat, he is q b
ader of the democracy up to the present Il
ne. 1t had not appeared improbable il
at the democracy might confer upon \
the high distinction which he \
narrowly failed to gain in 1880. Now, h
Dwever, the situation is profoundly n
hanged. Whatever individuals styling L
emselves democrats may do, the ma d
D0al COuVoitlOH OF the party can u
ever select for its candidate man who p
as given to Jay Gould the control Of the Il
Iprsme Court. D
Philadelphia, l4.-Ledger'S New York O
,ecial: The votes of such democratic S,
atesmen as Gen. VOORHEES,, Beck and b
end eton, to confirm Stanley Matthews, q
calculated to throw the party into con- ii
sion. 1t is by no means improbable n
at ere long the senators referred TO will \
formally called to explain the differ t
ice between their professions and prac- h
e. The board Of trade and transport q
ion, which had resisted the appoint e!
ent Of Matthews from the frat on the 81
-ound that he is wholly in the railroad D
te!est, is going to have meeting to q
press their views Of the situation, and I.
g anti-monopoiy party, you may be D
re, will not be slow in following up D
is movement from the game stand c,
yints.
Chicago. 14.-A Washington special
lstes that Conkling's name, whenever
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